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Heh heh, I am glad you people like this, and I do promise that there is something resembling, shock horror, a PLOT! I know that is unusual for sequels and I hope that it is good enough not to disappoint you.

Remus' POV

I sit and stare out the window at the now waning moon. My Mate kisses my nape gently.

"A kazillion pounds for your thoughts?" he offers.

"What happened to a penny?"

"I'm sure they're worth more than a penny."

I laugh,

"I was just thinking how odd all of this is!"

"How so?" I can hear his laughter.

"Gee, I don't know," I laugh again, "maybe the fact we are 21 again?"

I freeze suddenly, my eyes widening in surprise. A new thought has just occurred to me.

"Moony? What's wrong?" I feel his concern.

"The twins are older than us…" I turn to him suddenly. "We are only a year older than Harry, and the twins are older than us!"

He lets out a bark of a laugh,

"You scared me! Don't do that."

"I'm sorry," I offer, but we both don't mind.

A knock at the door stops the conversation.

"Come on in, Prongs!" Sirius calls.

James comes in, looking amused,

"How'd you know it was me, Padfoot?"

"I always know when it's you," my Mate grins. "So, what's up?"

"Ah, Lily and Ginny seem to be doing a female bonding thing… I managed to escape with my life, and have come to hide out here."

"They do seem to be getting along well, don't they…" I murmur.

"Yeah," James laughs, "I'm not going to think about how odd that is."

"How do you think Harry is doing, with all this dumped on him?" Sirius asks.

"He seems ok," James grins, "taking it in his stride, the way we do."

"He is very like you," I smile; well aware that of the three of us I probably know him best.

"Yeah," James nods, "I've noticed that in our chats. We're still trying to figure out if we are more comfortable with him calling me 'Dad' or 'James'. He is calling Lily 'Mum', but with me… I dunno, I think I want him to call me James."

Sirius shrugs, and offers a grin,

"It's not like you're 'Dad' material anyway!"

James half-heartedly thwacks Sirius over the head, and turns to me,

"What do you think, oh wise and wonderful Moony?"

"You do whatever you think is right, Prongs," I tell him. "He is your son, you should work it out between you."

"Throw me a bone here!" he complains." Do you think it would be odd for him to call me James?"

I pause,

"No, I don't."

He beams,

"Thank you."

We chat idly for a few minutes and I slowly withdraw myself from the conversation. I think over all the things that we will have to do now that we are back. Molly has been kind in letting us stay, but we can't stay forever. We will need a place of our own, and Sirius and the others need jobs… For starters we need to tell the Ministry that we are back…

"Moony? Love?" Sirius shakes me gently.

"Moony, what's wrong?" James asks.

"Wrong?"

"You were scowling, Love," Sirius tells me.

"Oh," I shrug and offer a sorry grin, "I was thinking of all the stuff we will have to do now that we're back."

"Arrgh!" James makes a strangled noise suddenly. "There are so many people that we need to tell!"

Sirius' eyes widen,

"Dumbledore, McGonagall, Kingsley, Tonks…"

"Snape!" they announce together.

I laugh,

"Can you imagine his face?"

"Priceless!" Sirius flops backwards on the bed resting his head on his hands. "This is going to be fun, I can tell!"

"You do need to get a job, Siri," I remind him. "Your money won't last forever."

"True," he grins. "Maybe I can get my Auror job back."

"Don't see why not," James grins, "what with your grades!"

"Did the Ministry ever actually pardon me?" Sirius turns to me, slightly worried.

"Yes," I smile softly, "they did, Love. Harry made sure of that once we won the war."

He beams,

"That's good."

There is another knock at the door and Ginny pokes her head in,

"Hullo?"

"Hey!" James beams.

"Lily says to tell you that, and I quote, 'Us girls have finished our highly-dangerous-to-the-opposite-sex-feminine-ritual so you can return safe now'."

Sirius laughs,

"Hear that, Prongs? Lily won't hurt you, you can stop hiding now!"

"I'm relieved," James nods, "girls are scary."

Ginny rolls her eyes and wanders off laughing.

"I'll see you guys tomorrow," James gets up and leaves us alone.

"Mmm," Sirius grins, "I got you all to myself again."

I smile,

"Yes, you do. I'm tired, come join me?"

"Of course," Sirius smiles.

Sirius' POV

"You're gorgeous, you know that, right?" I murmur to my Mate as we settle down for the night.

"So you keep telling me," he buries his face in my neck again.

I wrap him up in my arms,

"I still think it is funny that Molly thought she had to apologise for only giving us a single bed."

I hear him chuckle softly,

"Have we ever had a double bed?" he asks.

I think back carefully,

"No, we haven't. At school we obviously didn't, in the flat we shared a single then in Grimmauld we had two singles, but you joined me in mine."

"We shared at school, too," he snuggles up closer.

"True," I agree.

"D'you want… bed…" he murmurs, very close to sleep now.

"Let's talk about it later, ok?"

"Mmm…" he sighs and falls asleep.

Later

"Good morning!" I bounce into the kitchen.

"Hey!" Prongs grins. "Sleep well?" I can practically feel his leer.

"Yes, thank you very much," I roll my eyes. "You honestly expect me to seduce him so soon after the moon?"

"You did before, remember Christmas in year six? I could hear you from the common room!"

"Nonononono! Can't hear you! Tra lah la lah la lah!" Harry sticks his fingers in his ears.

"What's up with him?" I ask as I sit down.

Prongs grins,

"I keep pretending to want to give him the 'Talk'!"

I snort with laughter,

"You're joking?"

"Nope, and I keep almost telling him details about my sex life with Lily," he smirks evilly. "He doesn't seem to want to know, strangely enough."

"Prongs, that's cruel!" I laugh.

"I'm a Marauder!" he grins. "It goes with the territory."

"How's Remus?" Harry asks quickly.

"He's good," I tell him. "He's never been much of a morning person if he doesn't have to be."

"He's lying," Prongs states. "It's just that Moony gets up at around eight, whereas us Quidditchers get up at… what's the time?"

"Five thirty," Harry tells him.

I laugh,

"Well fine, but I stand by the fact half the morning is gone by the time he gets up."

Ron strolls into the room,

"Hullo…" he drops into a chair and buries his head in his arms on the table.

"Hi!" I shout enthusiastically, just to make him wince.

"Why are you up if you want to sleep?" James asks, amused.

"Urrgh…" Ron tells him.

"I see…" Prongs nods his head sagely; as if he has been passed some very wise and insightful knowledge.

"Ron is a… Quidditcher too," Harry tells him. "He just doesn't like it when that wakes him up so early when we don't even have Practice anymore."

Later, Remus' POV

I wake up slowly and shiver. I sigh when I realise my Mate is gone; he always has gotten up early. I blink slowly and sit up to look out the window.

I jump violently when I feel a kiss on the back of my neck,

"Sirius!"

"Hey, Love!" he had been sitting in a chair by the bed, apparently watching me sleep.

"What are you doing here?"

He gives me a strange look,

"Making sure you don't wake up alone?"

"But you're up and dressed… and I know you must have woken up at five, like normal, and you've never come back before…" I find myself rambling.

"But you would like me to," he grins, "and this second chance means I get to turn over a new leaf!"

"I…"

I don't know what to say to him. To say thank you would make it sound like I disapproved of his habits for years, which isn't totally true. I fancy saying that he doesn't have to do this for me, but I know he won't accept that.

"It was silly of me," he tells me, seeing my confusion, "to take you for granted that way. I always get to wake up with you, but you only do when it is the full moon. It was selfish of me, and I'm sorry. I guess before I always told myself that you were fine, and that it didn't bother you, but I was fooling myself. I knew it bothered you, because it would bother me. I know that I am right, too, because as you woke you reached out for me, then sighed when you realised I wasn't there. I'm sorry I didn't decide to do this before, Love."

"I…" again words fail me.

"I'm still going to get up at five," he continues, "but I'll come back, if at all possible, in time to see you wake up."

"I love you," I grin as I rediscover the ability to speak.

"Love you too," he grins back. "Let's get you some food and discuss life, the universe and everything!"

I laugh and follow him downstairs.

"That is exactly it!" I hear James exclaim. "There is no way that could work."

"Yeah," Harry agrees. "They either don't know what they're talking about, or they are purposefully…"

"What we talking about?" my Mate pushes me into a chair and goes breakfast hunting.

"Werewolf 'cures' in the paper today," James rolls his eyes. "They're all complete rubbish."

"Yeah," Harry nods. "There is one here that seems to think that is you feed a werewolf a diluted silver solution it will cure them."

I grimace,

"That would be a very painful way to kill me."

James snorts,

"Yeah, well, don't worry, we're not going to test them on you or anything."

"Thank you," I laugh.

"Where's Lily?" Sirius asks as he hands me a fry-up and a cup of tea.

"Probably bonding with my sister…" Ron tells him. "Which, I will tell you, is a very odd thought."

"Lily always has been odd," Sirius tells him, perfectly aware that Lily has entered the room behind him.

"Gee, thanks Sirius," she laughs.

"My pleasure, dear Lady!" he bows gracefully.

"I wish you'd teach James how to bow like that…" she looks almost wistful.

Sirius snorts with laughter,

"Teach James to bow? I have more grace in my arse than he has in his entire body!"

I promptly start choking on my tea and Ron helpfully slaps me on the back.

"Of course, Moony would know," James grins wider as I blush deeply.

"Can we please try to act our age?" I plead.

"Well, we came back from the dead about two days ago," James grins. "Does that mean we have to act like new-borns?"

"You know, I am beginning to think being a werewolf is nothing next to putting up with you lot," I groan.

"It is terrible that you were cursed in such a terrible way," my Mate strikes a dramatic pose, "But, hey, at least you have me!"

"Thanks, Siri, thanks a lot," I tell him, sarcastically.

"Sheesh," Sirius sighs, "I come back from the dead and this is all the thanks I get…"

"Anyway!" Lily interrupts. "How about we make some plans for the future?"

"You want us to plan something that isn't a prank?" Sirius acts totally shocked.

"Pranks? What about pranks?" the twins walk in.

"Hullo," James looks amused. "You must be the two who found our map."

The two of them grin widely,

"That would be us," Fred smirks.

"That map helped us a lot," George grins too.

"You're welcome," James grins mischievously.

"Out of interest," Sirius leans against the table, "did you ever talk to it?"

"Huh?" Harry looks over at him.

"Yeah," George laughs, "how do you think we leant how to use it? It's not like we normally go around tapping old pieces of parchment with our wands and saying 'I solemnly swear I'm up to no good'."

"The map is a lot like that diary you told me about," I tell Harry. "The minds of the Marauders at sixteen are preserved in it."

"It certainly took us a while to convince you to let us use it!" Fred complains.

Sirius laughs,

"Yeah, well, we weren't going to give up the secret to just anyone, were we?"

"You know Molly will probably kill us if she learns it was our fault they got into so much trouble…" I grin and sip my tea.

"Well, we'll just have to make sure she doesn't find out, won't we?" Sirius smirks and kisses me lightly.

"You three are impossible," Lily sighs. "How did you become a prefect Remus?"

I laugh,

"What about James? He was Head-boy!"

"You remember that too? I was sure I must have hallucinated…" Lily smirked.

"Heh," James grins, "I was the best Head-boy ever! Not once did I tell on anyone, unless they were from Slytherin, of course."

"Of course," Sirius grinned. "And those occasions when you took justice into your own hands…"

"For the good of the school," James nods solemnly, fighting a grin. "The teachers were so busy, it was only right for me to act in their stead."

"For once I agree with you," Lily's face is suddenly hard as she remembers the circumstances.

"Don't ask," Sirius and I quickly tell the others.

"Ok…" Harry agrees, confused.

"So," Ron claps his hands together. "What is everyone going to do today?"

"Tell the Ministry that we're back would be a good start," Lily grins suddenly. "We'll need to be questioned using Veritaserum, and so on. Then we will probably be pounced on by reporters…"

"So, all in all, it should be quiet an interesting day!" Sirius smirks.

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Thanks for reading! And I hope you have enjoyed it. I know the style is different from Rewards, but I felt that was rather necessary. Thanks again.