Remus Lupin

It had ended with them coming back here, falling into his bed in a tangle of limbs, kissing and snuggling close till they had fallen asleep. He had wondered what would happen when the dam burst, when he thought he would finally go mad with it and break down and kiss Remus being unable to resist any longer. But here it was, Remus had kissed him. Did that change things, the fact that he had initiated it? He wasn’t sure. He took a deep breath before biting down on his lower lip, considering his words carefully.

“You kissed me,” he repeated. The words were so foreign but he liked them. “I…I don’t want you to take it back,” his voice was near a whisper. Even though Remus had made a move first they were both drunk. “I did kiss you back… but I could ask the same of you, if the alcohol made you do it… or if it was something you wanted to do before that like I did.” He let that hang there, feeling like the cards were now all on the table. He kissed Remus back, he admitted to having thought about doing it before, that it wasn’t just the alcohol. That it was a miracle it hadn’t happened far before now.

“I’ve wanted to for a while,” He answered, chewing at his lower lip. “Should’ve maybe said something sooner but I—“ Remus trailed off and shrugged his shoulders. “Too much worrying about it ruining things or… feelings not being returned.”

Remus reached forward to take hold of Sirius’ hand. “Really should’ve said something the last time we… You’d think I would have the nerve to with everything else I have going on.”

That dog would eat anything it could get its maw around; personally Peter worried he’d end up getting his stomach pumped at the vet if it kept up. “Can you? Get to the bathroom and take care of yourself I mean?” He wasn’t aiming to turn Remus into an invalid but on the worst of full moons the guy had been bedridden for days after. 

“Cause I can help with that, o-or we can wait for Sirius and James?” The others were a lot bigger than him and God knows it’d his luck to drop and get pinned under the guy he was helping to the bathroom, “Uh huh.” Peter sighed and glanced away, his company was hardly something to look forward to. “Is everything alright, but the way? With you and Sirius I mean? You’ve been,” Peter shrugged, “I dunno, you’ve seemed off lately?”   

“Yeah,” Remus shrugged. Overly stubborn and an issue with asking for help. He couldn’t help but be grateful Peter was able to put up with his negativity the day after. “For the most part on the taking care, anyway.” A quick shake of his head followed after Peter spoke again. “No, fine with it. I swear. You would hear me if I couldn’t.”

The question about Sirius earned a raised brow. Remus opened and then slowly closed his mouth. “I— uh,” He made a face, running his hand through his hair before he continued. “We’re fine.” He just managed to screw things up a little bit. “It’s uh… not worth worrying about.”

“Uh huh, you got a big machine to keep fuelled,” he said, poking Remus’ arm for emphasis, “Ahh, don’t underestimate my power buddy, I got plans for this.” Besides, he was about ninety nine point nine-nine percent sure Remus and Sirius wanted to get together so this might help as a little push. “So is that a yes old buddy old pal?” He asked, grinning hopefully.  

"It's a yes," He adds after a moment spent thinking his options over. Not that he could say no to Dirk in the first place.

"Right." She mused, a little smirk on her lips as she watched him carefully. "I'm sure we will see about that." Since she was really not that sure if she believed him or not. She had a lot of people claim that they could handle their drinks. But most failed. It was quite amusing to Alecto most of the time.

"Another one?" He offered a smirk in return. "Promise of not making a fool of myself still stands."