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Sweet Memories

"Do you see him? Isn't he adorable? He's my son!" James was grinning wide as he showed Harry to the other three Marauders for the sixteenth time in two minutes.

"Yes, Prongs," Peter said in an exasperated voice.

"Of course. You've only shoved him in our face sixteen… Seventeen times," Remus said with a laugh.

Sirius looked carefully at the tiny baby in his face. "I'm glad that Harry looks like he does. I would've hated to have had an ugly godson."

James looked at Sirius carefully, trying to decide if Sirius had complimented or insulted Harry. Apparently deciding that Sirius had meant the comment in the best possible way he smiled. "My son… Harry James Potter… Me, James Potter, Prongs of the infamous Hogwarts Marauders… A father. Can you imagine? Me. With a son."

"We don't have to imagine, Prongs. It's real!" Sirius said in a somewhat mocking voice.

James looked at Harry, a dreamy look in his eyes. "How is Lily holding up?" Remus asked for lack of a better topic.

"Oh, I'm fine," Lily said, sweeping gracefully into the living room where the Marauders were sitting. She gently kissed James on the lips, Harry on the nose, and the rest of the boys on the cheek. "How are all of you guys?"

"Bored stiff. I think I liked it better when he was mooning over you. At least when he was talking about you he couldn't shove you in our faces." Remus and Sirius laughed at Peter's witty comment and he seemed pleased.

"Lily probably would've cursed him into next week."

"I tried to send him there once. It didn't work remember?" Lily said and then she started telling the story.

"For the last time, Potter, I won't go out with you!" James looked carefully at Lily's face and wondered how much farther he could push her. Her face wasn't crimson but it was really close so James contemplated backing off. Well, actually James didn't know how to back off so he decided to try one more time.

"Please?" James asked and watched nervously as Lily whipped out her wand. He wasn't really worried, she had never hurt him before.

"I warned you, Potter!" Lily said and pointed her wand at his neck. "Diudeinde!"

James suddenly felt a very light sensation and wondered what she had done to him; he had never heard that spell before. However, before he could ask her he blacked out. The leftover Marauders and Lily all watched in shock as James was surrounded by a white light and disappeared.

"What did you do to him?" Sirius asked, somewhat nervously but in a slightly angry voice.

"Um…" Lily said nervously. "I, uh, combined two spells and tried to curse him into next?"

Remus, Sirius, and Peter exchanged a look before taking off and running into the school. Lily looked nervously down at her wand before running after them.

"Oh, I miss Hogwarts. We had such fun there," Lily said with a wistful sigh.

"Well, after you finally said yes to James anyway," Remus put in.

Sirius elaborated for her. "Of course we pulled pranks and stuff but James was never truly happy until you went out with him. We loved teasing him about it…"

"Contemplating letting the giant squid eat you again?" Sirius asked James. The latter was sitting at the desk, his head in his hands.

"Almost to the point," James said in a sad voice. "Why won't she go out with me? Doesn't she understand my undying love for her? Doesn't she understand that I eat, sleep, and breathe her?"

Remus laughed. "How can you breath somebody?"

"She smells like roses," James said defensively.

"Riiight. Why don't you go make that speech to her. It's probably scare her." This was from Peter.

"Yeah, wonderful idea. Tell her you've been obsessed with her since first year… Of course she'll go out with you then," Sirius said sarcastically.

James shook his head at his best friends. "I'm going to go take a swim in the black lake."

"Whoa, wait."

"Prongs!"

"We didn't…"

James rolled his eyes. "I was being sarcastic. You three are too damn gullible."

"Well she's rejected you so much that I wouldn't be surprised." Sirius laughed as James mumbled something about what wonderful friends he had.

Lily laughed when Sirius was done relating the memory to her. "That's hilarious. I never knew how obsessed you were with me. I think that Peter was right and I would've been just a little bit scared."

James grinned and leaned in to give her a short kiss on the lips. She leaned in to deepen it. "Hmm…"

"Now, don't get kissy-kissy with the baby in your arms. Give Harry to me." Remus held out his arms for the baby and was rewarded with a tiny bundle.

"Yeah, better not to get kissy-kissy at all," Sirius mumbled.

James and Lily laughed and leaned back. "Well, I remember when Sirius asked that girl out. What was her name again?"

"Oh," Remus said as Sirius slowly turned red. "Yvonne!"

"Yeah, Yvonne!"

"Yvonne this and Yvonne that," Remus said with a sigh to Sirius. "You're as bad as James is."

Sirius gave a very exaggerated gasp. "Oh, God. I am so glad that you told me, Moony. I would've hated to have gotten to the point that Prongs has.

James raised his eyebrows. "I'd say you're almost there, mate."

"Anyway," Sirius said, continuing his story as the other three Marauders groaned.

"As in a date?" Peter asked.

"Duh, Wormtail. How dense can you get? Of course it's a date!" Sirius said.

"Padfoot! Is there something you have to tell us about you and Wormtail?" James laughed at his own wit.

"I've changed my mind," Remus said.

"What did you change your mind about?" James asked.

"Sirius is definitely as bad as you."

"I can believe it," Lily teased him.

"I'm sure you could," Sirius said. "Now, Peter and Remus. It's your turn to tell stories."

"Me first?" Peter asked.

"Go ahead," Remus said. "I have to think of the worst one about James that I can think of."

James laughed and mouthed to Sirius. 'He would.'

'So would I,' Sirius mouthed back and James laughed again. "Go ahead, Peter."

Peter started with a stutter. "Well…"

The boys all squinted but couldn't see each other in the dark closet. "Did it work?" Peter tried to ask but all the came out was a squeak. He heard a bark that must've been Sirius. Concentrating, he managed to transform back to himself. "It worked!" Peter said.

He waited until Sirius and James had transformed back. "Very good observation!" Sirius said with a laugh.

"Come on," James said. "Moony is probably worried sick. We managed it though."

They hurried back to the common room, now full-blown Animagi. When the boys got there they found Remus, not reading like they would've thought, but laughing with Lily. "He is flirting with my one true love," James said through clenched teeth.

"Prongs, mate. I doubt that he's flirting with her." Sirius tried to calm James down, patting his back and whatnot.

"She never opens up to me like that," James said with a little pout on his lips.

"Oh, yes," Remus said with a sigh. "I remember that. We got into a fight for weeks and weeks about that."

"Yeah, I was sure that Remus had been flirting with you. And, I was at least jealous that he was a better friend to you than I was." James addressed Lily. "I didn't speak to him for, I think, two and a half weeks."

Lily laughed. "This is interesting. Now, Remus. I'd like to hear your story." Lily leaned her head against James' shoulder and Remus handed the baby to Sirius before settling back against the couch.

"Now, my story is the day after you agreed to go out with James."

"She said yes! She said yes! She said yes! She said yes!" James couldn't stop saying it. He was amazed. He was shocked. He was ecstatic. He was beginning to get on the rest of the Marauders' nerves.

"Yeah, yeah," Sirius mumbled unenthusiastically, not looking up from the game of wizard chess he was playing with Remus.

"No, Sirius." James grabbed Sirius by the ear and forced Sirius to look at him. Sirius cringed and raised his eyebrows. "Lily Evans! Lily Evans is going out with me! The girl I've wanted and who has rejected me since first year is going out with me!"

The three sane Marauders looked at each other and burst out laughing. Lily walked into the common room and James seemed to gravitate to her. "He's lost it, he has." Remus sighed as he went back to the game of chess with Sirius.

Lily was grinning as she took Harry out of Sirius' arms. "I do so love these stories. I really do and we'll have to do this again sometimes but for now Harry needs to take a nap."

James watched her until she left and then looked back at Sirius, Remus, and Peter. "You three need to get a wife and child so I don't feel so alone."

"Oh, no, James. Harry is enough of a son for me. I can spoil him but hand him to you or Lily when his pants are soiled," Sirius said.

James rolled his eyes. "Remus? Peter? Please?"

Remus and Peter just laughed and Remus said, "I think I'm content to just hold Harry. I never want to have kids… Especially with… You know. I doubt I'll find somebody. She'd have to have pink hair to be able to put up with me. But we'll have to do this again sometime!"

"Pink hair?" Sirius asked. "Yeah, sure, and you'll have a blue-haired baby." Sirius rolled his eyes and they all laughed as they tried to picture that.

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PS : Tonks and Teddy at the end.