Sorry for the wait! Here is the next chapter!

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Once they were out more in the open James decided to leave the contols and join his friends on the deck. Wrapping his arms around Lily, he propped his chin on her head and looked out at the water.

"Should take us a couple of hours to get there... it shouldn't be too dangerous." He muttered.

Sirius overheard and looked at him.

"Do you know why they just gave us a pick up job? Why didn't the ones who took the pictures snag it themselves?"

James shrugged.

"I think that they were just diving for fun, Sirius." He said calmly. "The people probably just took pictures and hopped on a small boat or something. The things in the pictures are pretty big."

"That's true." Sirius pondered it for a bit. "Well, they never said we couldn't explore and grab anything extra."

James grinned.

"That is the wonderful truth about it all." He chirped.

Sirius laughed and hopped over the railing to the second deck and went into the bunk cabin. (Ooh dangerous! Hehe...but totally Sirius.)

"Hey Pete! You eating again?" He called.

"No, I'm fixing your air hose." Came the indignant reply. "Unless you don't want me to that is...."

Sirius went into the galley and waved his hands in protest.

"Oh no, go right ahead... I was just wondering where you were."

Peter snorted.

"So you assumed I was eating?"

Sirius leaned against a small counter.

"Isn't that true though?"

Pouting, Peter secured the hose and placed the H.U.B. vest to the side.

(I think that's it... anyways... H.U.B. stands for Human Underwater Breathing system... I've seen pictures and set ups where it's a vest with a bunch of stuff on it... oh well... I dont really know.)

"Maybe." Peter muttered pathetically and when Sirius gave him a look he sighed. "Okay... I give up it's true."

Laughing triumphantly, Sirius grinned.

"See? Now don't you feel so much better?" He asked in a sickeningly sweet voice.

"Jeeze knock it off, will ya?" Peter said, looking at him pointedly. "You act as though you don't have a bad habit...."

"...In fact... he has many." James said with the same, evil and manic grin on his face from before.

Raising a questioning eyebrow, Sirius smirked.

"Alright... name a few."

"Well..." James drew out. "You can't even tell when someone else is on our boat...."

Standing up with wide eyes, Sirius looked at him.

"Who?"

James smiled.

"Ives Anderson."

"Really?" Sirius laughed. "Great! Where's he at?"

James snorted.

"Behave, he has his cousin with him."

Wiping an imaginary tear away, Sirius grinned went onto the deck, followed by James and Peter.

"Ives! Why the heck did you invade our precious Marauder! Have you no shame?!" He crowed and hugged the shorter male in a quick but powerful hug.

"Haha!! I have convinced your fellow crew members that I am an ally!" Ives winked a sparkling brown eye and hugged back. "Anyhoo... I have someone for you to meet!" He gestured to a young man about Sirius and James's age, standing as tall as Lily with short tawny hair and bright amber eyes. "This is my cousin Remus. He's an Oceanographer and sometimes comes on trips with me."

Sirius reached a hand out and shook Remus's hand, grinning broadly.

"Nice to meet you, Remus."

Remus smiled.

"It's nice to meet you too, Sirius. I've heard many things about you."

Scratching the back of his neck Sirius looked at Ives.

"Good I hope."

Remus laughed.

"Oh there were mixed things about you."

Ives laughed when Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"Moving on before you get me in trouble...this is...."

Remus seemed to know who Peter was and he shook hands with him grinning.

"Hello Peter. How have you been?"

The blonde smiled slightly.

"Pretty okay...." He sniffed. "Just constantly being picked on by the evil and mean Sirius Black over there."

Grinning, Sirius waved it off.

"Okay... so I'm evil and mean... so is James! I mean come on! Look at him... I know he's dying to pick on me when Ives and Remus leave. I know it!"

Ives roared with laughter.

"I bet!...."

"HURRY UP!!" Someone roared unpleasantly.

Ives looked over and rolled his eyes.

"We have to go... Severus is being pissy."

At the name, Sirius scrunched his face up.

"Isn't he always?"

Snorting, both Ives and Remus hopped onto the other boat gracefully, waving at them.

"See ya, Marauders!" Ives called and the boat drifted carefully away.

Waving them off, Sirius sighed.

"I hate to admit it, but Severus is the only one I know that can keep a boat next to another one that well...."

James laughed.

"You're right... he is good at steering-"

"BUT HE'S NOTHING LIKE WERE ARE AT DIVING AND SALVAGING!" James and Sirius recited together grinning like maniacs.

Peter, who had climbed into the Captain's cabin while they were being goof balls, called down at them.

"We're almost there... It's right ahead."

"Yes!" Sirius chirped gleefully and went into the bunk cabin, followed by James.

They grabbed their wetsuits and took of their clothes, climbing into their one piece wetsuits and zipped up the backs. They stepped out of the cabin with their fingerless gloves, flippers and H.U.B.s.

"Hey Lily, you've been awfully quiet... what's up?"

Lily smiled innocently.

"Why just ejoying the view, of course."

James and Sirius blinked, looking at eachother then at Lily.

"Fascinating." Sirius said, not really too affected by it.

James perked up after blushing over what Lily was fussing about.

"Speaking of a views... what did you think of Remus?" he asked, securing his fingerless gloves. (I find them easier to grip onto things... though probably not too safe for picking things up in the water, right? Oh well, I think they're cool. And speaking of wetsuits... can you imagine Sirius and James in wetsuits?! drool Okay okay...back to fic.)

Rolling his eyes Sirius looked away.

"Leave me alone for a change will you?" He said bitterly.

James frowned and looked at Lily, who was glaring murderously at him.

"Jeeze Siri I wasn't picking on you...."

Sirius shrugged.

"Yes you were, you always do."

Lily seemed to think it was her turn to comfort Sirius and hugged him.

"Relax Siri, James probably isn't trying to intentionally hurt your feelings...." She cast a pointed look at James who sunk away from her gaze. "He just doesn't know when to stop."

Sirius smiled.

"Yeah I know." He raised an eyebrow at James. "See that? No picking on the gay guy, okay?"

James nodded and sighed.

"I didn't expect you to flip out like that, jeeze!" He sulked.

Sirius shook his head.

"It's okay James, just stop poking fun about it."

"Okay."

Shrugging his vest on he grinned wickedly.

"Time to dive! Shall we?"

James grinned back.

"Definitely."
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Ives looked at his cousin who sat on a sturdy crate, scribbling away at a notebook.

"What did you think of Sirius?" He asked meaningfully.

Looking up, momentarily puzzled, Remus raised an eyebrow.

"He's the one with the long black hair, right?"

Ives nodded.

"He's okay. Why?" Remus asked suspiciously.

Ives pulled over a crate and sat on it, cursing as he got his trousers wet.

"Well, what if I told you..." He started casually. "...that Sirius Black is a very open gay?"

Remus just blinked.

"So?"

Ives gave a grin that was Marauder worthy.

"Lets just say he's very available...."

Remus shrugged, making it look half-hearted and went back to his notes... still entirely curious about Sirius.

Available...

Ives watched his younger cousin and smiled as the boat went into the docks. It would be interesting to find out what might happen between them. James sure enough agreed that Remus could come with them on the next trip. Ives couldn't wait to hear the details and see the outcome.
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WOW! That was stupid. Oh well, you peoples wanted Remus... you got some Remus. He most likely won't be occuring in the next chapter...it'll probably just be Sirius and James diving and some more meaningless bantering.

Well, I hope you like it anyways... R/R please?