Love Affair

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter...I wish I did but I don‘t. I’m only playing with the characters. Please do not sue me. I don‘t own any money so it will just be a waste of everyone‘s time. I’m not making any money from this story.
Pairing: (eventually) Remus/Sirius
Author: Catium
Rating: NC-13
Word Count: 3340
Genre: Romance, drama.
Status: In progress
Warnings: Fluffy feelings, language, drama, slash.
Summary: The story of Remus and Sirius’s friendship and love affair.
Note: This story is kind of a prequel to There Is a Thin Line between Hate and Love. In chapter 13 of There Is a Thin Line... Harry comes to Remus for an advice because he thinks he has feelings for Draco. Remus tells Harry that he and Sirius were a couple and after Harry runs out to talk to Draco, Remus starts to think about how he and Sirius became friend and later lovers. This story traces Remus and Sirius story of friendship and later love affair.

Thanks to everyone that read wouldn’t be writing this story if you all wouldn’t be reading it;)
Now here is chapter 3.

Love Affair - Chapter 3. Pranksters

“No complaints here.” Remus said quite happy that he had found the perfect name for them without even knowing it.
“Then it’s agreed.” Sirius said bossily, smiling his mischievous smile once more.
“The Marauders.”
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“You were always so smart even when you weren’t trying.” Sirius’s voice complimented Remus.

“Thank you Sirius.” Remus thought as he finished grading the last paper and took his stuff together and looked at his watch. Time had run away from him and it was nearly time for dinner. Remus seriously considered not going to dinner and have the houseelves bring him something to his quarters. He was in no mood to have small talk with McGonagall or worse yet...having to suffer petty remarks from Snape.

“Remus you will go and have nourishing dinner and just ignore Snape.”

“HAH! Ignore him? That is rich coming from you. You could never ignore him.

“No I couldn’t. I admit that. But you could. And were pretty good at it too so you must be able to for 15 minutes so you will be able to have good dinner. You are too thin Remus I’m worried about you. Please have dinner?”

Remus could see how Sirius, if he was there with him, would have given him his best begging puppy dog eyes and laughed a bit.

“Oh all right since you ask so nicely.”

Remus got up from the desk and put his stuff away in his quarters. Then he made his way towards the Great Hall to have some dinner.

“Speaking off old Snivellus how is he?

“Like he always has been; snidely, sarcastic, mean...”

“Greasy?”

“Yes that too. But I know what you are going to say Sirius and before you say it. He didn’t deserve the
treatment he got from you and James, he never did anything to you.”

“Oh no.” Sirius’s voice answered him sarcastically. “Except when he put me or James to the hospital wing with well aimed curses.”

“You two put Snape more often to the hospital wing than him you. And besides Snape never would have done anything to you if James hadn’t made it his mission to taunt Snape and gotten you to join him in the taunting. All because James was jealous of Lily hanging around with Snape. Why couldn’t he see they were friends even before Hogwart’s and just leave them alone.”

“James always got what he wanted and when Snape showed Lily his true nature she broke their friendship and started dating James. He grew on her and she and Snape grew apart.” Sirius argued.

“Well I can’t help wondering if you two wouldn’t have taunted him so much, then he never would have joined the Death Eaters. He did it mostly to get back at you.”

“I disagree I think he would have joined despite us taunting him. But this is something we will just have to agree on disagreeing on. We’ve had this fight too many time both when I was alive and when I was dead.” Sirius’s voice said around the same time Remus got into the Great Hall. It stayed silent while Remus had dinner and made small talk with McGonagall.

“But you got to admit that sometime the greasy git deserved what he got.”

Remus sighed when Sirius’s insistent voice interrupted him when he was about to start on the dessert.

“Sometimes but that was rear.” He agreed.

“Like the first time we played a prank on him remember?”

“I remember. It was also the first time we played a prank on anyone. Three or four months into our first year.”

Remus expression became grim. They’re first prank hadn’t been funny at all. They had laughed at it at the time but that still didn’t change the fact that their first prank was more cruel than anything else. The prologue to the prank also hadn’t been funny so it was no wonder the prank that started their pranksters career hadn’t been.
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Remus tried to ignore the bad sinking feeling in his stomach when he saw the devilish smirk that came on James and Sirius when they saw Severus Snape close by them during a recess. They had just been complaining on having nothing fun to do during the recess. That they were bored and it seemed to have become their new favourite thing during the last month to bully Severus Snape who was a first year like them only in Slytherin.

It had all started when James had started to develop a crush on their fellow first year Gryffindor, Lily Evans, he had tried to befriend her but something about James seemed to irritate Lily beyond. She refused his friendship, not letting him down easily. James had been pretty upset, no one had ever refused a friendship with him before. He had decided he was going to keep trying to befriend Lily and she had ignored him every time when he had tried to talk to her.

Then James had noticed, that she spent all her free time with a black and greasy haired, sickly thin and pale Slytherin named Severus Snape, he had been furious.

“How can she be friend with that...greasy...git instead of me?” He had asked furious and started to plan his revenge, but not on Lily. He would never be mean to girls. Instead he was going to get his revenge by taunting Snape. He had sought help from his fellow Marauders.

“It will be fun.” He had told them and immediately gotten Sirius and Peter on board with him. Remus had refused telling James he thought what he was doing was immature.

“It’s not Snape’s fault that they’re friends.”

“Yes it is.” James had said confident. “He could try not to be her friend. And I’m going to make him see that nothing good comes from being her friend.”

“Well I won’t have anything to do with it.”

“Suit yourself.”

The three of them had then started to taunt Snape every chance they got and now nearly a month in, Remus was starting to get the feeling that they were making themselves an enemy for live by acting like this. Him too, because despite him not participating he wasn’t stopping them either. He should report them to the professors or make them stop. Instead he just pretended he didn’t notice anything when they would attack Snape.

Remus watched as Sirius and James stopped whispering to each other clearly making a plan on what to do still wearing that devilish smirk started to make their move towards Snape.

“HEY Snape!” James yelled.

Remus watched as Snape jumped around alarmed. More people noticed the show about to begin and turned their attentions to Sirius and James. One of those people was Lily she ran between them and Snape and glared at James.

“Potter!” she said angrily. “Leave him alone! Or I will tell the professors!”

“Become me friend?” James asked her ignoring her threat.

“For the 20’th time...no Potter...I don’t like you!”

James smiled sweetly. “Fine then.” And then pushed Lily out of the way dragging out his wand and pointing it at Snape.

But before he could put any hex on Snape he drew out his own wand and quickly threw a hex on James. Remus couldn’t hear what the hex was, but it tossed James into the air hitting him into the brick wall, that surrounded the garden the students used during recess, head first. The blow knocked James out and he fell to the ground.

“JAMES!” Sirius, Peter and Remus all screamed terrified at the same time running towards him.

“He’s unconscious.” Remus said panicking.

“I’ll kill that bastard.” Sirius said furious and turned to look for Snape, but he had skedaddled as soon as James had collided with the wall.

“Sirius. He’s gone. Forget him.” Remus told him and grabbed his arm and with surprisingly much strength dragged Sirius down to his level so he could look him in the eyes.

“Go and get Pomfrey, you’re the fastest runner.”

Sirius looked confused and like the words weren’t getting through to him.

“I...” he began but Remus lost his little patient and growled at Sirius.

“NOW!”

Getting this harsh word from his friend seemed to snap Sirius out his trance and he got up and ran as fast as he could to get Pomfrey.

Meanwhile Remus got James as comfortable as he could and then looked around hoping Sirius would be quick. Peter stood by vacillating. Remus decided it would be best getting him some mission too.

“Peter, go find Professor McGonagall someone need to inform Sirius’s parents on what happened and she should do that.”

Peter nodded and ran to find McGonagall. When he got away from Remus’s line of sight he saw Lily how was looking really uncomfortable and worried.

Remus beckoned her to come closer and when she did he told her.

“Don’t be worried he’ll be just fine.”

“I’m not worried about him!” Lily snapped at him. “I’m worried about Severus. When Potter gets better he and Black will plan some terrible revenge on him I just know it.”

Remus knew she was right and told her.

“Yes you’re right. You should be worried about that.”

“Can’t you stop them?” Lily begged him. “They are your friend they will listen to you.”

Remus snorted Lily clearly didn’t know James and Sirius at all.

“No they won’t. They only listen to me when it’s in their benefaction.”

Lily sighed and told him angrily. “Fine then, just keep on ignoring it when they bully Severus like you’ve done so far and pretend you’re reading one of your books. That’s all you are good for anyway.” Then she walked away.

“That little...” Remus thought angry at Lily’s comment. “I will show her I can do more than just read books.” At that moment Sirius came back with Madam Pomfrey.

Madam Pomfrey pulled out her wand and quickly did some spells, when it had been declared that no more damaged had been done on James than knocking him unconscious she conjured up some barrows, put James on them and quickly made her way to the Hospital Wing.

Remus and Sirius followed Pomfrey and knocked out James until they came to the Hospital Wing there Madam Pomfrey turned her attention to them and said.

“I know you’re his friends put I can’t take care of him with you hovering over me. You will have to wait here until I tell you it’s all right to come inside or you can go back to your common room.”

“We’ll wait here Madam.” Sirius told her and when Madam Pomfrey had closed the doors to the hospital wing and left them alone, and they had found somewhere to sit Sirius turned to Remus telling him.

“Snape will pay for this.” The cruelty in his voice was clear to Remus.

“I’ll help you.” Remus said before realising what he was saying.

Sirius seemed surprised at these news and asked

“Why? You’ve never wanted to have anything to do with our interaction with Snape before.”

“Lily said James deserved it. You haven’t been that mean to him. James didn’t deserve a trip to the Hospital Wing for they way you’ve been treading Snape. But we need to get back at Snape for this. I wouldn’t be a real Marauder if I didn’t want to help revenge my friend’s accident.”

Sirius smirked and clapped Remus on the back.

“That’s right mate, but we should wait on any plan until James feel up to it. We’ve been talking on doing a prank on Snape and James is the one with idea and I think Snape just gave us the perfect excuse to pull a prank on him.
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James regained consciousness after a few hours and was discharged from the Hospital Wing in the evening. He got surrounded by concerned Gryffindors when he returned to the Gryffindor tower along with Sirius, Remus and Peter who had all waited for him and walked him back to their dorm, telling him their idea of pulling a prank on Snape as revenge. Then James retired early to bed still a bit ill from the head blow. The next day however he insisted on starting to plan their revenge on Snape.

“You sure James?” Sirius asked concerned. “We don’t want you to strain yourself so early by planning some complicated prank.”

“Nahh..I’m fine.” James assured them. “And it’s Saturday so it’s perfect to plan the prank over the weekend and do it on Monday. So this is what I’ve been thinking...”

James told them the prank he’d been thinking about. It had some loopholes in them and Remus pointed them out telling them.

“We don’t want to get caught do we? The plan needs to be solid. No mistakes.”

The others agreed on it and once the plan was solid there was one tiny thing that stood in the way. They needed to purchase items from Zonko’s Joke Shop in Hogsmeade that they didn’t think they could afford it.

“What will it cost?” Sirius asked James.

James told him the amount and Sirius whistled low over the price.

“That’s expensive but I can afford it. There’s a Hogsmeade trip tomorrow I’ll get a buddy of mine that’s a third year to buy is for me.

James rubbed his hand together and smiled evilly.

“We have the plan, it’s solid, we will have the equipments necessary make it work tomorrow. The plan will be put in action on noon Monday.
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On noon on Monday the Marauders were ready to do their prank. They waited outside the Great Hall. When they saw Snape, they gave Peter the signal. He’d been lounging around some distance from them, and now they pretended to wave him over and he came running “accidently” running into Snape and knocking his schoolbag over so all Snape’s stuff got splattered on the floor.

“Oh darn...I’m sorry Snape.” Peter said his acting skills being good enough for him to smile apologetically and bent over to help him pick up his stuff. “I’m really sorry, let me help you.” Peter said again.

Snape seemed to consider Peter less hostile then the rest of the Marauders since he gave a small smile back.

“It’s fine Pettigrew don’t worry about it.”

Now the next part began, Remus chosen since he hadn’t done anything to Snape yet, walked up to where Snape and Peter were kneeling on the floor and on his way there pulled out a can of Zonko’s moth powder. A prank powder that ate up the clothes it was dusted over. And kept on eating until there were no more clothes. When close enough he blew the powder over Snape making sure it didn’t touch Peter. Then he put it back and said loudly to draw the attention to himself.

“You all right there Peter? You knocked Snape’s stuff down pretty hard.”

“Yeah I’m fine.” Peter said and finished taking Snape’s stuff together. Then he handed it over to Snape. He had, unnoticed to Snape put some Zonko’s classic itching powder over Snape’s stuff that should start working in exactly 15 minutes. That according to the boys plan was a soon as the moth powder had eaten through Snape’s clothes.

“Common then.” Remus said to Peter and smiled at Snape who gave him a small smile in return.

They joined Sirius and James who were waiting for news excitingly.

“How did it go?”

“According to plan.” Remus said. “I managed to blow the powder all over his school robes so it should go through all his clothing.”

“And I put the itching powder on most of his books which he touched so now he has powder all over his hands and his bag is probably covered in it.”

Sirius and James smirked and Sirius said.

“That means he will probably be getting in touch with the itching powder over the next few days until it stops working. Good for you Peter.”

“Now let’s go in and get a good seat for the show.” James told them and the four Marauders went in and took a seat at the middle of the Gryffindor table where they could see over to where Snape was sitting.

They started to eat and talk acting nonchalant. After ten minutes they heard a yelp from the Slytherin table and looked over there. There was now sitting a blushing, embarrassed and very much naked Severus Snape. The people sitting next to him were yelping and getting away from him, some were amused, other were disgusted. This commotion started to draw the attention of the other students and soon the whole Great Hall were laughing and pointing at Snape.

Snape had grabbed his hands around his most private parts and now he pained expression started to spread on his face as he sobbed loudly.

“Oh brilliant. His hands are covered in the powder and he used his hands to cover his parts.” James whispered to the other Marauders.

“Revenge is a dish best served cold. And nothing compares to public humiliation.” Sirius whispered back as Snape jumped out of his seat and ran out of the Great Hall the whole student population laughter following him out.

“Something the matter Snivellus?” Sirius yelled after him and everyone laughed as Snape disappeared through the doors.

The head of Slytherin house soon left the teachers table clearly going to see what had happened to his student after Dumbledore had expressed his concern.

Soon people settled down a bit but everyone were chatting excitedly about the event throughout the rest of the lunch.
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After the classes the Marauders were heading for the Gryffindor tower complementing each other on a prank well done.

“I think this will mark our career as professional pranksters boys.” James said a bit full of himself.

Then someone stepped in front of them.

It was Snape and if Remus had thought he’d seen him angry before he’d been dead wrong.

“I knew it!” Snape spat out at them.

“Knew what...Snivellus?” James asked him smirking to hide his nervousness.

“I knew that you did that to me that happened during lunch.”

“We really don’t know what you are on about Snape.” Sirius said.

“We were at our house table on the other side of the Hall. We couldn’t have done it. I think you should rather put one of your housemates on your suspect list.” Remus told him giving him a small smile.

“Et tu Lupin?” Snape asked Remus“I knew these two capable of doing something like this but not you.” Then he pointed his words to all four boys. “You know? Up until now if you’d apologised to me I would have been willing to forgive you. But not now. I will never forgive you for this. Congratulations...Marauders...you just made yourselves your first enemy.” Then Snape spat on the floor in front of them and walked away quickly.

Remus was shocked, Peter looked shocked and Sirius and James were looking a bit pale.

“How did he know our name? We haven’t told anyone about it.” Sirius asked

“I think Snape is a lot more clever then we give him credit for.” Remus said but in his mind he was thinking “We made a huge mistake. I should’ve stopped us from doing this prank. I think we just made ourselves a dangerous enemy.”

James was the first one to get over it and said grimly.

“I’m not worried. There is only one of him and four of us. What can he do? I will tell you. Nothing. It’s just logic, four of us and one of him he can’t win.” Sounding a bit like he was convincing himself as much as he was convincing the others.

Sirius knotted his head in agreement.

“Yeah...James’s right. What can he do?”

TBC

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