Fantasy
September 10th
Dear Sirius,
You really screwed this up huh? You’re so stupid and annoying yet somehow I still want to kiss you. Somehow, you have managed to make me blush when you say my name.
Sometimes I just want you to shut the fuck up and leave me alone. Why are you so cocky? Will you shut up about girls? Because oh you’re so confident you could get a girl to kiss you? Fine bitch, do it.
(Don’t, please.)
But every other second of the the I wish that you had your mouth on my neck, I wish I could make you blush and think dirty thoughts. I wish you’d use that mouth to kiss me instead of talking about whatever the fuck you’re saying.
You’ve really decided to fuck me up huh?
I giggled when you dropped your bag today.
I fucking GIGGLED.
I hate you.
Yours truly,
R. J. Lupin
Remus folded the paper up and pushed it between his mattress and his head board.
The sun would rise in a few hours, he couldn’t sleep for the life of him. Flipping back and forth, too warm, too hot, too soft, too hard. He threw his pillow over his face and shoved the letter farther down. The moon had been on two days ago, which meant that he still had aches and sometimes brief fevers.
He flipped over again and grumbled. All he really wanted was to go to sleep.
Is that so much to ask universe? Is that really SO MUCH to ask?
He heard light footsteps crossing to him, then his curtain being pulled back.
Sirius, scowling, with his hair tucked behind his ears. “You keep moving”
“Well I’m sorry if my insomnia is keeping you up fuck face” Remus smacked him with a pillow.
Sirius thwarted the pillow away. “I was going to teach you a sleeping charm but-“
“They don’t work” Remus groaned, “it’s the moon, I can’t fix it.”
“I have a question for you” Sirius asked as he flipped onto the bed, the smell alcohol and cigarettes radiating off him. He’d been drunk for the better part of the night.
Remus fled to the other side, heart running a million miles an hours. “Yeah?” He pulled the blanket up to his shoulders for no real reason. He had pajamas on.
“If you had a kid would the kid be a werewolf too? Or like a half wolf?” Sirius stitched his eyebrows at the ceiling.
Remus blinked. “I’ve literally never thought about that”
“I’ve been thinking about it all summer” Sirius answered.
“Wait do I-“ Remus stopped himself before blurting out what he wanted to say. “I don’t have any… er… human features as a wolf do I?”
Sirius burst out laughing. Remus threw his hand over his mouth. Sirius licked his hand and he ripped it away.
“Fuckin gross” he muttered.
“I don’t know mate, probably do” Sirius laughed.
“I actually have no idea what I look like would you believe. For all I know I have a tail” Remus responded
Sirius tilted his head at him like a confused dog. “What’s so wrong with a tail? I don’t think I would mind it”
“Well have fun with that, but what I meant is I have no idea what I must… er… look like” he questioned wether to say the next part. “no one gets a good enough look and lives to tell the tale” Remus shot Sirius an awkward glance. “Would you be… if you saw it would you be scared?”
“Nah”
“Really?” Remus stitched his eyebrows
“Really” Sirius shrugged “You’d never hurt me. Not even as the wolf. I trust you completely. You’re my best friend-”
“Well-“ Remus tried to interrupt him.
“Don’t give me that” Sirius rolled his eyes and predicted what Remus was going to say. “James Potter is the other piece of my soul, but you…”
He paused, breath catching in his throat. Remus’s heart ached for the end of that sentence.
“Never mind” he shot Remus a smile. Remus allowed himself to breathe again. “I’ve been trying to conjure up some prank ideas, dry all summer I tell you”
Remus tried not to look disappointed, but he couldn’t help the frown. “I have one, it’s stupid-”
“Oh please moony what’s better than a stupid idea?”
Remus smiled. “It’s impossible, but It’d be really cool”
“Oh moony stop doing this you know you want to tell me” Sirius rolled over on his stomach and smiled.
Remus rolled his eyes. “If we could find a way to keep the great hall absolutely empty for an hour or two, and found a strong enough levitating and sticking charm, maybe we could stick the tables onto the ceiling or something” he shrugged. Sirius gave him a curious look and for a moment Remus thought he would laugh at him.
They did that all the time at St. Edmund’s glued Matrons stuff to the walls and what have you, but maybe it was just a muggle thing.
“That’s bloody brilliant” Sirius muttered.
“Well it’s really just-“
“Holy shit moony do you know what this means?” Sirius grinned. “Well have to take the charms off of the ceiling, I have no idea what it must actually look like”
“Guess we’re going to find out huh?” Remus couldn’t bring himself to be exited, he was still stuck on the unfinished sentence.
“Oh I’ll tell James the moment he wakes up” he sat up and moved to get off the bed.
Remus wanted nothing more than for him to stay. Sirius slept in the same bed as James sometimes, why not him?
“You’re brilliant” Sirius turned before he got out of the bed, sitting on his knees. “I know you’ll never accept it, but you’re not only just a bloody fucking genius-“
“Sirius-“
“No. Really!” he smacked the bed hard and laughed. “Sometimes I feel like you don’t understand how important you are to me- well I mean to us. You know?” Sirius shook his head and scowled. “I didn’t mean- just… you should think higher of yourself. That’s all”
He picked himself up off the bed and closed the curtain behind himself casually, leaving Remus alone.
As if Remus wasn’t fucking shaking.
Shit shit shit
He rolled over onto the other side. Wrapping himself tight in his blanket, biting down on it so he did it start screaming.
Remus repeated the moment in his mind. Holding onto every detail of it. A bright smile broke across his face and he tried to hide it in his pillow.
God help me.
I fancy Sirius black.
***
The next day Remus woke up immediately to James shaking his bed, “moony you’re a genius!”
“What the fuck?”
“It’s simple but perfect really!” Peter shouted.
“What is?”
“I told them about your new prank idea” Sirius cackled.
“Oh, yeah it’s cool init?”
“Cool is an understatement Remus! It’s-“
“Before you bitches get on your high horse this is a muggle thing that we do with superglue, it’s not particularly original” Remus said and brushed his hand through his hair as he sat up.
James tilted his head. “The fuck is super-“
“Can’t I love it anyway?” Sirius interrupted him.
Remus blinked at a grinning Sirius before smiling politely. “Sure man”
“‘Should hit the library, shouldn’t we?”
“Breakfast first” Remus sat up in his bed. “I’m starving”
“Fucking nothing!?”
“Language! Mr. Potter!”
“Sorry Madam Pierce”
The sun was almost set, they had been through countless history of hogwarts books, trying to find an explanation for the enchanted ceiling, and a counter charm. Curfew would set in, in maybe an hour.
“We could just ask Dumbledore” Peter suggested and dropped his forehead down onto the page of his book.
“No but then he’d know we did it” James said.
“Well who the fuck else would it be, James?”
“If the four of us started asking about it they’d put stronger enchantments.” Remus muttered and leaned back in chair. “I don’t think it’s possible”
“I am ashamed to call you Marauders!” Sirius shouted and slammed his book closed. “We do not need a silly book to tell us what to do!”
“Sirius-“
“No!” The rest of the marauders started bickering, Remus scowled at the page of his book.
Hogwarts was built 990 A.D, but it was grafted for almost forty years before that.
Blah blah blah.
The original blueprint now resides on the headmaster’s office, carefully guarded.
Remus grabbed Sirius’s book, who didn’t even notice. Remus flipped to the seventeenth chapter: Original Designs
The original plan for-
Oh shut the fuck up!He flipped a few pages trying to kind anything on the blueprint.
The first blue prints have a list of enchantments and their counter charms (only updated until 1257) used on the castle. Magical edits after that time are in a list on page 892.
We already checked that right? So the ceiling must’ve been put in before that.
Shit.
“I know how to find the counter curse” Remus cut off his friends. They turned their attention directly towards him. “But we have to do something kind of stupid”
Sirius grinned. “You have my attention Mr Moony”