Thanks to Manda for a brilliant beta, but I apologise in advance for spelling mistakes etc which are all my fault, as is the dialogue. You have been warned!

Paring: Snape/Lupin

Rating: PG-13

Archive: If I beg, will you take me? [But can I have the addy cos i

want to visit it :)]

Feedback: I will love you forever if you do: acassha@yahoo.co.uk

Series/Sequel: Oh yes.... eventually

Disclaimers: *checks mirror* nope, I'm not JKR. Darn!

Summary: This prob. sucks, but hey, it my first fic..... Lupin & Snape get together. Remus' POV

I have always known there was something different about me. Well, apart from the obvious full-moon thing, and keeping away from wolfsbane and silver like the plague. In my 5th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, I found out. I was in love with another boy: more specifically, Severus Snape.

Don't ask me why, but there you go. I spent 3 months thinking - and watching - him- without arousing suspicion. Trust me, werewolves are good at subterfuge. I tried to drink in every detail I could in the two shared classes we had - potions and astronomy.

Well, it was all I was going to get, wasn't it?

Then in November, Prof. Chambers told the Astronomy class we'd be doing a project in pairs. This brought up groans from the class, but not as many when he told us we'd be working with someone from the other house. Chambers always liked to see "students working together, irrespective of house" Now there's a laugh.

I prayed that it wouldn't be him.

And then I gave up praying and consigned myself to Fate. Well, Lady

Luck decided to play a joke on me.

I'm sure you can guess who I was paired with.

And that was why, a week and a half later, we were both standing in the dark on the astronomy tower, looking at stars. In another context, this would've been romantic, but, quite frankly, it was cold and raining and we had no shelter. So we stood there, freezing and wet.

I had just discovered how very good he looks when he's wet. I think he must've been colder than I, as he was even more bundled up, and still shivering.

I don't know why I did what I did then. Maybe it was because full moon was only a few days away, and I get more intense around then. Or maybe I'd had enough of looking but not touching.

So when he announced "lets get this over with so we can go back to bed because it's cold and wet out here", the natural thing to do seemed to be to hold him to warm him up. That must've been the wolf speaking. I would never dare do a thing like that normally.

I don't really remember much else, except him jerking away in shock.

And then it seemed natural to kiss him.

I nearly fainted when he started to kiss me back.