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"Well, it worked then," Lily said as she sat down next to James and Peter in the Common Room, "Well, I assume it did, because I don't see Remus or Black anywhere." James nodded.

"Yeah, they got together yesterday. Remus eventually made Sirius listen to him. They're sickening already," James said. Lily laughed.

"You only have yourself to blame, Potter, you were the one who wanted them together," Lily pointed out. James scowled. He knew that, and he had wanted his friends to be happy, but it wasn't exactly pleasant being woken up at 2 in the morning because those same friends were snogging loudly.

"Yeah, but I hadn't expected Sirius to be so sickening," James said, a disgusted expression on his face.

"It will pass. Neither of them ever thought they could actually be together, so they're enjoying it at the moment. They'll get over this early soppy stuff and become decent company again," Lily assured him, "Just wait."

"Yeah, I guess," James said.

"You know, when you first told me about this idea of helping them get together, I thought you were crazy. I suppose you weren't so crazy after all. Though it was really weird flirting with Remus, and I'm so glad Sirius stopped us when he did. Remus is nice, but I didn't really want to kiss him," Lily said. James smiled at her.

"Who would you want to kiss?" he asked boldly. Lily just smirked.

"Wouldn't you like to know, Potter. Wouldn't you like to know," she said, raising an eyebrow before she walked away. James turned to Peter.

"She wants me. She so wants me," James said confidently. Peter laughed.

"Don't get your hopes up," Peter warned him.

"Shouldn't I? She's watching me right now," James said. He was right. Lily had gone over to sit with her friends again, and was looking over at James. She looked away quickly when James and Peter looked at her, her cheeks faintly pink.

"So she's watching you. But I wouldn't get your hopes up. Look at your past with her," Peter said. James shrugged.

"I'll take it slowly. Don't want to startle her or anything," James said, "By the end of the year, I'll have her."

"I'll believe that when I see it," Peter said as Remus and Sirius came down the stairs and sat down on the couch together.

"Have you two decided you're decent enough for polite company?" James asked. Remus rolled his eyes.

"We got through class today, didn't we?" Remus asked.

"Sirius made you walk in front of him so he could stare at your arse," James said. Remus blushed and Sirius laughed.

"Wouldn't you?" Sirius asked.

"No. No, I wouldn't, because Remus isn't my type," James said, glancing back over at Lily, who had been looking at him and looked away instantly. Remus and Sirius looked where James looked to see Lily.

"Not a chance, Prongs," Sirius said, "Not going to happen."

"He thinks she wants him," Peter said, smirking. Sirius and Remus started laughing.

"Oh, yeah, why would you think that?" Sirius asked.

"You're delusional," Remus added. James shook his head.

"I don't think so," he said confidently, "Fact: We've been getting along recently because of our Head duties and while we were doing a misguided plan to get you two together. Fact: She just sat down with Peter and I before to have a civilised conversation. Fact: When she said she didn't want to kiss you, Moony, I asked her who she did want to kiss, and she said, and I quote, 'wouldn't you like to know?' Fact: She keeps looking at me."

"Delusional," Remus sang. James shook his head. His friends didn't believe him, but he knew he was right. Sirius glanced over at Lily, who had in fact been watching James while he was saying this.

"Moony, she is watching him," Sirius said. Remus looked over, and saw that she was watching him. When James looked over, she looked away immediately.

"I don't think she even noticed you two looking at her," Peter said, "Only Prongs."

"Still don't think you stand a chance," Remus said.

"I'll prove you wrong. Just you wait and see," James said, smirking.

"I won't hold my breath," Remus said.

"It's not like I ever expected to see the two of you together," James said, pointing at Remus and Sirius. In response Sirius kissed Remus, causing James to make a face and most of the people in the Common Room to look over in surprise. So far they had kept the snogging to the dormitory. Sirius let go of Remus, and they both looked around the Common Room, somewhat surprised to find people looking at them.

"What, never seen people snogging before?" James said loudly, "Mind your own business!" The Gryffindors in the Common Room looked away, and started chatting with their friends again. Lily was watching James still, trying to hide an admiring look.

"Probably not the best way to tell everyone," Remus said, blushing. Sirius just laughed.

"Was there any better way? Now we're part of the school gossip, everyone is going to be talking about us for the next few days," Sirius said, seeming pleased with himself.

"You may be an attention seeker, but I'm not," Remus said, "Anyway, it's not going to be for long, they'll find something else to talk about soon enough. Maybe they should start talking about Voldemort."

"No one talks about that in Hogwarts, you know that, everyone thinks they're nice and safe here," James said, "Which, to be honest, we are, since Voldemort is scared of Dumbledore."

"But once we leave school, even in the holidays…" Remus said. James shook his head.

"People aren't worried about it. Yeah, he's murdered a few people, and he doesn't like anyone that isn't pure-blood, but he doesn't seem like a huge threat to people," James said, "A gigantic grade A asshole, but not a huge threat."

"But he is," Remus said, "He has on his side some of the most influential people in the Wizarding community. He could murder anyone at any time."

"Yes, he has the Malfoys, the Lestranges, the… well…" James trailed off, looking at Sirius furtively.

"Yes, my family, I know. But it's not like we haven't underestimated the threat. We've spent these years in school having fun," Sirius said.

"May as well have fun while we can," James said darkly. Remus shivered.

"You know what, I'm sorry I brought it up. But you know how having Voldemort around makes things so much harder for… you know, people with my furry little problem," Remus said, "Surviving after Hogwarts has been huge on my mind."

"Don't worry, Moony, we'll look after you," Sirius said, putting his arm around Remus. Remus smiled.

"I know. I still worry," Remus said.

"That's your job, Moony, and it stops us from doing some of the ridiculous stuff Prongs and I come up with," Sirius said, grinning at Remus, "So worry away, just tell us. Tell me." His eyes met Remus', pleading with Remus to talk to him whenever he needed to. Remus nodded, and Sirius kissed Remus again quickly.

"Merlin, stop it," James said, "You guys are gross."

"Can we say that to you when you finally get Evans like you say you will?" Sirius said. James hesitated, then sighed.

"Fine, because it probably will be," he conceded. Sirius laughed.

"She's looking at you again."


Remus could feel the stares and the whispers of the Hogwarts students as he walked through the halls, Sirius by his side. They weren't doing anything particular, they just looked like a pair of friends who were heading to class, but the story had already spread all around the school.

A lot of the girls were disappointed. Sirius had been popular with many of the girls in school, and now he was taken, they seemed to really hate Remus. Some of them had even taken to putting themselves between Remus and Sirius, flirting hard with Sirius while giving Remus dirty looks. Sirius generally just laughed it off, before taking Remus' hand and the two of them walking off together, but it was really getting on Remus' nerves.

Some people had taken to giving both Remus and Sirius dirty looks. They were the ones who thought it was disgusting, and for the most part, Sirius and Remus ignored them. People in the Wizarding world could be extremely judgmental, but there were also the complete opposites, the ones who were open and didn't care about others love lives. Most of the people who had a problem with Remus and Sirius' relationship were the pure-bloods who had a problem with Remus and Sirius as well, seeing Sirius as a blood traitor and Remus as a half-blood with his 'Mudblood' mother. But there were others who had a problem with just the relationship.

Everyone else didn't seem to mind, but they still talked about it. It kept the gossip mill running.

Sirius and Remus walked into the Gryffindor Common Room, Remus ignoring the looks people were giving the pair of them. They went and joined James and Peter by the fire.

"We're planning on a prank on all the people who think you're disgusting," James said as Sirius and Remus sat down. Sirius looked excited, and Remus intrigued.

"Please tell me you're making them kiss each other or feel an attraction for the same gender because that would be perfect," Sirius said. James grinned, and nodded.

"Of course. We can make a love potion between us." James said.

"That's banned, James," Remus said, "Not to mention, how are you going to get them to drink potion?"

"I know… okay, here we go. When we see people with their expressions of disgust, I'll stick their feet to the floor. We can make it so that they don't unstick until they're kissed by the same gender," James said. Sirius looked pleased, and Remus just sighed.

"Hey, Sirius." Sirius looked up to find a sixth year girl smiling at him, playing with her hair.

"What do you want?" Sirius said, having some idea why she was talking to him. She smiled at him, before throwing Remus a dark look.

"I thought I'd introduce myself, I'm Ella Cartwright," she said, putting a hand on Sirius' shoulder, "And I just… I was wondering if you were free sometime to hang out?"

"I'm not interested," Sirius said, turning back to James, "It shouldn't just be the people who are disgusted though, it should be the people who don't leave me alone that we should prank." Ella Cartwright looked offended by Sirius snubbing her, and she turned to Remus.

"You'll want to stop whatever enchantment you have going with Sirius Black soon, Lupin, because no one is going to stand and watch while he makes a fool of himself," she snapped at him before storming across the room. Remus looked like he had been slapped across the face, and Sirius instantly put an arm around him. Remus had known many of the girls at Hogwarts fancied Sirius, but he hadn't expected reactions like that.

"Don't listen to her, she's just jealous," James said, glaring after her.

"That's what people are going to think, though. Why would they think that someone like Sirius could actually like me?" Remus said.

"Ignore her. Ignore all of them. What they think doesn't even matter," James said, "What you and Sirius think matters, what you're friends think matters, none of these people are your friends, Remus. And you know what, Sirius, I think we have to go even worse with our pranks. It's not good enough to make them kiss. We need to do something huge, teach them all a lesson."

"A lesson. That sounds promising," Sirius said, grinning, taking the piece of parchment James had and starting to write some things down, "Now, we don't want to punish the people who are supportive, so we have to be careful and watch out for the people who don't like it, for whatever reason. We can keep notes on who in particular are being hurtful or stupid about it."

"You're being somewhat sensible, Sirius, I'm impressed," Remus said. Sirius rolled his eyes.

"This is our chance to get back at the people who are sending us dirty looks, Remus. The people who are supportive I want them to know we appreciate it," Sirius said. Remus smiled at him, before kissing Sirius softly.

"I'm glad you feel that way," Remus said.

"Through the prank we should also reward the people who are particularly supportive, like Evans," Sirius said. James grinned.

"Good idea," he said, "We have a message to send across."

"They're not going to listen," Remus pointed out. James and Sirius shrugged, not too bothered by that fact.

"But it's a way to get even, also, it will be fun! C'mon, Moony, you know it will be fun. Help us plan. We need you as well," James said. Remus sighed, before nodding, and joining their discussion on pranking plans.


AN~ So, I'm pretty terrible at coming up with prank ideas, I do have some for this particular prank, but they're the Marauders, they will be doing more pranks as time goes by. If you have any ideas, please let me know!