𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝘂𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱.

𝘄𝗰: 𝟳𝟬𝟮

the three made their way to the great hall and settled themselves where peter was sat.

remus stretched up in his seat, looking around the great hall for his girlfriend, but she was nowhere to be seen.

the werewolf then felt someone tap on his shoulder and he turned around to see emma vanity standing behind him.

"have you seen y/n?" she asked.

a frown was etched on remus' face, "no, why?"

"she missed dinner last night and i think she only came back to the dorms after curfew, she left early in the morning as well. we've all been worried about her."

"oh! i saw her crying just-" peter began to speak when sirius cut him off with a sharp glare, kicking the boy in the shin under the table.

"what?" remus picked himself up from the bench and swung his bag over his shoulder, "where?" he asked frantically.

all the pain from his scars seemed to have dissipated, all he cared about now was his girlfriend.

"out in the courtyard i think, that's where she was running off to," peter spoke with a handful of eggs in his mouth.

remus did not say another word and sprinted out of the great hall towards the courtyard.

he gripped onto a pillar as he made a sharp turn, entering the courtyard and seeing you huddled on a bench, hugging your knees.

you picked your head up from your knees when you felt a dip on the bench you were sitting on.

your eyes widened when you saw the worried gryffindor in front of you.

you quickly wiped her tears away and feigned a smile.

"hey rem," you tried to speak as normally as possible, but your hoarse voice gave it away.

"are you alright my sweet girl?" remus reached for you but you flinched away.

remus looked at you dumbfounded.

it was now or never, you were going to confront him now.

"h-have you been cheating on me?" you managed to form words into a sentence.

"what?" remus was taken aback at the absurdity of your question, "no! i'd never think of doing that to you."

"then where have you been off to recently? don't say doing your prefect rounds, because i've spoken to lily and she said that it's her turn to do rounds this term," you let out a frustrated cry.

remus did not know what to say, he was silently balancing out the pros and cons of telling you about his lycanthropy in his head.

you took his silence as had admission to having cheated on you and so you struggled to stand yourself up from the bench.

"wait y/n." remus grabbed onto your wrist.

"i-i'm a werewolf."

you looked at him wide-eyed, your eyebrows raised. you were expecting a stupid excuse from him, not a confession of a condition he had been experiencing since he was a child.

"that's where i've been running off to during full moons. i go to the shrieking shack during my transformations so as to not alarm any students in the castle, a wild werewolf running around and all."

you returned to the bench next to remus, "oh rem," you pulled the boy into your chest.

"i'm sorry for not telling you sooner, i just...i was just afraid i'd hurt you," remus apologised.

you pulled his head from your chest, "rem, baby, you'd never hurt me. don't apologise, if anything i'm sorry for ever doubting your faith in our relationship."

"no no, i understand why you would think that. i love you so much y/n," remus pulled you into his lap.

"i love you remus, so much," your lips ghosted his, "no more secrets?" you stuck your pinky out to the brunette boy.

"no more secrets," remus wrapped his pinky around yours, burying his head in your neck and peppering kisses on it.

"ow prongs! you're stepping on my foot," sirius whisper-scolded james as the two gryffindors hid behind a bush, watching you and remus.

"my parents are at peace at last," james smiled gleefully, completely ignoring sirius who was poking at his feet.