Dogs\' Night
Dogs' Night
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Title: Dogs’ Night
Disclaimer: I
obviously don’t own them. J.K. Rowling
does, and she’d probably wet herself if she read this. ^_^; Heh…
Note: Just so you
know, this takes place when The Marauders are in their seventh year at
Hogwarts, so everyone is 18 now.
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“So…I guess I’m…going it alone tonight then?”
James and Peter stared at each other, then at Remus.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> The boy wookiooking sick and pale as he
studied his moon chart to avoid his friends’ gazes.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He didn’t want their sympathy, he always got
that during the full moon, but he didn’t like the feeling that he was suddenly
alone. They’d all done so much, worked
so hard, just so he wouldn’t have to be lonely, and he’d gotten so used to
having them there. But tonight…
“You know we always wanna be there for you, Moony, but I
haven’t been sleeping good, and the big match is tomorrow,” James explained,
and Remus felt like he might cry.
“And I’ve got that huge Defense Against the Dark Arts test
to make up tomorrow,” Peter squeaked quietly.
Remus swallowed hard.
“I know. I know.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> And Sirius has detention, so he’ll have to
finish his homework when he gets out. Don’t
worry, guys. I’ll be fine.”style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He forced himself to look up and smile.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> an>“an>“It’s just one full moon.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> I went through plenty of them alone before I
met Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. It’s
not that bad, really. Honest.”
They both looked unconvinced, but neither said anything else
as Remus got ready to go.
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Sitting alone in the Shrieking Shack, Remus waited for the
moon to rise and filter in through the filthy windows.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> It felt strange, being by himself there, and
the thought of transforming with nothing, no one, nowhere to turn to was
frightening him already. He listened to
the noises of the old house, tears in his eyes, imagining he was locked in with
the werewolf instead of locked inside it.
What would it be like, knowing there was a beast somewhere nearby, too
se, se, and it could scent your every move?
How, even as beasts of their own, could his friends brave such a
frightening and dangerous situation?
So he sat there, waiting for the sun to die away from the
window sill, and cried into his knees as an old clock ticked off the seconds
down stairs somewhere. Then something
moved on the steps, the creaking roaring through the silence. style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Heart racing, Remus stared at the door.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> What if it was someone trying to be brave for
their friends, breaking in to the haunted house?style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> The sun was almost down.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> His bones were aching already.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Should he warn them?style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Or should he just hide and hope they left in
time?
“Moony?” A voice
called from the hall, and Remus jumped.
“Hey, Moony? You there?”
“S-sirius?”
The rugged face of his best friend grinned in at him, shaggy
black hair falling across his eyes.
“There you are! The others said
you were goin’ out alone tonight, so I figured Moony and Padfoot could have a
dogs’ night, ya know?” All smiles, the
boy sat down beside the confused werewolf.
“B-but…don’t you have homework?”
Sirius smirked.
“Potions can wait. Friends
can’t.” He shrugged.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> “Besides, I hat to think what it’d be like
here alone.”
Blushing slight, Remus smiled.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> “Thanks, Padfoot.”
“Don’t mention it!”
his friend laughed. “If you’ve
seen Prongs catch the snitch once, you’ve seen it a million times.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> James won’t mind if I finish my homework
instead.”
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Padfoot crouched down behind a half open door, trying to
stifle the panting that had resulted form bounding down the corridors of the
Shrieking Shack. He could hear the
creaking of Moony wandering elsewhere in search of him.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> The werewolf probably knew what part of the
house he was in already anyway. No point
in giving it away.
So he sat in waiting, ready to run again.s=\'m=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Then the beast came around the corner.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Padfoot got ready to make his escape when an
idea struck him. As Moony advanced, his
friend remained in hiding. Finally, when
the werewolf stood directly in front of his door, the dog launched, full force,
four paws, into his chest. And they both
tumbled down the hall.
Then it was Moony’s turn to run.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He crashed away with Padfoot on his heels,
howling with the odd sounds that repl the their human laughter.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> The town of
would say the house earned it’s name for the night as they raced the rotten
rooms. Boards wailed and doors slammed,
those were the sounds the boys knew better than anything.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> But then the stairs cracked.
Moony rolled head over heels down to the first floor with a
sharp cry of surprise and pain while Padfoot slid to a halt at the top.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> The hound looked confused for a moment, then
fear crept into his eyes as the wolf whimpered but failed to move.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Barely careful enough to avoid the broken
step, he rushed down, the human part of his brain racing.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> How do you get a werewolf to tell you what
hurts, and how do you heal it without changing shape?style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> His friend lay dazed on the floor, looking
about half conscious as he approached.
Padfoot whimpered and nudged him with his nose, but the
beast just whimpered back as soft, purple bruises blossomed visibly beneath the
fur of his face and shoulder. Somewhere,
a clock clanged the hour. Dawn was
approaching. It could be anywhere from
ten minutes to two hours, the clock was far from exact, but at least it was
coming. So the hound licked tentatively
at the injuries and nuzzled the wolf’s neck to keep him awake.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> For a while it was working, but Padfoot
finally had to nip at his friend’s throat to get him moving.
He tackled the wolf with a desperate growl.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Come on, Moony, he thought, just stay awake
until the moon’s gone. Come at me.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Wrestle with me.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Just keep moving.
Finally he got him going.
While Moony was still whimpering from pain off and on, at least he was
doing something. He wrestled, weakly at
first, then he was the one on top, then bottom, then top again.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> The rolled over an over, tackling each other,
until they both collapsed in a pile of tangled, furry limbs, panting hard with
laughter. Moony lay back and closed his
eyes, wincing when he bumped his head on the floor boards by accident.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Padfoot licked the bruises gently, and the
wolf could feel a blush under his fur as the slowly rising sun sent the first
teasing tingles of transformation through his bones.
For the first time, he almost wished he didn’t have to
change back. Moony and Padfoot’s dog
night was almost over and he regretted how short it had been, how little they
had actually done. Best friends or not,
Remus felt more comfortable alone with Sirius when they weren’t human.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He felt freer, somehow, like he could dare to
be more like his more out going friends, like he didn’t have to hold back
against anything. So why, in these last
minutes of comfort and freedom, was he holding back?style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> The Padfoot licked him again, and he licked
back absently, lost in the feeling of returning human thought.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> It was a moment before he noticed the confused
look on the dog’s face and blushed again.
Apparently, while the boy could contemplate holding back, the wolf could
still decide not to.
Then Padfoot licked him again.
They stared at each other, neither sure what they would say
if they could speak, or how to say it without words.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Finally the dog cocked his head to the side
and the other nuzzled him nervously.
Both were thinking, wondering what to do next, then both were decided.
Padfoot nipped at him as they untangled to the sounds of the
striking clock. The strange sensation of
the softer transformations rippled through Moony, fur slowly retracting in the
thicker areas, fangs melting back, and the hound followed him through it,
licking his face and throat. But next
came the ache with the simple sliding, bones creaking and reforming.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He gasped from the pain, then his companion
was on top of him, melting with him, licking him, kissing him as muscles
reshaped in his snout. The gasp melted
away with his claws, and the groan of his paws splitting into hands and feet
was lost as a tongue lapped at his nipple and a pair of black furred hands
groped lower. His human mind whimpered
that it was too fast but the wolf wanted it, and the wolf wasn’t letting go
until it had what it wanted. What
worried him, though, was that he knew he wanted it, too.
The hand found what it was searching for, and Moony suddenly
realized he was hard. With all of the
pain, that ache had been all but lost, but now…
He moaned as Padfoot stroked him, mixing that pleasure with the pain of
his legs stretching and rejointing. His
nails dug at the floor and he suddenly wished his claws weren’t gone.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> It was too much, too fast, too soon.
The wolf wanted it.
His spine restructured as he arched into the rush of that
gently, healing tongue flicking over the tip of his penis.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> When had Padfoot moved?style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Why did it matter?style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> Then a finger was inside him and he let out a
startled cry, eyes shooting wide. Too
fast! Too slow!style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> In his mind, he could hear the wolf growling,
then he realized it wasn’t just the wolf, it was him.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> He was growling into the kiss Padfoot had
suddenly planted on his lips, slipping in a second finger.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> This isn’t what I wanted, is it?style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> No, but that’s coming.
And his vocal chords soared into human ranged as Padfoot
thrust into him.
Tails fused, ears melted, bones grounds, but all he knew was
the sound of his own voice whimpering and moaning as the pain of penetration
exploded into pleasure, and his lover grunting and panting into his
shoulder.
other’s waist as they rocked harder, fingers tangled in a mane of black
hair. His teeth sank into his lip as the
change came to a heart shattering end, and then he screamed, stars bursting as
he came, exploding into a wall of ecstasy.
Moments later, Padfoot…no…Sirius howled and released, filling an
emptiness Remus hadn’t realized was there.
They both collapsed again, this time wrapping their tangle
of limbs tight to hold themselves together.
The sun filtered in through the spider webbed windows as they lay there,
gasping to catch their breath. Remus
curled up, shivering against his lover’s chest, and blushed with a soft
smile. Sirius ran his hands through the
other boy’s hair and sighed with a smirk.
“When I said we’d have a dog’s night, this isn’t really what
I had in mind.”
The red drained from Remus’ face, and the smile faded.
“No! No!style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> No!
Hey!” Sirius’ eyes went slightly
wide, then worried, and he pulled the boy eye to eye, kissing him softly.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> “I’m not complaining.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> I just…wasn’t expecting it…ya know?”
They stared at each other, then Remus let himself smile
again. “I know,” he said quietly.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> “Neither was I.”
Then, laughing, Sirius licked his nose.style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> “We’re gonna be late for breakfast if we
don’t get moving.”
“Yeah. Only…”style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> the werewolf smirked, “you didn’t happened to
bring any extra clothes, did you?”
Sirius blinked, then, “Maybe we’ll be late to breakfast
anyway.”