selenophile || remus lupin

chapter forty four

"James! James, calm down. I'm just fine. It's just a concussion, nothing too bad. Godric, you're like a mother hen sometimes," laughed Ophelia.

"We're just worried about you, Phee. We all hate seeing you injured," said Peter.

Ophelia grabbed his hand and squeezed it.

"Oh, Fia-" started Sirius, but soon got interrupted by Lily.

"Sirius, are you sure? She's got a concussion."

"Yes Evans, I've been listening to the conversation. I do have ears, you know. Anyways, Ophelia, Lily's brought her muggle camera and I thought we would take a picture of you on your sick day?"

"Sure, why not?"

Sirius took the camera from Lily and there was a small click.

"Are you sure you're alright?" asked a very concerned Remus.

"I'm fine, Remmy. The real question is are you alright?"

Remus stood between James and Peter. He had deep eyebags and wore a melancholy expression as his resting face. He looked like he hadn't eaten in weeks, which Ophelia had experience with. He was slouched and looked as if he was carrying the weight of the world upon his shoulders.

"I'm okay, it's just the full moon. It's tomorrow," he shrugged.

"You need to rest, Rem. You haven't been getting much sleep lately, I can tell. Come here," said Ophelia, motioning to the empty space in her hospital bed.

"Are you sure-"

"Yes, Remus. We both need rest and we both could use a bit of company anyways."

"Well, we'll leave you to rest," said Lily gently, a knowing gleam in her eyes.

"But I wanted to talk more-" whined Sirius.

"Come on, Pads. You can go talk with Emmaline Vance or something," said Peter.

The four walked out of the hospital wing, Lily closing the door with one last glance. Shortly after, Remus and Ophelia fell into a comfortable sleep.

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There was a loud click, waking both Remus and Ophelia up.

They had fallen asleep over two hours ago, and sometime in that two hours Ophelia had rested her head upon Remus' chest, and his arm was wrapped around her waist.

They both realized this as soon as they woke up, each going back to their own respective sides of the bed.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-" stuttered Remus.

"I didn't mind," smiled Ophelia.

They completely forgot about where they were, each wrapped up in their own thoughts. Why did that feel so right?

A person cleared their throat, and Remus and Ophelia looked up to see Regulus.

"What is this thing?" he asked, holding Lily's muggle camera.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Black. I'll um- I'll let you two be," said Remus sleepily. He got out of the bed and walked to the door, looking back at Ophelia and giving her a small smile.

"So, Lupin?" smirked Regulus, setting down the camera on the bedside table.

"What?? No, we're just friends, Reg."

"Mhm," hummed Regulus, obviously sarcastically.

"I'm serious, Reg."

"No, that's our brother."

"Shut up. We fell asleep, that's all."

"Are you alright?" asked Regulus, concerned.

"Yeah, I'm okay. Madam Pomfrey said it's a concussion. Nothing I haven't dealt with before" shrugged Ophelia.

"Let me know if there's anything I can get for you," said Regulus.

"Thank you, Reg."

Regulus pulled up a chair and sat down next to her bedside. He started fidgeting with the hem of the sweatshirt he was wearing, an uncommon occurrence to see Regulus Black fidgeting or showing any signs of nervousness.

"Look, Phee. After the bludger hit you, I heard a few Slytherins laughing about it. I went to tell them to stop but I overheard a bit of their conversation. It was Mulciber and Snape. They were the ones who hexed the bludger to go after you. Don't worry, I hexed them and if they do it again they'll be sure to get a lot worse than a few hexes. I'm sorry, Ophelia."

"That's alright. You can't really expect anything different from them. The only person I'm worried about is Lily."

"Are you going to tell her that it was them?"

"No, Lily used to be best friends with Snape. I don't want her to get any more upset than she already is."

Regulus grabbed her hand and squeezed it to comfort her.

"Alright."

a/n

I'm back babes! I was in Hawaii for a few weeks, but I'm back!

Anyways, while I was gone we hit 10k reads?? That's insane!! thank you <333

Also, I'm having a bit of a crisis because I've been a Hufflepuff for years, but today I decided to retake the Pottermore quiz and the more accurate one with all of the Pottermore quiz questions and both said I was in Slytherin. And I would be okay if Hufflepuff was a close second but no, it was last. It was wayyyy below Slytherin. I was like 50%ish Hufflepuff and like 80%ish Slytherin, so idk what to do. Please give advice.

Oh, and we need to decide Remus+Ophelia's ship name. Do you guys like Remelia or Ophelius better? Or do you have any other ideas?

Finally, today's my birthday!! I'm proud to say that I share a birthday with Ginny Weasley (probably my favorite character in the books). I'm fifteen now :))

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Please tell me what you want to see more of <3