The trio entered the common room to be greeted by several strange looks. It wasn't uncommon for them to be up to mischief but the hand holding between the guys was the cause of several smirks and raised eyebrows.
Sirius smirked at all of them, Remus was growing redder by the second and Lily simply smiled an innocent smile as they walked over and sat on the couch close to the fireplace.
James was sitting in a chair with Samantha in his lap. "Hey guys, where have you been? I didn't see any of you on the train." James asked.
"We had special circumstances so we left and returned by apparition." Sirius said nonchalantly.
"Oh ok… So how was your Christmas break then?" James asked a little confused.
"It was rather…..enlightening. It was a great week actually." Sirius answered trying to maintain a straight face. Lily put her head down trying to hide her snickering and Remus was sitting stiff as a board.
"That's great. I'm glad things went well. You all look very…" James couldn't find the right word.
"Happy yet sad. Yes that about sums it up. We are very happy but very sad we had to come back. We're all ready to be outta here." Sirius finished his sentence for him.
"I suppose we all are." James said as he looked to Samantha and smiled "We're getting married in the fall. I need to talk to you guys alone if you don't mind."
"Well that's wonderful because we need to talk to you as well! Let's go now." Sirius said just a little too excited. James looked confused but nodded, asked Samantha to let him up and started to walk upstairs. Sirius stood still holding on to Remus, Remus huffed then stood too letting go of Lily's hand. Sirius looked back to the couch as they rounded it "Lily….You coming?"
"I thought it was a guy conversation." Lily replied confused.
"Damn Lily, you are one of the guys! Get your ass up here." Sirius said as a fact.
Lily arched her eyebrows then looked to Samantha who looked a little "green with envy" then hurried to the guys grabbing Remus's hand again. The four of them walked into the room the boys shared. Sirius locked the door, flicked his wand and the large dresser moved in front of the door, then he cast a silencing charm "Now, we can talk!"
"Was all that necessary?" James asked wide-eyed.
"Probably" Sirius chuckled.
Remus tightened his hand around Lily's sending a silent message of fear. Lily squeezed back and placed her other hand on his arm looking up at him mouthing 'together'. Remus gave a small smile and a nod.
"We should probably talk to you first, our news is bigger." Sirius said with a smirk.
"Guys what in the hell is going on? When we left you two were dating and now, well…. You look like a damn three some!" James spat.
Sirius laughed and looked to Remus and Lily "A three some? Actually no. We did have a fourth but they're out of school now so we had to come back without them. I'm telling you we had a hell of a week. It was crazy, amazing and eye opening. Best week ever! Right guys?"
"It was amazing." Remus said in a small voice.
Lily laughed at Sirius's prodding and excitement and decided to play along "Best fucking week ever!"
"Told ya!" Sirius gloated.
James looked confused and a bit pissed "What in the hell changed everything between you three in a week. A fourth? Like that kind of fourth?" James asked in a disgusted tone.
Sirius looked to Lily and winked "Yeah something like that. It was great! Merlin we drank so much, we did shit that's unspeakable!" Sirius sounding dramatic trying to piss of James, so that the real news of his two best friends coming out to him would be less of a shock.
"Look I know we've grown apart and that's my fault but whatever you all are doing is none of my business. I don't care to hear about the perversion that went on last week. Just forget I said anything. I need to get back to Samantha. I don't understand how my friends of six years could turn to such a life style. I guess I never really knew any of you or maybe it's my fault for bringing you into our circle." James said in anger pointing at Lily. "I knew you were a mistake, the moment you started causing problems, we never fought until you came along, tainted by the hands of a disgusting death eater. They weren't like this until you came around. Damn death eater must have rubbed off on you, then you taught them your sick ways." James spat at Lily.
Sirius started for James but Remus beat him, he grabbed him by the throat and pushed him into the wall behind them "How fucking dare you! She didn't have a damn thing to do with our choices you arrogant piece of shit! Fucking apologize to her right now! Apologize for blaming her and mentioning Snape!" Remus growled.
James was paralyzed by fear and shock. He looked at Remus like he was betraying him but didn't dare voice that thought at the moment, "I'm…..I'm….sorry Lily." James stammered.
"Fuck off James, I never liked your ass either. I should have let Severus kill your ass a long time ago." Lily bit back not willing to be forgiving.
"Now you smug prick, Sirius was just fucking with you, he tends to do that a lot, you should know that by now. I'm done fucking with your head, so I'm going to give you the cold hard truth of the matter. Sirius and Lily realized that they didn't feel right together and he figured out who he's supposed to be with. That person happens to be me, and fuck you if you don't like it. If you can't accept us as we are then you never were our friend anyways. Lily has nothing to do with this, she was all we had left when your sorry ass dumped us for a piece of ass! She has been there and done more for both of us than you can fathom. Yes, she took your place and if you ever speak to her or about her or Snape like that again I will beat your ass!" Remus barked releasing the grip on James's throat . Remus stood daring James to say a word.
"So you're fucking gay then? You and Sirius are fucking? Wow! Really? My two oldest friends are engaging in such filth? I suppose the princess there…." James couldn't get out another word before Remus hit him so hard he broke his jaw.
Remus towered over his ex-friend who was bleeding all over the floor "Yes, we are fucking and I promise you we will fuck on your bed before we leave here. Probably everyday, have fun changing sheets every night prick."
Lily leaned over to whisper to Sirius "What the hell! Have you ever seen him like this?"
Sirius shook his head "Nope, but it's hot as hell to be honest."
Lily pulled her wand out of her back pocket and with a flick James stopped bleeding but she refused to mend his jaw. "Remus love come here, let me look at your hand." She quickly fixed the broken finger and dislocated joint. Still looking down at Remus's hand she very quietly said "Thank you for defending Severus."
Remus took the index finger of his good hand, placed it under her chin and made her look at him whispering, "He's my friend. He accepted me and us being together in less than a week. That bastard over there has been my so-called friend for six years and you see how he acted. I didn't do that for you. I was defending a true friend."
Lily couldn't have smiled any wider if she wanted to, she hugged Remus, "I love you."
"I love you as well sweetheart. I will always defend you both." Remus whispered.
Sirius walked over to the very defeated James "Dude, this wasn't supposed to go like this. You have called us your best friends for six years and because we want to be together as a couple you think you can insult all of us? No man, friendship doesn't work like that. I could have understood shock and disbelief but you just proved a very valid point I tried to make to Remus before we ever returned. Had you been a real friend you would have just been happy for us. Looks like all that pureblood rubbed off on you. Not a whole lot of difference between you and a death eater. Actually you're worse, you look at us as filth because of who we love, at least a death eater has a fucked up yet kinda valid reason. They just want magical blood to stay pure. You look at us like they do muggle borns, only you're judging love not blood. You have no valid reason. You are the filth in this room, not us."
The Trio looked at James in disgust, Sirius flicked his wand replacing the dresser to it's proper place, unlocked the door and started to walk out but Lily had other plans grabbing his hand stopping him. "James, Snape may be a death eater but he's a better person than you will ever be. Did you know he had been in death eater in training since 4th year? Did you know he could have killed you a thousand times if he wanted to? Did you realize all those times you tormented the hell out of him that you were fucking with someone who could end you without using an Unforgivable. He's actually really fucking smart, and you….you could never come close to taking his place, you are stupid, you are arrogant, you are a bully, a judgmental prick and I've heard you have a little dick and suck in the sack. Snape was amazing by the way, I really do miss the sex, death eater or not he knows how to make a girl climb the walls. I'm a bit envious of whomever he ends up with. Just thought you should know all that. You know, that you're less than a death eater, less than a werewolf, and less than gay people. You really are just shit…. Really you are. Maybe I should warn Samantha, she seems like a nice girl." Lily then sent a body bind at James and stalked off.
"Damn I know I hit him but that shit was cold. Amazing but cold!" Remus whispered to Sirius.
"No shit! Let's never piss her off!" Sirius whispered back as they went back to the couch to have a nice talk with Samantha.
Lily plopped down at the end of the couch closest to the chair Samantha was sitting in "Hey, I know we haven't spoken in some time but I thought we should catch up. How are things with you and James?" Lily said sweetly.
Remus and Sirius had just seen her wrath and knew she was pissed so they sat silent. They were not about to interfere with anything the fiery red head was plotting.
Samantha was a little taken aback by Lily's sudden interaction. They had only exchanged a handful of words since 3rd year "Things are good. We had a nice break. How are you?"
"Oh I'm wonderful. We need to have a little chat. I need to inform you of a few things." Lily was twirling her wand between her fingers so it went unnoticed when she sent the flick at Samantha nonverbally casting Langlock. Lily smiled and winked at Samantha "I did that. I do not wish to be interrupted. Now, your cocky, arrogant, judgmental boyfriend is upstairs with a broken jaw, more than likely. Would you care to know why? Of course you would! See these two, James called them his best friends for six years….six years of trouble making, defending each other, taking care of each other, breaking laws to protect each other, shoulders to cry on, hell Sirius here, lived with James after his parents disowned him. That cocky son of a bitch upstairs just threw all that away because they came out to him. He threw away two people I would kill for because they are gay! Then to put the icing on the cake he tried to blame me and my ex-boyfriend for them being gay. Well let inform you that they have had a secret crush on each other for years! YEARS! The whole time that prick upstairs was their 'friend' they were secretly lusting after each other. Now, you have two options. You can marry the prick as he is and be as stupid as he is, or you can try to talk some sense into the stupid bastard and bring his narrow mind into this century. The choice is yours." Lily stood to leave but before she did she walked over to Samantha leaned down close to her ear and whispered "My Ex is a death eater, he taught me all kinds of very useful spells you will never find in a book. Don't piss me off or disappoint me." Lily leaned back up a gave a sweet innocent smile. "Have a wonderful day! Oh he's under a body bind as well. See ya around." Lily started to leave the common room turning around seeing Sirius and Remus still sitting "Sirius….Remus…. You coming?"
They both scurried to their feet "Yep right behind you!" they chimed. Lily flicked her wand at Samantha releasing the Langlock with a wink, "Come on I'm starving and I can't stand this room anymore." Lily said as though nothing had happened.
"Yes, let's go to the kitchen. I have two elves I'm looking for anyways." The three grabbed hands and took off for the kitchen.
While Samantha sat shocked and a little scared, she managed to pull herself together enough to go help James to the hospital wing. Telling him what Lily had done and said on the trip there.