Chapter Two: Love Potion Druggie

"Everybody's gonna love today,
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,
Love love me, love love me, love love"

Mika 'Love Today'

Hogwarts Express – Day One of 6th year

The scarlet steam engine whistled its way through the lush green country at a relentless rate. And I can't be f-cked finishing this unnecessary part so lets skip to the conversation...

"So what's up with him?" Lupin asked, pointing to James. "He hasn't mentioned her in the last two hours. That's a record, right?"

'Padfoot. Explain." giggled James, not tearing his gaze away from the sky outside. There was a blissful, vacant look around him.

Sirius grinned. "Long story."

"Long train ride."

He laughed. "Good point."

"Well?" piped up Pettigrew. "What happened?"

"Patience, scrawny one," Sirius leaned comfortably back into his chair. "My tale begins one dark stormy night in the Black manor. Darling Mrs. Black was screaming her little lungs out at her eldest son. So too shorten it considerably, he ran away from home, was adopted into the potter family and shoved love potion down his best friends throat."

Whatever Lupin and Pettigrew had been expecting, it wasn't that.

"WHAT!" Lupin shouted in shock. "You ran away – Love potion! Huh??"

Sirius grinned. "I, Sirius Black-Potter, ran away from home, was graciously accepted into James family and in an effort to protect his best friend from becoming a paedophile, gave him a love potion. How was your guys holiday?"

"I can't believe you.." Lupin said, sweeping a hand through his hair. "W-who's the girl?"

"Sara Chan…" James murmured dreamily, his face alight with a radiant glow.

"And she is…"

"This real pretty Asian girl who moved in across the street. Jimmy-Boy here, ever the romantic that he is, found out that their bedroom windows faced each other. He spent one whole month trying to woo her before he realised he hadn't asked her out yet," Sirius shook his head, laughing. "She said yes."

Next to him James gave a wide smile, one eye slightly unfocused.

"And where does the love potion come in?" asked Pettigrew confused.

"Well… James did try. Like really, really try to like Sara more than Evans. But yesterday… he took me aside and told me to make him take it when we go back to Hogwarts."

The three of them turned to look at James who was singing "Love Today" under his breath and doodling little hearts on his trunk.

There was a huge soppy grin plastered on his face.

"It um. Seems to be working." Added Sirius unnecessarily.

Lupin looked at him incredulously. "And you don't feel guilty at all?"

"Of course I did! He's our best mate! But when you actually think about it, it sounds like a decent idea. Potter wanted to get over Evans, Evans wanted to be left alone, and Sara is amazing! She deserves a loyal boyfriend. It's a win win situation. James does like her shit loads and all, he just liked Evans more. This makes sure that everything's fair."

"He's got a point there," put in Pettigrew.

"Are you serious?" argued Lupin. "You're drugging him to be someone that he's not!"

"To make sure he's happy and stops annoying other people!"

"Its wrong!"

"I've been crying for so long, fighting tears just to carry on, but now, but now, it's gone away," sang James, who did not seem to be listening at all.

Silence between the other Marauders.

"It's still wrong," Lupin said quietly.

"I know mate but still…" Sirius said empathetically "I honestly don't think theres any other way."

Lupin opened his mouth and after awhile, closed it. Finally he said "We'd better get changed. We're nearly there."

Sirius looked out the window and saw the tall turrets of the castle approaching in the falling darkness. "Here we go."

"And so it commences," added Pettigrew.

"Wormtail you asshole. You just wrecked the mood."

Authors Note: This Chapter is dedicated to Lily Summer, Devouring Sarcasm Phantasm, Freja (I'm sticking to first names now), Faerie, Genairco and some dude who's not scared of spiders. Isn't it lovely to think that even if you die tomorrow, a record of you still lives on?

Also I may not be able to post anything up within the next 3 weeks cause I got speeches coming up in English. And I always memorise my speech, and if I write a new chapter then I might accidentally memorise part of that and I'll look like a real dickhead if I quote some random shit from here in front of everyone LOL. Excusing my language!

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