Just a fun little ficlet about J & L's wedding. Times and stuff are a bit messed. In this the pups haven't been together long, only a few months.
'Oh man, I think I'm going to puke."
Sirius looked up from where he was sitting on his hotel bed, braiding Moony's hair, and frowned.
Prongs did look awfully green.
"James, you ok?" Peter peered round the edge of the full length mirror, behind which he was attempting to tie himself a bow-tie.
James staggered slightly from where he had just apparated into the room, stumbling onto Remus's lap, where he lounged next to Sirius on the bed.
Sirius pulled Remus away violently by his hair and he winced.
"Oi! Just cos you're having last minute panics doesn't give you permission to grope my boyfriend!" Sirius said indignantly. James ignored him and groaned, rolling over onto his stomach.
Sirius tutted and returned his attentions to Remus's head.
Remus waved Sirius away and studied James anxiously.
"Is this just nerves or an after effect of that stuff the strippers were handing out last night?" He asked seriously.
James shrugged and collapsed onto Sirius's bed. Sirius scrambled upright and frowned at Remus worriedly.
"What should we do?" He mouthed. Remus shook his head and winced as the braids pulled on his scalp.
"James, Jamesie wamesie, Prongs?" Sirius grinned, "Please tell us what's wrong immediately so I can remove you from my bed and avoid the risk of it getting covered in vomit so Moony doesn't want to sleep with me tonight."
Remus scowled and hit Sirius lightly. Peter didn't notice, he had returned to his tie.
James nodded, still not talking for fear of throwing up and lurched himself into a sitting position on the edge of the bed. Remus sat next to him and Sirius flanked him on the other side.
"James, what's the matter?" Remus said carefully, placing a hand on his shoulder. "is it lily?," he persisted, "Are you having second thoughts?"
James shook his head violently, gave a shuddering intake of breath and cleared his throat.
"N-no." he mumbled uncertainly. Then clearer "No, no I still want to marry her- I love her, you know?"
They did know. They'd followed his pursuit of her since third year.
"But just thinking about it and… we're so young! I just don't know if I'm… if she… if we're ready."
Sirius nodded thoughtfully and Remus bit his lip. James was right in a way. They were very young, they had only been together two years and might not be ready. But there was a war going on and in wartime decisions were often made with much less care than might otherwise have been given. Remus sure as hell knew that. He glanced at Sirius. His spur of the moment decision to kiss his best friend four months ago had certainly paid off. And James was a lot more sensible that many a Hogwarts professor believed.
"James I'm going to give my honest opinion," Remus said slowly. James looked up desperately, his hair sticking up more than usual from where he had been running his hands through it.
"I've known you and Lily for years together and apart and I have honestly never seen you two happier than you've been the past two years. I think that if you love her and trust her and can honestly see yourself with her for the rest of your life," Here his eyes met Sirius's who gazed unfalteringly back, "-then there is absolutely no reason why you should be uncertain at all about going in there in-" he checked his watch, "-sixteen minutes and letting the world know that you belong together."
James stared at him.
"Gods Moony you're right." He said softly, before standing abruptly.
"Bloody hell! I've wasted so much time! There's still so much left to do and Lily'l have my head on a platter if everything's not just exactly right. Blimey guys, thanks a lot, you really helped. Wow, I gotta go- see you!"
He disapparated with a crack.
Remus and Sirius looked at each other in amusement.
"Well done you for calming his nerves." Said Sirius in a low voice as he resumed the braiding. Remus lay back along the bed with his head in Sirius's lap, enjoying the feel of the minute tugs on his head from his fingers deft movements.
Peter poked his head out from behind the mirror.
"Um guys, what do you think?" He said uncertainly. Sirius and Remus turned to look at him.
Peter stepped proudly out from where he was concealed.
Sirius nearly choked.
Instead of the plain black suits he, Remus and James had donned for the occasion, Peter was decked out in what Sirius could only assume was a costume made for a child.
He had a plain white shirt on, with thin stripe and white canvas trousers. But what was worst was the white and red striped blazer that he wore over the top. Seemingly stolen from a nineteen fifties boarding school the entire outfit looked more suitable worn at a circus than a wedding.
"And that's not the best bit!" Peter said proudly, mistaking their looks of horror for ones of jealousy and awe. From behind his back he produced a beaten up straw boater with a red ribbon around it and perched it on his head, completing the outfit.
Sirius stared at him in disbelief.
Remus stared at him in pity.
Peter stared back at him, his euphoric expression fading as he noted their lack or response.
"Well?" He asked impatiently.
Remus cleared his throat and tore his eyes away from the look no self respecting nineteen year old should ever consider.
"Well, you'll…certainly stand out!" He said encouragingly. He nudged Sirius, who seemed to have fallen into a trance.
"Wha-? Oh year, great stuff Pete- dead fashionable."
Peter puffed out his chest.
"I'm going to go find Prongs," he announced, "See what he thinks.
Remus nodded and lay back down, as Peter disapparated.
"Oh the look on Lily's face when she sees him…" Sirius grinned evilly and Remus chuckled.
They lay in silence for a while, listening to the hustle and bustle of wedding preparations going on outside their room. Sirius lay back with his head on his pillow and pulled Moony next to him. Remus rested his head on Sirius's chest and counting his heartbeats. At five to three Remus sat up.
"I guess you ought to go help Prongs," He said regretfully. Sirius nodded and stood up, yawning and casting a quick charm to straighten his clothes. Remus watched him hungrily. He couldn't' wait for the wedding to be over for their own celebration to begin.
"You know, you really do look good in a tux," He said conversationally, his eyes roaming over Sirius's lithe body. Sirius grinned.
"I Know, you've told me before."
"Really? well you ought to be told it at least once a day I reckon."
Sirius laughed and leaned over and ruffled Remus's hair. Remus shoved him away and he grinned.
"See you at the alter." He laughed at how clichéd he sounded and Remus smiled.
"Right. Very convincing."
Sirius chuckled once more before vanishing with a crack.
Remus sighed. Sirius didn't seem to have got the message he was trying to tell him earlier as he addressed Prongs- about relationships. If only he and Sirius could be that… obvious about their relationship. He longed for them to be able to go out together and have fun and dance, without all the stares and comments and abuse. He wished that people could know about their relationship- people outside the marauders and Lily, that is. But he knew it was impossible.
He sighed and stood up, stretching. He ought to make his way down there really.
He still couldn't believe it was happening. It seemed only yesterday they had got engaged…
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"Moony, Pads! MOONY! PADFOOT? You in? QUICK!!"
Remus frowned as he heard the frantic tapping on the door. Sirius groaned beneath him, irritated at being disturbed. He could feel how hot Sirius was…
"Should I get that?" He murmured into Sirius's neck. The prospect of leaving while he was still so hot and hard was not a flattering one.
"Nosonlyprongs" Sirius moaned, holding Remus down with his arms. Remus succumbed, leaning in to kiss him-
"GUYS! This is important!"
Remus pulled away in irritation.
"I should get that." He sighed reluctantly, slipping some combat trousers on. Sirius grimaced and pulled his jeans back up to where they had been sitting only minutes before.
"This better be really, really good." He muttered through his teeth. Remus laughed at his expression and padded through from the sitting room to the hall to get the door.
"James, what is it?"
James stood there on the doorstep to Sirius's flat panting and red faced and looking as if he'd just won the lottery.
He shoved past Moony, who shut the door and followed him into the sitting room, where Sirius was apparently doing the crossword.
James flopped down next to him on the sofa, and Remus took the chair opposite it.
"Well? What's the big emergency?" Sirius asked, looking like he was only mildly concerned, he hadn't interrupted anything. The pretence was ruined slightly by the fact that his hair was very messy and both his and Remus's shirts were lying on the floor, where they had forgotten to remove them.
James, with his seekers eye, spotted all this immediately.
"Watcha been doing?" he asked, grinning as both other boys flushed red and mumbled unintelligibly.
"What do you want, James?" Remus attempted to keep his tone civil. James bounced up again, rubbing his hands together happily.
"Right! Well I thought I'd come to you to first…boy it's big news…I just thought you'd want to know…"
He took a deep breath and grinned at his friends.
"Lily and I are engaged."
There was a moment of silence then both Remus and Sirius stood up and reached out to James, ruffling his hair and punching his arm.
"Congratulations, well done, so happy…"
Then Sirius asked the question that was on both their minds.
"So, who's your best man?"
James frowned slightly and turned to face Remus, aware of the silence which had fallen.
"Remus…" He began.
Remus shook his head.
"Its okay James, really. I always knew it'd be Sirius."
"Well that's just it!" James said. "Remember how Lily was so upset when her parents were killed a year ago?"
"Yeah…?" Remus wasn't sure at what James was getting at.
"We-ell, Lily thought that since her father couldn't be there to walk her down the aisle, she wanted you to do it."
"lily wants me to walk her down the aisle?" Remus said stupidly.
"Well yeah."
"Wow, sure! I mean- that'd be great. Brilliant."
"Cool." James grinned. He turned to Sirius.
"Guess you know what your job is then, mate."
"hell yeah!" Sirius grinned and clapped James on the back, eyes shining.
"Now all I need to do is think of your present!"
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Remus smiled at his reflection.
It was going to be a fabulous day, he was sure. He'd make sure anyway. Him and Sirius had vowed that nothing was to go wrong on Lily and James's day. And dammit, nothing would!
He shut his eyes and apparated to just outside Lily's room.
"Lily? You decent?"
"Sure, come in!" She called.
Remus opened the door and gasped.
Lily looked truly beautiful.
He dress was the palest, pale creamy white, almost silver in the midday light. It flowed around her tall frame, fitting closely around her hips before ending with a flare at the feet in an arc about a meter wide.
Her normally straight red hair was curled carefully into long bangs and pinned up at the back, where a white lace veil was fitted with tine white and green flowers. Only a few long locks of hair fell around her face to bounce at her shoulders.
She wore little make up but shone with a radiance that Remus didn't know how to describe. He supposed it must be something like pure happiness.
"Oh Lily, you look gorgeous!"
he blushed at how gushing he sounded and Lily hugged him carefully.
"Oh I'm so glad! I'm just so… happy! You know? Just…" She span in a circle to demonstrate how she felt and Remus laughed.
"If any day's the day to be happy it's this one." He said proudly. Lily's maid of honour, Skye walked out from the adjoining room.
"Hi Remus, doesn't she look wonderful?" She said, smiling fondly at Lily and dabbing her own eyes.
"She really does." He agreed.
At that moment the music that had been playing downstairs changed into a slower piece. Skye, recognising her cue, kissed Lily on the cheek and floated off. Lily and Remus waited for a minute until it changed yet again to the unmistakable wedding march, before linking arms.
"You ready?" he asked.
Lily smiled and took a deep breath.
"Remus, you do know that your hair is braided, don't you?"
"fuck!"
I think this is going to be a three parter- I'm not sure. No real plot- just fun wedding fluffiness. Hope you enjoy!