Pumpkin Prompt 30 - Haunted
@wolfstarmicrofic October 30, word count 349
“I don’t want to go, listen to it,” Peter squeaked as Sirius carried on his rendition of one of the Muggle horror books his Uncle Alphard had sent him for Halloween. “The house is haunted,”
“Peter,” Remus said more patiently than Sirius could ever manage. “This castle is haunted, you know, and these ghosts are real. The ones in the book are make-believe,” Peter went whiter than the ghosts that haunted Hogwarts.
“Oh, fuck!” He squeaked and dove under his covers.
“Let's do sorting else,” Remus suggested, and James agreed.
“What about that new record Andromeda sent you?” James suggested.
“The Bowie one?” Remus asked in excitement. He’d been begging Sirius to play it, but he’d said he was keeping it for a special occasion.
“Yeah, all right,” Sirius put down his book and went to put the record on. Peter crawled out from under his sheets as they gathered around the record player to listen.
The sound of the needle scratching against the vinyl filled the room as they waited for the song to start. A loud wolf howl filled the room, and Peter ran for it, slamming the door behind him as he fled.
“I’ll go get him,” James sighed.
“Oops,” Sirius snickered. Then it was just him and Remus.
He pulled Remus over to his bed, and they lay back on it like they had when they were second years and listened to the songs as they played.
It was a lot snugger in his bed than it had been when they were younger, but Sirius didn’t mind. He loved touch, craved it. He took a chance and slipped his hand into Remus’s, entwining their fingers together. To his utter delight, Remus didn’t snatch his hand away; he copied Sirius and folded his fingers over. They didn’t do anything more than hold hands, but by the time James had convinced Peter to come back upstairs, they both had a rosy blush on their cheeks. Things were changing between them, and all Sirius knew was that he was craving Remus’s touch like he’d never craved anything before.
