Cheshire (Young!Remus x reader)

Cheshire~Part 4

The rest of the train ride was uneventful other than Remus putting an arm around my waist and me glaring at James who winked at me.

We had just taken the carriages up to the castle and were walking in the great hall when we saw some younger students being teased and pushed around by a few older kids. I hated seeing this. I was a good person, but not a very brave person. I couldn't just step in and expect them to leave everyone alone. In fact, walking in between them and their victims was like asking to get hit. Then I had an idea. I wasn't a very brave person but now I was also not only a person.

I quickly turned into an empty corridor and away from the other marauders. I shifted and walked back to where the commotion had been. Once I got there, I let my anger take over. I let out all this frustration from my fucking emotions about Remus. All the times I had been so angry at myself that I cried, all the times I hadn't been able to focus on my work because Remus was sitting next to me, all the fucking times that I wanted to kiss him but I couldn't. I let out all my frustration on these idiots and when I stopped, there were three scratched up 17 year olds in front of me. Next thing I knew, I was in Professor McGonagall's office and the marauder's were entering the room.

"Hello Minnie! Did you have a nice summer?" Sirius asked as he came in behind James.

"Lovely Mr. Black. Now would you care to explain why you are already in my office within an hour of the new school year?" she asked as I walked around on top of her desk. Before Sirius had a chance to say something stupid, Remus spoke up.

"I'm afraid that's my fault, professor. I bought a cat over the summer and she's been a bit troublesome."

"Then this is your cat Mr. Lupin?"

"Yes, professor."

While they were talking, I focused on Professor McGonagall. By the way she looked at me, I could have sworn she knew. She was an animungus after all. She probably knew the second she saw me that I was no ordinary cat. After she told them about how they would need to keep an eye on me and how if I attacked another student there would be consequences, Remus picked me up and we went straight to the dorms, not bothering to go to the start of term feast. We would probably end up in the kitchens later anyways. Once we got to the dorm, Remus put me on his bed and I shifted back.

"What the bloody hell were you thinking Cheshire?!" he said. He wasn't exactly yelling but his voice was loud.

"I wasn't thinking. I was mad because I saw some kids being pushed around by some idiots who think they're better than everyone else!"

"You attacked them! Did you even see them afterwards? They were a mess! They had scratches all over and their clothes were torn up!"

"I couldn't help it, I've been stressed and I needed to take it out on something!"

"How can you be stressed? We just got off from summer break. We haven't had to do any work for the last two months!"

"I just was! It just got to be too much."

"What's wrong? Why were you so stressed?"

"It doesn't matter."

"Yes it does. If it's making you go around attacking people, then it matters."

"I can deal with it myself."

"No you can't! Not if it means you'll be leaving more people with scratches on their faces! Tell me what's wrong!"

I was done with this. With all of it. I couldn't hold it in any longer. I just wanted this thing to go away that had been in the back of my mind for far too long, taunting me.

"I'm in love with you Remus! That's what's fucking wrong!" I yelled. The whole room was silent. Sirius looked at James and Peter and they left the dorm leaving me with my face in my hands, sitting on the edge of Remus' bed, while he was just standing there staring at me in disbelief. I heard the creak of floorboards as he walked over to me. He knelt down and put a hand under my chin, bringing my head up and away from my hands.

"You love me?" he asked as though he was making sure he had heard correctly.

"Yes." I mumbled, looking down at the floor. He didn't say anything, and when I finally looked up, he still didn't say anything. He just leaned in and did something that I had been waiting to happen for a long time. Kissing Remus was pure bliss. It was relief from the last year of pain and frustration. It was all so fast. Just 24 hours ago, I was suffering in silence, trying not to let everything get to me. Thank godric it had become too much. I guess if I hadn't really been in love with him, I never would have lost it and screamed it at him. That may not have been the best way to tell someone that I loved them, but I didn't care because I was sitting here in Remus' arms, experiencing the result of my yelling and it was better than I ever could have imagined.