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#10 Tattoo Artist

Sirius notices that Remus has several tattoos on his body, most of which cover up scars. After an incident Sirius comes to Remus and asks if he could design a tattoo for him to cover his own wound.
Sirius and Remus aren't dating at the start of this.

Sirius waited in the change rooms for one of the stalls to free up, he could get changed in front of the others like James did but he was still self conscious of his scars, especially the fresh ones, and preferred the privacy when it came to others seeing him fully undressed, outside of his immediate friend group of course.

When a stall opened up, Sirius got in and locked the door, taking his uniform off and chucking it on the hook. As he took his white collared shirt, he flinched at the pain coming from his back and sniffed, holding back the tears as the fabric piled on, he kept his robe off and just carried it under his arm.

"You're already a disgrace to this family, don't make it worse by crying" he heard ring through his head.

Sirius slipped out the door, about to leave but then he saw James still getting dressed, talking to his other teammates, Sirius wanted to get back to the dorms and rest so he decided to just leave without any of his usual dramatic exits.

To Sirius' surprise when he got up the stairs and opened the door, Remus was sitting on the floor, one of his sleeves rolled up.

"Moons?"

"Oh hey Pads...you alright mate?"

"Yeah I'm fine, just tired, what are you doing?"

"Just tracing an outline" Remus smiled then looked back down, continuing to draw a rose vine around the center of his forearm. Sirius tilted his head in confusion and went and sat next to Remus, looking at the intricate pattern he had drawn, Sirius then noticed the cut that sliced up the middle of Remus' skin, like a claw had slashed through his flesh.

"Remus..." it had been a full moon the night before.

"Yes Sirius?"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"What could you have done?"

Sirius paused, not much but he still would've wanted to know, he placed a hand on Remus' leg and lent his head on his shoulder, "what's the drawing for?"

"Tattoo"

"What?"

"That's how I cover them" Remus just assumed Sirius knew, he didn't necessarily try and hide them.

Remus took his shirt off and showed Sirius his back, Sirius looked partially in admiration and partially in shock at the amount of tattoos that covered Remus' back and shoulders, they all seemed to come together to form one piece of art.

"How? How have you been doing this?"

"While you and Prongs are at quidditch and Pete is with Pandora doing the school paper, Lily comes and prints the designs on"

"She gives you tattoos? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Yeah, her uncle or something is a tattoo artist and has secretly been teaching her" Remus laughed quietly at the idea of Lily turning into a crazy tattoo lady, "she only does the ones on my back for practice, I do the rest"

"The rest?"

Remus looked at Sirius confused, he thought he'd be happy that they had another thing in common but when he looked deeper into Sirius' eyes he noticed there was something different, something wrong.

"You'd tell me if something was wrong, wouldn't you?"

Sirius nodded his head unconvincingly and watched as Remus raised his eyebrows, not believing him. Sirius sighed and started taking his shirt off, showing Remus his back. Remus looked at Sirius with pitiful eyes, Remus had a condition he couldn't control but Sirius...this was something that could have been prevented.