Backstage Marauders

Backstage Marauders
Author: Jill Rocca
Disc: All characters belong to JK Rowling, except my various extraneous ones that help the story along.
Fandom: Harry Potter, MWPP era, but in 2006-2007 America. Very AU.
Pairings/Characters: Remus/Sirius central with James/Lily because I love them too. I have a plan for Peter.
Summary: Andromeda is coming up with a plan that Sirius can’t figure and won’t figure until James, Lily, Frank, Alice, and Ted all get involved. What are friends for anyway?
A/N: I finally realized that my transition thingies didn’t come up on the interface of the chapters. The lines WERE THERE!! Trust me; I’ll make sure they show up next time. Sorry about that folks. Thank you so much for reading!
Chapter 6: The Hellish Side of the Week
Remus woke up on Monday morning feeling a sense of dread. He sat up as he heard his mother call him down to breakfast thinking about it. Lily was a great friend saying she’d be with him throughout the day today, but the face remained that he still had to go to school, still had to see Sirius, and she didn’t have every class with him. Thankfully neither did Sirius, but that time when they would sit together for almost an hour in Chemistry … when they’d have to give their presentation … and sit together … side by side. Remus sighed as his mother called him again and he got out of bed mentally preparing himself for the worst.

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Sirius turned over on his side thinking about having to get up and go to school. He could tell one of the servants that he was sick and then they’d tell his father and then he could stay home, couldn’t he?

“Sirius! Are you dressed?” It was Andromeda.

Damn. He rolled out of bed and strode across the room and opened his door. She stood there smiling up at him fully dressed and presumably heading downstairs to breakfast.

“Get dressed! Today will be a big day!” Andy said cheerfully.

Sirius scrutinized her expression. She was planning something, something to do with him. Something told him he wasn’t going to be so happy seeing her around his house within the next few days.

“What?” She asked shrugging her shoulders and turning on her heel smiling and walking downstairs.
Sometimes she could be just like her sisters.

When Sirius was finally decent and finished his breakfast, James was pulling into the Black family driveway. James … that was right, Sirius hadn’t managed to tell James about his Friday night escapade … experience. He knew he would have to tell James at some point, he was his best friend, they told each other just about everything, but how in the hell would he tell James, “Hey I kissed Remus Lupin and how do you feel about that?”
This was just as bad as telling James about his strangely erotic dreams, but he had to do it.

He got into James car and decided to get it over with while he was driving slowly in the development. “James … you’re going to …”

“I’m going to what?” James said looking around at the stop sign.

“I kissed … please don’t freak out.” Sirius said nervously.

“Who?” James wasn’t moving the car. Sirius looked over at him. His whole face read ‘if you kissed Lily Evans I will murder you here and now and make it look like an accident.’

Sirius stared at his knees not really sure how to put it, but how else but to just spit it out? “I kissed a guy over the weekend.”

James’s shoulders relaxed, he began to drive again not saying anything. Sirius started freaking out.

“James,” He said sharply, hoping to goad him into saying something. Anything.

“Okay,” James said slowly. Not was Sirius was expecting. At least it was better than kissing Lily Evans! “Who?” He said after a while, his voice cracked a little.

“Remus … Lupin,” Sirius said slowly.

At the next red light, James slammed on the brakes. He didn’t look at Sirius, but instead contended himself with saying, “Okay,” as slowly as he did before. After a short pause that seemed to last an eternity when the light changed and James drove on, he asked, “When you went over to do the Chem project?”

“Yeah … I spent the night—”

James started laughing hysterically and pounding on the wheel as they pulled their way into the school parking lot. He parked still laughing. Sirius glared at him. He knew exactly what James was thinking.

“Sirius! You deviant!” James looked at Sirius and kept laughing. Sirius glared at him. This wasn’t funny! James was howling, Sirius could see some people pointing at James in the car as they made their way into school; they walked faster when they saw Sirius looking at them.

“James, I’m being serious.”

“Yes, you’re being definitely Sirius Black. Seriously,” James said in response. He continued to laugh until he saw that Sirius really wasn’t playing around. He faltered and asked, “So … so do you like him?”

“I don’t know.”

James clicked the lock button and said smiling, “You should ask him out,” As he stepped out of his car.

Sirius stepped out of the car perplexed. “Andy said the same thing …”

“Well, yeah, I mean that’s one way you’ll know. I mean, we’ve all been in school together for … ever and I mean, yeah we barely talk to him, but you could have developed feelings … or you could just be horny, I dunno, just ask him out.”

“No!” Sirius said feeling a little indignant, was James serious? Damn.

“What?” James looked genuinely confused. “You’ve been on dates with tons of girls, why is this any different?”
Sirius pulled James closer by the arm to whisper in his ear, “Maybe because Remus is a guy?”

James shrugged, “A cute guy, you like cute people.”

“You are such a jerk.” Sirius said letting go of James’s arm and walking ahead of him so he wouldn’t notice the smile that was spread across his face, this whole ordeal was too much.

“What? At least I’m not, like, performing hate crimes!” Their argument in the middle of the parking lot was generating more stares from their fellow upper classmen, but who cared?

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Andromeda was on a mission. She combed through the hallways trying to find Lily, or at least James for this plan she had going on for Friday night. She had already gotten Ted onboard this morning on the way to school and she just needed to find James, Lily, and the twins, Fabian and Gideon for this plan to work.
She finally saw Lily, but she was walking down the hallway and talking to Remus, one of the last people she wanted to hear her plan. Fortunately for her, they were turning into German class so she could just pull Lily out quickly and tell her the plan quickly and get to her own class. Andromeda walked in and was also happy to find that Sirius had not yet come in. She walked in, Lily and Remus still talking animatedly to one another. She stood a little bit away from them, but close enough for them to see her smiling at them. Remus was sitting on his desk and Lily was standing in front of him talking, she still hadn’t put down her books.

“Hey! Can I talk to you for a second?” Andy said as soon as they stopped laughing. Lily put her books down on a desk next to Remus and close to the window and said, “Sure!” She turned to Remus next and said, “Right back.” He nodded and slid off the desk and into the chair leaning over to pick up he books as Andromeda hurried Lily out of the classroom. As they were walking out, James walked into the classroom. He gave his usual smile to Lily whenever he saw her and aimed for the second seat next to Remus. He slammed his books down on the desk and sat down as Remus looked up at him searching for the source of the noise.

He seemed to be scared as soon as he saw James sitting next to him and turned to look at his book, searching his notebook for his latest German translation as if wanting anything but to look into James’s face. James could see that he was scared and he knew why; seeing him as the best friend must be as bad as seeing Sirius.

“Hi Remus,” James said kindly hoping he wasn’t giving off an air that he knew anything was wrong.
Remus looked up at him, “Hi James.” He said quietly.

James smiled at him. Their conversation didn’t go any further because Lily came back and sat in her chair looking extremely excited about something. Andy was still standing at the doorway and calling James’s name.
He looked over at her.

She said, “James! Can I ask you a question after class?”

“Sure.” As soon as she left, Sirius walked into the room.

Lily started talking to Remus again, something about New York, so that Remus would look in her direction. He consented and they began talking about something they had done yesterday in New York and James turned to look at them; Lily had spent a day with Remus in New York City? What? Then Sirius sat down next to him looking straight at the chalkboard and James remembered, oh yeah. James looked at him and put his head on his fist and looked at him. Sirius looked back.

He still thought that Sirius should ask him out, but he sort of understood why Sirius wouldn’t, except that this shouldn’t be about Remus being another boy, if Sirius really thought he liked him then he should see for sure. The kiss … they obviously both liked it or else they wouldn’t be so nervous in front of each other. Lily was obviously trying to help Remus through it, so now it was James’s turn to help Sirius.
“Sirius—” James started to say, but then Frau came in and began their lesson with a surprise test translation so he couldn’t get anything out.

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It was just after soccer practice on Wednesday, Sirius was waiting a while toweling dry his hair and throwing on his clothes, happy he was alone. James was already gone having to take care of something for his mom and Sirius didn’t really care. He was getting tired of Andy and James’s obnoxiously smiling faces they made at him almost every time they saw him. All throughout the week, Ted had been staring at him strangely, Frank and Alice following suit; the Prewett twins trying to control laughter almost every time they had talked to him today and for what he still couldn’t figure out. Though he had said he’d hang out with Andy Friday night, but today he felt he needed some down time. He sat down on the bench, not feeling like going home and having to deal with his entire family being there. Granted Andy provided some clemency, but still. He needed a breather every once in a while. Seeing them all the time at school and at home was a little daunting sometimes. Usually he could handle it, but this week was just spiraling out of control.

The silence was refreshing that is until he heard the familiar swish and flick of the basketball nets in the gym. He started and stared around. No one was with him, of course. With every hope that it was Frank or another basketball player not Remus Lupin, he walked toward the court with his stuff in hand.
He pushed the door open slowly and found Remus in work out clothes sweating like he’d been there all afternoon. His sweat dripped down his forehead even though he was wearing a sweatband on his head. The way he jumped when he shot the ball made his gray sleeveless top rub up against his stomach and just stuck to him halfway up his chest so that Sirius saw his glistening abs.

Remus eventually stopped to get water. He took off his sweatband messing up his hair which was damp with sweat. He rubbed his face and his hair a bit, mussing it up like James used to do when they were younger. Except that he didn’t find James as appealing as Remus was right now. Sirius thought Remus looked … like he’d just been going one on one with … another person … and he was one being done … to … Sirius just couldn’t describe how he felt, but he definitely could say that he wanted to be the one doing Remus right now.

He needed to leave. He could feel the blood rushing down south, but he couldn’t move his legs. This was embarrassing. Remus was bound to see him standing there just staring at him like he was ready to just tackle Remus and just take him! Sirius wanted Remus so badly. The only thing that could ruin this moment was if Remus looked up to see Sirius staring at him.

About a split second later, Remus did just that. He must have had those receptors where you can just tell that someone is staring at you. Remus looked up at Sirius and he couldn’t seem to move either. He looked a little upset and confused as to why the hell Sirius was there.

Sirius’s body started doing odd things. First he felt his jaw tighten, then he started leaning forward, but he realized it and started walking backward, but he really wanted to go forward. The frontal motion won and he started walking towards Remus feeling determined about something, but what he couldn’t put his finger on, but he thought it had to do with feeling like he wanted to see Remus naked.

He was finally standing over Remus breathing heavily like he had just been running for miles. Remus was breathing heavily and he looked a little scared. Sirius sat down on the bench next to Remus in a very fast motion, dropping his stuff along the way. He stared at Remus and Remus stared back. Sirius knew he looked like he was longing for Remus, maybe a little too much and coming on too strong, but he was almost addicted to the taste of Remus’s lips. He still remembered it, it was only last weekend, but right now it felt like an eternity away. Sirius leaned into Remus and surprisingly Remus leaned into him as well. Sirius and Remus’s lips touched again and again. Sirius grasped hold of Remus’s face hoping to draw him in closer, but he found his hand moving further downward and he felt the sweat on Remus’s chest and suddenly his body screamed for full contact. Sirius had started to lift Remus’s shirt up from the sides fully intending to take this further, but just as Remus was starting to get comfortable with the kiss himself by pulling Sirius’s hips closer to him, the gym door banged open.

The two boys jumped apart as if they had been electrocuted. They turned to stare at a very wide-eyed Lily Evans standing in her cheerleading work out clothes her mouth agape. She clutched her mouth and ran out of the room.
Sirius too grabbed his things and ran out of the room through the lockers. Remus remained where he was. He waited a few moments feeling like a complete idiot and freaking out internally over what had just happened.

I wanted him to do it ... The thought made Remus’s breath quicken. He stood up shakily and walked over to his things and walked out the exit door to the parking lot at first slowly making his way to his car. He felt like there was a giant sign on his back reading in bright lights, I ENJOY MAKING OUT WITH SIRIUS BLACK. He quickened his pace wanting to get home and fast before anyone could say anything to him.

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Lily sat on the front steps of the school with her head in her hands. She had seen Sirius running all the way to his house and she knew it was completely her fault. But how could she have known they would be making out in the gym. God, she should never have called that late practice. Remus was going to hate her so much. She couldn’t help but feeling satisfied with the sight however. It was kind of—hot, but she still really didn’t want to go to school tomorrow. When Andy got there she would have to tell her everything, they’d have to change the plan.

This week was never going to end, was it?

TBC…
I hope you enjoyed this, sorry it's been soooo long to update ...