Disclaimer: What's that you say? Are you trying to tell me that I don't, in fact, own Harry Potter? ARE YOU INSANE?! WHY would you SAY something like that?! Have you NO compassion?! What? Oh, I DON'T own it? It belongs to JK Rowling? Oh. Okay, then, I guess you're right. Don't sue me please.
::AN:: Sadly, this fic is ending soon. (sniffles furiously) I'd love to drag it on forever and ever but REALLY people! It's a prequel! I have to get back to my other fic! AND I still have another prequel to do! (About Remus, remember? Are you paying attention? lol) Anyways, I hope you like this chapter. THE NEXT CHAPTER IS THE LAST ONE!!!!!! Sorry, but it has to end sometime, right? (lol)
::To ma lovely reviewers::
Padfootz-luvr: YAY, I'm glad you liked the last chappie! I was sort of afraid that people would complain or something because of, ahem, Lily and James… And me changing the POV (ish) and all… lol.
Lola: Okay, um, Read This When You Want To Cheer Up? (lol) Actually, there's an awesome Harry Potter fic called "Draco Malfoy, the Amazing Bouncing… Rat?" that is way funnier than anything I could ever do, even though some of the romantic pairings are a little screwed up (it's not slash, though). Gah, I'm weird! Promoting other people's fics on my own chappie! NO! lol Well, welcome to the fic! I haven't seen you review before (er, have I? Just kidding, lol) and I hope you like this chappie!
ME: Yeah, it's a little weird that Lily and James did it just like (snaps fingers) that… But I guess they have been liking each other for awhile, and besides… I can totally see the image of Faylinn in my mind, shrieking and scrambling away from her all horrified-like! (muahaha) What do you mean awkward, though?
randomblinx: IT!! Yes, IT! Dude, what are you, seventeen or seven?! They had sex yes, oh-sister-of-mine. They shagged like bunnies. And they liked it. MUAHAHA
Jubily-Lollypops: Oh, I know! I was like, "DUDE, they start dating in their seventh year! It's already February! Hello!" I almost spazzed a few chapters back (I think it was one of the Christmas-time ones) when I realized that James and Lily still weren't together. (lol) It's totally fixed now, though! They're obviously, ahem, together! (yay)
Mrs. Drew Malfoy: We've already discussed the fact that, no, I am not, in fact, dead. (Quite alive, thank you. Alive enough to have my fabby birthday yesterday! YAY!) A lot of people seemed to like the last few lines (yesss!), lol. Anyways, I'm glad you liked the chap… I'm not sure whether I have to email you or not, seeing as you have an account-thingy now (maybe you did before, I don't know)… And you reviewed on 'Well What Do You Know' without me emailing you… Whatever, I'll just wait a day and if you haven't reviewed, I'll email you the link, lol. So, HAH, if you don't already have me on your alerts, you have to wait a day! (It's mean yes, but I'm sorry!)
Tintalu: Oh, it's okay that you forgot to review (glares at you), as long as you're still reading (more glaring), you know! (Okay, I'm kidding about the "glaring." Ish.) Anyways, since you asked… In answer to your question, I, in turn, ask that you refer to my review-response to 'randomblinx' a few paragraphs above this. (lol) And about Remus… Well, you'll just have to wait and see, won't you? It's nothing horrible, though, so don't have a panic attack or anything. I would never do something bad to Remus (unless he wanted me to. I mean, um, heh…)
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Okay, this chappie goes out to Mrs. Drew Malfoy, for thinking I died (how hilarious is that?! NO, I was just being lazy!), and Lola – a new reviewer (YAY!). Thanks people! I love you all!
::NOTE:: This chappie doesn't directly go "with" the other one. I've skipped a few months and it's about NEWT-time for the Marauders, Lily, and Faylinn (and, yeah, I guess all the other seventh years, but, like, who cares?).
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Faylinn ran her hands through her hair and let out a loud, frustrated groan. "This isn't going to work!" She cried out.
"What isn't going to work?" Remus asked, still not looking up from his book.
"This!" Faylinn exclaimed, nudging Sirius in his side while he leaned against her, his arm over her shoulder.
"What are you talking about?" Sirius mumbled, reclosing his eyes, ready to doze off again.
Lily let out a laugh from the armchair nearby. "She's trying to study." She said to Sirius.
"She's loving every minute of it, Padfoot." James spoke up from the floor in front of Lily's chair. "Don't listen to them!"
Peter frowned at the chessboard in front of him. "Oh, I know! Padfoot! Let's play chess!"
"Um, no." Faylinn answered for her boyfriend. "Sirius has to wake up, get off of me, and STUDY!"
"Exactly." Lily agreed, nodding and turning back to her book.
"A game of chess will probably stimulate his brain after those few hours of sleep." Remus pointed out.
"Alright, then." Faylinn said, pushing Sirius away from her as he let out a long groan, too tired to really complain. "Sirius! Go! Away!"
James set down his parchment and quill and looked up at his friends while Sirius shuffled lazily towards Peter and the chessboard, mumbling under his breath.
"No complaining!" Faylinn told the gray-eyed boy before picking her own book back up and resuming her studies.
James smirked and watched the group before him. Remus was sitting in and armchair – in the same position he had been in for the last couple of hours – reading 'Alchemy for the Genius's Soul' by Diamond Rocks. Faylinn sat on the couch alone – now that Sirius had left – while she flipped through the pages of 'The Idiot's Guide to N.E.W.Ts.' Peter and Sirius were now enthralled in a game of chess – Sirius looked slightly more alerts, although he was still rubbing his eyes and yawning; Peter was tapping his foot to an imaginary beat, a sugar quill sticking out of one side of his mouth. Turning around slightly and looking up, James noticed that Lily was reading her copy of 'The Swish, Flick and Whoosh of Charms' for the twelfth time.
"You know what?" James said to no one in particular. "I think we need a break."
"I agree!" Sirius said as his knight decimated one of Peter's pawns, sending the opposing team into check – to which Peter's king and queen protested loudly, sending a stream of swears in his direction.
Lily gave James a small kick in the back of his head. "Are you crazy? We're taking the biggest test of our lives in one week and you want to take a break?!"
"Sure." James said, grinning at her. "Oh, come on!" He turned back to the others. "Let's do something else other than study! We've been studying for months!"
"Amen!" Sirius shot in.
"Let's play Truth or Dare!" Helen suggested happily, having caught the last bit of their conversation as she walked through the portrait hole.
Faylinn set her book down gently on her lap. "Helen." She said slowly but sternly.
Helen sat down on the couch next to Faylinn, leaving a good foot or two between herself and the pink-haired girl. "Sure! Come on, you guys! It'll be fun! I'll go first!"
"Helen. Helen!" Faylinn repeated. "Do you value your life? Yeah...? Then LEAVE!"
"A fun game of Truth or Dare doesn't actually sound so bad." Lily piped up. She shrugged when Faylinn glared at her. "Well, maybe not dare. Come on, Faylinn. It'll be fun." She nodded at Helen. "Go ahead, Helen. Start us up."
Faylinn promptly shook her head. "No. I'm not playing. I'm studying. I swear on my ears that I will not end up with some cruddy job for the rest of my life. Like, selling chocolate or something. I mean – chocolate?" She looked expectantly at Remus.
Remus peered at her over his textbook. "I'm all out." He said.
There was a small pause. "You're all out of chocolate?!" Peter exclaimed. "How did that happen?! You had a good four bags yesterday afternoon! You can't have eaten them all by now!"
"Well, I have." Remus said before turning back to his book.
"Whatever." Helen said, turning to Faylinn. "Faylinn Tatum! Truth or dare?"
"I'm not playing!" Faylinn practically shouted. "Ask someone else you idiot!"
"Oh, okay." Helen shrugged. "Lily, truth or dare?"
"Truth." Lily said, shutting her book and leaning forward.
"Oh, um." Helen said, scratching her head. "I can't think of anything to ask."
"Do you love James?" Peter asked, since Helen seemed unfit to utter a worthy question.
Lily blinked. "Yeah."
"Okay, then. That was not only boring, it was old news." Faylinn said to Helen. "You're done now? Oh, that's great! Buh-bye!" She turned the page of her book so fast that it tore in half.
Helen shook her head. "Lily, it's your turn. Ask someone."
"Oh, okay." Lily said. "Um… Peter! Truth or dare, Peter?"
"Mmm…" He thought for a moment. "Truth." He said, ignoring Sirius's protest of "boring!"
"Oh, okay." Lily said. "What's a good question… Oh, yeah. What's your favorite color?"
"No, no, no!" Faylinn exclaimed, just as Peter was about to say "green."
"What?" Lily asked Faylinn.
"That is NOT how you play truth or dare!" Faylinn supplied. "I mean, who cares what his favorite color is?! No offense Peter."
"Oh, that's alright." Peter said.
"But what do you care?" Helen asked the pinkheaded girl. "You're not playing."
"Merlin's trousers!" Faylinn cried. "You're actually right about something! I'm not playing." She lifted her book back up.
"I'll take Peter's turn, then." James offered. "So… Sirius!"
"James." Sirius said seriously, causing Remus to roll his eyes while Lily laughed and Faylinn flipped another page in her book, unaffected by the people around her.
"Truth or dare?" James asked ominously.
"Dare." Sirius half-whispered.
James grinned and stood up, walking over to Sirius and whispering in his ear. After a few moments, he walked away and sat back down in front of Lily on the floor.
"Will do." Sirius with a nod of his head before turning his attentions back to the chess game.
Helen looked around, a look of bewilderment on her face. "So, what is he supposed to do? Be silent for the rest of the night?"
"Oh, let's hope so." Faylinn breathed at the same time that Sirius said, "No."
"Just wait." James said. "Let's move on, though. I'll take Sirius's turn as well, I think."
Lily laughed. "Okay. Go on, then, Mr. I-can't-let-anyone-else-have-a-turn."
"Right!" James said with a grin. "So, Faylinn –"
"Honestly!" Faylinn raged. "Are you people deaf as well as stupid?! I'm not playing!"
"Okay, then," James began, but paused when he was interrupted by Remus suddenly laughing outright very loudly.
Everyone in the room turned to him. "What do you find so amusing, Moony?" Sirius asked.
Remus stopped smiling and picked his book back up so fast that it almost hit him in the face. "Nothing." He mumbled. "Um, something I read."
"Alchemy for the Genius's Soul?" Peter asked and Remus nodded, not looking up from his book.
"I think Remus is haunted." Faylinn spoke up.
"What are you talking about?!" James exclaimed.
"Do you mean you think he has issues? Or do you think he's haunted? Like, a ghost thing?" Lily asked Faylinn, smirking.
"A ghost thing." Faylinn replied, setting her book down on her lap.
"I am not haunted." Remus said at the same time that Lily rolled her eyes at Faylinn and said, "You are so never watching TV again."
"I'm serious!" Faylinn protested. "Okay, listen! A lot of weird things keep happening around Remus! Like, the other day when we all caught him throwing a bunch of chocolate around the room? Yeah, weird! And a few weeks ago, I was walking with him to Potions and he just fell over. He FELL OVER. But it was so weird! Like, he was just standing there, and then he stumbled and bit and fell over onto his side! It was unreal! I thought maybe he had a heart attack or something!"
"You worry too much." James said, rolling his eyes.
"Exactly." Remus said, chuckling. "I'm fine, Faylinn. And you really aren't one to talk about tripping over your own feet."
"But it wasn't a tripping-over-your-own-feet thing!" Faylinn cried, looking around, desperate for someone to believe her. "It was, like, a weird I'm-falling-over-in-a-freaky-way thing!"
"You're insane." James muttered.
"I'm not crazy!" Faylinn denied. "You guys have to believe me! Remus could be in DANGER!"
"How could he be in danger?" Peter asked, interested by her insistent protests.
"Because." Faylinn said, looking slightly smug that someone was listening to her. "He could be possessed! Or maybe someone hexed him or something, so now he's doing all these WEIRD things! Or there's the 'haunted' thing!"
"Faylinn," Remus said slowly, as though he was speaking to a child. "I am not in danger."
"Oh whatever." Faylinn snapped, getting upset that no one was listening to her – Lily, Sirius, James, and Peter had all shrugged, exchanged looks, and turned back to what they had been doing a few moments before.
"Okay, anyway." Helen said giddily.
"GAH!" Faylinn exclaimed, moving to pounce on the curly-blondeheaded girl next to her before Sirius started laughing and picked her up off the couch, carrying her towards the boys' staircase.
"GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" She shouted as he threw her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. "SIRIUS!!"
"Going to shag, are you?" James called after them, receiving a well-deserved smack in the back of the head from Lily while the rest of the Gryffindors in the room laughed heartily.
"Sirius!" Faylinn giggled as he threw her down on his bed. "I have to study!"
"Merlin, you're heavy, Fay!" Sirius heaved, stretching his arms in the air and making a move towards his trunk.
Faylinn threw a pillow at the back of his head. "I am NOT! You're just weak! You weakling! Weakling, weakling!"
"Oh, stop whining, Tatum." He laughed, taking a seat on the edge of the bed, a small box in his hand. "Sit up." He said, smirking. "I didn't bring you up here to ravish your gorgeous little body."
Faylinn promptly moved to a sitting position. "Oh, like you would." She teased, poking his arm. "What's that you've got there? Did you buy those thingies for Baby like I asked you? They better not be the same as last! He couldn't sleep! It was all squawkity-squawk or whatever that awful noise is that he makes. Ask Lily. It kept us up ALL night last Tuesday. I would've killed him but then he finally shut up and got all cuddly in that cute little way. You know how he does that! Oh, yeah! Did I tell you? Okay, the other day, I was all just getting back from the bathroom and all, you know, fully prepared to go to bed. And then he flies down from the little perch-thing I put near the ceiling for him? You know, so he can hang upside down? Although he really doesn't use it that much. He usually just cuddles with whatever he can find. You know – my hand, my face, my ear, behind Lily's knee for some reason which totally freaks her out by the way, my pillow –"
"First of all!" Sirius interrupted. "I still can't believe you named that bat 'Baby.' And second, you're babbling again."
Faylinn shrugged. "Whatever. Anyway, what was I saying? Okay, so, yeah. I just got in from the bathroom, right? And so he flies down –"
"Faylinn." Sirius chortled. "Come on, shut up already."
"Oh, right. Fine, oh-bossy-one." She rolled her eyes.
"Good." He grinned and held the small cardboard box in his hand up. "Want to see what's inside, love?"
"It better be bat food." Faylinn replied.
"It's not bat food. I forgot to buy bat food."
"SIRIUS!"
"Kidding, kidding!" He laughed. "It should be in your room, though. I gave it to Lily last night. She was still up when Peter and I got back from our emergency-run."
"It was an emergency." Faylinn assured him. "He only had enough of the good stuff to last 'till tomorrow. What if I had forgotten to remind you? He could've STARVED!" Her eyes widened. "Holy Merlin in pink knickers! Sirius, Sirius! What if…" She lowered her voice. "What if he dies?"
"Ooh, here we go." Sirius mumbled, bringing his hand to his forehead. "Faylinn, listen. Baby is not going to die. If he does, it will be from too much attention and, Merlin knows, being too healthy."
"Oh no!" Faylinn cried. "Can you die from that?! Oh no! Where's Baby? Ohmigod, I need to hold him!" She paused. "But, maybe I shouldn't go near him, you know? He could DIE! Oh, but SIRIUS! I wanna be with him before he dies!!"
"Woman! He is not going to die!" Sirius said, shaking her by her shoulders gently.
"Are you sure?" She asked with a sniffle.
"I'm sure!"
"Okay."
He chuckled. "This is weird now."
"What's weird now?" She asked, her brow furrowed.
Sirius shrugged. "Oh, nothing." He sighed and lifted the box towards her face. "Open up."
"You want me to eat a cardboard box? Have you gone mad?" She whispered.
"What? No! Open the box!" He laughed.
"Oh." She said and slowly did as she was told. A few moments later, she looked down at the opened box and up at him. "Um. I don't get it."
"It's a ring, Fay." He said slowly. "You put it on your finger and wear it. Sounds cool, huh? Don't you want to try? All the other kids are doing it."
Faylinn smirked at him. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. But why? Is it for me?"
"Yeah…"
"But why?" She frowned. "You never get me anything for no reason. In fact, you never get me anything at all. For any reason. You didn't even get me anything for my birthday back in January."
"I wasn't exactly talking to you in January." Sirius countered. "And I got you Baby, didn't I? You can't say I don't get you anything."
"You still didn't get me anything for my birthday back in January." She repeated, unnerved.
"Faylinn!"
"Okay, okay. Why'd you get me a ring-thing?"
He shrugged. "A few reasons. One being, I wanted to." He moved next to her and lied down on his back, his head on his pillow.
Faylinn sat next to him still. "Okay, that sounds good." She grinned at him. "But what else?"
"You like amethysts." He supplied.
She looked back down at the box. "You mean the pebble? Oh, right! I forgot! Wow, that seems like ages ago! Do you remember that one Transfiguration class?"
"No." He said sarcastically. "Really, Fay. I have no idea what you're talking about. But I just miraculously remembered that you like amethysts. Wow. How weird is that?"
"Gah, I kept calling it a pebble." She said, ignoring him. "How embarrassing! Gah!"
"I thought it was funny." He responded. "When it turned out to be a gemstone, I mean."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." She rolled her eyes. "So… That's all? No other reason for you to give me a ring for no reason is it?" She froze. "It's not our anniversary-thing or anything, is it? Ohmigod, if it is, I totally forgot! Sirius, I'm so sorry! It's the N.E.W.Ts, I swear! I'm going to, like, die or something!"
"You're not going to die." He said with a wave of his hand. "And it's not our anniversary or anything, don't have a nervous breakdown."
"Whew!" She ran her hands through her hair. "Wow, that is SUCH a relief, you have, like, no idea!" She glanced down at him. "Okay, so what else?"
"Well," he began. "Prongs dared me to."
"What?! He dared you to buy me a ring and then give it to me and say you wanted to and that you remembered I liked amethysts?! How does he even know I like amethysts, huh?! What the –"
"No!" Sirius objected. "He dared me to 'give it to her already.' That's what he said earlier, down in the common room. He knew I had it. I've had it for about a week or so."
"Oh." She said, nodding. "So… Why didn't you give it to me then?"
He shrugged. "I was nervous, I guess."
Faylinn laughed. "Nervous? Why?"
"I don't know!" He said, finding her laugh contagious. "I'm always a bit nervous around you."
"Aw, you're such a…" She trailed off, looking for the right word.
"Romantic?" He filled in slyly.
"No, nerd."
"HEY!"
Faylinn giggled and pulled the ring out of the box finally, holding it in her hand for a moment. The dark purple amethyst shined in what little light –and there wasn't much– shined in the room. Something glittered in the small gold circle beneath the gem caught her eye. She squinted to read a tiny inscription on the inside of the band. "Padfoot & Fay Forever" it read.
Her breath caught in her throat and she let out a small squeak of an "Aw!" while Sirius watched her whole reaction from next to her. He snorted to hold back his laughter.
"Wow, Sirius!" She exclaimed, leaning down near him. "I love you!"
"I know." He grinned and his eyes danced before he added, "Oh, yeah, and I love you, too, you know."
"Yeah, I know." She said sarcastically, grinning as well.
She snuggled down next to him, her head on his shoulder and she held the ring up above them. "Do I put it on?" She asked him.
"No, you put it back in the box and feed it to Baby the next time you're in the mood to kill him." He replied.
"Okay, so I put it on!" She laughed and slid it on the ring finger of her left hand. She hugged his chest and let out a long sigh. "You're comfy." She murmured after awhile.
"Yeah, we should do this more often." He suggested.
Faylinn giggled. "We've already talked about this, you know."
He sighed. "Have we?"
"Yes. No sex. You agreed." She lifted her head and looked at him. "It's not like I said 'no kissing' or something, jeez."
"Well, yeah!" He exclaimed. "But still!"
"Still." She repeated. "No. I don't want to right now. I'm not ready."
"I am." He said, raising his eyebrows suggestively.
She laughed and rested her head back into the crook of his arm. "You said you could wait, Sirius."
"I can." He said defensively. "But that doesn't mean I'll do it quietly! I mean, we're talking about you, Faylinn. Naked. I'm not going to say that I don't really want to –"
"Ah, no!" She interrupted. "Don't go off into one of your little fantasies again! I can't believe you told me that one about the pumpkins! That was so weird! I am never doing that!"
"Oh, come on. You know it sounded like a lot of fun."
"Um, no… It sounded like… crazy…"
"I know a few people who didn't think it was so crazy."
"Must I remind you that, like, most of your ex-girlfriends are crazy?" She peered at him again. "Like, really crazy. I'm dead serious."
"You're not dead. Stop telling me you're dead." He joked and she rolled her eyes. "I made out with Helen." He said suddenly.
Faylinn's eyes widened. "YOU DID WHAT?!"
"Um." He replied.
"YOU DID WHAT?!" She repeated.
"It was awhile ago!" He protested. "Like, MONTHS ago! While, I was, um, dating Gabrielle."
"Ugh. You're not only a pig. You're a cheating pig." She hit him hard in the stomach.
"Ow! No, no, no!" He cried. "I never told you because I know you hate her! It's just – I was – It was – It didn't mean anything!"
"When did it happen?" She asked slowly, sitting up.
"Like I said, a few months ago."
"Before or after February?" She asked, remembering that he had broken up with Gabrielle just a few days before Valentines Day.
"During." He said.
"WHAT?!" She exclaimed. "What are you talking about?! Sirius, that's – that's- that's DISGUSTING, that's what that is!"
"No!" He exclaimed, then cowered under her glare. "Okay, yes, it was disgusting, but – okay – I- she –" He paused. "I was really depressed!"
"So you made out with a – a – an ENEMY?!"
He rolled his eyes. "I was upset, Fay! Listen! I was upset over you, right? I told you already. All I could think about was you! I was loitering around in the library, one day, trying to be alone. Oh come on, don't look at me like that! I know where the library is! Anyway, I was sitting down against a wall by the Muggle Studies section, and you know how no one ever really goes in the Muggle Studies section. And then she comes up and - what do you know? – goes to get a book on Muggles! So, she saw me there and She was all, 'Sirius, what are you doing?' And, I don't know, Fay! I was feeling pretty vulnerable, you know! So I told her everything! Well, not everything. Just that I was madly in love with you but I couldn't be with you and all that."
"Wait!" Faylinn held up her hand. "You told her before you made out with her? And she still made out with you? What is she, mentally unstable?!"
"Let me finish." He pleaded. "So, I told her and then she got started on how you're rather funny, but not very nice and – Don't make that face! It's not like I was agreeing with her! Anyway, you know I used to date her, right? It was a long time ago. In second year, actually, when I started to pick up the whole dating thing again. I gave it up for awhile when I was eight, you know. Too much pressure. Anyway, I was thinking about that and then BAM! Making out with Helen."
"Ew."
"Yeah, I don't know what got into me. I was so horrified with myself. And I'm not just saying that to make you feel better, really."
She rubbed the amethyst on her finger. "Ugh. Why are you telling me this, anyway?"
"I told you. I want you to know everything." He said, pulling her down to lay beside him again. She protested but settled in his arms a few moments later.
"I think she was going to tell Lily and me." She said suddenly.
"What? I made her promise not to tell anyone! She said she wouldn't!"
Faylinn shook her head and patted his chest, feeling his muscles move under his shirt. "I know. She said something about gossip, and then she said it was about you. But then she said it was a secret and she couldn't tell anyone."
Sirius chucked. "I am delighting in the thought that that drove you crazy."
She giggled. "It did! I was so mad at her for bringing it up and then not saying anything about it! I guess I forgot after awhile, though."
"Is that why you hate her so much?" He asked.
She shook her head. "I don't think I hate her. I don't really hate anyone. Well, I like to think I don't really hate anyone, I'm not sure if I do. Anyway, I didn't like her for awhile, since she was pretty rude to me when I first came here. But then I found out that you two used to date – don't laugh! Lily told me. She told me the names of EVERYONE you used to date – and I resented her even more."
"Hah! Why?"
"'Cause I thought she got to kiss you." She said. "And then Lily told me that it was in your second year and that it was probably unlikely that you two kissed at all, and I didn't hate her so much." She paused. "And then Lily remembered that we were talking about YOU, and so she pointed out that you two had, yeah, probably snogged the life out of each other."
"Are you jealous?" He teased.
"Well, not anymore. 'Cause I got the guy! Booya." She giggled and he grinned at her.
They lay in silence for a long time until Sirius finally said, "What are you doing after graduation, Fay?"
She shrugged, her eyelids considerably heavy and she had almost dozed off before he spoke. "I don't know. What are you going to do?"
Sirius grinned. "I think I'm going to marry you."
"That'd be cool." She said sleepily and Sirius let out a soft chuckle as he gave her a small squeeze.
"I mean it." He said. "And we could have lots of FaylinnSirius babies and then they could all play with the LilyJames babies. And we could buy this great big house with a tall, tall fence and lots of flowers; I know you like flowers. And we could build this cave for Baby, and maybe get him a girly bat to make bat babies with him, so all our FaylinnSirius babies will have their own bats. You know, we could make a tradition out of it. And for generations and generations our whole family will have BATS. How's that sound? Or do you only want one bat? I'm sure you don't want anyone to be more important than Baby, right?"
Faylinn's breathing had become slower and he almost thought she was sleeping until she murmured, "Sounds cool."
"Good." He said. "I want to name our first child Trixie. I like that name, it's kind of funny. I mean, I figure, I've had to suffer with MY name, our kids can suffer from a horrible name as well. But, well, Trixie isn't so bad. Oh, yeah, but if it's a boy it can just be Trix, which sounds kind of cool, you know? I'll need someone to pass The Map down to. Although he'll have to share with Prong's, Moony's, and Wormtail's boys."
"Right." She mumbled tiredly. "Go to sleep."
"Right." He agreed. "Oh, you're staying in here? Good, 'cause I'm really comfortable. Hey, you think of a name for our fourth son, okay? I can't think of any other names. But I'm all set for the girls until about the sixteenth. How's Keelty for the seventeenth? That's your mom's name, but you already knew that. Oh, I know a name for the fourth boy! He'll be Albus, 'cause I think Dumbledore's cool, even if he is a bit nutty…" And he continued to drone on for a few more hours.
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::AN:: Collective "aw!"s anyone? (lol)
Sorry the beginning was so boring, and WOW, this is a long chapter! ELEVEN pages on Microsoft Word! (gasps at page-number-thingy for the zillionth time) Anyways, I hope you like this chappie and please review! THERE IS ONE MORE CHAPTER LEFT AND THEN THIS PREQUEL IS OVER AND I AM MOVING ON TO BIGGER COD (i.e., fish). (I hope you guys stay with me for my upcoming fic, though! And for when I rewrite (yes, it's going to happen someday) IADOHYFB. Maybe I should change the title in the process, lol.)
Also, I just discovered a new fanfic writer that you guys should TOTALLY check out! I actually discovered her by reading one of her older fics, but it is SO GOOD. I love it, and I'm going to finish reading it (I think I'm only on chapter five or so, lol) right after I upload this fic, which will actually be tomorrow morning (muahaha), as it's 3:04 am. (Well, I guess it'll still be TODAY but you know what I mean). So, anyway, her penname or whatever is BeautifulDisaster2007, so check her out.
Oh, and sorry for the delay, I'm like WAY lazy lately. I think I feel a surf-wave coming on. And it's red, so that tells you something. (Or, er, not?) lol, please review! (yay)