Remus was pacing back and forth between the car, cursing himself repeatedly. Sirius was just leaning casually against the car as if everything was perfect. Remus swept a hand through his hair, causing it to look as disheveled as James'. Sirius sighed impatiently.

"What are you so impatient about?" Remus asked angrily. "I don't see you helping me find a way to get Harry out!"

"Moony, why don't you just use the Alohomora spell? You know the one that unlocks locks? Including Muggle ones?" Sirius said offhandedly. Remus immediately rushed up to him, covering his mouth with his hand.

"Are you crazy, Padfoot? Don't talk about our world in the Muggle world! They don't know we exist! They're going to start suspecting something if you keep on blurting out about spells and enchantments!" Remus hissed at him. He freed Sirius' mouth from his hand. "I can't do the Alohomora spell because this place is swarming with Muggles." Sirius shrugged his shoulders.

"Well then, I can't help you. I don't know anything about Muggles…I told you so before," he said. Remus groaned in aggravation.

"Argh! What are we going to do? It's…" - he glanced down at his watch - "seven o'clock, and this damn mall closes at nine since it's Sunday!"

"So, why don't we just wait until everyone leaves?" Sirius suggested. Remus looked thoughtful for a moment, but his glowering expression returned.

"And what, expect Harry to sleep soundly throughout those two hours straight? Expect the car to still be full of gas when the two hours are up? By the time every single person is gone, it's bound to be ten or even eleven o'clock at night." Remus continued his pacing, trying his hardest to think of a way to unlock the door. "Maybe if you shield me from view, I can perform the Alohomora spell and no one would be the wiser! How does that sound, Padfoot? Padfoot?"

Remus looked at where Sirius was standing, but he was gone. "Please don't tell me he Apparated out in the open!" Remus mumbled under his breath. "Sirius! SIRIUS, WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU!" His voice seemed echo throughout the parking lot, as passersby stared in bewilderment and parents covered their children's ears from hearing such vulgarity. Remus smiled sheepishly in their direction.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Remus spotted the unmistakable gleam of Sirius' dark hair. He whipped around and saw him flirting with the cashier from the electronic store. "I don't believe this!" Remus thought to himself as he took large strides towards the two of them. Sirius turned around smiling, at Remus, even though his glare was enough to kill a herd of Hippogriffs.

"Hey, Remus! This is Jessica…the girl I met in the eklec…I mean e-lec-tro-nic store," Sirius said, enunciating each syllable in the word electronic.

"Hello, Remus, it's a pleasure," Jessica said politely. Remus' murderous glanced to a mere twitching in the left eye. However, he took Jessica's outstretched hand to show he had some manners.

"The same here, Jessica," he said, strained, as if he had to force the words out of his mouth. He then turned to face Sirius and beckoned him to go back to the car. "Come on, Sirius, we have some business to discuss." Remus tilted his head to the side to get his point across.

Unfortunately, Sirius being the thickheaded human he was, didn't get it right away. "Remus, what in the world are you talking about? What business?" Jessica was beginning to look at the two of them uneasily.

"I have to talk to you!" Remus said, jerking his head to the side more vigorously.

"Talk? We always talk! Besides, you can talk here," Sirius said, puzzled. Remus shook his head in an irksome way.

"No! I need you to help me with something!" Remus near shouted. Sirius eyed him carefully.

"Remus, you sound like you're trying to get me alone or something--Moony, pal! Why didn't you tell me before?" Remus was beginning to twitch again.

"Tell you what?" he asked.

"I didn't know--do you swing that way?" Sirius asked, showing true concern for his friend.

"Damn it, Sirius, I am not GAY!" Remus yelled. Once again, pedestrians looked at them in a perplexed fashion. Remus lowered his tone. "I need you to help me with Harry." Realization dawned upon our slow-witted friend.

"Oh! That, of course! Jessica, please excuse me--Jessica?" Sirius whirled around to find Jessica was standing where she was before. A bit farther away, you would have seen Jessica strut off in a huff, muttering things about weird men and strange homosexuals. "She's gone…" Sirius said wistfully.

"Whatever, she didn't like you anyway." Remus grabbed a hole of Sirius' arm and pulled him towards the car. Sirius shielded Remus from view, as they planned, and the car was unlocked mystically. Sirius was still grumbling on the way home.

"You made me lose a great find, Remus," Sirius said, crossing his arms over his chest. Remus sighed, and just continued driving back to the Potter household.

*~*~*

"At least we don't have to sing that blasted lullaby," Sirius said crossly. He was still in a bad mood. Remus cautiously laid Harry down in his crib. The two of them were slowly making their way out of the nursery. "I still think it was your damn fault that I lost a date with Jessica," Sirius scowled.

"Good grief, Sirius, would you give it up already? Now shut up, before we do have to sing the blasted lullaby!"

"Well so-rry!" Sirius said spitefully. "I'm going to bed!"

"Fine!" Remus snapped.

"Fine!" Sirius snapped back. Then Remus did something that loosened the tension between them. He stuck out his tongue and blew, spraying spit all over. "Ew! Remus, what is wrong with you? We haven't done that since first year!" Sirius said, laughing a little bit, despite himself.

"I know!" Remus sang. "I just wanted to get you happy again." Remus walked into his guestroom and shut the door without another word.

*~*~*

The next day, the sun rose peacefully over the horizon. The early morning dew rested softly upon the green blades of grass. A soft, cooling breeze flowed through an open window, soon followed by a large tawny owl. It dropped the daily subscription of The Daily Prophet upon the kitchen table and soared majestically out of sight. At the same time, a Muggle newspaper was being dropped upon the doorstep.

"Aw, shit!"

Sorry to spoil the quaint morning scene, but these words were yelled out by none other then Remus. Our dear, beloved, Remus Lupin.

"Aw, shit!"

This time it was our grand friend, Sirius Black. The cause of their outbursts of anger were the headlines on the newspapers. The Muggle newspaper bore this headline in bold, black lettering:

TWO CARJACKERS SPOTTED IN MALL'S GRAND OPENING!

Then, a considerably large picture was shown of none other then Remus and Sirius was the previous day when they were secretly using the Alohomora spell upon the car. Indeed, it did look like that they were breaking into a car.

Although the grand opening of England's newest super mall is a time of sheer joy and fun among families, it cannot stop the turning cogs of a criminal's mastermind. These two men, looked to be upon their early twenties, was witnessed breaking into a white 1977 Volkswagen.

"Those two were harassing me! One of them was flirting endlessly with me. He seemed alright at first, but once his gay friend came about, I was sure something was up so I left! Their names are Sirius Black and I believe the other was Remus Lupine," stated a 23-year-old sales clerk at Electrons, a new electronic store at the super mall.

"The one with light sandy hair kept on using derogatory language when children were around!" quoted a 40-year-old mother.

So it seems, that no matter how much we try to bring happiness to the world, there is always a culprit among us. Unfortunately, the car was never tracked down, so police are unsure whether to send a search party out seeing as nobody reported a missing vehicle. If you have any information on the delinquents' whereabouts, please call your local police station.

"Prongs and Lily are going murder us when they find out!" Sirius said into his hands.

"It gets worse…" Remus said miserably. Sirius snatched the copy of The Daily Prophet, dreading what was to be said:

WIZARDS SEEN BREAKING INTO MUGGLE VEHICLE!

Although not many wizards and witches of our time know a lot about Muggles except for the basic facts we've learnt in Muggle Studies, it is clear that these two culprits were doing wrong right in the open Muggle world. The two criminals are believed to be Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, graduates of Hogwarts from almost four years ago. It is a shame, that one of our kind would do such a thing to innocent Muggles.

"It is clearly an act of Dark Magic! They're working for You-Know-Who, I tell ya! You-Know-Who!" this is what an elderly man from Hogsmeade claimed, after being dragged away to St. Mungo's Hospital. We were unable to get his name.

The Department of Magical Law Enforcement is outraged. They refused to quote upon the subject, though sources say that the two will be questioned as soon as possible.

Sirius was pale by the time he finished reading the article. Just then a booming knock came from the door.

"Sirius Black, Remus Lupine! This is the police, open up!"