Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry - Speed Drabble - Prompts: "Are we there yet?" and "Daydream."

The Hunger Games Trilogy Challenge/Competition - "You call that a kiss?"

Harry Potter Chapter Competition - The Philosopher's Stone - The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters - Someone making a new friend.

Hogwarts Fair 2014 Challenge - Guess the Name of the Dragon - Sienna Ascot.

Disney Character Challenge - Sarabi - Someone enduring abuse (in this case, hints at emotional abuse)

Wand Wood Challenge - Maple - Write about a journey, or about a character's first trip to a new place.

"Are we there yet?" Sirius asked, trying to read a sign that they passed as they drove.

"Not even close," came the annoyed tones from the man sitting next to him.

"Come on, Benjy," Sirius said. "Can't you drive faster? Everyone is already there."

"Alright, keep your hair on," Benjy muttered. "If you didn't take so long to get your stuff together. I should have just left you to come on your own or something."

Sirius frowned at him. "Well, if it's that much of a problem, I'll get the train back instead."

Benjy didn't answer, and Sirius pulled out his iPod, sticking the headphones in his ears. He made the mistake already of trying to plug the iPod into Benjy's car to play, but Benjy didn't want to listen to his 'shit music.'

Sometimes Sirius wondered why he was still with Benjy.

A lot of the time, James wondered the same thing.

...oOo...

"Okay, that's Benjy's car. Sirius is brilliant, you'll love him, but Benjy's a tosser. He's a bully, and Sirius doesn't realise. Now we start operation get Sirius and Remus together."

"Are you sure about Sirius? I mean, Remus is like a brother to me, I don't want him to get hurt..."

"Trust me," James said. "It won't hurt to have them both here. All we're doing is introducing them. We can't help it that the Prewett brothers are here, and that I know Benjy's had a thing for Fabian for a good while. Add a bit of alcohol and maybe Fabian will cross that line?"

"As long as Remus doesn't get hurt," Lily replied.

"Sirius will be if Benjy does do anything with Fabian, and I don't want to hurt him, but this is the best for him in the long run. Benjy's a bad person."

They watched the car doors shut, and Benjy unloaded the car, dropping Sirius' case to the floor carelessly. Sirius' smile flickered for a moment, but he chose to ignore it, and moved forward.

"James, it's been too long," he said, hugging his best friend.

"That's all on you, Sirius. You were the one that went so far away to Uni."

"Yeah, well, that's all done, I'll be moving soon, I don't know where yet, just looking for a place. Don't want to live with my parents again." Both men pulled a face at that.

"Well, I... I was thinking about moving in with Lily, so my flat is up for grabs, if you're interested?" I have another two months on it, before I have to renew the tenancy, but if you take it, I could move in with Lily a lot quicker than I expected.

"Live down here?" Sirius said, contemplating it. "Well, you'll be here, and I bet you know lots of great people, why not? Let's do this, it'll be like the old days," Sirius said, eagerly. "Now, are you going to introduce me to the love of your life?"

"Oh, sorry, Lily," he said. "Lily, this is my best friend since I was eleven, Sirius." He glanced up where Benjy was walking over. "This is his... whatever, Benjy."

"Friend," Benjy said, and Sirius' mouth moved into a thin line. "Ben, I don't think friends do what we do," Sirius snapped, and Benjy just shrugged.

"Sirius, Benjy, this is the most amazing woman in the world, Lily Evans."

Sirius grinned at her. "She certainly is beautiful," he said, taking her hand and kissing it. "What are you doing with a prat like Potter?"

"I have no idea," she replied. "I've heard so much about you, Sirius. Is it true that you flooded your school?"

"That was a vicious rumour started by someone looking to tarnish my perfect reputation," he said, haughtily. "Like the heir of the house of Black would ever stoop so low as to participate in such delinquent activities with James Potter."

Benjy rolled his eyes. "You could have just said no," he muttered, and Sirius' smile dropped.

"Well, it was lovely to meet you, I'm going to check in," Sirius said, sounding very quiet compared to how loud he was a few moments before.

They walked to the counter, and Sirius grinned at the pretty young receptionist. "Hi, booking for Sirius Black."

"Yes, would you like the room through till Sunday?"

"Do we have to," Benjy complained. "I thought we were only stuck here for one night."

Sirius sighed. "I'm staying the whole weekend," he told the receptionist, handing over his bank card.

...oOo...

Sirius took a shower and changed his clothes, twice. Benjy had an issue with the band t-shirt and leather jacket that he wanted to wear, he settled for a blue t-shirt that Benjy approved of, and a cardigan over it. Personally, he hated the cardigan, but Benjy seemed to love it, and he did care for Benjy... he just wasn't quite sure where he was going wrong with him.

Benjy was his first long-term... well, whatever they were. He didn't want to give that up over a disagreement in clothing. But it was getting harder and harder to stay with him.

The pair headed downstairs in time for the meal. Benjy pushed past Sirius, slipping into one of the seats next to Fabian Prewett, and Sirius slipped into the other next to a girl with black hair. Benjy and Fabian immediately started chatting.

"So we're here to celebrate mine and Lily's one year anniversary, and it's an excuse to get Sirius to travel back from university to see us. You lot will be seeing a lot more of him, as he's going to be taking my old flat in a few weeks when I move out."

"Wait, you're moving down here?" Benjy interrupted, finally paying Sirius some attention.

"What does it matter to you, you said that you and Sirius were just... friends," Lily said, spitting the last word, her eyes narrowed at Benjy.

"Yeah, but he didn't even ask me."

"James slammed his drink down on the table and forced a smile. "Ben, I'm sure my friend doesn't need to ask you permission for anything. Now, we're celebrating here. So raise your glass, or shut the hell up." James turned back to the group who seemed surprised at James' attitude towards the other man, as the last few years, they had known James as fun-loving, and never having a bad word to say about anyone.

In fact, when others got into fights in a bar, James was always the one to break it up and calm the stranger down, that was James' way. If James didn't like someone, that meant there was something wrong with this guy.

"So, to celebrate me and Lily, to celebrate my best friend, Sirius and to welcome him as part of the group," James said, his glass in the air.

The meal went by with a bit of chatter. After Sirius attempted to engage Benjy in conversation a few times, getting ignored each time, he finally turned to the girl on his left, introducing himself. The conversation went nicely after that, Sirius took a liking to Sienna Ascot, who was Lily's best friend, and they even traded numbers, and she asked if he had any straight male friends to introduce her to.

"Just Peter, I'm not sure if he's what you're looking for, but he's a nice guy. Quiet and shy though."

"Well, bring him along next time."

"Well, I can show you a picture, he's not amazing looking, but he's not ugly. He's a bit chubby, but he's kind, and he's a good friend. He kinda gets overlooked a lot because he's shy and can't get courage to talk to girls often..."

He showed her a picture on his phone.

"He seems alright, introduce us," she ordered.

He grinned, and dialled a number.

"Peter, here talk to this girl. Her name is Sienna Ascot and she's pretty and fun to talk to."

He thrust the phone into her hands. "I have lots of minutes to spare on my contract, talk as long as you'd like," he said.

She started talking, and Sirius turned to where Benjy was glaring at him. "Trust you to flirt with everyone," he muttered, and Sirius' smile fell. "I wasn't flirting, I was chatting," he replied, coldly.

As Benjy started to reply, Sirius turned away from him. Benjy was always a bit of an idiot, but for the last few days he had been acting worse than usual. Sirius blocked out his harsh whispered words, and his gaze moved across the group of people at the table. He knew the Prewett twins, they had attended the same collage as him, and Gideon had been a friend of James' from school. Sitting next to them was Lily and James, followed by a man with dark blonde hair that was falling into his amber eyes. Sirius' eyes froze on the man who was looking back. He was utterly gorgeous.

"Sirius," came a loud voice in his ear, and he jumped, looking back at Benjy. "If you've finished checking out other men..."

"You know what, fuck you, Benjy," Sirius said, pushing his chair back, pulling out a packet of cigarettes, and pulling one out as he stormed towards the door. Once the door closed behind him, he lit it up.

The door opened, and for a second he expected it to be Benjy, or even James, but it was Lily and Sienna that sat either side of him. Neither said a word as he finished his cigarette, they just kept him company. Sirius wondered if it was because James told them what he was like when he was annoyed, or maybe it was the opposite, and they just didn't have a clue what to say.

Finally the three returned to the restaurant, where the food had just arrived at the table. James' mouth was in a thin line, and so was Benjy's. Sirius knew words had been said when he left.

He wondered if that's why Lily left? So she wouldn't say anything too terrible, she striked him as the type to speak her mind.

Needless to say he kept his gaze down for the rest of the meal, barely making conversation, in case it upset Benjy again.

...oOo...

A couple of hours later, and they were all in the garden, making use of the garden bar. The blonde guy was sorting through CD's, playing random chart music, and drinks were flowing.

Sirius was lounging in one of the chairs, chatting with Sienna again. He was getting quite fond of the girl, and she was telling him about what James had been up to since they all started university together. It sounded like so much fun, that Sirius regretted that he got accepted into a better university, and wished he came to this one, which was third on his list.

It was another hour before he was up dancing with Lily, then Sienna, and a blonde girl called Marlene, before he finally dropped into a seat, trying to catch his breath.

As a couple of songs played, he just stared into the distance. He couldn't help but think about how much easier it would have been if he didn't bring Benjy, but Benjy had insisted on coming. If he hadn't, Benjy wouldn't have been rude, wouldn't have caused a scene at dinner, and wouldn't have controlled him. Falling into the daydream wasn't that hard. Maybe if he had come alone, he'd have met someone... James was quite reliable in having a friend or a friend who has a gay cousin or brother or friend to introduce him to.

He was so caught up in the daydream, that he never noticed the blonde sit down next to him until the man spoke to him, causing him to jump.

"Hey, you're Sirius, right?" The man said, and Sirius took a moment to realise what the man had said.

"Oh, sorry, yeah, I'm Sirius," he replied, flashing the handsome stranger a smile.

"Remus," the guy replied, smiling at him. "James has told me a lot about you."

"So, you're someone James knows? I've tried to figure out who here are James' friends and who are Lily's... not that it really makes a difference, it's just interesting to see what people James drew in," he babbled.

"I'm Lily's best friend," Remus replied, entertained by Sirius' babbling. "So, do you have any requests?"

"What?"

"I'm doing the music. Do you have anything you want to play?" Remus explained.

Sirius' eyes darted to where Benjy was dancing a little too closely with one of the Prewett twins.

"Yeah, can I plug my iPad up?"

Remus grinned, his smile faltering when he saw the guy that James and Lily clearly hated dancing too close to another man. "Go ahead."

Sirius grinned, handing over his iPad. "There's only one playlist on there," Sirius said.

Remus made quick work plugging it in, and before he knew it, Guns N' Roses was roaring from the speakers.

"So how long have you both been together?" Remus asked, after grabbing a couple of drinks and bringing them back to Sirius, handing him one.

"Well, we're not together," Sirius said, his eyes flicking towards Benjy. "It's really confusing. He acts like we're dating, but... well, he makes out we're just friends the rest of the time. I'm not sure... but whatever it is, it's been two years. It's the first... whatever the hell this is, that I've ever been in, and I don't really know where to go from here?"

"Sirius, I'm sorry if I sound like I'm interfering, and I might be sounding exactly like Lily, but if he can't commit himself to a relationship with you, then why are you with him, you're a good-looking bloke, James talks highly of you, so you can't be a bad bloke..."

"I don't know," Sirius replied. "I ended up at a different University than the rest of my friends. I made one good friend there, Peter, and the only other person I knew was Benjy, and it just happened from there. I had two friends, and I didn't want to lose one of them so..."

"Hey mate, can you put something good on?" came a voice, and they both looked up to see Benjy glaring down at them.

"No," Remus said, turning back to Sirius.

"Why not?" Benjy pushed.

Remus stood up from the seat, and looked Benjy in the face. "My speakers mean I pick the music. Everyone else is enjoying it, if you don't like it, leave."

"Sirius, let's go upstairs and -"

"No," Sirius replied. He was at James' party, why should he leave because Benjy wanted to go and sulk? "I'm talking to Remus."

"So, I'm not being rude, but you look really uncomfortable, and you keep pulling at that cardigan..."

"Yeah, Benjy got me it," Sirius said, unable to help the grimace on his lips.

"Really? What do you usually wear?"

"I prefer my band t-shirts, or I'd wear a tighter vest, and a leather jacket."

Remus' eyes opened wide. "Leather jacket? And he dissuades you from wearing it? Is he crazy? There is nothing sexier than a man in a leather jacket." It took him a moment to realise what he said, and he blushed.

Sirius couldn't help the flip his stomach gave at Remus' use of the word man. Remus was gorgeous, and gay, and clearly had good taste in leather jacket wearing men and music. Sirius wondered if he was single.

"It's just a shame that Benjy is trying to change you from who you really are," Remus said. "I mean, you want to wear leather jackets and listen to classic rock, than who is he to stop you? A Relationship - even an undefined one, it's about give and take. He should try to listen to your music for you, and you do the same for him, and it's not like you'd look stupid in a leather jacket, I think you'd look really... sexy." Remus' voice shook slightly on the last word, and Sirius felt a shiver run through his body.

"I want to get a tattoo too," Sirius said, and he watched Remus let out a shaky breath. "Please tell me you have a motorcycle?" Remus begged.

Sirius shook his head. "Not yet, but I have every intention of getting one once I move. Maybe once I'm down here, I can take you for a ride?"

He didn't mean for that to come out so dirty, for the words to sound so filthy, and the apology was on the tip of his tongue, but before he could apologise for how it sounded, Remus' words clouded his mind.

"I'd love for you to take me for a ride."

Those words sounded too dirty to come out of Remus' mouth. He glanced at Remus' clothes. Jumper, cardigan, very tight jeans and Converse. He seemed like the type that took a satchel to University.

Remus leaned away from him. "Look me up when you move down, we can hang out... will... will Benjy be moving with you?" Remus asked.

Sirius shook his head. "I think he was going to stay up in Scotland," Sirius replied. "I've got a couple of weeks before I move, and I think I'll be definitely single when I come." He watched Remus for a reaction.

"Cool," Remus said. "You'll defiantly have to look me up."

"I will," Sirius promised.

"I mean, I can show you around, all the good places to eat, or to go to for fun..."

"I'd love that. Should I take your number, so I can call you when I move in?"

Remus quickly reeled off the numbers and Sirius stored them in his phone.

"So... if you need help moving..." he offered.

"Yeah, I'll definitely be in touch," Sirius promised, not pushing the hand away that was on his knee. When did that happen? He smiled at Remus instead. He couldn't wait to spend more time with him.

Remus stood up to walk away, and he leaned down, brushing his lips against Sirius'.

"Goodnight, Sirius," he said.

"You call that a kiss?" Sirius asked, his heart beating hard.

"That's all you'll get whilst you're doing anything with anyone else. Now, if you were single, you'd get a lot more."

"Well, I'll hold you to that," Sirius promised, as Remus walked away.

I am so tempted to turn this into a multi-chapter. Let me know if you'd be interested in reading more.

Review please.

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