So you should all know that these are all just clips of what happens after the study date(s) the same day.

Chapter 46: Friday

"Hey, Sirius," James said greeting him with a ruffle of the hair. Only James could get away with touching Sirius' hair. Sure enough though, Sirius swatted James away, managing only to make him laugh.

"What are you doing?" James asked sinking into the couch cushions of the common room.

"Writing a letter to my mum." Sirius answered with a glint in his eye.

James snorted raising an eyebrow. "Why?"

"I thought you hated your family." Lily said crossing her legs from her spot next to James.

"I do. I also thought you weren't talking to me?"

"I'm not."

"Well, I'm confused., Sirius frowned looking back at his short letter.

"Don't tell me, Pady-Waddy misses his mummy," James teased.

Sirius mock laughed for a moment. "Yeah that's it." he replied sarcastically.

"Really though. Why are you writing home?" James asked leaning over to read the scribble.

"Because, my dear friend, it will piss her off." James chuckled shaking his head.

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard," Lily told him.

"Vanilla, darling," Sirius began, "If you'd ever met my mother. You'd understand."

"Vanilla?" Lily asked.

"Unless you'd prefer Toadstool?"

"Lily would be good."

"Whatever," Sirius waved her off. "I just want the two of you to know, that you are the reason for this letter."

"We are?" James demanded skeptically.

"Yes. Prongs you are. It's you who had to get together with her. Leaving me to write to it." Sirius said pointing to James, then Lily, then he placed a hand over his chest until he waved a hand at the parchment.

"That's ridiculous." Lily scoffed.

"Well, it is, Sirius. Although, what ridiculous thing did he do this time?" Remus asked entering the room with Ambre.

"He's writing a letter to him mum." James told him.

"No, really, what did he do?"

"Oh, hardy-har-har. He's serious." Sirius said.

"You're really writing a letter to you mum?" Remus asked. "Why, is she dying?"

"Maybe he finally realized that he's a noble member of the Black legacy," James teased.

"He finally wants to hang a house elf head in the hall," Remus added.

"Sing carols with dear cousin Belatrix," James continued.

"Apologize for running off,"

"Kiss his daddy g'night,"

"Clean the kitchen after super,"

"See, this is the reason I can't try to be sincere." Sirius informed his friends.

"Sincere my arse." James snickered yanking the parchment of the table. "Mum," He read, "I'd like to say Happy Hanukkah."

"You're mums not Jewish," Remus said.

"I think that's the point," James pointed out before going back to the letter, "I'm not sure if you heard, but Gryffindor is going to be winning the house cup this year. There's no way Slytherin is going to be able to take it from us," James stopped. "You must have a death wish."

"It doesn't matter. She's already blown my face off the family tree. 'Sides that letter was mostly for laughs." Sirius said snatching the letter back.

"So, you just spent all that time writing something you weren't even going to send?" Remus asked.

"Your right. I need to find myself a girlfriend. Now that Jamie isn't speaking to me."

"Sirius!" Lily scolded. "You can't just continue to date what ever girl strikes your fancy. We're not chocolate. You can't just take a bite of one, and move on to the next. We are not a sample dish."

Sirius blinked at her, his brow creasing. "I know your not, Lily. James has made that perfectly clear. You are strictly off limits." Behind Lily, James was making frantic gestures trying, in vain, to get his friend to shut up. "And I'm not sampling. I'm just dating around. You know, having a little fun."

James held his hands up in a, what-the-hell-are-you-thinking, way. Sirius just shrugged unashamed.

"What do you mean I'm off limits?" Lily asked. It wasn't so much that that bothered her. Just the fact that the idea of her being off limits seemed to be drilled into Sirius' head. "How long have I been off limits?"

"Well," Sirius began sensing her furry. He looked past Lily at James who was shaking his head.

"How long Sirius?" Lily's voice was clipped and harsh.

"Er,"

"Sirius." Now it was a warning. But he wasn't giving any answers. She turned around to James. He rubbed the back of his neck, smiling nervously.

"Off limits?" Lily inquired. The girl's dormitory had been a tense place to live, under the circumstances, and this was not helping.

"Excited for the game tomorrow?" James asked in a vain attempt to move the conversation.

"No. How long?"

James grimaced mumbling, "Since third year."

"Third..." Lily began, but Jamie and Mary stormed in.

"You're just jealous!" Jamie shouted.

"HA! That's rich." Mary spat.

"Admit it! You still love him!" They reached the end of the small hall, exposing themselves to the room. Mary saw, for the first time, that Sirius was in the room. She inhaled sharply running up to the dorm.

"I think she's over reacting." Sirius said.

"That's a change." snarled Jamie. "Considering you're the reason."

"What's got your britches in a bunch?"

"Well, it sure as hell isn't you,"

"Sounds like someone's got Sirius on her mind." Sirius said, managing, somehow, to grin. Jamie glared at him, they could almost feel the dense cold radiating off her.

"Fuck you Sirius." Although Jamie's voice was dead, everyone could hear the malice lying beneath.

"I would. But you've taken care of that for me." He winked. Jamie's eyes sparked, her jaw clenching grinding her teeth into grain. Her hands closed in forming tight fists, her nails digging into her palm. She tried to take a deep breath to steady herself.

"Ryley broke up with me!" Mary shrieked at Jamie.

"So?"

"It's all your fault!"

"Oh please. Are you always this dramatic? He probably broke up with you because you're so bloody emotional."

"I am not!"

"What this? You are over emotional and dramatic."

"Well, I guess it's better than being a whore."

In the boys dormitory that night, Remus pulled back his blankets, Peter scurried up the sheet, transforming from a brown rat into a boy once under the quilt. Sirius climbed out from under his bed, an old t-shirt he had declared missing a week ago, in his teeth. He was in his shaggy black dog animagus form. He threw it up on the bed before jumping up himself and turning into a human.

"Does this smell to you?" Sirius asked throwing the shirt at James after having taken a whiff himself. James took the shirt giving a quick sniff. His face instantly contorting into disgust.

"It smells like your feet after Quidditch."

"That's what I thought!"

"If you thought it smelled like feet why did you ask James to sniff it?" Remus asked.

"I needed a second opinion." Sirius answered as if that should have been obvious. He caught the shirt again, only to ball it up.

"What do you think it smells like Moony?" Sirius asked throwing it in his face. Remus put his hands up to shield him, but the stench reached his noise.

"Thats disgusting!" Remus cried throwing it back in Sirius's general direction. "I didn't need to smell it." Sirius burst into laughter as he reached onto the floor to scoop up the offending t-shirt.

"Wormy?" Sirius began, balling the clothing up again. Peter squeaked quickly transforming into a rat and hiding under his blankets, the small rodent appeared again jumping onto his school trunk.

"That's cheating!" Sirius bellowed. He jumped off his bed morphing into a dog. He charged at the rat, chasing him around the skirt of the large four poster, under the bed then up on the mattress again.. Sirius growled, barking up a storm. James had already cast a silencing charm at the door, so as not to draw attention to their dorm.

The black monstrous dog yapped as he got himself tangled up in the blankets. One second all Remus and James could see from their blurry, tear filled eyes, was a struggling dog and the next large feet hanging out from under the bedding.

"I'll get you Worms." Sirius threatened fighting off the blanket. Peter changed too, but he was sitting fearfully behind James. Sirius continued to wrestle, and was sadly loosing. He arched and threatened, cursed and thrashed, managing to roll off the bed with a loud crash. Pushing the quilt away Sirius sat up quickly, looking confused.

"You should have seen yourself!" James panted, unable to breath from the laughter. He tried to take some deep breaths. "Oh, I can't breath," Sirius glared at him launching himself from the floor at James.

He managed to pin James, making Peter jump from the bed instantly getting excited as his two friends goofed, rolling around, fighting.

At one point, James and Sirius landed on the floor near the door, James managed to get the upper hand and was sitting on top of Sirius, spit hanging out of his mouth when Lily walked in the door.

"James, can I..." She paused taking in the scene. "What are you doing?"

"Lily." James sat up wiping away the saliva with the back of his hand. Sirius took this moment to throw him self over James holding his arms over his head. James looked past Sirius's body to Lily. "What's up?" He asked casually.

"Nothing. Well I mean," She bit her lip. "Sirius, could you get off him?" Sirius looked over at her smiling.

"Sorry." He sat himself onto the ground beside where James lay.

"Everything alright?" He asked her propping himself up.

"Mostly. Mary and Jamie have been fighting and I can't get to sleep. Do you mind if I hang in here for a bit?"

"Um," James exchanged a look with each of the Marauders. "Sure."

"Thanks." Lily said tentatively entering the room. James stood up grabbing her hand and closing the door. He led her the short distance to his bed where he threw himself down allowing her to crawl on beside him.

Sirius got up as well going to his own bed. He sprawled out on his stomach propping up his elbows and resting his head in his palms, in a very girl way. He batted his eyelashes.

"So," He heaved a great sigh.

"Ignore him." James advised frowning at the bed beside him. It's occupant batted his eyelashes some more smiling. James slowly turned to Lily. "You sure you're okay?"

"I'm fine." Lily assured him. She felt a little weird being in his room. All the other boys were looking at her.

"I'm going to sleep." Remus said breaking the silence and pulling his blanket over his head and flopping to his side.

"WAIT!" Sirius shrieked suddenly making them all jump.

"Bloody hell. What?" Remus demanded bolting up.

"We never got to me." Sirius explained.

"What are you talking about?" James demanded. Sirius slouched sighing agitated.

"The meeting! It must recommence!" Sirius clarified.

"But a non-Marauder is present." Peter said.

"It's his girlfriend." Sirius waved him off. "I had something important to share."

"Go for it." James suggested. Sirius opened his mouth excited, then slowly frowned closing it.

"You can't remember it can you?" James guessed.

"Nope." Sirius agreed shortly..

"Excused until recovered."

"Can I go to sleep then?" demanded Remus.

"Proceed." James said. Remus rolled his eyes once again getting comfortable. Sirius continued to frown at his sheets.

"I swear it was important." he mumbled.

"Let it go and maybe it will come to you." Lily tipped, but he just stuck out his lip concentrating.

"Don't hurt yourself." James teased, hardly noticed by Sirius.

"What was it?"

"Wow. I don't think I've ever seen him concentrate so hard." Lily mentioned.

"It is pretty impressive isn't it?"

Lily nodded crossing her legs. "I'm sorry about just barging in here."

"Don't worry about it. Innocent until proven otherwise."

"Are you training to be a lawyer?" Lily asked him.

"No. Sorry, it's just fun to talk like that for a bit." James apologized. Sirius gasped raising a finger causing Lily and James to look at him.

"No, that wasn't i,." he shook his head going back to frowning at his bed. James grinned at him shaking his head.

"Watch, at three in the morning he's going to remember and wake me up to tell me." James whispered.

Sirius looked at James, "Did I tell you about flooding that one closet?"

"Yes." James answered.

"Damn."

"How long can this go on?" Lily asked watching Sirius.

"Days if it's really important."

"Really?"

"It's only happened once."

"Filches cat!"

"What about her?"

"I don't know. Were we planning to do anything with it?"

"I don't think so."

"Hmm.. Never mind."

"How can you just ignore this?" Lily asked finding it very amusing.

"After a while it gets old. But sometimes he comes up with some strange and funny stuff."

"Did it have anything to do with Quidditch?" Sirius asked.

"I don't know."

"Whose going to the world cup?"

"Remember, Cannons lost, Foulmouth won, a few teams in the middle. The season's over."

"Right." Sirius agreed. "What are the chances I needed to talk about my family?"

"Slim."

"Thought so."

"Did it have something to do with school Quidditch?" Lily offered.

Sirius shook his head. "I just blurt those things out."

"Sleep on it." James suggested.

"I won't be able to sleep with this on my mind! I'm going to brush my teeth." With that Sirius left.

"So Mary and Jamie aren't taking the situation well?" James asked.

"Nope. But I think the situation is over. It's just the after affects they have to get through now."

"Snivy!" Sirius called with a mouth full of toothpaste.

"We haven't needed to talk about him all year. At least not in a double M." James said.

"Double M?" asked Lily.

"Marauder Meeting." James explained..

"Neber mind." He disappeared back into the small bathroom.

"Are they going to be able to forgive each other?" James asked.

"Who?"

"Jamie and Mary."

"Oh. Um, I don't know. I mean, I hope so. I love 'em both, but this was pretty big." Lily said.

"Maybe," Sirius began, entering the room again. "I wanted to talk about our plans for after graduation."

"What plans? They're all solved."

"You two have plans?" Lily asked.

"Sorta. We were just going to rent a flat together in London. Talk to Dumbledore about joining the Order." James answered.

"The Order?"

"It's this secret society," James began.

"That fights against Moldy."

"Moldy?" Lily questioned.

"You-Know-Who." explained James.

"No, I don't know...Ah." It took a second but Lily got it.

"That's mostly our plan until either of us gets married." James finished. "You sure are out of it."

"Sorry. I'm a bit tired."

"It's been a long day." James agreed.

"It's probably going to be you." Sirius said suddenly.

"Huh?" James asked.

"Your going to be the one to marry and move on."

James grinned at Lily and she leaned into him. "Probably." He agreed wrapping an arm around her waist.

"Yeah, okay you two, break it up." Sirius grumbled.

"Jealous Sirius?" Lily teased hugging James.

"You'd better watch her." Sirius said pointing to her warningly. James just shrugged kissing the top of Lily's head.

James bent down whispering, "I love you," in Lily's ear. A slight blush crept up her neck.

"I love you too." She whispered back. He kissed her gently, running a hand through her hair. Sirius cleared his throat loudly making them part.

"Would you like me to leave?" He asked. Peter too had fallen decided to go to sleep.

"Your fine Sirius." Lily assured him. Somehow, despite what he did and the way he'd pulled her friends apart, she couldn't be mad at him.

"Notes!" Sirius exclaimed. James raised his eyebrows so he elaborated, "Remus needed to borrow her history notes."

"Oh yeah. Remind him tomorrow."

"What do I look like? A post it note?" Sirius objected.

"Then remind me to remind him."

"Still feeling like a post it."

"I'll remind you." Lily offered. "Although why does he need my notes? Didn't he take any?"

"We were having a double M. He didn't take any, you don't mind?" James inquired.

"Nah. I don't mind.. I like Remus."

"Oh? There's not going to be competition is there?" James teased.

"Maybe." Lily giggled.

"G'night." Sirius said pulling his curtain around his bed closed. Lily and James stayed up a few more hours talking before falling asleep themselves.

Wow. Three thousand words! And I'd like to mention that I really do remember having Sirius have something he needed to say, but then I couldn't remember what that something was! So you get this instead. I think this is better. I went back the other day, and I only got 2 reviews for the chapter, Boneless I want more please. So double duty for you lot! Review this chapter, AND Boneless (it's chapter 4)