AN: Hey all! Thnx so much to everyone who reviewed, it means so much! Trigger warning, again mostly in the next chapter. Oh, and of course swearing. I mean, we're talking about the Marauders here.

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Disclaimer: I own nothing except for two copies of the Harry Potter series in varying states of overuse and disrepair.

And guys, sorry about the fact that there was no line break-thing, but I've no idea how to put one in. Anyone know?

"Wake up, James!"

James cracked his eyes open, surprised the voice was Remus' instead of Sirius'. This was odd, because Sirius would always loudly wake his friends up at what James swore was around 4 in the morning. He yawned. Maybe Sirius' finally getting some sense and deciding to sleep in instead of waking up at the crack of dawn. Mental, he was.

"James, you're going to miss breakfast!"

"Fuck," he groaned and opened his eyes. "Fine, fine! I'm coming!"

"Wake up, Sirius!" called Remus.

"Mmhm," was the only reply. He was still fast asleep.

"SIRIUS BLACK!"

Sirius yelped and flinched away from Remus, throwing up his arm as if to protect himself, eyes wide open with fear. At his yelp, James jumped and accidentally rolled off of his bed and onto the floor.

Remus stared at Sirius. "Are you okay?"

Sirius dropped his arm and grinned. "Merlin, Moony, you nearly gave me a heart attack!"

The other boy shot him an odd look before making his way over to Peter.

"What happened to our early riser?" James grinned at Sirius from the floor. Sirius scowled back at him and stuck out his tongue. James stuck out his own in response.

"I call the bathroom!" yelled James before his friend could get a single word in and hauled himself off the floor, stumbling to said destination. "And wait for me to go to breakfast!" He could hear the other Marauders laughing behind him and suppressed a grin himself. He loved being back with his friends.

James stared at Lily. Her beautiful red hair shimmered like fire in the sunlight that shone through the window, her green eyes glowing emeralds. Her face broke into a smile as she mock-glared at a friend, laugh like wind chimes shivering in the breeze. Everything- everyone- around her was dull in comparison to the vivid witch, with the adorable spattering of freckles dusting her nose and cheeks, and the eyelashes that gently grazed her pale skin when Lily blinked so bright and gorgeous and perfect. Her skin itself looked so soft and creamy--

"You know, Prongs, she's going to notice if you spend the whole class staring at her."

James cast an amused Sirius a glare. "I'm not staring at her."

"Sure you aren't." He gave James an infuriating grin.

Remus rolled his eyes at him as he turned his gaze once again to Lily. "You better take notes, because I'm not sharing mine with you."

Sirius gestured to his sparse notes written in his neat copperplate handwriting, most of the parchment taken up by scribbles. "You should follow my example," he grinned.

"C'mon, Moony, you know you will," James whined.

"No, I won't."

"Aw, Moony, are you going to let me fail transfiguration?"

"You're going to fail anyway," Sirius added jokingly.

James shot him a foul look. "Shut up, Pads."

"Mr Potter, Mr Black! Why can I hear you talking?" McGonagall glared at them.

"Um...'cause you have ears?" Sirius smirked nonchalantly, leaning back in his seat, stormy grey eyes devious.

Her lips pursed in irritation. "And why are you talking during my class?"

"And why are you teaching during our conversation?" James shot back promptly.

"Detention, both of you."

"Oh deer," James sighed.

"This place is going to the dogs," Sirius agreed, both of them snickering.

"I hate homework!" James groaned.

Sirius wrote a few more lines and looked over at his friend's partially-completed essay. "What does that say?" He squinted at James' messy scrawl.

"Shut it, Pads. It's not like yours is any better."

"My handwriting is much better!"

"Well, I wasn't taught how to meticulously dot each i and loop each y by a private tutor, so mine has the right to be bad," James stated.

"Stop avoiding your homework," Remus said, looking up from his book, one eyebrow raised, while Sirius growled angrily.

"I didn't ask to be born into an insane Pureblood family!"

"Okay, okay, calm down!" James turned back to his parchment, staring blankly at it. After a few moments he said, "Moony, can I see your Charms notes?"

Remus sighed and gave them to him. Cheering, James began to write.

An hour later they were interrupted by Peter, who trudged in from Herbology.

"Hey Pete," Sirius, who was staring blankly into the fire, muttered distractedly.

"Hello," Remus greeted, looking up from his book. "How are you?"

"Okay," Peter said, sitting down in an armchair. "I got a lot of homework from Herbology, though."

James grinned. "I finished my Charms essay and my Potions one! Though, to be fair, the Potions one took much longer."

Remus smiled and got up. "Let's go to dinner."

"Yes! I'm starving!" said James enthusiastically.

"You're always starving, Prongs," Sirius said.

After wolfing down his meal, he watched as Sirius picked at his. "Not hungry, mate?"

Sirius shook his head and James was subject to one of Remus' looks. James mouthed 'What?' at him, but Remus simply shrugged.

AN: So, that's it for today, folks. Next chap will contain major Siri angst, don't worry. I'm gettin' there! If any of you want me to, I can probably manage to post it today. It may be a pretty short one, or it may be a teeny bit longer than expected. We'll see. Anyways, hope you enjoyed. XD