A/N: Told you I usually got inspired when I shouldn't... :D

21. Remus' POV.

The following morning, I convoked a special Marauders reunion. I had a very good reason to, and it was really really hard to just tell Vala it was nothing special, just four boys desperately wanting to speak boys to boys. As if.

Vala. I was getting used to her presence in the house, and it was easy for others to compare us with twins, because we were. She was just the the other half of the coin, simply speaking.

So I was there, casually sitting on my bed with James, while Sirius sat crossed-legged on my desk's chair and Peter on the floor, as usual.

Sirius was doing as if he was impatient to know the matter of the meeting, but I knew better, and he was clever.

"So, do you wonder why I asked you to come?"

James shook his head, grinning like the devil, and Sirius shrugged. The only one who really was oblivious, his normal self so, was Peter.

"Yeah, right. Sirius, can you tell us why Lissia dumped you?"

Peter jumped out of his skin and turned his rat-like face towards Padfoot. He looked very annoyed, as if he hadn't wanted us to know.

"No reason. She's an idiot."

James winked. "Yeah, right, we already knew that. She wouldn't have stayed with you that long, not knowing you were mad about someone else."

"I'm not mad about someone else, Prongs." He sighed and tried to find help in my personal papers. Bad luck, the first ones on the pile were Vals' letters from last summer. "Oh. You're talking about Moony's girlfriend!"

I huffed. "Really? Do you still believe there's something between Vals and I?"

"She wouldn't refuse me if she wasn't drawn to someone else, and that couldn't be Dubois."

"That guy's a creep." Peter's voice was high enough for us to hear his disdain. I narrowed my eyes at him. "What? He is! I wouldn't have dumped Vala for another!"

We all burst out laughing. Peter, little gitty Peter, talking about a girl in such terms? Oh my goodness!

"Wormtail, I'm sorry to say you have to back off, Pads' on it." Prongs took my pillow and threw it towards his best friend, who just growled as Snuffles would.

"So, back to subject, why did Alissandra Carter dumped you, Pads?"

He shrugged again. "She thinks I've only gone out with her to make Vala jealous."

"And?" James put his chin in his palm in an attempt to look interested.

"I've only gone out with her to make Vala jealous."

'We already knew that. What did you tell her?"

"I didn't say anything! She kept on yelling nonsense until I got bored and Disapparated back to Prongs'."

My eyes widened. "You left her alone?"

"Right yeah! That girl's a living hell!"

James put his hands up to stop me from arguing about leaving a lonely girl in a dark alley. "What did she tell you else, Pads?"

"Things like "I like her, she's like a friend, I should have seen". Imagine that! I know for sure Vala can't stand her either." James huffed. "What, she does! And then she started hitting me. "I guess that day back from Christmas you weren't waiting for me at all in front of Dumbledore's office!" And then swears, swears and swears." He sighed again. "Girls. They're all bonkers."

"Was she wrong?" I asked gesturing like a play actor.

"No, she wasn't. And that's annoying."

"I told you he was head over heels for your sis', Moony!" James high-fived me, but I wasn't really into it, seeing the glare I won from Sirius.

"She isn't his sister. And she likes him."

I whispered this time, you never knew when she was downstairs or upstairs. "She doesn't like me, Sirius. She likes you. She told me. She just can't tell you."

He backed off and threw the pillow back to James. "Yeah, she can't. Of course. Tell me something else."

James looked at him as his he was the most hideous thing on Earth. "Are you really that stupid? Pads, she's half a werewolf! Of course she wouldn't go out with you!"

"Why not?"

"Because her symptoms are becoming tougher and harder to control as the years go by, and she couldn't bear to hurt you." I wasn't supposed to know that, but I shared more than she thought with Vala.

James narrowed his eyes as did Sirius. "I thought there was a cure."

"She wouldn't do it. They think it'd kill her."

Sirius shot into a pile of books and I sneered. James waved his wand to tidy it up, and I thanked him in a look.

That's at that moment that Vala, clothed like a princess (her clothing senses had improved since she had left her dad), chose to enter my room, her Transfiguration book in one hand and her quill in the other.

"Oh, hey guys! James, can I borrow you for a second? I got a question about metamorphmagi and I know you had a O in your OWLs." She deliberately avoided Sirius' eyes, I saw. I smiled to her a "I saw you" smile and she giggled.

"Yeah, of course Vals. Comin'!" James bolted outside on her heels, after thumbing Sirius with both hands.

When the door closed, Sirius snorted. "She's just...impossible! See how she didn't look at me?" He gestured violently towards the house.

"Merlin, you really like her!" I patted Peter's shoulder to show I agreed.

Really, those two were the perfect couple.

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Really, listening to Ghost Score by Nightwish while writing can be dangerous... ^^