Friends Make the Best Lovers

Title: Friends Make the Best Lovers
Author: Thelma and Louise (aka Sev1970 & Magdelena)
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Summary: SB/RL – Slash – Complete. In the midst of a crappy holiday season Sirius and Remus find out that they are more than friends. Set during the events of OoTP.
Disclaimer: We do not own any of the characters herein (only the plot). All the characters in the Harry Potter universe belong exclusively to J.K. Rowling, Warner Brothers, and anyone else JKR chooses to allow to play with them. We are publishing our fanfiction writings only for our own selfish desire to be a part of their world.
Authors’ Notes: Written to cheer our dear friend juxtaposed! This is our version of a cyber hug, slashy puppy sex in her honor!

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Sirius stomped up the stairs, intending to go sulk in his room for a while. Bloody wonderful holiday this had been! First, there was the attack on Arthur; then, a godson who absolutely refused to be in anything but a pissy mood; and then, to top the whole fucking holiday off, none other than Snivellus-fucking-Snape had to pick a fight with him right in his own bloody kitchen!

I need a drink! Or at least to release some of this pent up energy. I\'m going insane in this bloody house! Sirius stopped suddenly as he passed Remus\' bedroom door, deciding to share his misery with his best friend. He knocked once and didn\'t even bother to wait for an answer before barreling through the door.

\"Moony, you\'ll never guess who…\" Sirius trailed off, his anger melting away as he saw the condition Remus was in. His problems forgotten, he crossed the room and perched on the edge of Remus\' bed, laying his hand softly on the werewolf\'s forehead. \"Bloody hell, Remy, are you all right?\"

Remus looked wearily at Sirius and sadly shook his head before speaking in a soft voice. “One would generally think to put up silencing charms if they were going to have a tirade. I was sleeping until someone woke me up with their shouting. Honestly, isn’t it about time you and Snivellus grew up? And no, Sirius, I am not alright. I am bloody exhausted. I thought by now I would feel better, but I only feel worse.”

\"Budge over,\" Sirius commanded, as he turned around and lifted the corner of Remus\' duvet. In a move reminiscent of their early school days, Sirius slid under the covers as Remus hesitantly complied. Sirius propped himself up against the headboard, and once he was settled, he dragged Remus\' upper body to lean against his, silencing the werewolf\'s protests. \"Oh do shut up. This always used to work during school when you were sick.\"

“Sadly, we are no longer in school, Sirius, but thanks. Some things never change I guess. You always did know how to make me smile,” whispered a reflective Remus. He hoped Sirius took his words seriously. Sirius was the consummate joker, and did not take much of anything seriously, but Remus did not have the energy to play wits with his friend today. He just wanted Sirius to be Sirius for once.

Sirius\' hand carded absently through Remus\' sandy hair. \"Too much has changed, Remus. You\'re the one constant I have in my life right now. And I don\'t think you have a clue how much that means to me,\" Sirius murmured as he planted a soft kiss on the top of Remus\' head. \"I don\'t know what I\'d do if anything were to happen to you. Do you think that you\'re just a bit slow to recover from your transformation, or is it something else? Should Albus get Pomfrey to look in on you?\"

Remus tried forcing a smile that never reached his lips. \"I think it\'s the transformation. I\'m not exactly getting any younger and each one seems to take longer to recover from. I\'m sure I\'ll be fine. I don\'t feel too great, but I look much worse than I feel,\" said a now smiling Remus. \"I\'ll be fine, Sirius, and you should know by now how much you mean to me. Without you, I\'d never be able to make it through the transformations. You make them entirely bearable, and I thank you for that. You mean a lot to me, Siri; much more than I think you realize.\"

Sirius nervously licked his lips, his heart hammering against his ribcage. \"You mean everything to me, Remus. I think you might be the one that is surprised exactly how important you are in my life.\"

Sirius cupped Remus\' cheek in his hand, and gently raised Remus\' face so that their eyes met. As their gazes locked, Sirius almost lost himself in those beautiful, expressive amber eyes; eyes that had seen so much pain and so much loss. Eyes that now were staring up at him with so much uncertainty. Sirius knew he was taking a chance, but he couldn\'t bear to let this moment pass.

\"Remus, I can\'t let another minute go by without you knowing.\"

Sirius\' mouth lowered towards Remus\' and he gently brushed his lips against the Lycanthrope\'s. He held the kiss long enough to assure that there could be no mistaken impressions, and when he realized that Remus had stiffened beside him, he pulled back, unable to meet Remus\' eyes anymore.

\"I-I\'m sorry, Remus,\" Sirius stammered. \"I shouldn\'t have done that. I\'ll just…\"

Remus grabbed onto Sirius’ hand and held it tightly as he looked into the blue eyes of the man he had always loved from a distance. “No, please don’t say you shouldn’t have. Please don’t say it was a mistake. Don’t you understand? It’s always been you, Sirius. Merlin, I have wanted to tell you, but I was so scared. What would you see in a skinny kid like me, and now, what would you want with a wasting away Lycanthrope? I never thought you would see me as anything other than a friend, and when you kissed me just now, it shocked me, but in a really good way.” Remus smiled sheepishly, and could not believe he had actually said what he had.

Sirius\' eyes slid shut with relief for a moment as he processed Remus\' words. A bright smile spread across his face, and he opened his eyes to look down at the man he\'d loved for so long. Sirius had never hoped to dream that Remus\' eyes would glimmer with the longing and the love for him that he could read so easily now that he had dared to look.

\"I\'ve loved you since as long as I can remember. Please forgive me for never having the courage to tell you sooner.\"

Remus felt the tears forming and felt his chin beginning to quiver, but it did not matter; the only thing that mattered now was that Sirius loved him. Voice shaking, Remus tried responding, but could not get any words out; instead he wrapped his arms around the broad chest and placed a soft kiss on Sirius’ lips before resting his head on the chest of his best friend and soon to be lover. “The past is the past, Siri. All we have is the here and now, and I for one am quite happy to have that.”

\"Then let\'s not waste another precious minute of the present.\" Sirius slid down lower in the bed, encouraging Remus back onto the pillows as he leaned down over the slender man.

This time when his mouth covered Remus\' there was no hesitancy in his kiss. His lips crushed against Remus\', tongue pressing fervently against the seam of Remus\' lips. When Remus\' mouth slightly parted to allow him access, Sirius\' tongue swept inside the moist cavern, eagerly mapping out every inch.

Sirius moaned when he felt Remus\' tongue sliding against his own, blood pooling in his groin. He lowered his body until his burgeoning erection pressed firmly against Remus\' hip. Breaking the kiss, he pulled back slightly so that he could meet Remus\' gaze.

\"If you don\'t want this, tell me now, Remus. It\'s been a very long time for me, and I want you so badly, but if you don\'t want this we need to stop now.\"

Remus almost let a small laugh escape. “I think you know what I want, Sirius.” Without another word, a much more energized Remus pulled down his best friend so they were flush against each other, and met Sirius for another kiss. This time he was the one who pulled away, reaching for his wand.

Smirking at his soon to be lover, Remus chanted a few words and immediately divested both him and Sirius of their clothing. “What? I may not be as assertive and confident as you are, but I know what I want in this instance, and since you want it as well, why prolong it any longer then necessary?”

Remus wanted to laugh at the completely shocked look on Sirius’ face, but instead he brought the firm body back down on top of him and started grinding his hips into Sirius’ eliciting all sorts of sounds from them both.

Sirius didn\'t need any further encouragement. He sealed his lips against Remus\' again, conveying every ounce of his barely restrained need into the kiss. His knee slid between Remus\' legs, coaxing the werewolf\'s thighs apart. Sirius\' greedily kissed his way down Remus\' body, his hands and mouth trying to reach everywhere at once, urgently mapping out Remus\' body.

As Remus let out a particularly loud moan just as Sirius bit down on a dusky nipple, Sirius chuckled, grasping for Remus\' wand, which still lay on the bed. He hastily cast a locking charm on the door, and a silencing spell. He moved to set the wand down, but before he did, he pointed the wand at his own hand and cast a lubrication charm. He tossed the wand to the floor and again met Remus\' lust-filled gaze. \"I can\'t believe we\'re actually doing this. Why did we never do this before, Remy?\"

Azkaban is why. Remus almost frowned, but quickly hid it and smiled. “The timing just wasn’t right I guess.” Remus looked at Sirius’ lube coated hand and expelled a large breath. “Now the timing is right, and that is all that matters. I have dreamed of you preparing and taking me. Now it is really happening. I doubt we’d have appreciated this moment for what it is if we had gotten together sooner.”

\"I suppose then we\'ll have to work doubly hard to make up for lost time.\" Sirius couldn\'t stop the goofy grin from spreading across his face even as he slid down Remus\' body, eventually positioning himself between the Lycanthrope\'s spread legs. \"Think of it Remy, it\'ll be just like we were back in Hogwarts. You forcing me to repeat things over and over until I had them perfected.\" He ghosted his lips lightly along Remus\' weeping length, his tongue barely darting out for a teasing lick, as his index finger traced slow circles around Remus\' entrance. \"However, this time I don\'t think I shall complain.\"

Before Remus could utter a retort, Sirius suckled the werewolf\'s cock into his mouth just as he breached Remus\' hole with his finger. One hand held firmly to the slender hips that attempted to buck up from the bed, as his lips and tongue worked the Lycanthrope\'s thick shaft. His other hand continued to prepare the writhing man, slowly adding fingers as he stretched the muscle. Repeatedly he brushed against the sweet spot inside his soon-to-be lover.

Remus moaned as those heavenly fingers worked their magic, and he could barely speak, but he managed somehow. “Ah Mr. Black, you would do well to listen to what Mr. Lupin has to say; perhaps he’ll rub off on you,” Remus said in a deep voice as he licked his lips and laughed huskily. “Our dear Potions Professor could not have been more correct in his choice of words.” Remus closed his eyes and basked in the feel of those warm talented lips and fingers. “Please Hurry, Sirius. I don’t think I can hold out much longer. In fact, I think I could come right now just by looking into your eyes if I allowed myself to.”

\"Don\'t you dare fucking come until I tell you to,\" Sirius growled, after he allowed the Lycanthrope\'s cock to slide from his mouth. He swiftly removed his fingers from Remus\' body, and in barely a moment had slicked up his cock and pressed the blunt tip against Remus\' entrance. Lifting Remus\' legs over his arms, Sirius gently pressed into the welcoming heat of Remus\' channel. Straining to keep his pace slow and steady, his head lolled forward, his long, dark hair spilling onto Remus\' chest.

Remus cradled Sirius’ upper body to his and began meeting his lover’s thrusts. “As you wish, but I’m warning you, I may not be able to last. It may be that this time I have to do it over again to get it right, but as you said, I don’t think I’ll mind.”

Remus began bucking up into Sirius, as the panting man above him began thrusting with a much greater intensity. “Don’t you dare hold back on me, Siri. I want to feel all of you taking all of me.” Beyond the ability to voice anything coherently now, Remus began mumbling and whimpering as he felt his impending orgasm rapidly approaching.

\"Let it go. Come for me, Remy,\" Sirius panted. He began to stroke Remus\' shaft in time with his thrusts.

Remus nodded, but could not speak. The wolf in him came out as he howled through the orgasm that he felt rippling through every nerve in his body. Feeling Sirius’s warm hand milking his gradually softening cock, Remus screamed out as he unintentionally grabbed a handful of Sirius’s hair and bucked up, completely losing control of his body. He had never in his life felt such release, and knew he had found what he had been looking for his entire life. As he was coming down from his euphoric high, he knew he was about to be filled with his lover, and licked his lips in anticipation.

“Your turn, Siri. I want to feel you filling me.”

Feeling Remus shudder beneath him was all it took to eradicate the last vestiges of Sirius\' control. He thrust forth into the slickened channel wildly, Remus\' grip tightening in his hair, and his roughened voice sending Sirius over the edge and into oblivion. His vision greyed out around the edges as he came harder than he thought possible, chanting Remus\' name as if it were a prayer to the gods.

He collapsed onto Remus\' chest, and felt himself crushed into the werewolf\'s embrace. Not wanting his lover to have to bear his body weight, Sirius rolled them both to their sides, and gently brushed a lock of Remus\' hair from his face.

\"Gods, you\'re beautiful. I didn\'t even stop to take the time to tell you that before,\" Sirius admitted regrettably, as he wondered at why he had been so blind never to have realized that everything he had ever wanted was embodied in the man laying next to him. \"I\'m such a prat. But in my own defense, I was rather distracted by the suddenness of your skin against mine. How is it that I\'ve missed the fact that I fell in love with you?\"

Remus smiled as he caressed Sirius’ cheek. “I am asking myself that question, and I have no answers. When I saw you in the Shrieking shack almost two years ago, you can’t imagine how much seeing you made everything okay for me again. It was as if a fire that had gone out years before, had been rekindled. Then you had to go back into hiding, and it nearly tore me apart, but I didn’t understand why. Now I do. I loved you, and my heart ached for you. I think I’ve always loved you, and I even think I knew it on some level. You mean so much to me, Sirius. I guess we were just two stubborn men who could not see what was staring us in the eyes all along. But let’s not dwell on why that is, let’s concentrate on what is.”

\"Definitely,\" Sirius agreed, his mouth widening into a bright smile. \"For the first time, I think I\'m looking rather forward to the kids leaving and this house getting a bit quieter. Somehow being a veritable prisoner in this house seems a lot less daunting.\" Sirius paused for a moment, his eyes glittering as they did when he was concocting one of his grand schemes. \"We\'ll move you into my rooms tonight. They\'re much bigger than this room; bed\'s a lot less lumpy too. Perhaps you can help me torture a few of my family portraits by engaging in some illicit activities around the old house?\" he inquired innocently.

Remus nodded as his grin increased. “I think I may be able to help you out there. At the moment however, I just want to lie in your arms.” Remus laid his head on Sirius’ chest and sighed contentedly. “It is amazing how good sex can totally change one’s mood, wouldn’t you agree? I was feeling sorry for myself and was quite listless, and you came in here barking mad at the world. We made love, and viola, two very sated and content men now are quite happy, I’d say.”

“Mm-hmm,\" Sirius agreed happily, settling back onto the bed, and idly playing with Remus\' hair. \"Sniv could come barreling in here right now, and I don\'t think I\'d even bat an eye.\"

Remus lifted his head and raised a brow. “Well, if he hopped in bed with us, I doubt you would be so calm.” Resting his head once again on Sirius’s chest, he, along with an obviously amused Sirius, shared a brief laugh before both drifted off to the first restful sleep either had experienced in a very long time.

THE END