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“Is Remus okay?”
Sirius looked down to his right leg where Neville stood, one hand grabbing his pants near his knee and the other tugging at his shirt. He looked up at him with big worried eyes before he looked back towards the door to the bedroom.
Sirius bend his knees, to get to the boys level, and took his hand in his with a calm smile and nod.
“Remus had a rough night, but don’t you worry.”
He gave Neville’s hand a gentle squeeze.
“He’ll be Okay, he just needs a good rest.”
It was true, but Sirius couldn’t help but feel wrong saying Remus was okay. No doubt that Remus himself would say the same, without hesitation even, but it had been a rough full moon and Sirius felt quite horrible. He and James had been called out on a big mission in Germany, and so, none of them had been able to join Remus during his transformation (They usually took turns to be there with him, the other taking care of the kids together with Lily.). So it had been a rough night. Without anyone to entertain the wolf it usually took it out on itself, tearing and scratching at its own skin.
Neville noticed the slight worried frown on Sirius’ face as his eyes had turned towards the bedroom. It wasn’t the first time they had been in this situation, Remus in bed with a few bandages and sleeping for almost a day, usually Sirius was tired too but not so much this time. Neville never asked what had happened, it was most likely some grown up business that he wasn’t allowed to know, or wouldn’t be able to understand. He had picked up on one thing though.
“Chocolate?”
Sirius looked back at him and soon a big smile formed on his face, making Neville smile slightly as well.
“Good idea Neville! Chocolate!”
Sirius grabbed Neville and got to his feet, settling the boy on his hip, and walked to the kitchen.
“Light or dark?”
Neville gave off a humming sound as he thought about the question for a moment.
“Dark! With extra happiness!”
Sirius laughed as he opened the cabinet where their chocolate storage was.
“Dark it is.”
He grabbed a bar of dark chocolate from the pile and handed it to Neville, so he could close the cabinet again.
“Can you break it for me?”
Neville nodded and soon began cracking the chocolate, with some trouble as the dark was more hard than light. He gave off small huffing sounds every time he got it to break and Sirius couldn’t help but chuckle.
They walked to the bedroom and a small knock later they entered the dark room.
“Remus?”
A tired hum came from the bed as the bulge stirred, and soon Remus poked his bandaged head out. A smile formed on his face as he saw the two walking towards the bed.
“Hey you two.”
He slowly pulled himself up in the bed, resting his back at the headboard, and turned on the light on the night stand.
Sirius put Neville down by his side and then crawled to sit at the other side of Remus.
“We brought Chocolate!”
Sirius placed a light kiss on Remus cheek before he looked towards Neville, who was already holding the chocolate in Remus’ direction.
Remus laughed mildly, ignoring the pain it caused in his body, and accepted the chocolate from Neville.
“Thank you so much.”
Neville smiled proudly.
“Now should we all try and share it?”
Remus looked to them both, turning his head as quickly as he could without showing pain.
Sirius lit up in a bigger smile, and as the child he is, he raised his arms in the air and howled happily.
“Yay!”
Neville and Remus shared a look and chuckled. Neville’s answer was more calm and polite.
“Yes please.”