Lily, deciding that she couldn't pick up all four cups by herself, cast a quick charm on the cups and bent down to pick up the five-month old Harry.

"Look at you, baby boy. Already trying to crawl! Frustrating?" Lily asked and gently touched her nose to his. "My little prince." Lily looked around and then lowered her voice to a whisper. "Don't tell your daddy I'm calling you a prince. He says that prince is a girly name."

"Where's a girl?" Remus asked, coming inside and immediately grabbing Harry from Lily.

Lily laughed as Harry snuggled into Remus' neck. All the Marauder's loved Harry and Harry loved the Marauders. Mostly because they gave him treats that his mother never did. The Marauders used him sort of as their little mascot, except Peter. The Marauders and she often got together but lately Peter hadn't been coming to their little get-togethers. But when he did he acted weird.

Well, no use thinking about that, Lily thought as she followed Remus out to the living room where Sirius and James were already sitting.

"Darling!" James kissed Lily on the lips as she sat down next to him.

"Lily-kins!" Sirius said as he gave her a smacking kiss on her lips. "How is our favorite Marauder-ette?" Sirius asked and Lily laughed at the name of affection.

"Waiting for you to find your own Marauder-ette so you'd stop flirting wit her, I presume," Remus said with a laugh as Lily wiped her mouth and James gave Sirius a death glare.

They all laughed and settled down. Remus regretfully set Harry down on the floor to play with his teddy bear and looked around, raising his eyebrows. "Where's Peter?"

Lily, James, and Sirius all looked at each other and shrugged. "I dunno," Sirius said. "I told him we were planning a get-together and he didn't respond."

"Do you know where he is?" Remus asked, curious about his old friend.

James sighed, just as curious as Remus was. "No, he's been acting odd lately. Mostly since Harry was born..."

"Yeah, really," Sirius said in a distracted voice and, not able to resist any longer, got down on the floor with Harry. He grabbed Harry's teddy bear, dressed in a quidditch jersey, and waved it in front of Harry's face.

Lily, seeing Harry's face bunch up, burst out laughing and Sirius looked hurt. "He doesn't love his favorite godfather?"

James snorted and even Remus had to hide a laugh. Lily, though, was still laughing hysterically. "Here, Sirius. Give him to me." Sirius, still looking offended, did so and Harry calmed instantly.

"Well," James said and laid his arm around Lily's shoulder. "I have a story I think I'd like to tell."

Remus and Sirius nodded. "Go ahead, James. You go first today," Remus agreed and James cleared his throat.

"Okay, this was in fourth year and Peter, Sirius, and I were sure that we had figured out how to become Animagi. How wrong we were...


Um, I think that this will work. Here, you try it." Sirius tried to shove a vial into James' hands but he shook his head.

"I am so not trying it out. Let's try it on Peter."

Peter, who had been sitting in the corner reading a book about spells, looked shocked at the idea. "Me?"

"Yeah, Peter. You'll be fine. Just one little sip and then we'll find out if it's poison or not." Peter paled at Sirius' comment.

"He was kidding, Peter," James snapped.

"Um, okay." Peter held out his hand at the exact same time that Sirius reached out to give Peter the potion. The vile spun up in the air and they all gasped.

"Wow, mate," Sirius said and gagged as the potion went down his throat.

"There was a bright light and then there was nothing at all. "Sirius?" James asked cautiously. "Um, Sirius, mate. Where are you?"

James bent down and suddenly burst out laughing. "What are you laughing about?" Peter asked.

"Well, here... Get down here and feel this," James said and so Peter did. Even Peter had to chuckle.

"Not... Fu... Nny..." Sirius managed to choke out. He hadn't turned into an Animagi. He had turned into a rug.


"To this day, we still don't know what potion we used that went so horribly wrong," James said with a laugh.

Sirius chuckled. "I was in the hospital wing for three weeks because of that."

"That's why?" Lily asked. "I was sure it was some prank gone awry or something."

"Lily-kins! Lily-kins! You underestimate our ability to pull off a prank without hitch." Sirius chuckled and kissed Lily gently on her fingertips.

"Okay, okay! Get away from my wife," James said angrily and pulled Lily back to his side.

"You haven't told us a story yet," Remus said, changing the subject. It wouldn't be the first time that James and Sirius had come to blow over a lady. Of course, Lily was, always had been, and always would be James' girl. That had been an official Marauder rule. "Oh, wait, dear. Sorry. I have a story I'd like to tell."

Sirius and James looked at each other. "This can't be good," James joked.

"Well, remember the Marauder rules?" Remus asked and the other two Marauders burst out laughing.

"What so funny?" Lily demanded.

"I'll tell you, dear. Anyway, it's fifth year. They had become Animagi. I was a prefect. So, I told them that they needed more discipline in their life. So, they made the Marauder rules..."


"I'm bored," Sirius whispered to James, completely ignoring Professor McGonagall talking about Metamorphmagus'.

"So am I," James whispered back. "You know when Moony told us about how we should be more disciplined?"

"Yeah."

"Well, I think he might be right."

"What?" Sirius yelped.

"Black, did you have something you wanted to say?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"No, Professor," Sirius said and turned back to James. "Prongs, have you gone crazy?"

"Black! Please do not whisper in my class or else you will receive another detention." Sirius just nodded.

As soon as McGonagall had turned away James turned to Sirius. "No, I think we should write a Marauder's Code of Conduct."

"You know, Prongs. I think that might be a good idea," Sirius said and took out a clean sheet of paper. "Okay."

The Marauders Code of Conduct by Sirius Black and James Potter

1. No hitting on Lily Evans if you're not James Potter.

"That's a dumb rule," Sirius whispered to James.

"Is not."

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Fine."

2. No talking to Slytherin's unless you're insulting or cursing them.

"That's a good rule," James whispered and Sirius nodded.

3. Never, ever give a teacher an easy time. Ex: Always whispered as much as you can in class.

"Remus is going to have a hard time following this one," Sirius said and they both sniggered.

4. If you're cursing a Slytherin, don't show mercy.

"This is a good time for evil laughter, I just don't want to risk detention," James whispered and they sniggered again.

5. Remain loyal to the Marauders forever.


"It actually went further than that. Each rule stupider than the rule before. Those were just the first five," Remus said with a laugh and Sirius and James tried not to blush.

Lily again, was hysterically laughing and poked her husband in the side. "Not hitting on Lily Evans if you're not James Potter?" She asked and began laughing again.

Remus, listening to Lily laugh began chuckling. Sirius and James exchanged a look and began laughing as well. And lastly, Harry looked around at the four of them and smiled.


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PS : We're pretending that Lily and James weren't in hiding at this point.