I FINALLY got it up!! Celebrate, woo hoo, all that jazz. So, anyways, thanks for all the Truth/Dare ideas, I'll be sure to use a lot of them!! However, the story may soon be taking a somewhat unexpected turn, so... bewaaaaaaaaare. lol. Yeah. Anyways, R&R please!!

Remus sat down at his usual spot in the Great Hall for breakfast, across from James and cattycorner from Peter. Sirius had not yet returned from the hospital wing.

Remus was already feeling bad enough about what he had to do to James, and Sirius' absence wasn't helping matters. He began to worry.

What if after I left he had some sort of spasm? What if there was more to the punishment and he DIED after I left? What if I could have been there to save him? What if Madam Pomfrey had found him naked and thought he had gone mad and locked him up? What if-

His thoughts were interrupted, however, by a jolly Sirius plopping down next to him on the bench. Remus looked over startled out of his musings as Sirius chomped on a biscuit, looking as good as new. So he hadn't died after all. Well that was good. Now he didn't have to administer the potion to James alone.

Remus turned his head to see James staring at Lily with a dreamy expression on his face. Sirius started to snicker next to him. Remus sighed. Sirius was probably imagining how in less than sixteen hours James would be staring at Jake Owens with precisely the same expression on his face.

He finished his bit of toast and looked pointedly at Sirius. "I'm going to head up to the commonroom and get my books a little early, okay? I need to do some uh… last minute studying."

James waved him on absentmindedly, still staring at Lily. "She so obviously wants me. She can't hide her burning passion. I see it reflected in her eyes."

Sirius snorted into his pumpkin juice. "Yeah right. And erm… I'm going to go with Remus."

He received the same vague reaction that Remus had, and the two boys left the Great Hall as quickly as they could.

"Right. We have to get the ingredients as fast as we can, before classes start so the potion can have time to brew."

"And where do we get those?" Sirius asked.

"The Potions room," Remus said grimly. Professor Slughorn wasn't particularly mean, but he could only imagine what might happen if they were found rummaging through the strictly off-limits-to-students Potions supplies. But they had to do it. For their sake.

Remus and Sirius did not go to the Commonroom at all. Instead they headed straight for the dungeons. They had seen Slughorn up with the rest of the teachers at breakfast, so with any luck he would still be there for quite some time, eating his fill of cherry doughnuts and the like.

The two Marauders stole silently through the dungeons and into the classroom. There was a large shelf where all the ingredients used in class potions were kept, and Remus hoped that everything he needed would be in here. The less risk-taking, the better.

"Alohomora," he whispered, tapping his wand to the lock. It sprang open, and he wrenched the doors open.

He surveyed the ingredients inside the giant shelf.

Beetle eyes… no. Root of Asphodel, yes!! Powdered oak bark, no. Acromantula venom, no. Powdered unicorn horn, yes. Bat wing, no. Yak fur, no. Jellyfish plasma, no. Essence of murtlap, yes!!

He grabbed the three ingredients and shoved them towards Sirius, who struggled for a bit before gaining a hold on each bottle.

"Only one thing left for us to steal," Remus said darkly. The potion he had selected required very few ingredients, yet could be customized for one person and one person only. It worked much like a Polyjuice Potion, requiring some of the DNA of the person who the attraction will be towards. Which meant that Remus and Sirius had to get some of Jake's DNA. Preferably hair, but anything would do, really.

The two boys crept as silently as they could out of the classroom, but Sirius halted when he heard a harsh voice swear loudly from inside a nearby room. Remus tugged on his arm to get him moving again, but it was no use.

"That sounds like…" Sirius quietly snuck over and peeked inside the door, Remus reluctantly following suit.

It was Severus Snape. He was hunched over a bubbling cauldron, muttering fiercely. Sirius looked back at Remus, his eyes half pleading. "Oh PLEASE can I just hex him now? I promise I won't do anything too bad to him. Please please please?"

Remus shook his head furiously, then jerked his thumb towards the stairs. "We have got to get OUT of here," he hissed. "Slughorn could be back at any minute, and we are carrying three ingredients from the restricted potions cupboard. Now let's GO!!"

With this he dragged Sirius out of the dungeons and all the way up to their dorm. Luckily, none of the potion ingredients had been dropped on the way up.

"Good. Now we have to brew it."

Remus immediately started a small, waterproof fire underneath his battered cauldron, and laid each of the ingredients out so he could see them. "Sirius, could you help me here? The first thing we have to put in the cauldron is the powdered unicorn horn."

"Sure thing Rem," Sirius said. He grabbed the unicorn horn and dumped it into the cauldron. A sweet smell wafted out of it towards their noses, and Remus shrieked. "Sirius, NO!! You added ALL of it!! You can't add that much!!" Frantically he peered into the cauldron, but the powdered horn was already burning fast. "Great. Now I have to alter it so that all the ingredients match that. Just great."

Sirius looked guilty. "Sorry Rem. I wasn't thinking."

"It's… okay Sirius. I'll just make extra. We can throw it out later."

Remus carefully measured each ingredient to fit the new ratio of unicorn horn, and poured them all into the cauldron, then stirred precisely seven times clockwise, then thirteen times counterclockwise.

"That should do it. Now all we have to do is let it simmer for six hours. Then it will be all ready for James, except…"

"Except? Except what Moony?"

"Except… we need a little of Jake's hair," Remus said, while thinking hard.

"Oh great. You should have mentioned this earlier, and I could have grabbed one. But now it's too late. Unless…" Sirius got a mischievous gleam in his eye.

"Unless? Unless what, Padfoot?"

"Don't worry about it. You wait here, I'll be back with some hair. Give me fifteen minutes, tops. Okay?"

"Wait, what?" Remus spluttered. He wasn't used to being out of the loop like this with Sirius.

"Just wait here. I'll be back." Sirius sprinted out of the room and down the stairs at top speed, and Remus sat back shaking his head. Crazy. Just crazy. But that was Sirius, and Remus wouldn't have it any other way.

In precisely nine minutes and thirteen seconds Sirius came speeding back into the room, with one golden hair in his hand. Remus placed the hair next to the cauldron for use later.

"Now would you mind explaining what you did to get that hair?" Remus asked.

"Hmmm, I don't know…"

"Sirius, TELL ME!!"

"Not if you ask like that, I won't. I won't tolerate shouting Mr. Lupin," Sirius said in his mock teacher voice. Remus rolled his eyes.

"Fine. Will you please tell me how you got the hair?"

"Nope."

"NO??"

"That's what I said, hard of hearing much?"

"How can you… but I… oh never mind." Remus had long since learned that it was useless trying to get information out of Sirius that he didn't want to give up. He resorted to watching the potion bubble, then stood up.

"We don't want to sit here for six hours. And we have classes. Let's go, and fast. If we're late we can always say that we had to run to the hospital wing to barf because we saw Filch dancing with Pince."

"True, true," Sirius said with a smile. "Shall we go then?"

"Let's."

The two boys exited the room side by side, each wrapped up in his own private thoughts about the upcoming night, when they would have to give James his potion.

Once again, R&R, and I hope you enjoyed it. I'll try to get the next chapter up quickly, but no promises, sorry.