Prologue - Fifth Year, September 1975

"Well, here we go again." James Potter sighed dramatically, but ruined it with a smile at the other three inhabitants of the room.

"Nice to be back, away from 'filthy blood-traitor!' 'Scum of the wizarding world!' And my personal favourite, 'get upstairs and change before your brother sees you in those whore Muggle clothes!'" Sirius threw his robes off with a dramatic flourish, revealing a red shirt that clung to his toned stomach and opened at his chest.

"Sirius, do you really think that shirt's fair on the female population of Hogwarts?" Remus Lupin was shaking slightly.

Peter looked over at him, his round face worried.

"Alright there Remus? Is it the moon?" Sirius sat on Remus' bed and put a hand on his back. He looked down, his grey eyes full of concern. "Wait- ARE YOU LAUGHING AT ME?" Sirius shoved Remus off the bed in disgust.

"I think it looks good." Peter said, after Remus was upright and busy unpacking.

Sirius grinned at Peter and opened his suitcase to reveal at least four other brightly coloured shirts. "Glad you think so."

James put his glasses in a case. "Looks better than that crap on Remus' robes at any rate."

"James, I actually consider it an honour-"

"We weren't talking to you anyway. It might even be against the rules to talk to you." Remus replied by rolling rolled his eyes at James.

James had forcefully turned his back on Remus. As Frank Longbottom's empty bed was closest to the door, and then it was Peter's, James', Sirius' and Remus', this meant James was facing an expectant Peter.

"Pete, d'you know anyone capable of filling in Remus' shoes?"

"Yeah, he obviously can't fulfil his duties to upholding the order of chaos in Hogwarts any longer." Sirius added.

Remus' mutters of "that's an oxymoron" and "It's just a badge" went ignored.

"I can think of someone." James put on an enthusiastic circus ringleader voice. "They're just as cunning but twice as beautiful, still come with that out-of-order once a month clause, but I think, gentleman, you'll be very happy with Lily Evans as a Marauder!"

Groans filled the room and Sirius collapsed on his bed snoring.

The dorm room opened and its final inhabitant walked in. Frank looked across the room. "Sirius, it looks like my mother's handbag tried to eat you."

"Frank, darling!" Sirius adopted a high pitched voice and draped a red-silk covered arm around his waist. "I sincerely hope you have been with Alice and were cavorting merrily away to mark the start of term." Frank shook his head good-naturedly at Sirius' behaviour. "Let me display you," a quick tug to pull Frank's robes open, grabbing him harder to combat his escape attempt, "to the rest of the room, as I think some of us need to be reminded of how to have fun and not be a Prefect!"

"Merlin's sake Sirius, I'd rather undress myself if it's all the same to you. Congrats on getting Prefect, Remus." Frank directed the last bit at Remus and walked into the bathroom.

"Any particular reason we're going to sleep, instead of causing mayhem and destruction?" Remus asked when the lights were turned off and all five boys were in bed.

When he got no response he tried again. "This couldn't be for my benefit could it? You're finally going to settle down because I'm a Prefect and you all respect that?"

"Sleeping benefits everyone Remus, particularly you and particularly tonight," Sirius replied softly into the dark of the room.

"Nice. Obscure. I can't wait until you brand me with a 'P' in my sleep." Remus replied.

"What a wonderful idea!"

This is my first fanfiction in years, I hope you enjoyed it! I would love some reviews, including concrit.

Age-wise, Narcissa is a going to be a bit younger because I wanted her time at Hogwarts to coincide with Sirius'. She will be three years older than him. Frank and Alice are in the Marauders' year. I did want to make Frank and Alice older (seeing as Lily got pregnant so young I thought that they ought to wait a little bit, considering that whole war thing and all) but I hate naming characters so they're the obligatory other members of the Marauder's year in Gryffindor. Everyone else will be as canon-compliant as I could get.