#making plans

@wolfstarmicrofic February 11, word count 655

“I’m going to look after you, you know? You’ll never have to worry about money. I’ve got more than enough for both of us. We can go on holiday whenever we want. You can pick first. Where’s the one place you’ve always wanted to visit?” They were lying on their backs under the stars in the Potter’s back garden. Sirius loved it here. It was peaceful in a way Grimmauld Place could never be. Even at Hogwarts, he rarely found peace quite like this.  

“I can pay my own way, Sirius,” Remus protested as he always did. “I’ll find a job as soon as the summer is over, and then I can help pay rent, utilities and stuff.” Sirius let out a long sigh, his eyes tracing imaginary lines connecting the stars into their constellations. They argued this same argument over and over this last year as they prepared to leave Hogwarts, and now that they’d officially graduated, the argument still went on. 

Remus refused to budge, and Sirius was just as stubborn. He was almost at breaking point, though. Almost to the point of giving in and helping Remus look for a job, but he still held out hope that Remus would let him have his way and bestow a life fit for his beloved. 

“You didn’t answer my question,” he said, ignoring Remus’s protests. “About the one place you’ve always wanted to go,” Sirius supplied when Remus furrowed his brow, having forgotten what Sirius had asked. 

“Ireland,” he said quickly. It was Sirius’s turn to look confused. 

“You’re telling me that out of all the wondrous places you could possibly go to in the world, you choose Ireland? Remus, we don’t even need a permit to travel there.” He swore Remus Lupin’s mind would always be a mystery to him. 

“Those Celtic Warlocks were something else. Don’t you remember what Binns said about them?” Sirius did not remember what Professor Binns had said about them, as he and the majority of the school all fell asleep during his lessons. 

“I’ll take your word for it,” he answered, his mind already racing with plans to make Remus’s dream come true. They could literally go tomorrow. 

He looked over at Remus, and his stomach flipped as the love he felt for this man coursed through him. “Fine,” he sighed. 

“Fine, what?” Remus asked, turning his head to face Sirius.

“I give in. Get a job, but I have a condition.” Remus narrowed his eyes at him suspiciously. 

“What condition?”

Sirius sat up and pulled Remus up with him. He held his hands in his own and looked deeply into Remus’s eyes. 

“That when I want to treat you, you can’t argue about it.” Remus surveyed him, taking in the words and looking for their meaning. Finally, with suspicion still in his eyes, he said. 

“Deal.”

“Good. Now go pack, we’re going to Ireland in the morning for at least a week.” Remus’s mouth opened, ready to protest. “Ah, ah, ah,” Sirius dropped one of Remus’s hands so he could gently close his jaw. “You promised. This is a treat, so you can’t argue about it.” He grinned his most dazzling smile, which stretched wider when Remus groaned and got to his feet to go pack a bag. 

So I saw the lesbian incest commercial and thought that everyone was right and this would be a good setting for a slow burn romance, but rather than have either of the ladies start the story with urges I wanted to use the trappings of one smut world to make another one better, in this case a normal het romance world (where lesbians are just hets but you only pay attention to one lady at a time and pretend the other is a dude. Don't look at me like that, it's how the hets normally view is through their lens of the world)

So as people may know, siblings share surnames. It's one of the main ways you can tell when people are related. But my irl sibling and I both hated our surname with a firery passion as kids (now we're a little attached to it cause it's related to our professional accomplishments) and during our teens we started using our middle names as surnames, and cause we both took after different parents we were accused of dating when we went to the cinema together.

So for this story, that's what I want to do: have the siblings use a non-standard arrangement of their names and being on a romantic getaway package (original partner for one of them broke up with them days before the trip so they invited their sibling instead) so everyone around them just keeps pressuring them to do "normal" romantic gestures cause clearly the one couple on the romantic group boat tour who isn't kissing is having a rough patch and everyone else should help.

Additionally, with one sibling fresh out of their years long relationship and the other used to doing one night stands, they don't notice but since the sleeping arrangements is only one bed they start making out in their sleep mixing one another up for their previous partners. It never gets too serious that they wake up all the way, they just think they're having some impressive wet dreams and try to keep it to themselves so as not to weird out their sibling.

That way I get to have my cake and eat it too in regards to slow burn romance where they are put in situations and feel safe with their partner and the angst of developing those feelings for someone they think they're "not supposed to" have them for and expressing their frustrations of not having a partner who's like their sibling who knows them so well and treats them as kindly and softly as they do and knows how far to take any joke or game before it needs a break.

Im in the process of finding someone qualified in treating my CDD AND some of my other more severe disorders that im not gonna disclose atm!! Weve already (maybe) found a place, we just need to find a person!!