#Remus is distracted

[asnarkyandironicusername]

Day 24 of @remadoramicrofics - Sneak

Remus found it incredibly hard to concentrate on Mad-eye’s lecture on going undercover with Nymphadora Tonks’s hand tracing filigree patterns on his thigh. It had all started innocently enough, really; she used to sit across from him and he had found it hard enough not to stare at her during meetings, the way she pinched her teeth between her tongue when she was focused or would start morphing her nose or her hair when she grew bored. Then, one meeting she had slid her foot between his. Remus had promptly jerked his feet back under his chair, but she had simply followed him, allowing her feet to rest on top of his as if she were pinning him in place. 

At the next meeting, she was next to him. Remus thought the arrangement might work better; he wasn’t able to see her and there would be no impromptu games of footsie. Things never seemed to go that easy for him, though; halfway through the meeting, he had felt her foot brush up his calf. He figured it was a mistake and tucked himself tighter into his seat, but a moment later, she repeated the gesture.

He never asked her about the touches – wasn’t sure which answer would scare him more – but they continued through meetings and missions alike. It was one one of those missions, where she had been tucked under the invisibility cloak with him, thighs pressed together, where they’d had the first of many conversations.

It was becoming clear that tonight’s stakeout was a waste and Tonks was letting the conversation wander. Eventually, she began asking about Sirius and, in a more roundabout way, James and Lily. She had learned early on that neither Remus nor Sirius would discuss Peter. She had leaned even farther into him. “He’s still handsome, isn’t he, even after Azkaban?”

Remus had laughed softly. Of course she had fallen for his charm – Remus still wasn’t entirely sure how he managed to keep it after so long in Azkaban. “Your mother would have his head, you know.”

“Hm?” she looked at him.

“If Sirius ever so much as looked at you.”

“I’m not –”

Remus clarified, “He always got the women. James was smitten with Lily for years and I…well, Sirius almost never had an empty arm, back in school, I mean.”

Tonks had huffed at him. “You’d know perfectly well who I’ve fallen for, if you weren’t too busy feeling sorry for yourself to notice.”

Remus had looked at her, pink-faced and with an undeniably angry spark in her eyes. His stomach had twisted with elation, but he quickly squashed it down. “Nymphadora…We should get back and handle the report,” he said, promptly standing up and taking her hand before apparating them back to the library of Grimmauld Place.

And then, of course, he had put a stop to the missions – opting for the most dangerous ones, the ones no one else would take. Then Sirius was gone and Remus had moved out to the camp. Nymphadora had tried desperately to change his mind, but Dumbledore wanted a spy and there he was... ready-made. The camp had been miserable. He wasn’t complaining; it was necessary to work and who could do it better than him? But there was endless mistrust and harshness in the camp that made him feel rather useless. 

Often, he’d spend nights there with his mind stuck on Nymphadora and the meetings and the missions and the private evenings that she’d let Sirius regale her with their stories from school. The nights turned into weeks which turned into months before he was summoned by a hasty patronus to return to Hogwarts. There, he had found Arthur and Molly crowding around their oldest son. Thankfully, Bill would not fully suffer the curse. Remus’s curse, however, was far from the back of his mind as Nymphadora, no longer bright and pink, shook his robes in a white-knuckled grip.

“You see!" she said in a strained voice, glaring at him. "She still wants to marry him, even though he's been bitten! She doesn't care!"

"It's different," he argued, feeling like an elastic stretched too far. "Bill will not be a full werewolf. The cases are completely-"

"But I don't care either, I don't care!" said Nymphadora, seizing the front of his robes and shaking them. "I've told you a million times...."

"And I've told you a million times," he whispered, refusing to meet her eyes, staring at the floor, "that I am too old for you, too poor....too dangerous...."

"I've said all along you're taking a ridiculous line on this, Remus," Molly had chided over Fleur's shoulder as she patted her on the back.

"I am not being ridiculous," he responded. "Tonks deserves somebody young and whole."

"But she wants you," Arthur told him with a small smile. "And after all, Remus, young and whole men do not necessarily remain so." He gestured sadly at his son, lying between them.

"This is....not the moment to discuss it," he tried. Now, of all times, to barely have a leg to stand on. "Dumbledore is dead...."

Now, mere months later, she rarely kept her hands off of him. That’s how he found himself struggling to pay attention to the meeting between her tireless hands and her intoxicating perfume. 

He nearly jumped as he felt her hand move up to his shoulder. “Want to sneak off?” she whispered in his ear when he leaned towards her.

“Yes,” he breathed, but placed a hand firmly on her knee, “but we have a meeting to finish, Nymphadora.” As he spoke, he let his pinky finger slip up under the hem of her skirt before quickly retracting his hand and sitting a little straighter in his seat.

Out of the corner of his eye, she tensed and sputtered for just a moment. He grinned, knowing he’d gotten one up on her. Then, her hand was back on his thigh and he prayed Moody would hurry up.

[mooningoverthestars]

narrator: but they were flirting, and continued to do so, for the entire rest of the game…

[loganslowdown4]

Happy 5 years to Are There Healthy Distractions! ❄️

And this one is very special to me because I watched it right when it was uploaded AND it made me want to join all of you for the first time!

And I will never shut up about that 5 split shot, it still blows me AWAY 💙🤍🩵💜❤️

[lefaystrent]

Distractions

Fandom: Sanders Sides

Pairings: all-star cast of platonicness

Summary: The light sides are in a sad state of affairs. The dark sides are pretty good at offering distractions.

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Logan sits on the living room couch, head in his hands, slumped in defeat. Despair. Failure.

He's slightly jostled by someone else sitting on the couch.

"Aliens aren't real," comes Virgil's voice, definitive and assumedly directed at Logan.

Logan lifts his head enough to check. His glasses have made a mighty impression into his forehead but he doesn't move to adjust them. Virgil is very nearly glaring at him.

"Virgil, you yourself have created power point demonstrations centered around the validity of aliens. Since when has your opinion changed?"

"Since now. Fight me, nerd."

Logan leans back a little to properly look at Virgil. He could be mistaken for fuming, the way his jaw is set and the fire burning in his eyes. But no, he is merely adamant to rile Logan up. To what end though?

"Are you...challenging me to a debate?"

Virgil gives a sharp-toothed, satisfied grin. He is willing to play devil's advocate for a good cause.

***

"Hey, wanna dance?"

Roman windmills his arm in the direction of the sultry voice that whispered in his ear. The faint smell of garlic wifts in his nostrils, followed by a gleeful chuckle.

"Remus!! Get out of my room!"

Remus rolls back on his heels. He folds his arms behind his back and looks into the air, a thoughtful hum on his lips.

"Hmmm, how about no?"

"Leave! Out you pest!"

"Make me!"

"You would force the hand of your own brother?" Roman says far too seriously, and Remus gives him an unimpressed stare. "...yeah, you're right, this is very on brand for you. I don't know why I'm acting surprised."

Remus shrugs and throws his hands up in the air. "Alright, if you're done bothering me–"

"You're the one who came in my room!"

"I've got better things to do than listen to you whine, Prince Poopy Pants."

Remus goes to stride out the door. Roman watches him, arms crosses and fingers tapping impatiently on his elbow, haughty expression that says he's one push away from snapping.

Remus pauses at the door.

Roman doesn't have time to anticipate.

Remus snatches up one of Roman's Pop figures off his bookshelf and flees the scene. Roman exits stage right in pursuit, screaming.

***

"You can't stay in bed all day."

"Watch me," Patton says, a pout in his voice. He's buried under blankets with only his hair sticking out at the top.

Janus clicks his tongue and scratches at Patton's scalp. It's less effective with gloves on, but Patton allows the contact.

"Or do, I certainly won't judge you," Janus says flippantly.

Patton whines into the mattress, "That implies that someone is judging me."

"I didn't say that. Did I say that?"

"Janus!" Exasperrated, Patton tosses down his blankets enough to reveal his rumpled onsie and impressive bedhead. He stops when he sees what sits on the bedside table that wasn't there before.

"You never came down for breakfast this morning," Janus explains. "Not that I care or anything. There were just so many pancakes leftover that it would be a shame for them to go to waste."

Patton eyes the tray and the stack of syrupy pancakes. His lip wobbles a little. "You brought me breakfast in bed?"

"Don't get used to it."

Patton finds the will to smile and tucks into breakfast. It tastes freshly made and sweet.

[danceinthunder]

James Potter is the type of person to climb onto a a 4ft wall and walk across it before jumping off and yell “parkour”.

[daddiesdrarryy]

Remus: Okay, Wormtail, you’ll be checking the perimeter for the professors

Remus: Prongs, you’ll be the first to initiate the plan

Remus: Pads, I want you to just stand next to me and say “yes, Remus”

Sirius: Okay, Moony!

Remus: Come on, love!

[lynxindisguise]

ok but what if remus is a trans man and tonks knocked him up by metamorphing into a man have we considered this

[lulublack90]

Prompt 29 - Flag

@wolfstarmicrofic August 29, word count 600

“I’m taking it,” Sirius declared as he looked up at the ceiling in the Great Hall while they were eating breakfast. 

“Where will you even put it?” Remus asked him. “We don’t even have anywhere to live yet, how do you know there’s even going to be anywhere big enough to hang it?” Remus tried to make him see sense, but Sirius was having none of it. Once he got something like that in his head, he wouldn’t stop until he’d achieved his goal. He spun around in his seat, trying to spot the right person. He waved a hand to flag down Lily Evans as she was about to pass them with Marlene and Mary. 

“Oi, Evans, will you give me a hand?”

“With what?” She paused beside him, her eyes narrowing suspiciously. 

“You’re the best in our year at charms and I need help getting one of those down,” He pointed his finger up at the huge house banners hanging above them. 

“Nope,” Lily spun away. 

“What, why?” Sirius whined. 

“I’m head girl, Black. I can’t just steal a banner right in front of the entire faculty and student body,” She rolled her eyes at him. “And don’t even think about helping him, Potter,” She glared at James. 

“Yes dear,” James grinned as he leant over and kissed her lightly on the lips. 

“Good boy,” She smiled back at him before she, Marlene and Mary headed for the exit. 

“Aww, no fair,” Sirius sulked, crossing his arms on the table and dropping his head onto them.  

“Sorry Pads,” James patted him on the head. “I’ve got to do what she says,” James shrugged. 

“Hey,” Remus leaned over and nudged him with his shoulder. “Lily said James couldn’t help you, but she didn’t say anything about me not helping you,” Sirius’s head shot up off the table. 

“You’d do that for me?” He gasped.

“Of course,” Remus chuckled, ruffling his hair.

“I bloody love you, Moony,” Sirius grabbed him and kissed him hard.

“Love you too,” Remus kissed him again quickly before pulling a Dr Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start, No-Heat Firework from his bag. He dunked it in his pumpkin juice and launched it towards the Slytherin table, right at Snape. It went off with a deafening bang, shooting multicoloured jets of light into the air. The Great Hall was chaos as the sparks bounced around the entire room. The marauders cackled with glee when they saw the sooty mess Snape was in. They slipped out undetected with the rest of the rabble. But it wasn’t until they were safely back in the Gryffindor Common room that Remus pulled the hastily folded banner from under his robes. 

“Oh, Moony, I don’t know how I’ll ever repay you,” Sirius stared at him in awe.

“Just promise me you won’t hang it over our bed,” He laughed, knowing that Sirius had already had that idea without him saying a word. 

“Yeah, okay,” He conceded. 

“Or the toilet,” Remus arched a brow at him. 

“Remus, that’s so unfair,” But he accepted it nonetheless and decided it could hang from the ceiling in the living room. 

He took it upstairs and hid it safely in his trunk. He’d owl it to Monty later on, he’d hide it for him until school was over. He went back down to the Common room where his friends were now lounging on the squashy armchairs and sofas. He hopped into Remus’s lap and snuggled down. He couldn’t wait for school to be over so he could do this every day, all day, for the rest of their lives. 

[lexithwrites]

really trying not to let my coworkers weight comment get to me rn so if anyone has any wolfstar stuff they want to send me pls do id appreciate it

[where-are-the-spooky-gays-2]

and then the six of them pile onto the couch and eat too much candy and watch The Nightmare Before Christmas. in case it wasn’t clear.

-🐢

[valoflunar]

Regulus is a perfectionist and James is a procrastinator so when they go on “study” dates together it’s mostly just James distracting regulus while regulus is trying to study but in the end James wins with his distracting

[messrsrarchives]

✨TRICK OR TREEEAATTT✨

👻🎃 boo !!

you get a snippet of chapter 1 of a wip i've been working in for AGES and can't wait to finish so i can start posting

“Well then, keep this photo on you, memorise him. Read the files, don’t worry too much about remembering all of it, just get the basics sorted and text me if you have any questions.”

“I can do that.” James nods, eyes roaming over the photograph still.

“And uh,” Remus hesitates. Christ, this is difficult. “Thanks for the help.”

"Always.”

It’s only when Remus’ hand is turning the door handle that James talks one more, “And what’s his name again?”

Remus turns to look at him, hand still on the cold metal, taking into account the way James' gaze hasn't moved from the image once.

"Regulus Arcturus Black.”

trick or treat game!

[cookihearts]

On honor of this lovely month

[quillkiller]

im actually going to jump from my window i think if people on tiktok don’t stop making remus out to be annoyed with sirius literally all the time

[pacisandpuzzles]

Little Logan who loves to be called various bug pet names ("my little snail", "honey bee", "(centi)pedey", "beetle")

While trying to get Logan to take a bath (and Logan running all over the place to avoid it), Remus calls him a "scuttling little roach". Everyone gasps at him, shocked that he would call Logan that—

until Logan squeals excitedly & babbles on about cockroach facts!

[oveliagirlhaditright]

...Don't kill me, guys. But is it bad that I wasn't that crazy about the new Missing Link scenes?

I can't really put my finger on why.... I think it's because, somehow, it just didn't really feel like Kingdom Hearts to me, nor did it really have the Kingdom Hearts magic that I'm used to (though I know that that can be subjective and we're still early in and I should give it more of a chance, of course. And I plan to).

I kind of felt like I was playing a different game, like Persona or something (says someone who has only seen a little bit of Persona 3) or maybe the Tales series. IDK.

And the characters just seemed rather trope-y to me.

There were a few things that grabbed me a little bit, and seemed kind of interesting, but I think I actually was more interested by our last preview of Missing Link (which was the first time I cared about it, ever) than this one.

Sorry. Don't mean to rain on you guys' parade:(

I'm hoping to change my mind, of course, and am looking forward to what the next update (hopefully soon) has in store.

Though I will say that I'm impressed that we have four chapters already (even if they are pretty short). And it gives me hope that, as the devs have hinted at, we're not going to get anything at all resembling a KHUX or Dark Road situation where story is concerned. Thank God.