Warning: Drunken teens, references and innuendos but nothing to raise the rating.

Chapter 20: Together

Lily and Marlene were slightly tipsy when they arrived at the Leaky Cauldron later that evening. They had decided to start early by making a dent in Marlene's Dad's Firewhiskey supply. Lily arrived first slightly surprised she managed to Apparate in gracefully when she was slightly intoxicated, Marlene however Apparated on a top of a table which promptly collapsed sending her and the Hag that was eating at the table, flying.

"Oops." She giggled and waved her wand fixing the table and helped the poor old hag to her feet. "Sorry Tom."

Tom – the landlord, shook his head it was the first real day of the summer holidays he had seen worse - Mainly teachers and graduating students. "Your dates are outside." He gestured towards the back with the glass he was cleaning, "They're a bit more worse off than you, I had no choice but to chuck them out."

Lily and Marlene giggled and headed outside, Lily opened the entrance to Diagon Alley giggling as the wall folded back. They were finding everything funny. They became slightly giggly when alcohol had been consumed.

They were barely two steps into the quiet alley when they were jumped on by two extremely happy boys. Sirius jumped on Marlene's back and nibbled her ear, whilst James – who knew better than to literally jump on Lily held out his hand in a gentlemanly manner and bowed. This made Lily giggle even more.

Lily took the offered hand and James Disapparated with Sirius right behind, the girls didn't know where Sirius' flat was and had arrange to meet in Diagon Alley so the boys could take them there.

They arrived in a brightly decorated living room with two armchairs, a sofa and a fireplace. Music was pouring out a muggle record player and paper sleeves were lying all over the floor. Peter was sat in the midst of the sleeves looking at the songs and deciding which one to play next.

Remus was in the kitchen acting as barman, he had a variety of different bottles and was currently experimenting with muggle vodka and butterbeer.

Sirius led Marlene over to the sofa and sat down pulling her close to him, James asked Lily to dance who giggled and nodded in response. Giggling even more when James grabbed her waist and started slow dancing to a loud fast pace rock song.

"I didn't think your parents would allow you to come." Sirius whispered, but then spoke normally when Marlene indicated she couldn't hear him over the music.

"There are rules." Sirius widened his eyes and Marlene continued. "No illegal drinking."

Sirius barked out a laugh and Remus chuckled as he handed Marlene a glass of some unquestionable substance.

"We have to sleep in separate beds."

"Who says we'll be sleeping?" He replied nibbling her ear again.

"And I have to be home by eleven."

"Evil parents." Sirius stood up and address the room at large, "I live in London, lets go party. Frank and Alice are meeting us in a nightclub in Strand. Let's go!"

Lily stepped away from a drunk James and shared a look with Remus, the werewolf had spotted the minor flaw as well. "We're all under age in the muggle world." Remus said ever the responsible one - he could always hold his drink better than the boys.

"Well we all have Apparating Licenses we just use an illusion charm to change the date and make them more muggle and we'll be fine. Plus they never ask for ID anyway that's just a silly muggle superstition to scare teens into not going out clubbing. Anyway Alice and Frank are both eighteen, they can just go to the bar and get our drinks for us." Sirius' argument won over his friends with muggle backgrounds.

James smiled and bowed once again to Lily. "My Lady? Your carriage awaits."

Lily giggled and when Peter had scurried over to Remus the six of the Disapparated.

"I think someone should take Peter home!" James yelled over the pounding of music. Peter was looking a bit worse for wear the youngest member was currently huddled over a bin, pale faced and clammy.

Sirius sighed. "I'll do it, nobody else would be able to get in, the wards I've set up restricted anyone flooing or Apparating if I'm not there."

"I follow right behind." Marlene said helping Peter up so Sirius could hold him properly.

"I'll set out camp-beds for the rest of you, I'll put Pete in the spare room and Remus can have the sofa...." He glanced around squinting through the strobe lighting. "Where's Frank and Alice?"

Lily answered: "They left together about an hour ago, they got fed up of bouncers walking in on them."

Sirius nodded and grasped Peter tighter. With the poor lighting and loud music nobody noticed as three teens seemed to disappear into thin air.

Shivering Marlene pulled the soft sheets of the bed up to her neck and glanced around. Sirius was asleep next to her snoring lightly and there was noises coming from the kitchen. Looking to the floor she saw clothes thrown carelessly around, she frowned when she couldn't find anything decent to wear, so settled on pulling one of Sirius' t-shirts over her head and pulling on a pair of shorts she found in a drawer.

She nipped into the bathroom and turned the shower on before walking back through the hall into the open plan living kitchen area.

Lily was teaching James how to use the television in the corner and the two of them were watching a show with a scraggy pink cat.

Remus grinned when she entered he was currently raiding the cupboard for something that contained chocolate. "Nice pyjamas" He commented chirpy, with no sign of a hangover

Marlene blushed and subconsciously pulled the t-shirt down. "I hate how you never get hung over." Her head was currently thudding, a dull reminder of what happened last night.

Lily looked up from the television; "Who's in the shower?"

"Me." Marlene replied sitting down at the counter and pouring a glass of water from the jug on the counter. James, Lily and Remus stared at her and Marlene frowned. "Oh yeah, to have a shower I kind of need to stand under it don't I?"

Lily laughed as Marlene slowly made her way towards the bathroom. Marlene didn't do mornings on most days but when you combine the morning with alcohol the night before, it takes a while before Marlene becomes fully functional.

Sirius appeared a few moments later sporting a bright green pair of boxer shorts. He sat upon the stool his girlfriend had previously vacated and poured himself a glass of water. "There's a dying cat in the bathroom." He croaked.

"That would be Marlene singing." Remus commented still raiding the cupboards. He had stopped looking for chocolate and had now settled on anything edible.

"You won't find anything mate. I need to go shopping today." Sirius said taking his water and sitting on one of the armchairs next to James and Lily who had abandoned reruns of Bagpuss and were discussing the previous night.

"Now Potter, just because I danced with you and slept in the same room as you doesn't mean anything changed. You are still as arrogant as ever and as soon as I've had a shower I will be on my way." As if on cue the bathroom door opened and Lily shot off in the direction of the bathroom grabbing her bag from the floor as she went.

Sirius raised an eyebrow and glanced at his friend. "What happened? You two were getting on so well."

James shrugged and busied himself in flicking through the channels on the television. Sirius turned to Remus for an explanation.

"After you left we went to another club and had a couple more drinks, only James was getting a bit out of it and ended up kissing Lily. At first Lily was fine with it, then she realised what happened and came back here before James could apologise. When we arrived back here Lily was asleep. James hoped she would forget about it and when we woke up everything seemed fine Lily didn't loose her temper or get angry, that's the first she mentioned it."

"You kissed Lily?" Marlene asked looking more awake than before, dressed in clothes Sirius recognised as his own - albeit more feminine, she must have altered them with magic - she had neglected to pack a change of clothes.

James moaned and collapsed back on the sofa hiding his head in a pillow. He muttered something that sounded along the lines of: "I was drunk."

Marlene sighed and walked to the cupboards. "Hey hun what's for breakfast?" Sirius shook his head and held out his arms. "Oh well then who's got muggle money, I remember seeing a café on the corner, maybe it'll be open on Sundays."

Sirius glanced at the clock above the fireplace and sighed. "Maybe you should head home, I don't want you parents grounding you on the weekend of the holidays, I would like to see you again."

Marlene followed his gaze and gasped: "Oh crap!" James and Remus stared they had never heard Marlene swear before. They also looked at the time out of curiosity, It was ten to eleven.

Marlene continued cursing profanities as she rushed out of the living area and down the corridor to the bedroom running head long into Peter who appeared rather slowly out of the spare bedroom. Marlene was sent sprawling and yelped in pain as she landed on her arse.

"Bit tender there are we?" James asked helping her up and laughing as she winced in pain.

"Shut up." She mumbled. Blushing she knocked on the bathroom door. "Lils it's me can I come in?"

There was a soft yes and Marlene let herself in and closed the door behind her. The boys could hear the girls talking faintly.

Peter swayed on his feet and looked rather green. He stared at the bathroom door wishfully. Sirius saw his look and pushed him into the living area and over to the kitchen sink, "Oi lightweight use the sink." He exclaimed before nipping into the spare room to check for any damage.

In the bathroom Marlene was frantically raking through Lily's wash-bag for something to hide the fact she had possibly broken every single one of her parents rules.

"Marlene?" Lily called from behind the shower curtain. "Did you and Sirius..."

Marlene knew what her friend was talking about and blushed. "Mmmm."

"Well I hate to be a nag but you were safe?"

"My mother's a healer, when I first started dating Sirius she gave me some things. Anyway what about you and James?"

"What about me and James? Pass a towel." The water stopped and Lily's hand appeared round the shower curtain waiting for a towel to be passed to her.

"Well you guys kissed."

"Yeah..." Marlene couldn't decide if Lily was happy about the kiss or angry, she looked annoyed but at the same time she stared dreamily as if she was remembering what happened.

Marlene would have to find out later, she had to get home before her parents sent out search parties. "I'll owl you. If you're ever near the ministry nip in and we'll do lunch."

Lily nodded and wrapped another towel round her hair. Then stopped, "Wait you're leaving me alone with that lot?"

"You don't have to stay only I have to head home before my mother jumps to conclusions." She gave her friend a quick hug, "Thanks for coming."

"I had fun." Lily replied and the look in her eyes told Marlene she was telling the truth.

Marlene slipped back out of the bathroom grabbed her purse from Sirius room and went round searching for her clothes. She found her underwear on top of the wardrobe and her dress was in the rubbish bin, she shrunk them and stuck them in her purse. Grabbing her shoes and wand she rushed into the living area. "Bye guys. Hey Sirius thanks for having me. It was nice to get together. We should do it again."

"Sure any time." He mentioned pulling her into a hug. She placed her wand and shoes on the counter and went and hugged everyone else.

She said a quick goodbye to Peter who was still perched over the sink looking very green and Disapparated. James, Remus and Sirius all watched her go then turned to the kitchen counter where her wand and shoes had been placed. They were still there.

A/N: Yay more LilyxJamesness, they are getting closer together but it'll be awhile yet before Lily admits she likes him :D As usual please review *glowers her eyes* if you don't review Sirius will come and buy you a kitten, and let you love that kitten and when you are sleeping he will sneak into your house and punch you in the face :D Sorry I couldn't help it anyone who has seen Glee will know that Sue is the best and that threat to Mr Shue is classic! I'm a Gleek and proud. Also a big hello to two new members of our family: James and Sirius the Russian dwarf hamsters :D