"What do you do for Halloween with a three month old?" James wondered aloud as he sat with the Marauders. They were sitting on the porch of the Potter house a week from Halloween. James looked into the window to see Lily playing with Harry. He couldn't believe he was a father and that after years of chasing Lily, she had finally gone out with him.

"This is why I'm not a father." Sirius answered. He took a drag of his cigarette and smiled at Remus.

Peter laughed, "That's because you can't get your boyfriend pregnant."

"Leave me out of this, please." Remus said with as much dignity as he could find. He didn't like it when people talked about him dating Sirius. He knew people were okay with it, but it made him feel awkward.

"We could go to the bar." Peter thought.

"We are not taking my son to a bar, Peter." James said, shutting that idea down immediately.

"Well," Remus began to think, "He's too young to go Trick-Or Treating." He looked at Sirius, "Next year we can probably all take him, but not now. We could dress him up though." Remus knew what Sirius had been thinking about wanting to take Harry Trick-Or-Treating. They could usually answer questions without having to ask them. Sirius smiled at the idea.

"Like have a costume party?" James looked at Sirius, "you need to have an appropriate costume. Don't show up naked."

"Being a Dad must suck all of the fun right out of you. I can be at a party without taking my clothes off." Sirius finished his cigarette and started walking towards the door. "If you excuse me, I have a God son to see, and if you'll notice, I'm fully clothed." Sirius walked inside and shut the door with a little more force than was necessary.

"Yeah, just like at my bachelors party!" James yelled at the door. "I should go talk to him." James started to head inside but Remus put his arm out to stop him.

"No, let me. I'm the only one who can calm him down when he's like this." Remus put down his butterbeer and headed inside after Sirius. He found Sirius sitting on the floor with Lily and Harry, playing peek-a-boo, all traces of anger gone.

"He actually told me not to show up naked, Lily. Can you believe that? A year ago, James would be just as naked as I am." Sirius picked up Harry and sat him on his lap. He had loved Harry like he was his own son.

Remus sat down next to Sirius. "Lily, we were talking outside about coming over for Halloween and dressing up Harry. Do you think that would be okay?"

Lily smiled, "Better than taking him to a bar. I bet that's what James was planning."

"No, darling wife, that is not what I was planning. I actually said not to take him to a bar." James and Peter had walked into the living room and sat down on the couch.

"Sorry, I thought it would be fun." Peter said, looking around the room at everyone.

"Oh Wormy, what are we going to do with you? Time for Harry to go to bed, I think." Lily stood up and walked the three steps over to Sirius and held out her arms for her son.

"Could I read him to sleep?" Sirius asked, hopeful.

"Yeah, that would be fine. Does Uncle Remus want to read to him too?"

"You know me, books and I'm there." Remus stood up and took Harry from Sirius so Sirius could stand up. They walked upstairs and into the nursery.

"I'm going to go take a shower since I actually have time tonight. Thanks for reading to him." Lily walked out of the room and left Remus and Sirius with Harry.

Downstairs, Peter and James were still sitting on the couch. "Why aren't you upstairs with Harry?"

"I read to him every night. I thought I'd give Sirius time to read to Harry, and of course Remus. Lily isn't with them, either." As he had said this, they could hear the water upstairs starting to run.

"This is why Sirius is God father and I am not."

"No, Sirius is God father because you think it's a good idea to get my son drunk." James was teasing, but underneath his teasing, he was completely serious. "And you know he's been my best friend for years. Not that I'm not close to you, Wormtail." He added on as an afterthought. "I just feel like Sirius and Remus should be allowed to read to Harry because could you imagine what would happen if they ever raised a child what kind of horrible things people would say? Not that Sirius would let that stop him or anything. He'd probably punch them in the face. But if they want to read to Harry, they can do that."

"Sirius would have shown up naked if you hadn't told him to."

"No, he wouldn't have shown up naked. He would have gotten drunk and ended up naked, that's not the same thing. Look, Sirius would have done this before Harry came along, but not now. Look at him, he's holding Harry constantly. If something ever happened to Lily and I, I'd want Remus and Sirius to take care of Harry." He said that quietly, trying not to think about it. But the truth was there and no matter how much they tried to avoid it, there was a war going on and people would die. People already were dying.

Peter nodded and stood up, mumbling about having to go home. He waved to James, yelled upstairs he was leaving, and walked out the front door. He looked back for a moment and thought about his friends and the war they tried not to talk about when they weren't doing things for the Order. He knew he would probably die, but he really didn't want to. He began to think of ways to stay alive. At the moment, none came to him.

Upstairs, Sirius was about to read to Harry. He was sitting in the rocking chair when he looked up at Remus. "You hold him. I've held him all night." He handed Harry over to him. Remus took Harry carefully. Sirius watched. Remus was always so careful at this. Sirius felt clumsy and awkward.

Sirius stood up from the chair and walked over to where James and Lily kept the books. "Should we read to him about the grumpy goat? I always liked that one as a kid." He picked up the book and walked over to the chair and opened the book. When he had finished reading, Harry was fast asleep in Remus' arms. "He likes you, Moony." Sirius whispered.

James had walked in and watched as Sirius and Remus put Harry in the crib. They walked over to him and Remus whispered, "Thanks for letting us come over and read to him."

"Yeah, really, thanks Prongs." Sirius hit him on the shoulder affectionately. "We should get home though and I can plan what I'm wearing for Halloween." Lily and James walked them to the front of the house and she stood waving as she watched them head for their flat, apparating home.

"You know, I could be Peter Pan." Sirius thought as he climbed into bed later that night. "I always liked him. Never grow up. Sounds like me." Remus pulled back the covers and got into bed next to Sirius."

"I'm not being Tinkerbelle. Glitter does not look good on me." Remus yawned and moved closer to Sirius. "Think of something else, I'm not doing it. Turn off the light, please." Remus yawned again.

Sirius reached over to turn off the light but stopped. "Maybe we could be fluffy little bunnies because that's appropriate for children."

"Sirius, don't. You would look horrible with a bunny tail."

"Togas. We could get Togas. You know, Caesar had a boyfriend."

"Good night, Padfoot."

"What, he was manly. And you wouldn't have to wear glitter. It's perfect."

"Mmhmm. I'm going to sleep now." Remus closed his eyes.

"Night, Moony." Sirius turned off the light, determined to be the best Caesar for Halloween. "I need to look up his boyfriend's name. We can't just be Caesar and boyfriend." He fell asleep a few moments later.