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Love of Others- RLSB- Ch10 END

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Remus Lupin felt bad. He really thought he wasn't sending any signals to Maria, but apparently she thought something rather different. He made his way over to James, hoping that a fellow marauder could cheer him up. He would have preferred Sirius, but he was nowhere to be seen.

Probably off shagging some beautiful girl, Remus' mind grumbled.

"Have you seen Peter?" James asked as Remus approached. Remus shrugged. "I wanted to keep an eye on his progress with Claudia, but I can't find him."

"Maybe he's with Sirius," Remus said halfheartedly.

"What's go you down?" James asked. "I saw that you kissed Maria."

"I did not," Remus snapped. "She kissed me."

"All right!" James said, putting his hands up defensively. Maybe he could still ask Remus loaded questions until he snapped and confessed the truth, so he kept going. "I thought it was a good thing."

"We're friends," Remus whimpered. "That's it."

"Why can't it be more?" James pushed.

"It just can't!" Remus cried, "I don't like her like that! I couldn't."

"Why not?"

"I just couldn't, okay? Can you drop it?"

"Not until you tell me why," James was starting to get a little scared. The angry look in Remus' eyes was reaching a breaking point.

"Because I'm in love with someone else!" Remus snapped.

"Sirius Black, perhaps?" James pressed, grin spreading across his face. Remus blushed and looked flustered all at once and James knew he had him.

"Why- Why would you think that- that I-"

"Because I can see," James answered, laughing.

Remus looked dejected. "Does Sirius know?"

"Not a clue," James said, still laughing.

"Why are you laughing?" Remus grumbled, "I don't think this is very funny."

"Why don't you go to the common room and talk to Sirius," James said, "tell him how you feel."

"Why would I do something crazy like that!?" Remus squeaked.

"I promise you won't be disappointed," James replied glibly. "Just go tell him."

Remus frowned, but thinking about all the weight on his heart and his shoulders, he thought that perhaps telling Sirius would be a massive relief. Even if Sirius freaked out.

"Fine," Remus said, "but when this ends poorly, you're taking the blame."

"It won't," James assured Remus, pushing him towards the door with a grin.

He was good. Even when his plans were shot to hell, he could scramble and get everything taken care of anyways. With a smile on his face and a spring in his step, he wandered around the dance looking for Peter. Only to discover, to his sheer joy, that Peter and Claudia were enjoying a very intimate, very slow dance together.

~*~

Upon entering the common room, Remus found Sirius sitting on the couch, whiskey in his hand, staring at it as he swirled it around in the glass. Sirius looked up at him and frowned.

"What's a guy gotta do to be alone?" he asked, he didn't sound angry though, just sad.

"Sorry," Remus whimpered. He felt like he was fidgeting wildly.

"Are you okay?" Sirius asked, "What happened to your girl?"

"That was- was a misunderstanding," Remus muttered, finding it extremely difficult to speak. Every word he said brought him closer to his confession.

"Oh?" Sirius asked, forcing his bubbling hope back down into the black hole from whence it came. This changed nothing. Absolutely nothing.

"I don't like her… like that," Remus sputtered. I like you.

Sirius didn't know what to say to that, so he took a sip of his drink and continued to stare at Remus.

"I- I... uh..." Remus began to mutter incoherencies, and Sirius just watched. "I don't really even like- well, what I mean to say is- I- I like… I love… you." As soon as it was out of his mouth, Remus regretted it. He squeezed his eyes shut and whimpered.

Sirius' response sounded an awful lot like a glass of whiskey hitting the floor. After a few moments of silence, Remus opened his eyes to see Sirius sitting, dumbstruck, mouth agape, whiskey spilled on the floor, hands shaking.

"Are you angry?" Remus mumbled scaredly.

Sirius shook his head lightly, still unable to move. Remus stood awkwardly, waiting for Sirius to process the confession and collect his thoughts.

"You love me?" he finally said, voice small, as if he was making sure he'd hear right. Remus nodded sheepishly.

"Sorry," he said.

"No," Sirius replied, seemingly shaken out of his daze. He stood and moved to Remus, who stood frozen. "I- I love you too."

And from then on, life was full of smiles and kisses.
FINAL CHAPTER. IT'S BEEN FUN, GUYS! I'm trying to come up with the plot for another RLSB, but we'll see how long THAT takes. XD

This is SLASH! RLSB. If you don't like it, then you probably shouldn't read ANYTHING I post. I'll be glad to be rid of the homophobia. (if you just don't like fanfiction, that's chill.)

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CH 10. You are here! THIS IS THE END!
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This can't be the end .....how could it!!!!!!