Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. As much as I'd like to...I don't. And it sucks.

Warnings: Slash. R. M-Preg. Don't like, don't read.

Authors Note: Hey guys! Just so you know, there will be at least a week's wait between updates. School is in session again and I'm really busy with classes and class work. It sucks, but that's life. Anyway, I like this chapter much better than the last one, even though you guys seemed to like it well enough. More of James/Harry's memories come back in this chapter and a little interaction between Sirius and James. I hope you like it. I spent quite a while yesterday on it. Read and Review!

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Chapter 8

James was confused. Very confused. One minute he was in Sirius's apartment, and the next inside what appeared to be a joke shop of some kind.

"Where are we?" James asked looking around with wide eyes.

"Zonko's, a pranksters best friend," Sirius answered.

"Yeah," was all James managed to say.

"It's a joke shop James. Wizard style," Sirius clarified noticing the expression on James's face.

"I'm hallucinating. Sirius, pinch me," James commanded.

"Why?" Sirius asked, nonplused as he pulled James away from the fire place and towards the door.

"If you do, I might wake up and the world will make sense again," James replied.

"I hate to break it to you, but this is actually happening," Sirius said side stepping another group of people trying to pass them, all the while keeping a firm hold on James.

"Pinch me damn it!" James all but yelled, at last loosing his patience and breaking out of Sirius's grip.

"Alright already! Don't scream, you're making a scene," Sirius said, all the while smiling apologetically to the patrons of the shop as they finally reached the front door and stepped outside. "Don't say I didn't warn you."

Sirius reached around James and pinched his ass, smirking when he heard a high pitched yelp.

"Oh god. I'm not imagining this? How is that possible?" James asked as Sirius resumed pulling him down the crowded street.

"It just is. Go with it. We're going to see Dumbledore. Somehow, he makes everything make sense. Well...usually anyway," Sirius said letting go of the clearly stunned James, and taking his hand.

"Okay. I guess I'll just have to trust you. Even if this turns out to be me unconscious somewhere, I'll have had a nice fantasy of you pinching my butt and holding my hand," James said sounding as if he was expecting answers, but being willing to wait for them.

Sirius smiled. Thank god for non-packing companions. Though the smile drooped a little when he felt his stomach do a few happy flip-flops due to him being the object of James's fantasies, real or not. He simply didn't understand his growing attraction to James. Especially since James could be the one who knew for sure what happened to Harry.

After James's statement, a comfortable silence fell upon the duo. A silence that proved useful when Sirius led James into a different shop, this one filled with sweets, downstairs in an area that obviously wasn't meant for customers.

Sirius got on the floor and began patting to dusty floor in search of something, while James stared at a square of flooring near him behind some boxes. Suddenly, he was caught in a memory he didn't know he had. He was under a cloak made of silky material that somehow hid him from view. Beneath that flooring was a path he'd followed hundreds upon hundreds of times, always under the silky, silvery cloak.

James gasped loudly and opened his eyes to find himself still standing where Sirius had left him. His gasp prodded Sirius to check out whatever it was that was bothering James.

"You okay?" He asked.

James nodded. "There's a hidden tunnel down there."

Sirius looked in the direction James was staring and saw the bit of floor he'd been looking for.

"How did you know?" Sirius asked softly. The odds of James knowing this tunnel existed were slim to none. Other than the marauders and the Weasley twins, he was pretty sure that only Harry and his best friends knew about it. That meant something. Something important, though Sirius was damned if he could figure out just what.

"I don't know," James finally responded. "I think...I must have been here before. Before I lost my memory."

Sirius nodded and bent down and began to pry up the flooring that hid the tunnel. This was confusing him. Meaning he'd be up half the night thinking about it.

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The trip through the cold tunnel was spent in an odd silence, each man lost in his own thoughts. Eventually though, they reached a wall and James automatically flipped the hatch and crawled out.

Sirius followed suit, though at the moment he didn't realize how odd it was that Harry knew where it was.

"Black!" A cold, deep voice spat. Both Sirius and James turned around to find themselves face to face with none other than Severus Snape.

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A/N: Dun dun dun...Okay. Sorry for what I think is a cliffy. I have had no sleep, no time, and still I managed to produce...this piece of crap. Oh well. Review and let me know just how badly I did. K?

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