I also used British spelling, so don't go saying I spelled something wrong! glares at Valanthe
Chapter Six: Home for the holidaysSirius sighed as he watched Remus take notes in History of Magic. God did he miss him. He missed Remus lying in his arms as they watched the fire. James wasn't too pleased either. He missed Lily terribly. She spent her time going over notes with Remus and ignoring James' voice whenever he tried to talk to her.
Remus tried to concentrate on what Professor Binns was saying, really, but Sirius was haunting his thoughts and distracting him. He glanced over at Sirius who was scribbling something on his parchment. Sighing, he returned to his note taking.
Sirius had just finished tracing Remus' initials on the parchment and was decorating it with various things. James was also doodling only with Lily's initials instead.
The detentions that James and Sirius endured were awful. They first hand cleaned the chamber pots in the hospital wing. Then, if it had rained or snowed hard, they were forced to mop up the mud that had trailed behind the students. The worst was probably when they had McGonagall for detention one night and ended up having to clean her whole room, no magic allowed. Thankfully, the detention was soon over and they were free again. Though, they needed to think up of a plan to explain to other Gryffindors why they lost them 100 points in one night.
December rolled in and with it came snow. Students were outside at war with each other, snowballs thrown, and charms placed on them to travel farther would regularly be seen if one had stepped outside. There were also ice skaters on the frozen lake. There were also a few that decided to make snow angels and snow men. Sirius and James were currently at war with snowballs, while Remus and Lily were ice-skating.
"You miss him, don't you?" Remus looked up at Lily to see her sad face.
"Ya. I do. You miss James too don't you," Remus asked sadly.
"I'm sad to admit it, but yes, I miss him... even though, there was really nothing between us at all," Lily quickly added, blushing a small bit. Remus chuckled and followed Lily around the lake.
Sirius had paused throwing snowballs to glance down at the lake to see Remus ice-skating. He was about to speak, when a snowball hit him from the side.
"HEY! I wasn't ready! No cheating James!" James laughed and ducked from an on coming snowball.
"Sorry mate, there are no rules in snowball fights except no rocks or ice!" Sirius gave up on the snowballs and ran head first into James.
"Then that means that tackling is allowed!" Sirius cried happily as he shoved James' face into the snow.
"Alright! You win! You win!" James cried as his face began to grow numb. Sirius smiled triumphantly as he hit James with one last snowball. Sirius smiled and sat in the snow and watched Remus. James joined him.
"Miss him?"
"It's killing me James." James smiled.
"I miss Lily. Somehow, I get the feeling she won't forgive as easily." Sirius patted James on the pack.
"Don't worry mate, she'll come around, hopefully." James glared at him and got up.
"Let's go get some hot cocoa. Those house-elves love serving people," Sirius suggested as he got up. James nodded. With one last look at the lake, he set off for the kitchens.
Lily fell as she turned around to face Remus.
"Ouch! Ya know what? Let's go inside okay? I'm starting to freeze and my arse is gonna be bruised for the next two years!" Remus nodded, holding in his laughter as he helped Lily up.
"Sure, plus, we can get started on the Transfiguration essay as well," Remus replied as the two made their way up to the castle.
"Yeah, then the rest of the weekend will be free!" Lily said, racing up the rest of the way up to the castle. Remus followed just as quickly.
Lily and Remus sat in the Gryffindor common room. They just placed their items in their bags, when they saw James and Sirius enter with mugs of hot cocoa in their hands. The four spotted each other and they stared.
Sirius was the first to move. He walked over to Remus and put his mug down.
"Hello," Remus said softly. Lily got up and walked past James and Sirius. Remus got up to follow Lily, but was stopped when he felt two strong arms embrace him.
"Hey Mooney, you aren't leaving me that quickly!" Sirius said as he pulled him down on the couch.
Remus couldn't help it, he was happy that Sirius stopped him from leaving. He missed him.
"Look Remus, I really need to apologize for my behaviour. I'm sorry that I didn't think about how you would feel when we played that prank. I'm sorry that I didn't take your feelings into account when we did that to Snivellus. Please forgive me, it's been killing me not to talk to you this whole time!" Remus smiled.
"Oh I'll forgive you, on one account, what did his face look like when he saw me?" James laughed and Sirius smiled as he hugged Remus.
"I could die happy knowing I made Snivellus that scared!"
The rest of the week went on more happily with James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter on speaking terms again. The only downfall was that Lily seemed to still be mad at James and was not going to forgive him anytime soon.
"Come on Lily! It's been two bloody weeks already! Just talk to me!" James pleaded as Lily once again ignored him on her way while on their way to charms.
"No James, what you and Sirius did was very dangerous and very wrong! I have every right to be angry with you!" James sighed and walked into the charms room, Sirius and Remus snickering behind him.
"Well, exactly 24 more hours until I can go home!" James said happily. He looked up from his watch to see an unhappy Sirius and a disappointed Remus, followed by an unsure Peter. "What?"
"Well mate, what are we gonna do for Christmas this year?" Sirius asked. James thought for a second before smiling.
"Easy, we can go to my house!" Sirius and Remus looked at each other, then back at James.
"Actually James, Sirius and I were going to go to my house, so that he could spend Christmas with my mother, and me" Remus said slowly.
"Oh," James said sadly, he quickly put a smile back on and turned to Peter, "then it looks like Peter and I shall party alone this year!" Peter nodded.
"Yep, you two can have fun doing...what ever." Sirius nodded as he latched himself onto Remus.
"Oh we'll have fun alright!" Remus laughed and him.
"Don't give him any ideas Wormtail!" Peter laughed with Remus and pretty soon, the rest of the marauders were laughing.
The next day was filled with students packing to go home for the holidays. The marauders had placed their items near the door and were waiting to leave in the Great Hall.
"Now I want this clear you two, don't do anything I wouldn't do!" James said jokingly.
"Tell me, what haven't you done yet James?" Sirius asked slyly.
"Oy! No getting off subject here!" Remus shook his head and turned to see Bellatrix glare at them. Looking rather confused, he turned back around and whispered into Sirius' ear. He looked up to see Bellatrix still staring.
"Oy Bella! Got a staring problem?" Sirius yelled across the hall to her. She glared at him and turned to whisper something in Severus' ear. He smirked and nodded his head, and then turned to smirk at Sirius and Remus.
"Oh shove off you bloody gits!" Sirius turned back to his friends, mumbling about rotten family members and how they all need to burn in hell.
"Sirius, it's okay... don't let them get to you okay?" Remus said holding Sirius' hand. Sirius nodded slowly and counted to ten.
"Yeah, can't let them get to me." James nodded in agreement.
"Oh! Time to go!" Peter said happily.
The marauders boarded the train and began their search for an empty compartment.
"Hey! There's no one in here guys!" Peter yelled down the train.
"Great!"
"Good job Peter!" Peter blushed a little and muttered a 'no problem' as the group piled into the small train compartment.
"My mum says she'd come to pick us up Padfoot," Remus said as he placed his trunk on the carrier above them.
"Wicked! I haven't seen her in ages!"
"My dad said he might be a little late Wormtail," James said as he dug around for a chocolate frog. Peter nodded and pulled out his little friend. He liked to call it Woody.
"I can't believe you named it," Sirius said in a disgusted tone as he watched Peter play with it.
"Why? Don't you name yours?" Peter asked confused. Remus laughed at the two.
"The way you guys carry on like this, someone who doesn't see you will think you are talking about something else." Sirius' eyes widened and he quickly backed away from Peter and Peter started laughing.
"Peter, just put it away okay? Just put the stick away." Peter nodded and replaced the stick in his robes.
The rest of the trip went on painlessly and the friends talked about various activities and complained about the fact that Ravenclaw was most likely to get the quidditch cup at this point.
"Remus!" Remus had just gotten off the train when he felt someone slam into him. He looked down to see auburn hair with light blonde highlights. She looked up and he saw bright brown eyes smiling at him.
"Mum!" Remus said as he hugged her. She was wearing a dark red travelling cloak with a white robe underneath. She stood at five foot five and was only two inches shorter than Remus.
"Hey! Look, Remus' mum!" James said as he ran over to join the hug.
"James! My, you've gotten taller my boy! If you get any taller I might have the urge to strangle you!" James laughed as he gave her a hug.
"You love me too much to kill me Mrs. Lupin!" James said, as he pulled apart. She gave him a mock glare before she turned to Peter.
"You had better be staying out of trouble, or at least attempting to keep the others out of it!" Peter nodded shyly. Lupin's mom then turned to Sirius.
"Oh yes, you are the one going out with my son. You are going to be tortured beyond all belief by myself...you must pass my test if you want to stay with-"
"Give it a rest mum, he might actually take you seriously," Remus said jokingly. Sirius laughed.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Lupin, you don't scare me at all." She laughed at him.
"Now, I hope you two will visit Sirius and Remus on Christmas, you know I always love company." James and Peter nodded.
"Yes, and I'll be more than happy to drag my parents there as well!" James said happily.
"Good, now, we had better be going you two. Until next time?" James nodded. "Good. I shall expect to be woken up by four boys telling me to open my presents before they hex me."
The ride home was interesting for Sirius. He had never been in a car, as Mrs. Lupin called it. They had always flooed to his house.
"Amused?" Remus asked as he watched Sirius look out the window.
"You have no bloody idea mate..." Sirius said with awe as he watched the scenery pass by. Mrs. Lupin laughed at him and pulled into a gravel drive way.
"Well, here we are boys," She said as she got out of walked up to the door. The house was only two floors and looked small on the outside. The outside was brick red and in the summer had flowers planted outside. Sirius watched Remus follow his mom up to the house.
"Lupin!" Remus turned to see a ball of snow grow larger and larger, and then everything went black as it hit him.
"Hey! You aren't allowed to hit the person in the face! It's cheating!" Remus yelled as he also grabbed a ball of snow and threw it back at the attacker.
"Sorry! My aim's a little weak today!" Sirius yelled as he dodged Remus' snowball.
Mrs. Lupin watched them from the window and smiled. She was so happy that Remus had finally found someone, especially someone who didn't mind the fact that her son was a werewolf.
Remus charged at Sirius with a snowball in hand. Sirius smiled and accepted the tackle. The two fell to the ground and began a desperate wrestling match to see who could get the most snow covered. Pretty soon, the wrestling ended with a small kiss which led to another kiss, filled with the passion the two had for each other...
Now, if you all don't mind, I'm going to bed before any of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed, or worse, expelled! Turns and opens door, closes it quickly. Don't ask.... lol, spaz I know your laughing.