Every wolf needs a moon
By Talia-Rose
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Harry Potter so don't sue me. This story is set during the Marauders time at Hogwarts. In the letter, it's Remus, Sirius, and James.
Chapter Twelve: Pillow fights and punches.
"Are your parents going to say no to us going to visit James, Remus and Sirius?" Sonya sat on the edge of Lily's bed; her blue eyes alit with glee as she considered the prospect of seeing the guys again.
Lily rolled on to her side and smiled dreamily. "You know that since I've gotten to know James a little more, my opinion of him has changed a bit. He's not really that bad. Actually, he can be really sweet."
Smiling, Sonya looked at her owl as it flew in to land, sitting next to Lily's owl on the windowsill. "No, he's not that bad when you get to know him. James can be really arrogant when he wants to be but he is an only child after all. Even I can be like that sometimes. It's called the only child syndrome."
"Only child syndrome? I've never heard of such a thing! Did you just make that up then Sonya?" She asked, arching an eyebrow.
"Teran, is that a letter?" The blond girl got up and walked over to her owl to retrieve the letter that was tied to his leg.
Sitting back down beside Lily, Sonya opened the letter up and laughed at the sight of three different sets of handwriting on the sheets of parchment. It appeared as if the three boys had sat down to write a joint letter and had to keep interrupting each other as they wrote.
"Dearest Wolfie, I got your letter yesterday and spent the entire night trying to think of what to say back to you. Nonsense! Remus walked around like he was stuck in a dream world with your letter folded up and tucked inside his shirt. How are you surviving at Evans? Forgive me but Sirius stole the quill. How are you Sonya? Still alive obviously and thankfully! When are you going to be coming to James' home? Yes, when are you going to be getting here? And are you going to bring Lily with you? I do hope so, she's such an incredible girl and I wish she'd go out with me. Serves you right if Wolfie lets her read this letter! Evans will scream at you from there and we'll certainly hear it here. I got the quill back for the moment Wolfie, while James and Sirius argue about Lily. Really, I don't know what's gotten into them; James has been so moody since we parted at the station. I think he's missing Lily and I hope you tell her that because she deserves to know. No! Please don't show her this letter Wolfie; otherwise you'll be in lots of trouble. It's not worth my life if Lily finds out that I'm still madly in love with her. Sirius knows that his best friend would be stupid to let Evans find out about his passionate feelings because we'd never hear the end of it. Thankfully, I managed yet again, to steal back my quill. Please send your bloody owl – he's been giving us all these strange looks while waiting for us to reply – back with a letter as soon as you can telling us when you're coming over. And see if you can bring Lily. She might be surprised by how much fun she will have. Yes, please bring her if you can. I promise that I'll behave if she comes and I think that it won't seem so terrible if you bring a female friend with you. My mother is really excited about you coming, she keeps going about saying how lovely it will be to have a girl staying over that she can mother. And she certainly will mother you Wolfie! She mothers me. By the way, did you know that I have officially run away from home and am now living with the Potters? Maybe you should do the same thing and come and live here to. Mrs. Potter would love that. Actually, she would probably love it. Now we have to go before Teran goes insane and attacks us.
Love you Wolfie. Yep, love you. I'll agree with that though I love Lily as well… only in a different way. See you soon my love. Remus. And James. And don't forget me, Sirius 'Padfoot' Black."
Lily blushed madly and smiled. "My god, those boys are insane. Except Remus of course, I'd never call him insane but James!"
"James loves Lily. Lily loves James. When are the two of you just going to face that?" Sonya chuckled at the dark look at Lily gave her.
"Oh shut up. I don't love James… but he is really gorgeous and charming and smart and a good Quidditch player and witty and -."
"Not half the man that Remus is."
She squealed and threw a pillow at Sonya. "He is to! He's just as good as Remus, if not better."
Grabbing the pillow from her bed, Sonya threw it at Lily starting an all out pillow fight. When someone knocked on the door and walked in, they stopped and laughed at the expression on Mrs. Evans face.
"Now girls, what do you think you're doing?" Mrs. Evans scolded them, surveying the pile of girls and pillows.
"Sorry mum but we couldn't resist. In fact, we were going to come down to look for you so that we could ask if it would be at all possible if we could go and spend the rest of the summer at another friends place." Lily managed to get the question out in the most confusing way she could think of.
Sonya rolled her eyes and untangled herself from the pile. "Lily could you say that in a way that is more clear? Your poor mother probably didn't understand a single word of what you said."
Rolling her eyes, Lily picked up her pillow. "Well it's your fault that I was out of breath."
"What were you asking me Lily? Sonya was right, I didn't understand all of it except something about it being possible if you could go and do something."
"James has invited Sonya and I to go and stay at his parents house for the rest of the summer holidays and to go back to school with him. Sonya wants to go and I was hoping that I could go with her. His parents will both be there so we'll be supervised." The red haired girl smiled faintly at her mother.
Mrs. Evans frowned for a moment. "Well I don't see why not. But are you sure that you'll be safe at this boys house? Silly me, of course you would be if his parents are both going to be there."
They looked hopeful and Lily asked. "So we can go?"
"Yes dear, you can go."
"WOLFIE!" Sirius ran over to her and threw his arms around her happily. "It's about time that you got here. Where's Evans?"
Lily rolled her eyes, "It's nice to see you to Sirius Black. When are you going to learn to stop calling me Evans? Makes me sound like a bloke."
He sneered, "James is that way Evans. He was doing something with Remus but I don't know what. Probably preparing lunch."
"Padfoot, you can be so rude." Sonya slapped his arm and followed Lily into the house. "This is such a lovely house."
Mrs. Potter was in the kitchen with James and Remus. "Welcome girls, welcome. You must be Lily and you must be Sonya." She hugged the two girls in a way that was completely motherly. "The boys have told me so much about the two of you. And I'm so sorry about what happened to your parents last year child."
Smiling faintly, Sonya caught Remus' gaze and realized that he was rolling his eyes towards James. "Thank you Mrs. Potter. I'm sure all of what the guys told you can't be that bad. And if it is, then it can't be true."
"Oh no, I've heard nothing bad about you Sonya dear but Sirius seemed to be in the belief that Lily always shouted."
She shot a dark look at Sirius, "Well that's not true Mrs. Potter. The only times I shout are when these boys are doing something wrong. But at least Sonya managed to calm them all down over the last school year."
Remus slipped around the table and hugged Sonya, "All I've done so far this summer is wait for you to turn up."
Walking out of the kitchen, James' mother smiled at the group. "I'll be right back children. I've just got to tell Mr. Potter that you two girls have arrived safely. No inappropriate behavior please."
The moment she had gone, Remus and Sonya kissed each other in a warmer greeting – a move that elicited whistles from Sirius and an exchange of looks between James and Lily. She held his hand and smiled happily.
"I couldn't wait until a more private moment." She apologized with a shrug.
He kissed the end of her nose, "I think they'll live to see another day though Sirius is probably jealous that I've got such a beautiful and intelligent girlfriend and he doesn't have one at all."
Sirius growled, "Rub it in all you like Moony but you just got lucky when you met Sonya. I bet if I'd been the werewolf, she would have gone for me instead."
Both Lily and James punched him in the arm and Sirius groaned. Sonya arched an eyebrow at him before replying. "Believe me Black, I would never be caught dead dating you, werewolf or not. Besides, being a werewolf just added more charms to Remus' already attractive self."
"I love you to Sonya." Remus tightened his grip on her, smiling brightly.
James offered a stool to Lily so that she could sit down since Remus refused to let go of Sonya. "Now you to, my mother won't stand for any of that while you're under her roof so you're going to have to behave. But don't worry, picnics are the perfect time and place to make out and around here you can do lots of picnics."
"Picnics? That sounds so romantic. Lucky you Sonya, at least you have a lovely boyfriend who is willing to do those kinds of things with you." Lily shot a pointed look at James as if to say 'see, this is what all good boyfriends are meant to do.'
Remus grinned audaciously, "Romantic? No way, not me! I was planning to try and, to quote Sirius mind you, 'get inside her pants'."
"I did not say that you were planning to do that! I said that's the only reason I would take a girl on a picnic." He cringed at the evil glares he received from the two girls in the room.
Sniffling in indignation, Sonya stepped away from Remus and sat down on one of the other stools, "Joke or not Remus, that wasn't a nice thing to say while there are decent women in this room. Get inside her pants indeed!"
Mrs. Potter came back into the kitchen and smiled, "Why don't you boys show Lily and Sonya where their room is and I'll finish lunch. Oh and James, your father is planning to make a trip to the Ministry tomorrow, perhaps you kids would like to spend the day in Diagon Alley?"
They all exchanged grins and headed out of the kitchen with James telling his mother, "Yeah sure. That sounds like fun." Trooping along, James lead them to a room that had been set up to accommodate two people rather than the one it normally would cater to.
"Mum and dad thought that it would be better if the two of you shared a room… you know, because of the randy teenage boys living here." He grinned at Lily, causing her to blush.
Sirius nodded, "But we tried to tell her that the only one who has a girlfriend here is Remus and that Sonya is to proper to do things like that. Besides, Lily would kill James if he made a move."
"You just managed to call me Lily! Oh Sirius, well done." Lily hugged him before pulling away when she realized what she had done.
She smiled faintly at her friend and walked into the room to find that their things were already there. "Wow, this is such a lovely room. It feels so… what's the word… ah! Yes, it feels so homely. Your mother has wonderful taste for things like this James."
James chuckled, "Some women are homemakers and some are not. My mother just happens to be a homemaker Sonya, a really good homemaker. We're all pretty lucky because she always makes sure that dad and I are looked after right."
"And Remus and me as well. She looks after us to. I just wish that my mother was more like your mum James." Padfoot sighed sadly.
"I've met your mother and she has got to be one of the most horrible women alive. But at least you all still have your parents." Sonya placed a hand on Sirius' arm as if she was comforting him. "Let's move on to a new topic please."
The room fell silent when they all remembered that Sonya's parents had died nearly a year before. Grabbing her hand from his arm, Sirius squeezed it and nodded to James who moved to tickle her.
"Stop it!" She giggled, trying to wriggle away from them.
Standing next to Lily, Remus frowned. "They're not planning to kill her I hope. I guess we're all lucky that they haven't decided to tickle you or we'd all be deaf."
She snorted, "I'm not ticklish any way. And what do you mean we'd all be deaf?"
"You'd scream at us and no doubt call those two all kinds of things."
"Remus?"
He arched an eyebrow at her. "Yes?"
"Does James really like me?" Lily asked.
"Yes he does Lily. He likes you a lot. Though it probably doesn't rival what I feel for Sonya but the two of you have always been at opposite ends of the room fighting with each other." Remus smiled and decided to go and rescue the love of his life from the other two boys.
Sonya was thankful that he'd finally come to save her. "Took you long enough Remus. I was waiting for my knight in shinning armor to come and liberate me from the grasp of the evil bandits."
"Waiting for your knight in shinning armor? Well, I can't possibly be him so I'll just throw you back to the evil bandits and return to my conversation with the other fair maiden over there." He glanced at Lily and saw that James and Sirius were watching her as well.
Lily held her hands up in a sign of peace, "I'm not ticklish!"
"That's never stopped us before. Grab her James!" Sirius howled in laughter as James made a dash to catch Lily before she got to far away.
There was a crash and the three in the room stared at the door before covering their ears, fully expecting to hear Lily screaming at James within the minute. When they didn't, Sirius peeked around the door inconspicuously and pulled back with a look of amazement on his face.
"What is it Padfoot?" Sonya arched an eyebrow at him.
He opened and shut his mouth a few times, not able to get any words out. Sighing in annoyance, Sonya peeked around the door and smiled happily before turning to Remus and Sirius.
"Well it's about time."
"What's about time?" Moony asked.
She crossed her arms. "Take a guess about what's happened out there. I just hope Mrs. Potter or Mr. Potter don't happen to come this way any time soon."
James and Lily came back into the room looking rather… chipper… only to be greeting by loud laughter.
"I repeat what I said a few moments ago dear people. It's about bloody time!" Sonya shook her head at Lily and James.
At least Lily had the dignity to blush. "I tripped over."