Shorter than the last chapter, but better that nothing, eh?
Let's pick up three hours after where we left.
About three hours later, James and Sirius came back.
"Bloody brilliant, we missed dinner!" Sirius groaned, sitting down in the dog basket where Lily had laid only five seconds ago.
"What took you so long?" Peter asked from his bed.
"Wormy, when did you come back?"
"Just after you left." Remus answered.
"So that's why we couldn't find you in the hospital wing!"
"By the way, thanks for the broken ribs. Never let them bomb me again, Remus."
"I'll try. Can't promise anything, not when it's about those guys."
"Since when are we 'those guys'?" James and Sirius said in union, glaring at Remus.
Creepy. They're like twins.
"Back to the important thing, we missed dinner. Who's up for Swedish Meatballs?" Sirius sat up, and James looked up from his pillow.
"We ate dinner an hour ago, not hungry." Peter muttered, but sat up.
"Why meatballs? I'm more thinking oak leaves, maybe a little willow, and just a sprinkle of cinnamon, in a nice salad." James looked dreamy.
"Okay, what did you do?" Remus sat up, trying to glare at both Sirius and James.
"Walk." Sirius said.
"Long walk." James added.
"Climb tree."
"Don't tell me you were out in the Forbidden Forest and climbed trees. A stag and a dog climbing trees, I'm not swallowing that. You could have gotten yourself killed." Remus sighed. What?
"Then we won't tell you. I tried as a dog at first, but it didn't work. So then I cheated, climbed up as human and transformed up in the tree."
WHAT?
"And then the tree fell because Sirius is so damn fat."
What?
"I am not!" Sirius protested.
"You made a tree break under your weight." James made a point.
"It was a lousy birch, thinner than my arm!"
What? Why did you even try?
"Why did you even try?" Peter asked.
"Prongs said I couldn't climb up the tree as a dog."
What?
"And Padfoot, the idiot, cheated!" James exclaimed.
"I climbed as a dog when I had gotten up in the tree."
"Yeah, ten inches. And then the tree broke."
Must've looked funny... Still doesn't explain anything...
"And when we came back we had to go to Pommy to get a bandage to my hand." Sirius waved with a bandaged hand.
"But before that, the Whomping Willow hit me on the mouth." James pointed on his upper lip, where no signs of damage could be seen.
"Yeah, and then Pommy made a huge fuss about Prongsie's mouth damages."
"And now we've missed dinner." James ended the story.
"I should never have let you become animagi." Remus stated.
WHAT?
"You didn't let us; you caught us but stopped stopping us after a week. And we don't care if you would've let us or not, we're your friends." James said firmly.
Okay, there's something I've missed here...
"And you feel a lot better." Peter added.
"Don't deny it; we can see that you feel better with us around you."
When did this conversation get so serious? Maybe I should leave...
"And since there's nothing else we can do, we make the best of what can't be changed."
"How many scars have I caused you?" Remus asked.
"347, including all the times you didn't stop me from doing fun things." Sirius said.
"There's the five scars on my back since first year, two scars on my knee, hundreds of smaller scars from other accidents around you, that bite mark on my neck, and last fullmoon you bit my foot, I just didn't tell you, and then there's the scars from the surgery Pommy made after you landed on my hand. And some scars on my back, shoulders and arms from the Whomping Willow, but I blame Sirius for that." James finished, looking at Sirius.
"That was a year ago, I was stupid. Get over it." Sirius sighed.
"You could have gotten him killed. He may be an asshole, but he's still human." James sat down on his bed.
Big argue coming up...
"Is this about last year? You never told me what it was about; you just hated each other for weeks. Who did you almost kill?" Remus sounded very angry.
"You only rescued him because Evans cares about him!" Sirius spat, ignoring Remus. What?
"He's human, and I do not wanna visit two of my friends in Azkaban for the rest of my life!" James roared. As if we didn't know that before.
Both Remus and Peter had started to back off now, and Lily hid behind Remus.
"Remus couldn't help it!" Sirius protested.
"He still would've murdered a person, even if you were behind it!"
Sirius just hung with his head, sighing.
"Sorry, we just never had the big argue last year..." James sighed.
"Okay, what happened? No lies, just tell me!" I've never seen Remus so angry...
"I promised Sirius..." James started, but Sirius cut him off.
"I told Snape you're a werewolf, and to be sure he could check that night. I told him about the Whomping Willow, how to freeze it, and just after you had gotten in there he followed. When I told James, he got furious. But he ran after Snape, and when he couldn't do anything as a stag he transformed back to human and rushed down without even stopping the tree, and half a minute later he came out with Snivellus, who was unconscious, both of them covered in blood and nasty cuts. At least that's what I saw from the window, James threatened to kill me if I went outside." Sirius had almost started to cry. Wow. Way to much information to take in. I can only say, or meow, WHAT?
"The next day I promised Snape that if he ever told anyone, I'd make his life miserable for ever, even if it meant killing everyone he cared about." James ended the story.
"Except for Evans." Sirius immediately cut in. What?
"If he ruined my friend's life, I'd do anything to ruin his. Even if it meant to kill Lily. And anyway, I'll never get her." Yes you will. I like you James.
"Yes you will." Sirius firmly said. No you won't. Argh, who am I kidding, all I want to do is to kiss that bloody idiot! Great, I'm not only a cat, I'm arguing against myself, changing my mind every five seconds.
"Since that's your way of apologizing, I won't comment that I never will." James sighed, half smiling. "And Remus, I know you feel hatred for Sirius right now, but he's suffered enough already and he regrets it, okay?"
"You're an idiot, Sirius. I'll never forgive you, but if James is right... we'll go on as if it never happened..."
"Thanks Moony. What about those meatballs?"
Did I miss something here? Where's the calming down part? Hello? This is just so wrong, one minute they fight and the other they're going down to eat dinner as if they haven't fought at all! Oh, right... they're guys. We're talking about the Marauders, I forgot.
OoOoO
Lily followed James and Sirius when they were going to dinner, wondering how they'd get food this late.
"You do it, I can't with this hand. And I can't tickle the pear with the other hand, somehow it won't tickle the pear." Sirius whispered to James, somewhere down under the Great Hall.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah... hello, Mr Paron (*)." James whispered to the fruit basket in the painting, and tickled the pear.
"Kitty, you want anything?" Sirius asked.
"Didn't we agree on calling her Miss Redhead? It was your decision after all." James pointed out, and spoke to the elves, "Salad, oak leafs, maybe some willow, cinnamon... you know the rest. No tomatoes."
"Swedish meatballs, that brilliant sauce you do, and spaghetti." Sirius ordered, and the crown of house elves started to move, everyone saying something about 'right away sir' or 'meatballs ala Padfoot' or 'where's the bloody cow, I need milk for the sauce!'
"You want anything, Redhead?" James asked Lily.
I don't know...
"Minnie portion, add that." James said to the closest house elf.
Minnie portion...?
"If this cat likes it as much as McGonagall, I dare say every cat likes it." James proudly stated.
"How many cats have you served? And what did they say?"
"The five cats at home, three cats here at school, Mrs Norris, and McGonagall. Most of them jumped up in my lap and started to purr. McGonagall stopped glaring at me. Mrs Norris let me pass, that's
how I managed to set off those fireworks from the Astronomy Tower." James proudly said.
"Wow. Ooooh, here's my meatballs! Thanks, Hermes (**)." Sirius dug in on his meal.
"Perfect, you guys are amazing... here, Kitty-Redhead, here's your food. Salmon, Roast, toasted bread and chicken in a wonderful mix. Enjoy. I know I will." James chuckled before he started to eat.
So that's why McGonagall had Salmon and Roast as cat food... I wonder if this is better...
It was, it was a lot better than McGonagall's.
"See, our kitty liked it." James happily stated.
Please, chew with your mouth closed...
And there we end for this time.
* Paron = Maybe I should explain the name. Päron in Swedish means Pear. Without the ¨ it'd be Paron. So, there you have Mr Paron.
** Hermes = I know Percy's owl (is it from the third book?) is named Hermes, but this elf is actually named with a thought of a book I just fnished, about philosophy and it's mysteries. Can't recall who Hermes was, either a greek God or a philosopher, but however the elf is named Hermes. He's italian, and an expert on pasta.
I'll try to update ASAP, but I'm still human, I've got to eat, pee, and sleep. Four pages in word for one of these chapters. Three maybe. Still, there's some work to be done.
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