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Coming Out

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The letter was unsigned, but still it was addressed and the two boys could hardly believe the idiot sending the letter had not had the forethought to charm the content so it could only be read by its intended recipient, if only to protect said recipients’ personal business. Come on that was first year stuff! And they had thought common practice throughout the entire school. Honestly how could anyone send a letter of this sensitivity into Marauder territory and not take such simple precautions!

True the letter did not give away much detail, but all the more reason to keep it out of curious Marauders’ prying hands, they had to know the less the letter said the more the unintended reader would want to know, and knowing these potential unintended readers the writer had to have enough brains to know they would try and figure it out, there were no better detectives around then Sirius Black and James Potter!

And really even if the writer had not know better than to charm the letter, and both James and Sirius wondered what girl Remus could be seeing that would not know better, they were sure Remus should know them better by now then to leave such a personal letter where they could get their hands on it, really right atop his bed! Well after tonight they would have to have a long talk with their fellow Marauder about foolhardy un-sneaky un-Marauder like behavior, but tonight, tonight they had a little tryst to witness and a mystery date to sniff out.

James re-read the letter, aloud to Sirius.

"Remus,

I understand and will be in the small abandoned classroom on the third floor at seven just as you asked.

Just know I really am sorry and will except whatever you feel necessary."

A small smile crossing his face, they still had about twenty minutes to beat both parties to the meeting spot and set up a watch point under the invisibility cloak. Even though James still wished the note had been signed he was relieved it provided enough information for them to be able to find the place before hand, otherwise they would have to have followed Remus and despite what recent events would indicate Remus just wasn't THAT stupid and he was a wolf he would know he was being followed!

James quickly got out his invisibility cloak and ushered Sirius underneath with him as they made their way to the abandoned classroom mentioned in the note.

There was nothing special about the room, some dusty old desks an old worn out black board that probably had not seen chalk in years, if these two had been using this classroom for their rendezvous before they had left no evidence of it. The only good thing about the room was it was far, far from any student or faculty activities, in fact James and Sirius doubted that anyone would be in this particular corridor on this particular floor for any reason and they wondered how their friend had found out about it, and why he had not shared the knowledge!

Finding a corner well hidden in shadow that still provided a good view of the entire room the boys settled down under the invisibility cloak and remained vigilant.

At ten minutes to seven Remus showed up, alone. He surveyed the room as if looking for something but what that something was neither other boy could see. And for a moment both boys held their breath as it seemed Remus was staring right at them, but then he went back to his business, nodding his head as if he had found whatever it was he was looking for a small sly smile crossed the wolfs lips.

Taking out his wands he did a few incantations lighting the many dust caked candles around the room and transfiguring a group of desks into a bed with purple duvet.

James had to smile, that was rather impressive transfiguration, for a fifth year, one he had not even had the necessity for yet and he could not help feeling a little jealous as well.

Remus then laid out a few items that neither boy could really make out as they where a matching purple to the duvet and with the candle light so dim they simply blended in with the bed.

Moments later the door to the classroom opened again revealing someone neither boy, hidden by the cloak would have been able to guess as the writer of the note in a million years.

Obsidian eyes whisked over the invisibility cloak seemingly unnoticing, but its two occupants could still scarcely breathe as they fought back their reactions and still labored to remain silent.

James had to slap his hand over Sirius' mouth to keep him from yelling out and got bitten for his troubles; he had to bite his own bottom lip to keep from crying out as Sirius' sharp teeth sunk into his finger. James figured out then that having two sets of teeth sunken into your skin at the same time was a very painful endeavor and nearly impossible to keep silent during.

He fixed Sirius with a death glare as he rubbed his bitten finger with his uninjured hand and licked over his bitten lip with his tongue nursing his wounds and thanking Merlin the he had been able to keep silent. No one could ever again say that James Potter did not have self-control!

"Strip!" Remus ordered lifting up what, now that it was not against the purple duvet James and Sirius could make out as a purple leather paddle.

Sirius made a gagging motion sticking his for finger down his throat and again James fixed him with a glare, and while the two other occupants of the room where momentarily distracted James took the moment to scold his friend.

"Listen Sirius" James whispered. "If we interrupt or get caught we will lose our best friend forever, I don’t like this anymore then you but the best thing we can do is grin and bear it and talk some sense into Remus at a later time, and then we can take turns obliviating each other!" James spoke more quietly then he ever thought possible and Sirius nodded his head though he was looking decidedly green.

"Yes Sir." Was all that was said before clothing was shed and folded neatly off to the side and neither James or Sirius could believe it had been that easy, that anyone less this particular person obeyed sweet, soft spoken, submissive Remus, let alone the fact that someone would call Remus 'Sir'.

"Now tell me why we are here, Severus?" Remus said as he flipped the paddle around in his hand menacingly.

The candles did not light to room well but well enough the both hidden voyeurs could see everything clear enough, however neither one could really place the look they thought they may have been seeing as the candle light was dancing in Remus' eyes, it was bordering on demanding dominant as well as dangerous and controlled, it was a look they had never seen on their friend before and as unexpected as that look was it did not actually seem out of place on Remus.

Severus stood naked next to Remus in front of the bed, Remus shifted his eyes from Severus' face to his body to the paddle he was still flipping in his hand and oddly enough to the corner James' and Sirius' inhabited.

James' breath caught in his throat has he thought for sure they had been spotted, they were not all that far from where the other two boys stood and the desks that had been between them where now a bed that both boys stood in front of leaving nothing but air and about fifteen steps between the hidden Marauders their best friend and Snivellus!

But Remus did not seem to see them in fact it appeared he was looking right through them, which James reasoned was the truth as they where under the invisibility cloak, he silently chided himself for being so worried the cloak had never failed him before!

Severus stared at the paddle with what looked like dread and anxiety; his gaze momentarily went to the inhabited corner before resting again on the paddle. He gulped before speaking.

"We are here apparently so you can paddle my bare arse!" He said with much cheek and Remus could not help but snort at the very Severus reply, he did find it entertaining even if it was not the answer he had wanted, Severus rarely ever gave the answer Remus wanted to hear right off the bat.

But Remus quickly schooled his features into a stern look as he tapped the paddle on his palm.

"Well, yes that does indeed seem to be the case but I was inquiring as to why I am going to paddle your bare arse, do you need to spend some time in the corner to think on that?" He asked pointing the paddle towards the corner James and Sirius where hidden in both of them stopped breathing as they did something very uncharacteristic, they prayed that for once in his life Snape would do the smart thing and not incur more punishment then necessary!

The corner was an idle threat but certain parties had no way of knowing that, Remus knows how much Severus hates the corner and will go very far to avoid it, oh make no mistakes he would gladly take it in lieu of a spanking but would go to great lengths to stay as far away from the corner if it was to be preceded by one.

Severus bit back a grin and wondered whether to see just how far he could push, he decided one more snarky comment would not be out of bounds and it would keep certain people on their toes!

"I cannot claim to know the reasons behind anything you do Lupin." He said with an hair of snarkyness he really was not feeling, like anyone in their right mind could really feel snarky while standing naked in front of a man holding a paddle that was soon to be applied to their bare arse, but then again it could be argued that Severus was not often in his right mind, in fact he spent a good deal of time in his left mind and there for got himself into a great deal of trouble in situations such as this.

"Severus!" Remus said in a warning tone, one that told him that had better be the last bit of snark to come out of him.

Severus knew this cue well and with a mighty sigh set about stating his crime.

"Okay, so doing half of the Slytherin houses potions homework to keep the house grades up isn't the most honest thing to do, but it is the most Slytherin!" Snape insisted, he knew he had been wrong and upon being found out he would end up exactly where he was right now with Remus he just hoped that the fact that it was a Slytherin thing to do and he was indeed a Slytherin would be a mitigating circumstance, but the look on Lupin’s face was telling Severus he was wrong!

James and Sirius exchanged looks, this was just far too odd, since when did Snivellus answer to Remus, and willingly no less? Sirius had to bite his bottom lip to keep from snickering as Severus put both hands back instinctively to cover his bare bottom when his last remark had Remus walking closer to him with the paddle at the ready.

"I won’t have you be a party to cheating Severus, we agreed on this, you know your rules and the consequences for breaking them." Remus lectured as he sat himself on the transfigured bed.

Sirius and James both mouthed to each other at the same time "rules" "consequences" They found this situation to be most dumbfounding and neither of them really realized that they had been staring at a naked Severus Snape and neither seemed put off or bothered by it, indeed Snape himself did not even seem to fazed by his dress, or lack thereof. It was almost as if one amongst them wasn't starkers.

"Well Severus you know the drill over my lap." Remus said tapping his lap with the paddle.

Severus frowned as he made his way to Remus draping himself over the other boys lap and wriggling a bit to try and get comfortable, as if that wasn't an oxymoron in this situation!

That was when he noticed the purple hair brush that was also laying on the bed, Severus hated the brush more than anything and Remus knew that the shock of seeing it caused him to let out a small whimper and crane his neck to look back at Remus, Severus really did hate Lupin’s little trick with charming the implements the same color as the bed so that he could never make out exactly what he was to be spanked with unless Remus was holding it, as he had the paddle, beforehand.

"Y-You’re not going to use the brush! Please!" Severus said wriggling about.

"Yes I am Severus but only five at the end." Remus told him as he patted Snape's bum with the paddle.

Severus attempted to wriggle off Remus' lap in order to reason with the man; after all he could not possibly mean that, the brush was just plain evil!

But Remus held him tight and brought the paddle down with a loud stingy thwack in the middle of his bottom.

"OW, Sir! I simply wanted to ask that you don’t use the brush... please." Severus said as if he where bargaining with a used broom salesman and not the man that was about to paddle his bottom, and that time Sirius almost did snicker. However a glare from James that said very clearly that if Sirius got them exposed, he would ask Remus to borrow that paddle and shut him up fast!

"I am using the brush and if you don’t lay still now and accept your punishment like you told me you would, so that I would not ground you from recreational potions brewing for the next week, which by the way is not completely off the table if you don’t start doing as you said you would, I will up it to ten with the brush." Remus told him matter-of-factly.

Severus stilled over Remus' lap yeah that was not one of the threats that Snape felt safe pushing.

"Yes Sir." Snape said as he settled back down.

"Very good" Remus said as he started to bring the paddle down hard into the middle of Severus' bottom.

The paddle was not a formidable implement and was usually used for lesser infractions it was light and fuzzy and while it stung it did not do any real damage or hurt anywhere near as much as any of the other implements. The brush on the other hand was quite formidable and Snape was not looking forward to it, Snape guessed that though he was using the leather paddle clearly saying this was not going to be a terrible spanking he was using the brush just to make sure the Severus knew he meant business.

However as un-formidable as the paddle was it was still stinging the hell out of Snape’s bottom and he could not help but wriggle about as it danced up and down his bottom and thighs all the way from the top of his arse to right above his knees.

Soon James and Sirius could hear small little yips coming from the Slytherin, but for some reason it was not as satisfying as either would have imagined, they had both been spanked before and it was not a fun experience!

James had once told his father that he would not wish a spanking on his worst enemy, a statement Sirius had bore witness to and at the time agreed whole heartedly with as it was midsummer and they were both facing James' fathers displeasure over a prank gone wrong, Mr. Potter did not like having pink hair! Now James was finding out just how true his words had been!

Wondering if Sirius was thinking the same think as him James turned his head and looked wide eyed at Sirius who was rubbing his eyes with the heel of his hand in disbelief. Was he Sirius Black, actually empathizing with Snivellus?

It occurred to James that Sirius was indeed feeling the same way as him and was totally put off by the feeling!

Sirius and James both started to flinch in sympathy every time the paddle hit and was accompanied by a yelp from the boy receiving the paddling, the light was not great but they could tell Snape's bottom was taking on a pinkish glow, a far cry from the pasty white it had been.

Severus gasped as the paddle bit down on his sit spots a place Remus was always sure to focus on and Snape hated more than anything! His feet started to kick and he felt the tears that had been biting the back of his eyes make a break for freedom.

He had long ago given up all pretenses of staying stoic during one of Remus' spankings, he was smart enough to know that was a bad idea and as a Slytherin he made the best of the knowledge that Remus would not stop spanking until he showed some tears, so he had stopped trying to keep them back and over all his bottom was grateful for that.

The first few spankings Severus had received from Remus had gone one much longer and harder than Remus would have intended save the fact the Severus was a hard nut to crack and refused to let the tears free, something Remus thought totally necessary before a spanking was well and truly delivered properly.

However Remus did not fall for crocodile tears and Severus had found that if he forced the tears in order to end the spanking early Remus would somehow know and spank all the harder for it, Severus only tried that once, he was not a stupid boy!

"OWW! Please Remus I'm sorry!" Severus protested as the paddle fell on a particularly sore spot.

Remus shook his head.

"Why am I spanking you Severus?" He asked

Severus knew better then to be cheeky he really did but he just could not help it sometimes it was just who he was.

"If you don’t know... OWWWW REMUS!" Severus squealed as now the brush came crashing down into his sit spots

James and Sirius jumped at the crack of the brush almost causing the invisibility cloak to slide off, James had managed to catch it just in time.

"That one doesn't count" Remus told him matter-of-factly "Now care to try that again?" He asked patting Snape's bottom every so lightly with the brush.

Severus whimpered and squirmed feeling the brush teasingly menacingly tapping his bottom and it really made it very hard to think clearly.

"Because I helped others cheat!" He said and was rather displeased when he found Remus had switched the brush back for the paddle again, he hated the brush more than anything but at least he knew when the brush was being used that that meant there where only five swats left, he was unsure how much longer Remus would keep with the paddle but he knew no matter how long that was he still had five with the brush to look forward to when he was done.

Severus cried out and wriggled as the paddle made its way around his wriggling bottom one last time.

"You" SWAT "do not" SWAT SWAT "cheat! SWAT "is that" SWAT "understood?" He asked bringing the paddle down on his sit spot over and over to emphasize the point.

"Y-Yes Sir!" Severus yelped out and whimpered as he felt the brush's cold smooth back being rubbed sadistically tauntingly around his hot sore cheeks, teasing him. He felt his stomach tighten with apprehension, he hated that brush so much, and he hated that Remus felt the need to tease him like this before using it, he wished he would just get it over with, feeling it rub on his bottom was maddening and he nearly hopped off of Remus' lap. Remus simply tightened his hold around Severus' waist.

Sirius realized he had been holding his breath as he watched Remus trade the paddle for the brush once more, he too was familiar with the brush and it was by far one of the most painful things ever! He let the breath out a little too loud when the first crack of the brush startled him and for a moment his heart stopped as James glared at him for the noise and he waited to see if they had been heard, relieved when he seemed they had not both boys tried to relax again, not that they had been all that relaxed since the moment Severus had entered the room.

Severus let out a yelp as the first swat from the brush came down on his sit spots, he knew from experience that it was likely all five would be targeted to that sensitive area and he would not be sitting comfortably for a few days to come.

Remus brought the brush down hard till all five swats where delivered, by the time he had dropped the purple brush back down on the bed Severus was sobbing laying limply over his lap.

Lupin softly rubbed at the reddened globes whispering reassuring words that made both Sirius and James feel nauseous.

Pulling Snape up he settled him into his lap making sure his weight was on his hip his bottom not contacting his thigh and snuggled him close rubbing his back his hand straying every now and then to rub Severus' burning bottom.

When the tears started to subside, Lupin placed a kiss on Snape's lips, leaning back on the bed and snuggling Snape’s smaller frame on top of him.

Remus then grinned over at the corner that housed his two best friends hidden by the invisibility cloak and whispered something into his partners ear. Oh Remus Lupin was much smarter and sneakier then his friends ever gave him credit for.

"So Sev," Remus said just loud enough for the hidden occupants of the room to hear "is this out enough for you?" He asked cocking his head in the direction of the invisibility cloak and the two un-invited yet invited inhabitants.

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A/N: LOL Yes Severus was tired of being hidden from Remus' friends and insists that they come out to them, Remus does so in his own creative and evil way!!

This was supposed to be funny some comic relief and nothing more so it probably isn’t very good or up to my normal standards (LOL I know I have said that before) the characters may be a bit OOC but I don’t think too too much, but besides all that I could not help but write it. And I like it so there!!