I solemnly swear that I am up to no good | Professor Remus Lupin

Chapter 22 | Lycanthrope

When I woke up I heard birds chirping and someone was snoring right next to me. It wasn't loud or annoying, it was calming. I slowly opened my eyes and my head was leaning against his chest, he had placed his head on top of mine and his strong arm was loosely hanging over my waist. I watched his chest rise and fall, listening to him really was hypnotizing and I felt my eyelids getting heavier.

"Professor!?" I suddenly heard a familiar male voice whisper screaming. Remus immediately woke up and moved away from me.

"Harry?" He asked and blinked a few times to focus his eyes. I turned my head towards Harry and i saw that his mouth formed into a smile.

"I...i couldn't sleep last night because of a nightmare" i lied. As i already mentioned I am pretty bad a lying, but Harry went along with it.

"What happened Professor?" Harry slowly asked. I noticed that Remus had covered up his chest and his shoulder with the blanket, but Harry referred to his temple.

"After dinner I went for a walk and yeah...I hit my head. Stupid story" he lied and let out a small laugh. Harry looked at me with a risen eyebrow.

"Maeve, I brought you breakfast since the twins might are a little hangover" he whispered the last part and we giggled. I questioningly turned towards Remus.

"Ehm...I will look for...Poppy, Madam Pomfrey" he stuttered and walked away with the blanket wrapped around him. Me and Harry watched him walk away and as i turned around i let out a small scream, because Harry was standing directly in front of me now.

"Tell me what really happened and i won't tell anyone...but I suggest you going back to your own bed" he whispered. I nodded and we walked towards my bed and sat down. While we ate the breakfast he brought me i told him what had happened over night, i didn't tell him about the scratches and played along the story Remus had told, that he had hit his head.

The rest of the day was pretty normal, the twins and Grace visited me. After Harry went back to Ron and Hermione. Remus came back one more time and grabbed his old clothes, he had changed into a new button up, which had a beautiful brown color. He had rolled up the sleeves and I couldn't help but stare. This style really looked phenomenal on him. We only exchanged a smile since my friends were there, before he left. I was sure that he wouldn't be able to teach tomorrow, the scratches were to deep for him to recover over one night.

Even though the twins were hungover they still manage to notice the smile Remus and I exchanged. They looked at me questioningly and waited until he was gone.

"What was that?"
"Looks like something happened"
"Between them"

"Remus and Maeve?" Grace asked, she hadn't seen it.

"Indeed" the twins answered in unison.

"Nothing. He hit his head yesterday and I helped Madam Pomfrey with the injury" I lied, the twins nodded and stared at the place were he had stood before.

We talked for the rest of the day and the twins proudly told me about the prank they did on Draco. Later that day Madam Pomfrey ordered them to let me rest and get some more sleep. She brought me dinner and checked on my infection. She told me that I would be able to attend my main courses tomorrow and thanked me for my help again. I fell asleep very fast since I really needed it.

The next morning I woke up and walked to potions with my crutches. The first class was potions with Snape. I met the twins waiting in front of the room. I took their arms and we walked in after we sat down Snape dramatically strutted into the class and closed the door loudly. I couldn't help but role my eyes at him.

"Turn to page 354. We will focus on the serum again. On Thursday we will begin making it, so I suggest you reading carefully." He said in his slow ordering voice. I opened the book but stopped looking for the page as Snape walked up to my desk.