Remus gets sick and is all snuffly and sniffly. So much so that he is missing lessons (a very rare occurance). James and Sirius take it in turns to sneak up to the dorm under the invisibility cloak to check in on him. It’s just before lunch and Sirius is climbing the stairs under the cloak, armed with a bowl of soup and an extra blanket.
“Heyyyy Siri” Mumbled a groggy Remus from under his blanket bundle. Sirius almost spilled the soup over himself in surprise, “hey moons, how’d you know it was me?” “smells like yooou” Remus responded blearily. Sirius tucked his chin down to try and get a whiff of himself, trying desperately to remember if he’d put deodorant on that morning. As if Remus knew what he was thinking He replied, “no good smell, very good”. Sirius just laughed and tried desperately to calm his beating heart so remus didn’t hear that too. “cmon Moony, soup time for you,” Remus let out a string of gibberish and a small head appeared from the duvet nest.
His curls were all ruffled and his nose was all shiny and red. Amber eyes peered over the top of the blankets, “ is it in a mug?”. Sirius raised his eyebrows “a mug?! why on earth…” “so i can sip it” Remus interrupted. “just eat it off the spoon,” Remus huffed in reply to this. Sirius sighed and sat down on the edge of his bed. He leaned over the pile of blankets, spoon at the ready. “Here…” he spoke softly, blowing the spoon and holding the soup near Remus’ noticeably soft lips. He opened his mouth, looking directly into Sirius’ eyes as the soup left the spoon. Remus seemed to prolong the eye contact like he knew exactly what he was doing. As he pulled away, a smudge of orange soup stayed on his lips which he slowly wiped off with his thumb. Remus squinted his eyes sleepily and glanced back up at Sirius- who’s mouth lips were parting and eyes were slightly unfocused as he watched Remus. Remus’ lips twitched in the corners. “Everything okay Siri?” Sirius started slightly,placing the soup bowl down “mhmm yuh, all good… how are you..erm, feeling?” Remus leant forward until he was crouched on his hands and knees. Sirius’ heart sped, Remus must be delirious to be acting like this. Or perhaps it was unintentional? Either way it was driving Sirius mental.
“you not worried you’ll get sick being this close to me?” Sirius shook his head quickly, “trust me i’d choose being sick every time to be this close,” he whispered. As soon as the words left his mouth he was shocked. Shit shit shit… there was absolutely no going back from that except pray that Remus didn’t think anything of it. He felt a hand reach out and fist his shirt, his body jerked toward remus until they were practically nose to nose. Both boys on their knees, body’s mere inches apart. He could feel Remus’ body, radiating heat like a flame in front of him, amber eyes glowing warmly. “how about now?” he asked in a teasing tone, but something in his voice was serious. Sirius couldn’t take it any more, he grabbed his jaw with one hand and they were kissing.
It was desperate and filled with a sweet passion. Hands clutching at shoulders and tangled in hair, needing to be closer. Finally feeling the need to come up for air, they broke away. Remus grinned triumphantly at him and silently crawled back under the duvet. Pausing, he looked up at sirius and lifted the sheets, jerking his head towards the space next to him. Sirius hesitated and finally obliged, nuzzling into Remus’ neck. “Shame, guess we both have to miss lessons..”
