Sirius comforting Remus <3
All that Sirius knows, is that his best friend Remus gets sick quite often. Every month. But the thing is, no one seems to know what it is, exept Remus himself. James, Peter and Sirius all have tried asking their friend for more information, but they get nothing out of him, and at some point just stopped trying. One time Sirius got so worried that he was going to go to Madam Pomfrey to ask her what's going on, but Remus told him no, and Sirius could never go against his best friends wish.
Every month it seems that Remus is in more and more pain every time he gets sick, and his friends don't know how to help him. There's days when Remus lays in the hospital wing and even little sounds make him irritated. Still he won't tell his friends about his condition.
This time, when Remus finally manages his way back to the common room after a day in the hospital wing, only Sirius is wating for him. Usually Lily is there with some hot chocolate and James and Peter ready to help him in any way he needs it. But no, it's only Sirius sitting on the sofa in the common room looking into the fireplace, deep in his mind.
Don't get Remus wrong, he still very much appreciates his friend sitting there, but the biggest problem he sees is the fact that they're alone together. Remus has had feelings to the shorter one for a while now, but they've been easy to ignore when there's lots of other people around, but now, he's so tired and weak and alone with Sirius, he's not sure if he can keep his secret for long. The secret about his feelings, the other one is easy to keep in.
When Sirius hears his best friend walk through the potrait into the common room, he immedietly gets up from the sofa and turns to look at Remus. Sirius walks over to the brunet and eyes him up and down. Remus is the first one to talk.
"Where's everyone? Why are you alone?" He asks. Sirius looks at the taller ones face and thinks for a second, brain filled with worried thoughts about his friend.
"James is at quiddich practice, Lily and Peter are studying in the library, I'm skipping practice, didn't wanna go" The last bit was half a lie. He mainly just wanted to spend time with Remus and be there for him.
"Do you wanna stay here or go to our dorm?" Sirius continues. "Up." Is all Remus says and the two boys start heading up to the dorms.
Once they're safely up in their shared dorm, they start doing their monthly "ritual". Sirius gets his friend some more comfortable clothes (one of the biggest sweaters Remus has and a pair of loose sweatpants) and hands them to Remus. Then he takes his own pair of comfortable clothes and heads to the bathroom to change, just to give Remus some privacy.
While Sirius was digging himself some clothes from his messy closet, Remus had already changed his trousers and when Sirius is heading out of the room, he hears his friends low and weak voice from the other side of the room.
"Don't." Sirius turns around to look at his friend and sees Remus sitting on his bed, shirt thrown on the floor and the sweater he's supposed to put on sitting on his lap. Sirius can see all the scars scattering around the taller ones torso. His mind is screaming the words 'pretty', 'beautiful' and all he can get out of his mouth is just the word 'what'.
"Please. Don't wanna be alone. Real shit night." Remus says quietly. Sirius isn't exactly sure what to do. He can see the tears in his friends dark brown eyes. Sirius drops the clothes in his hands on the floor and walks over to his friend.
"Can i hug you?" Sirius asks while sitting down next to Remus, and before he can even react, Remus has already thrown himself into Sirius, wrapping his arms around his body. Sirius is confused, Remus has never been the first one to hug and usually the only people who have gotten to hug him have been James and Lily. Sirius carefully wraps his arms around his friends shoulders and rests his head on the taller ones head.
He can feel Remus wetting his shirt with tears. Sirius tries to stay as calm as possible and runs one of his hands up and down the crying boys bare back.
They stay like that for a while, until Remus starts to calm down. Once he has completely stopped crying, he lifts his head up and scoots back a bit to give Sirius some space.
"Sorry." He says quietly while looking down at his hands.
"It's ok. You're fine, everything's fine." Sirius takes Remus' hands in his own and looks at his face. Remus lifts his gaze to look at Sirius, who gives him a comforting smile in return.
"Do you wanna talk about it?" Sirius carefully asks and Remus shakes his head no in return.
"Can you maybe like. umm.." Remus starts to say but can't seem to finish his sentence. Sirius just sits there and gives him time to say what he wants to say.
"I don't wanna sleep alone, but im really tired so, um." Remus stops his words at that and looks back at his hands that are still held by Sirius.
"If you wanna cuddle, it's fine." Sirius says and Remus smiles a little and nods his head.
They end up laying in Remus' bed with Remus having his arms around the smaller one. Remus has one of his hands lightly playing with Sirius' long hair and he lets his other hand sneak under the smaller ones shirt and staying there on his back. His head is on the pillow above Sirius' head while he sneaks a little kiss on the other ones head, thinking he has already fallen asleep so he doesn't notice.
Sirius on the other hand has his arms around the taller ones waist, holding him tightly. He can feel the warmth radiating from Remus and even tho he still hasn't changed to any more comfortable clothes, he doesn't care, this is where he wants to stay for the rest of his life. And when he feels the little kiss on his head, he can't stop the smile forming on his face and he nuzzles closer to his friend, if thats even possible anymore. He's already head over heels for the taller one, and the little kiss gets his hopes up that the feeling could be mutual. When Sirius can hear the other ones breathing change to a calm and steady pace, making it clear that Remus has fallen asleep, in return of the kiss, he draws a little heart onto Remus' back with his finger and finally lets himself fall asleep peacefully.
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When James and Peter get up the stairs to their shared dorm, first thing thay see when they walk through the door is a bunch of clothes scattered around the floor. They share a confused look when James points out that Sirius' bed is empty. When they turn to look at Remus' bed they see their best friends asleep in the same bed, wrapped around eachother. Both boys make a mental note to tease the two the next morning until Lily has to step in, they want to- no they need to see their reaction, because to James, Peter and everybody else in Hogwarts, even to the professors it's been clear as day that Sirius and Remus like eachother, and everyone is wating for the day when they both realise it too.