You have no idea how much I enjoyed writing this chapter. The chapters had been getting harder to write, but I just churned this out really easily. Apparently I just like writing the Marauders all together.

I should just go and write a fluffy Sirius and Remus thing so this story doesn't just turn into a whole ball of fluff.

This chapter is fairly humorous and pretty fluffy, though, but I just needed some reunions. So there. Hope that's okay.


Remus blinked once. Twice. Three times.

"What – "

He didn't have time to say more before he was enveloped in quite a large hug.

Remus had to laugh. Slightly hysterically, but he was laughing, and he had his two best friends back, both of them clinging onto him as if for dear life.

James was the first to pull away. "Is Lily with you?"

"Through that door. There's a library."

"Nerds," Sirius mumbled into Remus's shoulder, as James stood and strode towards the door. Remus gave a short laugh and awkwardly patted him on the back.

"Hey."

Sirius refused to let go. "Missed you."

"Missed you too." Silence. "…Rose petals?"

"Not quite sure where they came from. They just magically appeared… But our magic's gone. How does that work?"

"This room still seems to work. It's the Room of Requirement, gives you almost whatever you want. For some reason you both wanted rose petals."

"Wanted to make an entrance," Sirius said, his voice becoming more tired. "Also, there's a dog outside, can you open your shields to him? He led us here."

"Sure."

As soon as Remus had done so, a large dog bounded in and sat obediently in the corner. Remus realised with a jolt that he recognised him. It was the dog that had visited the night before.

It was around this time that he realised that Sirius hadn't relinquished his hold on him yet. Giving a light chuckle that was only slightly awkward, he gently pushed at Sirius's shoulders.

"Get off me you imbecile, you stink."

Sirius pouted but did as he was told. "You would stink too if you were fighting the Infected all day, but you've been safely holed up here with entertainment and showers and – "

Remus cut him off. "You've been fighting the Infected?" He had gone a deathly pale.

Sirius hit his arm playfully. "Don't worry, we didn't do it by choice, only when we needed to. And neither of us has been harmed." He didn't mention any of the times they almost had. What Moony didn't know wouldn't hurt him.

He slumped suddenly. "God, I'm tired."

Remus fixed him with his 'mother hen' look. "When was the last time you slept?"

"At least twenty-four hours ago. We haven't had much time for resting, and we've had a pretty active day."

Remus sighed. "Go and require a bed and go to sleep, for God's sake. When James comes back from talking to Lily he can sleep too. We'll exchange stories when you're awake." He wrinkled his nose. "And had a shower."

Sirius laughed, gave Remus one more fleeting hug, then disappeared through a door that had only appeared seconds earlier.

Moony gave a small chuckle, rolling his eyes to the ceiling, but ultimately glad to have a Padfoot and a Prongs back. Perhaps this apocalypse would be more bearable now.

Perhaps Lily would think differently, though.

At least she would have something to vent her anger on.


James squared his shoulders. Right. Lily was behind this door. He was going to go through it and be awesome.

Should he knock? Should he just go straight in? Should he try to avoid Remus and Sirius's hug behind him?

Yes, he probably should. And the only way to do that would be to go through this door. To Lily.

Right.

He took a deep breath.

Deciding that the air inhaled in the first one wasn't enough, he took an even deeper breath.

…Which caused him to start coughing.

James sighed and opened the door.

"What do you want, Remus?"

Deciding that taking another deep breath probably wasn't the best idea (starting to cough was not the most impressive way to start a reunion), James just went straight for it.

"…I'm not Remus," he said in a pretty small voice – probably the smallest voice he owned. In fact, he wasn't even sure that he previously knew that he had a voice that small. He wondered if it was one of those things that you shove at the bottom of a drawer and then rediscover ages later. Okay, now his thoughts were rambling. Could thoughts ramble? Yes they could, he decided.

He dimly registered the sound of a book dropping to the floor and a redhead standing immediately in front of him.

Right. Lily.

James smiled. "Surprise?" he offered.

Lily just kept on staring.

"It was better than Sirius's 'Honey, I'm home'," James told her.

"…And was the 'Honey' Remus?" asked Lily, also in a pretty small voice. She must have found it in the bottom of a drawer, like James did. Wait, voices weren't stored in drawers…

Right. Conversation.

James nodded blankly. "I left them hugging on the carpet."

"And I suppose you want a hug from me then, do you?"

James grinned. "Would be nice."

"I would, but frankly Potter, you stink."

James's face fell. Lily patted him on the shoulder.

"I'm glad you're safe, James."

James beamed.

Lily followed James out into the main room, where Remus was sitting on a convenient chair.

"Where's Sirius?" James asked.

"In bed. That's where you should be too. You can explain how you got here later."

"You'd think he was my mother," James grumbled. "Wait… How do I get a room?"

"Require it, and it's there."

James followed instructions and entered a room opposite to Sirius's.

Lily's gaze fell to a chocolate-coloured Labrador slumbering in the corner of the room.

"Is it just me, or have I seen him before?"

"I'm pretty sure he's the reason these two are here," Remus told her, before disappearing into a room of his own.


That felt good.

Please review!

And although the full explanation wasn't in this chapter, it's not rocket science to work out what happened. (Or if you can't work it out, I'm just better at mysteries than I thought, you're not stupid)