It was some years later. Sirius was walking briskly through Godric's Hollow on his way to see James and Lily, and the summer evening was coming to a close. As Sirius drew closer to a house that would be hidden to most other people, a sign propped out front caught his attention. He paused to read it, and chuckled to himself. "The Potters," it read. At once Sirius knew it had to have been James's idea, it was exactly the cheeky thing he would find amusing: hardly anyone would even be able to see the sign, and the few who could see it would already know whose house it was.

Shaking his head Sirius walked up to the door and knocked. A moment later Lily opened the door. "Sirius! We weren't expecting you for another couple hours."

"I couldn't wait to see my favorite godson," Sirius said with a smile.

Lily smiled back. "Harry will be delighted to see you."

"I'm sorry I couldn't make it here sooner," Sirius said, stepping inside.

"Oh don't worry about it, we know how busy you lot are. We're glad you were able to visit at all."

"Remus wanted me to let you know he's going to try to make it sometime next week."

"Oh lovely!"

Lily led the way to the living room and Sirius followed. When they entered he saw a grown man kneeling on the floor in front of a child's playpen, and a small child sitting in the pen playing with a wand.

"Harry, please, give daddy back his wand," James pleaded with his son. Sirius couldn't stop a small smile from appearing on his face. Harry laughed again, a high-pitched sound that was clearly full of happiness and enjoyment.

Lily cleared her throat. "James?"

James looked over at her, a smile on his own face, and then his eyes fell on Sirius. Several emotions flitted across his face: shock, joy, confusion, and then joy again as he jumped up and crossed the room to his best friend. He threw his arms around Sirius very enthusiastically, and Sirius staggered and had to take a step back to balance himself.

"Steady on, Prongs."

"You said you were coming at six!"

"Got away a bit early."

James finally released him as Lily approached with Harry in her arms.

"Ah, look here!" Sirius said. "How's my favorite little man?" Lily deposited the baby into Sirius's waiting arms. "He's gotten so big since I last saw him."

"Lily doesn't stop feeding him," James said.

"I feed him when he's hungry, James."

"Which is all the time. He's going to be one spoiled little kid."

"Oh, James, he's going to be fine. Just because you were spoiled doesn't mean he will be. He'll have a normal life and be raised nice and proper."

James shook his head and smiled at Sirius. "Yes, dear."

A warm breeze drifted past and blew his cloak out behind him. Despite the heat Remus shivered, and drew his cloak closer around him. It wasn't much of a cloak, in fact there was hardly any of the original cloak left as most of it had been repaired with patches, but being out of work for quite a while forced Remus to put his funds towards more important items.

Lights flashed up ahead as a building suddenly materialized. There were three Muggles on the street and none of them noticed the building's sudden appearance. Remus hadn't expected them to see it, but he breathed a sigh of relief nonetheless. When he knocked on the door he heard some scuffling inside, then he saw Lily's slightly nervous but expectant face peer through the window at him. He smiled and waved at her, and she smiled back then vanished. A few moments later the door opened and Lily greeted him with a friendly hug.

"Oh, Remus, thanks for coming. James has been so agitated just sitting here all day long, everyday," she pulled him inside and took his cloak to hang it up. "Sirius said you'd be visiting. Peter was by only a few days ago, but James just isn't meant to be kept in like this."

"I don't doubt that," Remus replied warmly. "I'm sorry I haven't been to visit earlier, but it's hard to find work when you're – well…" He trailed off, but Lily seemed to know he'd been about to say "When you're a werewolf."

"Don't worry, James will just be happy you're here to distract him. And Harry will be so excited to see you!"

"Let's not keep them waiting then," Remus said as he followed her to the living room.

"James, Remus is here."

James looked up from the paper he was reading. "Moony! It's so good to see you." He got up from the chair and gave Remus a hug.

"You too, James. It's been too long."

"How's everything going at headquarters?"

"Nothing's really changed."

"I suppose that's somewhat good."

"It's not really good or bad."

"Yeah, I know what you mean. Come into the kitchen and get something to drink."

Remus followed James into the kitchen and watched as he opened the fridge. James took out two bottles of butterbeer, popped them open, and handed one over to Remus.

"Cheers," Remus said, before drinking half of it in one go. "So how have you been?"

James shook his head and gestured around the room. "Feeling caged."

Remus frowned. "If anyone knows how you feel, James, it's me."

"I know, I just wish I was able to get once in a while."

"I know you do, but Albus is right. You and Lily need to stay safe so you can protect Harry."

"Albus knows about my cloak, though. He knows I can use it to go about and not be seen. Just to get out and get some fresh air, you know?" James snorted. "Hell, he's examining it, so maybe when he returns it he'll tell me I can use it to go outside."

Remus doubted it, but knew better than to say so. He drank from his butterbeer, and when he'd finished it James handed him another.

"How's Sirius?" James asked.

Remus thought there was an odd tone in James's voice, but ignored it. "Fine. Actually, since he came back from visiting you he seems a little troubled about something."

"What?"

"I'm not sure, anytime anyone asks him about it he's says he's fine. Perhaps he's upset about your situation as well."

James nodded, but he looked as if he was a thousand miles away.

"James? Did something happen while Sirius was here?"

"No," James said a little too quickly. "What do you mean?"

Now Remus was getting very curious. "Nothing, I was just wondering why Sirius is behaving like he is, and why you jump at the mention of something happening with him."

James looked nervous. "It's nothing, Moony."

"James, this is me you're talking to. You can tell me anything."

James still looked nervous, but he nodded. "You're right. Of course you are. There's no reason we didn't tell you, of course, I guess we just…didn't want it getting out."

"What are you talking about?"

James sighed. "Sirius and I were together in school."

"You mean…like in a relationship?"

"Yeah."

"Oh." Remus didn't know why this was supposed to matter now and he didn't know what to say. James looked like he was in desperate need of consolation, so Remus decided he needed to say something. "Are you—uh, are you guys still…?"

"No! It stopped before our seventh year. Well, there was one time when we sort of…snogged, but it was just the once and that's all we did."

"James, you were with Lily for nearly all of our seventh year."

"Yeah…she doesn't know." James looked pleadingly at Remus. "Please don't say anything. That one time was the only time he and I did anything after we broke up."

"You gotta tell her the truth."

"We only snogged," James said quietly, not wanting Lily to overhear. "Remus, the reason I even told you this was because I think I still have feelings for him."

"You what?"

"I know, but after I saw him last week I remembered all the reasons why I wanted to be with him in the first place. Please, Remus, I don't know what to do."

Remus shook his head. "I can't help you, James. You need to figure out what you want to do."

"When you go back, can you tell Sirius I need to see him? I think we'd better talk. There's no sense in throwing away everything I have if he doesn't even feel the same way. 'Cause I do love Lily, you know."

"I believe you. And I'll tell him to come visit again soon."

"Thank you, Moony."

Sirius set out for Godric's Hollow for the second time in two weeks. He was nervous about this visit, though, because Remus had told him it was very important that Sirius go and visit James again, but he wouldn't say why. Sirius very much hoped nothing was wrong.

Before Godric's Hollow, though, Sirius needed to stop by Peter's. He hadn't been showing up to the meetings and Sirius had arranged to check on him. He Apparated to the street Peter lived on, and walked up to his house. Sirius knocked on the door and waited. There wasn't even a sound inside, and Sirius knocked again. Still there was nothing, so Sirius tried to open the door. It was unlocked, and turned easily in his hand.

Sirius's sense of unease grew. He opened the door and walked in, prepared to see furniture overturned and the place a mess, but it wasn't. Everything was fine. For some reason this didn't do anything to quiet Sirius's discomfort. He searched the house, calling for Peter, but there wasn't an answer. No one was home.

Immediately Sirius Apparated to Godric's Hollow. He hurried down the street for James and Lily's house, passing by other houses that were decorated for Halloween. As he turned onto the street that headed straight for their house his fears were confirmed, because he could already see the house. There was no popping into existence this time, it was just there. And even more, it was smoking. Sirius ran down the road toward the house of his best friend.

Abrupt ending, much?

Ha, sorry about that. But yes, this is the end. We all know what comes next. I had such a difficult time writing this chapter because I wanted to continue the nice, fluffy relationship between James and Sirius, but canon ended up winning.

Hope you enjoyed it regardless!
Thanks for reading :)