Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by J.K. Rowling. No money is being made

Written for Battleship challenge

Pairing picked: Betrayal - Sirius/Lily

First prompt: A Slice of Life Moment.


A Slice of Life Moment

All was calm in the house. All four of them slumped in front of the fireplace reading or just dozing.

These moments had become rare, which was why Sirius enjoyed them all the more. War was starting, and every passing day things seemed to be getting darker. Friends turned on friends, family on family. It was becoming harder and harder to know who they could or couldn't trust.

But in these moments, where they were nothing more than a dog pile of interlocked limbs and lazy days, the war seemed so far away. In these they were happy again.

The only one missing was Peter, but his mother's health had been slipping recently so it was understandable.

"We should do something." He glanced down at James, who was sprawled on his back using Sirius' stomach as a pillow.

"We are doing something," Lily replied, her head leaning against Moony's shoulder, lazily flicking the pages of a book.

"Something productive."

Moony snorted and looked at James.

"You want to pass on lazing around and do something productive? You?"

"Hey! I can be productive!" James grumbled in mock offense. "Can't I, Pads?"

Sirius just hummed, feeling far too lazy to do anything else.

"Fine!" James lay back down, still using Sirius as a pillow. "I can see when I'm outnumbered. We'll just stay here, laze the day away in this cuddle puddle."

"Cuddle puddle?" Sirius snorted.

"Well, what else do you wanna call this?"

"If we had less clothes on I would call it the beginning of an orgy, but that's just me."

A pillow hit him square in the face.

"You perv." Lily grinned at him while Moony, no doubt the one responsible for the pillow, was looking mildly disturbed.

"That was an image I could have done without, Pads."

"Hey! I'm a beautiful example of a male specimen. You wish you were lucky enough to be in an orgy with me."

"You seem to forget, Pads, that we spent seven years sharing a dorm. I saw more of you than I ever wanted. Your freckled behind being one of those things."

"My perfectly shaped behind isn't freckled!" Sirius retorted indignantly, and James burst out laughing, curling in on himself when it became harder for him to breath.

"Freckles? Really?" Lily pipped up, a mischievous grin on her lips. "Will you show me?"

Sirius and Remus gaped at her while James just laughed harder.

"What? Just because I'm married to James doesn't mean I can't look. He certainly looks."

"Hey now." James abruptly stopped laughing. "I never checked out Pads' behind. There are things one just doesn't need to know about one's brother."

"Are you sure, love?" Lily asked, her emerald eyes promising all kinds of chaos. "You Marauders were always so close, are you sure it never crossed your minds? You are all rather handsome. I sure wouldn't mind watching."

The three Marauders spluttered, Remus pulling slightly away from Lily and huddling close to his friends, which just made Lily smirk at them before she broke down laughing.

"You guys are so easy," she teased, after she had her laughter back under control.

The Marauders narrowed their eyes, and Lily's widen slightly.

"Now, boys..."

They got up, taking a step towards her.

Laughing, she jumped from her place and ran out of the room, the three men giving chase not a second later.

As laughter filled the small house, and prank spells flew back and forth, Sirius couldn't help but wish that nothing would destroy this little slice of Paradise.