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When James and Lily had been dating for about six months, and it was clear to see that they were extremely serious and very much 'loved up' Sirius called an emergency Marauders meeting. They sat grouped in armchairs, late one night in the otherwise empty Gryffindor common room. The fire crackled, dying in the grate. The boys looked expectantly at Sirius, waiting for him to start the 'meeting' as it was him who arranged it. He produced a hip flask and a pack of cards from the depths of his robes. He handed James the cards.
"Padfoot?" James asked as he began dealing out the cards.
Sirius smiled. "We need to talk," The others stayed quiet, Sirius continued. "Little Prongsie has been with Miss Evans for a while now. And I think-!" He said and paused for effect. "That we need to make her the honourable 5th Marauder!" He grinned, his teeth shinning. He sipped from the flask, grinning.
James stared at him in shock. "Really?!" He looked around at his friends.
Remus was smiling at his best friends. "Sounds great to me, you know I love Lily." He blushed at this. "I mean as friends." He laughed nervously.
James chuckled and watched as Sirius handed the hip flash over to Remus. Remus the good little prefect he was investigated the flask. "Firewhiskey?" He asked sniffing the contents. Sirius nodded. "Drink it Moony." He tutted, Remus shrugged and took a swig. "Good lad Moony!" Sirius grinned, he lounged in one of the comfy armchairs, his dark, ragged black hair that fell almost to his shoulders, fell shadowing his face, he was the most handsome of the group; it was obvious to all of them; however hard James had tried, girls still liked Sirius more. "Start playing." He tutted at Remus, who picked up his handful of cards obediently.
"And you?" James asked Peter, as they both picked up their cards. "What do you think Wormtail?" He asked.
Little Peter looked around at the three boys he worshipped, wondering if they did indeed cared for his opinion. "Sounds lovely." He whispered his voice barely audible. Remus handed him the hipflask. "Thanks Remus!" He whispered taking a gulp. He hiccupped and looked up at Sirius. Sirius took the Firewhiskey back nodding at him.
"So?" Sirius asked holding out the hipflask to his best friend, after taking a sip himself. "What do you say Jamie?" He asked.
James grinned and looked at his friends. "If you're sure?" He hesitated leaning forward to take the flask, his friends nodded. He took it and drank deeply. "Wow." He grimaced. "Strong stuff,"
"It is when you take big gulps!" Tutted Sirius taking the drink back. "I put a spell on it so that it will keep refilling anyway." He laughed. He drank deeply and it seemed to not affect him.
"Well, she has to have a nickname, right?" Remus wondered and Sirius grabbed his cards and the game began.
"I'll let her decide." James shrugged and drank some more Firewhiskey.
"Erm I don't think so!" Sirius sat up right. "She's not allowed to know she's a Marauder. I mean everyone knows we're the Marauders but we can't let her know she's in...yet." He grinned mischievously.
James passed the flask that had just refilled itself and Remus and Peter both drank. "Ok. Ok." He held up his hands in surrender then picked up his wand that had been lying on the arm of his chair. He twirled it gently, "Well I'm Prongs. So she should be something related to a stag..." He thought aloud.
"So a doe?" Remus offered.
"Too obvious!" Sirius muttered lazily without offering an alternative he layed out his cards.
"What about-," Peter said quietly peering at his own cards. The three others looked round at him surprised that he had an idea.
"Yeah Pete?" James asked eagerly placing out some of his own cards on show.
"Dear." He said simply. "Just Dear. Dear like a doe, y'know?" He looked at James, who was grinning.
"That's brilliant Wormtail!" He grinned. Peter smiled pleased with himself.

Sirius roared his approval and got up to give Peter a bear hug; Remus laughed and egged him on. After awhile, they were just sitting there, passing the Firewhiskey around, playing cards, chatting, joking, telling stories, laughing. The fire had soon died in the grate.

Heavy headed from the Firewhiskey and the clock showing that it was the early hours of the morning the boys trooped drunkenly upstairs to their dormitory and collapsed still laughing and joking on to their four poster beds. James was last to fall asleep, he dragged the hangings around the bed and lay back, still fully dressed, smiling despite his headache. He could hardly believe how lucky he was to have friends like The Marauders.

From then on the four boys refereed to Lily as 'Dear' frequently and refused to explain why. She never found out why...

*

"Dear," James grinned at Lily, she looked up scowling from behind her textbook.
"What?" She demanded.
James grinned and said nothing. Just then Sirius appeared and slapped him round the back of the head with a textbook. James jumped from his seat. "Padfoot!" He grinned and grabbed his best friend. He hugged him, Sirius looked shocked.
"Jamie mate your girlfriend is just over there!" He laughed and when James continued to hug him, he shrugged at Lily-who simply shrugged back and laughed, used to their affection- and hugged him back.
"Are you ok Sirius?" James asked seriously trying to catch his best friend's eye; knowing he'd recently received a letter from his father, Sirius ignored him grinning and pinched his butt. James jumped, Lily burst out laughing.
James slapped Sirius's hand away, "That will teach me for being kind to you!" James laughed and flopped back into his armchair opposite Lily who was still in hysterics.
Sirius grinned. "Sure does Prongs!" He said and swiftly leaned down and pecked James on the cheek, Lily roared with laughter. Sirius snickered and James freaked out and whacked him. "Get off me Padfoot!" He lunged playful at his best friend, they fell, rolling on one of the rugs in the common room, play fighting.
"Oh not again." Remus commented, rolling his eyes, as he entered the common room diverting round his friends who were on the floor, and placed a pile of books at the table Lily was occupying.
"Hi," He smiled at her.
She was still laughing at the two boys. She grinned. "Hey Remus!"
The two of them watched Sirius and James as they mucked about; James chased Sirius around the common room with a metal poker stick from by the fire at one point, and it was when Sirius turned and pounced on James, a low canine growl in his throat, that Remus felt the need to step in.
"Sirius!" He grabbed his friend by the robes; Sirius's hair was a mess.
"What's up Moony?" He grinned, attempting to shrug out of Remus's grip, surprisingly he couldn't.
"Calm it down." Remus muttered sternly, faking a smile.
"Why?" Sirius laughed.
"You just-!" Remus lowered his voice. "Growled...And you had that expression- You looked abit like a dog." He whispered.
"I'm not that stupid!" Sirius laughed, pulling away from Remus, he went and ruffled James's- who had gone to sit back with Lily- hair.
"I'm going up to the dormitories. And don't worry yourself Moony!" He grinned and left.