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No Good In Goodbye The Script ♥
This Time I Swear Definitely Maybe ♥
Knowing Me, Knowing You ABBA ♥
Not Another Song About Love Hollywood Ending ♥
Poet, King, Soldier The Oh Hellos ♥
You Give Love A Bad Name Bon Jovi ♥
When Remus and Sirius started dating, the MARAUDERS’ record label didn't allow them to tell. It was not a surprise, since they were forbidden to speak about their sexuality. Even with the press, their manager always took down any news that related them to other men. Remus could have a break if he was seeing a woman, of course, but the thing was that after her first girlfriend when he was 17, he hadn't been interested in anyone but Sirius.
So, they had been dating in secret for two years—except for the three months they called things off because having to love so secretly took its toll.
But when they managed to change their label… they were afraid.
Suddenly, it felt a bit scary to have the freedom to post whatever they wanted—well, not exactly whatever, as her manager, Emmeline, and her law advisor, Amelia, reminded them of the limits from time to time.
So they kept going like always, just more relaxed.
That sparked fan and media theories.
Look, they knew the Marauders' fans had always suspected something; they had seen the tweets, and the edits, even the fanfics, that Remus had refused to read. But since they were allowed to act normally… Well, it had been crazy.
They would film a backstage video and show Sirius helping Remus with his make-up. It happened more than once and ended up becoming a fan-favourite moment. Little by little, they started thinking less about what they were doing. Once, Sirius was redoing it after a make-out session.
grace ♡
@wthemaraudrs
i think im dying of a sugar rush......... you can't look at him like that while he's putting mascara on you come on
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aaRON
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SIRIUS HELPING REMUS WITH HIS MAKEUP THEY'RE BOYFRIENDS and 25 more liked your post
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@50waystsgb
remus's hair... sirius's lipstick... their smiles... we all know what had happened before that frame right'
❤ 833 11:11 PM - May 26, 2019
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LILY TOUCHED MY HAND
@callmemrsevans
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if those backstage walls could talk......
❤ 300 11:21 PM - May 26, 2019
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James would post a story when they were out, either at the pub or just having a picnic, and he wouldn't have to make sure Sirius and Remus weren't cuddling behind him. So it happened, more than once. And he didn't have to delete any of the posts.
Sunny
@remgirl
omg girls did you see that too, rigt?
❤ 122 2:05 PM - September 6, 2018
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93 DAYS TO MARAUDERS CONCENCERT
@moonstarlv
THE WAY SIRIUS IS CARESSING HIS CHEECK IT'S OBVIOUS THEY WERE ABOUT TO KISS OMG THEY'RE BOYFRIENDS
❤ 301 3:32 PM - September 6, 2018
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meg lvs sb
@darkstar
guys......... it's been three hours and James hasn't deleted it... this is BIG
❤ 289 6:22 PM - September 6, 2018
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Peter would tweet that he was tired of being a third wheel, and no one told him to clarify that he was talking about James and Lily. Instead, he would hint otherwise. Playing a bit with the fans while Remus and Sirius were getting lost in each other.
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photo or fake
❤ 124 1:01 PM - October 31, 2019
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listening to the marauders
@siremus4life
wait.... lily and james are in Mumbai... and sirius had posted that they were doing a half-group meeting....
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layla fangirl ⁂
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PETER LIKED THIS TWEET OMG IM DYING
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Lily would say in interviews that writing about love with Remus was one of her favourite things, and she would laugh it off when the interviewer asked her about their partners, instead of saying that Remus just had an impressive capacity to create fake scenarios.
lulu
@lupinlover
so she just said remus wrote 'too many stars on the sky but the ones in your eyes are looking at me' and when Phill asked if there was real inspiration she said "oh come on you have heard the song right?"
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@siriuslyperfect
oh to be sirius black to have remus lupin writing you love songs
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They would go to dinner outside and, even if they didn't usually kiss or cuddle then, because Remus was still shy when it came to PDA, they no longer did it as if it was a fucking business meeting. They didn't try to lie with their eyes anymore.
remus and sirius kiss
@amaraudersong
thats a fucking date fight me
❤ 108 12:07 PM - September 2, 2020
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@moonstarficied
someone says they have seen remus and sirius in a fancy restaurant and people start talking about a wedding (im people)
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And most importantly, they could interact on stage.
Sure, they had always interacted in their shows, but everything was calculated so much that their fans had noticed it. But now? If Remus wanted to look at Sirius while singing, he could. If they wanted to dance together in a choreography, they could.
And they did it. A lot.
And it generated… a lot, too.
So now, near their third anniversary, they thought it was time to share it with the world.
It was not like they felt the necessity to let people know, but they had been hiding for so long. And also… maybe that would stop the dating allegations both of them had to face—mostly Sirius, with both men and women, even after he had come out as gay.
But as they were to do it, they wanted to do it in their own way.
"Please, don't do anything people can post on X videos," Emmeline told them on the phone.
"We won't," Sirius told her. He was on the couch, his legs over Remus's, who was sitting next to him. "Only on Tumblr."
"I'm watching you."
"It's your job."
It was easy to picture her rolling her eyes. Or throwing a dart at a target with their face.
"Remember that the soundcheck starts at 5 p.m. Bye."
She hung up before they could say anything more.
"She loves us," Sirius said. Remus snorted and caressed his boyfriend's ankle.
"So much she hadn't killed us yet."
"Exactly," Sirius nodded, clicking his tongue.
"But she's right about one thing," Remus said. Sirius lifted his eyebrows in a way of asking him to continue. "We should plan what we are going to do."
"We make out on the stage, and at 12 a.m., we post the text and the photos."
"We are not making out on stage," Remus stated.
"Don't be a prude," Sirius cried, mimicking what they had read—and laughed at for at least ten minutes—on Twitter some days ago. Remus was a lot of things, but not a prude. At least when they were alone.
"We kissing, with all the euphoria that shows give us?" Remus pointed out. "And doing it for the first time in front of someone who is not family or friends? You know how easy it would be for us to get out of hand. I don't want Emmeline resigning, you know?"
"Look. I promise we are not doing anything inappropriate. Though our haters think we already do, but you get me. But I don't think we should choreograph it. I don't know, we have been calculating our movements on stage for too long."
Remus sighed, and if he was honest, it was true that the need to have everything planned was something he carried on his shoulders due to his previous situation. And because he was a constant ball of anxiety, of course. Sirius loved him with all of that, but he knew sometimes he had to push him a little, so he could relax.
"Yeah, you're right… But can we at least decide on the song? You know I-"
"Need some control. Yeah, of course, babe."
"And we should-"
"Ask James, Peter and Lily," Sirius finished for him. "I did it, they say they don't care, that we should do it how we want and nothing else. You can read it on the group chat."
It was good having someone who knew you that well. It was beautiful the way they complemented each other. Fuck those bigots who wanted them to hide it.
"Okay… So, we could do it at the start and be done with it, in the middle because it's frankly cool, or at the end like a big surprise."
Sirius repositioned himself, crawling over Remus and making him move so they were both lying on the couch, face to face.
"Not at the start, I want to give it emotion."
Remus chuckled at that and put a lock of black hair behind Sirius's ear. Both were excited to finally do it, but Remus had always been more shy, so he was a bit more nervous. Sirius could sense it, so he smiled softly and pecked his boyfriend on the lips, three times. Remus smiled automatically.
"I think I could die if we wait until the end," he admitted.
He could manage going through the first part of the concert, knowing what was going to happen. But all of it? He would crack at some point. For his part, Sirius would love to leave the stage with the fans' reaction printed on his brain, but Remus's comfort was before everything else. Also, he thought he could convince him to let him add a little surprise to his last song.
"Then… we have six songs to choose from," Sirius said. He lifted his hands so he could count. "We start with No Good in Goodbye, us with Peter; then he sings This time I swear. James's turn with Secret and Knowing Me, Knowing You, with Lily. Lily alone, All I Wanted. We finish with Not Another Song About Love, the five of us together. So that leaves…"
"What if we do it on Scotty Doesn't Know?"
During that time were they were forced to keep their relationship a secret, Remus wrote a song. He was angry, so he wanted to write something that the record label had no motive to ban, but that had something inside that told the truth.
That's how one of their biggest hits, Scotty Doesn't Know, came to life.
At first, he didn't want to be the one to sing it, and much less perform it on stage. But after a good dose of reassurance and Sirius's pouts and mischievous kisses, he had changed his mind.
Now, it was one of Sirius's favourite moments at the concert. A song that gave way to the next part of the concert after Sirius's solo, marking the change in tone.
"That would be actually funny," he nodded, smirking.
"Fuck, yes."
"Then, it's sold."
They look at each other, the smiles on their faces growing wider until they couldn't help but start giggling. Excitement built up in their bodies. They were going to do it.
It was not a surprise when their next kiss turned into something more. With Sirius devouring Remus's mouth while sliding his hands up his chest under the shirt he was wearing, and Remus caressing all the extension of Sirius's back, opening his legs and seeking some friction.
The giggles turned into moans, and the summer heat was nothing compared to the fire between them.
A while later, they laid naked on the couch, tangled and still kissing, lazily.
"Fuck, from tomorrow on, I'll be able to take a picture of your face when you're like this and let everyone see it," Sirius whispered, alternating the words with little bites he was leaving on Remus's neck.
"I thought you loved being the only one who could see me like this," Remus argued, but he couldn't contain his smile or the shiver that ran through him at the thought.
"Ugg, you're right," Sirius groaned. Then he grabbed Remus by the waist and manhandled him so he ended up straddling him. "But I'm sure I can find something in the middle."
"Whatever you want, sweetheart," he said. But his attention was in the way Sirius was caressing his hipbones. He moved a bit lower, until he could feel Sirius against him. "Now, want a ride?"
If they were late to soundcheck... well, it happens in the best of families.
•. ✶ * . • •. ☽ * . •
The public was feral.
Since the moment the first chords of Gossip had started to sound, screams and cheers could be heard. It was the best sensation in the world.
Remus found out that being there, on stage, with the love of his life and his long-term best friends, relaxed him to a point that he could have made out with Sirius right there and then. Although he would have wanted to hide in his room forever afterwards.
People became crazy with Sirius singing All Star. When he got on his knees and touched some fans' hands, or when he got near James on the drums and started shaking his head in rhythm. Remus couldn't blame the fans for losing their minds.
It wasn't any quieter when Remus performed Anxiety. Their fans sang it with so much force that it was almost overwhelming, but Remus blended into it wonderfully, feeling every word he was singing.
Lily and Remus singing Poet, King, Soldier always made people shut up and listen. Remus played the guitar as if he were touching heaven instead of strings, and always looked at Sirius when he sang about the soldier. Sirius was always looking back, sitting on the floor and sharing that dreamy moment with all the fans.
Before the first long pause, which gave way to the second part of the concert, Sirius and Remus sang together. Three years before, some weeks before they started dating, they wrote a song. The song was Iris, and, of course, they were banned from singing it at the concerts when they were with their former label. So now, every time they performed it, they put their heart and soul into it.
Obviously, it was another fan-favourite. It was one of the main sources for the video edits that their fans and shippers made. The moment James got off the stage after performing You Give Love a Bad Name, also along with Sirius, you could start hearing the cheers.
And then when they sang 'When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am', looking into each other's eyes, the crowd went wild. But they didn't hear it, because they were too focused on feeling it.
Sirius winked at his boyfriend just before leaving the stage, and Remus's smile was impossible to hide.
During all the songs that rested until the moment, both of them felt their bodies prickle with excitement. Remus felt it in his fingertips, Sirius on his legs. Everything they sang, they did it with a hint of something different in their voice that the fans noticed and commented on social media.
But then Sirius finished singing All the Things I Hate About You, and it was time.
He passed the microphone to Remus and went to grab his bass. He always wanted to play that song, and Remus always felt more confident with him doing it.
Everyone could tell something was up; they could feel it in the air. Remus's heart was about to explode, and Sirius felt like he was going to break the bass neck with how hard he was grabbing it.
But the music started to sound and they just lived it.
"Scotty doesn't know that Fiona and me
Do it in my van every Sunday."
Remus sang it with fury. Because that day, Scotty was to know so fucking well. Because they didn't have anyone tell them that what they were was wrong. Because he could sing…
"We'll put on a show
Everyone will go…"
And knowing he was telling the truth.
The last chorus started, and he moved. Sirius followed him with his eyes, without missing a single second. James, Peter and Lily were doing the choruses in the background, each of them with big smiles on their faces.
When Remus got closer to Sirius, everything seemed to slow down.
He smiled at his boyfriend while he played the bass solo, letting him shine. He prepared himself for the next move.
"People don't know," he resumed singing, the microphone glued to his lips, "that Sirius and me…"
The screams were so deafening that Remus had to stop singing for a second, which Sirius took advantage of to raise his arms, inviting his boyfriend to come closer.
He did it, facing the crowd, but with his back perfectly glued to Sirius's chest.
"Do it at our house every damn day."
Sirius put the bass in front of him, and with a sudden thrust that made Remus gasp—and people nearly faint—he pushed him more into the embrace, trapping him in his arms.
"We told them I'm alone, but the truth, oh Lord…"
Without stopping playing, Sirius started kissing Remus's neck, just sweet and soft pecks, but that made Remus's voice break. And he still didn't lose the key.
He threw his head backwards, letting the music play alone before the last line. He bit his lips and let the euphoria run through his veins. Their chests went up and down at the same time, synchronised, and even if the position could have been uncomfortable, oppressive, Remus felt at home.
They changed positions. Remus turned around in Sirius's arms so they were face to face, and they moved until the crowd was perpendicular to them. Then, when the music stopped and Sirius let go of the bass, Remus leaned in and sang the last words right above his boyfriend's lips.
"Still he's on his knees and people don't know."
The time stopped. No one move.
Little by little, the cheers, whistles, and uproar went down, everyone waiting for the next move.
One, two…
"Kiss him, for God's sake!" someone screamed.
…three.
Sirius pecked Remus on the lips, and in a swift movement, he unhooked one of the bass straps, grabbed the neck with his other hand, and bowed to the audience. Laughing, Remus mimicked the movement. A big ovation was heard in the stadium while the first chords of Not Another Song About Love started.
The rest of the show went smoothly. It was like all of them, including James, Peter, and Lily, had been given a shock of energy. And the crowd was twice as excited, too. It was one of the best shows in their career.
Two songs left, it was Nonsense turn, a song that the five of them took turns singing, and that night it was Sirius at the microphone. Everyone expected something big to happen with the outro…
And, well, you have to give people what they want, right?
"Don't tell anybody, it's a secret," he said, smirking and pointing at the public and then at the back, at Remus, "but this shy boy is my only weakness."
He got closer to the edge of the stage as if he was going to really tell them a secret, covering one side of his mouth with his hand.
"I'm going to make him feel it on his rib cage,"
He let the scream get louder for a second before finishing.
"When we are going at it at backstage…"
Oh, Lord, the crowd was loud.
•. ✶ * . • •. ☽ * . •
After kicking off the stage and hugging for what felt like an eternity, they had opened Twitter, where everyone was screaming. They were Trending Topic Worldwide. And, of course, there were people being nasty, accusing them of a hundred things or plainly insulting them, but their fans and their acquaintances were so happy that even if they had wanted to, they couldn't have focused on the negative comments.
"I love you. I love you so much, babe," Sirius cried, attached to Remus's neck.
He squeezed him between his arms and left kisses all over his face. They had to go home, but that place, their dressing room, felt too safe at that moment. They still could hear people talking outside.
"I love you too, darling."
"Oh, guys, our fans are fucking funny," said Peter, who had spent the last ten minutes scrolling on his phone. "Hear this one: If I were given a coin for every time my favs said in the middle of a concert that they fuck more than rabbits, I would have two coins, but it's crazy that it was in an interval of less than two hours."
"I can't believe you said Remus was going to feel it on his rib cage," James added. "Don't talk so big of your game."
"Remus, do you want to-"
"I'm not saying anything about that."
"You're ready for the press!" Lily said, laughing.
"There are a lot of people talking about you having sex," Peter muttered. "Disgusting."
"Peter, it's been a week since the last time you got laid, so I understand if you have forgotten-"
"Okay, stop," Remus intervened, "no need to talk about our sex lives."
"Someone is saying that why no one told them Sirius is a vampire," commented James, who had taken his phone too.
"And some other says that… 'I never thought I'd be so close to seeing Remus's orgasm face. ' Amazing."
"Oh, this one says that she has just made an appointment to get a tattoo of the photo of the kiss! Wild."
"What photo?" Sirius inquired.
"This one. People are fast, that's for sure."
Edgar Bones 📷 ✔
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Today at Wembley Stadium ♡
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"Fuck, we really did it," Remus said, laughing.
"Yes, you did it," Emmeline said, appearing through the back door before they could start making out again, "and now you have to go home."
"We love you too, Emm."
"I want to go home with my girlfriend, and I can't do it while you're here, so…"
"Okay, okay," Lily said, getting behind her to kiss her on the cheek. "Say hi to Amelia."
They decided to turn off their cell phones at night, and the post they had prepared would be published automatically. So they got on the taxi, and tried not to give the driver a spectacle, even if they couldn't keep their hands to themselves.
When the clock struck 12, they were opening their front door. And they faced a big surprise.
Their house was decorated with candles and rose petals. There was soft music playing in the background. And the table was set with two plates full of food.
"Did you do this?" Remus whispered. Sirius shook his head.
"I think we have very good friends."
"Fuck yes," he laughed. Then he turned around to face his boyfriend and grabbed his hands in his. "Happy anniversary, my love."
"Happy anniversary, I love you."
The kiss was sweet, soft, and so intense.
They didn't care about the food; they would eat it later, or the next day; they were too busy undressing each other and getting lost in their mouths and bodies.
And meanwhile they were falling on their bed, Remus's legs around Sirius's hips, their fans were going crazy talking about what happened at the concert, and about the two posts they had just shared on their social media.
They celebrated their love with deep thrusts, loud moans, and sweet nothings. Meanwhile, the entire world read their words of pure devotion.
When their climax arrived and they hugged, sweated and exhausted, people finally knew about everything they had had to keep for themselves.
MOONSTAR IS REAL
@siremuslylv
LOOK AT THISGFAFNÑGGOBNWE M
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they called me crazy
@yourmrdrsfan
i can't believe we finally have a confirmation.... we use to pray for times like this
MOONSTAR IS REAL @siremuslylv
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I WAS THERE
@moonsnstars
"three years dating you... who knows how many more loving you. It's time to shout it from the rooftops." THREE YEARS AND THEY COULDN'T SAY ANYTHING IM KILLING SOMEONE
Remus Lupin ☽ ✔ @rjlofficialmrdr
Today it's a big day. Today it's they day we chose to share this absolutly important part of our lives with you all. Today it's the day I celebrate you out loud, my love. Because I have spent three years dating you... who knows..
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@wantutoknwhoiam
THEY CALLED US CRAZY AND LOOK WHERE WE ARE NOW
sirius ✔ @sobofficialmrdr
Today it's a big day. Today it's they day we chose to share this absolutly important part of our lives with you all. Today, I can admit that every song I write, every lyric I sing, every dream I have, it's about you. Because...
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Scooty finally knows
@mymoony
the way we are all changing our profile pictures and we have enough to not look all the same.... WE HAVE A FUCKING MOONSTAR PHOTO BOOK
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And in another part of the city, actually having dinner, a proud group of friends decided to add a little more of love.
MARAUDERS ✔
@officialmrdrs
♥️
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MARAUDERS ✔
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since the very beginning
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