A/N: I'm back! Sorry for the wait! I've been sooo busy with Ramadan and Eid Celebrations, on top of that a load of HW, I haven't had time to update! But here is the chapter and trust me, you won't be disappointed! I hope that you won't! Review!

Disclaimer: If you think that I'm really J.K Rowling, its best for you to read the previous chapters!

The Unknown tale of the Marauders

By Marauders13

Chapter 6: Of Threats, surprises, tears and forgiveness

'When were you planning on telling us – me!?' demanded James

'Never!' Remus bellowed back. 'Because I knew you'd act like this!'

'Like what?'

Remus got to his feet again. They both had their wands out and were yelling at each other's faces when Peter came strolling into the dormitory, looking apprehensive.

He spotted their argument and backed out in alarm, but Sirius aimed a curse at him between his curtains that sent him flying through the air, and crashing down onto his own bed.

'Stick around Wormtail; things are getting interesting,' Sirius said grimly.

'You're acting like a maniac!' Remus was shouting.

'Don't – you-'spluttered James going red as he tried to think of a horrible name to call Remus.

'Lily isn't the only girl on this planet!' Sirius shouted suddenly, unable to contain himself. He was still hurt that his friends had yelled at him.

'That's rich, coming from a guy who hasn't dated anyone science, what, second year?' retorted James.

'Yeah, what was her name?' piped Peter with glee. He loved to see his friends arguing.

'Anita!' yelled Sirius scowling at Peter.

'And who asked you?'

He sent the cloud-bubble charm across at Peter who squealed.

Sirius laughed and shook the feathers out of his hair.

'Is that all you can do?' he said, brushing the massive pile off his bed.

'Come on Wormtail; show us what you've got!

But peter never got to teach Sirius the lesson he was asking for. The dormitory door burst open and an infuriated Professor McGonagall stormed in. She paused, taking in Remus and James with their wands at each other's faces and Sirius and Peter who were covered in feathers and hiccupping bubbles into frequent burps.

Each Marauder was sent to a corner of the castle to perform muggle cleaning with a Slytherin supervisor. The next day at Breakfast, each Marauder had its own corner of the Gryffindor table as well.'What's going on?' Lilt asked James uncertainly as she sat down. He was glowering at his sausage and hackling it up violently as if it had done him something personally wrong. James shot Lily a glowering look.

'Why didn't you tell me that you dated Remus last year?'

Lily looked taken back but she recovered herself quickly and responded coolly,

'And what business was it of your's what I did last year? I wasn't dating you!'

James scowled at his plate, shoveled food in to his mouth and said nothing.

'I really thought that you'd have grown up,' Lily continued when James said nothing

'But you're really starting to prove me wrong- first yesterday's episode and now today's'

When James started to ignore her, she took a deep and shuddering breath and continued.

'I'm starting to wonder-'

'Wonder what?' James asked darkly, as he looked up from his plate.

But he already knew what she was going to say.

'If we shouldn't see other people,' Lily snarled, green eyes flashing.

'Well, your already seeing Remus so what does it matter!'

The Great Hall fell silent as everyone stared at the couple.

'Don't you ever in your life yell at me like that!' Lily fired back, standing up and taking a step forward in her turn.

'All my friends were right, everyone was, you're just a spoilt child!' and instead of dramatically marching past him out of the Great Hall, she sat right back down and turned to her plate, leaving James standing like an idiot, as everyone stared at him.

Anita entered the Girls toilets after lunch, but paused as she heard sobbing of a girl in one of the cubicles. Anita went to the stall and knocked it gently. It wasn't moaning Myrtle's crying. Everyone knew how she sounded – the toilet would splash and she would howl.

No, this was a girl crying softly.

When the sobbing continued, Anita knocked again. After a moment, the door slowly opened and a pair of vivid green eyes appeared in the crack, reddened from fierce crying.

'Oh Lily' said Anita synthetically. 'I've never seen you cry in my life! What is it?'

Lily hung her head and walked past Anita. She stood before the sink and wiped her eyes on a tissue, trying to stifle her hiccups by biting her lip. She could see Anita's worried expression in the glass and said at last.

'It's J-James…' Anita frowned and shook her head.

'Lil-'

'I know what you're going to say,' Lily interjected wearily.

'I just don't need any 'I told you so's now. I knew that he was immature, bullying, conceited…'

Anita frowned, nodded righteously and opened her mouth as if to add more unkind names, but Lily continued in her choked voice.

'B-but he has a completely different side to him! He cares about what's right! He's smart and brave and he can be kind when he's not too ashamed to show it...'

'Lily,' said Anita reasonably. 'If all that's true, why are you crying in the girl's toilets?'

Lily scowled at her reflection as if ashamed of herself.

'You promise you won't tell anyone?' she asked, turning to Anita. Anita grinned.

'I promise.'

They laughed together and Anita crossed the room to Lily's side and put her around her.

'Lily, what you need to do is check out some other guys. If athletes are your thing, Brian Fester (Its lame but had to think of a name!) is this year's seeker on the Hufflepuff team.'

Lily snorted.

'Brian Fester's been let back on twice!'

'Oh,' said Anita who'd had forgotten this and could only remember Brian's good looks.

'Well, there's always….'

'Look, Anita, I know what you're trying to do, but James is-'

'Sweet, charming and blah blah blah,' said Anita, rolling her eyes, Lily laughed.

'Yeah, I feel like as if we belong together, like there's – something special we're going to do that's going to save the world!' she beamed.

'I sound crazy don't I?'

'At least you're back to normal' Anita joked as Lily pretended to scowl at her.

'But what is it you're going to do about James?'

Lily walked over to the mirror and smiled at her reflection.

She was very pretty, even when she'd had been crying and her red long hair shone more than ever. When she turned to Anita, it bounced on her shoulders. She grinned wickedly.

'There's never been a Marauder that could resist being up to no good.'

When James got Lily's note to meet her on the bridge after sunset, he had often thought of stopping her in the corridors, concerning her somewhere, and apologizing for his childish, but every time he thought of Remus kissing Lily, his anger surfaced afresh. He would, of course, forgive her in the end, but it would not be easy.

He felt that Lily's secret concerning Remus had been a betrayal on his part. Why had she not just confided in him? Had she, like Remus, predicted an unnecessary argument?

Frowning to himself, he rounded a corner, walked past the entrance to the Greta Hall and where, he was certain no one would see him, slipped on his invisibility cloak. The bridge was part of the top area of the castle. It faced south and was built almost like battlements of one of those ancient medieval castles. James wondered suddenly why Lily would be foolish enough to drag him out here at dark when it was so cold. He was stomping grumpily along the bridge, when a familiar figure stopped him short. It was a great black dog and it was running in circles, chasing its tail.

'You!' Sirius barked. 'What are you doing here?!'

He was in the middle of sneering at James, but he suddenly froze and started to sniff the air. And within a quick of a flash, he grabbed a rat by its tail. Peter swung in Sirius's hand, squeaking wildly.

'I guess my presence will be no more welcome than Wormtail's….' said a familiar voice wearily, and Remus stepped out of the shadows of the bridge, looking guilty.

'What are you doing here?' James asked Remus roughly.

'Someone sent me a note - I-I thought that it was a prank… I'm not much of a ladies' man after all,' Remus answered.

'Was it Likely? James asked threatingly, Bu Remus ignored his raised wand and shook his head calmly.

'No James, It wasn't…'

James looked at Sirus.

And you?'

'Anita said she'd meet me' he'd answered grudgingly, 'wanted to pick off where we had left off in second year.'

'You know who I think brought us here?' James said lowering his wand and staring darkly from face to face, 'I think it was-'

'Me?' Lily stepped out of the shadows and they all looked up.

'Yeah, it was me. Someone had to make you all play nice.'

Sirius, Remus and James all gave each other looks of distain and turned their heads stubbornly away. Lily sighed.

'You guys have been friends for seven years! You can't just throw that away!' When they ignored her, she moved to Sirius and touched his arm.

''Sirius, whatever James and Remus may have said, they didn't mean it. They were probably arguing, am I right?'

Sirius looked at James wonderingly.

'She's worse than Dumbledore!' he said, making James smile in spite of himself.

Lily looked at Remus.

'And Remus, James didn't mean to be, well- stupid, she said making Remus snicker and James go beet red behind her.

'And James,' she said as she moved to her boyfriend and smiled. It seemed the touch of her hand calmed him at once.

'Whatever was between Remus and is over. You know that you're the only one,' her smile widened and James was lost in her eyes.

'Now… lastly lets put Down and forgive him too,; Lily said, but this was met with the greatest objections.

'Lily! He's working with the Death Eaters! He betrayed us! The map is gone because of him! Anyone wanna see a rat fly?'

Sirius lifted Peter by his tail and swung him around. Lily gasped, astonished.

'Sirius, Stop! That's cruel! You haven't heard his side of the story!'

'We;;, seeing as we don't speak rat-' James said, watching Peter swing with disgust but Lily gave him a disapproving look. James sighed.

'She's right Padfoot. After all, there could be a good reason for what he did – I guess,'

Sirius dropped Peter reluctantly to the ground, and he morpheced, becoming the short, chubby boy they all knew.

Sirius-James-Remus—my friends! Squeaked peter guilty.

'You-you don't understand—I was bullied into it! I didn't want to turn the map in-'

'It's alright Wormtail,' Remus said wearily,

'We understand. Lily here has decided that were going to forgive you!' he said with the false cheeriness and the others laughed.

Sirius gave his bark-like laugh and pulled the marauders close.' Marauders Forever?'

The other three laughed, Peter giggling nervously.

'Marauders forever!'

'Hey, Lily' said James pulling his girlfriend close.

'Yeah,' said Sirius slyly, 'she's starting to get duo to no good,'

'I know—can you believe it?' Remus added, smiling for Lily.

'She's stolen, lied and sneaked out the castle for us!'

Lily grinned at James.

'I guess you four knuckle heads have finally worn off on me!'

Who you calling a knuckle head?' Sirius said playfully.

'Do you really think that I believed that note you'd sent me?' The other four looked at him in unison.

'Yes!'

'No I didn't' argued Sirius argued as they made their way back up to the castle.

'I knew perfectly what lily was up to!'

Remus rolled his eyes and smiled.

'Just like you knew all about the goblin wars and yet somehow, you managed to nick my notes just before the test…'

'Still blaming me for that Moony? I didn't nick them, you misplaced them! Sirius cried.

'And what about the time in first year when you said you knew how we were going to be sorted?' asked Peter snickering.

'What did he say again?'

'He said that we'd had to catch a unicorn from the Forbidden forest and return with it's head,' said Remus lazily, smirking at Sirius.

Peter snickered with glee

Sirus snorted. 'I didn't really believe that! I was trying to trick you!'

Right...' said Remus, shaking his head.

All three of them laughed and teased each other all the way back to Gryffindor tower while James and Lily followed behind, lost in each other, and apparently unaware of the friendly arguing.

A/N: Wow! That was sort of a long chapter, but a lot of events had happened! The marauders have sorted their differences between them and are back together as the Marauders, but many more event are yet to come1 I would like to thank all the people that had reviewed in my last chapter, and everyone, plez do keep on reviewing!