eclipse ☆ wolfstar au

☆ twelve ☆

WHEN REMUS LUPIN AWOKE, HE KNEW THAT EARLIER THAT AFTERNOON, HE HAD GOTTEN immensely drunk. His head was pounding in his ears and he sat up and the world was spinning. Once his eyes began to focus on something relatively stable, he saw a black mop of hair at his feet; snoring. I didn't know mops could sleep, Remus thought to himself. He reaches out towards the sleeping mop, pushing back the hair. A face was revealed, and it seemed to belong to Sirius Black.

"Oh, it's just Sirius. Nothing to worry about. I thought I was losing my mind," Remus chuckles. He looks around the room for James, although, all he finds is empty bottles of Firewhiskey one after another...

"Moony?" Sirius mumbles from the floor.

"Hello sleeping beauty," Remus says, poking Sirius' head.

"Psh, I am no beauty! I am the beast!" Sirius groans. "I digress, dearest mine. Oh fuck, I am hungover," Sirius grumbles as he sits up to face Remus.

"Sirius, where'd James go?" Remus asks, still scanning the room.

"Hell if I know, the last thing I can remember is him cackling about going to beat up Snape and then go shag..." Sirius trails off into his thoughts, and then quickly jumps up. Almost falling over, he grabs his phone and slips his jacket on almost effortlessly, considering his condition. "Fuck! Remus, we have to go find him!"

Remus raises an eyebrow and cocks his head to the side. "What, why?"

"I can't let my best mate fuck up his relationship with Lily!" Sirius says, putting on a boot.

"Oh, okay. Let's go then!" Remus says confidently. He slips on his shoes and opens the door for Sirius. Sirius hops on one foot as he puts his other shoe on and they run out of the Gryffindor Men's Dorms.

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The halls of Hogwarts are lit with large lanterns and the shadows of Sirius and Remus as they run past them--bend and contort into un-humanlike forms.

The hallway which led to the Slytherin Common Room seemed much creepier to Remus as he and Sirius approached. They hide behind a large pillar, waiting for...What were they waiting for?

"Sirius, what are we waiting for? Why don't we just go in?"

He shakes his head. "We can't, I don't know their password to get in."

Remus' lips form into an 'o', and he sighs. "I see, now."

Sirius nods, and he gasps. "Shush, I see someone coming!"

Bellatrix Lestrange walks towards the Slytherin Common Room doors, rolling her eyes and hissing, "Unicorn's Tears," before the door clicks and she enters.

As soon as the door shuts behind her, Sirius glances at his watch and waits until two minutes pass. Then, he pulls Remus close to the door and says the password. As they enter the Common Room, Remus can feel his heart practically leaping from his chest. Sirius scans the area, and surprisingly, there are no students lounging in the room. He spots a stray bottle of Firewhiskey leading towards the girl dormitories.

Sirius nearly smacks his forehead in frustration. When James got drunk, it wasn't pretty, and usually, it was him who got Sirius out of his messes, not the other way around. Remus follows behind Sirius, attempting to be as quiet as possible. He could feel his ears pounding, and he dug his nails into the palms of his hands. Remus hated when he felt nervous, but he never had felt such a great amount of it at once. He could tell that the effects of the alcohol were definitely wearing off because his feet weren't tingly anymore.