Moony
Sirius woke up with a horrible headache and sore limbs. Fuck, he thought, did I sleep through my alarm? He looked over at his clock, 7:49. FUCK! I’m gonna be late for my first day! He threw his blanket and was surprised to see another body laying next to him. He didn’t remember anything about the previous night except for the alcohol, he knew he had drank at least two bottles worth of tequila, which he now started to realise, was the source of his headache. The stranger next to him though, couldn't figure out.
“Do you always wake your one-night stands in such a charming way? I’ve got to say, it’s not the best flirting technique” the man said as he was getting up. His back was facing him so he couldn’t see his face yet. God, he really hoped he was handsome or else the previous night would be an even bigger embarrassment.
“Yeah, sorry about that, got to run, I’m gonna be late for my first day to work! I’m gonna head to the shower and you won’t be here when I come back down.” The man slowly turned around with an amused smile on his face. Holy shit, the man was gorgeous. He had brown shaggy hair, a few scars on his face and the rest of his body and had gorgeous chestnut eyes. Wow, Sirius had really lucked out the previous night. The nameless man was looking at him with an amused smile, fully naked. Fuck, Sirius could’ve gone back to bed with him if he asked. He was truly gorgeous, which made Sirius unable to form a single coherent thought.
“It was nice to meet you, um- …” Shit, he had forgotten the name of the handsome dreamy stranger. He tried to remember the night but in vain, he knew the stranger’s name had been something peculiar; something he hadn’t heard before.
“Remus. Yeah and you were Sirius right?” He smiled as he put his hand out for a handshake.
“Yeah, it was nice to meet you Remus. I really have to go, I'm sorry!” He ran out of the room and into the bathroom. He tried not to look at his reflection because he knew what he would see: his hair messed up and greasy from sex, his eyes- bloodshot from the lack of sleep, his full body covered in bites and scratches; and his lips, still swollen from their late-night activities. He stared at himself for a bit longer, trying to collect himself and just breathe until he heard the front door open and close. He went into the shower and scrubbed his skin until it was pinkish, trying to go as fast as possible.
After his shower, he got dressed up in his usual outfit: black jeans, a band tee, his docs and his leather jacket and ran out the door. Once he was on his bike, he realised he was in dire need of caffeine so he made a stop at a small coffee shop on the way to the hospital.
When he arrived at Hogwarts Hospital, he ran through the halls and was amazed at how big it was. Granted, he had done internships in hospitals when he was younger in France, but those hospitals held nothing to the gargantuesque size of Hogwarts. There were at least ten floors, each filled with people going about their days. He quickly ran to the reception and asked for directions to the surgery locker rooms. Once he arrived, he undressed, put on his scrubs and chose a random locker to keep his belongings in.
“First day too? I’m so nervous! Who’s your resident? I’ve got Lupin and I’ve already thought of ten different jokes on his name! Oh my god he’s gonna hate me and he hasn’t even met me yet!”, rambled an intern next to him. He was tall, had brown curly hair and round glasses that would’ve looked awkward on anyone else but looked quite attractive on him. The nameless jittery intern kept rambling so Sirius interrupted by introducing himself.
“Hi, Sirius Black, and you are?”
“Oh my god! Black? As in Walburga and Orion Black? The ones who invented the Black Method? Holy shit dude that’s crazy. I’m James, James Potter!”
“Potter as in Euphemia and Fleamont Potter? That’s impressive too, I mean it’s not everyday that you find a way to grow organs in a 3D printer.” Sirius wondered if having surgeon parents meant that James was a messed up as he was. He seemed so outgoing and nice but was there something deeper hidden?
“Yeah, my parents are truly amazing! It’s gonna be hard to try to live up to their name.” He sighed, not in a way that showed resentment towards his parents but rather admiration.
“So you get along with them?”
“Yeah mate, love them to bits! If it weren’t for them, I probably wouldn’t even be studying medicine! I can’t even count the amount of times my parents stayed up with me to revise anatomy or organic chemistry with me! I owe everything to them.” He smiled, “What about you? I can’t imagine it must’ve been easy growing up with parents like yours.”
“It was fine. I studied, they left me alone. I got bad marks, well, let’s just say the Hippocratic oath was sometimes broken” He replied, trying to not reveal anything too serious or deep.
“Sorry man, that must’ve sucked. Well, you’re here now and they can’t reach you so you’ve got nothing to worry about! Plus, you’ve just made an awesome friend who will stop at nothing to make sure we have an awesome time at Hogwarts!” He cheered.
James wasn’t his usual type of friend, bright and charming; but he thought he could make an exception. After all, he did promise a good time and heaven knows Sirius could do with that after all the shit he had to endure with his family.
“Oh by the way, I’ve got Lupin too. I started thinking of names yesterday so I’ve got a head start, you better not disappoint, Potter!” He held out a hand for James to shake.
“Wouldn’t dream of it, Black!” He said as he shook his hand with a mischievous smile spreading to his face.
“Black, Potter, Pettigrew, Macdonald and McKinnon! You’re with Lupin, he’s at the end of the hall.”, some attending yelled.
“Right then, shall we?” Sirius asked, walking out of the lockers, James following behind him. There were so many people that it felt almost impossible to reach the end of the hall but when they made it, Sirius’ heart dropped. He spotted a tall shaggy-haired man with scars on his face. He tried to turn around but was met with James’ ridiculously hard chest.
“Woah, watch where you’re going Black! You okay?” Sirius simply refused to turn around and stared at James with pleading eyes. No, that couldn’t be it, he was imagining it. His mind was playing tricks on him. The universe can’t hate him that much, he thought as he kept staring into James’ eyes. He heard someone walking closer.
“Hey there, Sirius. Remus LUPIN, here. Had a nice shower?” He heard Remus’ voice.
Shit. Sirius was royally fucked. His one-night stand from the bar, his dreamy stranger, had been his sodding boss. He couldn’t think of anything to reply so he simply turned around and stared at Remus-Doctor Lupin. Holy shit, he looked so good in scrubs, which wasn’t fair because how can anyone look good in blue boxy scrubs? This man was truly testing his sanity because if it were up to him, they would ditch the rest of the interns and find a room in which they’d spend the whole day in. The silence was deafening but Sirius couldn’t think about anything else other than the warm brown eyes looking straight into his own. Lupin’s eyes were a chocolate brown so pretty that he was certain they’d taste sweet too. His day dreaming was interrupted by James which he was both annoyed at and thankful for.
“Sorry, shower?” James asked after what felt like hours.
“He has damp hair, you should tie it up.” Lupin replied and tore his gaze away from Sirius, he felt his absence almost instantly- a little embarrassed at how much he had liked having Remus’ full attention on him.
“Oh, sorry, I’ll tie it up.” He took a rubber band from his arm, he always carried some in case it got too hot or if he got bored of his hairstyle; and tie his hair into a low bun.
“Right then, I have five rules, memorise them. Rule number one, don’t bother sucking up, I value actions over words so if you can’t prove it, it means nothing to me.” He then started handing out patient lists and pagers. “Rule number two, you answer every page at a run. You’re all interns, bottom of the surgical food chain which means you will have to run labs, write orders and work until you drop. It’s shitty, I know, but it is what it is, we’ve all been there.” He smiled as he said that which made his speech a little easier to digest. He then showed us the on-call rooms, which had sets of bunk beds. “This brings me to rule number three, if I’m sleeping, don’t wake me unless your patient is actually dying. Rule number four, the dying patient better not be dead when I get there. Not only will you have killed someone, you would’ve woke me up for no good reason. All good?” A short guy raised his hand. “Yes?”
“Hi, Pettigrew, Peter Pettigrew. Um, you said five rules but you only mentioned four?” Peter Pettigrew asked.
Lupin’s pager started ringing, “Well, rule number five, when I run, you run!”, which led into a wild goose chase, trying to catch up with him, yet still trying to respect the nurses and other patients around.
They arrived to the patient’s room and suddenly, the energy shifted. This was their first real case, there was no going back from this. Sirius couldn’t believe it, when he was in university, all the knowledge was theoretical. Now, faced with a living patient, Sirius couldn’t deny the fact that he was going down the path his parents set for him. It made him feel uneasy, but he didn’t have the time to think when Lupin yelled “Black, Potter, she’s seizing, get her one her side and give her 10 milligrams of Diazepam IM.”. Sirius couldn’t move, he stood frozen at the sight in front of him. Thankfully, James got the needle and handled the puncture. Her BP stabilised but Sirius felt helpless. He hadn’t been able to do anything but stare.
“Okay everyone, we’re gonna do every test possible because we have no way of determining the cause of these seizures.” Lupin said as another doctor walked in. “Everyone, this is Doctor Mcgonagall, head of cardio.”
“Who’s the patient?” She asked.
“Emmeline Vance, she’s got new onset seizures , intermittent for the past week. I recommend we shotgun her.” He replied.
“Yeah that’s good. Okay interns, I expect lab results as soon as you’ve got them!” Her gaze focused on everyone one by one and felt just as intense every time. She had an intimidating presence, much more than Lupin did. She left the room shortly after and everyone started taking notes of which tests needed blood, urine etc and where they should take the samples. When Sirius was finished with taking a blood sample, he left the room towards the elevators but someone grabbed his arm. His initial response was to jerk away and hit back but then he saw it was Lupin.
“Sirius, what happened in there?” Shit, that meant that he had seen Sirius freeze and unable to do anything. Maybe he could feign ignorance, which is why he replied with: “what do you mean?”
“Don’t play dumb, I know first days are a lot but why did you freeze? I know who your parents are and there’s no way you aren’t accustomed to these scenes, so what happened?” Well, there goes his plan. He could just tell him the truth, but that would unravel into a deep discussion about his family and the abuse he’s accumulated over the years- which is not something he wants to share with anyone, let alone his boss.
“Just first day jitters. Nothing to worry about, it won’t happen again boss.” He added the “boss” to make sure that Lupin knew that their late night rendez-vous were no longer possible.
“Boss, huh? Never thought I’d be one for power play but maybe people are onto something. Come on, this morning it was Remus, why does that have to change?” He said with that infuriatingly handsome smile of his. He truly was dreamy, it was taking all of Sirius’ willpower not to take him into one of the on-call rooms and kiss him stupid.
“The thing is, Doctor Lupin, that this morning, you weren’t my boss. Now that you are, this” he gestured in between them “can’t happen. I could get in genuine trouble.”
“So you’re fine with nothing ever happening between us again? Cool, okay, noted. I don’t doubt your skills and talent, if the freezing happens again, come find me. Growing up with world-class surgeons as parents can’t have been easy, if you ever need to vent, you can. Oh and Sirius, you look lovely with your hair up.” He winked as he started walking away. The bastard winked! Fucking hell, he knew he said that nothing could ever happen but the end of their interaction left him thinking that maybe it wasn’t completely off the table. This both scared and excited Sirius. The night had been amazing, of course Remus-Doctor Lupin would be fantastic in bed. It replayed on his mind like a song stuck on a record player. Shit, he needed to get those samples to the lab.
Sirius found the lab with difficulty but still made it in time to see his friends-fellow interns? Walking out towards the cafeteria. James spotted him and told him to join them once he was done. He caught up with them and sat down in one of the chairs at the table.
“Hiya Sirius, we were just talking about Doctor Lupin.” Kill him now. “He’s rather charming isn’t he? The girls here think he’s single, but I think he’s happily married with twenty children” this made Sirius choke on his half-eaten piece of sandwich. “Woah, you okay? Anyways, we need to come up with a nickname for him. I thought of Casanova but the girls say it’s too obvious.”
“Yeah, we need something more discreet.” Said the curly-haired one.
“Hi! Mary Macdonald!” “Sirius Black.” They shook hands and Mary proceeded to ask him about his family- which he hated talking about and made him quite uncomfortable, but he continued answering because Mary seemed like the type to like gossiping without any harmful intent. She was beautiful, her curls framed her face perfectly and she had little freckles all over her cheeks which gave her a cute look. He could’ve hooked up with her if it wasn’t for the 6’4 shaggy-haired man plaguing his thoughts.
“I think he’s handsome but no one to lose your mind over.” Said the blonde, “Marlene McKinnon” . Marlene had blonde hair and looked like one of those girls that simply embodied the word “cool”. She wore lots of jewellery and her makeup looked a lot like the one Sirius would wear on a night out.
“I think he looks dreamy.” Said the shy boy at the end of the table, he introduced himself as Peter Pettigrew.
“Yeah, and have you seen the little crescent-shaped scars on his arms? He looks amazing” Sirius added.
“Oh my god! That’s it! We combine both dreamy and the crescents!” James called out.
“Dreamy crescents?” Peter cringed, “that sucks, sorry man.”
“No you idiot! Moony!”
“Moony” Sirius echoed, he had to admit, it fit him. Doctor Lupin, Remus, Moony, all three were the man that Sirius had found himself ridiculously attracted to.
“Ooh, I like it! It’s perfect! You’re a bloody marvel Potter!” Said Mary.
“Not bad.” Added Marlene.
He had to stop finding ways to get that man more stuck in his head than he already was, as if giving him a nickname wasn’t going to make things harder- physically and mentally.
They all finished their lunch and started going their own ways when James asked Sirius to come to the Medical Library with him.
“Hey man, I know today was a bit of a shock and you probably don’t want to talk about it but why did you freeze when we had to insert the needle?”
Sirius debated whether he should tell James about the torture his parents put him through but then decided that he’d need a few drinks to get the story started. He opted for something that would explain his behaviour without reveal the full extent of it.
“I’m so sorry, it’s just family stuff. I never freeze but today I had a realisation and it just rendered me unable to function. I don’t think I can explain it now but maybe over a few shots of tequila.” He tried to turn the last part of the sentence into a joke-like tone to stop James from asking further.
“Yeah of course man, I’d love to! But let me know if you ever want to talk, even without the use of tequila” James replied with that blinding smile of his.
Sirius needed to get a grip, the first day hadn’t even finished and two people had already told him he could talk to them if he wanted to. His mask of indifference had already started cracking. After all, between him and his brother, he was always the weakest at hiding his emotions.
James left a short while after and Sirius was left alone in the Library. He started researching the causes of seizures, trying to see if anything could be helpful. He was so focused he didn’t notice someone coming down to sit next to him.
“Yeah, I’ve already looked over these, it’s not any of those.” He flinched as he heard the voice so close to his ear. He was sat on the floor with his back to the bookshelf and Moony-shit Doctor Lupin had just sat next to him, reading over his shoulder.
“Moony!” He whispered without thinking. A second later, he realised his mistake and became as red as blood. Shit, he thought, shit shit shit.
“Moony, huh? Let me guess, part of it is because of the scars, the next part though-hmm.”
“Because you’re dreamy” he admitted in defeat. Maybe Remus knowing about his nickname would gross him out, that way Sirius could distance himself and forget all about his handsome boss.
“I really like it, you should call me that from now on.” He smirked and Sirius couldn’t keep his eyes from his lips anymore. They were so close, one small move and he could reach them. He was almost at his limit, one wrong move and he’d give in.
“Eyes up here, Sirius” there it was again that irritatingly handsome smirk. And Sirius lost it.
Their lips crashed together like waves on the beach, like an erupting volcano. Whatever it was, it felt natural, like they were meant to be moving their lips against one another. The kiss felt phenomenal, their lips moved in sync, after only a few hours apart. Remus grabbed his hair and Sirius gasped, which led Remus to slip his tongue and god. Remus had a filthy tongue. He started to remember bits and piece of the previous night all because of that fucking tongue. They broke apart to catch their breaths, both flushed and hot.
“You’re gonna be the death of me Moony.”
“Well, good thing I’m a fucking brilliant surgeon then.” He smirked but this time, Sirius resisted the urge to wipe it off his face with his tongue. He simply looked around to see if anyone was looking and quickly pressed a kiss to his mouth. “Come on, let’s get to work. Emmeline Vance needs our help.”