Today was the day that Remus had been dreading for ages. He was to get his wisdom teeth out. He wasn't scared for the operation, or the pain that surely awaited him after. He was afraid of what he would say while on the medication. He'd seen enough videos of himself drunk that he knew it would be beyond embarrassing. But some slight reassurance was that Sirius would thankfully be the only one to see him in his sloppy state.
Sirius had known Remus for long enough to know he was anxious and was trying his best to calm him down.
"They see people high on painkillers all the time! You're just another patient out of 100. I'd bet money that after today they'll never think of you again" he says reassuringly.
"It's not them I'm scared about" Remus says quietly.
"You mean me? My dear Remus, i promise you seeing you off your ass is not a new thing for me. This will be no different than any time we've gotten drunk together" Sirius says, running his hands in circles on Remus's back.
"I know. But it's still going to be embarrassing" Remus says sheepishly.
"I promise it'll be fine. Now let's go! We're gonna be late!" Sirius quickly gathered everything they needed and then walked down to the car.
Thankfully Lily and James had dropped off their car last night, as Sirius didn't want to have Remus on the bike after the surgery. Worried that he would fall off or the wind would reopen his wounds.
The ride to the doctors was quiet, with only the quiet hum of the radio to fill in the silence. Remus couldn't stop bouncing his leg the entire drive.
When they finally arrived, they went in together and sat in the waiting room, waiting for the doctors to be ready. Once they called Remus back Sirius gave him a quick kiss and hug in hopes that it might calm his nerves a bit.
The doctors said it would take about an hour so all Sirius had to do was sit and wait till it was done. He texted James quickly, letting him know that Remus just went back and would update him soon.
The hour flew by and the next thing he knew a nurse was leading him back to where Remus was. As much as he didn't want to admit it, he was slightly nervous to see Remus, worried about how he would be acting. He wasn't worried for himself, but for future Remus when he will undoubtedly ask Sirius what happened.
He walked in the room and didn't know whether to laugh or to kiss him. Remus was sitting in a chair laid back with his eyes closed, but his cheeks were about triple the size they normally were.
Sirius settles for walking forward and swiping some fringe off that was stuck to his forehead. This slight movement caused Remus's eyes to slowly peel open.
"Sirius?" He says quietly, still drowsy.
"Hey moony, how you feelin?" Sirius asks calmly. Running his hands through the boys hair.
"Tired" he says quietly and closes his eyes again. Sirius smiles, why did he have to be so adorable when tired?
He hears Remus's breath even out and quiet snores fill the room within minutes. The nurse comes in and explains to him what he needs to do to take care of Remus afterwords and then quietly leaves the room.
The nurse said they had to wait until Remus could stay awake to leave. So Sirius dragged a chair next to Remus and got comfortable. Feeling that he'd be there for a while.
He grabbed out his phone and took a quick picture of Remus, fawning at how cute he looked in it. And then sent it to James letting him know Remus was out.
The next 45 minutes consisted of Remus waking up every 10 minutes, shocked seeing Sirius there, and then quickly falling back asleep. After this pattern happened for the 4th time he actually stayed up a bit and talked to him.
"Did they take out my teeth?" Remus asks quietly, moving his hands up towards his cheeks. Sirius suppresses a laugh and manages to answer.
"Yeah bud, they've been out for about an hour" he says with a small smile. Remus makes a small 'ohhh' face and then looks around him, taking in his surroundings. His eyes settle on Sirius for a moment and linger.
"You're quite pretty, did you know that?" He says, eyes still locked on Sirius.
"I have been told i have devilishly good looks" Sirius says sarcastically. Remus smiles at this, or at least what Sirius can assume is smiling. It's hard to tell with how swollen his cheeks are and how much gauze is in his mouth.
“I am on a copious amount of drugs” Remus says still smiling.
Sirius can’t help but laugh at this. “Yeah I’d definitely have to agree with that love” he says affectionately.
The nurse comes back and does a final check over Remus before saying that he can leave. They bring in a wheelchair to roll him out to the car in, and it takes a minute to load Remus in it. He was almost entirely dead weight, and his tall frame certainly wasn't helping the cause. After a few moments of struggle Sirius and the nurse got him situated and lay a blanket softly across his legs.
They roll him out to the parking lot and slowly get him into the car. Sirius makes sure he's buckled and thanks the nurse before stepping into the drivers side.
Remus is leaning with his face up against the glass when Sirius gets in. "Alright moony ready to go home!" He says excitedly. Remus nods and looks back out the window. Drugged or not, Sirius is still able to read his body language and realized he's upset about something.
"What's wrong? Does something hurt?" He asks calmly, reaching out and putting a hand on his shoulder. Remus shakes his head no. "Then what's the matter?" Sirius asks, confused.
"They stole my teeth" Remus says stoutly, with a sour look on his face. Sirius can't help but snort at this, which earns him a dirty look from Remus.
Sirius manages to compose himself and tries to answer as serious as he can. "They didn't steal them. They just had to take them out" he tries to explain.
"Okay, but why didn't i get to keep them??" He asks, the serious tone still in his voice.
"I don't think you're allowed to Moony. I'm sorry" Sirius says. Remus lets out a loud sigh and looks back out the window.
After a few minutes though it seems he's completely forgotten about his unhappy attitude and is now babbling on about something that Sirius can't quite understand.
"Do you wanna send a video to James? He's been asking about you?" Sirius asks, a smirk tugging at his lips.
"He's been asking about me?!" Remus asks. He looks like he's about to cry, he's so touched. Sirius nods and then pulls out his phone and opens the camera.
"Alright. Just press the red button when you wanna start, okay" Sirius says, his eyes still on the road. He sees Remus nod out of the corner of his eye and then he starts. He knew of course that Remus would kill him after finding out about this video but it will be worth it.
"Hi Prongs! Padfoot said you were asking about me and said i should make a video to send you, so here i am! I'm doing okay, i can't really feel my jaw... or my tongue... or my lips. But i think that's a good thing!"
Sirius watches out of the corner of his eye and Remus keeps on talking. Remus speech is so slurred and muffled by the gauze that's it's just barely legible. And often sentences go by, that he doesn't understand a single word out of it.
"Prongs, did you ever notice how pretty Sirius is! Like he's really really pretty! I don't know why we don't tell him more often!" Remus says excitedly.
"Probably because you don't want my ego to go up any more than it already is!" Sirius calls out.
Remus's stops talking unexpectedly and looks out the window. "Where are we going?" He asks quietly looking over at Sirius.
"I told you earlier love, we're going to pick up your medicine and then going home" he says with a smile. Remus nods quickly and then addresses to the camera where they were going. He then signs off and sends the video.
"Thank you" Remus says randomly after minutes of silence. Sirius casts him a confused look.
"For what Moony?" He asks cautiously. Remus looks at him with a caring look. Staring at him for a moment before saying.
"For taking care of me." A smile plants itself on Sirius's lips. How did he get such a adorable boyfriend?
"Anytime Moony" he says, grabbing one of Remus's hands and holding it while he drives.
A ding sounds from Sirius's phone and Remus picks it up. "It's James. He says 'get better soon Moony' I'm not really sure what he's talking about. I feel great right now" Sirius laughs lightly at this and Remus gives him a confused look but decides to drop it.
Remus continues to talk about random things as they pull into the driveway of their home. Sirius looks over and notices blood starting to form at his lips, threatening to spill out.
"Woah moony! Hey i think you need to slow down on the talking, look!" He pulls his hand over the console and wipes his mouth softly to show him the blood. Remus looks shocked and immediately closes his mouth.
Sirius walks over to the passenger side, prepared to basically carry Remus all the way inside, and is taken for surprise when as soon as he opens the car door a pair of lips meets his.
He is shocked but quickly leans into it forgetting everything around him, and only remembers when the metallic taste of blood hits his lips. he pulls back immediately.
When he looks at Remus he seems proud of himself, much too oblivious to notice the blood dripping down his face. Sirius groans slightly and wipes his own face of blood.
"You said no talking, you didn't say no kissing!" Remus says smartly. Sirius tries to be mad but can barely last 5 seconds when he sees the look on Remus's face.
He laughs slightly "you got me there. Now come on love we gotta clean you up" He reaches up and helps Remus out of the car, carrying most of his weight as they walk into their home.
He figured Remus would be more comfortable in their bed but wasn't particularly fond of the idea of carrying Remus up the stairs, so he settled on setting him on the sofa.
When he sets him down he notices how tired he really looks. Even sitting, he's wavering slightly. And his eyes are all glassy and half opened. He sees him try to lay down but catches him quickly, sitting him back up.
"Sorry Moony, but i gotta clean your face before you lay down. You'll be furious with me if i let you get blood on the sofa" he says with a small smile.
He goes and gets a flannel and quickly runs it under some warm water before going back to Remus. He sits next to him and as softly as he can, dabs away the blood. Luckily Remus is still so numb in his mouth that even if he did put pressure it wouldn't have hurt him.
When he's finally done Remus lays down quickly. But doesn't close his eyes, just watched as Sirius walked around the kitchen putting medicine and such where it needed to be.
Sirius catches Remus looking at him and gives him a small smile. But Remus just holds his arms open, a signal meaning he wanted him to lay down with him. Sirius didn't need to be told twice and quickly walked back towards Remus, and scoops him up in his arms as gently as he can be.
Sirius doesn't fall asleep but instead just listens to Remus's breathing. Making sure there's no hitches or anything signifying he was in pain. This goes on for a couple hours until Remus starts to stir.
Remus begins to tuck his head into Sirius's chest but quickly stops as soon as he does, as he's met with a sharp pain in his mouth. He wonders what happened to cause this pain and then quickly remembers the events of this morning, he had gotten his wisdom teeth removed, of course. But he didn't remember anything. He just hoped he wasn't too bad.
Sirius noticed he was awake and started talking quietly while running his hands through Remus's hair.
"How you feeling Moons?" He asks softly. Remus goes to say something but quickly stops when he opens his mouth and is met with pain. His hand reflexively reaches up to his face and is shocked to feel his cheeks puffed up the size of a balloon. He gives Sirius a confused look and be seems to understand.
"You're okay, we're home now. Your face is a bit swollen but don't worry. Are you in pain?" He asks cautiously. Not wanting to try talking again, Remus just nods his head yes.
Sirius gets up and heads towards the kitchen to grab the prescriptions. He fills up a glass of water and sits back down on the sofa and hands the small pills to Remus. After he's taken the medicine they go back to lying down.
"You're lucky moons, they got you the good stuff. Give it 30 minutes and you'll be back in your drugged bliss" Sirius says with a smile. Remus lets out a small hum in return, already feeling the affects of the medication. And then they quickly fall back asleep.
The next time Sirius wakes up it's because of the loud clanging coming from the front door. Sirius gets up slowly, not wanting to wake Remus. To go see what all the ruckus is about. And is surprised to see James and Lily standing in their kitchen.
"How did you get in?" Sirius asks, confused.
"I got a key made! I stole Moony's the other day to get it made. So here's that back" James says, putting a key down on the counter. Sirius lets out a small laugh, they might not be in high school anymore but the mischief has not stopped.
"How's Remus?" Lily asks, changing the topic. Sirius casts a look out to the living room to make sure he's still asleep.
"I think he's okay. We've just been laying down since we got home and he woke up a little bit ago and it looked like he didn't recognize where he was" Sirius says with a small laugh and then continues, "I think he was in a lot of pain though, he couldn't even talk. So i gave him the prescriptions that we went and picked up and those pretty much knocked him out."
"James showed me the video he sent. Looks like he was at least enjoying himself on the drive home" Lily says with a laugh.
"Yeah you can say that again. When we got home he had managed to reopen his wounds because of how much he was talking." Sirius says with a laugh. "That reminds me, i need to go switch out his gauze I'll be right back" He gets up and finds the package of gauze that the nurse sent him home with.
When he sees Remus laying peacefully on the couch, it pains him to know that he's gonna have to disturb him. He decides he can stare at him for just a little before he wakes him up. He can't remember the last time he say Remus this calm. His mouth open slightly, not a single crease in his forehead. It seems like he's always worrying about something.
He give Remus's shoulder a slight shake and waits as he cautiously opens his eyes. "I've got to change the gauze in your mouth okay?" He tells Remus quietly. He gives a slight nod and sits still as Sirius plays nurse.
"Thank you" Remus says with a small smile. He can tell he's definitely not as drugged as before but still seems a little out of it. Sirius gives his air a little fluff.
"Anything for my Moony. James and Lily stopped by. Are you feeling up to it to seem them? If not that's okay." Sirius asks cautiously.
Remus nods his head. "Yeah that's fine" he says, closing his eyes and leaning his head back for a minute before looking back at Sirius with a reassuring smile.
Sirius gets up and walks back to the kitchen. "He said he's up to see you guys but just be warned he's still not fully with it, alright?" They both give him a nod and they head out to the living room.
"Hey Moony how are you feeling?" James asks cautiously. Lily goes and sits next to Remus, giving him a light hug.
"I'm alright. Hurts a little but nothing that i can't handle" he says with a smile. They begin talking about random things and then James brings up what Remus was dreading most.
"Do you remember anything afterwords" James asks curiously.
"Not really. I remember heading back with a nurse and sitting down in the chair. I think we just chatted for a little bit but then the doctor came in and i don't really remember anything after that. Just waking up when you guys got here. Why? Was i bad?" Remus asks nervously.
"No not at all! You were great. A little over excited at times but for the most part it was all good" Sirius says quickly, trying to reassure him.
"Oh god. I hope i didn't embarrass myself too much" Remus says sheepishly.
"If you want i can show you!" James says excitedly. Sirius shoots him a quick glance and sees him pull out his phone. Oh boy here we go.
He passes his phone to Remus and watches as his face contorts to horror as the video goes on. It's almost 5 minutes long of Remus just talking about anything and everything. He finally gets to the end and passes the phone back to James.
"Oh god" he says with a meek laugh. Sirius decides to step in, trying to make Remus feel a little better.
"That was really just the worst of it! You weren't like that the whole time!" He says. Remus nods his head, laughing slightly.
"If it makes you feel better we thought the video was cute!" Lily says, trying to brighten the mood. They change the subject and Lily and James start talking about how their week has been. While they're talking Sirius gets up to get Remus more medicine after noticing him wincing slightly as he talks in conversation.
Remus quickly takes the pills while still listening to Lily talk about ideas for double dates soon. Although he feels like he's not gonna step foot out of the house until his face swelling is completely gone.
Sirius joins in "the bar is still always an option! Who says we need to go to some fancy restaurant when we can just get drinks" James agrees, only to be hit on the hand by Lily.
"Okay sorry!" He says, looking at Sirius and laughing. "Sorry Padfoot! I've got to listen to her. Dinner it is"
Sirius noticed Remus has gone exceptionally quiet and looks over and sees him fighting off sleep. His eyes closing every couple of seconds and his body starting to slump, only for him to startle himself awake. Sirius chuckles at this slightly and while still keeping up conversation with Lily. He reaches out and guides Remus's head down to his lap. He hears a sigh escape Remus's lips and he smiles to himself. Happy to see him rest.
Lily and James notice right away and lower their voices slightly, so as to not disturb him. They sit and talk for a little while longer before deciding they need to leave. Lily presses a quick kiss to Remus's cheek and hugs Sirius and best as she can and then they head out.
Sirius situates himself to be laying down beside Remus as best as he can without waking him. And presses a light kiss to his lips before he falls asleep.
"I love you, get rest Moony."