A/N: Hey, I miraculously found the time to post two chapters today! YAY! I still don't know if I like this chapter…but oh well. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 8: The Order Meeting

James Potter and Sirius Black appropriated into Number 12 Grimmauld Place. Sirius shuddered.

"I hate this place." He muttered. James nodded absently and sat down at the table.

"SIRIUS BLACK IS THAT YOU?! YOU'RE BACK IN THIS HOUSE? GET OUT OF HERE NOW! I WILL NOT TOLERATE A BLOOD TRAITER HERE!"

"Love ya too Mom." Sirius muttered sarcastically and began setting things up for the order meeting.

James sat at the table, saying nothing and placed his head in his hands.

Sirius stopped trying to straighten the place and watched his friend who was more like a brother to him. James had a look of deep sadness on his face that came from the loss of a child. Sirius knew how he felt because he helped to raise Harry and often thought of him as his own kid when James and Lily asked him to baby-sit. Someone had to stay strong and keep James from doing anything stupid. Usually, Lily took that role, but he knew she wouldn't be able to do so and Remus was always too emotional to take up this new role. That only left him. The goofball. The screw-up as his mother had a point of reminding him all the time before and even after her death.

"Prongs.."

"Don't say it Padfoot." James said his voice full of depression. Sirius hated to see his friend this way. The only time he had came close was when Lily had dated a Ravenclaw in third year.

"Harry wouldn't want you to give up."

"How do you know Padfoot? Heck, two days ago was going to be the first time I saw him in…" James stopped and looked down at the table. "I was a bad dad." James aid and Sirius sighed.

"No, you were never a bad dad." Sirius said.

"You're just saying that to make me feel better. It's easy for you to say Padfoot, Harry liked you."

"That's because I wasn't the one who had to enforce discipline." Sirius said a slight smile on his face. James shook his head.

"James, no matter how often you think that Harry didn't need you, didn't want you around, you're wrong. I'm just second best." Sirius said, knowing the truth behind the words.

"There's just so much I wish I could change."

"Wasn't t you who told me not to live always thinking what if? Well James, what if I never made you switch secret keepers that night? What if Voldemort would have succeeded in killing the three of you that night? What if I didn't make it into Gryffindor? What if I would not have listened to you and dyed Snapes hair hot pink instead of gold in second year? (James smiled at the memory) What if—"

"Ok, I got it. I get the point." James said, and the two marauders shared a short laugh at the thought of seeing Snape's slimy hair glowing bright gold for weeks.

"We got into so much trouble over that one." James said a far away look on his face. "I wish things could be that simple again."

"Arg, I don't. I never want to hear you whine about Lily not giving you the time of day again." James made a face at him and Sirius added "But it was all worth it."

The two friends sat in silence for a moment, lost in their own thoughts.

"I miss him." James said after a moment, breaking the silence.

"Of course we will. But we can't-"

The door opened then and in walked Professor McGonagall and Headmaster Dumbledore.

"SIRIUS BLACK! YOU AND YOU'RE FRIENDS LEAVE THIS HOUSE NOW! YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE!"

Sirius looked annoyed and left the room, saying "I'll be back."

James looked back down at the table again, thinking about how if Harry was still alive they would not be having this meeting right now and he felt his heart ache.

"James, I am sorry for your loss." McGonagall said, and James just nodded, not trusting himself to speak.

"Sometimes, great people come from great memories." Dumbledore said and James looked up at him, confused. Before he could question Dumbledore about the comment, the rest of the order members began to file in, each giving James their condolences and asked about Lily.

Sirius came back down minutes later, looking pleased with himself.

"Padfoot…what did you do?"

"Won't hafta worry about Mother Dearest anymore." He said, too excitedly.

"What did you do?" James asked.

"Axe met mother." Was all Sirius said.

"Kretcher will have a fit." James commented.

"And I'll give him one of mother's old stinky socks to remember her by."

James smirked and the Order members all took a seat, at the table. One seat remained open next to Sirius, where Remus usually sat, but it was a full moon so he could not make it.

After everyone was seated and Dumbledore called the meeting to begin, Snape walked in and Sirius glared at him.

James ignored them, not wanting to deal with Snivelous's comments today, or Sirius's antics for that matter. Sadly, the only empty seat was next to Sirius and Snape sat down next to him, glaring at the marauders.

Dumbledore asked if anyone had anything discuss before they talked about what to do next.

"I believe Voldemort has something big planned." Snape said.

"No shit Sherlock. Anyone could have told us that." Sirius muttered and Snape glared at him. Sirius made a face back at him and Dumbledore coughed to interrupt, knowing they would go on all day if the could.

"What do you mean Severus?" McGonagall asked.

"Voldemort called a meeting earlier. I was late because of a staff meeting but they kept referring to 'the boy'."

"Do you know who or what they are talking about?" McGonagall asked.

"No. Not many do. I tried to find the information out, but either they do not know or they won't tell me." Snape said.

"Keep trying to find out." Dumbledore stated and Snape nodded.

"Of course." He said, looking pointedly at Sirius and James could have sworn he heard a low growl come from him. He quickly elbowed him in the side to make him stop and the meeting continued without too many more problems.

The main point I wanted to get across here was to address the fact Snape knew something is going on and they have no clue. I also wanted to get other characters reactions, which was the whole point of Sirius and James's talk in the beginning. I hope it worked ok for everyone else. It just seemed like something that fit at the time…anywho, I hope you like and Please Review! Comments are always helpful.

Let me know if there's a character you want to get a reaction from or if you want to see how events are going outside of Harry's world. The next few chapters are going to be more and more Harry oriented, so if it would help to know what's going on with the other characters, let me know. I do have an idea for Ron and Hermione later but that's not for another two or three chapter after what I already have wrote (I think I'm now half way through chap 13..)

Anywho, enough about my ramblings, if you actually read this, I applaud you. I like rambling, as I'm doing now but I'm bored out of my mind and need to work on my original story or else I will not live to be able to finish this story :o

I'll try and post another chap or two tomorrow. Hope You Enjoyed. I'm done now, really.