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

Chapter 45 | „I owe you.."

I carefully knocked on the wooden door of his classroom, after I assured myself that no one saw me by checking the marauders map a last time and I deactivated it again. The door squeaked when it slowly opened itself. I walked into the room and closed the door behind me. When I turned around I saw Remus sitting on his desk. He was clearly still busy with grading papers and seemed focused and a little exhausted. His hair was messy and he supported his head with his hand. I couldn't help but smile to myself at my sight and the thought that I could call this man my boyfriend.

"Good evening, Professor" I said with a smirk.

"Good evening" he mumbled under his breath without looking up, still focused on the papers. I thought it was adorable how focused he was and how his hand went through the hair that had fallen into his face. I sat down onto the table in the front row and watched him.

I got bored pretty quick and it was hard for me not to starve his attention. I fished the marauders map out of my pocket. I laid myself down onto the table and glanced over at Remus a last time, in the hope that he would be done now and had time for me. His eyes were still darted onto the papers, i sighed but even this didn't cause him to look at me.

Out of boredom I studied the blanc map closely and rolled over the table. Nothing I did seemed to catch his attention. I sat myself up and looked around the room. I saw that the door to his personal area was open so I jumped off the table and walked past him to his room. Before I entered his room I turned around to check if he had noticed, which he didn't. I sighed again and walked into his room. When I walked inside i noticed, that the fireplace was already turned on. I decided to light some of the candles up and walked around the room. It was small, but felt really homey.

In the other room I could her his feather writing onto the papers. I found myself getting upset that his attention was on something else. I was fully aware that this wasn't a good trait of mine and i had never craved attention in my life, well, not until I tasted his...

It didn't took my impatience long to convince me to go back to him. I placed myself onto his desk this time. When I sat down he still didn't took his eyes away from his work but he placed his hand on top of mine and lead it to his face to give me a small kiss on the back of my hand. I blushed and smiled to myself. I didn't even need to ask him, because he seemed to guess what i was asking myself.

"I just need a few more minutes" he said and finally looked at me. "Do you think you can wait?"

He asked with amusement, he seemed to notice that I was very impatient. I nodded without hesitation and jumped off his desk. I laid myself back onto the table in the front row and decided to make the time pass by looking at the map. I took it out of my pocket and laid myself on my stomach, opened the paper and took out my wand.

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" i said in a low voice to the map. And when the ink appeared I unfolded it to watch some of the footprints. I quickly sighted Remus and me on the map, I had always made sure that when I visited him like this night, neither the twins or Harry had the map.

"What was that?" Remus suddenly asked. He had walked up to me and was now standing right next to the table i was laying on. I almost fell off of the table, because I hadn't noticed him before.
I looked up at him and noticed that he weirdly stared at the map.

"I said 'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good', Professor" I answered with a smirk looking up at him.

"Is this the map Snape wanted me too have a look at?" He questioned. I nodded. "Where did you get it?"

"The twins and I...found it" I lied and the look he gave me signaled me that he didn't believe my obvious lie, but before he could dig deeper I continued. "The map shows everyone in Hogwarts and where they are going and where they are. It's the marauders map and we owe them so much..." I laughed at the thought of how the twins would bow down to the inventors of this masterpiece. Remus had taken the map and had folded it again, so it was showing the front of it. His fingers slowly wandered over the paper like it was filled with memories.

"Looks like you owe me then..." he stated with a smirk and looked down at me. I sat myself up and looked at him confused.

"What do you mean?"

"Well Maeve, in front of you stands - and i never thought that i would be proud to say that - one of the marauders"

"Wait what?" I was still confused and wasn't really able to process his words, which made him chuckle.

"I was one of the marauders...with Peter, James and Sirius" he had told me about their really close friendship but he had never mentioned the map. By merlins beard, that meant I was dating one of the famous marauders! I counted one and one together and guess which of the nicknames must be his.

"You are moony?" I asked and he nodded with a bright smile. Suddenly he grabbed me by my waist and gently dragged me towards him. So that he was standing between my open legs, which I had opened intentionally, while I was sitting on the table. I gasped for air, because this had catched me off guard and i felt my middle already heating up. He leaned in more and stroke my hair behind my ear while he leaned forward, so he was right next to my ear.

"When I corrected the papers I had an idea for what we could do on our last night before the Christmas break ends..." he said in a low and raspy voice, which made me shiver. I felt the heat of his breath on my skin and felt him getting even closer and closer, until I felt his lips touching my ear. His hand wandered down my body to my waist and he pulled me closer. His small kiss turned into a gentle bite, it tickled.

He pulled away and grabbed my hand to signal me to follow him. I stood up and I found myself nearly being unable to even stand.

"Didn't you say you wouldn't bite in class, Professor?" I jokingly said while I followed him into his room. He laughed and opened the door for me. He let go of my hand and walked backwards further into the room.

"Do you remember the night when you revealed your feelings to me and you watched me transform because you followed me?" Remus asked me more rhetorical.

"Of course" I answered and watched him walking to the other side of the room.

"It was the night of the winter ball..." he paused and turned around to a small table with random things on it, manly books... and his old gramophone. His words brought back the memories of this night and all my worries and wishes. I had wished so badly to just go with him to the ball and that I had even told him that I would have gone with him and how I had shared my worries with Grace. And of course I remembered everything that happened in the night of the ball.

"...and I ruined your ball night..." he continued and before I could say something a smile appeared on his face and he continued. "So I owe you a dance, Maeve." He finished and turned on the gramophone and hold out his hand for me to take.