"Prongs! Lilyflower!"
James sighed and looked at Lily. She smiled and shrugged at him, not bothering to give him a proper answer to his look, and turned back to her knitting. James almost laughed at the absolute absorption on her face. She wasn't really doing anything—just waving her wand every now and then so the needles would thread through the wool in the right places.
"Jamesie! Are you home?"
At this yell, Lily didn't even look away from her needles and thread even when James stared at her, waiting for an answer. Eventually he gave up, and rolling his eyes at his wife's concentration at something of so little importance in his opinion, James yelled back in the direction of the front door, "No! Go away, Padfoot!"
A few seconds later there were heavy foot falls that stopped at the doorway of the living room.
"That's not very nice, Prongs." Sirius said, coming into view and leaning against the door frame to look at his best friend. He stared, shocked at the sight in front of him. James was lying on the couch, his head in a book and Lily was now smiling up at Sirius, her knitting still going on its own.
"What is it, Sirius?" Lily asked at the sight of Sirius's face.
"Have I stumbled upon some alternate universe or something?" Sirius managed to get out.
"We're in heaven. There is no alternate universe to heaven, Siri."
"Oh, I know what it is." Sirius smiled and nodded, as if he had solved a huge life-changing mystery, "Have you two used that body switching spell again?"
Lily laughed and James snorted, finally dropping his book to look at his friend. "Again? When in Merlin's name did Lily and I switch bodies?"
Sirius gave a wistful smile, "That day in seventh year when Lily came to breakfast super early, all bright and happy and joking. And then you came in as late as possible, and you were all moody to everybody except to Moony and Wormtail and I."
Lily glared at him, "Are you saying I was always moody?"
"Hey, you said the words, not me." He held up his hands with a cheeky grin and Lily rolled her eyes and went back to her knitting.
James laughed loudly, "We didn't switch bodies, Padfoot. We were just in different moods to what we normally were in back then. That happened to be the day Lily put itching powder in my bed and smeared some sort of cream on my glasses so they were foggy and I couldn't get it all off for about two hours. Of course I was mad."
"Oh, that's right." Sirius chuckled, "That was quite a good prank, by the way, Lils. Subtle and simple, yet always effective."
"Yeah, because that's what all your pranks were," Lily said sarcastically, "The epitome of subtlety. And watching you pull all those outrageous stunts over the years did give me a few pointers of my own so you really only had yourself to blame." She smirked at James, who winked cockily.
"They were awesome pranks, weren't they? Always got people talking. Even Dumbledore thought they were funny." He smiled, staring off into the distance. Eventually he seemed to come back to earth and he frowned, "You know, I'm sure I had a point when a brought all this up. What started this whole reminiscing thing?"
"You thought Lil and I had switched bodies." James stated, looking back at his book.
"That's right! I walked in and Lily is doing…something, I don't even know what she is doing, and James is reading! Reading!"
"So?"
"So, my darling Lilyflower, it should be the other way around. You should have your bookworm nose in a book and James should be the one doing something completely pointless and boring. Not reading, of all things." Sirius shook his head in mock disappointment.
"Hey!" Lily cried indignantly, "Knitting isn't pointless! Granted, it may be a bit boring, but I like it. Do you want a new scarf for Christmas, Sirius?"
Sirius looked confused but shrugged, "Sure, you know I love scarves."
"Well, don't insult my knitting, because I am making you one right now but I won't give it to you if you think me making it is pointless."
Understanding lightened Sirius's expression and suddenly watched the needles clicking together in fascination. "You're making a scarf? Right now?"
Lily nodded and he clapped like a little kid, running over to her. "That's so cool! Teach me how to make one! Please!"
Lily laughed and James shook his head, looking up from his book to say, "Sirius, what did you come here for?"
"I was bored, and I wanted to see what you guys were doing." He shrugged, watching as Lily carefully used her wand to direct the needles as they took on another thread of a different colour, "Nikki's gone to meet her parents again and I've had enough painful conversations with her father, thank you very much."
"So you've decided to bestow upon us you're over-excited, ridiculous company?" said James with an ironic hint to his tone that Sirius, of course, didn't pick up at all.
"Sure have." Sirius grinned at him, "Aren't you so lucky?"
"Lucky my arse." James muttered to himself, turning the page and continuing to read his rather interesting book on vampires.
He zoned out the mutterings of Sirius as he tried to understand knitting and the sighs of Lily trying to teach him, absorbing himself in his book. A chapter later, James was almost finished the book. He looked up to check what time it was, thinking that he had better go and visit Moony to give his book back when he was done, but was greeted with an all too familiar face staring down at him with a sickly sweet smile from the television screen on the wall.
"AHHHH!" James yelled, jumping up from the couch in shock, dropping his book to the floor. He walked backwards quickly to go stand by the door, as far as possible from the TV screen and the person he wished never to see again.
Lily and Sirius jumped at his shout and turned to look at James as if he had gone mad.
"What is your problem, Prongs? Book to scary for you?" Sirius teased, in an even better mood then before, having gotten the hang of knitting.
James shook his head, still unable to speak and pointed with a shaky hand behind Sirius to the TV.
"MOTHER OF MERLIN!"
Sirius was so surprised he fell backwards to the floor, but hopped up quickly to stand next to James. Lily looked towards where they were staring and shrieked, grabbing a sofa cushion tightly as if it would protect her.
There was a long moment of tense silence before Peter Pettigrew whispered from the TV screen, "James…it's been so long."
A/N: So i know that wasn't the longest chapter in the world, but i just felt like it was a great place to end, don't you think? Don't be mad at the cliffhanger! It does continue, i promise! You will see what happens when Peter talks to James so keep looking out for an update!
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