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-sailor's delight

Sirius

"Oh come on! That just cost me 20 sickles!" Sirius proclaimed loudly at the TV. Remus, deep in thought, barely even noticed he said anything. "Moony, how much did you bet on this stupid game?"

Sirius and Remus were currently sitting in the Broom's Tale, which was a new Wizarding sports bar, inspired by the popular muggle sports bars. There was a big Quidditch match tonight being shown on all of the many large TVs positioned around the bar. Sirius' team was apparently losing, not making him one bit happy.

Remus glanced up at him, "Uh, nothing."

"What! Where's the Marauder spirit? You need to be both Moony and Prongs tonight since James is out with Lily," Sirius responded, adding a little resentment in his voice to the last part.

Remus was about to respond when the bartender came over with another beer. "Oh, I'm still good with this one," Remus said holding up his half drank beer.

The bartender glanced over Remus' shoulder. "It's from the lady in red over there. Enjoy." Remus cringed a little on the inside as he and Sirius both turned to look at this mystery lady. Sitting alone at a high table was a blonde that definitely had no natural body parts in a red outfit that could have been a bathing suit. She gave him a flirty smile and drank some of her martini. Remus gave her an uncomfortable smile and turned back to the bar.

"Well that was sufficiently awkward," Remus said before taking a swig of his beer.

"Wow. I didn't know you were such a piece of man meat Moony. Way to go," Sirius said with laughter in his voice as he also took another sip of his drink. "Probably best if Tonks doesn't know about this. She'd probably murder both Barbie and you."

"What? Why me?" Remus asked.

"Just because she'd be pissed," Sirius took another swig. "She's got Black in her Moony. If you haven't noticed we can get a little angry at times."

The two sat in silence for a few minutes, drinking their beers and watching the Quidditch match. "I think I'm going to propose to her," Remus said breaking the silence.

Sirius practically spit out the beer he was drinking. "No way!" he exclaimed. Remus just nodded and Sirius stared at him in shock and awe for a few moments. "Moony! We're gonna be family!"

Remus snorted and got a little nervous at the thought of being a part of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black. "Yeah, if she says yes."

Sirius looked taken aback. "What! What do you mean 'if she says yes'? Of course she's going to say yes! I'm her family; we got that whole cousin-mind-connection thing going on. She's crazy about you Moony." Remus looked up from his drink in confusion. He was pretty sure that Sirius had completely made up the "cousin-mind-connection thing". "Wow, I can't believe it. Little Moony all grown up. Ready to take the plunge. What made you decide to do it?"

Remus smiled a little to himself. "Someone once told me that you come to a point in a relationship where you can't see life without them. You can't picture your life any other way. Well, I came to that point."

Sirius just grinned at him and clapped him on the shoulder saying, "Well Moony, you have my blessing."

"Thanks Padfoot. It means a lot to me," Remus said.

"Not a problem. But I swear to Merlin, you screw up and break her heart, you'll see just how nasty us Blacks can get," Sirius said dangerously and Remus swallowed a sip of his beer a little nervously. He knew that Sirius was just trying to scare him, but he really didn't want to test that theory. He knew what Blacks were capable of; he had seen it firsthand.

"Well I don't know about you, but I've had it with this damn Quidditch game. Let's get out of here," Sirius said pulling some money out of his pocket and placing it on the counter for the bartender.

Remus did the same and they both got up and started to make their way to the door. They were almost out when something, or rather someone, caught Remus' eye.

The drink-buying blonde was making her way over to where Sirius and Remus were standing and walked right up to Remus. She opened her mouth to say something when Sirius moved in front of Remus, facing the blonde.

"Sorry Barbie, he's about to be engaged," Sirius said and he pushed Remus toward the door and out on the street, leaving the woman with an appalled look on her face. Remus was left stunned, but had a look of happiness that was about to break out on his features as Sirius slung his arm around his shoulder and said, "So, will there be a bachelor party?"

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