Cake
Sirius and Remus ended up sleeping for about an hour.
Sirius woke up to the feeling of Remus running fingers through his hair. Sirius looked up at him and smiled, Remus smiled back.
Remus’s stomach rumbled, “let's make something to eat, I’m hungry too” Sirius said as he sat up. Remus nodded, “we still have that cake mix in the pantry”.
The two of them went downstairs, Sirius took the cake mix out and read the back of the box for what else they would need. Remus was taking all sorts of bowls and whisks and spoons out of cupboards, he also found a cake pan.
“So all we need to do is add an egg and milk to this and stir it, then put it in the oven” Sirius said, putting the box on the counter. He went to the fridge to get the milk and an egg, Remus had opened the box and taken out the bag of cake mix.
Sirius put the milk and egg down then went to look for a measuring cup for the milk. He figured he knew the kitchen well enough and had probably seen it already at some point.
After opening three doors, Remus stepped in and found it, on the top shelf of one of the cupboards.
“I could’ve reached that you know” Sirius said, “I know, I just guessed you hadn't seen it yet and I knew it was there” Remus replied.
Remus had dumped the cake mix into a bowl. “You pour in the milk and I’ll stir?” he offered, Sirius nodded. He cracked the egg into the bowl then measured out the milk before pouring it into the mix slowly.
Remus used a wooden spoon to mix the batter together.
The boys realised their mistake in orientation pretty soon after they started. Sirius was standing on the left of the bowl and Remus on the right. Due to the fact that Remus is left handed and Sirius is right handed, they started bumping into each other almost immediately.
“Sirius, I can’t stir if you're gonna keep being in my way” Remus commented, “well it's not exactly my fault you're left handed” Sirius said and stopped pouring.
“Just stand on my other side, makes it easier for both of us” Remus said, Sirius moved and began pouring the milk again. His left arm was hanging between them not doing anything so he wrapped it around Remus’s waist.
He squirmed at first, then got used to it. Sirius smiled to himself.
Big guy, ticklish as always
Once all the milk was in and the batter had been stirred to a satisfactory consistency, Sirius turned on the oven and Remus got the cake pan ready.
“Rem you might have to operate your space station of an oven” Sirius said while standing in front of the oven. He could hear Remus laugh, which made him laugh too. “It's not that complicated” Remus came over to hit the appropriate buttons, “see” he said.
“Yeah ok fine, I don't use ovens very often but at least our oven just has a knob that you can turn for it to turn on, not like seventy-five buttons” Sirius was being dramatic now but Remus thought it was funny. “Sirius, is my oven pushing your buttons?” he asked, leaning into the jokes, “cause I have a knob you can turn to turn me on and take your mind off all the buttons”.
Sirius’s jaw dropped, he was not expecting Remus of all people to make that joke. “I can be dirty minded too Sirius, you don’t think all of those books I read are academic do you?” Remus smiled and turned back to the cake pan, then he went in search of parchment paper and scissors.
Sirius had no words, even if he tried.
What have I gotten myself into
Remus found the parchment paper and began trying to fit it into the round cake pan. He glanced over at where Sirius was still stuck in place.
“Are you gonna wait there until the oven is preheated or are you coming to help me put the batter in the cake pan?” Remus asked. Sirius shook his head and walked over, “I don’t think anyones ever made me that speechless before” was all he could come up with.
“Frozen in place just thinking about it huh” Remus teased again, “now you're taking the piss” Sirius rebutted. “I’m not, look” he said and gestured at Sirius’s crotch, which was now much more obvious.
Sirius’s face heated up out of embarrassment. Remus put the scissors and parchment paper down. “At least I know an oven isn't the only thing I can turn on” Remus said, “since when did you become this smooth?” Sirius asked, “I’ve been taking notes”.
They said nothing for a few moments, just looking at each other’s eyes. The situation in Sirius’s pants was calming down, for now.
Remus put an arm around Sirius’s waist and closed the gap between them. Sirius held onto Remus’s hips, Remus’s other hand cupped his jaw.
Their lips moved together, Sirius liked Remus’s hand holding his face, it was comforting.
Sirius could feel Remus shift a lot of his weight into his hands, almost as if his legs were giving out. He held onto Remus’s hips tighter.
Remus leaned all of his weight onto Sirius now and it made Sirius bring them both gently onto the floor, his back pressing against the cold kitchen floor.
Remus pulled away from Sirius’s mouth. Hair flopping down because of gravity. “And I’m on top of you again” he said triumphantly, Sirius sighed “It won’t always end this way”.
Remus came down again but right before their lips touched, Sirius twisted his head and kissed Remus’s neck instead.
Sirius could hear Remus breathing near his ear. Sirius licked and left kisses on Remus’s neck before settling for one spot and taking the skin between his teeth. He bit and sucked on the skin of Remus’s neck, making Remus moan in his ear, Sirius kept going.
When Sirius stopped, Remus lifted himself up again, still keeping Sirius from going anywhere. His mouth moved like he wanted to say words but none came out.
Sirius tried to push against Remus so he would be above Remus but that didn't work out. “You're too heavy” Sirius admitted defeat, even if he didn't want to.
Remus’s brain seemed to have rebooted as he smiled and said “gotta be strong and unmovable for hockey”. Sirius reached up and felt Remus’s bicep, “yeah no fucking wonder why you’re stronger than me, jesus” Sirius couldn’t filter his thoughts, everything just came out of him at once.
It looked like Remus got embarrassed for a second so Sirius took his chance and rolled them over so he would be the one pinning Remus down.
“Well played” was all Remus had to say. It almost felt more vulnerable to be above someone, especially Remus. All it would take is for him to push himself up halfway and Sirius would be down for the count.
“You look way too good, even from this angle, fuck” Remus commented. Sirius believed him even though he was having slight troubles seeing because his long black hair was dangling in front of his face.
Remus reached up and felt Sirius’s bicep which made him a bit nervous. “You're stronger than I thought you would be, seeing as you're a figure skater” Remus said. “I’ve had to lift people for routines more than once, but my legs are probably stronger than the rest of me” Sirius said.
Remus raised an eyebrow. In a very quick, confusing turn of events. Remus got one knee up in between Sirius’s legs and threw an arm over his back at the same time, while getting up.
Out of fear for what was about to happen, Sirius held onto Remus with his arms and squeezed his legs together so he wouldn't fall. There was a loud beep, the oven had preheated. The beep itself spooked Sirius a bit, he had forgotten about the oven up until that point.
As soon as Remus stood up fully he said “you're right”, Sirius realised he had been played and let himself down off Remus.
“Let's get this cake in the oven then shall we?” Sirius said, “yeah I almost forgot about it, got distracted” Remus added. “I think that's why ovens beep” Sirius explained the obvious, “what? So if I get caught up in looking at my boyfriend, the oven will remind me it's still there?” Remus was playing dumb but Sirius kind of loved it, he liked being the smart one sometimes. “Nope, pretty sure it's so that everyone knows that it's ready to be baking food” Sirius answered.
They put the batter in the cake pan, spilled only a little, then put it in the oven. Sirius set a timer on his phone based on the time it said to bake on the box.
“Now we’ve got forty-five minutes to kill” Remus said, Sirius nodded. “What are we gonna do about that?” Remus said, walking towards the living room.
Sirius’s mind ran to very obscene places way faster than he wanted it too.
You don't even wanna know the ways I’m thinking of killing this time
Sirius followed Remus to the living room. Without speaking, they climbed into the blanket nest, which was only one blanket because they had to put the rest away earlier.
They sat and talked for a little while, then Remus said he was too warm and took his shirt off instead of moving out of the blanket.
Sirius looked at him, “what? I figured it's only fair considering I already got to see you without a shirt” Remus reasoned, Sirius didn't really care for why, the fact that he took the shirt off was enough for him.
“You're never allowed to sleep with a shirt on again” Sirius said staring at him, Remus laughed. “What if I get cold?” “Too bad, it would be a disservice to the world to cover that up all the time” Sirius said.
Remus hugged him, Sirius used it as an opportunity to touch Remus’s bare chest, which was in fact warm like he said.
Remus rested his head on Sirius’s. Remus put his hand on top of the one Sirius had on his chest. Remus pushed it into his chest harder.
Sirius turned his head to look at Remus, “I can feel your heartbeat” he said, “that's good cause otherwise I’d be dead” Remus said. Sirius rolled his eyes “I know that, but I mean I can feel it with my hand” “that's the point”.
“Why is it going so fast?” Sirius asked, Remus sighed and shrugged “you make me nervous?” It was a half answer. “No, that's my line, think of another reason” Sirius said, which made them both laugh briefly. “It's not a bad answer though, you do make me nervous” Remus paused, “I guess I’m self conscious, that's all”.
That both made perfect sense, and absolutely no sense at all to Sirius. “Why though”, “I don't know, doesn't everyone get self conscious?” Remus answered him with a question.
“I guess, but you're so cool, and hot, even though those are opposites, and you're a great person, what is there left to be self conscious about?” Sirius asked.
“I don't know, you're my first real boyfriend, I don't wanna mess it up. I can stand almost completely naked in a room full of my teammates cause we’ve been doing that together since we were like seven. None of them are attracted to me, I’m not attracted to any of them, yeah we make dick jokes and whatever but you're like, real. You want to be around me and see me as soon as we’ve woken up, and what if you see me without my shirt and decide you don't like me anymore?” Remus went on a slow paced ramble. Sirius sat and listened to all of it.
“Remus, do you really think that I would leave you if I thought you didn't look great without a shirt? I’m surprised you even want me in the first place, girls are all over me sometimes but I’ve never really had a guy look at me too hard. If I were gonna leave you, I don't think I would have stayed at your house for almost three ish days” Sirius explained.
“Yeah, but my teammates couldn't care less what I look like without a shirt, all that matters to them is that we’re friends and work great together, with you it's different. I don't really know why, it just is” Remus said, Sirius dropped his hand and shifted to look at Remus straight in the face, “I fell for you when you were more than fully clothed, not wearing a shirt isn't gonna change that ok?”
Remus nodded, “I know your name is Sirius but it feels strange when you act serious, you should be more like the star than the word all the time instead” Remus was trying to pull off the farfetched joke. They laughed, “so we’re good then?” Remus checked, “yeah, we’re good” Sirius assured him.
By this point Sirius was practically sitting in Remus’s lap, he moved his legs so he would be straddling his knees.
“If you're gonna do that, then you won't mind this all that much” Remus said and grabbed the bottom of Sirius’s t-shirt, pulling it up and trying to get it over his head in one move. It didn't work out as planned, but Sirius went with it and put his arms in the air so Remus could get it off the rest of the way.
“That's better, now we’re even” Remus said, tossing the shirt somewhere behind Sirius in the living room. Somehow not knocking the blanket off his shoulders in the process.
If he thinks that's even, I’m gonna make it even worse for him
Sirius smirked at Remus before sliding himself closer to him, hips in full contact.
“You're way hotter when you do shit like that y’know” Remus said, his voice deeper, almost hungrier.
Sirius took the hint and ran a hand through his hair then bit his lip, unintentionally moving his lower body at the same time.
Remus didn't even have a coherent response, all Sirius could hear was sounds of letters strung together in an order that didn't make sense.
Sirius gave Remus a very gentle, slow kiss on the lips. Followed by a very hard, passionate one.
Sirius had a hand in Remus’s fluffy hair, Remus had gone with both his hands into Sirius’s hair, pulling it the way they found out Sirius liked it.
Remus’s mouth was so wet and warm, very inviting for Sirius’s tongue to explore.
Remus’s hands had moved and were instead running down Sirius’s sides, gripping his waist for a second when Sirius pulled his hair. The hands continued to venture down Sirius’s body, coming to rest on his ass.
Sirius could feel the hardness forming between them, so he pushed himself as close to Remus as possible, their now sweaty chests touching each other and their tongues still hanging out in the weird space between them.
Sirius went into autopilot, he didn't have a single thought that made any sense other than his brain and body telling him more.
Remus moved his mouth from Sirius’s and trailed it along his jaw until he found Sirius’s neck.
Sirius’s hands snaked their way to Remus’s arms, squeezing them every now and then.
Remus was licking along Sirius’s jaw then to an area on his neck, bringing his hands up his back at the same time. Sirius could tell he was about to bite it.
Remus did exactly that, what Sirius wasn't expecting was for it to feel as good as it did.
This needs to happen more often caus---
His thought got cut off by his own moan when Remus bit him and pulled his hair at the same time, making his head go back, exposing more skin to Remus’s mouth.
Sirius could feel Remus smile against his neck between bites. Sirius wanted to do something too but none of the muscles in his body would move, Remus’s mouth on his neck felt way too good.
Remus licked the area to soothe the burn of the pain before reconnecting their lips.
The living room was filled with sounds of wet mouths coming together mixed with occasional involuntary vocalisations.
They broke apart for air and Sirius sat staring at Remus again, this time running one hand along his naked torso, feeling everything that Remus would let him.
Remus copied, they both got close to the waistband of each other's pants at the same time. Their eyes darted back and forth from making eye contact to checking each other out, but their hands stayed where they were.
“You look so hard, how has the zipper not broken off your jeans yet?” Remus wondered aloud, looking at Sirius’s crotch. “I don't know but you look about the same” Sirius said.
Sirius could feel his face heat up, suddenly anxious and curious for where this was going.
Luckily, or unluckily for them, they wouldn't find out. The timer for the cake went off.
“That oven, ruining all our fun” Remus commented, Sirius went with it. He carefully got off of Remus and reached for his phone on the coffee table to turn the alarm off.
They sat apart from each other on the couch, for just long enough so they could get up without it being uncomfortable, then they went to check on the cake.
Remus took a skewer out of a drawer and Sirius opened the oven “it looks really good” he said, Remus tested with the skewer to make sure it was cooked all the way in the middle, which it was so they took it out and turned the oven off.
“Look at us go, making cake that isn't burnt” Sirius commented when he put the cake pan down on the stove.
“To be fair, we didn't do much, just put egg and milk in it and left it in the oven for a while” Remus said, “yeah but we did it together, and got just carried away enough to forget about our hunger while it baked” Sirius said, “dude I forgot about everything while we were on that couch” Remus said while looking for the ideal cake cutting knife.
Never knew I had the power to make people actually fully forget about something, wow, I mean that was amazing but I didn't think I held the power of gods
Sirius busied himself with getting a cutting board out and together they removed the cake from the cake pan.
“I just realised we don't have icing for on the cake” Remus said, “whipped cream?” Sirius suggested. “Sure, it's not like whipped cream has ever ruined a food before”.
Remus cut two slices of cake and Sirius took out the whipped cream from the fridge. He shook it and turned to catch Remus staring, “what? You have to shake it” Sirius said. “Yeah but do you really have to do it like that? After what happened on the couch?” Remus asked, Sirius smiled, “yes” and shook the can again, this time more purposeful and suggestive.
“Now you're teasing me” Remus waved his arms towards himself, “give it here” he added. Sirius shook his head and shot some whipped cream into his mouth.
He came closer to Remus, “your turn, open up and swallow” Sirius said, “jeez alright, make me kneel or something next time, fuck” Remus responded and bent his knees so he would be a bit shorter than Sirius. Sirius sent some whipped cream into Remus’s mouth.
Remus stood up and swallowed the whipped cream before stealing the can so he could put some on the slices of cake.
They took their plates with cake and ate side by side on the barstools.
“You know, I’m glad you're not right handed” Sirius said, Remus’s eyebrows were furrowed “what do you mean?” he asked.
“So I can do this” Sirius said and took Remus’s right hand in his left hand. Sirius watched Remus’s cheeks flush, “now that was smooth” Remus said and bent his head to inspect his cake.
They sat in near silence until they were done their pieces of cake, holding hands on the countertop.
Then the lights went out, the fridge stopped running, and the fire alarms went off.
Remus sighed and stood up. Sirius watched, hands covering his ears as Remus stood on a chair to reach the smoke detector on the ceiling near the kitchen table.
The beeping stopped and Remus came off the chair. “What the fuck just happened” Sirius said, “I believe that is what they call a power outage” Remus said, matter of factly.
Sirius rolled his eyes, not that Remus would have been able to see “yeah, I figured that one out, why did the smoke alarms go off?” he asked. “I don't know, they’re connected to each other and the main breaker to the house, when the power goes out they switch to batteries and decide to act as if there's a fire happening” Remus explained and moved to stand next to Sirius, “this one controls the rest so when I turn it off, the rest turn off too”.
Sirius’s phone lit up on the countertop.
*The Ice Kids*
James: did your guys’s power go out?
Remus: yeah
Lily: yeah, my dad said itll probably be out till tomorrow
James: really?? What if we freeze to death before then
Remus: last I checked your walls werent made of paper James
“We'll have to resort to cuddling to keep warm if the power’s gonna be out for a while” Sirius commented, “as if we hadn't been doing that already” Remus said, they laughed.
Sirius: powers gone here too, unless someone thought it would be funny to sneak into my room and turn the lights off
Lily: you wouldve heard that
James: maybe Sirius is getting old and cant hear or see properly anymore
Remus: I think he can hear and see just fine, he got a goal earlier did he not?
James: good point, Sirius I recommend using your eyes that definitely work to look outside at the snow
Remus reached for Sirius’s hand and they walked together to look outside. They could barely see the snow coming down due to the fact the moon was the only source of light and it was mostly covered by the storm clouds.
“Looks like we’ll have to flood the pond after shoveling a literal mountain of snow off it first” Sirius said, staring out the window at the blowing snow.
Remus was looking at the map of the power outages, “yeah, Lily’s dad is right, we probably won't have power until sometime tomorrow” he said.
At least we baked the cake before the power went out
“That means the roads are gonna be pretty bad too so maybe your parents can't come home, or I can't go home which means we get to hang out for longer” Sirius said, “true”.
They figured it would be most productive to go to bed so after they put their plates on the counter next to the rest of the dirty dishes, they migrated upstairs, still holding hands.
They were using Sirius’s phone flashlight to help them see because Remus’s was closer to dying, but they still stumbled up some of the steps
He turned the flashlight off once they found their pajama pants because neither of them are quite comfortable yet to be getting changed together.
This way they were still technically getting changed together but neither of them could see in the dark so it didn't feel like it.
Sirius heard Remus’s body land on the bed, he tiptoed to the bed, feeling along the edge of it so he knew where it was, and went to lay down softly next to him.
“I can handle being hit full force you know, I play hockey, it's part of the game” Remus joked before Sirius had even laid down all the way.
Sirius smiled, he stood up and jumped into bed on top of Remus instead. The sound of air being knocked out of him was the only way Remus reacted, then he giggled “that's exactly what I meant”. Sirius laughed and pulled the sheets over them.
Sirius flipped over so his head was resting on Remus’s bare chest and Remus’s hand searched for Sirius’s, he found it and held it in a way that was comfortable for both of them.
That was how they stayed until both boys fell asleep.