Hey girl, I don’t think that’s healthy for your lungs
That girl was Lily Evans. The very same girl who now sat beside Remus as they shared a smoke. Six years has passed since Remus first arrived to Hogwarts and in the time he has made friends here, he’s came to terms with a lot of things and eventually stopped dreading whatever that prophecy meant for him.
Now Lily and him was a funny little story. The night when Remus got to the cabin late they both showed no shame in having the dirtiest mouth in existence and started instantly cursing eachother. That lead to Remus revealing his lycanthropy and that he was the one to attack her in hopes she’ll back off the same way her friend did but Lily Evans only said “You’re pretty shit at attacking then are you not? Look at this!” she said shoving her elbow in Remus’s face that only had a small gash on it which looked like it will heal in a week at most,leaving nothing behind whilst he himself had half his face torn open from it.
Remus was flabbergasted at that point but decided to like Lily,because the girl had no shame. That was a great trait to own. They became quite inseparable from that moment on, if not for them being related on the godly side, the people would’ve assumed they were together. They could not have been more wrong though.
When they were both 16, Remus just got back from the summer break he spent with his mortal family as Lily grabbed his arm and dragged him to the waters. There she proceeded to tell Remus she was a lesbian and Remus dared to make an even slightly comment on that or started treating her differently she would put wolfsbane in his tea and by the time he’d notice she was doing that, his organs would already be digesting itselves, and he’d be too close to death to do anything about it.
Remus literally guffawed at the time which resulted in Lily elbowing him in the stomach sharply as he just admitted that he himself was gayer than David Bowie and Mick Jagger in the 70s and left it at that. They were sitting in the same spot right now however,sharing a cigarette which they gotten wrongly addicted to after they sneaked out to a gay bar in january and a girl Lily claimed must have been a goddess in disguise offered them one.
“So Sirius Black? Honestly I don’t know how you expected me to react to that it is pretty obvious” Remus coughed at that because it was supposed to be verg significant moment in their friendship as he finally confessed his first ever crush!
“Rubbish! I didn’t realize till last week!” He defended himself and it was true, it was quite the whole ordeal and he and Sirius sneaked out to their late night music session as they did every night since they were eleven, but then Sirius sat down to the piano and proceeded to play Good old fashioned lover boy to Remus. They were very proud to have done that and looked at Remus expectingly as they played the last note because it was the first time they had played music in years. Remus only looked at Sirius and started actually realizing the beauty of his friend, the way their hair fell in curls that were intentionally guided to their place yet still looked to flow freely around their face, their eyes and the look in it that was always looking directly at Remus, in every room they were in together. That moment made him rethink all the talks they shared, their most private parts unraveling between eachother. Remus learning to swim with them, which brought his mind to the defined muscles and tiny ass fucking waist of Sirius Black shirtless and at the moment it took all Remus had in him to not grab that infuriatingly perfect waist line and kiss the living hell out of them.
But he did not do that. Instead;
“I still can’t believe you prefer Queen over Bowie” that was an argument they kept having basically for laughs. Over the years as Remus showed every record he loved to Sirius,his friend got educated enough to know about every band now and even start having favourites on their own. Very early on Sirius found they had a huge fascination with Queen and Freddie Mercury himself they even started to pick their own favourite records from time to time instead of letting Remus decide what they will listen to.
And that actually m, even though pretending otherwise made Remus happy, because he knew what kind of relationship Sirius used to have with music and it was a wonder to see them get more and more comfortable with it and that thanks to Remus. So when Sirius proceeded to reveal they sat down to the very instrument that was their basically prison in their childhood and now played it with happiness and heart and all that because of Remus. And Remus- he realized was in fucking love. Oh how much Mary would enjoy that.
“Then you were just fucking oblivious and you are probably the last one to know” Fuck Lily Evans and their friendship he should have left her in the forest at 11. He said as much and left here there, throwing the cigarette away. Lily only ran after him in laughter that was still such an angelic sound it could heal souls on its own. Yeah well fuck her for that too. Remus thought and continued to walk away until Lily caught up.
“Oh come on Moony there’s nothing wrong with that! I’m pretty sure they like you back too!” That made Remus stop in his tracks. It was very rare for Lily to use the nickname that Sirius fashioned for him and then proudly introduced to everyone in camp. It was mostly them and James using it then occasionally Lily and Regulus when they wanted to show they were actually talking sincerely.
Now one would expect Remus to make it an earth shaking kind of note with something like “life took a 180 turn when a year ago Vega declared they were trans and went by the name Regulus” well to those, bullshit. Life was just the same and nothing changed as Regulus was already expressing themselves in a very twink boy way and most people assumed already, him coming to terms with their gender identity is not a big deal that changed their lives.
“Do you think so?”
“Remus that kid has been looking at you like the ground you walk on should be worshipped!”
“Do they?”
“You accomplished to get them to do stuff James could not in 3 years in a day! Believe me Sirius Orion Black is more whipped for you then Santa’s reindeers!”
“Santa whips the reindeers?”
“Fuck if I know! Don’t change the subject!”
“What subject?” Called a third voice and Regulus appeared. Lily looked at Remus for permission and seeing the three of them were as close together as Alvin and the Chipmunks he nodded. There wasn’t any reason he’d hide anything from Regulus anyway.
“My own sibling!? Ew Remus get standards!” Oh yeah that minor detail.
“In his defence, even as a lesbian I’ll admit Sirius is majestic” There see! Remus wanted to retort than he realized he got filled with another feelings instead…
Jealousy- Queen, The album: Jazz,1978 the album cover inspired by the Berlin wall.
“First of all, gross I am absolutely disgusted by the two of you. Second of all, Remus you’re in luck they are very much in love with you two” Lily then elbowed him in the ribs in a ‘told you so’ way and Remus started to feel like the centre of a conspiracy.
Before their conversation could have gotten to an even more embarrassing point the person in question showed up with James on their sides, both panting with excitement in their eyes.
“A new kid just arrived!” James exclaimed excitedly.
“She’s passed out tho.” Sirius commented and their group of 5 took off in the direction Sirius and James originally came from.
A huge crowd awaited them there and surely enough a girl was splattered in the middle of it, her shockingly beautiful face set in an expression that suggested they were having a rather uncomfortable experience in their sleep. Her dark hair was braided was braided to several parts,each decorated with crystals and jewellery. Then suddenly she sat upright and green smoke emitted from her mouth
“Him,who the owl claim on the first night, shall end the fight of the dark mark; but beware to do what’s right or to his call the world must fall’”
She repeated the prophecy engraved in Remus’s mind.
“All that show just to say something we already knew!” Barty exclaimed from whenever he was standing. Rely on the son of Ares to be disappointed by a girl vomiting smoke.
“Show off” His all time companion, son of Dionysus ~ Evan joked. Remus could already feel the mischievous aura of theirs filling the air, promising them to do something absolutely idiotic but before they could’ve done so the girl continued
“With seven others shall he start the journey,
To ensure the dark lord’s fall
The sun to be the attorney
As two answer Tartarus’s call
The war to finish as it began,
A dying god’s breath
A star to be saved by his plan
A life saved with the tyrant’s death”
She stopped then looked around,terrified until her eyes fixed on Remus and she said a last word before passing out once again.
“You”
The whole camp went silent until Evan and Barty started clapping.
“Now that’s what I’m talking about!” they called and Remus burst out laughing because gods,he was fucked.