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Past Conflicts

Sirius loped along with all the speed he could muster, occasionally tossing back a rude comment to spur his best friend on. He was almost to the door. He would surely reach saftey before James could catch him. That part would be...uncomfortable. James was stronger then him from all those years of trying to impress Lily.

Sirius gave an excited whoop as he skidded to a halt in the kitchen. James's mom was busy preparing a meal, and she was the perfect cover.

"Mrs. Potter, so good to see you. Please don't mind me. I'll just be hiding behind you," he gasped out to the incredibly hot woman. Mrs. Potter was always doing stuff for him.

"Oh Sirius dear, is James after you again? I'll just have to take care of that. Picking on poor innocent little darlings like you." Turning, she wrapped the smirking Sirius in a warm hug just as James dashed in. Sirius stood a full head over Sarah Potter, and two inches over James. That always made her codling rather humerous.

"Sirius, leave my mom alone. My fight is with you. Get over here and face me like a man."

With fire in her eyes, Sarah rounded on her son. She simply would not stand for that type of attitude. "James Potter, I do not care what sort of imagined insult you think this poor boy gave you, but if you threaten him one more time you're gonna see just what your mamma can do. You're not to big to be beaten, and well you, oh hello Remus dear. Are you just arriving? Your parents haven't left yet have they? I've not talked to Valkira in forever," the woman rambled, completely forgetting her tirade when Remus walked through the door.

"Sorry Mrs. Potter, but I went solo this time. Mum and Dad had a big thing to prepare for with Romy today. They sent their love though," he responded cordially, before continuing, "Is Anna here? Romulus wanted me to give her something."

James stepped out from behind the cabinet he had dodged behind when his mother started screaming to grin at his friend. "Nope, the brat's with Dad. He's taking her to buy her school supplies. It's her first year, and he decided she's going to that stupid french school instead of Hogwarts. Where's Rom going?"

"Mum and Dad are shipping him off to Durmstrang, like they wanted to do with me," the brown-haired boy replied with a slight shrug. "Where's Peter? He's usually the first here."

Sirius gave Remus a mischieveous grin as he placed his hands over the smiling Mrs. Potters ears. In a fake whisper he said, "I sent him to pilfer James's drawer. The poor fool actually leaves love letters to his one true love in there. Peter hit his head on the way down the steps."

Remus raised an eyebrow, glancing at the steps, which had absolutely no hangings above them. "What did he hit his head on, pray tell."

"James's fist. The poor boy never saw it coming. James is so abusive of poor little Peter. It's just sad. I think Mrs. Potter should beat him. He deserves it, doesn't he Remus?"

"I'm so not getting into this. I'm going to put my stuff up, if you'll excuse me. It's been nice talking to you again, Mrs. Potter," Remus said into the air before walking slowly up the stairs.

Downstairs Sirius shook his head while throwing his arm around James. "Remus is so rude sometimes. I swear. What a degenerate lot of friends I have. Without me, you'd all be hopeless. It's okay though, because I love you," the blue-eyed teen laughed before letting go of James and dashing up the stairs himself.

"I'm going to kill him, Mum. He's an evil prick," James muttered darkly before stalking up after his friends. Mrs. Potter was left to giggle over their exploits in the kitchen.

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James looked at the barrier to 9 and 3/4s, wondering whether they should cross over, or stick around in Muggle London for a bit of fun. There was a fat guard screaming at a few teenage boys that just looked like the perfect target for a prank.

"What do you guys think, go or stay?" he asked without turning around.

"Well I'm going across. We've got to put our plan into action," Sirius

proclaimed, grinning ever so slightly with a raised brow, as if challenging his friends.

"Yeah, I guess we should go across too, we've still got a few kinks to work out. Come on Peter."

With an unconscious air of aristocratic demand, James gestured for the other three to follow him as he calmly walked toward the platform. This, more then even the calmly preening owl perched upon his stuff, caused people to stare at him. Too bad Sirius diverted more gazes with his stunning Black looks. Many an unfortunate woman sighed unhappily as she lost sight of the two stunning males and their slightly less distracting companions.

"Do you guys see Lily anywhere?" James asked immediately after they crossed over.

"James, you are so obsessive. Lily doesn't like you," the ever polite Sirius immediately shot back.

"Shove it Sirius," James repsonded in a rather rude tone.

"Nope, nuh-uh, no way, never. I love Remy, not you," Sirius responded rather impishly. "But if you swing that way, then I can find you someone one else."

James stared rather blankly at Sirius, not quite comprehending, while Remus growled low in his throat.

"For the last time Sirius... we are not lovers! I do not want to snuggle with you okay?" Remus coughed out.

"Yuh huh, sure whatever Remy. Oh yeah you know you want me " Sirius did a little pose (a/n: We are the Ginyu Force) before laughing while he skipped towards the train.

"He's strange," James finally said, earning nods of agreement from Remus and Peter.

They followed Mr. I'm-so-hott-that-I-can-pretend-to-be-gay-and-no-one-cares to the train. Sirius quickly chose a compartment, and put a giant sign on it that stated "He who crosses this door musn't smell of slytherin or feel of grease"

After registering what the sign said James quickly scribbled at the bottom "Not that we will be touching you"

Remus snorted before taking out a marker and corrected random grammatical errors. With an evil smile he looked at his three companions. "How many times have I told you that if you're going to insult people through written word, you should atleast do it correctly."

"Remus, you're so smart," Peter simpered like an obsessive whore, causing Sirius to pounce on him to start a mock war.

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The Great Hall resounded with excited chatter and relieved laughter. Hogwarts was a haven. Leaving for two months was enough to put stress on anyone. At Hogwarts, there was no constant fear that you might not wake up the next day.

Dumbledore knew this, which is why he was waiting. He didn't want to ruin the happiness that being there brought on with such horrendous news. But he had to. With an air of solemnity he rose, pausing until all eyes were on him.

"My beloved students and collegues, I have sad news to tell you this day. As many of you may have noticed, the places usually filled by your heads of houses are left vacant again this year. While in years past, this was merely caused by thier laying extra last minute charms to protect our school, this year the cause is much more sinister in nature. This summer, as many of you know, there was a large battle against the dark forces that took many lives. Professors Barbete, LaRue, Menel, Filingtin, Maydock and myself were some of the many people who fought in that battle. Unfortunately, few people came away with their lives. Professor Menel, Barbete, and Filington were sadly some of the casualties of this battle. I feel a moment should be taken to honor the memories of these brave people." For a full minute silence reigned supreme in the great hall.

"And now, on a brighter note, I would like to introduce our new teachers. I do believe I hear them now," the old man said as the doors opened, admitting the Hufflepuff head of house, LaVinia Larue and three women who looked like the students themselves.

The student body, almost as one, turned to stare at the new admittances. Quite a few male mouths dropped at the sight before them. Three women with figures that fit "hourglass" to a tee, and pretty faces to boot.

At the Gryffindor table, Sirius Black let out an obnoxiously loud catcall. "Remus, you have some competition. Just look at her. I think I'm in love. James, the plan may be off."

"Sirius," James hissed, "you are not going to ruin the prank. Either you start right now, or I'm going to get the Slythi-jerks to gang up on you in a dark hallway. I hear Severus is out for a bit of your ass."

Sirius sent a weary glance to the other side of the hall. "Fine James... let's get this started" A malicious smirk appeared on his face as he jumped up with faux hatred. "James I am sick of your arrogance and complete disregard for what I say. YOU DO KNOW that when we started this little club ME AND YOU WERE LEADERS TOGETHER, but now your too stuck up Little Miss Lilian's ass to care what any of us have to say!"

"Partial founders of the club are we? GET REAL SIRIUS, you have about as much control over us as you have over your sex drive. SURE YOU MAY PLAY OFF THAT YOUR STRAIGHT but inside we all know you're just a little boy wanting another little boy AKA REMUS? "

Remus let out a loud growl. "COULD YOU TWO LEAVE ME OUT OF THIS? And dammit, IT'S YOU AND I SIRIUS, NOT ME AND YOU!"

Sirius looked at Remus and winked "Oh Remmy, we're terribly sorry for disturbing you. It wouldnt have happened if James wasn't such a STUCK UP ASS HOLE!" Sirius said, shouting the last bit with more venom then anyone had ever heard out of him.

"You know what, I've had enough of your back talk. FROM NOW ON THE MARAUDERS ARE OF THREE! Our DEAR Padfoot will be with us no longer," The great hall gasped in horror, James turned to Sirius with a devious smirk," So says number 1 by the name of Prongs."

Sirius stood there glaring, "You think your just going to kick me out of the group that I helped create? Well if I'm going, I"M TAKING REMUS WITH ME!! So says number fucking two by the name of Prongs!" Sirius proceeded to grab Remus rather girlishly, not realizing his mistake, and stomp out of the Great Hall, leaving everyone's mouths a gap.

"I'M PRONGS DAMN YOU!" James shouted after him before grabbing poor Peter, who was nearly in tears at this point, and pulling him from the room with a frustrated growl. A second, much louder slam followed.

Dumbledore didn't even finish his begining of year announcments; he and the rest of the great hall just calmly ate their food in silence..

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The 7th Year boy's dorm door was flung open as Sirius rushed in, pulling Remus with him. As soon as he heard the door click he bursted with laughter, Remus shook his head, calmly waiting for the rest of the "Ex"-Maruaders to enter the room.

"Guys, that was brilliant. I swear to you that Sevvy and some of the Slytherin girls had a cheerleading squad going. Luscious Lucius looked about ready to cry with joy. I think even Dumbledore believed it," Sirius cried when James finally walked through the door, still dragging Peter.

"Guys, that wasn't fair. Why didn't you tell me we were having a fight as our prank this year. I thought you really split up. I would have been stuck all alone. That's not fair. I'm determined to be mad at you now," Peter said with a cute little pout on his round little face.

"Peter, we did tell you about it. It was partly your idea. You said we should do that thing we did when Sirius tried that "Join the You've Been Jipped Out of a Gallon Club" thing. Which basically meant we should mock argue. We just decided to make the argument a lot worse. How can we help it if you forgot? We even talked about it on the train," James said, trying to soothe him.

"But, but, but....."

"James is telling the truth this time Peter," Remus cut the boy off, albeit gently. "We really have been talking about it for a while. You're performance was very convincing though. You did splendidly. Isn't that right, guys?" he asked the other two Marauders with an edge of warning in his voice.

"Yeah, brilliantly, Pete," Sirius threw in while James merely nodded.

With a I'm-Six-And-I-Did-Something-Good smile Peter puffed out his chest and started strutting around the room. "Remus is mine. No I'm Not! You're out Padfoot. So says number one by the name of Prongs," Peter said, poorly mimicking the other three boys. "Me and You Prongs. It's You and I. You guys are funny. Did you see the new teachers? The pretty one with the really long hair was in the floor laughing. The one with the really short hair was smiling. The reallllly pretty one just stood there though. I don't guess they know about us."

Sirius got an almost dreamy, lovestruck look on his face. "They will though, or atleast about me. Most definately."

"Oh Sirius, I'm so jealous," Remus said, more then a little sarcasm.

"Really?" Sirius asked brightly.

"No."

"Oh Remus," James snorted with helpless laughter, "he's crushed. I think he's going to cry."

Peter casually patted Sirius on his back, smiling. "How bout we all go to bed instead of picking on Sirius."

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The Marauders entered the Great Hall to hushed whispers. As they made their way to their seats at the Gryffindor table, there was a sudden explosion of noice. Everything quieted once again, though, as the boys sat down. Lily Evans was on the rampage. For such a quiet, sweet girl, her explosions of anger were fun. And only one person could inspire them.

"JAMES ISAAC POTTER!" the redhead screeched, "Where the Hell do you get off pulling something like that? Fucking kicking poor Sirius out of the Marauders was bad enough, but it just being another one of your pranks was worse. And don't even start playing innocent Sirius. I heard my name mentioned last night. You're as much in trouble as James is. And Remus. I can't even believe you would go along with something like that. It's demeaning. Poor Peter probably had no idea what was going on. I should kick all of your asses. Instead, I'm just going to curse you." After finishing her tirade, Lily walked away, muttering something.

James smirked after her, eyes on her bum. "That was ra-..." he started, before he was jerked off balance. His arms were pulled behind his back and tied at the wrists to Sirius and Remus's wrists. With a silent curse, he watched as his clothes disappeared, leaving nothing but a pair of pink boxers that said Lily. Definately not the pair he had put on that morning.

Laughter, and mocking repetions of "Lily Evans Rocks" followed the three boys out of the Great Hall. Peter casually skipped along behind them, singing the same thing as he read the three pairs of boxers.

"I hope Madame Malgon can dissolve the stupid ties on our wrists. Lily really did her job this time. We can't put any clothes on like this. And besides that, I'm stuck with you two," Remus said in disgust.

"Just sod off, Remus," James seethed.

"He can't," Sirius laughed. "He's stuck to your ass."

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