GASP! Oh NO! The final chapter! The end of an era! Oh woe is me!!! *Sob sob
sob!*
Birdie: YES!!! No more you-getting-more-reviews-than-me
Reaper: Ah yes Birdie, but memento mori...
Birdie: Thanks for the cheery reminder.
Reaper: And remember my semi-sequel!
Birdie: Oh crap!
Reaper: Oh! I'm struck speechless, I can only write the chapter... (Complete fluff people, yes, it's a short and happy ending)
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Chapter 12: Four Weddings And A Funeral
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1st Of August, The Middle Of Nowhere...
Maddy was definitely happier than she had ever been in her entire life.
She sat high up in the tree, giggling silently to herself as she watched her brother from the branch.
It was like all those months ago, back in February, the best and worst month in her entire life, when she had spied on him as he composed his love letter.
This time however, he was not trying to impress a girl. This time the only girl on his mind was his little sister, and how happy he was to have her back, safe and sound.
This time there was no possible way any stupid death eaters posing as ministry of magic agents could apparate in and snatch her away from her friends and family.
Friends and family.
Her family, they'd always been there, Mum and Dad of course had been by her side since the ordeal began, and Tim, however much of an obnoxious hypocritical moron he was, had stopped at nothing to arrange her rescue. Tonks said they couldn't have pulled it off without him.
But now her world had extended beyond the original three people she cared about. Now she had friends, and lots of them too.
That month back in February, the best and the worst. As her Father always said, it was like the yin-yang, no complete evil and no complete good. Without those idiotic idiots, Flack and Meddle, the toad Umbridge, and that snake Malfoy, she would never have met any of her new friends.
"GOTCHA!" Tim yelled excitedly
Sophie yelped and ran out from her hiding place, Tim dashed after her.
Knowing her best friend couldn't possibly out-run her brother, Maddy jumped out of the tree, landing right behind Tim, who stopped and turned so suddenly at the noise, that he skidded and slipped and fell on the ground, muttering curses as the two little werewolves ran out of his reach.
Jenkin revealed his position from inside the hollow tree, while Alexander came running out from under a large tree root. Tim leapt to his feet and made a desperate swipe at thin air, hoping to catch one of the little brats before-
"FORTY-FOUR AND IN"*
"FORTY-FOUR AND IN"
"FORTY-FOUR AND IN"
He had one last chance,
"Ti-im" Frustrated, he turned around wildly
"Yes Mum" He panted
"Where's your sister?" Poor Mum had been a little paranoid since the whole arrest thing.
"FORTY-FOUR AND IN"
"DAMN-IT" Swore Tim
"Tim!" Scolded their mother "Do you really think that's an example to be setting for your sister?"
Tim groaned in frustration, why was it always the younger sibling that was favoured?
"Oh don't give me that Tim, anyway, I just thought the five of you should know that the feast is about to begin-"
"YAY!!!" Yelled the children happily, storming past Mrs. Goodyer with the speed of a billywig, leaving her lost for words.
/Children/ She thought inwardly.
Maddy raced as fast as she could back to the old vine-covered-mansion, where everyone else was waiting patiently for Mrs. Weasley to come out with the plates. Maddy, during the course of the games they had played in the last couple of hours, had been exceedingly careful not to dirty her dress, as it was so pretty and all (Green and blue, with mini red roses) Her mother told her that she'd be the prettiest girl at the ceremony.
Maddy knew that was not true. Isabelle was most definitely prettier than she was, prettier than anyone at the wedding in fact. Long white lacy dress robes, roses in her hair, silky white gloves... Yes this was a day none of them would ever forget. So different to that week in February.
Isabelle smiled as she spotted the children; she tugged on Wills' arm and the two made their way over.
"How are you enjoying the wedding guys?" She asked joyfully
"Must be pretty boring for kids" Will stated
The twins giggled, Maddy shook her head excitedly
"We played Forty-four and in!"
"Forty what?" Asked Isabelle, slightly confused.
"A muggle game" Alex explained, "Jenkin taught us"
"And WE WON!!!" Yelled Sophie
"SHHHHHHH!!!" Hissed Will "Don't mention muggle stuff too loudly!" He shakingly pointed a finger to where Mr. Weasley was babbling on at poor Adam, with E.B, Aaron, Joe, and Brittany nearby, eyeing all possible exits.
Mary was standing beside Adam. All the while, throughout the entire 'ordeal' Adam and Mary had done nothing but fight, argue, insult each other, start battles, disagree, yell, and (in Adams' case) cower before their opponent. Their wedding was set for mid-November.
Over on one of the tables, The Weasley children, Hermione and Harry were talking about their teachers, mostly about the abominable 'Snivellus' Snape (Who was predictably absent from the merry gathering). Tim quickly joined the discussion, bringing up the question of whom the next defence against the dark arts teacher was going to be. Hogwarts stuff, BORING!
Her eyes moved to where Ros, who was becoming slightly more sociable, was talking quietly to Professor Dumbledore.
Professor Dumbledore had been so helpful over the past few months. The werewolves were all staying at Grimmauld place with Sirius Black (and Kreacher) Visits from family were frequent and enjoyable, although, only Maddy's family, the twin's Grandmother, Jenkin's foster parents, and Isabelle's brother actually kept in contact with their lycanthropic relatives. The ministry was still on a red alert for the Werewolves and Sirius though, and most people still thought Voldemort was dead as a doornail and Harry was mad as a hatter.
But Maddy knew without a doubt that Voldemort was still alive, she'd seen him, and she'd listened to hours of Tonks explaining about him to the muggles. She really didn't want to dwell on him for too long.
Over at the fountain she spotted Daniel, chatting with Toby, Jesse, and his new girlfriend Tonks about how he heroically saved everyone. (Even though they had actually been there, and some of Daniels' memories seemed to differentiate from her own, as Mad-eye Moody was pointing out from the sidelines.) Every once in a while, Jesse would steal a small glance at his own girlfriend, E.B, the two were seriously involved, and word was going around that an engagement was on its way.
Wapa-Go-Kos was talking with Nana Louise, A slightly batty old lady who was the twins maternal Grandmother, Richard Attfield (Izzy's brother) was returning to the ladies with drinks, apparently discussing life with a lycanthropic everyone else gave up on.
Lastly, her eyes moved to Sirius Black, who was looking concerned, and talking animatedly with Remus Lupin.
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"Really Sirius," He stressed, "I'm fine!"
Sirius looked unconvinced, Remus had been slow in healing, and they had almost lost him several times back in February, and early March. It had been a long and trying time for the both of them, and Madame Pomfrey was still baffled to how he had survived in the first place, the amount of sliver he had been exposed to was enough to kill four fully grown healthy werewolves, let alone poor Remus, who was already weak with terrible burns and the crutatius curse.
However, Remus had some how pulled through, and was quite annoyed with the way Sirius kept expecting him to keel over and cop' it. He had no intention of dying quite yet, as he had assured Sirius about fifty times.
Poor Sirius had been far too stressed out for his own good back when Remus had first disappeared, not helped by Snape, who had constantly told him to pull himself together and stop being such a big baby.
Thank you, Snape, how... kind...
Snape had kept his caring manner when Remus had first woken up, and while Sirius was jumping for joy, Snape forcefully grabbed Lupin, yelling: "Did you release any vital information to the other side?!" and so, enticed a battle between himself and Sirius, which half the order had to come in to stop. Somehow, Remus found this hilarious, and started giggling madly. That was when everyone (except Sirius) knew he would be fine.
The rest of the order, and even the rest of the werewolves, had to admit that Sirius was being a bit paranoid regarding his best friend, Remus however, couldn't blame him after what happened to James... and besides, he had passed out a few times!
As expected, Sirius and Remus had talked a lot more than usual after Remus was able to move around again, a lot more about stuff like Azkaban, James and Peter.
Tragically, Umbridge was still teaching at Hogwarts. The ministry was even further away from believing that Voldemort was back than before, and the poor werewolves had to stay at Grimmauld place with Sirius ("The 'with Sirius' is what really bothers me" Remus stated "Oh shut-up!" Said Sirius) Sirius was ecstatic about this however, because he was no longer alone with kreepy Kreacher (A/N Spelling mistake deliberate guys!)
Still, Remus had been perfectly all right since mid-July, and Sirius still wouldn't lay off the 'anyone-who-comes-near-my-best-friend-will-die' routine.
"You don't look o.k.," He stated worriedly "You're a lot paler than usual, maybe this was all to much for you, you shouldn't have had to be exposed to all this excitement so soon..."
"Sirius, really!" Remus laughed, "If I got any more pale than usual, I'd be dead!"
Sirius laughed and patted his best friend's back, "Well, alright Remy... ("Don't call me Remy") But I'll have to make sure you don't have anything to drink, and you can't stay out to late, and no talking to strangers, and speak clearly when you step in to the fire-"
"Sirius I think you may have me confused with one Harry Potter, he's in you custody, not me," Remus laughed.
"Well Moony, someone has to!" Sirius stated cheerfully,
"And you wonder why I didn't tell my real mother about what happened in February..." He smiled. The two laughed.
"Remus... I have something to tell you" Sirius said through the laughter
"Oh yes?" Said Remus between giggles
"I... I should have told you earlier but I didn't know how..." The Werewolf could tell his animagus friend was having trouble keeping a straight face
"I... I AM your real mother..." There was an awkward silence. Then the two started laughing their heads off, unfortunately they laughed so hard that Remus fell off his seat.
Sirius instantly abandoned his joyful carefree manner and dropped to the floor to make sure his friend hadn't accidentally killed himself.
He picked him up and dusted him off, annoyingly asking over and over whether Remus was alright or not, and where it hurt etc.
"I'm fine!" Remus said hastily "Sirius I'm fine!"
Sirius looked like he desperately wanted to disagree, and rush his friend to St. Mungo's, but then he suddenly recognised the look in Remus' eyes, as his own, a year ago when he stayed at Remus's place for a month... God the werewolf had been annoying, mothering him every minute of the day. And he stopped.
"Alright..." he said uncertainly "But only because I can't be bothered to mother you any more..."
"Lazy bumhole..." Muttered Remus
"I heard that, Moony!" Sirius exclaimed
"Heard what?" Asked Remus innocently
"You called me a lazy bumhole!" Sirius accused half-angrily, half-amusedly
"I so did not!" Defended Remus
"Did too!" Retorted Sirius
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did Not!"
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And so it went on, the two old friends reverting back to there childhood ways, simply enjoying each others company, and arguing about nothing and everything together, as if almost passing the time, waiting for the other two to join them so the marauders would once again be reunited to prank and mess about to their hearts content.
And when the crescent moon shone serenely on the two friends, and all their companions, it seemed to Remus as if the barrier between his world and the happy world of his youth, had weakened slightly, and in his heart he could feel the presence of the other two, before their lives became the complicated mess they ended as, standing by and laughing beside them.
And in those few moments he felt his former self, and the happiness he had in the friends who understood him. The happiness he was beginning to feel again.
"Remus!" Sirius whispered excitedly. Remus glanced up, and saw a shadow of a stag pass over the hill.
He wasn't all that surprised, He just looked at his friend, and he knew Sirius felt it too.
The stag had vanished, but it wasn't gone...
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Ohh The END! Yes it's the end!!! No more!!! Ohh TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES!!!
Birdie: WOO HOO It's finally over!
Reaper: *Cries pathetically on Birdie's shoulder*
Birdie: *Pats Reaper's shoulder awkwardly* I suppose as your friend, I'm going to have to remind you that you promised to do a sequel...
Reaper: *Stops abruptly* Oh yeah! Heh heh heh... sorry guys! And sorry for making this chapter so short and sappy, and sorry the chapter title had little to do with the chapter, I couldn't help it... anyway, the sequel will probably be shorter... oh, and it really has nothing to do with 'Fate Allowed'... but unfortunately, I still can't think of a title for the damn thing, so you may not see it for a while...
Anyway, I've learned that I will once again be stuck with my relatives from 22/12/03 to 28/12/03 (Or 12/22/03 to 12/28/03 if you're American...), which will be depressing, but nothing like the catastrophe that happened over the summer, and ended not too long ago. I'm still REALLY sorry about that.
Well I hope you're all happy with the fact that Remus did NOT die (Like Tiny Tim.../Birdie: Why are you talking about Tiny Tim?/Reaper: O shut-up!) And now to answer the reviews...
JeanieBeanie33: NO NOT THE MARSHMALLOWS!!! But if you have so many spare ones, please feel free to send them all to me because I LOVE them! Ahh yes, every time someone who's kept reviewing me for several chapters, reviews, I get a warm fuzzy feeling deep inside my miniscule black heart *Enjoys warm fuzzy feeling* Please look out for the sequel!
Goten-Lupin: Presenting...*Drum rolls* THE FINAL CHAPTER!!! *Dissolves in to tears*
TokyoTeen13: *Tingles with joy at a review from someone who's been reviewing all of the last few chapters* Ahhhhh.... What Anime do I like? Well I'm not as in to it as Birdie, but mostly I like Gundam Wing, and I will occasionally watch Yu-gi-oh, Tenchi, and sometimes DragonballZ/Gt but my main fandom is Lord of the Rings. Only problem is, I can't think up a decent plot for a LotR fic *Sighs*... I thought the fork thing was a bit silly, glad you liked it...
This Parrot has ceased to be: I'm sure you're right 95% of the time, most people are... (Unless they go to my school...Wait! I go to my school! I suppose that means I'm wrong about you being right, but if I'm wrong about you being right, then I suppose I must be wrong about me being right about you being wrong, but if that's the case then I must be wrong about me being wrong about me being right about me being wrong about you being right...yeees...*Sings* I'm completely crazy, I'm completely mad... *Tingles with joy about another reviewer who's reviewed more than once*
Aura Starfire: Don't fret! Remus is safe and sound. But... for how long? MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Ruroni Tsuki: Yes, well it turns out I didn't dare... oh I'm such a wimp...
DBZruler66: How's this? One day less than usual... heeheehee (Birdie: And twice as short...)
blank: I hope you don't die... you're my new friend! Well this is one fic you wont have to wait for... Its... finished...*Weeps embarrassingly*
Lonely N Fading: *Tingles* Mums are so annoying aren't they? Mine just asked me if I had any homework, and just cos I said no, she's giving me the evil eye... I'm glad you're back! Now this is over, I have to thank you for being one of my most loyal reviewers, and ask you to read my semi-sequel. Thank you.
Well... *Bites lip* That's it people... Farewell my friends, may your favourite fics always be updated with speed.
********From The Reaper********
For Birdie.
Birdie: YES!!! No more you-getting-more-reviews-than-me
Reaper: Ah yes Birdie, but memento mori...
Birdie: Thanks for the cheery reminder.
Reaper: And remember my semi-sequel!
Birdie: Oh crap!
Reaper: Oh! I'm struck speechless, I can only write the chapter... (Complete fluff people, yes, it's a short and happy ending)
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Chapter 12: Four Weddings And A Funeral
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1st Of August, The Middle Of Nowhere...
Maddy was definitely happier than she had ever been in her entire life.
She sat high up in the tree, giggling silently to herself as she watched her brother from the branch.
It was like all those months ago, back in February, the best and worst month in her entire life, when she had spied on him as he composed his love letter.
This time however, he was not trying to impress a girl. This time the only girl on his mind was his little sister, and how happy he was to have her back, safe and sound.
This time there was no possible way any stupid death eaters posing as ministry of magic agents could apparate in and snatch her away from her friends and family.
Friends and family.
Her family, they'd always been there, Mum and Dad of course had been by her side since the ordeal began, and Tim, however much of an obnoxious hypocritical moron he was, had stopped at nothing to arrange her rescue. Tonks said they couldn't have pulled it off without him.
But now her world had extended beyond the original three people she cared about. Now she had friends, and lots of them too.
That month back in February, the best and the worst. As her Father always said, it was like the yin-yang, no complete evil and no complete good. Without those idiotic idiots, Flack and Meddle, the toad Umbridge, and that snake Malfoy, she would never have met any of her new friends.
"GOTCHA!" Tim yelled excitedly
Sophie yelped and ran out from her hiding place, Tim dashed after her.
Knowing her best friend couldn't possibly out-run her brother, Maddy jumped out of the tree, landing right behind Tim, who stopped and turned so suddenly at the noise, that he skidded and slipped and fell on the ground, muttering curses as the two little werewolves ran out of his reach.
Jenkin revealed his position from inside the hollow tree, while Alexander came running out from under a large tree root. Tim leapt to his feet and made a desperate swipe at thin air, hoping to catch one of the little brats before-
"FORTY-FOUR AND IN"*
"FORTY-FOUR AND IN"
"FORTY-FOUR AND IN"
He had one last chance,
"Ti-im" Frustrated, he turned around wildly
"Yes Mum" He panted
"Where's your sister?" Poor Mum had been a little paranoid since the whole arrest thing.
"FORTY-FOUR AND IN"
"DAMN-IT" Swore Tim
"Tim!" Scolded their mother "Do you really think that's an example to be setting for your sister?"
Tim groaned in frustration, why was it always the younger sibling that was favoured?
"Oh don't give me that Tim, anyway, I just thought the five of you should know that the feast is about to begin-"
"YAY!!!" Yelled the children happily, storming past Mrs. Goodyer with the speed of a billywig, leaving her lost for words.
/Children/ She thought inwardly.
Maddy raced as fast as she could back to the old vine-covered-mansion, where everyone else was waiting patiently for Mrs. Weasley to come out with the plates. Maddy, during the course of the games they had played in the last couple of hours, had been exceedingly careful not to dirty her dress, as it was so pretty and all (Green and blue, with mini red roses) Her mother told her that she'd be the prettiest girl at the ceremony.
Maddy knew that was not true. Isabelle was most definitely prettier than she was, prettier than anyone at the wedding in fact. Long white lacy dress robes, roses in her hair, silky white gloves... Yes this was a day none of them would ever forget. So different to that week in February.
Isabelle smiled as she spotted the children; she tugged on Wills' arm and the two made their way over.
"How are you enjoying the wedding guys?" She asked joyfully
"Must be pretty boring for kids" Will stated
The twins giggled, Maddy shook her head excitedly
"We played Forty-four and in!"
"Forty what?" Asked Isabelle, slightly confused.
"A muggle game" Alex explained, "Jenkin taught us"
"And WE WON!!!" Yelled Sophie
"SHHHHHHH!!!" Hissed Will "Don't mention muggle stuff too loudly!" He shakingly pointed a finger to where Mr. Weasley was babbling on at poor Adam, with E.B, Aaron, Joe, and Brittany nearby, eyeing all possible exits.
Mary was standing beside Adam. All the while, throughout the entire 'ordeal' Adam and Mary had done nothing but fight, argue, insult each other, start battles, disagree, yell, and (in Adams' case) cower before their opponent. Their wedding was set for mid-November.
Over on one of the tables, The Weasley children, Hermione and Harry were talking about their teachers, mostly about the abominable 'Snivellus' Snape (Who was predictably absent from the merry gathering). Tim quickly joined the discussion, bringing up the question of whom the next defence against the dark arts teacher was going to be. Hogwarts stuff, BORING!
Her eyes moved to where Ros, who was becoming slightly more sociable, was talking quietly to Professor Dumbledore.
Professor Dumbledore had been so helpful over the past few months. The werewolves were all staying at Grimmauld place with Sirius Black (and Kreacher) Visits from family were frequent and enjoyable, although, only Maddy's family, the twin's Grandmother, Jenkin's foster parents, and Isabelle's brother actually kept in contact with their lycanthropic relatives. The ministry was still on a red alert for the Werewolves and Sirius though, and most people still thought Voldemort was dead as a doornail and Harry was mad as a hatter.
But Maddy knew without a doubt that Voldemort was still alive, she'd seen him, and she'd listened to hours of Tonks explaining about him to the muggles. She really didn't want to dwell on him for too long.
Over at the fountain she spotted Daniel, chatting with Toby, Jesse, and his new girlfriend Tonks about how he heroically saved everyone. (Even though they had actually been there, and some of Daniels' memories seemed to differentiate from her own, as Mad-eye Moody was pointing out from the sidelines.) Every once in a while, Jesse would steal a small glance at his own girlfriend, E.B, the two were seriously involved, and word was going around that an engagement was on its way.
Wapa-Go-Kos was talking with Nana Louise, A slightly batty old lady who was the twins maternal Grandmother, Richard Attfield (Izzy's brother) was returning to the ladies with drinks, apparently discussing life with a lycanthropic everyone else gave up on.
Lastly, her eyes moved to Sirius Black, who was looking concerned, and talking animatedly with Remus Lupin.
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"Really Sirius," He stressed, "I'm fine!"
Sirius looked unconvinced, Remus had been slow in healing, and they had almost lost him several times back in February, and early March. It had been a long and trying time for the both of them, and Madame Pomfrey was still baffled to how he had survived in the first place, the amount of sliver he had been exposed to was enough to kill four fully grown healthy werewolves, let alone poor Remus, who was already weak with terrible burns and the crutatius curse.
However, Remus had some how pulled through, and was quite annoyed with the way Sirius kept expecting him to keel over and cop' it. He had no intention of dying quite yet, as he had assured Sirius about fifty times.
Poor Sirius had been far too stressed out for his own good back when Remus had first disappeared, not helped by Snape, who had constantly told him to pull himself together and stop being such a big baby.
Thank you, Snape, how... kind...
Snape had kept his caring manner when Remus had first woken up, and while Sirius was jumping for joy, Snape forcefully grabbed Lupin, yelling: "Did you release any vital information to the other side?!" and so, enticed a battle between himself and Sirius, which half the order had to come in to stop. Somehow, Remus found this hilarious, and started giggling madly. That was when everyone (except Sirius) knew he would be fine.
The rest of the order, and even the rest of the werewolves, had to admit that Sirius was being a bit paranoid regarding his best friend, Remus however, couldn't blame him after what happened to James... and besides, he had passed out a few times!
As expected, Sirius and Remus had talked a lot more than usual after Remus was able to move around again, a lot more about stuff like Azkaban, James and Peter.
Tragically, Umbridge was still teaching at Hogwarts. The ministry was even further away from believing that Voldemort was back than before, and the poor werewolves had to stay at Grimmauld place with Sirius ("The 'with Sirius' is what really bothers me" Remus stated "Oh shut-up!" Said Sirius) Sirius was ecstatic about this however, because he was no longer alone with kreepy Kreacher (A/N Spelling mistake deliberate guys!)
Still, Remus had been perfectly all right since mid-July, and Sirius still wouldn't lay off the 'anyone-who-comes-near-my-best-friend-will-die' routine.
"You don't look o.k.," He stated worriedly "You're a lot paler than usual, maybe this was all to much for you, you shouldn't have had to be exposed to all this excitement so soon..."
"Sirius, really!" Remus laughed, "If I got any more pale than usual, I'd be dead!"
Sirius laughed and patted his best friend's back, "Well, alright Remy... ("Don't call me Remy") But I'll have to make sure you don't have anything to drink, and you can't stay out to late, and no talking to strangers, and speak clearly when you step in to the fire-"
"Sirius I think you may have me confused with one Harry Potter, he's in you custody, not me," Remus laughed.
"Well Moony, someone has to!" Sirius stated cheerfully,
"And you wonder why I didn't tell my real mother about what happened in February..." He smiled. The two laughed.
"Remus... I have something to tell you" Sirius said through the laughter
"Oh yes?" Said Remus between giggles
"I... I should have told you earlier but I didn't know how..." The Werewolf could tell his animagus friend was having trouble keeping a straight face
"I... I AM your real mother..." There was an awkward silence. Then the two started laughing their heads off, unfortunately they laughed so hard that Remus fell off his seat.
Sirius instantly abandoned his joyful carefree manner and dropped to the floor to make sure his friend hadn't accidentally killed himself.
He picked him up and dusted him off, annoyingly asking over and over whether Remus was alright or not, and where it hurt etc.
"I'm fine!" Remus said hastily "Sirius I'm fine!"
Sirius looked like he desperately wanted to disagree, and rush his friend to St. Mungo's, but then he suddenly recognised the look in Remus' eyes, as his own, a year ago when he stayed at Remus's place for a month... God the werewolf had been annoying, mothering him every minute of the day. And he stopped.
"Alright..." he said uncertainly "But only because I can't be bothered to mother you any more..."
"Lazy bumhole..." Muttered Remus
"I heard that, Moony!" Sirius exclaimed
"Heard what?" Asked Remus innocently
"You called me a lazy bumhole!" Sirius accused half-angrily, half-amusedly
"I so did not!" Defended Remus
"Did too!" Retorted Sirius
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did Not!"
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And so it went on, the two old friends reverting back to there childhood ways, simply enjoying each others company, and arguing about nothing and everything together, as if almost passing the time, waiting for the other two to join them so the marauders would once again be reunited to prank and mess about to their hearts content.
And when the crescent moon shone serenely on the two friends, and all their companions, it seemed to Remus as if the barrier between his world and the happy world of his youth, had weakened slightly, and in his heart he could feel the presence of the other two, before their lives became the complicated mess they ended as, standing by and laughing beside them.
And in those few moments he felt his former self, and the happiness he had in the friends who understood him. The happiness he was beginning to feel again.
"Remus!" Sirius whispered excitedly. Remus glanced up, and saw a shadow of a stag pass over the hill.
He wasn't all that surprised, He just looked at his friend, and he knew Sirius felt it too.
The stag had vanished, but it wasn't gone...
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Ohh The END! Yes it's the end!!! No more!!! Ohh TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES!!!
Birdie: WOO HOO It's finally over!
Reaper: *Cries pathetically on Birdie's shoulder*
Birdie: *Pats Reaper's shoulder awkwardly* I suppose as your friend, I'm going to have to remind you that you promised to do a sequel...
Reaper: *Stops abruptly* Oh yeah! Heh heh heh... sorry guys! And sorry for making this chapter so short and sappy, and sorry the chapter title had little to do with the chapter, I couldn't help it... anyway, the sequel will probably be shorter... oh, and it really has nothing to do with 'Fate Allowed'... but unfortunately, I still can't think of a title for the damn thing, so you may not see it for a while...
Anyway, I've learned that I will once again be stuck with my relatives from 22/12/03 to 28/12/03 (Or 12/22/03 to 12/28/03 if you're American...), which will be depressing, but nothing like the catastrophe that happened over the summer, and ended not too long ago. I'm still REALLY sorry about that.
Well I hope you're all happy with the fact that Remus did NOT die (Like Tiny Tim.../Birdie: Why are you talking about Tiny Tim?/Reaper: O shut-up!) And now to answer the reviews...
JeanieBeanie33: NO NOT THE MARSHMALLOWS!!! But if you have so many spare ones, please feel free to send them all to me because I LOVE them! Ahh yes, every time someone who's kept reviewing me for several chapters, reviews, I get a warm fuzzy feeling deep inside my miniscule black heart *Enjoys warm fuzzy feeling* Please look out for the sequel!
Goten-Lupin: Presenting...*Drum rolls* THE FINAL CHAPTER!!! *Dissolves in to tears*
TokyoTeen13: *Tingles with joy at a review from someone who's been reviewing all of the last few chapters* Ahhhhh.... What Anime do I like? Well I'm not as in to it as Birdie, but mostly I like Gundam Wing, and I will occasionally watch Yu-gi-oh, Tenchi, and sometimes DragonballZ/Gt but my main fandom is Lord of the Rings. Only problem is, I can't think up a decent plot for a LotR fic *Sighs*... I thought the fork thing was a bit silly, glad you liked it...
This Parrot has ceased to be: I'm sure you're right 95% of the time, most people are... (Unless they go to my school...Wait! I go to my school! I suppose that means I'm wrong about you being right, but if I'm wrong about you being right, then I suppose I must be wrong about me being right about you being wrong, but if that's the case then I must be wrong about me being wrong about me being right about me being wrong about you being right...yeees...*Sings* I'm completely crazy, I'm completely mad... *Tingles with joy about another reviewer who's reviewed more than once*
Aura Starfire: Don't fret! Remus is safe and sound. But... for how long? MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Ruroni Tsuki: Yes, well it turns out I didn't dare... oh I'm such a wimp...
DBZruler66: How's this? One day less than usual... heeheehee (Birdie: And twice as short...)
blank: I hope you don't die... you're my new friend! Well this is one fic you wont have to wait for... Its... finished...*Weeps embarrassingly*
Lonely N Fading: *Tingles* Mums are so annoying aren't they? Mine just asked me if I had any homework, and just cos I said no, she's giving me the evil eye... I'm glad you're back! Now this is over, I have to thank you for being one of my most loyal reviewers, and ask you to read my semi-sequel. Thank you.
Well... *Bites lip* That's it people... Farewell my friends, may your favourite fics always be updated with speed.
********From The Reaper********
For Birdie.