Chapter Two: December Third

A/N This chapter is going to be much lighter than the previous one, because I want to wait a few chapters before I get into that. The idea is that this will build up to an alternate version of the events of Halloween of 1981.

Thank you to The Marauders Darling for giving this story its first review! Glad you like it, I am quite excited about this idea myself. And of course I'm going to update soon, I'm not completely heartless (although I do love to throw in a good cliffhanger.)

Right I'm rambling once again, so LET'S GET TO IT!

It was several months after the disastrous visit home that Sirius and Remus sat on the couch drinking some of Sirius's hot chocolate.

Sirius had brought the locket straight to Dumbledore. He didn't trust the man, seeing as he had affiliated once with Grindelwald, but the ex-headmaster was the foremost authority on the ways of dangerous Dark Wizards, so he sort of had to.

Dumbledore hadn't liked the look of it and had instantly dismissed Sirius.

Remus set his, now empty mug down on the table.

"Dammit Moony, can't you drink it slowly?"

Remus gave Sirius a tired look.

"I can't help it, the full moon's tonight."

"Don't I know it," Sirius replied sadly, examining the tattoo on his wrist that was simply a circle of black ink. During the course of a month, it would wax and wane according to the moon phases.

Sirius leaned in and grabbed Remus, pulling him abruptly towards his head. Remus had come to expect these yanks and so set himself up to get kissed.

They were making out in full, Remus's hands tangled in Sirius's mane, when an enormously loud knock on the front door startled the two men apart. Remus grinned sheepishly while Sirius yelled out, "Just a minute!"

Sirius adjusted his clothing and walked over to the door. He yanked it open to find James and Peter on the stoop.

"Prongs! Wormtail! Come on in!"

The other two Marauders entered into the small house. James grinned wickedly at Sirius and said,

"Snogging much?"

Peter blushed,

"I'm sure that they weren't!"

Remus grinned and said,

"Sorry Peter, but James is right."

"Ha! Told you so Wormtail! Now where's my Galleons?"

Peter grumbled as he handed James five Galleons.

Sirius looked at Peter, smiling casually.

"So Peter, do you have anyone special yet?"

Peter looked shocked at the question.

"Why no. Should I?"

"No. I was just curious. It's nice to show interest in a friend's love life."

James looked affronted.

"You never showed any interest in me and Lily!"

"That's because you talked about Red for effing hours non-stop. We stopped caring when your plans for wooing her repeated."

The other three nodded.

"Well if you're going to act that way, then I'm not telling you the good news."

"What good news?" Remus asked.

"The good news I'm not going to be telling you."

"Oh come on!" Peter said, "You told me that you would give the news once we were here! Spill!"

"Yeah come on, James!" Remus added.

"Nope! Not telling you."

Sirius looked at James closely.

"Right, it has to do with you and Red. Something about your relationship. It can't be marriage because that's over and done with…" Sirius's eyes narrowed as he thought.

"Try all you want. You won't guess it," James said.

Sirius continued to think, and then his eyes widened as he came to a conclusion.

"Is Red knocked up?"

James somehow smiled, frowned, and cursed all at the same time.

"How did you guess?"

"You were nearly bouncing when you walked in, even though it's about to be Moony's time of the month."

"Dammit. Was it that obvious that I was excited?"

"YES!" said the other three Marauders simultaneously.

"And," added Peter, "I don't know why you said Sirius would never guess. It wouldn't have taken me more that a few minutes to come up with that."

James groaned.

"Hey Remus?" Peter asked.

"What?"

"You want to play chess?"

"Sure."

Sirius and James sat across from each other.

"You got a name picked out mate?" Sirius asked.

"Not yet. Lily's in charge of naming the children we have, remember?" James replied.

"Oh yeah."

"I actually want you to be godfather."

"How far along is this baby?"

"We just found out."

"Less than a month then. You do know a lot can happen to a baby right?"

"Of course I do!"

"Good. I'm not going to accept until the baby is at least a few months along. But I fully intend on becoming your baby's dogfather."

"Dogfather? Really Padfoot?"

"Yes Prongs! Really!"

Remus, who had been quietly listening, captured Peter's king rook and then turned to input.

"Will there be a godmother?"

"Lily doesn't want one."

Peter put Remus into check and then added,

"So far as I know, it's common to have both."

"Well sure, in the wizarding world. According to Lily, Muggles don't do that thing as often anymore."

Remus captured Peter's other rook.

"Random question. Will you teach them to be Animagi?"

"Of course Moony, don't be silly."

Remus checkmated Peter, and then stood up.

"Right, sun's going down. You should shift now."

The other Marauders obliged.

So I'm feeling good about this. We're going to have some more Wolfstar moments, believe you me, and hopefully I can become better at doing this sort of thing.

Right so put a review on this for any questions, comments, or concerns, because I try to answer as many of them as I can (although I prefer to answer all of them).

And of course if you have any suggestions for stories, you could drop me a line on that.

See you soon!

-LordofNothing1