Lisa: Well I won't spoil anything but in my opinion OotP was a disappointment. I won't go into details but if you saw it I think you catch my drift. I'll just say one thing, there was a severe, horrible, scary, frightening lack of Remus, and being a Remus obsessive freak I was sad.

Heather: So that means your not going to rant?

Lisa: Yes, if anyone cares to rant with me send me a message requesting my myspace or my AIM and I'll give it to you.

Heather: She ranted to me for the longest time after the movie... and she just ate a whole bag of skittles which makes her sooo hyper.

Lisa: Yes, I was skipping, it was my Luna Lovegood skip. I'm just a giddy person.

Heather: It's frightening...

Lisa: Hehe, yes, now everyone enjoy the chapter!

Remember When

James moaned as he began to wake up, he tried opening his eyes only to be faced with the bright whiteness of the room that surrounded him. He squinted and sat up making his head more but he ignored it, as his eyes adjusted to the light he saw that the bed next to him was empty. Sirius couldn't have been released yet, if James wasn't released then he certainly wasn't, and the bed was unmade and there was get well soon cards on the table.

Where could he have gone? James didn't want to sound mean but with no legs how could he have gone, really... Lucky for him he didn't have to worry long became in the door opened and James looked over to see Sirius entering the room, he wore paper like hospital clothes and his pants were cut off and tied at the ends. Something tore his heart to see his best friend and tough guy bound to a wheel chair. It wasn't a muggle one, it was magical. Sirius didn't need to do anything to make it move, the wheels moved on their own.

James looked at Sirius who looked as though he had been crying, his bottom lip was quivering and his eyes were red and puffy. "Sirius, what's wrong... what happened..."

"James... it's... it's..." Sirius couldn't get the words out. He went over to his bed and hoisted himself up in it and pushed the chair away. "Um... James... It's Remus. He uh, James he died in his sleep a couple hours ago, I... I would have woken you but with your head injury... they, uh, they wouldn't let me..." Sirius said as he began crying again. "Oh my God James, Moony's dead, he's gone."

James looked down and chocked as tears started to pour out of his eyes. He got up out of his bed and walked over to Sirius's bed and wrapped him in a hug.

They remained silent and mourned for hours, they parted after a while and James went back to his bed just to think, Sirius said he had to leave and get some fresh air, although James didn't know where exactly he could get some. He wasn't crying anymore but he had a look of pure torture and sadness on his face. He was thinking a lot, about the past, about their times in Hogwarts, where all seven of them would cause chaos. He gave a small smile when he thought about all the times Remus was torn between his prefect duties and causing mischief, the mischievous side of him usually won. James's smile faded though when he thought about some of the things he's done that he wasn't proud of now, then he was a big shot and Remus would never stop him. He knew why too, Remus was always scared of telling them off, even now sometimes.

When he thought about their summers together that was when it hit him. Where were their parents? James sat up a little and took a deep breath to clear his nose. He hasn't seen his mother or father, Sirius's family he understood but what about Andromeda and Nymph? They should come, and Remus's mother and his sister. Andy's family too, she may have been gone but he would think they would still come by, same went for Heather. No one was here, no friends and no family.

"Are ya thinkin'?"

He looked up to see Heather and Andy floating at the foot of his bed, but now they were accompanied by someone else. Remus. He still looked like he did when James saw him last, he had on the paper like pants and top that he wore in the hospital, he still looked feral and his eyes had huge dark circles under his eyes, and his face was a sickly pale.

"Remus?" he whispered.

"Yeah, it's me." Remus said. "Told you I'd see you soon didn't I?"

"You're a ghost too?"

"I guess so," Remus said and thought for a moment. "Not entirely sure what I am, and they don't know either so don't bother asking."

"Why are you...?"

"We answered that!" Andy exclaimed.

"Andy, please, Jamie I'm here because you're not doing to well and you know you're not." Remus replied calmly.

"Well how the bloody hell am I supposed to act!" He burst out. "My best friend is dead! All my friends are dying around me! And those who aren't are all injured bad! I mean look at Sirius, he lost his legs, everything's just... just... not right..." James trailed off.

"I know James, but you knew, you knew I was going to die, you knew it, I told you, you just have to accept it. Get past our deaths and remember the good times." Remus said.

"I have gotten past it." James shot back.

"No, you haven't." Heather said. "If you had gotten past it Andy would be blood free. But look at her." Andy turned around and looked at her back. The large tear in her shirt was still there with the gory gash and blood still soaked her back and sleeves. "She looks exactly the same as when she died. So does Remus, lucky for me Avada Kedavra killed me, no ick associated with that."

"Yeah, you think I enjoy being feral? No." He drawled out.

"Okay..." James said. "Um... so you're saying..."

"We're saying you just goin' crazier." Andy said.

"We're saying you have to get past this thing or you never will and we'll just stick around like this forever." Remus said. "And the longer we stay like this the longer you won't get over it."

"But I don't know if I can." James said sadly and he looked down.

"Yes, you can." Andy said in a very gentle voice unlike her usual one.

"Don't think about our deaths, think about our adventures on the full moon, think of all the times we pranked Snape or you know what, think of the bloody musical spell Laura placed." Remus said and Andy shuddered.

"Oh God, that sucked." Andy said and hung her head.

"Just think of the good times, don't think of us being gone, think of us on temporary leave. And besides, this isn't the last time we'll meet." Remus said and the three faded away in the air as Sirius wheeled back in the room.

"Hey, what're looking at, Prongs?" He said in a voice that was low and quiet.

"Nothing... nothing at all..." James said and leaned back in the bed. "Just thinking... is all."

"Yeah, me too." Sirius said.

"It'll all be okay, mate." James said clearly seeing that Sirius was depressed.

"No, it won't... It's all falling apart James, our group had gone from eight to five in one day... or four and three quarters... I can't really be considered one whole anymore." He said looking down at his missing legs.

"Yes, Sirius, you are. You're Sirius bloody Black, nothing can stop you. You're still my best friend. Still the best wizard I have ever seen, and that's including Dumbledore."

"What can I do though? I can't be an auror now." Sirius said.

"Yes you can, you can still do everything you wanted, don't let something like this stop you."

"I'm not, I'm already stopped. I slowed down yesterday, when the girls died, and I stopped two hours ago when Remus... when Remus died." Sirius said and pulled himself onto the bed.

"Sirius, you can't give up, you just can't. What about us? What about me and Peter? We still have to live on as the Marauders, what about Laura and Lily? They need us now more then ever, they're the remaining Marauderetts." James said. "We need to stick together."

"How are you so calm James? We lost our brother, the most responsible and innocent one of us, what did he ever do to disserve this?"

"Nothing, but don't think about the way he died or his death. I know he doesn't think about any of it. Sirius, he knew he was going to die. I went and I saw him. He told me he knew he was going to die. He didn't want us to feel sad for him, he knew he wasn't going to last. Besides, he was devastated about Andy. You know he was... she was his world. Now they're together."

Sirius looked over to him. "If I'm not supposed to think of their deaths... then what am I supposed to think about...?"

"The happy days!" James exclaimed. "All the days we spent in Hogwarts, in Hogsmead, the days in the shrieking shack, our summers at the beach. Sirius do you remember that one summer, we went to the beach with my parents. We punched out those boys who were giving us a hard time with the girls?"

Sirius nodded his head and gave him a small smile. "Andy taught us how to go body surfing... I remember I got such a bad burn on my stomach because I crashed in the sand... Your mum had to give me a potion to fix it." Sirius gave a small chuckle. "That was between our second and third year... right?"

"Yeah, it was." James smiled. "I tried to teach you how to surf."

"Can honestly say I still don't get it." Sirius smiled back. "Remember when we found out our patronus's were? We learned the patronus charm so we could get an idea of what our animagus's would be."

"And we made the potion, we transformed the first time, we defiantly got better at that didn't we?" James asked laughing and remembering the comments on what he looked like as he changed into a stag that first time. "No more nasty half human half animal things, eh?" James said and then something hit him. "Sirius, change into Padfoot."

"What? Why?" Sirius asked.

"Just do it." James insisted.

"Okay, but you gotta watch the door, this is St. Mungo's and I'm on near constant watch over here." Sirius said and James nodded waving it away and he crawled over to the edge of his bed t watch the door.

"No one's anywhere near the door, so unless Moody comes by and looks through the wall with that creepy eye of his we're good to go." James said giving Sirius the thumbs up.

Sirius changed on the bed and within two second a large black dog was in his place. James looked away from the door and studied the dog for several seconds. Sirius tried to move but he was missing his back legs and couldn't walk. He laid down on the bed and whined he now figured out what James was trying to do.

"Its okay, Pads," James said and walked over to the bed, now abandoning the door.

The dog whined again and rolled over onto his side.

"Here, I'll change too, just like old times then." James said and within seconds a large proud stag was standing next to the bed.

The two animals played near the bed, Sirius of course never leaving but he nipped at James and make small barking noises as not to alert anyone else. They had no idea how long they played around for but at one point they were so busy playing they began to ignore the door. While they played they failed to notice the door knob turn and they only noticed it when it opened.

James froze like a deer, or stag rather, in the headlights. Sirius backed up and bared his teeth slightly, if they were actually thinking they would have immediately changed back to human but they were going on pure instinct. Lucky for them, the ones who entered were no threat.

"Oh honestly." Lily said as she shut the door behind her, Laura and Peter quickly. "You're in a highly populated building, are you that stupid?" She asked and sat on James's bed.

The two boys bowed their heads down and changed back. "Sorry Lily, we were just trying to have some fun. Hard to come by now days, you know." He said.

Her face softened and she looked at both of them with sympathy. "How are you doing? Are you both okay?"

Before Sirius could answer with 'yes' James beat him to it. "No," he said. "We're not, but I know that Rem wouldn't want us mourning and crying for ever, he would want us to have fun." James said holding back more tears that threatened to run down his face. "But what about you? Are you two okay?"

"As good as we could be." Laura said sitting down on a chair between the two beds. "I can't really say we're fine."

"But we're coping, we just came by for a few minutes, they won't let us stay much longer that that." Lily said.

There was a silence for several minutes, non of them had had such an uncomfortable silence between them. Normally one of the others would do something, they would talk about their next full moon adventure, Andy and Remus would start snogging, Heather would insult Sirius and they would begin to argue but now... nothing was happening. They could start a Quidditch conversation but now their team was cut short, they were missing a beater and a keeper. They didn't have a complete team without them.

"You remember when we found the last secret passage to Zonkos?" James said suddenly.

"Yeah," Peter said nodding. "We were running from – "

"Peeves." Sirius said. "It was after that we made the Marauders Map, took forever to do. What about that race, we always snuck to see if our sixth year and fifth. James won."

"It was fixed." Lily said. "There were seekers in that race there was no way a chaser could have won."

"I'm as good as any seeker out there; you remember that snitch I nicked fifth year?"

"Oh yes we all remember that bloody thing." Laura grinned.

The group laughed and reminisced for a few more minutes before a healer walked in and ushered the ladies and Peter back to their rooms, promising that he would try and get them all in a room together. They all said their goodbyes and walked out, the healer told to try and get some sleep, it was getting late.

The boys nodded and drank the dreamless sleep potion the healer left behind. In minutes they were asleep for the night.

"James... please... please, wake up..." He heard the familiar voice of Lily saying. "I don't know what I'd do if you were to die on me..." She sounded like she had been crying. "Please, just wake up for me... just for a few seconds just to show me you're still in there... Oh Merlin, I don't even know if you can hear me... Can you...?" She asked

James wanted to open his eyes and tell her he could hear her, every word but he couldn't. He couldn't move at all, he couldn't talk, just like all the other times this had happened, he could only hear.

"Oh of course you can't," she sighed. "James... you just have to wake up. I love you so much, just please wake up. If you don't wake up for me then wake up for Sirius, Remus, Peter, your parents, anyone I don't care just wake up." He heard her said and he noticed he now began hearing sniffling noises. She was crying.

Her sobs faded away into silence once again as he was pulled out of the dream like state and he woke up confused. How could he have dreamt that? He had drunk a dreamless sleep potion. He had used them before they were very effective. Before he could linger on this subject longer he noticed he wasn't alone in the room and it wasn't just the still sleeping Sirius next to him.

Looking up he saw the thee ghosting floating as always at the foot of his bed. When they entered it seemed that the room became brighter on his side but it remained dark on Sirius's side. James studied the three for a moment, they looked different and then he realized it.

Rather then they all looking how they had when they died they were in Hogwarts uniforms. They al looked like they had in Hogwarts, maybe sixth year? James guessed, they looked just like he remembered, Remus had the uniform on properly, expect for the untucked shirt under the vest, his slacks were ironed, his tie was the right length. Andy and Heather on the other hand wore they uniforms sloppily more like James and Sirius wore theirs.

The only thing in James's opinion that was right was the high gray socks, marry jane styled shoes and skirt. Their ties were off, shirts untucked... James had to smile at the image. They all looked like they were sitting under the big tree near the lake, even their clothes were spread out around them in the air where they sat.

"James you rock." Andy spoke first. "Thanks really, I was getting pissed at the stuff I Had on".

"You're doing good." Remus said smiling. "You're remembering us the way we should be remembered." He picked up a broom from behind him. It was his broom, it looked newer then it did now, just a couple years old. "Thinking of Quidditch?" He asked as Andy pulled a bludger bat out from behind her and Heather a Gryffindor sign.

"Always am." James replied with a faint smile and then noticed between them lay a piece of blank parchment James knew well. "What are you doing with the map?"

"The way you remember us, we're in Hogwarts," Remus said. "We're the appearing the way you want to see us, and a Marauder needs his map."

"Besides maybe we'll head over to Hogwarts," Heather said with a grin. "We could pull some ghost pranks."

"Let's see who's in." Remus said and tapped the map with a wand he took out of his back pocket. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." He said and words began appearing on the cover. He opened it and looked around. "Says here Nymph is in her common room." He said and pointed to the Hufflepuff common room where a set of foot prints was staying still and a tag next to it saying Nymphadora Tonks. Maybe we should pay her a visit."

"Looks like Samantha's in, remember her, she must be in seventh or sixth year. She always followed Candi around." Andy said looking at the map Remus was holding.

"I remember that bitch," Heather said. "Always hung around Candi, then Bellatrix, then Narssicia, then Candi, then Bellatrix, then Narssicia pick a bloody group for cripes sake."

"Remember when we threw Bellatrix in the lake?" Andy asked.

"Oh yeah, that was fun." Heather laughed.

"Way I remember it you two went in as well." James smirked at them.

"Yes but we didn't mind getting a little wet." Heather said.

"Yes you did you were both snapping at everyone for the rest of the day." Remus said lowering the map.

"Shut up." Andy said and pushed the back of his head making hid hair fall in his eyes.

Remus smiled and ran his hand through his hair to free his line of vision of it. "Well Prongs, lovely chatting with you but we gotta go."

"Why?" James asked, he didn't want them to leave, it was like just talking to them, like they were alive again.

"We can't hang around forever, but we'll be back." Heather said.

"See you, mate." Remus said as they stood up, straightening their uniforms and as they began walking away they faded completely away.

James looked at the spot where they left and all the light in the room went away. It was once again dark as it should have been in the middle of the night. He looked over to see Sirius still fast asleep, he laid his head down and closed his eyes. Now realizing just how tired he was and he fell back asleep.

Lisa: All those memories they were talking about were actual chapters in 'From Beginning to End' so if you care to look back and reread them feel free.

Heather: All of them funny, good chapters.

Lisa: I was picking chapters at random from that story too do and reading those it was so weird. Still at Hogwarts... always worrying about when to have exams and homework moments... now I don't have to worry about it!

Heather: Anyway, everyone review and all that good stuuf it would make Lisa happy and when she's happy she's giddy and well... when she's giddy she frightens me but when she's giddy she writes more.

Lisa: So very true. By the way guys now that I finished all my other soties I've been workin on this one a lot. So that explains my quick updates and I'm already workin on the next chap.