Moonage daydreaming of you

Remus's Lupin

“Are you okay?” Peter puts a hand to Remus’s forehead. Remus sits uncomfortably at his touch.

"Pete, what did we talk about?" James says. Peter puts his hand down "Personal space, sorry Remus"

"I'm feeing a lot better , thanks Peter" Remus smiles at Peter and Peter smiles back from ear to ear.

he does feel better, which is wired because he always feels so much worse after the moon.

he looks at his plate and goes to grab a piece of toast, when an owl drops a letter on to it. It's from his mum. Its an off white envelope sealed with red wax signed Hope Howell.

"Oh Remus you got a letter, who's it from?" Sirius asks

"Its from my Mum" he answers opening it up , and just as goes to pull it out he thinks to himself, that he shouldn't open this Infront of them. Remus grabs a piece of toast. Ten gets up to leave.

"see you guys in class" he says taking a bite out of his toast

he’s going to try and be nicer to them, they've been nothing but nice since he’s met them . He doesn’t understand why, buts its nice to have a friend .

Remus sits on the bench next to his next class which is herbology. He opens up the letter and inside there's a bracelet . He startssreading the letter and it says.

~

Dear, my lovely son Remus

Hello Darling , I just wanted to write you a letter and ask you how things are going at your new school . I really hope you're doing great . I'm so proud of you for going , you are so brave. I mean look at you , you haven't even grown up with magic and now you're going to this posh wizarding school . I don't know how you do it, dealing with me being sick the moon and being at a new school . Are you making any friends? What house did you get into? Ravenclaw? maybe you do have a very sharp mind, like your father. Definitely not Hufflepuff with that attitude you have , I'm kidding , I'm kidding. Or maybe you got into Gryffindor you are very brave boy. Definitely not Slytherin's heard the lot of them are arses. But anyways enough about houses

I'm writing this the day before full moon, I don't know when you will bet this but, just know everything will be alright, and you are going to be okay, I would give you a kiss on the head but I'm not really able to do that right now since you're so far away . But you will be home for holidays right? Everything is going better here , I can get out of bed now, I'm just a little weak.

I hope you don't mind but I sorta cleaned your room, You would think you'd clean it up a little bit more before you get shipped off to school and leave your poor mother here by herself, but its fine I liked cleaning it up it gave me a little bit of control being able to do something by my self.

So what kind of tricks have you learned? It must be so fun to do be around all the magic , I bet there teaching you how to fly and walk upside down. I could be completely wrong please excuse your dear Mother but I don't know all that much about this magic stuff I only have my knowledge from what I've heard maybe you can tell me more about it? Eh? Since my son is a fancy wizard now.

Anyways stay safe , have fun, and everything will be alright. I love you and miss you, I'll try to send more letters and I'll see you during the holidays. Oh and I made you a bracelet, I really think its my calling, I've made a bunch for your aunt and out neighbors. You keep it with you so you know I'm here with you when things get tough. I love you sweetie.

hugs and kisses, Lots of love - Your loving Mother

~

Remus hadn't even realized he’d been crying. He wipes the tears from his face , he does miss his mother an awful lot. He’s happy she's getting better but he wishes he was there. He just want to hold her hand.

"Oi, Remus" Sirius's voice echos in the corridor , he looks up, James and peter right next to him. "You alright, mate?" he asks . Remus wipes his face of the rest of his tears and stands up.

"Yeah, fine " he shrugs , he puts the letter in his pocket.

Remus walk into herbology and takes a seat in the back of the class Sirius sits next to Remus and James and Peter sit in the desk next to them

The class starts and remus can’t seem to focus.

"Are you sure your alright? you looked a little off back there" Sirius whispers

"Oh, fuck off" he brushes him off , what's with everyone telling him he looks like shit?

"I wasn't trying to be rude, fine" Sirius crosses his arms

"Fine" remus repeats crossing his arms as well.

He smells a stench coming from behind him , Remus turns around and sees Snape and Lily sitting next to each other. He rolls his eyes and turn back around.

Snape must've seen him look back at him because then he starts kicking my seat. Sirius whips around around with a stern look on his face.

"Hey, asshole do you mind?" he snaps.

"What are you going to do black, tell your loony friend to hit me again?"

Remus turns around and stands up. "Y'know maybe Mr. Loony will do just that, and what I mean by that is I'll beat the shit out of you again"

James and Peter come to my side . "Remus maybe we should do this after class" Peter says In a frightened voice.

Severus leans down and picks up a piece of paper from the ground. Remus immediately puts his hand to his pocket and see that the letter fell out.

He feels his throat sink into his stomach.

"Give that back, its my Mums!" He says desperately.

"Awe , look the loony boy's a Mommy's boy , too" Severus coos.

The whole class turns around and Professor Sprout stops talking.

James quickly grabs the letter from his hand, and hands its to me.

he’s looks back to Snape , and James is holding him by the collar of his shirt. "Mess with my friends again and you'll regret it Snivellus"

"Okay, okay what is happening over here?" Professor sprout

James lets go of Severus..

"Professor Sprout, I'm so glad you're here these four were all trying to team up on me"

Remus sees lily roll her eyes.

He cannot believe what he is saying right now. "You four" she says looking at their group "Detention in the trophy room after all of your classes, I do not accept bullying in this classroom"

"This is ridiculous " James says

"Now all of you back to your seats" Professor Sprout says.

The four sit back in their seats with defeat .

We get into the trophy room. And Filch is already waiting to give us detention .

"Now you boys will clean all of these trophies without using magic , I want them all done by the time I come back in two hours, wands in the bin" Filch say with a nasty voice. They put their wands in the bin. And Sirius’s wand looks a bit odd but remus doesn’t think much about it. Filch locks the bin.

"Got it?" He says , "Got it" The four of us say in unison .

Filch leaves and we all start cleaning .

"Do you think they'll tell our parents we're in here?" Sirius asks genuinely.

"I don't think so mate, it's not like we actually started a fight" James pats Sirius on the back.

remus hear a sigh of relief escape Sirius's mouth. The room is silent for a moment.

"Hey James?" Sirius asks

"yeah?" James responds

"When'd you come with the name Snivellus?" Sirius says with a grin.

We all burst out laughing, remus had almost forgotten he had said that .

"Just yesterday , after breakfast thought the slug needed a nickname to fit him" James says sticking his nose up with his hands on his hips with pride.

remus had been observing the three of these boys the past week, and not ever in his life had he. seen a person with as big of an ego as James, but no matter how big his ego was his heart always seems to be bigger. with what he has seen James he is constantly showing the people he cares about that he actually cares about them. And how much.

"You’re a genius, Potter" Sirius says with a grin "Now I've been thinking how to get him back after what he's been pulling "

"And what have been thinking, hm?" James asks with excitement all over his face.

"Okay but you all must swear not to tell a soul" Sirius says crossing his heart and grinning now more than ever.

James crosses his heart "Done"

Peter does the same and crosses his heart "Done" Peter smiles.

They all look at Remus , and he looks at them "This is stupid" he says crossing his arms . "Remusssssssss" Sirius whines stretching out the S in his name .

"No, I'm not getting in more trouble for this " Remus says looking away from all of them.

"C'mon Remus we'll be your best friends" James says , he looks at them and they all hold their hands together and all give me puppy eyes.

"Fine! but only if you stop doing whatever that thing is" he says referring to their puppy eyes.

"atta boy Remus" James says smiling from ear to ear.

"Okay tell us Sirius" Peter says

"nope" Sirius say looking away.

"Oh come on" Remus complains

"You got to cross your heart, Remus, Just like the rest of us" Sirius says with a tiny smirk plastered on his lips.

"Ugh fine" remus crosses his heart "Done"

"Yay" Sirius claps his hands together . "Okay first we got to come up with a name for our group , we need a strong name, any ideas boys?”

They all start thinking.

"The Buccaneers " James says nodding his head

"Are you kidding James?" Sirius says shaking his head put a hand to his forehead.

"What, What's wrong with it, I think its pretty good?" James adjusts his glasses, and his shoulders sulk with defeat.

"It would be a good group name, if-" remus says putting a finger to his chin pretending to ponder his thoughts.

James head pops up and Sirius looks at me confused.

"If we were making a group name when this school was built" he shrugs

Sirius laughs.

"Ouch Remus, that really hurt"

Remus smiles

he looks at Peter and he is still thinking of a name.

"OH! I got it ! " Peter says excitedly, James and Sirius turn their heads to him.

"How about the, The Marauders" Peter says using Jazz hands.

" its like the buccaneers I know but it sounds more, well modern " Peter raisins his brows,  waiting for the idea to be turned down.

"Pete! That's it" Remus adds.

"Oh my merlin , Peter Pettigrew, That's perfect!" Sirius says basically jumping in his place.

"Great Job , Pete" remus says patting Peters back.

"The Marauders , I love it" James says

Remus has never seen Peter look this happy since he’s met him .It seems that he craves approval and affection from the people around him. He's pretty clingy, but in a sweet way. 

"now boys, I know we aren't very sharp in our magic , yet but I've learned a few from my father, like this one for example " Sirius says lifting up his sleeve pulling out his wand.

"Scourgify" Sirius says pointing it at the Trophies. Magically cleaning them all in one second

The rest of us in shock.

James asks "But your wand is in the bin?"

"Oh that? that James , was just a little prop I made earlier before coming here" Sirius say with an accent .

James mouth hangs open and Sirius smiles cheekily.

"weren't you going to tell us your bright idea on how to get back at Snivellus?" Remus asks , these boys really do know how to get off track.

"Yes, my dear Remus, I was just getting to that bit." Sirius says, cheekily. Remus sighs.

"So , how do we give the asshole what he deserves?" James says.

"So I hoping we all could collectively decide as a group"

"We should pull a prank on him , Y'know so its funny and he still gets what he deserves" James says

"Yeah" Peter says excited for what were going to do..

"How about we give Snape a shower?" Remus suggests.

"What!!?" James says widening his eyes

"Not like that you idiot".

"Like with magic, We give him a shower because it doesn't look like hes taken one anyways"

The boys all snicker at that comment.

"He does look a bit greasy, doesn't he" Peter says

"A bit? no that grease in his hair looks like he's never taken a shower in his life." James says.

We all start laughing .

"Okay but how do we give him a shower?" Sirius asks

Remus is about to respond then.

the boys hear Finch start walking toward the door with his keys hitting together as we walks.

"Okay , Tomorrow is a Saturday well go down to the library at ten and start researching "

James, Sirius, and Peter all nod.

Finch enter the room and looks around at the trophies "Good you finished cleaning them , now grab your wands and go." Filch says unlocking the bim.

remus almost laughs at the fact that Sirius got away with putting a fake wand in there.

We all start walking to our dorm, trying to contain our laughter , talking about the prank were going to plan.