Ok so this is chapter 4 and I'm hopefully going to get chapter 5 up shortly. Hope it's OK!

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Night soon came and Remus was lighting the candles around the house with his wand. Sirius was wandering around the front room, looking at the photographs hanging on the wall. He stopped at a picture of an older couple with their arms wrapped around each other, smiling broadly.

"These are your parents aren't they Moony?" Sirius asked.

"Yeah, that's my mum and dad," replied Remus "have you ever met them?"

"Once I think." Said Sirius, trying to remember "At King's Cross when we got picked up one year.

"Hmmm. That's one of the last pictures I got of them together, it's quite old." Said Remus smiling sadly.

"Yeah…I remember in our seventh year…when your mother died." Said Sirius carefully.

"Yes. My father was really strong after that, he died three years after you went to Azkaban, nine years ago. It doesn't seem that long ago really." Said Remus, sighing.

"I didn't realise your dad died. Sorry." Said Sirius sympathetically

"Oh it's ok, I dealt with it then, I'm fine now." Said Remus, waving his hand dismissively.

Sirius gave a sad smile. "Hey it's us!" Said Sirius happily, turning to the next picture on the wall. He found he was staring into the eyes of himself. But a much younger version. It was the Marauders.

"That was in storage until recently." Remus told him.

"Why?"

"Well, it made me sort of…sad that all of the Marauders had faced some horrible sort of fate, or whatever you want to call it. James died, Peter had taken a turn for the worse, you were in Azkaban, and I-"

"You stayed the same though. Don't even think about saying something horrible about yourself." Said Sirius defensively.

"I've always been some sort of horrible thing. I could only ever stand myself when the four of you were around. And then the four of us were torn apart. I was back to my horrible self again." Said Remus in tone of finality.

Sirius turned to face Remus, staring him in the eye. "You have never been anything but good. That werewolf…it's what makes you…you! You have never hurt anyone. Even when you were a werewolf you never ever bit anyone!"

"But I came close. The only reason I never ever bit anyone was because you three were there to keep me under control." Said Remus defensively.

"Have you bitten someone since-"

"No, no. The wolfsbane potion, I've been taking it ever since it was invented." Said Remus.

"Well then what on earth are you worrying about?" Said Sirius, flashing a heart-warming smile.

"I guess, yeah…I guess you're right." said Remus quietly.

"You guess?" Said Sirius in mock disbelief "You guess I'm right? I'm always right!" Sirius joked, lightening the tone and smiling again.

Remus laughed. "I can see that you are getting back to normal! Was that cockiness I heard in your voice Mr Padfoot?" he questioned, still smiling.  

"It may well have been, or as I like to say, I'm just-"

 "Wonderfully confident." Remus finished for him. He had heard Sirius call himself that so many times when they were younger, he could still remember all the times he had corrected people whenever they called him 'cocky'.

"Exactly!" Said Sirius, his face lighting up "You still remember?"

"Of course I do, you were called bigheaded so many times and corrected so many people! How could I forget?" Remus said reminiscently.

Sirius smiled again and yawned widely, stretching his arms.

"Tired?" Remus asked.

"Yeah…" said Sirius. He didn't really want to go to bed though. He wanted to stay up all night, he wanted to just sit with Remus, talking and remembering.

"You should get some sleep." Suggested Remus.

"I suppose." Said Sirius slightly gloomily, he would have said no, but his body was in protest with his brain.

"I think I'll probably go to bed as well actually." Said Remus, mimicking Sirius and yawning. He began going around the room and putting out the candles. They would have been surrounded in total darkness if it hadn't been for the hall candles.

Sirius went into his room and got changed. He went back out into the hallway and stepped into the bathroom to find Remus already there, brushing his teeth.

"Igoyoutoofbruss." Spluttered Remus through a mouthful of toothpaste.

"Erm…what?" Sirius asked in amusement.

Remus spat the toothpaste into the sink. "I got you a toothbrush." He held up a green toothbrush still in it's packaging. "I forgot to tell you this morning, sorry you had to walk around all day with bad breath!"

"Oh that's ok, I haven't actually brushed my teeth for ages!" he unwrapped it "I love getting new toothbrushes." He said, sounding childlike.

Remus laughed lightly and watched Sirius as he brushed his teeth. He was there for nearly ten minutes scrubbing. It must feel good to brush your teeth after years of not being able to.

"Mouthwash?" he asked as Sirius finally put his toothbrush into the holder.

"Thanks." Said Sirius, taking a bottle of blue mouthwash from Remus and starting to gargle. It reminded Remus of when they were at school. All four of the Marauders would stand at the sinks each evening and go through a teeth-cleaning ritual.

 "What?" Sirius questioned as he finished and looked up to see Remus smiling at him.

"Nothing." Remus said innocently in a quiet voice.

They both stepped out of the bathroom and into the hall and turned to each other.

"Well, night." Said Sirius, desperately wanting to follow Remus into his bedroom.

"Yeah, goodnight." Said Remus, just as desperate to follow Sirius.

They both turned and went into their separate bedrooms.

Sirius went into his bedroom and sat on the bed. He took of the shirt to his pyjamas and got into bed, trying to get comfortable, suddenly feeling wide-awake.

Remus went into his bedroom and got into bed. He was so tempted to go into Sirius's room. Not to do anything necessarily, just to be with him. If he had his way he would never let an inch come between him and Sirius again. But it was too soon to even be that intimate, to sleep in the same bed. Wasn't it? At that very moment he heard his door creak open. He looked up.

Sirius opened the door to Remus's bedroom and found Remus laying on his back in bed, one arm underneath his head, his eyes open wide and looking towards him. He dared to climb in next to the other man.

"Sirius…"

"Don't say anything, I just want to sleep in here with you…please?"

Remus didn't answer, he just let his free hand grasp Sirius's as they lay next to each other in the dark. Both of them falling into a peaceful sleep.

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Ok, so that was chapter 4. Hope you liked it! Please review and tell me what you think! Thanks.

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