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At lunch the next day, James met up with Remus and Sirius at the local cafe. They took a table in the corner and
ordered. "So, how was your night," Sirius asked James. "A bit weird at first. Putting everything together after
such a long time." Both men nodded. No one spoke for a little bit. "Why did you call us Moony and Padfoot,"
Remus asked. James shrugged. "Because it just felt right. I know for some reason that I had a nickname too.
What was it?" "Prongs," Sirius said sipping his soda. James nodded. "Why?" Remus and Sirius looked to each
other. "We'll explain later," they both said. The food arrived and they all began to eat. They all ordered
something that everyone liked so they all shared. A bit later, Remus and James were full, but Sirius still wanted
more. "Can we go now," Remus asked looking at his watch. "In a minute, I want a piece of cake." James rolled
his eyes and under the table waved his wand. Suddenly, Sirius couldn't open his mouth anymore. He tried but it
just wouldn't work. They paid for their food and dragged Sirius away. "Have a good day," the hostess said
brightly. "Mpht meh," Sirius grunted. "Don't mind him," Remus said. "He took a bit of glue from my pocket
thinking it was chapstick and ended up gluing his mouth shut. We're going to take him to the hospital now,"
James added.
They dragged him back to their place and James removed the spell. "How did you bloody do that!" James took
out his wand and showed it to them. "Magic," he said putting it back. "You knew how to do that," Remus asked
shocked. "It just came to mind in a flash. I wanted Sirius here to stop eating, twirled the wand and boom his
mouth didn't open." Remus and Sirius didn't do anything for a moment. Then, as if they had silently decided on
it, began to clap. "That was brilliant Prongs," Remus said. Sirius pretended to wipe a tear away. "Now what is it
with all of this Prongs business," he asked. "Oh, that's actually really simple. See all of us can transform into
animals. I can turn into a dog. You on the other hand can turn into a stag. Get it, Padfoot equals dog, Prongs
equals stag," Sirius said as if James was a child. "But what about Moony? What can he be?" Remus looked a
little uncomfortable for a second. "Remember that time a few months ago when I told you I was visiting my sick
mother. Then the next morning I told you how I had been mugged. Also, how I've been missing a few days a
month." "Yeah, so?" "Those were on the night of a full moon James." James didn't say anything and thought on it.
Then he did a double take. "No, not a werewolf." Remus and Sirius nodded, waiting for the bottom to fall out.
"Okay, guess Moony really does suit that. What shall we do now?" "You mean you aren't scared," Remus said
quickly. "Dude, you haven't tried to like eat me or anything like in movies. You're a great guy and a great friend."
All of them nodded and sat down. James unconsciously took his hand and rubbed his head, messing his hair.
"I'm bored," Sirius said. James turned on the TV and the phone rang. "I'll get it," he said. Remus took up a book
that was sitting on the table and Sirius changed the channels. "Yes, I'm very sorry but I ate some bad fish at
lunch and can't make it to the office for the rest of the day," James said, sounding as though he was in bad pain.
He hung up and turned around to sit back on the couch. "I'm still bored," Sirius announced, changing the channel
again. Remus was currently reading the book he grabbed. James on the other hand found a tennis ball under the
couch and began to throw it up into the air and catch it again.
Lily was having a bit of a boring day herself. The department store just wasn't as wonderful as it used to be now
that she knew more about herself. "You look tired Rose. Why don't you take the rest of the day off," one of her
coworkers said. Lily nodded, said good-bye and left. She was just walking out the front door when she walked
into someone. "Oh, I'm very sorry ma'am," she said helping her pick her things up. "Well you should be watching
where you are going," a nasty, lady's voice said. She snatched her things and Lily got a good look at her. She
had blonde hair and for some reason reminded her of a horse. However, the women looked at her, became
very pale in the face, and ran quickly inside. "That was odd," Lily said and walked towards another store to buy
something.
"I'm still bored," Sirius announced again ten minutes later. He finally turned away from the TV to see that James
had charmed the ball to zoom around in front of him and he would catch it within seconds. Sirius shoved Remus'
shoulder to get him to look. If Sirius didn't know any better, this was very reminiscent of their end of O.W.L
day. "What should we do now," James asked deactivating the ball. Sirius very much felt like attacking Snape
like in the old days, but settled on something a bit more interesting. "Since you seem to have reacquired most of
your magic ability, I propose a bit of a game." "And what sort of game would three men in their 30's like to play
Padfoot old friend," Remus asked with a shrewd look on his face. "A small, enjoyable pillow fight. Now before
you say, 'Why would we want to do that? We're grown wizards here,' then I'll explain. It is because we are
adult wizards that have free reign of our magic and won't get any annoying owl's coming to visit because we're
underage." They took several minutes to think this over. "Let's do it," they both said at once. They all conjured
pillows and stood on one side of the room each. "On your mark. Get set. Go." They used as many spells and
charms as they knew and began a very fun pillow war.
It was about six o'clock and Lily decided it was time to get home and prepare dinner. She took up her
purchases, walked over to her car and stopped before putting the key in the ignition. The image of that sixteen
year old boy appeared in her head once again. Maybe Harry didn't want his parents back. Lily couldn't even
really remember him so even if they met somewhere they would barely know each other. "On the other hand",
she thought, "what child wouldn't want to meet his parents, even if he couldn't remember them." She started the
car and drove back to the apartment. Once there, she said hello to the doorman and went in the elevator to their
floor. She got to the door and was about to put the key in, when she thought she could hear laughing from
within. She put her ear to the door and listened. "Cheap shot Padfoot, that hurt," James called. "Oh please, it's
just a pillow," Sirius said. She heard something fly across the room and a thump. "Moony, don't throw so hard,"
Sirius said now. Then the three men laughed. Lily shook her head, turned the key and opened the door. The
sight that greeted her wasn't that great. The three men were all sitting behind what looked like pillow forts and
feathers were all over the place. The three of them just looked at her when she entered. Remus was to her far
right with a rip in his shirt (no clue how that got there) and huffing to catch his breath. Sirius was to her left and
had feathers all over him and had a look of mischief in his eyes. James was red in the face and had a feather in
his hair. Lily crossed her arms over her chest and tapped her foot on the ground after closing the door. The men
looked worried for a moment and all tried to get up at once. Lily put her hand out as if to stop them and they
didn't move again. She took out her wand and vanished the pillows but the feathers remained. She conjured
some trash bags and brooms. "You are all going to clean this up while I prepare dinner," she said. She took her
bags, threw them into a closed room and went over to the kitchen.
Sirius and Remus left as soon as they finished and James went over and kissed Lily. "Are you sure you're okay
about that man coming over tonight," he asked. "James, he's going to be coming in an hour and it's too late to
back down now," she said not turning away from the stove. She turned and gave him a passionate kiss. "By the
way, you still have that feather in your hair and you missed a few under the couch." James turned a shade of red
and went to fix everything. When it was ten minutes to seven, they sat down and waited. "So, what were you
doing with the guys today," she asked. "Just stuff with the guys," he said. Lily was about to say something when
the doorbell rang.
Easy Trivia: Who did Lily runleaving the store?
I hope you liked it as much as I did writing it.Next chapter has another visit with Albus so be on the lookout. Review Please See you soon. :-)
