Allies to Friends

The Prank

Remus

I missed the end of a quidditch match and expected celebration or a run down of the match. Win or lose, quidditch was huge to Sirius and James, and by extension, Peter and me.

But funeral silence. James barely looked me in the eyes. Did this weird secret plan that they said I would disapprove of all those months ago finally blow up in their faces?

"Hey, moony." james said, glancing at me

No, it's something serious. Wait, where was sirius? "Where's sirius?"

Peter gasped nervously. "Um.. I don't think you want him here right now."

"What? Sirius is my best friend, like you two, what is going on!?"

"Peter, I don't think you want to be around for this."

Peter nodded and patted my hand before leaving.

I sat up, ignoring my pain and fatigue. Peter hated yelling. James suspected there would be yelling. "James. What. Happened."

He hesitated, "um.. Remember that Sirius cares about you, a lot."

"Is he fxxking okay??"

James made a sound that was halfway to a laugh and halfway to a cry. A strangled sound. "he's .. going to be? Um.. he's really sorry, moony.."

"..what happened? Please just tell me."

He sat on the end of my bed and tried not to cry. "He made a huge mistake. I get it if you don't forgive him right away, i'm still angry at him-"

"Get to the point here, potter."

"Okay, so.. uh.. last night, we left when it was time for you to change and well, snape was being stupid and was following us."

"What!"

"Sirius.. He might've.. Kinda.. Toldsnapehowtogetpastthewhompingwilliow..?"

"He.. WHAT??"

"Yeah.."

"Did.. he see? I can't believe I'm asking this but.. is snape okay?"

"He's fine, I saved him.. But he did see."

"Fxxking hell. Bloody fxxking hell. Fxxk. FXXK! James, what do I do?? Did he tell anyone? There's no way he kept that a secret."

"Fortunately, he only told dumbledore."

"Fxxk.."

"He made sure snape wouldn't tell."

Fear turned to relief but then quickly turned to anger. "What the fxxk.. Sirius.."

James just nodded

"I'M GOING TO- TO uh fxxk. Bloody hell, sirius! Where is he james?? Where Is he?"

James sighed. "Dumbledore is talking to him about punishment."

"HE BETTER BE EXPELLED"

James choked a little on his tears. "M-moony... I mean he is your best friend.."

"He's not my friend, much less my best friend. A friend wouldn't do that, james"

He cleared his throat. "I-i know.. You can be angry at him, but he isn't getting expelled."

I took my pillow and screamed into it until my throat was sore and my screams turned into sobs. After a while I calmed enough to stop and just focused on breathing. My red eyes looked into James'. "I-i" I cleared my throat. "Yeah.. y-you're right. Maybe expelling him isn't right. But it has to be severe. And me and him? We aren't friends anymore. But it's okay if you still want to be his friend."