The Frenchman - a wolfstar au (Complete)

how the actual hell does he do that

Remus sat on his bench in the great hall with James Lily and peter as the other schools came in. Durmstrang came first and Remus was hoping one of those Bulgarian boys would confirm his bi-curious... question? But none really did the job. When the Beauxbatons arrived there were two girls doing an acrobatic performance of flips and walkovers, one of the girls was blonde with straight hair but the other had dark raven curls. Hold on, thought Remus, thats not a girl. Remus was right, it was a boy. A long haired boy. Not a bad looking one either, thought Remus before shaking the thought out of his head. The gymnasts finished with a flip and a flourish, "How the actual hell does he do that!?" whispered an amazed Remus to a thoroughly bored James, who shrugged. Sirius quite enjoyed the feeling of people looking at him, he didn't really like the idea of people thinking he was a brat as that may have been exactly what he looked like. Sirius' parents didn't know he was on the gymnastics team, they wouldn't have let him, Sirius pretended he was studying instead so they wouldn't ask what he did in his free time but they didn't care so it didn't really matter. Just as he was thinking about his trash family he noticed a pair of eyes looking right at him, those eyes belonged to Remus John Lupin who was in awe of Sirius though he had no idea that was his name. Remus noticed those grey eyes looking back at him, they winked, Remus awkwardly looked away in an "AHHHHHHHHHH" sort of way (which Lily knew meant "ohmygodhewinkedatme") Remus' stomach was doing backflips, how the actual hell does he do that, he thought as he noticed lots of people staring at the dark haired boy. Sirius smirked at seeing that one boys reaction to his wink because merlin that boy's cute, was all he could think the entire time the school was doing its entrance.
Near the end of their performance, Sirius let off some fireworks (which Madame Maxime didn't seem to appreciate) getting James' attention for the first time "I like him already," he muttered "he seems like he could easily pull off a prank or two."

After the performance, the Beauxbatons sat down at the different tables, most of them at the Ravenclaw table but some with Hufflepuff and Slytherin, there was aother raven haired boy sitting with the Slytherins making Remus think the gymnast was too so when Sirius sat down between him and James - who was eagerly patting the empty space - he almost jumped off his seat. "Oh sorry," started Sirius "didn't mean to scare you." he only had a slight French accent, Remus was expecting him to not know much English but he was mistaken "I- It's ok." he stammered as they all helped themself to food.
"How come you know English?" asked James who seemed to have some sort of cosmic connection with Sirius already,
"I grew up in England until I was ten," replied Sirius "but my parents got a seer to tell them what house I'd be in and when she said Gryffindor they decided to move to France because they're all Slytherins, like my brother."
"That's a bit dramatic." said Lily "Just because you we're in Gryffindor?"
"Yep, they hate me for it." grinned Sirius "Dramatic is the black way, I do it differently though. The family 'motto' is 'toujours pur' which means forever pure so you can tell what type of people they are..." Sirius then realised how much he was giving away and they didn't even know his name "I'm Sirius by the way."
"Why would you joke about your family hating you?" asked James in response
"He means his name idiot." sighed Lily "I'm Lily, that idiot is James, thats peter and the red one you're sitting next to is Remus."
"Hi." muttered Remus shaking Sirius' outstretched hand, not knowing exactly why he was so red until his eyes met Sirius' ok I'm definately bi, he thought with a fluttering sensation in his stomach, how the actual hell does he do that. "So how much trouble do you get in at school?" asked James making Lily reconsider being friends with these people, I guess Remus is alright, she thought, why is he so red though... wait. Lily of course realised Remus had a new crush on Sirius because she's Lily. "A lot but not enough," replied Sirius "I manage to think of exactly how to make trouble but I normally need more people."
"I have the people and the equipment but never work out the details so it always goes wrong." they looked at each other and grinned.

"Oh no theres two of them." said Professor McGonagall to Professor Dumbledore at the staff table witnissing what was happening at the table and having heard about Sirius from Madame Maxime. McGonagall had quite an experiance with James Potter, she hoped that Lily Evans would be smart enough to refuse him forever - because James wouldn't go for anyone else - and the Potter line wouldn't make any more troublemakers (little did she know there would soon be a Harry James Potter who would make her life hell and then a James Sirius Potter who... well the name explains it).

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That night, James had told Sirius exactly what window to sneak into, so three boys spent all night getting to know each other (aka James plotting after about 10 minutes of knowing each other and Remus awkwardly answered some questions and Sirius did some either very discrete or very obvious flirting peter sat there agreeing with everything and Frank and Kingsley both trying to sleep-at one point they were banished to the common room). When the three boys eventually went back to their dorm and Sirius was about to sneak out until he heard some muffled tears and footsteps. A tall blonde girl came down the stairs and stopped instantly when she saw Sirius "Oh, I- I didn't know someone was down here I'll just go back." she said. Sirius knew by her expression that this wasn't sadness, it was insecurity "It's ok," he said "I was just leaving, are you ok?" he knew the answer "I'm fine." she replied quietly, called it. "Really?" Sirius wasn't taking that answer, he sat down encouraging her to do the same "I'm Sirius."
"Marlene." she replied "I don't want to bother you with my problems I-" Sirius cut her off
"You won't" Sirius was good at getting people to talk to, he was approachable.
"I- I just don't feel good enough." Marlene broke down into sobs "I feel like no one likes me a- and that I don't live up to expectations th- that I'm useless."
"Listen," started Sirius putting an arm around her "You may think these things but I can tell they're not true, I saw Lily talking to you earlier, she wouldn't pretend to like you would she, she speaks her mind, and you're definately not useless, I'm guessing you play quidditch?"
"How can you tell?" Marlene did play quidditch but in the middle of the night when no one would see her
"I have my ways" smiled Sirius "You'd probably be a real asset tot the team, I've been told I'm good at spotting talent, why don't you try out?" Marlene nodded, suddenly feeling a bit better about herself
"Thanks," she smiled "wait do you know much about girls?"
"Romantically?" Sirius had a moment of gay panic "Or in general?"
"Romantically," replied Marlene "Theres this girl but I don't know if she likes me... oh no you're a real person."
"um" Sirius didn't quite know how to reply "Yes I am."
"Oh no." Marlene whispered to herself "this was not how I was planning to come out, please don't tell anyone, if you do I'll have a hard time killing you because you're very helpful."
"I won't don't worry, I know how hard it is." Sirius took a deep breathe "I'm gay" he whispered the last bit "so I know nothing about girls."
Neither of them were really sure how but they both ended up rolling around the floor laughing their heads off. Not long later, Marlene went back to her dorm and Sirius went out the window, and Remus - who saw the whole thing but unfortunately didn't hear what Sirius said before they both started laughing - stood by the stairs to his dorm, Marlene had a genuine smile on her face, James stopped bugging him, he figured out his sexuality,
how the actual hell does he do that.

*AN* that was a chapter the last one was an intro, I don't really think it matters as there won't be very many people reading this, probably just the one so hello have a nice day you are amazing people and if its 1am please go to sleep it'll be worse if you don't