Love, Moony

Crash Into Him Like a Bus

A: Ummm...I made Sirius a fan of Dan and Phil so if you aren't interested in reading the conversation between online Remus and online Sirius talking about them, read until they start talking about it and then move to the actual text.

November 12th, 2020
9 days till they meet
11:03 PM

Rose: I can't sleep

Remus: Same

Rose: ugh
Rose: how was your day

Remus: It was okay, kind of boring

Rose: wyd?

Remus: Sitting in the common room
Remus: Rereading the Picture of Dorian Gray for the millionth time
Remus: You?

Rose: sitting in bed, watching youtube

Remus: Oooooo
Remus: What're you watching?

Rose: ...umm...
Rose: ...Dan and Phil...lmfao

Remus: I-

Rose: it's kinda lame ik

Remus: No, I'm just surprised you watch them too

Rose: too?

Remus: ...I watch them too

Rose: OH

Remus: What video are you watching?

Rose: Teenage Angst Time- Dan and Phil Play: Sims 4 #49

Remus: Did you just like copy and paste the title?

Rose: that's exactly what i did.

Remus: I'd expect nothing more

Rose: i'm gonna go see if there's anyone i can annoy in the common room

Remus: Okay, go annoy some people ig

Rose: i will 😭😭

Sirius slid on a pair of Remus' pajama pants and sauntered down into the common room. There he found Remus sitting on the sofa in front of the fireplace, book in hand, a cup of tea sat carefully in between his legs.
"Hey, babe," Sirius said taking a seat next to him.
"Can't sleep?" Remus asked, sipping his tea.
Sirius merely nodded. Remus sat his mug on the carpet near the end of the couch, Sirius laid their head in their boyfriend's lap and looked up at him, "Read to me?"
"Sirius, you hate books." Remus looked down at his partner.
"But I love your voice and," Sirius moved so he could look at the cover of the book.
'Weird, Re and Moony are reading the same book.' Sirius thought.
"I don't actually despise this one. It's good." Sirius finished, moving so he could get a clear view of Remus.
"You've read the Picture of Dorian Gray?" Sirius nodded in response.
Remus began to read and Sirius found himself looking at the page and trying to read along, that was until he saw a highlighted quote. A quote that looked all too familiar.
"'What of Art?
      -It is a malady.
      --Love?
      -An Illusion.
      --Religion?
      -The fashionable substitute for Belief.
      --You are a sceptic.
      -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
      --What are you?
      -To define is to limit." Remus read to him.
     Sirius turned to Remus and found it odd that he too, would have that passage highlighted. And just like that, it crashed into him. 'Oh...Remus IS Moony.'
      Once he started thinking, all the pieces came together, like a severely fucked up puzzle. How could he have not noticed before? Better question, how could Remus not have noticed before? Did Remus know?
"Sirius, you okay?" Remus asked, running a hand through Sirius' hair.
"Err...yeah. I think I'm gonna go try to fall back asleep." Sirius said, sitting up.
"You sure?" Sirius nodded, planted a kiss on the taller boys' forehead and bolted up the stairs to their dormitory.

Remus: Any good people to annoy in the common room?
*read 12:03*

Sirius gently walked over to James' bed. He gently shook James awake and then did the same to his younger brother.
"First of all, ew, second of all, just? be safe? and third of all, Reggie I love you, but I need to talk with James, it's about Moony." Regulus nodded and moved from James' bed, throwing one of James' sweatshirts on before moving to Sirius' bed and falling asleep. James sat up and motioned for Sirius to give him a sweatshirt, which he quickly threw on.
"What about Moony?" Sirius climbed into James' bed, closed the curtains, and shot up a silencing spell. James sat up against his head board.
"So we're just going to casually slip over the fact that I found my little brother shirtless in your bed?" James opened his mouth to respond, but Sirius interrupted, "You know what, doesn't really matter. I figured out who Moony is." James' jaw dropped.
"Who is it?" James rushed.
"It's actually kind of funny, because Moony had said on the the first day, 'What if I meet you irl and then I hate you?' and you know I didn't really think it would happen but, it did, but then it turns out irl Moony didn't actually hate me."
"WHO IS MOONY SIRIUS?" (Dumbledore asked calmly.) James inquired.
"It's Remus. Moony is Remus. And I just had to fucking fall for the both of them." Sirius released a breath he didn't know he had been holding.
"Fuck, how?"
"Well you see James, when a witch and a wizard love each-other very much-"
"No you git, I get how Remus/Moony came into existence, how do you know? How did you figure it out?"
"He was reading The Portrait of Dorian Gray."
"Okay, you know Rem loves that book it could've just been a coincidence." James sighed.
"James." He pleaded.
"Wot?"
"It had my annotations, and the same quote highlighted." Sirius concluded.
"Fuck." James responded quietly. Sirius nodded.
"So did you tell him you know?" James asked.
"What? Fucking no. How am I supposed to explain to my boyfriend that I'm the dude he's been talking too online, that he fucking fell in love with? Hmm? How would you go about explaining it to Reg?"
     "Fuck I don't know, mate."
     "Exactly. I don't know a lot of things about this situation. All I know is that I've been practically in love with Moony since I met him, I'm falling for Remus more and more everyday, the floor is looking like it's covered in nails or something, we're supposed to meet on the 21st, how do I go about meeting him and pretend that I haven't already figured it out?"
     "Sirius, don't you think you should just tell him? I mean it's Remus, he's practically in love with irl and online you, for merlin's sake he argued with you constantly because he couldn't deal with the fact that he had feelings with you! Just tell Remus that you know he's Moony. It shouldn't be a big deal." James said moving out from behind the curtains to grab the water bottle on his nightstand.
     "I don't know James. All I know is that Moony is Remus and I'm extremely fucked."
     Sirius could add a few more things to the list of Things He Didn't Know, including:
     - Once you've broken a barrier of the space you've cast a silencing spell on, the spell no longer lasts
     - Remus had chosen to come to bed shortly after their conversation had begun
     - Remus had heard the last few sentences of the conversation and was now thinking over everything that pointed in the direction of Rose being Sirius. And god, did he think he was dumb for not realizing sooner.
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Author: This was so fucking hard to write. I dont even know why, but I just couldn't write it.