Fic: Scattered Echoes (Harry Potter -- Sirius/Remus) R

Aug 29, 2009 20:29

Title: Scattered Echoes (29/31)

Author: kingzgurl

Fandom: Harry Potter

Pairing: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Rating: R-ish

Word Count: 2,365

Timeline: Marauders-era, summer after 7th year

Prompt: dogdaysofsummer 29 August 2009

Summary: As he watches fiendfyre destroy the last of his friends, Remus realizes he is truly alone.

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“C’mon, Moony! C’mon!” Sirius urged, calling his friend from the driver’s seat of Old Man Anderson’s shiny red convertible.

“Do you have any idea how much trouble I got in last summer for letting you steal this car?” he asked skeptically, glaring at Sirius and ignoring his pouting puppy eyes. “I was grounded for three weeks!”

“Well it’s a good think you’re moving out this weekend, then, isn’t it?” Sirius’ grin stretched from ear to ear. “C’mon, we still gotta get James and Peter before we can go to the surprise!”

“Oh, alright,” Remus rolled his eyes and climbed into the passenger seat. It wasn’t like he was really going to say no to Sirius to begin with.

“Yeah!” Sirius grinned and squeezed his shoulder as they pulled out of the driveway and sped away. “You’re the best, Moony!”

“No, I’m just a pushover,” Remus mumbled, his words lost in the roar of the wind.

Sirius drove down the highway towards the Muggle village where Peter lived, speeding quite a bit.

“You might want to slow down,” Remus announced, spying a police car up ahead. “You’re liable to get a ticket and then go to Muggle prison for stealing a car. And I’ll get dragged with you as an accomplice, and you know I wouldn’t do well in Muggle prison. I’d kill my cellmate at the first full moon!”

“Calm down, Moony,” Sirius rolled his eyes. “Watch!” With that, he sped passed the policeman, going at least twice the speed limit, and Remus winced, waiting for the flashing red lights and siren to appear behind them.

After two tense minutes, Remus turned to Sirius, bewildered. “What did you do?” he demanded.

“Distraction charm on the car,” Sirius grinned smugly.

“You would,” Remus rolled his eyes and smacked Sirius in the side of the head.

“Oi! I’m driving here!” Sirius shot back, purposely swerving the car to throw Remus off balance.

“You’re going to get us killed,” Remus moaned after his shoulder bumped the door. “And I’ll never get in trouble for letting you steal cars. That actually might be a good trade off!”

“Shut it, Moony,” Sirius replied. “This is a surprise for you, and you’re being mean to me!”

“Oh, fine,” Remus grinned. “Where are we going?”

“You’ll find out soon enough,” Sirius replied as he flipped on a blinker and turned off the highway.

Five minutes later they pulled up in front of Peter’s house, and he came running out, excitedly. “Hey guys! That’s a wicked car!”

“Hey Pete!” Sirius called. “Where’s James?”

“He’s coming,” Peter rolled his eyes. “He had to make himself ‘presentable’ for Evans.”

“This could be a while,” Sirius looked at Remus and grinned. “Ten galleons says he’s trying to fix his hair.”

“Ten galleons says he’ll take more than ten minutes,” Remus replied.

“You’re on!” Sirius answered, shaking Remus’ hand.

Ten minutes and twenty-seven seconds later, James came out of the house looking at the ground dejectedly. “I’m not going!” he announced, digging his toe into the dirt.

“Why not?” Sirius decided to play his game. “You’re hair doesn’t look any worse than usual.”

“S’not my hair,” James mumbled and looked up. The other three Marauders burst into laughter at seeing his face. He had the largest zit any of them had ever seen right between his eyes.

“Guess you owe me twenty galleons,” Remus smacked Sirius on the shoulder and laughed. “Get in James, I’ll deal with that on the way.”

“What?” James was confused. “I’m not going to see Lily with this thing on my face!”

“You mean you’re third eye?” Sirius’ laughter got louder when he started the car.

“James, if you’ve forgotten, we are wizards. And I’m very good at glamour spells,” Remus explained, beckoning him to get in the back seat.

“What… oh!” the usual grin was back on James’ face. “Brilliant, Moony!” He climbed in the backseat next to Peter, and they were off.

Remus turned around in his seat and pointed his wand directly at the offending pimple, muttered a couple of words, and in seconds the skin was clear and smooth once again.

James ran his fingers over it to check if it was really gone, and his grin got bigger. “Thanks, mate!”

“Couldn’t have you looking ugly for Lily,” Remus shrugged. “She might dump you and go chasing after me again!”

Laughter filled the car as Sirius drove the few miles to Lily’s house to pick up their last passenger before heading towards their destination.

“Peter, sit in the front,” James urged when they pulled up in front of the house. “There’s not enough space for three of us back here.”

The other three Marauders rolled their eyes, but did as requested. Remus slid closer to Sirius to make space for Peter, the drive shaft resting between his long legs, and Remus tried to ignore the feeling of Sirius’ arm resting on his thigh.

Lily was in the car a moment later, and the boys greeted her with a chorus of “Hey, Lily!” and “Hey, Evans.” Remus’ voice was a few embarrassing notches higher than usual, but no one else seemed to notice his discomfort.

“Where are we going?” Lily asked as they drove away, while Sirius’ arm rubbed enticingly against Remus’ inner thigh.

“Your guess is as good as mine,” Remus answered, trying to keep his voice even and his erection down. He imagined McGonagall and Dumbledore naked, which helped, until Sirius shifted into second gear and nudged Remus’ crotch with his elbow, causing his body to take definite interest in the proceedings.

“C’mon, Jaime,” Lily cooed in the backseat. “Tell me where we’re going?”

“Um, well,” James stammered as Lily advanced on him, one hand exploring his chest and sliding lower.

“Oi! Not in the car!” Sirius roared. “I’ve got to give it back in the same condition I took it, and I’m not going to clean up your mess!”

“You wouldn’t be saying that if you were the one back here with a girl,” Lily replied with a grin.

“No I wouldn’t,” Sirius replied quietly to himself, though Remus heard him anyway.

Remus looked at his friend with a perplexed expression on his face. Sirius hadn’t actually been with a girl since the Easter holidays, he knew for fact, and it seemed as if Sirius was over his wild days of having sex with everything that had breasts. Sirius’ arm moved against the inside of his thigh again, and Remus’ train of thought was promptly derailed as he bit his lip to contain a whimper.

“We’ll be there in less than five minutes, so just keep your pants on!” Sirius replied so everyone could here him.

With his bottom lip clenched tightly between his teeth, Remus counted down the seconds, trying to think of anything but Sirius wanking him under the pretense of shifting gears.

A moment later Peter asked, “You okay, Remus?”

“Fine!” he managed to squeak, drawing the attention of everyone in the car.

“Really? Remus, you don’t sound so good…” Lily asked from the backseat, leaning forward to feel the back of Remus’ neck to test for a fever. “You’re burning up!”

“I’m fine,” Remus ground his teeth together as Sirius’ arm moved within centimeters of his hard on, and Remus shot Sirius a dangerous glance.

Sirius was smirking while he kept his eyes on the road, but it was obvious he knew what he was doing to Remus.

Tosser! Remus screamed in his mind. Wanker! Bloody git!

“I’m fine,” Remus replied with more force. Two could play this game.

“Sure, Moony?” Sirius spoke finally as they turned off the highway. “You sound a little tense.”

“You know I just don’t like surprises,” Remus’ voice was even and relaxed.

“Well, we’re here, so it’s not a surprise anymore,” Sirius announced, pulling into a brightly lit parking lot. In front of them was a sea of bright lights and hundreds of people wandering around. Large, mechanical objects were scattered around the area, and people stood in lines for food and different game booths.

“The carnival!” Lily exclaimed excitedly from the back seat. “I love carnivals!”

Everyone climbed out of the car, giving Remus the perfect opportunity to run his hand over Sirius’ arse, and causing him to jump in surprise. Sirius wisely didn’t say anything, and though Remus knew he was playing with fire, he wanted revenge.

Remus’ t-shirt was a size to large for his thin frame, but it fell so that it covered his obvious bulge, hiding it from plain view. Sirius glanced down when they were both standing and couldn’t hide his disappointment as he led the way to the front gate.

“We should go on the Big Wheel, first!” Lily announced. “The line is only going to get longer later, and we’ll have prizes and things to carry with us.”

“Alright,” the boys agreed, looking up at the looming circle of metal.

“How does it work?” James asked in awe.

“You sit in it, and it goes in a circle,” Sirius rolled his eyes at his friend’s lack of knowledge of Muggle contraptions. “Honestly, Prongs, you should have taken Muggle studies!”

“And then it stops at the top and you get to see the whole fair!” Lily said excitedly. “Let’s go,” she took James’ hand and dragged him in the direction of the line.

Sirius and Remus obediently followed along behind them, knowing it was better to just give in to Lily now than it would be to argue.

“I’ll wait for you at the exit,” Peter announced and darted off. “You won’t catch me dead on that old hunk of junk!”

As Lily said, the line was very short and they were on in a matter of minutes, though the line had grown substantially longer in that short period of time. Lily and James got into the first cab, leaving Sirius and Remus standing there awkwardly.

“Two people to a car! No more, no less!” the ride operator shouted. “If you don’t have a pretty girl to ride with, you’re riding with a bloke!”

Remus flushed dark red as they climbed in the next available cab and squished together. Their bodies touched from shoulder to ankle, and Remus finally gave up the struggle to control his body’s reactions to the close proximity of Sirius’ warm body and intoxicating scent. His erection was achingly hard, but there was nothing he could do about it with Sirius right next to him. Instead, he decided to mess with Sirius to get back at him from the car incident.

“Look,” Remus whispered in his ear, turning his body so his chest was pressed to Sirius’ side and his arm was around his shoulders, pointing to just outside the carnival lot. “There’s the ocean. You can smell the salt.”

“Mmmhmmm” Sirius replied, his eyes glazed over.

Remus smirked, intrigued by how easy it was to get Sirius worked up. Moving his mouth closer to Sirius’ ear, under the pretense of being heard over the roar of the carnival, he started to talk about the invention of the Big Wheel. “Did you know,” his lips brushed teasingly against Sirius’ ear, “that every carnival since 1894 has had a Big Wheel? They say it’s the best ride. It’s supposed to be a rush of adrenaline, and you’re so high up where no one can see you…” Remus trailed off and backed up a few inches to whisper ‘Desino’ then shifted closer again so his other hand was just above Sirius’ crotch, resting on the lap bar.

The ride stopped, leaving them just below the apex of the wheel, but in a position no one could see into their cab even if they tried.

“They say,” Remus continued speaking in a low voice right against Sirius’ ear, “that it’s the best place to shag.”

Sirius’ half-hard cock twitched, and Sirius shifted uncomfortably, accidentally rubbing his crotch against Remus’ hand and his cock hardened fully in response. He moaned quietly, looking everywhere but at Remus, who had returned to his ear.

“It’s supposed to be a rush,” he whispered, dropping his voice lower still, so Sirius had to strain to hear him. “The chance of getting caught, of the cab getting to the bottom before you’ve finished,” the ride began moving again as he spoke, “and knowing that everyone is down there and can’t see what is going on up here...” he trailed off, breathing softly against the flushed skin of Sirius’ neck.

They stayed in that position for the remainder of the ride, neither speaking as they breathed heavily and tried to control their bodies. When their cab finally neared the bottom, Remus shifted away from Sirius so they were sitting shoulder to shoulder again, and waited to get off the ride.

“Sorry about that, folks,” the ride operator said as he unlatched the lap belt. “Don’t know why the ride stopped.”

“No worries,” Remus replied with a grin. “We had a great view.”

Remus’ shirt once again covered the tell-tale bulge in his trousers, but Sirius’ tight jeans and shirt were not so forgiving. The operator gave the flushed Sirius a strange look, but wisely didn’t comment about his obvious hard on, as he ushered the next pair into the newly-vacated cab.

Just before the exit, Sirius slid up behind Remus and pushed his erection against Remus’ arse, whispering hotly in his ear, “Meet me at the guard tower on the beach in five minutes. Or else.” With that, Sirius was gone.

“Where’s Sirius?” Lily asked when Remus finally reached the exit and found his friends waiting for him.

“Oh, he spotted some bird and took off. Told me he’d meet us at the car when the carnival closed,” Remus lied.

“I guess that backseat is going to see some action, then,” Lily muttered. “What should we do next? Midway games?”

“I’ll catch up with you,” Remus tried to excuse himself. “I’ve got to find a loo.”

“Alright, bye, Moony!” the other three replied as Remus ran off.

He went directly to the exit and made his way down to the beach, both excited and terrified for what would be waiting for him there.

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