Ah well, what should I say? Shit happens. I know I forgot about this and no one really cares about excuses so go on to the chapter.

(And for those who care.. was just wondering if my English is good enough. I had my doubts but suddenly getting a mail with an 'On-Alert-List'-Alert changed my mind about not continuing publishing the story ^.^ thank you!)

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Chapter04

Later James went to get Harry from school. When he came back they all went into Harry's playroom and played some childish games there. They all laughed a lot but while Sirius worried about being to weak, James worried about what Sirius had said the first time they met – the part about Voldemort coming back.

So when Remus left, giving Sirius a big hug as goodbye and after Harry went to bed, James met Sirius in the living room. They just sat there for a while on the couch enjoying each others presence and then Sirius felt like it was time to talk about all the uncomfortable things that weren't said yet. "James, I can't be your Sirius."

James was taken aback. "What? I thought you already agreed on staying in this world?" He said a little scared.

"Of course I want to stay here! It's just... all the things your Sirius did, when I hear those stories about him rescuing all those people or doing really amazing things… I just can't do the same. I mean I really want to but I don't heave the strength or the knowledge to do these things… and what's with all the hugging?" he said a little desperate "do you always have to hug each other all the time? Not that I don't like it, it's just… I'm not used to all that hugging." Sirius said frustrated, making exaggerated hand-gestures."

James just laughed at that and it made Sirius angry. "Hey! It's not funny I'm serious."

"I know your name." James said laughing.

"That's not what I meant now stop laughing I really mean it." Sirius said really angry.

Then James lent forward and hugged him. Sirius was confused, again and sat there frozen. "We can't expect you to be the same as the other Sirius, everyone knows that even those who only know the official story and we don't need you to be exactly the same, silly. We just need you to be there, that's all." He said calmly. "And the hugging… well, you'll just have to get used to it. After all it was the other version of you who always hugged everyone, that's where we got the habit."

James didn't say that he especially liked to hug Sirius because he grew pretty close to the other Sirius in the end and because of that his wish to keep Sirius was even stronger then it would normally be for two friends.

And Sirius didn't say that he always thought that two weren't normally supposed to hug that long because as weird as it was, it wasn't bad at all.

Finally James let go of the Black. "I have to ask you something Sirius."

Padfoot, who still had the thought about 'two men hugging a little too long" in his mind and felt this shocked fear coming up his throat when you just thought a 'stupid joke' and then suddenly the other one could be about to tell you just that is the truth, but then James said seriously worried: "You said the Voldemort in your world came back. Can you tell me how?"

Sirius breathed out relieved. "Pweh, that's all?"

James raised an eyebrow 'that seemed to have become a habit' Sirius thought. "What do you mean 'that's all'? He was a dangerous dark lord, a mass murderer and all this time I and everyone else thought he was gone forever but then you came along and told me 'by the way Voldemort came BACK'. This is a severe matter!"

Sirius blinked surprised. For him, it didn't matter at all, because he could spend his time with James, Sirius and Harry and that was the most important thing in the world he didn't care about Voldemort. Then he smacked himself in his thoughts. Of course he had to care about Voldemort, that murderer could take away his precious people again! He sighed, frowned and rubbed his temples. His head hurt from thinking to hard for a moment and connecting the dots. He cursed the dementhors for damaging his mind to this point where he sometimes had trouble to think anything a little demanding at all.

"Are you all right?" James said worriedly.

"Yes I am. Sorry I didn't think. Thinking is exhausting. I get the bad feeling I forgot something important."

"Take your times" Said James.

His James. His all grown up Prongs. Back then, shortly before he and Lily died, James was still pretty young an childish but the one in front of him did not only did stupid 'draw-something-on-someones-face-while-he-sleeps-jokes' but he could also be pretty serious. Oh, the damn word had already been used to much that day for Sirius likes.

Sirius tried hard to figure out what he had missed. He new it had something to do with James' question. Something with Voldemort coming back… what had they told him happened to Harry that night on the graveyard? They told him that Voldemort was a cripple-something, Wormtail(that bastard) cut of his hand, took Voldys Dads bones and Harry's blood and then Voldemort came back.

Harry from this world was never taken, Voldemorts 'enemy' was never taken to them.

Then it hit him.

Voldemorts enemy WAS taken! It was him - well the other him – who was taken. Maybe it didn't have to be an enemy, bound by fate, but any real enemy. The other Sirius definitely was a threat to Voldemort and his deatheaters other candidates had probably been James, Kingsley and Mad Eye.

"Say James, who exactly was lead into the trap when your Sirius was captured?"

James became sad remembering that day. "It was Sirius, Kingsley, and me of course. Why are you asking?"

"I'm not sure yet. What's with Mad Eye? Wasn't he sent there too?"

"Moody should have gone with us but stayed back because he had just broken his last leg again that day and we all told him to sit that one out."

"James, I think we have a problem." He said sorrowful.

"Why?" James asked concerned.

"How should a say this?" Sirius asked, looking for words. "I think, maybe, well it could be possible … "

"Oh merlin, just spit it out already!"

"I think your Voldemort is back."

James stared at him, shocked. "Are you sure?"

"You see our worlds Voldemort came back by a certain ritual that he needed his enemy for. I always thought that enemy had to be his destined one but then I thought he probably only needed a normal, real enemy and only chose his fated one in my world because of his arrogance."

"And you think he used Sirius for that ritual!" James concluded in horror. "Oh fuck, that means he is already back for one and a half months-"

"Only if I'm right." Sirius interrupted him.

James stood up and started to run around nervously. "Padfoot, there is no way that you are wrong. This is horrible, there is a mass murderer on the leash now, we have to contact the ministry immediately. We have to recruit forces, we have to find out where they are hiding. There will be war, Sirius, this is the worst thing that could happen!" he ranted excitedly and shouted at Sirius at the end.

"Yes it's bad but it's not the end of the world, now stop shouting!"

"SIRIUS, HE KILLED LILY!" James roared with anger and frustration.

Of course he did, thought Sirius. James sat down for a moment, breathing heavily. Sirius didn't know how to comfort him and tried putting a hand on James' shoulder, but he twitched away. Sirius knew the only way to help James now, was helping him with the tasks that he had listed. "All right then, lets call the Ministry."

James didn't move. "Wait I- .. maybe-.. I- " he stuttered "wait." He managed to whisper in the end. He ran his hand through his hair and sighed. "We can't do that. We would have to tell them that you came through the veil."

"Let's just make up a lie first."

"Like what?" asked James exhausted.

"Erm.. what about: 'Sirius remembered it, seems like his memory is coming back'? Last time Ha- I mean the other one survived too after all."

James blinked "That's a good lie."

"Hey! Why so surprised?" Sirius bristled.

James cracked a smile. Those small jokes from his best friend who meant so much to him, even in the worst situations they made him smile. Who was he kidding? He knew Voldemort would be back some day. It, finally happening.. maybe, with Harry, Sirius, Remus and all the other on his side, it wasn't that bad. It could be way worse. Sirius could still be gone for example.

Looking into Sirius face and seeing all the sorrow in it for telling him such bad news, James felt bad for reacting like that but he was just a human, he couldn't help it. "You know what? If Voldemort has been out for over a month without the Auror-Office knowing it and nothing happened, I guess they can wait another night. Let's sleep it over I'm too tired to go now."

Sirius was relieved. He put one arm around James' Shoulders and patted them. "Ok bro."

And then James showed Sirius their TV. Sirius was totally amazed with the thing and they watched a movie called 'Star Wars'. He didn't get a thing they were doing in the movie but he had to comment every scene and James was laughing at several of his funnier comments. Sometime during the movie they had a tickling fight and it ended with James having Sirius in a death grip for a while, threatening Padfoot to tickle him to death if he dared to move. They never noticed when they fell asleep.

James was the first to wake up. He hadn't have that much sleep in a while, so his inner clock started to work again. He didn't open his eyes yet, but he felt something warm and heavy lying on him. He looked down and saw that Sirius still lay there maybe just a little too close. He guessed Sirius must have turned around and snuggled himself to James in his sleep.

He looked really peaceful and James caught himself watching Sirius sleep. He blushed and he was thankful there was no one around to see him. Then he carefully freed himself from his living blanket. It was a good thing Sirius was such a tight sleeper he didn't wake up. He went to get the post and was surprised to find a huge pile of letters on the floor behind the entrance. After reading several letters he realized that they were all Invitations and enquiries from people who wanted to meet Sirius.

Just when his head broke over thinking of the best way to handle all the invitation and it was really hard because there were over a hundred of them, someone floo-called Snitch Manor In the living room. He answered the call and soon Remus Head appeared in the fireplace. "Good Morning James! I'm surprised to see you awake."

"Good Morning Moony. I got lots of sleep last night, so I woke up earlier today. What's up?"

"Since I got around two dozen letters asking about Sirius today I thought you must have been buried in inquiries."

James sighed. "That's true. I was shocked when I saw the pile today but after I thought about it it's not really surprising, Sirius wa- is pretty famous after all."

Remus didn't remark James' spelling mistake. He just nodded in understanding. "I went to Arthur and Molly today and I explained the problem to them. Then, Molly had the idea to make a big 'welcome back-party' for Sirius. She seemed pretty excited and she immediately started planning the party. I don't think we can stop her anymore so I thought I'd just warn you." He smiled amused.

James was relieved "That's great news!" he said and then Molly shoved Remus aside and started ranting stuff about the party. After a long discussion they decided on the next Sunday when no one had to work or go to school and since it was Saturday, Sirius still had more than a week to adapt to his life.

Shortly after the other two troublemakers woke up, James went to the ministry alone with a punch of papers he wrote when the others were still asleep. He didn't say much to Kingsley, when he gave him the papers, he didn't say much to the Minister of Magic either when he read the bad news. Of course they didn't believe it at first but they knew it must be true.

James gave several orders to gather information. They couldn't announce the new yet, not before they had more proof. They would have to sit and wait for the results and then they could make their move.

The two Marauders and the Marauder in training spent the rest of the Weekend at home. They played games, cooked together, played pranks on each other and James and Harry taught over and over things about 'himself'. It was a tough weekend for James but he was truly happy and on Sunday evening after he brought Harry to bed and told James good night, he found himself humming in his room playing around with some paper-men he had build with Harry and hexed alive.

He stood up, smiled brightly and danced his way to his bad. He felt like a huge weight he had carried around for a very long time was finally taken from him.

The next days were all pretty much the same. It started with a group breakfast, then Harry went to school and James went to work. Sirius stayed home and made use of the library but this time not to read muggle books for fun but to actually study. He repeated a lot of the material of his school days and read through many old Daily Prophets.

In the afternoons James and Harry returned home and they both looked exhausted. They spent the evenings together as a small family and enjoyed themselves, even though it was the last week of exams for Harry and a hard time for James because of the uproar in the auror-department.

It was Sunday and Sirius stood in front of his wardrobe, desperately looking for something to wear. He heard a thud and turned around finding James tried to get into the room but he fell over a shirthill and was now buried under tons of clothes. "What the-?" he said while trying to get up. Sirius was too amused watching him struggle to help him. "Anapneo!" James casted the spell and the clothes cleared away. He stood up full of spirits, cleared the imaginary dust off his clothes with his hands and made a last step do Sirius like a boss as if nothing happened. "Are you ready?"

Sirius looked down at himself standing there pants- and shirtless and whined: "I don't know what to wear!"

"It is like any other day Snuffels. Just wear what you always wear, a shirt and some Jeans." He used that name whenever they were in the 'big brother must help little brother - Situation' a bystander would call those scenes something else.

While Sirius got some normal grey Jeans, James looked through the room for a black Shirt. When he found one he used an anti-knit charm and gave it to Sirius who already wore the Jeans. Sirius thanked him and buttoned up the shirt. "I really like these clothes. They are way more modern then my old ones."

"Yes, they suit you well. We both had to buy a bunch of new clothes when Harry started school so we wouldn't embarrass him and then we really liked all those muggle clothes and bought more."

While they were talking, Sirius buttoned up the shirt wrong twice so James decided to help him the third time. "Don't be nervous."

"It's easy for you to talk! You don't have act to be yourself!"

James gave him an angry look "You don't have to either!" then he smirked "Just be you. We already talked about this a dozen times."

Sirius sighed. "I know, I know. Sorry for being so annoying."

"It's ok." James said and couldn't fight the urge to hug Sirius so he did.

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I have no Idea when I'll update this. There are a couple of things I have to deal with in real live these days :P

It didn't work yet but I'll try this again: A question for you:

Who would you like to see more?

There hasn't been much of any other characters then Prongs and Siri yet but after they had enough time together there will be others too. More Harry also.

.. and fights, and friendship and family and Comedy(?) something like that.

To you revievers. I won't write you an essey for I think an Authors comment shouldn't be Half the chapter so I just say THANK YOU :) Every time I see a comment it makes my day!