road to recovery • wolfstar

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They ended up sleeping in the car. After driving to a discreet spot, they did this so if anyone came out or some shit they won't just find two adult men snoring their arses off in a car, Sirius and Remus completely knocked out after reclining their seats back and grabbing a thin blanket.

So now, it was morning. Sirius had driven the car to sort of dusty clearing. It looked as if people may have sat around a campfire because of the logs, so, deciding to be oh so clever, Sirius just hoped no scouts just popped up out of nowhere to camp. Nobody interrupted their slumber, so I guess the hoping wasn't such a bad idea after all.
"Fuck." Remus groaned, sitting up and stretching. He slept in a bit of an awkward angle so his neck felt tense.
"Mmm, are you alright?" Sirius rolled over and looked at Remus. Remus looked down at Sirius and he was about to say something but his words got caught in his throat. It was the way Sirius... was. His eyes crinkled at the sides when he scrunched up his features when he was stretching. The way his husky voice crackled at the end. It was always like this, but it'd been so long since they'd woken up in the same place, well, it was four years but that was long enough for Remus to forget. Remus made breakfast every morning but Sirius would always be wide awake when he came down.
"Hello?" Sirius said, waving a hand in front of Remus.
"Huh? Oh, um, ye- yeah, I'm fine." Remus smiled nervously. Sirius was still half conscious so he didn't mind too much.
"That's good." Sirius yawned, "There's no Frozen or Bob the Builder tents out, is there?"
"Sirius, are you drunk?" Remus raised one eyebrow at him. Sirius used to drink a heck of a lot when he was 15, his parents' methods of abuse had become harsher, and it lasted until he was seventeen and had moved out. It was James who helped him out. On one of at he thought would be a regular day, James thought it would be a very brotherly thing to surprise Sirius in a very Marauder-ish manner. He opened the door and nearly tripped over a beer bottle. That was the first off sign and James knew he had to act. Ever since then the two were even more inseparable. They'd not very rarely slept on each other's beds, so it wouldn't be a surprise if he was gay for James, but not for one second did he ever think of James more than a brother.

"I'm as good as." Remus still looked hesitant, "I'm still tired, which means I'm a dead shell of a human."
"Oh, do you want to feel slightly more alive?"
"Yes?" Sirius said a little uncertainly. He heard the window unroll and a sort sloshing noise followed. Thousands of small droplets of cold water splattered his face, taking him completely by surprise.
"Argh, you asshole!" Sirius wiped his face dry. Well, he was awake now.
"Sorry, but isn't it traditional Marauder fashion to awaken another in a "humorous" manner?" Remus smirked.
"Fuck you."

"My manager's gonna give me my cheque when we get back home even though I'm missing so much days. I told her that a friend is going on a trip and thinks it would be a tad bit sad to go alone, and she said she'll give me a cheque for all shifts I'm going to miss." Sirius said suddenly, smiling lightly to himself.
"That's nice of her, but if you don't mind me asking, why the hell are you telling me that now?" Remus twisted his earplugs around his finger. He was finding this road trip so far rather enjoyable, even though it was the second day.
"I had a dream that we returned home and our electricity was cut then this giant ass marshmallow thing waddled over an then you woke me up." Remus was extremely confused. Sirius said this as if he was merely addressing the weather or time, not a demented dream.
"O-OK, I still hope our electricity doesn't cut when we get home."
"We're not going home yet, because now that we're fed and watered, I'm taking you to feed some... Some sort of furry farm animals!" Sirius announced.
"This isn't because I'm Welsh, is it?" Remus asked, already knowing the answer but still hoping that perhaps it wasn't what he thought.
"..."
Sirius' smile said everything.

The animal feeding centre was rather fun, you know, minus a few things, if Sirius did say so himself. There was alpacas, sheep and other hair covered animals (don't twist that, you dirty minded suckers) to one's heart's content, or, as Sirius would like to say, Remus' heart's content. He thoroughly enjoyed himself and wouldn't mind going again. Remus, on the other hand, enjoyed it too but had to admit that people were probably staring at these two 20 something year olds giggling foolishly as the animals ate from their hands.
"Aw, look how cute they are!" Remus fondled one of the alpacas ears gently.
"It smells like shit, but hey, sometimes we all do." Sirius pinched his nose and coughed. Sirius had to agree with Remus though, the alpaca was adorable. Growing up, Sirius wasn't allowed a pet of any sort ("We don't need anymore filth tarnishing our floors, we're disgusted as it is!" Walburga spat) so he made it his job to absolutely adore animals, big or small, this led to him seizing any opportunity with Hagrid, the Keeper of the Keys at Hogwarts, that involved creatures.
"Wait, that lake; was it clean?" Sirius remembered, suddenly very cautious. Sirius needed to always have his hair perfumed with the scent of lavender and washed thoroughly.
"Yeah, it was fresh water, filtered through the rocks," a look of realisation dawned on Remus' face, "which actually means I didn't have to chug six million bottles of water. Remus felt his phone buzz in his pocket, and he tried to fight the urge to pull it out. He was with Sirius after all, and it would just be rude if he just whipped out his phone and started texting, but as he saw Sirius feed the sheep in the next pen, he risked it.

Peter: there's this this little arse in my group and he's... an arse. He's there giving me a bloody lecture about how my brush techniques are wrong.

Remus hesitated on what to type back.

Remus: rub you degree in his face.

Peter: i need cheese.

Peter: what should i say though?

Remus: "I kNoW mOrE aBoUt AmErIcAn GiRl DoLl ThAn YoU dO, gEnIuS!"

Peter: knew you could help.

"Ow, frickety frick frack!" Sirius yelped, yanking his fingers back. Remus' head snapped up and he rushed over to Remus due to instinct, and, well, maybe, he did it slightly too fast.
"What did you do?" Remus took Sirius' wrist and started inspecting his fingers.
"What did I do?! I look sooo delicious that it tried to eat me!" Sirius complained. There was a little hand washing station at the end, since this was the last pen on this side, so Remus turned the cold one on and thrust Sirius' hand in it.
"You put your finger in its mouth, didn't you?" A few seconds of silence followed.
"By accident, OK?!"

ok, so vsparkle11, omg, i'm so proud of you. your one shots are actually amazing and i envy your talent. i know you'll go on to do some fantastic things, and just, your so nice to me so thank you. you deserve all the fame in the world. also, i changed sirius' and remus' age from 23 to 21 so it would fit better with the story line.
see you next millennium.