Hello lovelies, I present to you a super short epilogue!

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Severus was putting the finishing touches on a peace drought when Sirius finally woke up, having collapsed on the couch by the library nook across the room. He picked up his discarded shirt and yawned, putting it on but not bothering to do up the buttons, before he shuffled across the study.

"Why didn't you wake me up, Sev?" Sirius asked. He was still a little fuzzy in the head from the nap, and pressed a kiss to Severus' cheek.

"You seemed tired, after all, you fell asleep the moment your head hit the couch cushions." He returned his partner's show of affection. "Didn't even make it to the bed."

'You still should have woken me up, we're going to be late to James and Lily's." Sirius pouted, "I was going to dress up."

"I had to finish this up first," Severus explained, gesturing to the potion. It was a present for Lily, and just about ready to bottle. "Besides, you're already an attractive wizard every other day of the year, what would you dress up as?" It had become tradition among the marauders to gather on major holidays, since they were all busy, it was the only time they saw each other outside of Order duties. It helped them feel more like a united front, and despite the horrors going on around them, this Hallowe'en was no different.

"Aww... I wanted to see if I could get a rise out of Harry."

'Harry's fifteen months old. Make a face."

"I know, but after last year, I really want to outdo the three of them."

Severus rolled his eyes, pulling Sirius to him. "Face it, no one can out dress-up enthusiastic parents."

"We could always join the leagues of enthusiastic parents..."

Severus frowned, they'd had this conversation a million times since Lily first found out she was pregnant. Between his living as a double agent, starting a new job at Hogwarts next fall, and Sirius' job at the Ministry... Plus the Dark Lord was growing anxious ever since he got word from Yaxley of a new prophecy. The Potters and Longbottoms were as safe as they could be, given the circumstances, thanks to Dumbledore. "You know we can't, not yet."

"I know..."

"Soon, though. When this madness is over." He knew Sirius would make a wonderful father.

Sirius smiled, leaning into the shorter man's embrace. "I'll hold you to that promise," he murmured.

"Now," Severus said after a moment, straightening up and grabbing a bottle for the cooled potion at his work station. He pulled away to pour the mixture into the bottle. "What was this about being late to the Potter's Hallowe'en dinner?"

Sirius smiled. Severus put a cork in the bottle and tucked it into the sleeve of his robe. They grasped eat other's hands, closed their eyes and focused on Godric's Hollow, focused on a cottage with a chimney poking through the top of the roof, a stone fence grown over with ivy and a small wooden gate. It could be any house, but the cheery lights in the windows and painted mailbox claimed it as the Potter's.

The couple disappeared from their small, comfortably dark, house in Spinner's End with a crack of magic and a puff of smoke.

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So, I'm starting on the sequel soon... It'll take place during the marauders last year of school. I think I'm going to write it over the summer and try to post it on a regular basis in the fall, so we don't have to go through this three years thing again. Or maybe all at once. Not sure. I'll probably post a bonus mini chapter on here in case you don't want to/aren't following me, but are following this story once I do start posting the sequel. Unless you all think that's a horrible idea. I dunno.

Again, that you to everyone who came with me on this journey, couldn't have done it without all the positive comments and PMs, story alerts and favourites. You people are the coolest.