The Marauders Era

I'll be ready to smack him

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"Remus John Lupin!!" James' screeching voice rang through the dormitory, waking up the boy who had been sleeping oh so peacefully, until now. Though, feeling utterly comfortable and in no hurry to get up, the half-sleeping boy buried his head in his pillow and pulled the covers over his head. James's eyes darkened significantly as he stood looking down at the sleeping werewolf. With a swift motion, he took hold of the covers and threw them off, leaving the boy lying on his bed in just his pajamas.

"You get up this instant, or I swear to god, I'll Avada Kadavra all of your chocolate," James said sternly as he put his hands on his waist and glared. Remus's eyes sprang open, he lifted his head slightly from his soft pillow and gave the boy a look so dirty that had it not been for the fact that James was already rather annoyed at him, he would have gotten chills.

"You... wouldn't... dare..."

"Oh yeah? Try me." retorted James as he crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow, daring the boy to do anything.

«Oh please, as if he needs anyone to Avada his chocolate, he manages to kadavra them fine just with his mouth.» Sirius looked up from his motorcycle magazine while grinning and glanced over to Peter's bed as he heard a snort coming from that direction. The blonde boy, who was currently sitting on his bed with the map, started snickering at what Sirius had said.

Smiling teasingly at Remus, the older boy added, "Don't look at me like that. You know it's true."

Determined to test fate or rather his life, Peter, who's only meal yet had been a bar of chocolate that he had been hiding in fear of Remus finding it, jumped over to the angry boy and started jumping on his bed.

The anger faded from his face as he softly shook his head and bit back a small chuckle as he watched the sixteen-year-old boy jumping up and down on his bed as if someone had propped him full of sugar. Remus never knew quite what it was, but out of the three boys, Peter was the one he never managed to get angry or stay angry at, with James, it usually passed rather quickly, while with Sirius... well, that was a story for its self.

"Come on, Moony, I'm hungry!" The blonde continued jumping up and down before he heard a sharp intake of breath as he accidentally landed right on Remus's left foot. "Peter..." Clenching his fist, he leaned his head slightly backward and closed his eyes, trying to suppress the pain that grew as his foot started throbbing.

"Oh, I'm sorry." the words couldn't have left his mouth faster, as he immediately sat down at the foot of Remus's bed and looked at him with a guilt-stricken expression. even though his imminent pain, the werewolf tried to send him a reassuring smile, though what appeared on his face was nothing more than a grimace. "It's fine, Pete, don't worry."

"You know.." James began as he threw himself down next to Sirius. "Frank went down ages ago. We were only waiting for our very own sleeping beauty." Sirius snickered as he added jokingly, "Nice one James." the two boys looked at each other before high fiving

"Ha ha ha." retorted Remus sarcastically. "Very funny, you two. If someone hadn't transfigured my textbook into a wizard chess bishop, then I might not have had to sit up until the crack of dawn. So thank you very much, Sirius."

The dark-haired boy smiled mischievously as he winked at his friend. "Oh, you're very much welcome."

Remus quickly looked away and scrambled out of bed before any of them could notice the soft redness that was steadily growing on his face. As he moved to his dresser, there was a slight limp as his leg throbbed gently, though thankfully it was nowhere near as bad as it had been a few minutes ago.