It Started With Sweet Revenge

The next morning when Sirius woke, his bed curtains had already been drawn back and James was standing over his bed holding a tray. He grinned resting it down on Sirius' lap.
"Morning Padfoot" he said watching a dazed, sleepy Sirius stare at him in confusion.
"What?"
"Breakfast in bed, need to keep up your strength you're eating for two now" James said eagerly as Peter appeared by his shoulder grinning excitedly, Remus came over to the bed with Sirius' clothes slung over his arm and his wand in the other hand.
"Thanks I, uhh, appreciate it" Sirius said feeling extremely surprised, they had never done anything like this before.
"I've just cast a warming charm on your clothes, not too hot though just enough to make them cosy" Remus said carefully resting the neatly folded clothes at the bottom of the bed.
"Thanks Moony" Sirius said looking rather bewildered at his new treatment, he reached onto the bedside table took his spare goblet and potion out pouring himself some he sat back sipping at it carefully.
"Not gonna eat anything?" James frowned.
"Yeah I will in a minute I need to take my potion I don't want to start throwing up again" Sirius explained downing the rest of it and replacing his goblet on the bedside table he tucked into his breakfast, James seemed to have gone for a healthy choice with fruit on toast, buttered crumpets, pumpkin juice and two croissants.
"Anything you want doing while we're here?" James asked moving to his own bed to finish pulling on the rest of his uniform Peter sat perched on the edge of his own bed shovelling books and papers into his school bag but Remus just stood watching him unsure of what else to do.
"Nah seriously guys there's no need for any of this I'm fine" Sirius chuckled.
"But you're pregnant you should be taking it easy" Remus stated.
"Remus please don't mother me I'm okay you've not been all over me until today" Sirius sighed finishing off his breakfast and downing his pumpkin juice before pushing the tray aside and slipping out of the bed covers.
"That's because we didn't know you are pregnant until now" James said running his fingers through his hair teasing it up trying to make it look windswept.
"Yes but I'm okay I've been coping looking after myself for the past few weeks and everything is fine" Sirius smiled reaching for his clothes, he quickly pulled on his pyjama bottoms he was using as school trousers and smiled to himself, Remus was right they were lovely and cosy.
"Okay but you should be taking it easy, remember that, you have a little baby inside of you to think of as well now you know" Remus said before turning around and heading over to pick up his own bag.
"I will" Sirius sighed rolling his eyes as he pulled on the rest of his uniform and headed into the bathroom. "Back in a second I'm bursting for a piss"
"Charming" James commented as the door closed behind Sirius.
A few minutes later and Sirius was out looking bright, fresh and his usual happy self, he still looked a bit sleepy but that was only to be expected.
"Are we ready then, boys?" Sirius asked flashing his dazzling white teeth as usual, he wanted to act as normal as possible and hopefully it would put his friends off trying to mother him, especially Remus, he had a bad habit of that.
"Yeah come on then or we'll be late for potions" James yawned stretching himself up like a cat as they headed out of the dormitory, Sirius tried to ignore the fact that Peter had made his bed up perfectly and put his pyjamas away.
They headed down through the common room laughing and joking, James slung his arm around Sirius' shoulder and the others shuffled a bit closer to him protectively.
"Now, what do you reckon my chances are of getting to partner with Evans today?" James asked excitedly as they headed down the stairs.
"Twenty five to one" Remus said.
"More like twenty five to none if it doesn't start calling her by her first name" Sirius laughed and James shot him a glare.
"If you weren't knocked up I'd slap you one" James growled making Sirius laugh even harder.
"Pays to be pregnant then" Sirius laughed resting a hand on his stomach as they headed down into the entrance hall, he spotted Regulus walking towards the main doors and stopped.
"REGULUS!" he called loudly, the younger boy stopped, turned around and grinned at him. "Wait a second" Sirius called again turning to his friends.
"Wait right here I just need to tell Reg something" Sirius said not even giving them a chance to reply before he hurried over to Regulus grinning excitedly his hair swaying around his perfectly chiselled features.
"Morning Reg!" he said brightly.
"Morning Sirius you're unusually cheerful this morning" Regulus commented slightly surprised by his brother's sudden light, happy tone.
"I know I told my friends about the baby last night" he said quickly.
"Really? What did they say? I presume it's good news..."
"It is indeed Reg, they want to support me and help me out it went so much better than I expected" Sirius smiled.
"That's great but what about the uhh, the baby's father?" Regulus said awkwardly dropping his eyes to Sirius' tummy for a brief moment.
Sirius' face dropped a little and he shook his head. "I didn't tell them anything"
"What?"
"I didn't tell them who he is or really give them any idea all I said was that we aren't together and he's a half blood that's not really anything to go by seeing as there are so many half-bloods in the school" Sirius said calmly.
"Fair enough, are you going to tell them who he is cause I mean you can't just wait until you give birth and Snape's there can you?" Regulus said dropping his voice so nobody could hear.
Sirius was quiet for a few moments. "I'll tell them when the time is right, AFTER I tell him about the baby myself I don't want to cause any fights at the moment everything is good today I don't want to spoil it" he said finally.
"Okay" Regulus nodded.
"And don't you go telling anyone either I'm not announcing my pregnancy yet so remember to keep it quiet, okay?" Sirius said worriedly eyeing Regulus.
"I promise, you know you can trust me" Regulus smiled happily.
"Thanks" Sirius grinned turning to the side and looking over to where his friends were standing. "OI REMUS!" he shouted, the blonde haired boy looked over from where Sirius had left him and the other two talking amongst each other.
"Sirius what are you doing?" Regulus asked confusedly.
"Keeping up my end of the bargain" Sirius shot him his usual cheeky grin before beckoning over to Remus calling him over.
Remus exchanged glances with James and Peter before he made his way over there looking slightly worried.
"We'll meet you guys outside lesson in a bit" Sirius called waving to James and Peter they both nodded and started making their way towards the dungeon corridor.
Remus stopped beside Sirius looking from him to Regulus worriedly.
"Sirius what's-"
"Remus you know my little brother Regulus" Sirius smiled gesturing towards Regulus who smiled nervously at him.
"Hey" Remus smiled back.
"I thought I'd introduce you two because you have quite a bit in common actually" Sirius smiled looking from one to the other. "I was actually thinking you two might like to hang out together some time get to know each other and stuff"
The two boys stared at each other a few moments, Remus' eyes glanced briefly over Regulus' slightly smaller frame. He was a slim boy perhaps a couple of inches shorter than Remus with long straight black hair hanging perfectly around his immaculate, ivory skin, his well-shaped features making him look rather haughty and handsome, his eyes were the softest smouldering grey a darker shade of grey with sort of a misty hue about them, they were very pretty. Remus noted how well postured and angular Regulus actually was, he had to admit he was certainly very nice looking.
Regulus' eyes roamed quickly over Remus' frame, he was slim and slender, a few inches taller than himself with floppy natural blonde hair that was just long enough to hang in his sparkling blue eyes a little. He had a rather handsome yet pretty face, very simple but still rather attractive.
"Yeah sounds good to me" Regulus smiled.
Remus nodded his agreement trying not to blush, he always thought Regulus was very prejudice and would never want to hang out with someone like Remus.
Sirius smirked playfully looking from one to the other. "I'll go and wait over there while you two make some plans, see you in a minute" Sirius grinned disappearing rather quickly to stand by the entrance to the dungeons. He watched as Remus said something to Regulus who laughed a little, they grinned to each other and Sirius watched as they made conversation nodding and grinning before they nodded to one another and parted ways.
Sirius stood grinning like a Cheshire cat when Remus appeared in front of him looking quite pleased with himself.
"Soo, how'd it go?"
"Fine we're going to hang out on Friday night and before you ask, no you are not coming with us and neither are James or Peter" Remus said quickly stopping Sirius in his tracks as he opened his mouth to speak.
"That's great, are you looking forward to it?" Sirius smiled as they made their way down the dungeon corridor he glanced back over his shoulder to see Regulus standing right at the door about to open it grinning excitedly.
"Yeah it should be fun" Remus nodded.
"There you two are, what were you doing?" James asked looking from one to the other.
"Just having a chat with Regulus" Sirius explained quickly, Remus shot him a warning glance.
"Fair enough" Peter replied as James looked over his shoulder.
"Ugh Snivellus has his eye on you again, Padfoot" he said wrinkling his nose with disgust.
"Who hasn't got their eye on me?" Sirius grinned flashing those perfect pearly whites, out of the corner of his eye he could see a small group of girls giggling at him.
Remus rolled his eyes. "Arrogant as ever I see"
James leaned in closer and whispered into Sirius' ear. "I expect a majority of people won't have their eye on you in a few months for any reason other than to watch you waddling around"
Sirius' face dropped and he glared at James who gently rested a hand on Sirius' stomach for a brief moment before pulling away looking as pleased as ever. This gesture did not go unnoticed by Severus.
Snape stared, harder than usual his icy black eyes boring holes into Sirius' skin, his eyes dropped to where James' hand had rested moments ago, it was only for a brief second but he didn't miss it. His dark eyes narrowed into slits as he stared maliciously at the dark haired Gryffindor boy.
"Whoa Severus is really giving you daggers right now, Padfoot" Remus commented glancing towards Severus whose stare was as hard as diamonds.
Sirius turned and grinned to Snape. "Checking out my arse are you, Snape?" he said loudly catching everybody's attention. A snicker rang through the air and Severus' expression softened into an awkward grimace.
"Don't flatter yourself Black there isn't anything worth checking out about your figure... right now anyway" he smirked nastily his eyes flashing dangerously.
A shiver ran down Sirius' spine as he stared back. "You're only jealous because nobody finds you attractive, you're ugly as sin go and have a bath"
"Is that all you can say? Pathetic" Severus laughed nastily along with his group of Slytherin cronies.
"It's funny because I usually say that sort of thing to you, you're only copying what I say because you can't think up any decent insults of your own" Sirius retorted.
"There are lots of things I could say about you, I just choose to keep them to myself for now and I think you'd appreciate it much more if I did" Severus smirked.
Sirius stared at him for a few moments, he really didn't want Snape to go around telling people what happened not only would that shame him it might lose him his friends and anyone else that liked him as well as expose the baby's father.
"I didn't think so" Severus chuckled into Sirius' silence.
"Why don't you just fuck off, Snape nobody wants to listen to your bullshit all you ever do is cause problems then you wonder why nobody likes you!" James spat nastily as Remus and Peter herded closer to Sirius as though they were his body guards. Severus' eyes narrowed as he stared at them suspiciously.
"Good morning everyone, we've got some practical work to do today everything is set up we just need to get cracking" Slughorn said unlocking the classroom door and allowing the students in.
Sirius and Severus shot glared to one another before James, Remus and Peter herded him into the classroom before anything else happened.
They sat down, Remus, James and Peter around a cauldron as the rest of the class paired or grouped off chatting quietly and reading through their instructions.
"I have a feeling this is going to be a tough lesson" Remus sighed resting the instructions back down on the table.
"Sirius you can write the essay we're supposed to do when the practical is done, look a few others are doing it" James said quickly.
"Alright" Sirius agreed pulling out his notebook, ink and quill ready to start writing.
"Everything you need is in the store cupboard and around the sides of the classroom I'll be going around to check on you" Slughorn said.
The lesson got underway and Sirius sat at the desk behind his friends barely listening to their conversations and the scuffles they were having, they didn't seem to have progressed very far with their work. Sirius sighed scribbling another few sentences down before stopping to shrug off his cloak, the classroom was usually cold but when the students were all brewing, the fires were going and they were moving around a lot the room could get rather on the warm side of things.
Sighing he used the opportunity to sit and gaze about the room. Lily was working with a group of two other girls working swiftly and giggling amongst themselves, a pair of Gryffindor boys were working in silence, the Slytherin's were behaving as morbid as usual and Snape-
Sirius stared hard at him. Severus was the only person in the room working alone hunched over his lightly smoking cauldron. He had taken his cloak and school jumper off, loosening his tie he had opened three buttons on the top of his shirt revealing a small amount of his pale, almost translucent skin there. Sirius studied him watching his way his dark eyes were fixated on the cauldron his slender hands working swiftly to add the ingredients, those long fingers curled around a small bottle of powdered moonstone. Sirius watched as he eyed the words written in his text book carefully through his curtains of ebony hair his lips moving quickly yet silently as he read the instructions carefully, so very precise.
It was then at that exact moment, Severus froze his eyes glancing up and their gazes locked together for what seemed like a lifetime until Severus glanced back down at his work muttering to himself under his breath like before.
Sirius had never felt so awkward in his life, he shook his head turned around in his chair to face the front so he didn't have to look at Severus so full on again. He had not only caught himself, but been caught staring at Snape for no apparent reason, it wasn't even as though it was a little stare it was full on watching his every move. Sirius let out a long drawn out sigh and tried to focus on his work, that was the last thing he needed to have on his mind.
"Sirius how's the essay coming along?" Remus asked looking over his shoulder to make sure his friend was okay.
"Not so bad I'm feeling kinda tired so it's slowing me down a little" Sirius replied without looking up from his work.
"Just take it easy I can imagine it's fairly easy to fall asleep sitting there given how warm it is in here" Remus replied snatching something from Peter's hand before he dropped it into the cauldron ruining their mixture.
Sirius chuckled watching his three friends having a scuffle, he could see Snape out of the corner of his eye still working away swiftly and oh so carefully over his potion.
That evening, Sirius had a nice warm bath, pulled on his pyjamas and slipped into bed pouring himself a cupful of his potion he sat back against the headboard drinking it slowly his thoughts wandering back to this morning.
Everything seemed different now his friends knew, not particularly in a bad way but Sirius knew he had to be much more careful with the things he did especially around Snape these vague and irritating threats of exposure did nothing to help him when he feared his friends may be able to put two and two together and figure out that he was the baby's father. Sirius frowned, surely not the tension between them was intense their attitudes and the things they said were usually vile there would be no way they could assume anything suspicious apart from the threats, thankfully none of his friends had chosen to question him about it, thankfully they didn't believe Snape had anything to threaten him with in the first place.
"I'm gonna sleep now guys see you in the morning" Sirius called reaching up and pulling the drapes closed around his bed.
"Night" resounded around the room as the lighting went dim around Sirius' bed, he lay flat on his back under the bed covers with his hands behind his head thinking.
He didn't really have much choice, he would have to tell Snape in the very near future no matter what Severus needed to know about the baby and Sirius really didn't want to deal with the stress of holding it off any longer. He couldn't deny that he was nervous about telling the Slytherin about the baby it wasn't as if he was worried that he would be left he wasn't expecting Severus to help him it was just the whole idea of uttering those words 'I'm pregnant' to Severus Snape of all people that sent chills down his spine.
His mind rolled back to earlier in potions, the way Severus stood there with his long locks falling in front of his face, his dark eyes focused on the task at hand, those slender fingers being so careful with the delicate ingredients, his lips moving silently at almost a blur and that small amount of exposed chest. Wait- what was he doing? Thinking about Snape again in the same way he had bluntly down-right stared at him earlier on in the day watching his every move with the tiniest amount of admiration. Sirius' face dropped an odd sensation tingling over his skin. NO he would just have to push those thoughts from his mind he didn't want to bother about them right now he couldn't be dealing with Snape and his stupid little mind games, no doubt the Slytherin would be craving for his attention anyway.
Gritting his teeth he rolled over in the bed and snuggled himself down into his nest of blankets, right now he was too tired to even care what Snape was up to. Hmph, like he'd never let Snape that close to him to find out...
Down in the Slytherin dormitories Severus had just crawled into bed, ignoring his friends silly play fighting he pulled his long emerald curtains closed and settled himself comfortable under the blankets.
Things hadn't been going too badly, or rather recently at all to be honest. His friends were being nice to him, he was doing well in all of his subjects and so far today he hadn't been beaten up or hexed. Apart from his little disagreement with Black and his friends this morning, everything had been going rather swimmingly.
Severus smirked. Black and his friends, they were all so pathetic, so annoying and so arrogant. Severus gritted his teeth, perfect James Potter the Quidditch hero with his circle of perfect little friends, little stumpy tag along Peter Pettigrew, perfect because he was an extra back up, an extra admirer he followed them. Remus fucking Lupin perfect little school boy always doing well, no doubt allowing the others to copy from him, the spineless little freak and most of all Perfect Sirius Black with his perfectly clear immaculate skin, his perfectly fallen long dark hair that framed that perfect face with his perfect features and his perfect figure, the perfect masculinity, the perfect fucking everything about him. Severus bit back the anger that built up inside of him. Why is it that he gets to be so amazingly perfect at everything and everybody else is expected to follow along, behind them all and their reign over the school.
Severus grunted in frustration, he was far from perfect. He was too skinny, about average height which was clearly unappealing being a teenage male, his dark cold eyes, his pale gaunt face, his long hooked nose, his lank greasy hair that no matter what he did always managed to be fucking disgusting. Severus hated the way others teased him about it, not like it was his fault he did usually make the effort to look alright but genetics only go so far and unfortunately he wasn't very blessed in that department.
Severus refused to admit even the smallest amount of jealously over Potter, Pettigrew, Lupin and Black. He simply refused! No way would he ever allow them to think for one second he wished he was a little more like them. No, he was a proud Slytherin, he was known but unfortunately not yet feared, he had big plans with his life he knew what he strived to become and what he wanted to do. He knew that in some ways he had already destroyed those four boys in particular, Sirius Black.
With that thought in mind, Severus went to bed happy.
A few days went by, the tension in the air hadn't lifted and on Thursday Evening Sirius was relaxing on his bed actually doing his homework. Remus waiting until James and Peter had snuck out to steal food from the kitchens before he opened his trunk and began searching through his clothes.
"Moony what are you doing?" Sirius sighed watching his friend closely examining his tops. An awkward look crossed Remus' face before he turned.
"Just looking through my stuff" it wasn't exactly a lie.
"Why...?" Sirius quirked an eyebrow.
Remus stopped and remained silent for a moment before he turned to Sirius. "I know this might sound stupid or whatever but I was wondering what I should wear to uhh, meet Regulus tomorrow night"
Sirius' eyebrows shot into his hairline and he grinned madly. "Why Remus, are you actually looking forward to hanging about him so much so you're actually fussing over what to wear just to impress him"
"I am NOT trying to impress him!" Remus snapped a blush scattering awkwardly across his face.
Sirius burst out laughing. "Moony you're a terrible liar, come on, what do you have in mind?"
Remus blushed even further and grinned picking up some of his clothes.
The next morning they were up, dressed and sitting in the great hall eating their breakfast quite happily. Sirius grinned to James who was telling some rather awful jokes and putting Peter in a headlock.
Sirius couldn't help but glance towards the Slytherin table, his eyes scanned up and down before settling on a familiar patch of dark hair and a face closely resembling his own only softer, more feminine and on the cuter side. Regulus. Sirius smiled, he looked rather cheerful and excited this morning, he was sitting eating his fried bacon barely hanging onto the conversation he was having with some of his friends and Sirius knew why and that made him feel happy at least someone was having a good time hopefully things would go well this evening for Remus and Regulus. Sirius chuckled quietly to himself before allowing his eyes to wander a few places down the table to where another patch of familiar dark hair was sitting.
Severus Snape sat stirring a goblet of tea having a rather intricate conversation with Avery sitting opposite. Then another awkward thing happened and Severus looked up at that moment his eyes flickering and locking onto Sirius' gaze.
A horrible shudder ran down Sirius' spine as he stared at the other boy, there was no hatred, no anger no anything in the stare it was completely empty, devoid of all emotion.
"Padfoot..."
Nobody else had seemed to notice the streamline stare the two boys had, it was one of the strangest things that had happened to Sirius when a voice broke through his train of thought.
"Padfoot!" James snapped breaking his trance, the gaze broke and Sirius turned to his friend.
"Sorry, what I was away with it" Sirius said shaking his head hoping none of them had noticed.
"You alright mate?" Peter frowned.
"Yeah just my hormones making me drift off my train of thought" Sirius chuckled, it wasn't exactly a lie they did mess him about sometimes.
"Okay I was just saying that when Peter and I go home for Christmas you'll have the dormitory to yourselves, make sure you make the most of it and get a couple of girls or whatever in to have some fun with..." James winked playfully.
Remus' face was on fire, Sirius just looked plain awkward, never the less he grinned anyway.
"Don't know about Moony but I'm up for the idea of that" Sirius lied.
Remus shot him a filthy, disapproving look before returning to his breakfast.
Sirius turned his attention away and by the time he looked back to Severus which was barely thirty seconds apart, he was gone. Sirius' eyes quickly searched up and down the table even towards the door but Severus was nowhere in sight.
After breakfast they got up and left the great hall heading out into the entrance hall when a voice called back and stopped them.
"Remus!"
The four of them turned around to see Regulus hurrying towards them looking rather cheerful. He stopped barely a few feet away his eyes focusing on the werewolf. "Can I talk to you for a second?"
Remus nodded and followed him away just over into a corner.
"Hey are we still on for tonight?" Regulus asked.
"Yeah course, eight o clock outside the library, right?" Remus clarified and Regulus nodded quickly.
"Great I look forward to it" Regulus said gently.
"Me too" Remus smiled.
"So I'll see you tonight"
"See you" Remus smiled before they walked in opposite directions, now Remus was starting to feel very excited he had to try and keep it from his friends, not so much Sirius but James and Peter may not approve of Remus' new choice of a friend.
"What was that all about?" James asked curiously as they headed off up towards the staircases.
Remus shrugged. "Just wanted to know something, anyway why don't you tell us what plans you've got for Lily then" he said quickly changing the subject.
James' face instantly lit up, any mention of Lily and he would go off on one talking about her all day long.
True to his word, James didn't stop talking about Lily even as they went into Charms class. Thankfully for Remus he was sitting next to Peter and could talk himself hoarse next to that boy.
"So what did Reg want?" Sirius asked as they sat reading through their text books.
"Just wanted to know if we were still on for tonight" Remus said casually.
Sirius smirked. "Do you find him attractive?"
"Sirius!" Regulus gasped, scandalised.
"Oh come on you can tell me I'm not going to go blabbing" Sirius chuckled at the shocked expression on his friends face.
Remus flushed a light rosy pink before he nodded slowly. "Yes..."
"Knew it" Sirius grinned.
"He's handsome but cute he looks quite nice" Remus admitted quietly.
"Doesn't half look like me, eh?" Sirius winked playfully and Remus batted his arm.
"He does but that's not why I'm attracted to him"
"Aww" Sirius grinned it was nice to see Remus so cheerful and excited about something for once he was usually the slightly unhappy, dull person who walked about very ghost like and quiet.
By the time the afternoons lessons arrived, Sirius was struggling to stay awake. It was history of magic and they were sitting passing a note back and forth writing plans for a new prank James was going to try and pull off before he left for Christmas in little over a week.
Sirius sat slumped his chin resting on the palm of his hand his eyes half open, the ghost teacher Professor Binns droned on as usual it was more like a background noise than a lecture in fact Sirius was surprised he hadn't been replaced with a more lively teacher by now but how does one replace a ghost?
"Sirius" James said giving his friend a nudge.
"Hmm?"
"Snape's staring at you again"
"What?" Sirius frowned unsure if he had heard it right, he was sitting on the end of the desk with James to his left.
"Snape is staring at you again" James repeated giving a discreet nod in the direction of the Slytherin.
Sirius turned and sure enough Snape was there staring blankly at him that same flat stare he had given in the great hall. Sirius stared back it felt as though there was a staring match going on, their gazes locked on one another strangely, Sirius had never felt so odd in all of his life it was awkward and annoying and Sirius couldn't figure out Snape's game, he couldn't understand why, the gaze was impossible to read it was so empty there was just nothing in it that Sirius could grasp a hold of and that infuriated him. No, that was obviously what Snape wanted, he wanted to get under Sirius' skin and annoying him.
The lesson flew by after that and the end of the day had arrived, the class got up out of their seats and left the classroom. Sirius could feel Snape's eyes burning on his back, they got out of the classroom when he realised he's forgotten his text book.
"Damn it I've left my book behind" he groaned stopping just a way down from the classroom. "I'm gonna go back and get it"
"Want us to come with?" James asked.
"Nah I'll meet you back in the common room" Sirius dismissed.
"Alright see you in a bit" James said as they parted ways and Sirius made his way back to the classroom. Opening the door he stepped inside walking down the little aisle of book cases he didn't even hear the door close behind him as he made his way into the classroom and through the rows of desks to his seat, when he arrived the book was gone and he froze.
"Shit" he muttered under his breath.
"Looking for this?" a cool voice called and Sirius froze on the spot.
He turned slowly coming face to face with Snape his cold dark eyes fixated on him a nasty smirk playing on his face. He stopped a few feet away holding the book up lazily in one hand.
"What the hell do you think you're playing at, Snape?" Sirius growled.
"I'm not playing at anything, I don't play pathetic little games like you and your friends" Severus replied.
Sirius chuckled. "Give me my book back"
"I'm not done talking to you yet, Black" Severus addressed coldly.
Sirius rolled his eyes. "What is it you want?"
"I just want to talk to you, no harm in that is there?"
"It depends what you want to say" Sirius replied flatly.
"I just wanted to ask how you are, I heard you haven't been too well recently" Severus smirked nastily.
Sirius swallowed. "Why do you care?"
Severus half shrugged stepping closer. "Just making polite conversation I guess"
"You, polite? Don't make me laugh Snape you're a disgusting, ugly little runt with no fucking manners so don't try that one with me because it won't work" Sirius laughed.
"That wasn't what you were saying at the beginning of the year was it, Black?" Severus grinned. "'Oh Severus please give me more, more Severus more!'" Severus quoted in a shrill irritating voice.
Sirius' hands balled into fists, he had to stop himself he was pregnant he couldn't fight Snape it would be dangerous for the baby but oh how he wanted to smack him in the face. He stood gritting his teeth his cheeks turning an uncomfortable shade of crimson.
"Don't flatter yourself, I was drunk you weren't that good" Sirius retorted feeling thoroughly embarrassed if not slightly helpless.
Severus stood shaking his head. "You enjoyed my cock, Black, you liked my cock inside of you don't try and deny that"
Sirius burst out laughing. "I was so drunk I crawled to the Gryffindor dormitory, I was so drunk I fell over and I fell asleep trying to pee sitting down on the toilet so don't flatter yourself any further you're just embarrassing yourself, only someone who is extremely drunk would want to fuck you even that's a stretch"
A small flicker of hurt crossed Snape's face and Sirius smirked triumphantly.
"A stretch like your body around my cock" Severus said flatly.
"You disgust me, you are sick in the head do you know that and If I wasn't-" Sirius stopped dead in his tracks a confused expression washed over Snape's face.
"If you wasn't what Black?"
Sirius paused for a moment trying to ignore the smirk on Severus' face. "If I wasn't the bigger person I'd smash your nasty rotten teeth into your throat" he said quickly covering his tracks.
Severus seemed to be debating his for the few moments they stood in silence just staring at one another.
"Are you going to give me my book back now then?" Sirius snarled walking towards Severus thankful he was taller and far stronger than the smaller frailer Slytherin. His hands closed around the book and Severus flinched. Sirius paused flashing those perfect teeth to Severus as he gently took the book from his hands. Severus stared at him through careful, frightened eyes for a few seconds.
A split second later, Sirius' hand was on his chest shoving him backwards he fell backwards over a chair smacking his head off the floor, the room was spinning and Severus was starting to panic with fright, he tried to scramble for his wand in his clothes but his vision was blurred.
"See you later, Snape" Sirius snarled before turning swiftly on his heels and marching out of the room slamming the classroom door behind him leaving Snape lying on the floor clutching his head groaning in pain.
Back up in the common room, Sirius marched in feeling slightly flustered and annoyed, he tried desperately to hide this from his friends.
"Hey Sirius" James greeted as he sank down on the sofa letting out a long drawn out breath.
"Hey" he sighed resting a gently hand on his stomach.
The three boys eyes were fixated on Sirius' stomach. "Nothing wrong with the baby is there?" James asked quickly.
"Nah baby's fine" Sirius said quietly.
"Did you get your book?" Remus asked staring at him suspiciously.
"Yeah it's in my bag" Sirius said gazing at the fire.
"You seem a bit... quiet or off, you sure you're okay?" James asked again.
"Yes I'm fine I'm just tired" Sirius yawned. "Might go for an early night to be honest" he yawned.
"You've gotta have dinner yet" James commented.
"I know I'll just sit here and rest my eyes until then" Sirius sighed gently running his fingers over his little bump.
"I think you should just take it easy this weekend you don't want to tire yourself out" Remus commented looking up from the book he was reading.
"I plan to" Sirius sighed, he was actually thinking of spending the weekend just doing homework or spending it up in the dormitory sleeping, partly because he needed the rest and needed to catch up on homework and partly because he didn't really fancy facing Snape again too soon.
He sat for over an hour drifting in and out of sleep listening to his friends talking and laughing until it was time to go down for dinner.
They left the common room chatting and laughing as usual, James, Remus and Peter standing close knit to Sirius but right now he didn't mind. They were passing one of the lower floors when they spotted Snape coming out of the hospital wing his arms wrapped around a bucket his face looked paler than usual. There was no way James could miss out on this opportunity, he stopped a grin spreading across his face like a Cheshire cat.
"Alright Snivellus!" he practically shouted purposely standing right in the archway on the landing of the stairs. The only way Severus could escape.
Snape looked up and groaned inwardly his head hurt, his vision was a little blurred and he felt sick he just wanted to get back to his dormitory, take some potion and lie down.
"Piss off Potter" he said still walking towards them, right now he didn't even care.
"Oooh someone's in a mood, what's up Snivellus you look bloody awful?" James grinned nastily.
"No worse than usual" Peter added with a laugh.
Severus stopped in front of them. "None of your business, now fuck off out of my way I want to go to bed"
"No dinner? What a slippery little snake you are" James chuckled.
"Just move out of the way before I throw up all over you..." Severus closed his eyes momentarily.
"Why Snivellus, isn't that what the bucket's for?" James laughed sarcastically, mocking the Slytherin.
Severus groaned and vomited into the bucket resting his head around the rim of the bucket for a few moments before spitting bitterly into it and lifting his head again.
"Let me past or I'll hex you" he said, it was seemingly supposed to be a threat but it sounded more like a pathetic statement.
"Pfft I doubt that look at the state of you" Sirius grinned. Severus' eyes flashed to him warily for a moment before turning his attention back on James.
"Just... let me past" Snape asked quietly.
"Not until you tell me what's wrong with you, stomach bug, food poisoning? Or perhaps you finally looked at yourself in the mirror" James laughed.
"Nice one, James" Sirius grinned.
"If you must know I've got concussion" Severus said his temper rising. "Now, just let me past I'm not in any state to stand here and argue with you!"
"Stressy" Peter chuckled.
"James come on just let him past he's not well you'd hate it if he did the same to you" Remus said irritably trying to pull James out the way.
"Even if I was in that state I could easily fend that little snake off" James said. He looked Snape up and down. "Go on Snape, crawl back down your little hole" he moved aside enough for Severus to slip past.
"Fuck you" Snape snarled pushing past and heading off down the stairs.
"Can't imagine anyone would want you to fuck them you ugly bastard" James shouted after him. Severus seemed to pause mid step and Sirius winced dreading what was about to come. But it didn't and Snape kept walking.
They watched him go before heading down into the entrance hall themselves and into the great hall. They sat down for dinner, Sirius piled his plate and couldn't help but feel responsible and horribly guilty about what he did, if he hadn't pushed Snape he would be down here eating his dinner right now instead he was down in the Slytherin dungeons nursing a concussion all thanks to Sirius Black. Sirius wrinkled his nose stabbing his fork into a slice of his steak he chewed it over too thoroughly his mind working over what had happened back in the classroom.
Usually he wouldn't care he would have laughed it off pleased that Snape was hurt but he couldn't help but feel somewhat... bad dare he say for what he did. He shook the thoughts from his mind, he must be going crazy! Who would give a crap about that disgusting little faggot? And here Sirius was sitting feeling bad for him.
After dinner they went up to the dormitory, Sirius' mind was still ticking the whole Snape incident over making himself feel worse, and worse for what he did.
The bathroom door opened and Remus appeared dressed in a pair of nice dark jeans, a black t-shirt and black hoodie. His hair had obviously been wet and combed into place and Sirius thought he could smell either a much stronger dose of deodorant or a spritz of aftershave. He looked up from his Transfiguration text book and grinned.
"Wooo someone's a bit made up" he called grinning at Remus. James and Peter had gone downstairs to speak to Professor McGonagall and wouldn't be back for a while.
"You don't think it's too much do you?" he asked quickly looking down at himself rather worried.
"No I'm just messing with you, you look fine I've never seen you make an effort before"
"Thanks" Remus said grumpily going over to his bed and pulling on his shoes.
"No Moony I didn't mean it like that I just mean that you've never tried that hard before" Sirius laughed.
Remus checked the time and picked up his school bag slinging it over his shoulder. "Right I'm off to meet Regulus, I'll see you when I get back" he said trying to hide the excitement in his voice.
"Good luck, have fun" Sirius called watching Remus head towards the door. Moments later he was left alone with his thoughts.
Sighing he stood up and pulled off his clothes standing in his underwear he headed over to the standing mirror turning side on he stared at his stomach. He was definitely gaining weight quite quickly his little bump was growing and seemed to have gotten slightly bigger in the past couple of days.
He sighed, he knew he couldn't hide this any longer he had to tell Snape, he had to tell him before Christmas.
Making his way over to his bed he pulled on a clean nightshirt smiling to himself. He actually liked the feel of being pregnant, although he couldn't feel the baby kicking yet he knew he or she would be moving around inside of him. He smiled excitedly at the thought of when he would be able to feel him or her kicking him, what would it feel like, when would it start, not for a good few weeks yet surely.
He sat himself back comfortably on the bed and pulled his underwear off tossing it to the end of the bed. Reaching under his pillow he pulled out the pregnancy book and began to read about the baby being able to suck and swallow the fluid around them. Everything was so much more exciting when he knew what he or she would be doing inside of him.
Outside the Library...
Remus hurried along the corridor, slowing down as he approached the library he saw Regulus standing outside and waved. He walked right up to the younger Black brother and smiled warmly.
"Hi"
"Hey there" Regulus smiled. He was dressed in a simple black shirt with long baggy black jeans (all rather expensive) with his school bag slung lazily over his shoulder his hair a perfectly flat waterfall of black silk.
"You're early" Remus commented.
"Could say the same thing about you" Regulus smiled.
They stood quietly for a few moments both of them feeling nervous and excited.
"Shall we go on?" Remus offered gesturing towards the door.
"Definitely" Regulus chuckled. "I was starting to think we were going to stand out here all evening"
Remus grinned and with that they headed into the library. They walked in silence through the rows of bookshelves until they reached the back, finding a private table they sat down pulling their things from their bags and resting them on the table.
"So how are you?" Remus asked casually.
"I'm good how are you?" Regulus replied.
"Fine thanks, it's Christmas soon are you excited?" Remus smiled.
"Very" Regulus laughed. "This might surprise you but I end up like a little kid during Christmas time I get so over excited"
Remus' eyebrows rose. "I am quite surprised you don't come across as the excitable type" he chuckled.
"Ask my brother if you don't believe me he used to come into my room on Christmas Eve and we would get into bed laughing and giggling and staying up most of the night then we'd run down stairs in the morning to open out presents" Regulus mused.
"I'm an only child so I wouldn't know anything like that" Remus smiled.
"Really? Where do you live?" Regulus asked out of curiosity.
Remus felt slightly awkward, he cleared his throat and averted his eyes. "I live with my mum and dad out in the countryside in the North of England"
"That sounds nice, I live in London with my parents and my brother- well perhaps not Sirius any more once they find out he's pregnant" Regulus lowered his voice.
Remus stared at him his mouth hanging open in shock.
Regulus' face dropped. "You do know about the baby don't you?"
"Oh yes of course he told us a few days ago when he had the scan, told us you went with him I was just shocked you spoke to openly and casually about it" Remus said quickly.
"Ah right I see, well I've known about the baby for a while now we're sort of building up our relationships again as brothers hopefully things work out between us I want to be there for him and the baby" Regulus replied.
"I want to be there for him as one of his best friends he needs all the support he can get" Remus agreed. They both smiled at one another.
"So tell me some more about yourself" Remus said happily.
"I like reading, I write poems, I love Wizards chess, my favourite food is bacon and my birthday is February twelfth nineteen sixty one" Regulus grinned. "You?"
"I also like writing, taking walks, my favourite subject is Defence against the dark arts, I like rock music and my birthday is March tenth nineteen sixty" Remus chuckled.
"So you're fifteen" Regulus said.
"And you're fourteen" Remus replied with a nod.
"Not a problem is it?" Regulus quirked a perfect dark eyebrow.
"Not at all" Remus smiled happily.
The conversation flowed so evenly and openly neither of them even glanced down to their homework. Asking questions, telling stories, making jokes and just general nice conversation.
It was getting late and the library was about to close so the boys reluctantly got up, packed away their things and left the library. They headed along the corridor towards the stairs, curfew was approaching so they didn't have long.
"Tonight was fun we should do it again sometime" Regulus smiled.
"Definitely it appears we do have a lot in common" Remus chuckled nervously.
They stood in silence unsure of what else to say.
"Hey umm, Regulus?"
"Hmm?"
"I was wondering if maybe you'd like to... and you can say no if you think it's a bad idea, but maybe you'd like to... perhaps go to Hogsmeade with me tomorrow and have a few drinks in the three broomsticks?" Remus asked nervously he could feel his cheeks glowing slightly.
"You mean like a date?" Regulus asked his eyebrows raising into his hairline.
Remus felt himself blush even further. "Yes like a-a date" he said nervously...
Up in the Gryffindor Dormitory...
Sirius sat lounging on his bed, he poured himself a cupful of potion and sat sipping it lightly. James and Peter still weren't back yet no doubt they were checking out a secret tunnel out of the castle.
He yawned finishing his potion and resting the goblet down on the bedside table, he rolled onto his side and curled up into a ball. In the few hours he had spent alone he realised a few things. The first one being that if all went well he would have to give his little brother the sex talk, secondly he had made a plan on how he was going to tell Severus about the baby.
He was just drifting off to sleep when the dormitory door opened and Remus reappeared looking flushed and excitable. He closed the door quietly as Sirius sat upright grinning madly at him.
"Soo" Sirius began playfully watching as Remus made his way over to his bed dropping his bag to the floor and kicking off his shoes.
"So what?" Remus tried to sound as casual as he could despite the look on his face.
"How was the little hang out session with Regulus?" Sirius asked eagerly still grinning at Remus.
"It went really well thanks" Remus replied pulling off his clothes and dressing himself in his pyjamas he slipped between his bed sheets.
"And...?"
Remus blushed an even deeper shade of magenta as he looked down at his lap. "We have a date"
"Really?" Sirius gasped excitedly clapping his hands together. "Well done Moony, when is it, what are you going to do?"
"It's tomorrow we're going into Hogsmeade together just to have a few drinks and talk really you were right we do have a lot in common" Remus said excitedly.
"That's great! I hope it goes well for you" Sirius grinned, it was nice to see Moony so happy and cheery, he hadn't looked so happy since last year for Christmas James had bought him ten lbs of Honeydukes finest chocolate which he managed to get through in a matter of small weeks. In fact he looked happier than that.
"Thank you" Remus smiled. "He's really nice much different to how I expected him to be and we get on well I look forward to spending the day with him" Remus smiled.
"That's brilliant, Moony you can tell me all about it tomorrow" Sirius yawned snuggling himself down under his bed covers.
Remus let out a short laugh and by the time he finished, Sirius was already asleep.
The next morning came around and Remus was getting excited again. He spent forever in the shower holding up the bathroom and then went to pick out some nicer clothes to wear.
"Hurry up, Remus we're gonna end up missing breakfast" James whined. "Why are you making so much effort this morning anyway?"
Before Remus could answer Sirius called out "Because he has a date!"
James' jaw dropped, Peter almost fell off his bed and Remus tensed nervously.
"Moony has a real date?" Peter gasped in shock.
"Where, when, with who?" James asked excitedly making Remus blush.
"I'm not telling you if you're gonna act like that about it" Remus snapped.
"But please" James pouted.
Remus sighed rolling his eyes as Sirius got up to go to the toilet, as soon as the door closed he said. "Regulus Black"
James' jaw did a repeat performance and more as he stared at Remus. "You pulled Regulus Black?"
"Yeah" Remus replied hotly. "What of it?"
"Nothing just that he doesn't seem to date anyone and he's Sirius' little brother and he's a Slytherin not to mention he's prejudice, does he know you're only a half?"
"Only a half? You make it sound like I'm not good enough" Remus replied angrily.
"Does Sirius know about this?" Peter butted in and Remus nodded.
"Remus are you sure he's not just stringing you along, I don't want you to get really hurt by him he's just too..." James let the sentence hang.
"Good for me right? Of course who would want to date the sad lonely little half blood werewolf he might ransack our homes and eat our babies in the night" Remus snapped. "He's a little pureblood, member of the Black family so what on Earth would he see in someone who isn't his equal?"
"Remus' it's not-"
"Shut up James" Remus snarled as Sirius came back out of the bathroom.
"Whoa what's going on?"
"James is being an arsehole" Remus snapped.
Sirius turned to James and stared at him hard.
"I was only saying that he should be careful and not get hurt" James sighed.
"And that I'm not good enough for him" Remus added nastily.
"Prongs don't be so horrible and spiteful! Regulus isn't like that he's sensible and kind I should know he's my brother we grew up together" Sirius said. "Moony you go on your date, you'll have a great time and you can tell us all about it later in fact!" Sirius said moving over to his bedside, he pulled something out of the drawer and handed it to Remus, it was a few coins a couple of galleons. "Have some drinks on me" he smiled.
"Thank you" Remus smiled warmly shoving the money in his pocket a midst his own measly amount.
"Let's get some food and we'll see you off" Sirius said.
The four of them made their way down to the great hall, it was buzzing with noise as usual. They sat themselves down at the Gryffindor table and the first thing Sirius did was look up his eyes scanning the Slytherin table. It wasn't long before he found Regulus dressed quite smartly looking excitable but his eyes drifted on past until he found that familiar long black hair and he inwardly breathed a sigh of relief. There was Snape sitting picking at some toast, he looked much better than last night although still sickly and quiet but he was okay. Sirius' eyes lingered on the dark haired boy a little too long.
"Oi Sirius who you staring at?" James asked craning his neck to get a look.
"Regulus he looks to be all dressed up" Sirius smirked making Remus blush and risk a glance in his direction. Sirius wasn't lying Regulus did look very handsome.
"Maybe you were wrong James, maybe he is keen on Moony" Peter said.
"Did I tell you, or did I tell you?" Sirius laughed.
After breakfast they headed out into the entrance hall and waited, they weren't there very long before Regulus appeared smiling to Remus.
"Shall we get going?" he asked rather cheerfully and Remus nodded.
"I'll see you guys later" he waved to the three other Marauders as he and Regulus made their way towards the entrance doors.
"Now" Said James. "Who fancies doing some work on the map?"
Sirius laughed. "Alright"
An hour later the two boys were in Hogsmeade standing in the three broomsticks by the bar. "I'll get these you go take a seat over there" Regulus pointed to a quiet little table on it's own in the far corner.
"Are you sure because I can-"
"These are on me" Regulus smiled winking to Remus.
Obediently, Remus went and sat down waiting nervously, about a minute later and Regulus was back resting a tankard of butterbeer on the table in front of him. He sat down beside Remus rather than opposite and immediately engaged in conversation.
Back at the Castle...
"No that one's been sealed off I think Filch found it" James pointed as they made a list of all possible, known and sealed escape routes out of the castle.
"Damn it, there must be another one around there somewhere" Sirius replied rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"We'll have to wait until night time to go and check we don't want to look too suspicious loitering about there during the day if Filch see's us he might figure out what we're up to" James replied.
"He's not that smart" Peter replied.
"Yeah well we still don't want to risk it" said Sirius.
Back in Hogsmeade...
"So what's going on with you at the moment and your friends, anything fun?" Remus asked as they set into their third round of butterbeer.
Regulus took a gulp and shrugged. "Nothing exciting really just the usual really although Snape did come staggering back into the common room last night throwing up into a bucket, didn't even make it to his dormitory he kind of passed out on the sofa said he felt really dizzy and sick"
"Funny you should mention that we saw him last night too coming out of the hospital wing, James was being kind of immature about it but he sort of skulked off being sick in his bucket" Remus replied. "Said he had concussion"
"Yeah he mentioned that, at first I thought he'd been drinking but when I asked him he said he fell down the stairs, I don't believe him of course I think someone pushed him or beat him up again" Regulus sighed.
"Most likely" Remus sighed.
"Hey how about after this we go to the shrieking shack, I hear it's the most haunted building in Britain" Regulus suggested brightly.
Remus swallowed nervously but nodded. The only thing haunting it was his werewolf form.
The rest of the day passed smoothly and by the time it was getting dark, it was time to leave Hogsmeade.
"I had a really nice time today" Regulus smiled as they walked very slowly along the snow covered path past the little lit windows of the cottage-like shops.
"Me too we should do this again sometime soon" Remus smiled shifting closer to Regulus.
"How about we hang out during the week and come back here next weekend, if you're still interested in dating me" Regulus spoke nervously.
"Sounds great to me and yes I am" Remus replied with a grin.
They walked along in silence for a few moments. "Hey Regulus?"
"Mm?"
"Before we get back to the castle there's-there's something I want to do..." Remus stammered swallowing nervously. Regulus stopped to stare at him in confusion.
"What's that?" he blinked.
Remus stopped in front of him feeling embarrassed and nervous he was even shaking a little. "You know I-I really like you and-" he stammered closing his eyes in a long slow blink, he leaned down a little and kissed Regulus on the cheek.
He pulled back with his face on fire staring into Regulus' rather shocked face.
"I-I'm sorry I just-" Remus said shaking his head, he turned to walk away but Regulus caught his arm leaning in a little closer to him.
They stood staring at each other for a few minutes then very slowly they began to lean in closer and closer, the seconds ticked by at an unbearably slow rate, Remus' heart was hammering in his chest he could feel Regulus' warm sweet breath against his lips and moments later they kissed. Remus' first kiss.
Back up at the castle...
Sirius was sitting on his bed watching his two friends play fighting, in some ways he wished the weekend would be over so he could get on with his little plan, in other's he was wishing it would never end. He yawned lounging back against his pillows staring up at the canopy above his four poster bed.
"I wonder when Remus will be back" James mused putting Peter in an easy headlock, the smaller plumper boy struggling against his friends grip but to no avail.
Sirius shrugged. "Beats me he probably won't be too much longer though"
As if by magic the door opened and in came a pink faced, starry eyed, dreamy expressioned Remus. The three others stopped dead James even let go of Peter to stare at Remus as he made his way over to his bed looking rather like a flushed giddy school girl.
"I take it from the look on your face your date went well?" Sirius grinned.
Remus glanced up at him and then to the others before sitting himself down cross legged on his bed. "We kissed"
A resounding gasp of excitement echoed through the room.
"You're joking?" Peter said but Remus shook his head.
"Twice"
"Nice one Remus!" Sirius grinned. "Finally had your first kiss then, eh?"
Remus blushed and nodded.
"So do you think you two will be getting jiggy jiggy anytime soon?" James gave some rather crude hip thrusts towards Peter who gagged.
"James!" Remus gasped.
"I'm only teasing you, Moons" he laughed.
"So come on, give us all the juicy details" Sirius grinned his eyes flashing excitedly, it was great to see Remus so happy and so excitable, all these months-no-years of being on his own in that way and seeming rather miserable were finally starting to pay off.
Sunday flew by at an alarming rate and before he even realised what was happening, it was Monday morning and Sirius was sitting at the breakfast table absent mindedly eating his food.
"Thirteen weeks today" he said to his friends who all exchanged glances and grinned madly at him.
"And you've gotten bigger" James pointed lowering his voice so nobody could hear them.
"I think I think I'll send home and get some new trousers I've been wearing my pyjamas too long now the novelty is kind of wearing off" Sirius chuckled.
"Yeah and Professor McGonagall doesn't seem overly impressed by them" Peter added.
After breakfast they left the great hall, Sirius' eyes momentarily glanced to the Slytherin table just to double check, Snape had left a few minutes earlier and their first lesson was potions, this would be the perfect opportunity to set his little plan in motion.
"I've been practicing what I'm going to write in Evans' Christmas card" James said proudly puffing out his chest.
"I hope to Merlin you haven't made any of those crotch references that you made last year" Remus sighed shaking his head slightly remembering all too well the rather severe bruising James had on his face after she punched him one.
"Don't worry I won't, girls got a pair of fists like a bear" James said rubbing his nose warily.
"Oh god Snape is staring at you again" Peter sighed nodding to where Severus was standing positively glaring at Sirius only a few feet away, he was even ignoring the conversation his friends were having.
Sirius' eyes shot to him, actually this was the perfect opportunity to take advantage of his plan.
"Alright there Snivellus, you're looking as ugly as ever I see" Sirius grinned nastily he had to keep up appearances.
"You're looking a bit fatter this week, Black, taking advantage of the Christmas season?" Severus retorted.
Sirius took several steps towards Snape so they were only a few inches apart smirking viciously at him, his fingers curled around a piece of paper in his pocket. He slowly began to slip it out into the palm of his hand where nobody would see as he spoke. "Glad you've noticed, all the more proof you've been eyeing me up as usual, don't flatter yourself too much you might get a big head to match that nose of yours" he said.
Professor Slughorn arrived opening he classroom door allowing the rest of the students to file in. He turned and eyed Sirius and Severus very suspiciously, he didn't fancy breaking up another fight between them especially in Sirius' condition.
"Making jokes about my nose all the time, is that because you can't think of anything else to make fun of?" Severus smirked.
"I'd watch it if I were you Snape we don't want a repeat of Friday now do we?" Sirius smirked. Severus jumped slightly feeling a piece of paper sliding into his hand, he didn't move a milimeter his face just fixed on Sirius'. "See you around" the Gryffindor said before turning swiftly and walking into the classroom with his friends close behind him. Seeming satisfied enough, Slughorn made his way in after them leaving Severus out in the corridor on his own for a couple of minutes.
Nervously he unfolded the piece of paper and read.
Snape,
Meet me behind the tapestry on the fourth floor this evening around eight thirty, come alone I have something I need to tell you.
-S
Severus swallowed hard folding the paper and shoving it deep inside his cloak pocket. As he walked into the classroom he could only begin to imagine what Black had in mind...