Ok I know I've taken ages and everything, and I blame it all on college! It's stressing me out! But anyway, I've finally written up chapter number 3!

Thanks for all the reviews that you have posted!

What I didn't say or make clear at the beginning is that this fic is based in the time around The Goblet of Fire, so Remus and Sirius haven't seen each other for twelve years. I know I should be writing about things from The Order of The Phoenix, but I've decided to go back in time a bit!

Hope you all like it!

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"So. Tell me everything." Sirius said enthusiastically "I want to know about everything you have been up to for the past twelve years, I want no holding back, no missing anything out. I want to know every single thing."

Remus and Sirius were sitting in the front room on Remus's huge sofa having just eaten breakfast in the kitchen. Sirius was sitting at one end of the sofa, his legs stretched out like a cat, looking eager to know about absolutely everything. Remus sat at the other end of the sofa, facing Sirius with a slight frown on his face.

"Well if you want to know absolutely everything from the different colours of underwear I wore to the cereal I had ach morning for breakfast Padfoot, we're going to be here another twelve years!" Said Remus sarcastically, his face relaxing somewhat.

"Ok we can skip all of that I suppose." Replied Sirius in mock exasperation. "Tell me everything important that's happened in your life. Like…" Sirius's face was etched with thought for a moment "…did you, you know, go out with anyone while I was in Azkaban?" He asked finally, a slight look of worry on his face.

"I thought you might ask that." Said Remus with a small grimace "There was one person."

Sirius's eyebrows nearly disappeared underneath his scruffy fringe. "When…when did you get together?" He asked, his voice a bit croaky.

"About a year after you got sent to Azkaban." Remus sighed. "It didn't last very long though."

"Why not?" Asked Sirius, trying to sound like he wasn't happy.

"You."

"Me?"

"Yeah, I couldn't get you out of my head!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, he used to get so annoyed because I used to talk about you quite a lot. I never named you, of course, but even so, he didn't like it."

"So he broke up with you?"

"No. I broke up with him. I told him that I hadn't gotten over you and I needed time to myself." Remus sighed again.

"Did…did you get over me eventually?" Sirius asked carefully.

"I've never gotten over you Sirius." Remus whispered. "Even when you were in Azkaban and I thought you were guilty. I don't know why, but I still wanted you."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"Ok. So…" Sirius wanted to change the subject, they both knew how they felt about each other, but he had a feeling that he wouldn't be able to hold back if they carried on and just jump on Remus "Tell me about last year, how come you became a professor at Hogwarts? It must have been a dream come true for you!"

"Oh yeah it was great. Dumbledore asked me to come and take over on the Defence against the Dark Arts position a few weeks before the beginning of term. It was actually great going back there, you know how much I loved school." Remus said, looking at Sirius meaningfully.

"Oh yeah I remember how much you adored school! If we never had to leave, I think you would still be living there today!" Sirius joked.

Remus chuckled. "Probably yeah! So you can guess that I said yes to the job offer straight away. I got the train to Hogwarts a few weeks later. I thought that I had managed to get a compartment all to myself at first, I was asleep for half of the journey, but then I woke up in the middle of it to find some students sharing with me. And to my surprise, one of them was Harry."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I knew it was him straight away…"

The topic of Hogwarts and Harry carried Remus and Sirius into late afternoon. Remus carried on telling Sirius about what he got up to that year at Hogwarts, he told him about Harry, how he helped him fight against the Dementors, how he had seen Harry play Quidditch just like they had all seen James play so many times. Sirius stayed quiet for most of the time and only speaking to ask questions, eager to hear about everything.

"Would Dumbledore have kept you teaching if you hadn't resigned?" Sirius asked as Remus told him about how he quit teaching.

"I don't know really. I suppose knowing Dumbledore he would have let me stay, but I knew that leaving was the right thing to do." Remus sighed, but smiled slightly "And that's how I ended up here." He gazed around the room.

"I like it here." Said Remus grinning. "Its cosy." He sank down into the sofa a bit more.

"Yeah…I guess its ok." Remus sighed again "Would you like some lunch?" He said looking at his watch and realising the time "Or you might as well call it an early dinner, its half past four! We've been talking for ages."

Sirius laughed, "More like you've been talking for ages!" He said as Remus opened his mouth to protest "Not that it wasn't interesting, I would have told you to stop boring me if it was." He insisted. They both smiled "Anyway, lunch, or dinner, or whatever you want to call it, would be great, I'm starving!"

Both went out into the kitchen, Remus went to the cupboards and got out a saucepan and put it on the stove.

"What can I do to help?" Sirius asked.

"Nothing, I'll make it, don't worry." Remus insisted, getting some vegetables out of the fridge and putting them into the pan.

"Oh come on, let me do something! I don't like watching you do everything!" Sirius whined.

"Do you know where any of my cooking things are? Do you know how to make home made soup?" Remus asked mockingly.

"Well I'm sure I could find everything if I looked around a bit." Said Sirius eyeing the cupboards.

"Sirius, just sit down!" Remus said a bit more forcefully "You are my guest and besides, I like cooking."

"Ok, ok fine!" Said Sirius, admitting defeat and sitting down. He gazed around the room for a short while and letting his eyes fall on the huge bookshelf again. He turned his head to try and read some of the titles; 'Teaching mischievous magical children' Sirius tried not to laugh out loud 'Hogwarts: A History' Sirius could remember that from school, 'Oliver Twist' Muggle literature, Sirius knew Remus always liked it.

"I see you're still a bookworm." Sirius said, drawing his eyes away from the bookshelf and looking at Remus, who was stirring the contents of the saucepan with his wand.

"Yeah, that has stuck with me. I never could resist a good book." Remus smiled and turned back to the stove to check the boiling contents of the saucepan.

"Still reading muggle literature?" Sirius questioned.

"Oh yeah, I think it's great. They do everything so differently in them books. I just like reading about muggles." Remus said. He was ladling soup into two bowls now.

"I never did like reading much." Said Sirius, trying to remember, "I barely read the school books we were allocated back then!"

Remus laughed and handed Sirius a large bowl of chunky vegetable soup with some bread. His bowl wasn't as full as Sirius's; he was still determined to get Sirius looking less like a skeleton.

"Thanks Remus." Said Sirius sincerely "I don't know what I'd do without you."

Remus just smiled. Funny, he thought, he felt the same way about Sirius. He didn't know how he had survived without him for twelve years.