"Mischief managed," Remus hears a voice whisper before hearing a light tap on parchment. He quickly accios some tissues and wipes away various substances leaking out of his eyes and nose and charms them to levitate over to the nearest trash can. He clears his throat with a louder-than-intended cough.
"Moony?" the voice comes from around the corner. "Remus?" He feels steady, familiar breath on his throat.
"Hmm?" Remus doesn't look up from the spot on the floor between his knees he's fixed his eyes on.
"Remus," Sirius begins, while adjusting himself to sit on the floor next to Remus. "What are you doing here? It's almost time to go."
Remus says nothing, still fixed on the floor.
"Moony, what's wrong?" Sirius brushes the sandy hair out of Remus' face.
"This. All this. It's just… it can't be over. Not this soon." A tear runs down his face as Sirius turns, adjusting himself to face Remus. "No more feasts in the great hall,"
Sirius puts a hand on his boyfriend's shoulder and kisses Remus on one cheek, and then the other.
"No more train rides to kick off September,"
Sirius lifts himself up, finds a spot on his head and kisses it.
"No more late nights and gillyweed,"
Sirius kisses his nose.
"No more Hogsmeade on the weekends"
Sirius lifts up one of Remus' hands and kisses the back of it softly.
"No more no more Shack,"
Sirius moves forward and kisses his forehead.
"No more pranks,"
"Er, well. No more pranks? I wouldn't say that so fast."
"Oh, Merlin, Sirius, what did you do?" Remus sniffles a little and looks at him, worried.
"Well, just do me a favor and when Snivellus is called up, only look at him chin up." Sirius kisses the surprised and still worried looking Remus on his lips. "I might get jealous."
"You," Remus smiles at his boyfriend. "I don't even want to know what you did."
Sirius smiles back at him, deviously.
Remus looks to the floor as his voice becomes serious, "What's going to happen next?"
"Well, we're going to stand up, go out there, get our diplomas, and lie in wait for Snivellus' impending doom."
Remus smiles sadly, "No, I mean, what's going to happen to us? To Peter? To James and Lily? What will become of the Marauders?"
"Well, we will go our separate ways, which we will find to be not so separate after all. You and I will shag each other senseless at every given opportunity. James and I will go into auror training. Peter will go back to living with his mother until she realizes there is a 1 in front of the 8 in his age. She'll probably let him come out and play every so often, though. James and Lily will probably go off and have a gazillion crazy haired babies all of whom we will spoil endlessly."
"Gazillion isn't a number, Padfoot." A smile makes it's way onto Remus' face.
"In any case, Professor Lupin," says Sirius, his hands dancing in Remus' hair. "I'm positive this isn't the last time you'll find yourself here. Don't you worry your pretty little head."
Sirius' face shifts to an expression that is softer than the joking one he's currently wearing.
"Come live with me."
"What?"
"Remember the flat I bought? I want you to come live with me, Moony."
"Oh, Sirius, I…I couldn't. I…"
"I insist." Sirius' smile is unfailing.
"I…" Remus breathes out, knowing there is no use in saying no to Sirius Black when he's already made up his mind. "Of course, Sirius."
As soon as Remus puts the last syllable on his name, Sirius' lips find his own. Remus forgets why he is so worried. He should have known better. He should have known that after all they'd been through these past seven years nothing could break them. Nothing would break the Marauders. Nothing would break the love he felt for the beautiful boy pulling him to his feet, dragging him down the hall toward their graduation ceremony.
"Remus John Lupin," a black haired witch calls from a podium. Familiar whistles and cat calls erupt from three sections of the audience. Remus stands to make his way to the stage. Through the whistles and yells he can hear a familiar howl. He blushes and smiles brighter that he had been. He looks out over the crowd and picks out the faces of his parents--his mother is crying, and his father, holding up a camera, looks quite proud. He finds Lily, then Peter, and then James, all clapping and smiling brightly. While scanning the audience he finds Snape and is not surprised to see him scowling. He then looks for the face of Sirius Black. He finds his grey eyes while he is in mid-howl. The howl ends and he sees him mouth the words, "I love you," just as he had when Sirius was on the stage minutes earlier. His smile continues as he holds his diploma out in front of him proudly and makes his way down the steps.
A few minutes later, a name is called which grabs the attention of the Marauders. The four look up.
"Severus Snape." A few Slytherins clap before a gasp erupts amongst the entire audience. As Snape stands, he, along with the audience find that his graduation robes have disappeared completely. The only thing still left on his body is his deep green cap, perched on top of his slick black hair, and a pair of skimpy, silk boxer shorts stripped in red and gold.
Sirius barks a clear laugh, and sends an air high five over to James. Peter, a few seats down from James, is laughing uncontrollably and sinking lower in his seat. Remus guffaws and covers his mouth in shock.
To be continued...