Fandom: Harry Potter, MWPP era
Title: Moonlight and Starlight
Author: yaoiiswowie21
Rating: PG
Summary: To tame the wolf you must marry him. Remus/Sirius
A/N: I've had this title and quote sitting around for some time, it only just occurred to me how I could fit them together.

Moonlight and Starlight

To tame the wolf you must marry him

- French proverb

Chapter One
Would You Marry Me?

The marauders stood on the platform that where the Hogwarts Express was stationed, waiting for the students to board. The four students in question were staring up at the faraway looking castle of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They were all quiet, reminiscing silently to themselves. Seven years of pranks and fooling around and friends were going to be gone the moment they stepped onto the train. The school was never going to see the mischievous group of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, or Prongs ever again.

"Well, I guess we better get going then," James finally said, breaking the silence. "We don't want to miss the train out of here. That would be a great way to end the year, eh?"

Peter nodded and turned away from the magnificent castle, heading onto the train, dragging his trunk behind him. James followed, Lily taking his arm as he got on the train and patting his shoulder comfortingly.

Sirius looked over at Remus, who was still gazing raptly at the old stone building. "Remy?"

"Hm?" Remus started, as if just realizing he wasn't alone. "Oh, Sirius. Sorry. I was just...thinking. This castle has been my home for so long; I'm going to miss it. I take it you're going to move in with James's family? Or are you getting your own flat?"

"Er, well — "

But Remus was still going on, not waiting for an answer. "I myself will probably get my own place. I can't burden my parents any longer, and all. I just don't know what I'm going to do about the full moon..."

"Remus, I — "

"Perhaps get a job studying magical creatures somewhere; obviously a place that isn't very important, so everyone doesn't have to go through all that paperwork — "

"Remus, stop babbling!" Sirius shouted, interrupting the werewolf's tedious monologue. "My gosh, you just never stop, do you?"

Remus blushed. "Sorry, I know you've told me about that, but I can't seem to stop — "

It was Sirius's turn to cut his friend off. "Look, Remus. Calm down a bit, okay? I'm having a very nasty and complicated fight with my conscience. Your background noise is not appreciated."

"Why?" Remus looked worried. "What did you do?"

"What am I about to do?" Sirius corrected. He took a deep breath, and dropped down onto one knee. Remus's breath caught in his throat. "I've been thinking about this for the past, I don't know, month or so, ever since James said he was going to drop the question to Lily."

As if on cue, a loud, excited squeal sounded from the train, followed by high pitched shrieks of "Yes yes yes!" Sirius laughed nervously.

"Anyway, what I'm trying to say here is, um..." he fumbled anxiously with something in his jacket pocket, "if you wanted to, you know, get a flat together and stuff...I would uh... Would you marry me?" He took his hand out of his pocket and extracted a long black box. "Er, I figured you wouldn't want to go around wearing an enormous engagement ring on your finger, so..."

Sirius opened the box, revealing a small gold ring with an dark blue colored stone set in it attached to a thin gold chain. "No silver here," Sirius grinned lopsidedly.

Remus was speechless. He stared unblinkingly at the proffered ring and proposal. Sirius started to get uneasy.

"Look, if you don't want to, I understand. I mean, we've only been going out for two years and your parents might not approve — "

"Just shut up and kiss me," Remus said throatily, pulling Sirius to his feet by his collar and pressing his lips to his friend's.

"That's a yes then?" Sirius mumbled happily when they broke apart.

"Of course, Pads," Remus replied, taking the black box, closing it, and slipping it into his pocket. "But now we'd better get on the train. McGonagall's yelling at us."

They both snuck glances back at the other side of the platform as they hurried across it, laughing at McGonagall's shaking finger and scowl.

"I guess that's the last time she'll ever get to scold us," Sirius said dreamily, still clasping Remus's hand elatedly, dragging his trunk behind him with his other. Remus followed the dog animagus down the aisle, struggling with his own trunk as it was pulled along behind him. They found the compartment already occupied by James and Peter and went inside and settled down.

James noticed their spacey expressions and grinned. "You propose too?"

"Yeah," Sirius replied. "I take it everything went well with Lily? We heard her shrieks out on the platform."

James nodded, grin, if possible, widening. "Oh yeah. Well, let's see it then."

"See what?" asked Remus and Sirius simultaneously.

"The ring. Or what's supposed to stand for the ring." James raised an eyebrow. "You did get him one, right?"

"Of course I did!" Sirius huffed exorbitantly. "I know my traditions, even if I don't follow half of them."

"So, where is it? I showed you the ring I got for Lily," James urged Remus.

Savoringly, he took out the black case and opened, showing the compartment the ringed necklace.

James whistled. "Sapphire?" he inquired.

"Yep," Sirius nodded. "I knew Remy didn't like diamonds. Right?" He looked uncertainly at his new fiancé. "You do like it? I wasn't quite sure..."

"I love it," Remus smiled, unhooking the clasp and fastening it around his neck.

James turned to Peter. "Well, Pete, guess you're the only one left out now. Better go find yourself a girl and marry her." He chuckled.

Peter looked slightly miffed. "I'll have you know," he pouted, "me and Lucy are doing very good at the moment with all the troubles of marriage, thank you very much."

"Very well, Peter," Remus corrected.

"What?"

"Never mind."

James was positively glowing. "I'll bet." His smile lessened a bit. "Don't you need to, um, do paperwork at the Registry?" he asked Remus tentatively.

Remus's smile disappeared as he remembered this.

"Aw, now look what you've done!" Sirius frowned. "You know Remus hates the Registry!"

"It's all right," Remus shook his head. "We have time, right? I don't have to go to the Werewolf Registry until we plan out the wedding and everything. I just need their approval. That's not bad, right?"

Peter and James exchanged glances.

"But don't you need to get your graduation papers authenticated there?" James inquired.

Remus's scowl deepened. He had forgotten that too.

"Smooth, Jimmy-boy. Just when everything was going swell," Sirius rolled his eyes. "You have a talent for it."

"I'm sorry, okay? And don't call me Jimmy-boy."

"Why? Jimmy-boy," Sirius added as an afterthought.

"You know what? I'm not going to argue. This is supposed to be a good day! Let's just forget about all this and remember — we've graduated Hogwarts! The majority of us are going to be married! It's all good, you know?"

Peter nodded. "Yep. We can all move out, get our own places, have parties. Though, I'm going to be staying with my mom, you know how she needs help taking care of Milly and Beck."

"Man Peter, that must suck," Sirius shook his head.

"Naw, you know I don't mind. Are you getting a place with Lily?" Peter asked James.

"Probably. We can't impose on our parents anymore, you know?" James answered.

"But your house is huge!" Sirius exclaimed. "You could probably cut the house in half and have enough room for you and your parents."

"Yeah, but that's no fun, is it?" James laughed. "What about you two?"

Remus shrugged. "Our own flat would be nice, but you all know I'm sort of economically challenged."

"Oh, come on," Sirius put an arm around Remus's shoulders. "With my parents cash we can buy ourselves our own mansion!"

"I thought you didn't get the money until they died."

"True..."

"And you said you were saving your own cash for that flying motorbike."

"...Also true..."

"So we'll see," Remus concluded. "Do you know how much money and planning go into a wedding?"

"That's muggle weddings!" Sirius scoffed.

"Yeah, a wizard wedding will probably be a lot more trouble," Peter injected helpfully.

"Thanks, Pete," James groaned.

"You know, there's still the problem of telling our parents," Remus pointed out. "I'm guessing you didn't tell your family you were proposing to me, the half-blood werewolf?"

"Nope," said Sirius proudly.

"Oh joy..."

To Be Continued...

I have no idea where this is going... Don't expect a speedy next update, however, since I am going to be on vacation down in Alabama for the next week or so. Oh yippie skippie. Comments and critizism appreciated.