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Much Ado About Nothing	By : goblet Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 2534 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
by The Goblet

Chapter 36

The next day, after being ordered by Albus to keep Sirius and Remus indoors and away from the rest of the castle, James told both his friends that he needed to speak with them.

"I'm sorry," the former Head Boy said when they were all seated on one of the sofas in the common room. "About challenging you to Wizard's Duel and telling you that I couldn't be friends with you anymore.

"I mean if you had really made it all up, I'd still be furious, but we were all tricked," he explained.

Sirius smiled gallantly. "It's ok, Prongs. If you had turned against Lily the way we did against Snape, I'd do the same thing to you," he explained.

"There's nothing to apologise for," Remus said quietly. "I deserved that. I deserve to be challenged to a duel. I deserve to be friendless. I actually deserve much, much more for having killed him," he added. Remus was still very, very distraught over the entire incident.

"We have to live with the fact that we killed him. That is punishment enough," Sirius said quietly.

"And the itching," Remus added softly.

"The itching?" asked James, bewildered.

Remus shrugged. "The full moon is next week. The wolf usually gets… restless. But it seems worse this month, like it misses Severus and it knows that Severus won't be returning. It wants Severus back." The werewolf fidgeted a bit as he tried to get comfortable to no avail. He gave up and flung himself on the other couch so that he could lie down on his back.

James watched Remus squirm for some time, before asking a question he had wanted to ask for several days. "What happened that night?" he asked tentatively.

Sirius waited for Remus to explain, but when his friend didn't say a word, he began to speak. "After you left in a huff, and Peter had to go and sort out some problem the Inn had because Aberforth was out doing his thing for the Citizens' Watch. Anyway, Moony and I were left drinking alone and I was chatting up this nice waitress when that bastard brother of mine came up to the table and asked to speak to us in private.

"We went outside and he insisted that we cast a sobering charm on ourselves. When we had, he told us that he didn't think that Moony should be marrying Snape.

"He said that he had known something about Snape which he thought we weren't aware of, and had been wrestling with his conscience as to whether or not he should tell us."

"It was a total load of dragon shit," Remus interjected.

James smirked as Sirius continued. "He told us that Severus would basically spread his legs for anyone who asked.

"I, myself, didn't want to believe him, and asked him for proof.

"He led us to the back of the Hog's Head inn, where we saw someone sucking off Rodolphus LeStrange. We weren't sure at first if it was Snape or not, all we could see was the back of his head."

"It smelt like him," Remus interrupted. "Like he does, like he did when he was aroused."

"Yes, thank you Moony, we really needed to know that," Sirius answered.

He turned back to James. "Anyway, LeStrange… you know…"

"Orgasmed," supplied James.

"… and he called out Snape's name.

"I tried to get Moony to go back to the castle but he wouldn't. He wanted to see what happened next, so we stayed.

"LeStrange told his partner that he wanted him three more times before sunset and he pushed him into the railing and lubricated him using a charm, while he pulled off his robes. The man wasn't wearing underwear, and LeStrange commented that he was constantly without underwear.

"It was a lie," Remus whispered. "I should have known. It was a lie. Severus never goes out without his underwear. Never. He's had so many explosions in his lab when he's experimenting, that he would never risk having to walk back to his rooms in the nude if he ruined both sets of robes."

James looked at his friend. What he said made sense, especially after Lily's explanation of Potion Lab safety. He supposed that Severus not wearing underwear was the furthest thing from Moony's mind at that point. He was about to agree when Remus continued.

"And he's scared of lubrication charms. I mean terrified of them. He was almost raped once and the charm brings it all back to him.

"And why the hell did LeStrange cast a tightening spell? Severus' arse does not need tightening!" Remus' friends held back a small smirk as he essentially told them that Severus was a tight arse.

"And he wasn't wearing his choker. Invisible or not, I would have seen it. I thought he wasn't because it was from me, but I never told him how to get it off, I doubt that he would have had the patience to remove it."

Remus sat up on the couch and faced his friends. His face was white and ashen. "It wasn't him," he whispered, "It's so obvious that it wasn't him.

"It looked like him, and it smelt like him, but it didn't act like him. My Severus would never have sex in a public place, or use a lubrication charm, or not wear underwear, or need a tightening charm, or sleep with anyone else but me…

"I fell for that hook, line and sinker.

"And why didn't I think of the possibility that someone had used Polyjuice to look like him!? He'd been brewing more Polyjuice all week. Sirius used Polyjuice to look like me, so that he could talk to him. Why didn't I realise that?"

"Severus did," Sirius said quietly. "At the Mid-Summer ball, he knew I wasn't you from the moment I opened my mouth. He even knew it was me."

Remus began to hyperventilate as Sirius spoke. He burst out into tears. "And now he's deeaadd," he wailed.

James, who had been gaining a great deal experience calming down crying females thanks to Lily, got up from his seat, sat next to Remus, and pulled him into a hug.

"He forgave you, you know," James said quietly. "Before he left, he forgave you."

"You're just saying that," Remus mumbled into James' robes.

"No, I'm not," James replied, tucking his friend's head underneath his chin.

The Animagus pulled a crumpled scroll out of his pocket. "He wanted us to give this to you. He wanted you to know how much he cared for you."

James handed Severus' letter to Remus, and held him while he read it.

"H-h-he s-s-still l-l-loved m-me; a-after e-everything I d-did," hiccupped Remus.

"Yeah," replied James. "I reckon he was pretty sure that you wanted nothing more to do with him."

"You called him a Knockturn Alley whore," Sirius pointed out helpfully.

James shot his friend an angry look.

"He's dead and I killed him…" murmured Remus, "I'm a murderer…"

"You weren't the one who pushed him from the tower," James whispered, as he tried to comfort the werewolf.

"Yes I did." Remus choked back a sob. "If it wasn't for me, he would still be alive."

James just wrapped his arms more tightly around his friend and held him closely while he grieved, he wished he could tell him that it was all a lie, that Severus was alive and well, that the entire suicide had been a ruse to flush out the guilty culprits.

But Snape hadn't been seen or heard from in over three days, and he didn't want to tell Remus anything, lest Snape had actually been killed. He'd leave that lovely honour to Albus.

Instead, James held Remus tightly as he cried and handed him his handkerchief when Remus began to settle down.

Sirius, meanwhile, had stretched out on the sofa he was sitting on.

"You know, one good thing did come from this whole episode."

James raised an eyebrow. "And what would that be?" he asked.

"I got to see Snape's naked body, and I can see what Moony sees in him. Merlin that man is hung! He's bigger than me."

James reached behind him and grabbed a cushion.

Thwack!

tbc...

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