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

Chapter 39 | Cold days

I woke up and felt arms wrapped around my body. I slowly opened my eyes and smiled at the sound of Remus light snoring sounds. We were covered with the old blanket that was on top of the large bed, we were laying on. Even though I was surrounded by the warmth of his body I felt the cold wind breezes from the broken windows on my skin. I carefully tilted my head and looked out of one of the windows, it was snowing. I suddenly sneezed. Maybe it was too cold in this room after all. This caused Remus to jump up and he immediately searched for his wand, but then he looked at me with slight confusion.

"I am sorry...I didn't mean to wake you up" I said and placed a hand on his bare shoulder. His upper body was exposed now and the blanket had fallen down. He seemed to get more confused when he noticed that he wasn't wearing anything, neither was I, and he grabbed the blanket and pulled it up to his chest again.

"It's...it's okay" he stuttered. "Are you getting sick...it's really cold?" he asked slowly.

"Perhaps..." I answered and lifted myself up from the bed. I felt his eyes following every of my moves and going over my whole body. I tried to hide the smile that crept onto my face. I purposely leaned forward and grabbed his shirt, that was laying on the ground. I wrapped it around me, but didn't get to button it up, because I felt my arm being grabbed and dragged onto the bed again. I found myself under Remus with the pressure of his body on mine and looked into his beautiful eyes and my smile widened. We just stared at each other for a while.

"What are you going to do now, professor?" I slowly asked him with a smirk.

"I don't know if this is the right time to call me Professor" he stated and I giggled.

"That doesn't answer my question..." I answered but he seemed still a little unsure. When I called him "Professor" I knew that it turned him on, but maybe right now it was reminding him that this wasn't completely legal...

"I don't want you to get sick, Maeve. We should get back to the castle" he hesitantly answered and I just nodded. We silently got dressed and I thought of things to say, to assure him that he was doing the right thing. I was finished before him and slowly walked up to him. I helped him button up his vest, even though he didn't needed my help of course. He must have sensed that something was wrong with me, because he carefully lifted my head by placing his fingers under my chin. When our eyes met he smiled at me softly.

"I am sorry for earlier...a wrong feeling came over me..." he truthfully explained. But before he could continue I stopped him by placing my hands on his chest.
"Remus..." I began but he continued.

"Maeve don't worry...I won't leave you. It feels so right...and I-" he stopped and I could see that he was still thinking about finishing his sentence "I don't care if this is wrong, I love you" he said after a short break. I could see a smile creeping onto his lips and that he was kinda proud of himself for going against the rules. As he had already told he, when he was a student at Hogwarts he always tried to keep his friends out of trouble and probably always tried to talk them out of stupid ideas. I couldn't help but smile, he returned the smile before we kissed each other.

"I love you too" I whispered after our lips parted.

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The same morning we got back to the castle and since most of the students left for Christmas the school was pretty much empty and no one noticed Remus and me. We parted our ways and I decided to shower and study a bit, since he needed to work.

The following days leading up to Christmas Remus and i met up nearly every night. The first times we went back to the shrieking shack, but when he told me that Snape would leave Hogwarts for a few days I talked him into staying in his room over night. When Snape wasn't around I honestly had nothing to be scared of, not rant I was really scared of him, but he could be the only one suspecting something or the only one that would go after us.
During daytime I counted the hours before I could meet him again, when I wasn't busy with studying. I had talked to Dumbledore about my mother a few times, which felt like therapy that I didn't needed and I was still looking for more information about my potential father. I had extra  transfiguration lessons with Professor McGonagall. After one week I finally managed to transform into a falcon, which came really much in handy, that one time I made out with Remus in the classroom and Professor flitwick walked in and I transformed into a falcon. Flitwick was surprised and wondered how a bird came into the castle, but Remus opened a window for me and I flew away. After I flew over the beautiful white grounds of Hogwarts for some time I decided to head back into the castle, the Christmas dinner was about to start and I wanted to clean myself up before it would start.

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Author's note:

I am so sorry that I haven't updated for a long time, but I have already started with the next chapter. So I will continue updating again. Long story short...I have fallen for a guy, a real person, forgot that that was even possible lol. And because of that I couldn't really focus on this story, so I am really sorry. But I hope you like this small chapter