Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, and nor do I wish to. I'm perfectly happy just sitting back and writing fanfic for it. So yay.
James had finally managed to get his date with Lily Evans.
It was on a trip to Hogsmeade, and it had turned out to be a lovely day. The sun shone brightly and it was wonderfully warm without being humid. They had, according to Sirius, gone to 'some restaurant café place'. Remus, however, did not know where this was.
The remaining three were wandering the town with little direction, Remus and Peter being led by Sirius. They had travelled around the Hog's Head about five times, Remus guessed, and they were a way through their sixth. He watched as Peter slouched further forward with each circle, waiting for his complaints to start. Eventually, on their seventh time around the pub, he started, "Sirius, we've walked round here about twenty times. Can we do something, because this is really boring?"
Sirius swivelled quickly to place a hand on the handle of the Hog's Head's door.
Peter spoke again, hurriedly, "No, no, not in there!"
Sirius frowned at him in annoyance.
"That place is really creepy. It's always freezing and there are really weird people in there," Peter explained, eying the door as though it were some kind of monster.
Sirius rolled his eyes, but let his hand drop anyway.
"Sirius?" Remus said softly. Sirius did nothing. "Do you want to go to the Three Broomsticks? You shouldn't stand around all day."
"Yeah, let's go get a butterbeer," Peter piped up. "I'm really thirsty, I don't think I've drunk today at all."
"The Hog's Head," Sirius said quietly, "is far more exiting. You get complete loonies in here. We can…" He trailed off, watching Remus for a moment. He glanced at Peter, then nodded quickly. "Yeah. Three Broomsticks," he said, pushing a loose strand of hair out of his face, absent-mindedly.
Remus gave him a small smile, and Sirius nodded again.
"It's rubbish here without James," he said, as they walked, Peter running ahead of them, apparently in extreme thirst.
Remus shrugged, then looked around at Sirius apologetically.
"You reckon he's gonna be doing this a lot?"
"Go on dates together? Well they are dating, so it would make sense."
Sirius glared, and rolled his eyes.
Remus laughed. "It's not going to be the Grand and Most Final Breaking Up of the Marauders, Sirius. Lily's been around for years. Only now she's actually going out with him, rather than just him begging her to."
"Yeah. Just, Lily. I never thought it would happen. I don't think James has ever been on a real date before."
Remus smiled. "Me neither. But if we managed to survive you and Jessica-"
"Remus, we don't talk about that remember-"
"-then we'll be fine."
Sirius nodded once more, hair falling into his face. He shook it off, and he and Remus joined Peter in the Three Broomsticks.
Authors Note: So yeah, this one is pretty rubbishy. Sorry.
This wasn't really about Remus so much as it was Sirius, but oh well. It's related to him, so it goes here. Also, I wouldn't put it as a separate story anyway. It's too short and bad. Oh well. I really need to write more with James in it bcause I'm terrible at writing him. I've written about one story that had him in (which is a separate one-shot that isn't here and only has one review shameless self- promotion and begging) and I didn't really like what I did with him in it. So yeah, I need to write more James-ish stuff. But I probably won't, because I'm too busy writing about PETER. And Remus, of course.
Anyway, even though I'm not too happy with this one myself, thanks for reading it. I would really love it if you left a review before you leave. I love reviews a lot. Have I ever mentioned that? Because I've got a weird feeling I might have... Still, just in case you don't know: I LOVE REVIEWS AND I WILL LOVE YOU TOO IF YOU GIVE THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE MAGICAL WONDERFUL THINGS! WHOO ALL CAPS! YAY!
