DISCLAIMER: This applies to all chapters, I own nothing. It all belongs to the uber-talented Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Long May She Rule.

Hey Everyone. This is my new story that I am trying out. It is about the Mauraders and Friends after Hogwarts as they try to make it in the real world. Mix Work with Pleasure.Deal with the War. And Stay Friends along the Way.

After Hogwarts.

Chapter 1: House-Warming.

"OK mate, last chance."

"In the name of all that is Holy! If you ask me again I'm going to hex you into St Mungos."

James grinned at his friends' response before putting the first box of his stuff into the hallway.

"This is gonna be great Prongs. Not only is this place the perfect size for Maraudering fun but it also has amazing views." Sirius stated, looking out the window at the pretty women in her early twenties who was sitting in a café across the street.

"You say amazing, I say perverted."

Sirius shook off James' reply and continued as if he hadn't spoken, "Another great thing is it's only a 15 minute walk from the Auror Training Centre. That'll come in handy when we start training next month."

"Padfoot, We apparate everywhere."

"Yeah but still, the fact remains it's only a 15 minute walk."

"Yes it is. But we apparate everywhere."

"Yeah I know, but-"

"Sirius shut up or else this could go on for a while."

"Melanie come on, we're already running late as it is." Lily shouted into the bathroom.

"Sorry Lil, but unlike you we don't all have unrestricted leisure time. Some of us have of work for a living, and I only got back from work 20 minutes ago."

"Excuse me working girl but I am entitled to a little leisure time before I have to start Healer Training," Lily shot back.

"Yeah, I agree but come on, Healer training doesn't start until October and it's only August now. You still have five weeks before you have to do anything."

"Six actually."

"Remus, Peter. It's about time you two showed up. It's hardly a house warming if it's just us two." As Remus and Peter apparated into the flat James presented them both with a butterbeer and firewhisky chaser, "Oh and Moony before you ask, Mel isn't here yet. Lily sent an owl saying they were gonna be a little late. Something about your girlfriends' inability to return home on time and have a shower without flooding her bathroom."

As Sirius entered the room he looked like he had already had a fair few firewhiskys to start him off. "Moony, Wormtail. Welcome back to my humble and slightly messy abode."

While the four Marauders sat around having drinks while Sirius started mocking James, "I'm telling you guys you should see the amount of pictures that Prongs has of Lily in his room. It's practically a shrine to her," that Lily and Melanie finally showed up and sat next to their respective boyfriends.

Lily who had sat next to her boyfriend of nine months started criticizing the new roommates about the state of their flat and telling them that they come up with some way of keeping the place tidy otherwise, "It will end up like that excuse of a dorm that you four had at school, you lot could barely find your beds in that mess." To which Sirius supplied with a rather mocking smile," Oh I don't know Evans. You never seemed to have any problems finding James' bed, not if I remember rightly."

Lily who blushed considerably at that merely muttered at him too shut up and quickly accepted another firewhisky chaser before downing it in one.

Melanie who was sitting next to and holding hands with Remus finally stopped laughing and had started talking about her new job, working as a trainee reporter for the Daily Prophet.

"I am telling you guys, this nutty reporter I went out with today she wouldn't know a boundary if it danced in front of her. Her names Rita Skeeter and she has – "

"Wait you mean the Rita Skeeter that was a few years above us in school, blonde, nosy, glasses and too much make – up." James interrupted.

"Yeah her." Melanie took a big gulp of her drink before continuing, "She is still the same, except now, instead of talking about who's snogging who behind the greenhouses, she's lifting the lid on what she referred to as 'The Ground Breaking News That Everyone Needs To Know' in other words her trying to prove that the Goblins of Gringotts have spent the last twenty years siphoning money out of the accounts of the more wealthy faces of our community. Honestly she is a certified nightmare."

By two in the morning Peter had passed out and was now murmuring the English Quidditch Anthem for Last Years World Cup in his sleep, Lily and James had gone upstairs and were 'Occupied' Mel had, like Peter passed out. So this left a heavily drunk Sirius and a slightly less drunk Remus sitting on the floor in the Living Room heatedly debating the difference between Madam Rosemerta's Mulled Mead and the Mulled Mead that Tom the Barman served at The Leaky Cauldron.

"Moony, stop being so stubborn the Mead Rosie serves is so much better, it's stronger for one thing, has a much better edge and lets face it, doesn't corrode your gums like Toms does."

"Well it wouldn't corrode your gums if you didn't insist on swilling it around your gums to make sure that you get all the flavour out of it."

"Moony, be honest your only saying Toms is better because Rosie gives me the glad-eye but doesn't give it to you."

"Padfoot, Madame Rosemerta would give the glad-eye to a goblin if she could see them over the bar, in fact I'm convinced I saw her giving the glad-eye to Snape one time in Hogsmeade last year."

At this declaration Sirius stood up in outrage.

"How dare you blaspheme the noble name and flirty nature of Madame Rosemerta!"

Apparently the mixture of the late hour, irresponsible amount of alcohol, exertion of helping James move in and the head rush he received from standing up so fast took its toll because Sirius promptly passed out.

Ok. There's chapter one leave me a review and let me know what you think.

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