Remus was twice as nervous as the other kids when he got on the Hogwarts Express for the first time
He felt as though “werewolf” was branded into his forehead and they’d all scream and run away
He didn’t want to lose one of the few good things to happen to him in a while
He almost had a heart attack when Peter asked to sit with him on the train
How could this kid want to sit with him and not scream in fear
Didn’t he know what Remus was hiding
Remus was very close to straight up leaving the compartment once James and Sirius barged in
They kept asking Remus questions
He saw how left out Peter looked though and deflected them to him
He accidentally made three new friends
Remus had no breath when he saw Hogwarts for the first time
How could something so beautiful be so accessible to him
He spent the first night ignoring the other boys as they chattered on… and on… and on…
Remus didn’t get much sleep
He woke up the next morning fairly grumpy
But tried his hardest not to get angry when they kept pestering him
Remus spent a lot of time in the library
Trying to keep his grades up
It wasn’t until he realized that Peter actively tried to seek him out that he confronted him
Peter confessed to trying to get his attention to be friends
Remus reluctantly agreed to sitting with the other boys during their meals but that was it he was just doing it to help Peter be more social
Peter was glad that he’d started breaking the resolve surrounding Remus
It took a few months for Remus to realize that he’d been staying up later and later at night talking to the boys
He only figured it out once he saw the sun rising
Remus chuckled, realizing that they’d pried their way into his circle
He sobered up fairly quickly though when he got a streak of fear
Because what if they found out
There was no way. None at all
When his first year at Hogwarts, he went home with three addresses in his pocket to owl
His father had shook his head
“You know I love you, but do you really think that these people will want to be friends with a monster?”
His mother had saved them from the fire and given them to him under a piece of brownie
“Your father doesn’t know what he’s saying; go owl your friends”
During his second year, Remus almost had a heart attack when Peter slammed a book about various creatures on the desk in front of him, opened to a page about werewolves
“I swear, I won’t tell anyone Remus” Peter said, fingers crossed behind his back
He’d tell the other boys if it was necessary
Which it was, when Remus showed up in class the day after the full moon looking like he’d run face-first into a tree
Remus almost killed Peter when James, Sirius and Peter all told him they’d become Animagi to help him out because it took you the whole damn year it wasn’t necessary
In third year, Remus wondered when exactly Sirius had started looking so attractive and fuck he needs to stop running his hand through his hair he’s killing me and that smirk tells me he knows it
Fourth year presented a challenge in the form of Peter trying to ask out Mary
His advice from Remus to just “go for it” wasn’t really working
Sirius decided to give Peter some flirting tips
Unfortunately, Remus was in the room at the time, and Sirius being very obvious, if the fact that they were having a staring contest while Sirius spoke was any indication
Peter scrapped Sirius’ suggestions when he saw how flustered Remus was getting and knew that Sirius had much different intentions
Remus was a Prefect in fifth year
Dumbledore had hinted that one of the reasons for this was so that he could try and keep the other three Marauders at bay
Remus figured that it would be better for everyone if he stop being involved
It might discourage the Marauders, but he’d be able to keep his friends
Friends that he had become very worried about losing over the summer
Peter hadn’t written because he was in America for the summer
James was forbidden to send owls by his parents, who had found out about a certain prank that had happened and were severely disappointed in James
And Sirius… Remus didn’t know why Sirius hadn’t written, but if the choppily cut hair and the various scars he spotted on his slightly-more-then-friend when he came back were any indication, it wasn’t anything good
Speaking of being slightly more then friends, Remus wasn’t sure as to what the relationship status between him and Sirius was
At least, he wasn’t until he found himself cornered one evening on Prefect duty
His partner pretended not to notice the various red marks on Remus’ neck when they met up at the end of the night
The whole school tried and failed to ignore the matching one’s on Sirius’ the next morning
It was very obvious to everyone(including Remus) as to what the relationship status between the two boys was
And Remus was quite pleased
In sixth year, Remus was happy to hear that Sirius had escaped to live with the Potters
Peter had finally asked Mary out on a date
The two were celebrating their three month anniversary a little bit after sixth year started
Sirius and Remus were going strong
James was still trying to get Lily
Remus tried to give him suggestions
But James was set in his ways
It wasn’t until Lily called him and egotistical asshole who didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself that he started changing
He and Remus had more study sessions
And Remus found much more chocolate on his bedside table then usual
In seventh year, Remus was slightly dissapointed to find that it was James, and not him, who had been selected as Head Boy, but didn’t let envy over-take him for long
After all, James had worked hard to deserve it
It’s not like Remus was the tamer one
That he worked hard every single day
That he was struggling all of the time but still managed to do fairly well
Peter had had to take Remus aside to talk to him after Remus swung at James
Sirius had the unfortunate task of informing James of what was wrong
The next week was a bad mix of glares and almost hissing
It was only when Lily threatened to slap Remus that he apologized
He’d seen the receiving end of Lily’s slaps before
James had had to keep an ice-pack on for a couple days
As soon as he’d apologized, James quickly pulled him into his arms, and the two stood in the middle of the Common Room, hugging for about an hour
And Remus knew that whatever happened after Hogwarts, he’d at least have his friends for the rest of his life
