A/n: OMG I UPDATED! haha, i know you all love me because it took like a year to update this. sorry! i was having major writers block with this and i'm finally over it! yay! everyone shout for joy! you should because you all love me and are loyal to me and this story! oh yeah most def.
i'm really sorry for taking so long, i really am. its summer tho and hopefully i'll be able to get up a few chapters before school starts again. READ ON!
Chapter 11
Remus crawled through the grimy hole, trying hard not hit his head on the low ceiling. He finally made it to the house with little injury and plenty of time before the full moon.
Remus surveyed the room around him and was mildly satisfied. The furniture had been repaired and when he opened it, the fridge restocked.
Remus sat down on the slightly worn sofa and pulled his book bag on his lap. He opened the flap and grinned, fingering the little wrapped candies inside.
"This is going to be sweet," Remus laughed. The candies in Remus' bag were just simple Muggle toffee candies. Well, they weren't that simple anymore; Remus had put a charm on the candies that made the eater turn green. It was a semi-advanced charm but Remus managed it…he hoped. With his luck, the headline on tomorrow's newspaper would be 'Mysterious Candy Kills Hundreds of Children'. Oh yeah, he could see it already.
Remus fingered the toffee's suddenly wondering if this was a good idea. He should've tested it on someone. Sirius would have willing eaten any candy. Oh well, it was too late now.
"There's no way the kids will die. It was a simple charm; nothing will go wrong," Remus reassured himself. "Besides, there's no way I'm eating this myself."
At ease with his final decision, Remus took the bag of candy and walked out of the house. Now this was the tricky part, planting the candy without anybody seeing him. Since nobody was suppose to be living in the house and the people thought it was deserted, it would look odd to suddenly see a young boy leave and then reenter the house.
Remus hid behind some bushes around the exterior of the house and looked down the path that leads up to the house. He sat there for minute watching for any sign of movement. When he was finally satisfied that the people in the village really were too scared to come even remotely close to the house, he ventured down the path, still looking for any sign of movement.
After 15 monotonous minutes, Remus finally reached the front gate that led to the Shrieking Shack. Dumbledore really took his time when he built this, Remus thought as he opened the gate slowly. He winced when the gate squeaked very loudly. He glanced around, looking for any movement. When he didn't see any, he slipped between the gates and placed the bag of candy right next to the gate.
Remus was grinning as he closed the gate as quietly as he could and walked back up to the house. Sirius and James would be proud of him. He could be evil when he wanted to, he just never felt like it.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" James asked for the millionth time as Sirius and he slowly walked across the common room. Yes, they were slow walkers. They felt that it gave girls to admire how good looking they were. They were only first years, but even first years have naughty thoughts.
"Yes, James," Sirius sighed, tired of answering the same question over and over again.
"Well then why don't you get it over with?" James demanded, shoving Sirius.
"Because you keep holding me back!" Sirius exclaimed, gesturing toward James clenched fist around Sirius' robes. James laughed and let go. "Thank you. Now I'm going to go over there and break up with Brooke. Are you going to be ok?" Sirius said slowly.
"Yes, yes, I'll be ok," James sighed, pushing Sirius away and flopping down on a couch nearby.
"Sirius? James?" a small voice squeaked.
James and Sirius both turned toward the voice and almost immediately, similar scowls were on their faces.
"What do you want Peter?" James demanded, glaring at Peter. All Sirius could do was look angrily at him.
"I, well, I-I-" Peter stuttered, looking down at the ground. He shifted his weight from foot to foot and wrung his hand together.
"Spit it out Peter," Sirius growled.
"Um, well, I just wanted to say that, um, well-" Peter stammered, becoming more and more nervous.
"Peter," James growled, wishing he would just spit it out.
"I'm sorry," Peter squeaked. He then flinched as if waiting for Sirius or James to hit him.
James and Sirius looked at each other with confused looks. They should have expected Peter to come crawling back eventually but it never actually occurred to them. Identical manic grins appeared on James and Sirius' faces.
"You're sorry you say?" Sirius questioned.
"Why should we forgive you?" James asked. They both had grins on their faces but Peter was too busy staring at his shoes to notice.
"I, well, please?" Peter finally glanced up with a hopeful look on his face. His look quickly changed to confusion when he saw the grins on James and Sirius' faces.
"We should have expected you to come running back," James said, still smiling. "You're bravery just came at the wrong time," James said, referring to the time when Peter had called Brooke a Mudblood.
"What?" Peter asked, obviously confused.
"Peter, no offense, but you're a wimp. You can't last in this school without us," James confessed. Peter only shrugged, agreeing with him. "Of course after what you said," James continued, glancing at Sirius who as busy picking invisible lint off of his robes, refusing to look at Peter, "You're going to somehow compensate for the damages done to poor Brooke and Sirius. I hope you realize that."
At these words, a look of fear passed over Peter's face but was quickly replaced with a guilty look. "All right," he agreed.
"Great!" James said, clapping his hands. "Now, Sirius forgive Peter."
Sirius glared at James but finally relented. "You're forgiven," he muttered, crossing his arms.
"Great!" James exclaimed again. "Now, we are never to speak about this again. We are all friends again. We have been friends forever and nothing will ever come between us again, not even girls."
"Unless it's Lily," Sirius joked.
"Nope, not even Lily will come between us," James said confidently.
"Wow, that's a shocker," Sirius laughed.
"So, where's Remus?" Peter asked tentatively, still nervous that James and Sirius were so forgiving.
"His grandmother died," James said simply.
"That stinks that he can't be here on Halloween," Peter replied.
"I'm a genius!" Sirius suddenly exclaimed. The common room suddenly became very quiet and looked over at Sirius, James, and Peter.
"He just had an epiphany, nothing major," James said, waving at the common room. Slowly the people drifted back to their conversations. "You really have to stop being so loud, Sirius."
"I can't help it. I'm a very boisterous person," Sirius shrugged.
"So what was your great epiphany, genius?" James said sarcastically.
"Peter can take Remus' spot!" Sirius said, a little too overly excited.
"Sirius, I think you really did just have an epiphany," James said, grinning.
"What spot?" Peter asked nervously, wondering what they had planned.
"In our prank tonight," Sirius said, "but we'll discuss it later, right now, I have a heart to break."
"You make it sound like she's head over heels for you," James scoffed.
"How do you know she's not?" Sirius challenged.
"If she starts bawling when you break up with her, then yes, she is head over heels for you, but otherwise she's not," James said.
"Is that a challenge?" Sirius questioned, a gleam in his eye. Peter looked between the two of them and rolled his eyes. They were back to their old habits.
"Two galleons," James wagered.
"Deal," Sirius grinned, shaking James outreached hand.
"Go on, go break up with her then," James urged Sirius.
"I'm going," Sirius insisted before turning around and walking toward Brooke and Lily.
"So you don't think she's going to cry?" Peter asked.
"No way, Brooke's way too smart to fall for Sirius that hard this fast," James said, staring at Brooke as Sirius talked to her.
"So you just don't want to be together anymore?" Brooke said, looking up at Sirius. He had been stuttering for the past minute so Brooke decided to clarify what he was trying to say. Sirius silently nodded.
"I'm sorry," Sirius finally said.
"Sorry? Sorry for what?" Brooke asked, a look of confusion on his face. "You don't want to be with me anymore, that's ok. That's how life goes."
"You're not heartbroken or anything?" Sirius asked, looking very downtrodden.
"Heartbroken?" Brooke laughed. "Sorry, Sirius but I wasn't mad in love with you."
"You weren't?" Sirius asked, looking even more depressed. Brooke shook her head a small grin on her lips.
"Sorry." Brooke said, an apologetic look on her face. Sirius just sighed and walked way.
"I thought you were breaking up with her, not the other way around," Peter questioned when Sirius slumped down in a chair next to them.
"She wasn't mad in love with me," Sirius moaned.
"Two galleons please," James demanded, holding out his hand.
"You have no sympathy for a man do you?" Sirius said, glaring up at James.
"Sirius, you didn't even love her," Peter pointed out.
"Yeah, but she's suppose to love me," Sirius explained.
"Get over your self Sirius," James said, standing up. "Come on, we have to explain to Peter what to do." James grabbed Sirius and Peter's robes and started to drag them out of the common room.
"Oh yeah, this may take awhile," Sirius said sarcastically, rolling his eyes. He shrugged James' hand off of him and started to walk ahead of him.
"Hey!" Peter protested.
"Have we picked out a story yet?" Sirius asked, ignoring Peter.
"I thought you already picked that out," James exclaimed, catching up to Sirius.
"I forgot," Sirius blushed.
"Yeah, well don't forget my two galleons," James muttered.
A/N: ok i really wanted to get rid of Peter but then it wouldn't be a Marauders story so i had to put him back in somewhere. besides it all worked out with Remus not being there for the prank. it's all good. i hope you enjoyed. there's alot of dialogue and stuff but you'll survie. REVIEW!