A Doggy Problem
"Sirius is stuck as padfoot"
Remus looks up at James standing at the foot of his bed with a big black dog in his hands. His first wasn't Padfoot, but how the hell James was in his house.
"What?"
Sirius, or... Padfoot wriggles out of James' arms and jumps onto Remus licking his face. "Okay, how did you get in our house?"
James rubs his nape. "Spare keys, Padfoot showed me"
Remus nods, still very surprised. "And what do you mean Sirius is stuck as Padfoot?"
James laughs awkwardly and looks at the dog. "We were just messing around, and Sirius turned into Padfoot the second I did a charm on him.. and well, yeah"
"But it's only for 24 hours! So no need to worry, Sirius will be back to normal by tomorrow" James continues trying to make things better.
Remus picks up Padfoot and puts him on his lap as he talks to James. "Okay, well he better be. I'm not having a dog as my husband"
After James left Remus was stuck with a dog. I mean Sirius was often a dog, wandering around the house. But never permanently.
"Well, I'm going to make lunch" Remus says hesitantly and stands up making Padfoot jump off his lap.
This was a weird situation to be in, your husband as a dog for 24 hours.
Remus hears Padfoot walk into the kitchen and he slumps onto the floor to watch Remus make lunch.
"We were meant to have a date night tonight, move it to tomorrow?"
Padfoot barks and Remus raises an eyebrow as he finds pasta from the cupboard. "I can't understand you, okay okay listen to me."
Padfoot's ears stick up as he stares at Remus. "Scratch me, gently once for no, and two for yes okay?"
Padfoot scratches Remus twice saying he understood. Remus smiles and gives him a treat.
As Remus starts boiling the pasta he looks over at Padfoot. "What should I make for you? We don't have dog food and you're a vegetarian."
Padfoot lets out an unsure bark, probably saying he didn't know. "I'm not going through a million books to find out what you can eat so I think we'll go to the shop to buy dog food okay?"
Padfoots walks over to his owner and scratches twice making Remus scratch his head back. "Good boy, I'll head out after I've eaten and tidied up"
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The second Padfoot heard Remus putting his shoes on he raced through the house to find him barking on the way.
"Padfoot calm down, I'm getting your dinner"
Padfoot sulks and scratches his leg once. "No? You don't want dinner?"
Padfoot frowns and scratches once again. "So you want dinner?"
Two scratches. "Okay so what do you want then?" When padfoot just sits there Remus notices his mistake.
"Right, yes or no questions. Oh, do you want to come with me?" Padfoot jumps up and scratches twice.
Remus sighs and bends down to give him belly rubs. "But we don't have a leash or collar or anything so you'll have to be very well behaved."
Padfoot barks and stands up running towards their bedroom. Remus sighs, but follows him.
When he walks in he sees Padfoot using his nose to knock the lid of their sex toy box open. "Padfoot what are you doing?" Remus says alarmingly rushing over to him.
But Padfoot just uses his mouth to get a collar and lead from the box, leaving Remus slightly flushed.
"Right yes, these should do, but you did wash them when I asked you to?"
Padfoot barks lightly and scratches his knee twice. "Okay, good then"
Remus lifts the collar up and wraps it gently around Padfoots neck making sure it won't fall off and attaches the lead pulling gently on it making sure it was working fine.
And when Remus had thrown a coat on they were ready to go.
"Wanna catch the bus or walk?" Remus asks as they leave the house, not getting an answer only pulled towards the small bus stop close to their house.
"Bus it is" He sighs.
The next bus came almost straight away making Remus relieved. "Come on Padfoot on we go"
Remus pays for both him and the dog and they find a seat near the middle of the bus. Remus talks quietly to Padfoot about random things, he was happy Sirius could still understand him.
"Such a lovely dog you have!" An old lady says as she walks past the bus seats stopping at theirs.
"Thank you, what do you say Padfoot?" Padfoot barks and jumps off his chair nudging his head gently into the womans leg to say thank you.
The lady grins and finds a seat nearby. But soon enough it was their turn to get off, Remus waves at the woman before stepping off.
"Here we are" Remus mumbles to himself as they turn the corner to see the pet shop.
He holds Padfoots lead a bit tighter as they walk into the small shop. Remus knows what they need to the trip isn't long.
Remus pays the kind man and he throws Padfoot a few dog treats which he eat up straight away. "Such a good boy" The cashier shouts making them both laugh.
Once they finally get home Remus finds an old bowl and puts the food in, he finds one more bowl for water.
"We should have bought proper feeding bowls, sorry Pads didn't think of it" Remus says as he watches Padfoot eat all of his food up.
Later in the evening Remus decides to put a movie on, shouting through the house to see if Padfoot would join, and of course he does.
They end up watching The Wizard Of Oz with Padfoot snuggled into Remus whilst he strokes his head.
Towards the end of the movie Remus kisses Padfoots head and whispers. "I love you, even as a dog"
Padfoots head jerks up and he licks Remus' face. He scratches Remus three times this time, Remus looks confused.
"Does three scratches mean you love me back?"
He got two scratches back.