UNDER THE MOON, Remus Lupin

lix.

BLUE
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"I think you dislocated my vagina!" Alice yelped, hurled over and covering her pelvis.

Remus was leaned on the couch, laughing at the gravity of the situation. It wasn't quite like it sounded. Alice had been teasing him (as usual), and was on his lap, dragging kisses along his neck. Then tragedy struck. Remus went to flip her over and pin her down. Instead, she fell off the couch and banged her pelvis on the corner of Remus' coffee table.

"I'm sorry, love," Remus snickered. "Are you alright?"

Alice glared at him. "Are you alright?" She mocked him and rolled her eyes. "I think my clitoris fell off."

"I could check for you."

"Yeah, I bet." She scoffed. Alice stood up straight and winced. "I fucking hate you."

Remus took a few steps toward Alice and extended his arms. They wrapped around her waist and he pulled her gently against him. "That's too bad. Because I fucking love you."

"Allow me to correct you," Alice shifted in his arms. "You love fucking me."

"Mhmm."

Alice kissed his neck. "How much?" She kissed him again.

"A lot. A lot, a lot," Remus replied simply.

Per the usual, someone knocked on his door. Alice sighed and hopped of Remus. "I'll be in the bathroom if you need me." She rolled her eyes.

Remus hated answering his door when he and Alice were just getting hot and heavy. It was like stopping your stream mid-piss. He answered the door just to find out it was for Alice anyway. "Where's Alice?" Clint asked urgently.

"She's in Wonderland," Remus said dryly, closing the door.

Clint stuck his foot between the door and frame. "I need to see her. Please."

Alice banged her head against the bathroom door. Why did Clint have to be so relentless? She swung it open and stared at him. "What?" She snapped when he said nothing.

"Can I talk to you?"

"Whatever you want to say to me, you can say it in front of my boyfriend." Knowing how much that bothered him, she loved saying it even more.

Clint huffed and stepped inside. Remus closed the door and sighed. He didn't want to be in this situation right now. He didn't want the boy who had kissed his girlfriend in his room. "Look, I didn't mean to sleep with Aria."

"So it was an accident?" Alice snickered. She didn't believe him. It was evident by her sarcastic expression and crossed arms.

"Er- in a way..."

"Explain."

Remus sat down on the couch and began to block out the conversation. He knew Alice. And because he knew Alice, he knew she'd probably start yelling. A part of him wished Alice had just stepped outside with Clint. Remus trusted her. He didn't need to hear every detail of Clint sleeping with Aria. With the full moon right around the corner, his anger issues were more possible to spring sooner rather than later.

"Well- it's complicated... I was talking to her after she and Zeph got together. A while after... and they'd been arguing about her meeting his family and she didn't even want to talk to me. But she had no one else there because you're always here," Clint cleared his throat. "With him. And I listened. And then she listened to me complain about you..."

Alice scratched the bridge of her nose and paced the room aimlessly. "So...?

"Aria said... that the closest I'd ever come to having you..." he gulped. "...was her."