#mischievous remus

@wolfstarmicrofic August 29, word count 600

“I’m taking it,” Sirius declared as he looked up at the ceiling in the Great Hall while they were eating breakfast. 

“Where will you even put it?” Remus asked him. “We don’t even have anywhere to live yet, how do you know there’s even going to be anywhere big enough to hang it?” Remus tried to make him see sense, but Sirius was having none of it. Once he got something like that in his head, he wouldn’t stop until he’d achieved his goal. He spun around in his seat, trying to spot the right person. He waved a hand to flag down Lily Evans as she was about to pass them with Marlene and Mary. 

“Oi, Evans, will you give me a hand?”

“With what?” She paused beside him, her eyes narrowing suspiciously. 

“You’re the best in our year at charms and I need help getting one of those down,” He pointed his finger up at the huge house banners hanging above them. 

“Nope,” Lily spun away. 

“What, why?” Sirius whined. 

“I’m head girl, Black. I can’t just steal a banner right in front of the entire faculty and student body,” She rolled her eyes at him. “And don’t even think about helping him, Potter,” She glared at James. 

“Yes dear,” James grinned as he leant over and kissed her lightly on the lips. 

“Good boy,” She smiled back at him before she, Marlene and Mary headed for the exit. 

“Aww, no fair,” Sirius sulked, crossing his arms on the table and dropping his head onto them.  

“Sorry Pads,” James patted him on the head. “I’ve got to do what she says,” James shrugged. 

“Hey,” Remus leaned over and nudged him with his shoulder. “Lily said James couldn’t help you, but she didn’t say anything about me not helping you,” Sirius’s head shot up off the table. 

“You’d do that for me?” He gasped.

“Of course,” Remus chuckled, ruffling his hair.

“I bloody love you, Moony,” Sirius grabbed him and kissed him hard.

“Love you too,” Remus kissed him again quickly before pulling a Dr Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start, No-Heat Firework from his bag. He dunked it in his pumpkin juice and launched it towards the Slytherin table, right at Snape. It went off with a deafening bang, shooting multicoloured jets of light into the air. The Great Hall was chaos as the sparks bounced around the entire room. The marauders cackled with glee when they saw the sooty mess Snape was in. They slipped out undetected with the rest of the rabble. But it wasn’t until they were safely back in the Gryffindor Common room that Remus pulled the hastily folded banner from under his robes. 

“Oh, Moony, I don’t know how I’ll ever repay you,” Sirius stared at him in awe.

“Just promise me you won’t hang it over our bed,” He laughed, knowing that Sirius had already had that idea without him saying a word. 

“Yeah, okay,” He conceded. 

“Or the toilet,” Remus arched a brow at him. 

“Remus, that’s so unfair,” But he accepted it nonetheless and decided it could hang from the ceiling in the living room. 

@wolfstarmicrofic June 17, word count 706

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Sirius’s sweet supply seemed endless. He’d shown Remus what he’d brought with him after they’d finished their lion bars. He had Snicker bars, bags of Maltesers, more Mars bars, Milkyways, Milkybars, Rolos, M&M’s, the plain ones, the peanut ones and the biscuit ones, Haribo Starmix, Haribo Tangfastics and a fat bag of Pic ’n’ Mix. Remus had drooled over the selection. 

“Wow, your parents must be missing you,” He said dreamily as Sirius passed him a bag of Starmix. He ripped the blue bag open and popped a fired egg into his mouth. 

“Ha! Yeah right,” He shook his head as he laughed quietly. “These are all from Effie Potter. She knows I like a chocolate bar, and she always goes overboard.” Remus felt like there was more that Sirius hadn’t said. 

“So James’s mum sends James with sweets for you?” He asked cautiously, wanting to know why someone would send a boy she wasn’t related to so many branded sweets. 

“I, er, kind of live with James,” Sirius said awkwardly, dragging his fingers through his hair and yelping when one got caught on a tangle. “My parents kicked me out when they found out I liked boys. My little brother still lives there, but if the rumours are true he should be getting disowned any day now. But I doubt it will go that far. They’ll give him an ultimatum and force him to marry a suitable bride as soon as he’s out of school.” Sirius screwed up his face and huffed at the floor. “They need their heir after all,” He said darkly. He stood in silence for a second before he shook his head and plastered a huge smile on his face. “Anyway, enough of the tragic origin story. I live with James, and Effie and Monty are my parents now, and I’ve never been happier.” Remus stood up and wrapped his arms around Sirius, holding him tight. 

“Your real parents sound proper shit. I hope they get chased down the road by angry magpies,” Sirius collapsed into laughter, shaking against Remus. 

“Oh my god, Remus. Thank you, thank you for that image. Oh my god,” He repeated, wiping tears from his eyes. 

The cabin door banged open and James dragged Peter in, who was pressing a clump of cotton wool to his face. 

“I slipped on the dock trying to get the kayak out of the water. Pomfrey says it’s not broken, but I have to sit down quietly and hold this to it until the bleeding stops.” He grumbled as he went and sat on his bed. 

“I swear you’re cursed, Pete,” Sirius said seriously. “I’ve never known anyone who has so many accidents on a regular basis as you. You must have done something awful in a previous life for this level of torment.” Peter stuck his fingers up at Sirius. Sirius gasped at the audacity. “That’s it, you’ll be a fat little worm that can only eat lettuce in your next life now,” Peter stuck his fingers up again and left them there. Remus couldn’t keep the snort that escaped him as he laughed at the pair. James came over and plonked himself on Remus’s bed and helped himself to Remus’s Haribo. 

“Then you must have done something truly terrible to have parents like yours,” James quipped, coming to Peter’s defence. Sirius spun on him, pointing his finger. 

“Hey, I was wrongly accused or else how do you explain me finding you and our parents?”

“He’s got you there, James,” Peter said, his voice slightly muffled by the cotton wool. 

Remus sat back and listened to them tease each other, thinking he must have put up with a lot in his previous life to be this lucky now. He popped another Haribo into his mouth, only realising it was a heart when it hit his tongue. He smiled to himself and threw a gummy bear at the back of Sirius’s head, pointing at an unsuspecting James when he turned around. Sirius launched himself through the air, landing on James and toppling them off Remus’s bed entirely. Remus stretched his legs out fully. This is the life, he thought as he folded his arms behind his head and relaxed.