A Tigerlily and a White Stag

The next morning all four Marauders were somewhat sleep-deprived due to the previous night's setup activites. However, their excitement and anticipation over their newest prank negated the effects of only three hours of sleep well, and they walked to breakfast together for the first time in two months.

"Hey, Lily, look!" said Sarah, pointing at the quartet walking into the Great Hall. Remus had one elbow on Sirius's shoulder and the other on James's. Peter was walking backwards ahead of them, and they were all laughing.

Lily smiled. She knew James had been upset over Sirius's attitude about Lily, but everything seemed to have been smoothed out. And knowing the Marauders, there was going to be a spectacular prank soon to celebrate.

James slid into the seat next to Lily. Sirius sat down next to him, and Remus and Peter sat across from them.

"Hey Lils," James said, hugging her lightly. Lily smiled and hugged him back.

"What did you do?" she asked him as he tried to keep Sirius from taking one of his scones.

"Get your own, you stupid domesticated canine! Sorry Lils, what were you saying?" He tapped Sirius's hand with his spoon as Sirius made another attempt at the scone. "What do you not understand about 'get your own'?"

"I asked you what you did," Lily replied, laughing at the pair.

"What did you mean? We didn't do anything, did we now, Moony?" James replied, looking across the table.

"Of course we didn't do anything," said Remus, looking over the top of the Daily Prophet he was reading. "And I suggest you watch that scone, James."

James quickly glanced down at his plate, which was now minus one scone. He turned to Sirius, who immediately hid the half-eaten scone behind his back. "No! It's mine! You can't have it!" Sirius attempted to hiss like a cat and failed miserably.

"I don't want that anymore," James said, rolling his eyes and picking up his other scone. "You can have it, Padfoot." Sirius beamed and went back to eating.

"Hmm, classtime," said Remus as the bell rang. "Transfiguration first."

James and Sirius both suddenly broke out into simultaneous coughing fits. Remus rolled his eyes, and Lily had a feeling this would be a very interesting Transfiguration class indeed.

Finally updated! Woohoo! Sorry it took so long, I had writer's block. :sighs: Thank you to everyone who reviewed, especially still-faithful HG! Cookies for you. :gives HG cookies of her choice:

Well, HBP's out. How'd you all like it? Given the fact that it barely talks about Lily and James, I don't think there's much risk of spoilers in here. However, I am working on a OC-centered HBP fanfic. May or may not get posted.

There are 3 things in here that are... special.
First is the three hours of sleep bit. I have recently (July 16) come to the conclusion that I can not only stay up 25 hours straight, I can go for 11 hours on 3 hours of sleep. Woohoo.
Second is the thing with Remus leaning on Sirius and James's shoulders. Yes, this happens often (Moony is taller than both myself and Padfoot, along with all our other friends, so she regularly uses us as armrests).
Third is the "domesticated canine" bit. This was on another website (pretty sure it's www. technoangel .net/marauders. take out the spaces and the period at the end) and Moony, Padfoot, and I adopted it as our own.

And I have a nice long A/N here, so I'm gonna shut up. Byebye.