A.N: Okay here's the next chapter, I know it took a while and I admit it aint great but I had really bad writers block, I think that it has finally lifted.

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Chapter 6: In The Club.

"Holy Hell!" Sirius exclaimed as he collapsed onto the coach. "I'm hurting in muscles I didn't even know existed."

"No need to be dramatic Padfoot."

"Kill me. Kill me now."

"You big baby." James sighed

"I just want to go to bed a pray that tomorrow never comes."

"How can you say that? That was the most amazing day. I mean, I knew Auror training was gonna be amazing but that was just…" James was lost for words.

"Anyway," James said picking up his train of thought, "you can't go to bed; we're all going to Aces tonight as a celebration of our first day. We have to be there at nine."

"Oh great just what I need. I'm completely exhausted and I have to go out to a club have a load of drinks, flirt and dance with the talent while they whisper in my ear about us going somewhere more 'private'."

Sirius contemplated this for a moment.

"I'll just go take a shower."

Aces was a really amazing club. I had only been open for a short while but already it was fast becoming the most popular place for the Wizarding Worlds youth to go. It had amazing music a great dance floor a bar that had every drink a young witch or wizard could want.

"Hey beautiful, four…tell you what give us eight firewhiskys for my corrupted friends and myself."

The pretty barmaid smiled at Sirius and then set about preparing the drinks.

"Aw guys you should of seen him. Williamson's been making an example of him all day so when Sirius finally gets her on the ground he starts getting a bit cocky, before he even knows what's happening Lawson grabs him around the neck and flips him over. She's straddling him and whispers to him that if he doesn't keep in line she's gonna make good on her promise."

Sirius scowled at James as he sat down in at the table in the corner of the club that the Marauders where currently sitting at.

"I assume you corrupted souls are talking about my hellish day at training with coffee."

"Damn right we are Padfoot. I was just telling these young fellows," he gestured towards Remus and Peter who were still laughing at James' story, "about your encounter or shall we shall from now on be referring to as your 'Total humiliation' at the hands of Williamson and as you call her 'coffee'."

"Why do you call her coffee Padfoot?" Peter asked.

"Oh that's another good on." James interrupted.

"I spilt coffee on her in the cafeteria. She got soaked with the stuff."

"Then she screamed," James continued, not happy with the way Sirius had told the story, "YOU DAFT TOSSER, the entire café looked at him, then she pushes him into this table he nearly rolled right over the thing."

"Okay Prongs now your exaggerating. Drink up lads."

They downed their drinks and then Remus asked,

"Just out of curiosity, what was the promise?"

"Huh?"

"When she flipped you she said that she would make good on her promise; what was it?"

Sirius paled at the memory.

"Oh she erm… well it was no big deal… oh screw it. She said that if I didn't start work she was going to castrate me."

Peter spat his drink out, James burst out laughing and Remus tried to stifle his laughter but failed miserably and was quickly roaring with laughter. Sirius looked angry for a second but then his anger melted away, he knew that if all of that had happened to James that he would be acting the same way, he began to laugh as well.

Their laughing continued for a while but they were interrupted by the arrival of three girls.

"Hey guys. What's so funny?"

"Lily hey." James jumped up and enveloped his girlfriend in a big hug before breaking it to kiss her soundly on the lips.

Lily was finally allowed to sit down and she squeezed in besides James. Melanie went to the other side of the table and was kissed by Remus but he pulled away quickly and looked questionably at the other girl who was standing at the table smiling nervously.

"This is Belinda. She works with me at the Daily Prophet. Her boyfriend bailed on her for tonight so I invited her to join us. Is that ok?" Mel said smiling sweetly at Remus.

"Yeah of course it is. Sit down Belinda."

She smiled again, a slightly more confident smile and sat down.

"So guys," Lily said looking between her boyfriend and Sirius, "How was your first day as Auror Trainees?"

"Lily it was absolutely amazing." James said enthusiastically, "Williamson he's a bit of a tough nut to crack and certainly doesn't mince his words but he definitely knows what he's talking about."

Lily smiled at James and then turned to Sirius, "What about you Sirius did you have fun?"

"Huh?" Sirius said. He hadn't been paying any attention to what Lily had been saying.

"Lily was just asking you if you had a good first day Padfoot." Remus said.

"Oh yeah, thanks Lily it was great." He smiled a big smile at her before speaking again. "I'll go get the next round, what are you ladies having?"

James cut across him. "You got the last round Padfoot. I'll get these." He moved to stand up but Sirius insisted.

"No Prongs really it fine, you get the next one. Ladies?"

"Redcurrent Rum for me please Sirius," said Lily.

"Cherry Syrup with ice," said Melanie

When Belinda didn't place an order Sirius asked her what she wanted, she looked quite surprised at being addressed and then said quietly, "Gillywater please."

"Right so that's; Cherry syrup with ice, Gillywater better make it a large one to get this girl out of her shell, a Redcurrent Rum and another round of Firewhisky. Okay?" No-one objected, "Great."

As Sirius made his way over to the bar Melanie asked,

"What where you guys laughing about when we came in?"

The guys began laughing again and Remus finally answered, "Oh we were just talking about Padfoot getting castrated."

The girls faces looked between shocked, confused and amused so they recounted the story of Sirius' new found friendship with 'coffee'.

After telling the story James whispered in Lily's ear,

"Let's dance."

An hour later James and Lily were still dancing, Peter and Belinda were dancing, and Sirius was flirting with a girl at the bar. This left Remus and his girlfriend alone at the table. He was trying desperately hard to seem interested in what she was giggling about.

"So then the mail girl says, 'It's not supposed to go into the in-tray.' She was so annoyed," Mel started giggling even more, "Of course she laughed about it later."

Remus forced a smile on his face. It's going to be a long night.

A slower song came over the dance floor and James clutched Lily even closer to himself.

"So you had a good first day today then?" she asked.

"Definitely," he began moving to the music. "Being an Auror is something I have always wanted to be and now," he paused, "I'm on my way."

"Well I'm very proud of you James."

He blushed slightly. Thankfully in the dim lights of the club Lily couldn't tell.

"Oh by the way," he spoke finally remembering the letter he had received before leaving the flat, "my parents want you to come to Sunday lunch this week."

Lily stiffened.

"What? What do you mean they want me to come to lunch?"

"Well-" but James couldn't speak before Lily spoke again.

"What would I say? I've only met them once before, what would we talk about?"

"Lil, you'll be great they are going to love you."

Lily relaxed slightly and started getting back into the rhythm of the music.

"So lunch?" James asked.

"Lunch."

"Remus dance with me."

Remus didn't really care to dance but…

"Yeah, come on," he downed the remainder of his drink, grabbed her hand and then led her onto the dance floor.

It was quite a fast paced song that came on and they danced accordingly but Remus just couldn't get into it at all.

Remus liked Melanie, he did she was a really nice girl, smart, pretty but he just didn't feel it. He didn't wait anxiously for her to arrive unlike James did while waiting for Lily, he didn't feel sad if he went a few days without seeing her, he just didn't feel it.

Another song came on but Mel said she had to go to the ladies room so she stood on her tip-toes and kissed Remus full on the mouth.

He just didn't feel it.

A.N: There ya go. The next chapter will be up in a few days. Please leave a review and let me know what you think.