Disclaimer: J.K owns this magical setting as well as Sirius, Remus, James, Lily, Peter (that stupid, good for nothing rat!), Snape, and all of those good characters. I own Gwen, Ewan, Arabella's characterization and Mel. I think that covers my main characters. Just to clarify this, I don't own any of it except the plot and original characters which you should be able to spot. After all, if you are reading a Harry Potter fanfic than I sort of assume (yes, I know what it does. It makes an * censored for rating * out of you and me) that you have all read the books.

Author's Note: Here we are at twelve, and do you all realize we haven't even gone a whole week yet? I sort of find that interesting, but then again I am a little strange. Fanfiction.net is still acting up and I can't get onto my account so I don't know what is happening. I can't even get onto the site to read my friend's stuff ( so I am writing this with no idea what is going on. Right now I feel that Sirius and Arabella are the best couple, following by Gwen and Remus. Then we have Lily and James. While the last two aren't really couples I think that might happen, don't you? I took a test and Gwen is not a Mary Sue! Close but she isn't. I don't know how it came off but I don't mean for it to sound like she has a prophecy. I meant to say that her family is highly involved in the ministry and he is not liked by those who would wish to take over the magical world, like Voldermort. So I'm going to try and fix that in this chapter as well as bring back some stuff you guys might have forgotten, stuff that almost slipped my mind. This chapter goes out for anyone who is reading this. I mean it, everyone who is sticking to this story, especially through the troubles fanfiction.net is going though.

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"Not Behind the Doors"

Remus floated up the many staircases of the castle, coming to the portrait of the Fat Lady, her pink frilly gown darkened by the absentness of candle light. Remus was still floating, his heads in the clouds all over Gwen. It had taken him, he would wager, a good half hour to walk the three staircases up to the portrait but he must have circled the castle at least five times as his mind kept wandering back to Gwen. He gave the password and bounded into the room, a spring in his step. He did a little turn as he went towards the staircase to the dorm but a figure crouched over, his face in his hands, caught the gleeful boys' attention. The fire was dimming so Remus, who had managed to find his wand, set it ablaze again and James turned, alarmed by the sudden presence of Remus in the room. The sudden light flashed across James' face and it looked hollow almost like a ghost, like he was dead. Shaking his head for a moment he looked back and saw the boy he had grown up with, his black hair tousled and his eyes saddened. The opposite of what he had expected. Remus had expected to see James smiling, eyes dancing, and a bounce in his step. After all, Lily was his and he was Lily's.

"You look chipper Moony. What happened?" James questioned after seeing such a stupid smirk that Sirius would have been jealous.

"Nothing much, took a walk, nearly fell on ice, did in fact fall in love. You know, the usual stuff. What's wrong with you? Did a bludger get wedged up your bum or something because you finally have the girl you have been talking about for Merlin knows how long and you don't seem to be, how did you put it? Yes, chipper. You don't seem chipper in any respect." Remus took a seat next to James, stretching out his arms and legs. He rubbed his hand over his face as if to erase his gleeful expression, it was hard to smile while James frowned, but he somehow couldn't peel the smile from his face, just like he couldn't take his eyes off Gwen.

"First off, you. Backtrack. What is this? You are in love?" James asked, hoping he wasn't sounding too suspicious. He could see Lily jumping on a broomstick, flying out of her dorm's window and meeting Remus by the lake. He only prayed it wasn't true. It couldn't be true. Remus was his friend, James' thought. He had asked Lily out for him and had stuck by his word, even though it had pained him. Now it seemed that leaving Lily was the best thing for Remus, if he hadn't he might not have met this girl that he was over the moon about. It was the best thing for Remus, it should have been the best thing for James too but life just wasn't on his side. The only luck he had, James' thought, was bad luck. No they wouldn't have done that. Remus wouldn't have done that, not for all the world. But then again Lily was a world. She was James' world.

"Yes I am in love. She is brilliant, beautiful, and becoming. Her name is Gwen Peters and she is." He was at a lose of words. What was she? She was the chill down his spine when their hands touched, the sparkle in his eye, the feeling in his stomach. Almost like butterflies. She was Gwen and there was no word to describe her. "She is unbelievable." He settled with, exhaling a deep breath as he finished the sentence. His eyes seemed to glaze over in a look of love that James knew all too well (".Prongs? Hey Prongs! Your mouth is right there, above your chin if you aim well enough you might get that apple sauce in it. That's a good boy. If you stared at her any longer you might bore holes in her head you know.")

"I've never seen her, what house? What year?" He questioned.

"No house yet and our year." Remus answered back, not noticing the look of puzzlement on James' face.

"Remus, how can she be in our year yet not be in a house? Remember that custom that Hogwarts tends to hold strong too? On your first day you put on the sorting hat and it tells you a house. Remember that?" James asked, he was beginning to worry about Remus, maybe he fell in the lake or something and made up this imaginary girl. He had read somewhere that people make up imaginary friends to fill a void. Maybe Remus had made up this Gwen to get over Lily? He had only walked Lily to the dance pretty much so how much of a connection could he have to her really? Certainly not a big enough one to form a void that required an imaginary girl.

"She is new, well not really she was in Hogwarts and then she moved and now she is back and Dumbledore is having her resorted because he thinks that everyone changes and she could be a Gryffindor James. Wouldn't that be great?" He spoke quickly and James barely caught a word of it. His mind was relaxing; he could feel the weight on his shoulder lighten ever so slightly. It appeared that she might be real and if she was that Remus and Lily were history, Hogwarts history of failed romances and childhood love. If she wasn't real it was only beginning but Remus was level headed, he couldn't have dreamed this all up. "Now back to my question. What happened with Lily and you? I half expected to see you two snogging when I walked in." A mischievous smile passed over Remus' face, an effect of Gwen and the mention of snogging. A term he hardly used being the gentleman of the group. Even though he was the gentleman a quick picture of him and Gwen by the lake with a picnic in the spring ran through his head causing a giddy smile to pass his lips.

"For your information she is in her room and she made it very clear that we aren't for each other. She feels that she can't go near me with a ten foot pole because she went out with you." James looked at an ordinate piece of crystal. "She made it crystal clear." Remus looked lost in thought for a moment, not the airy thought of love but a puzzled look of scheming. He rarely wore that look but when he did it fit him, he was a Marauder after all.

"That isn't it James. She knows that me and her, while we are the same in a lot of ways, aren't for each other. I think that she does feel bad about me after I did kind of sulk away and sort of laid the charm on heavy, you can contribute that to being around Sirius by the way, but I think she is just plain scared." Remus concluded.

"Scared about what?" James asked perplexed.

"About you, about her, about everyone around her and most importantly her heart. I can't begin to phantom how you have had a single functioning relationship. You understand the rules of quidditch and you can't understand some of the basic feelings of love."

"I never said my prior relationships were functionally you know and quidditch is easy to understand. She has to know I would never hurt her, not in a million worlds. And who cares about everyone else? As long as you are happy they can all bugger off as far as I am concerned." James hit his hand hard on the table then leaned back. "What can I do?" He questioned sincerely.

"First we go to bed tonight and then in the morning we will talk to Sirius and Arabella about setting you two up. I have a plan."

"Do share it; this is my future we are talking about." James leaned forward to hear everything about this so called plan. At that moment the portrait swung open and Sirius was carrying Arabella in, her eyes were closed and she appeared to be sound asleep. The outer cloak of Sirius' robe was wrapped around her to protect her from the chills of the castle and her hair was loose, falling down her shoulders. Sirius motioned to them to be quiet and started up the staircase to the girls' dorms.

"He doesn't even think twice about going up there does he?" Remus whispered to James.

"I don't think he cares about what's inside those doors Remus, he's carrying the one he wants." James whispered back, watching as Sirius turned on the spiral of the stair. Leaning back he closed his eyes for a second, one day he would have the one he wanted and she wasn't' behind a door, she was in his heart.

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Here is twelve! First let me explain the title. It relates to James' last line and it means that he doesn't want what's behind the doors, he wants Lily. I'm sorry if it doesn't really make sense. What are they up to? Hmm this is getting interesting. Short one I know but it isn't that short I had originally finished it at about 800 words and I doubled it. The next chapter is going to be pretty short and it will be out by Friday. Then another should be out by Monday or Tuesday. I wonder if all of them are going to be happy at once? Arabella and Sirius are in bliss and Remus and Gwen look like a budding relationship. I wonder about Mel and Peter, how much longer is that going to last and will James and Lily get together soon? I hope so I need to write a complete Lily/James fluff chapter but I can't do that until they are together.

I have a question for you guys. I write things in italics in word which I then upload into www.fanfiction.net but the format changes back to all regular type and not in italics. Does anyone know how to make it come out in the chapter as italics?

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Kristatwen: Hi Krista! Thanks. Remember I told you the other night I was working on this well I finished it. Hope you like this one. I feel bad for James too. Ttyl

K: Thank you! Well the reason you couldn't get to the second chapter was because all multi-chapter fics were blocked off past the fist chapter or title page when fanficiotn.net was having its problems. Everything should be back now.

Sweet Star: Thanks. I took it and Gwen isn't a really bad Mary-Sue. Especially once I get to her being sorted and she has some more conversations and the other characters get to know her. I am trying to de- Mary Sue her because she has around three qualities that I have to fix up.

CrazyStacy: Thank you so much! This really helped me. I really don't want to make her a Mary-Sue or I don't want to make her a really bad one as in her being the perfect princess sort of thing. Have you ever heard the phrase Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Let's just say that Gwen isn't that perfect and that Remus has on rose colored glasses if you get my meaning. I didn't get to fix what I wanted to in the last chapter but this was what I was aiming to set up. Gwen's father is in the Dark Arts Defense branch of the Ministry and Voldermort wants to kill pretty much everyone that stands against them so if you can get to her father through her it is likely that she might be killed so her father will do some stunt and get killed in the process. I never meant for a prophecy. I am really trying to fix it. I will in the next couple of chapters I hope. You aren't weird you are honest. Thank you!

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