"What do you mean?" Lily asks.

I raise an eyebrow, "What do you think I mean?"

"No, I don't like it. Not one bit! Last time we broke in somewhere, you ended up going to Azkaban. There has to be some other way for us to find out how these screen things work," Lily says. She stands and starts pacing.

I frown and glance at James, trying to get him to see that I would like his help in this. He shrugs at first then motions for me to wait while he talks with Lily. They go to a different room and I can hear their voices murmuring as they speak. They don't understand that things are getting bad. Really bad. A sound from one of the temporary screens pulls me from my musings.

"Hey Remus, why's Sirius moping?" Harry asks, placing a recently dried plate onto a pile of other clean plates with a slight clink.

Remus chuckles, "He's not moping. Well, not exactly. Something's just been bothering him for a while, and when that's added to his insomnia, and that is added to what date it is, he's going to be a bit moody."

"Kind of like how you were moody last week?" Harry asks.

"What do you mean?" Remus asks. Of course, that Harry has started putting dishes away means that he doesn't see that Remus has gone slightly pale.

I chuckle, "Yes, what on Earth do you mean? Remus moody around the full moon? Never! Perish the thought!"

"And you claim your brother the dramatic one!" Potter One and Two simultaneously shout from the other room.

I roll my eyes.

Harry shrugs, "Nothing much. You just tend to get moody around the full moon. I understand. I know one of my old neighbors was affected by it as well."

"They were?"

I raise an eyebrow. What would a werewolf be doing on Privit Drive?

"Yeah, she was an older lady. Always would walk out on nights of the full moon and sing to her flowers. Funny thing is that she never remembered doing such the next day," Harry says.

Remus chuckles, "I can assure you that singing is the last thing on my mind on a full moon."

"Well I'd hope so, I've heard your singing voice."

"Remus singing? Dear Merlin, save us all," James says as he walks into the room, Lily trailing him like a pouting child.

I smirk and turn back to the screen.

"So what's so important about today?" Harry asks.

Remus sighs, "Today is Sirius's brother's birthday."

My smirk falls and I stare at the screen, blinking.

"Sirius has a brother?"

"He did. Regulus died two years before you were born. He was two years below us at school. Very intelligent, cunning as a snake, which is fitting considering his House, and cautious as his brother is reckless," Remus says, "Unfortunately, I do not know much about him. If you want to know more, you'd have to ask Sirius."

Harry nods, "I may do that, sometimes talking about something helps, right?"

Remus smiles, "Right. Now, I will finish the dishes. Run off and play or something."

Harry laughs, barely dodging a spray of suds flicked from the tawny haired werewolf.

Swallowing, I turn from the screen and frown at the other two who are watching. "I don't care what you say, I'm going into that Hall, and I'm going to find out how these things are made and any other bits of information that I can about them."

"Agreed. And I'm going with, that's the only way you're getting near that place," James says.

"Fine."

James turns to Lily and says good-bye. The two of us grab our cloaks and step out into the night.

James's POV

After we're a few blocks away I turn to Regulus, "This isn't the way to the Hall of Prophets."

"No it isn't. But you can't expect to find what we're looking for in the Hall of Prophets," Regulus says. He turns to me and smiles, "No, we're going somewhere better."

"Better how?"

"Trust me."

I frown, but don't say anything further. Trusting the young Black is far easier than I would have ever admitted on Earth, but then again, I didn't really know him when we both were alive. And even with his troubled past, I know that there's something going on. He's thinking twelve steps ahead. Playing the chess board. And with people such as Gryffindor and Slytherin and Dumbledore playing the field as well, I know that it's a good thing to have multiple chess masters on our side. He doesn't want to just get the instructions for the monitoring screens, there's something else that he wants to snag. I can only hope that whatever it is won't get the two of us caught and sent to jail.

Regulus stops and turns to me, "All right, here we are. I know what I'm looking for, so there's no need for both of us to try and steal it. What I'm going to need is someone to act as a distraction. Being a Marauder, I don't think that you'll have any problems causing a scene."

"Of course not!" I grin, "The only question is how much of a scene?"

"Enough that all the people in this general location will come running."

I nod, "As you wish."

Regulus smirks and takes off toward a back alley. I glance around the area before shrugging and summoning a bottle of firewhiskey. Lily would kill me if she knew what I was doing. And if we weren't already dead. Taking some of the whiskey, I splash some of it on my neck, behind my ears, and a little in my hair. I sip from the bottle and gurgle it before swallowing.

"Forgot how much of a kick that stuff has," I mutter. Shrugging, I stumble out to the middle of the street in front of the hall. "Hey! HEY! Where's…where's my stuff? YOU! YOU took it didn't you?"

People stop and stare, but no one comes any closer, which isn't good. I need a crowd.

"I need my stuff! It's bad enough that life took my bastard!" I give a giggle and take a swig from the bottle, letting the liquid touch my lips but not drinking any, "That's not right. I mean, it's bad enough that BASTARD took my LIFE!"

People slowly start to come closer, including a pair of security guards. Hopefully this place doesn't have any laws about being drunk and disorderly. I walk over to a woman and throw my arm around her.

"But you know what? You want to know something? I don't care. I have you lovely f-folks! So let's party!" I giggle again. Flicking my wand at a box, music starts to pour from it. I step away from the woman, "I love this song, come on and dance with me!"

I pull the same woman into a dance, keeping myself sloppy enough to be drunk, but also being careful so as not to step on her toes. I spin her off into another man and grab one of the security guards and start dancing with him.

"You-you know, you're not as pretty as my last par-partner," I say before laughing. I take another pretend sip of my drink and on the next step stumble a little, spilling some of the whiskey, "Al-alcohol ab-buse!"

By this time, the crowd has gathered rather nicely, but I can still tell that there are some security guards in the building. I giggle again and turn to the crowd, "Wha-what we need is," giggle, "FIREWORKS!"

Aiming my wand at the sky, I send up various fireworks, including a couple that sound like a cannon sent them up. This causes many more people to run over and see what the commotion is about. I start sending up sparkles and streamers and balloons.

"Sir! Sir you need to stop with the fireworks or we will have to take you in," one of the guards says.

"Take-take me in? I'm no stray," I giggle. Turning to the man I place a hand on his forehead, "Sir, you are doing a won-wonderful job! Continue on sir good!"

"Ok, I think you've had enough to drink," Regulus says, grabbing me around the waist and throwing one of my arms over his shoulders.

"HEY! Hey, everyone, look! It's the Little King!" I say, laughing at the end.

Regulus sighs, "Yes, it's me. Now can you give me the bottle?"

"No!"

"I'm not going to throw it away, I just want to see it."

"Ok!" I hand him the bottle. While he's pouring it out and apologizing to some of the guards, I turn to a woman and stage whisper, "He likes looking at bottles, he thinks the glass is pretty!"

She nods, looking half amused half sympathetic.

Regulus hands me the empty bottle, "Here you go, come on, let's get you home."

"HOME! Home with the strange, where you al-always have someone to blame! A-a-a-a-a-and never is heard, a dis-discourag-ing word, and-d-d-d-d the wolves play Par-cheesi all day!"

Regulus is dragging me away while I'm singing my ballad, and I can tell that he's trying not to burst into laughter. After we're a few blocks away we finally just start laughing like a couple of hyper first years.

"That was perfect!" Regulus says between his laughing.

I finally manage to stop laughing, but still have a huge grin on my face, "Did you get it?"

Regulus nods and shows me a couple of rolls of parchment hidden in his jacket, "Come on, we'd best get back before Lily decides to kill me."

"You mean us."

"No, I mean me. If she hasn't killed you by now, she's not going to."

I smile and shrug. We're walking back toward our hideout when this woman comes running up to Regulus.

"Mr. Regulus, I need help!" she says.

"Kristi? What's wrong?" Regulus asks, all humor from minutes before forgotten.

Kristi is breathing rather hard and swallows a few times before answering, "They blew up my bar! I can't believe that they blew it up. And there was no warning beforehand. Most of my patrons made it out, but a few were caught in the blast. I don't know what to do."

Regulus's face has grown dark and he nods, "Very well. Kristi, come with us, you can stay for a few hours while I contact a friend for you to stay with."

She nods and gives a sniffle.

Regulus and I share a look. This is getting serious.

"Kristi, might I ask who blew up your bar?" I ask.

She turns to me with a slight sniffle and shrugs slightly, "It was a mix of people, but they all were wearing blue cowls. Workers for Ravenclaw."

Regulus groans and runs a hand through his hair, "Ravenclaw is now working in this? Great!"

"Somehow I can't imagine Hufflepuff sticking to the sidelines either," I mutter.

"Hufflepuffs? Really?" Kristi asks.

"Their house traits are loyal, hardworking, and fair. Do any of those words sound like 'nice' or 'nonviolent'?" I ask, "Trust me, do not mess with the 'Puffs."

AN- Hi everyone! Thank you for the reviews and other jib jab. This is one of my favorite chapters just because of having James be "drunk" in it. I'm not sure when I'm going to have another chapter up, especially as I'm writing this and putting it up right after editing, but hopefully it'll be soon.