Study Aids

[amuly]

Title: Study Aids
Pairing: Sirius/Remus
Word Count: 645
Rating: PG
Summary: Remus is trying to study for exams the night after the full moon, but is finding his energy waning. Enter Sirius to help out.
Warnings: FLUUFFF
A/N: Speed-written for analia_the_1st , who needed some cheering up at this late hour in the fall semester. Dedicated to all you students out there, I'm sure ready to jump off a bridge from the stress. Don't do it! Enjoy this fluff, instead! :P

 

 

Remus threw down his quill in frustration, groaning as he let his head drop on top of the parchment. This was impossible. There was no way he was going to manage to finish studying for all his classes when the full was yesterday, and his first exam was tomorrow. Sometimes, being a werewolf was just complete rubbish. In more ways than just the typically considered.

The common room floor creaked behind him, and Remus rolled his head to the side. It was late – past midnight – and most students were either getting a good night's sleep in preparation for their exams, or camped out in the library for the rest of the night. Remus hadn't the heart to brave the freezing hallways – winter was already settled in, bitterly cold this year – with his joints still creaking and protesting their most recent transformation. So he was cuddled up by the fire, doing the best to review his notes even as his vision swam and headache pounded at his temples.

“Moony?”

Remus sighed, peering out from under a fringe of brown hair at Sirius as he cautiously stepped across the plush Gryffindor rug toward him. “Padfoot.”

“I woke up and you weren't there.”

Sirius settled down next to Remus without an invitation, sneaking under the blanket and wrapping a warm arm around Remus'.

Resisting for only a moment, Remus let his head drop onto Sirius' shoulder – softer and more comfortable than the hard wood table – and whimpered. “Have to study. Not that there's much point: no one's going to employ me as soon as they get wind of my condition.”

Remus received a stern, but gentle, nudge to the shoulder for that. “You'll get shit grades if you stay up much later. Come back to bed. James and Pete are still asleep: they won't see.”

Remus' head throbbed, even nestled where it was on Sirius' shoulder. Bed, tucked up in Sirius' warm embrace, sounded like the most wonderful thing in the world at the moment. Better than a hundred bars of chocolate, warm cocoa, six blowjobs, and a cure for lycanthropy. There was nothing he wanted to do more just now than sleep and sleep and sleep.

“Can't,” he croaked.

Grumbling, Sirius shifted Remus around, until he found Sirius sitting behind him, legs straddling him and strong hands moving to his temples. “You've got a headache.”

Oh, but that did feel lovely. Remus allowed his eyes to fall closed and head to loll back, as Sirius' fingers exerted firm pressure on his temples.

“You always get headaches when you try and study too soon after the full,” Sirius continued, muttering mostly to himself. His fingers were quickly alleviating the worst of Remus' headache, giving him a small burst of energy.

“One more hour?”

Sirius' fingers stopped, drifting gently down to the back of Remus' neck and continuing their massage there. A small kiss was pressed to the back of Remus' ear. “Only if you let me massage you while you study. Sitting all hunched up over your notes is ruining all the hard work I put into recuperating you after the full.”

“You mean the blowjob?” Remus teased.

“Are you insulting Sirius Black's world-famous werewolf recuperation technique?”

Remus laughed as Sirius poked at his ribs, tickling him. “Never, never!” he gasped. His muscles still ached, and headache was certainly still hovering at the edge of his mind, ready to return full-fledged at a moment's notice. But with Sirius' hands slowly working the rest of Remus' neck, shoulders, and back, with a sort of patient diligence Remus would have never imagined Sirius possessed up to a year ago, Remus thought another hour of studying didn't sound so awful. He could manage. Just as long as Sirius stayed with him.

 

Comments

[liebedance.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, you deserve all love and chocolate. This was the perfect little reward for finishing (for the 2nd? 3rd? time) my term paper. It was so sweet and full of amazing fluff. You really captured the defeat of studying... And I loved how caring - and still sarcastic - your Sirius was. Best werewolf recuperation technique ever, I'd say.

Fab!

[amuly.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am intimately familiar with the defeat of studying, goodness knows! I've felt exactly how Remus feels here more times than I care to remember.

Glad this came at an appropriate time for you, and that you enjoyed it! ^.^

[hydrojen90.livejournal.com]

Awwww, this is so sweet! I'm also trying to get some of my uni work in. One of the downsides of doing a music tech course is that I have to create music and sound effects for a 3 minute clip, as well as write a 2500 word essay on it :'(

[amuly.livejournal.com]

Oooo suxor. Makes me all the more appreciative of the gap year I'm in the middle of now, between uni and grad school. ^.^

Glad to have provided a little ray of light amidst all the stress!

[abbyvonnormal]

Very much appreciated! In a boring class now :)

[amuly.livejournal.com]

The gall! *gasp* Reading fanfiction in class! Something I - the perfect student - never would have done!!

>_>
<_< *cough*

[abbyvonnormal]

In this class, you would... Teacher is extremely boring. Thanks for the diversion :)

[epithalamium]

I wish I had a Sirius while I was doing my (admittedly useless) thesis. *cuddles next to your fic*

[amuly.livejournal.com]

Awww *cuddles back* I also lacked a Sirius when writing my thesis last spring. I did have a bestie who was also writing a thesis, which helped a lot. When it comes to insane schoolwork, misery definitely loves company :P

[epithalamium]

Now that you remind me, I also had P writing her own thesis with me. We certainly busted the power supply of my desktop computer between us, lol. (And I got more sleep than she did.)

[analia-the-1st.livejournal.com]

You are the best! *huggles* I'm probably going to read this religiously over the next week while I'm trying make it through all my exams. Thank you so, so much! *huggles some more*

[amuly.livejournal.com]

Awwww well I'm just happy I could whip up something to get you through the next stressful week ^.^

[purpleyedemon.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm gonna say it again: I need a Sirius. Seriously. lol ;)

This was just lovely. And snuggly. And sweet. And a whole bunch of other wonderful words I can't come up with at the moment.

[amuly.livejournal.com]

You take Sirius - I need me a Remus :P (Not that I don't love love love Sirius - I obviously do - but him and I have too much in common to be good for one another. That's why we need our Remi's: to balance us out ^.^)

I'm glad you enjoyed my little snuggly ficlet ^.^

[purpleyedemon.livejournal.com]

I think that's just it. I pretty much am a girl version of Remus. Without the whole werewolf thing, of course, lol. So, as much as I love love love love love Remus, I need a Sirius to be bouncy and cocky and crazy for me. Bah! lol

[lmusic.livejournal.com]

So lovely

[amuly.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^.^

[myprettycabinet.livejournal.com]

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[amuly.livejournal.com]

I know! The sugary-sweetness!! :P

[myprettycabinet.livejournal.com]

And you write it so well!! You're such an enabler. :-D

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

Mot a student, but, awww. Sirius is such a sweetie!

[amuly.livejournal.com]

Non-students have stress in their life, too! :P
Glad you liked my ridiculously schmoopy Sirius.

[rjlblack.livejournal.com]

Adorable! Thanks for this, just what I needed.

[amuly.livejournal.com]

Aww yay! I'm glad you liked ^.^

[adari94.livejournal.com]

OMG! That was so adorable! It cheered me up too :)

Don't worry, I did note the "speed written" in the author's note, but in the first sentence I think the "in" may have been an accident: "Remus threw down in his quill in frustration"

Honestly, I love all of your stories! <3

[amuly.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you for pointing that out! Just b/c it's speed written doesn't mean you should have to put up with typos :P

Glad you liked this in addition to my other stuff ^.^

[allyruns.livejournal.com]

This one is so sweet as well! <3 I certainly enjoyed the fluff! <33