"Lily, I think I'm going mad, you?" Remus said, grinning like an idiot.
"I think I'm good, what's up with you?" Lily asked.
"I took the Felix Felicis."
"Well, no wonder you seem so much like a maniac right now." Lily said, beaming over to James, Sirius and Peter.
Lily had recently taken more time to hang out with the rest of the marauders after what happened with Severus.
She had to admit, they weren't all that bad when they weren't trying to make absolute fools of themselves.
"Hey Evans!" Prongs called, messing with his hair and approached Lily. "Coming to the quidditch game tomorrow?"
"Who isn't, Potter?" Lily chuckled and crossed her arms. "It's Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw."
"Which makes it better than the Hufflepuff and Slytherin match," said Sirius. "because we'd be playing this time."
"Yeah, yeah. It's hogsmeade weekend next week. You guys have a date?" Lily asked, smiling at the four boys.
"I'm going with Dorcas." Peter responded, turning a bright red.
"I was hoping you would come with, Evans." James asked, smiling at the red haired girl.
"Alright. As long as you aren't drawing too much attention to yourselves." And with that, James' eyes widened and he shook his head.
"Is this the real Lily Evans? Am I talking to a clone? Someone polyjuiced as Lily?"
Lily laughed, grabbed his collar and kissed him hard.
"Okay, you're definitely not Lily Evans." Sirius said, wide eyed and giddy at the sight of James finally getting what he wanted the past three years.
"Remus, library?" Lily asked, blushing as red as a tomato.
"Yeah, I'm coming." The werewolf replied and the two of them left the other three behind in utter shock and disbelief of what just happened.
"Did I just get kissed by the one and only Evans?"
Remus and Lily met up in the library, just mere minutes after meeting the other marauders.
"Did you really just kiss him?" Remus said, eyebrow raised and chuckling. Lily looked unamused but remained a certain shade of red.
"Yes, I did. But it's not about my issues right now, it's about yours." Lily concluded, trying her most stern look, but ultimately failed. Remus couldn't help himself, and burst out in a laugh that made Lily laugh as well.
"Right, sorry Lily, it's just-" Remus stopped himself from laughing and sat with a bright smile.
"It's fine. Anyway, yeah, I snogged him. But he was so cute then and there that I just- you understand." Lily explained to a Remus that brought his wand and summoned Lily's plans.
"I understand. Now, let's get to work." The marauder flicked his wand and the papers flew in front of them, swarming to become a very organized animated diagram with backup systems. One showed a very detailed Remus and Sirius in the astronomy tower, another showed them in the potions classroom, with a big green check coloured with wet ink.
"Where were we?" Lily started, scanning the line of papers until she found what she was looking for; a diagram of him and Sirius with James' invisibility cloak.
In the common room, Remus sat on the floor, finishing herbology homework. It was currently nine-o-clock and the Felix Felicis had not worn off just yet.
"Moony, stop doing homework and let's do something fun!" The grey-eyed boy called to Remus, who sighed and nearly drew a line over the parchment.
"Padfoot, the full moon is approaching, can't you wait till after?"
"Say, where did James go?" Wormtail questioned, playing absentmindedly with a quill in his hands.
"Probably off with Evans somewhere, snogging it up." Remus said, and both Peter and Sirius laughed. It felt unusual to be saying such thing, as no one actually thought it would happen. But Remus did. He knew Lily's plans. And again, Remus felt the Felix Felicis start another trail of endless possibility, and Remus followed.
"Hey Pads, I do have something fun to do. But it may require James' invisibility cloak."
"Are you kidding me?" Sirius exclaimed, lifting the invisibility cloak over his head. The two boys had taken Prongs' invisibility cloak and had left the common room at night to visit the astronomy tower. "Isn't it too cold?" Sirius asked, shaking in his boots.
"Who knew that the amazing, punk rocker Sirius Black could possibly get cold?" Remus said, and both boys laughed heartily.
There was a pregnant pause and none of the two spoke. Remus looked up at the half-moon that formed under the clouds. It was fact that Remus never fully got to enjoy the moon, merely because of the fact that even if he did see it during it's full, he would change into a monstrous beast the second after.
"Why did you bring me up here, Moons?" Sirius asked, breaking the silence and sitting down on the stone beneath him. It was nearly as cold as the air that blew around them, causing him to shiver at its touch. Remus sighed at looked at Sirius, who looked back at Remus. Remus also sat on the hard floor, bringing his knees up to his chest.
"I come up here when you, prongs and wormtail are sleeping. With Lily sometimes as well." The brown haired boy said, smiling at the other boy that was looking directly at him.
"How'd you get past me? I'm a light sleeper." The grey eyed boy chuckled and Remus shrugged.
"I dunno. I'm very quiet, I suppose."
Both marauders sat in the silence once more, then Sirius spoke up again.
"Hey, you never told me what your amortentia smelt like." He asked Remus, lying down on the cold stone floor.
Remus quickly remembered what Lily had showed him in her plans in the library the night before and said,
"Like you." The green eyed boy responded, and Sirius instantly sat up and looked for a long while at the boy in front of him. Remus slowly stiffened awkwardly and watched as Padfoot's mouth opened and closed, as if he was trying to say something. There was another long pause before anyone said anything, then Sirius said "Well, mine smelt like dusty books and dog fur.". Remus stood up this time, and so did Sirius. Both boys stood in silence again before Sirius grabbed Remus and kissed him for the greatest three seconds of his life and smiled. The two boys gleefully chatted the night away and eventually, fell asleep.
"Remus-" Lily called into the common room in the morning to not find Remus, or Sirius anywhere within the walls of the room. However, she did find two smirking teenagers looking over a price of parchment on the floor.
"Potter, Pettigrew." The green eyed girl greeted to the boys that now looked at her. "Have you seen Remus?" She asked and shortly after was a laugh that came from James, along with a shy smile that came from Peter.
"Actually, you wouldn't believe where he left to last night, and who with. I've been watching them since we came back last night, they hadn't moved." The boy with glasses responded, smiling alongside Wormtail.
"Was it Sirius?" Lily said, examining the two boy's faces. She was fairly good at guessing, especially when it came down to Remus. And if he did follow her plans, then she knew exactly what went on up there.
"Yup. Wonder whatever they were doing up there." Peter answered, no longer looking at the gryffindor girl and instead at the map.
As if by default, the door opened and out came two tired boys who looked somewhat happy.
"Padfoot, there you are!" James exclaimed, hugging Padfoot who smiled gleefully at Moony.
"Remus, did I miss something-?" Lily started but Remus put a finger to her mouth and shushed her.
"I'm going to sleep for the rest of the day. Padfoot, you in?" Remus yawned and walked up to the boys dormitory.
"Yeah. Lying on stone is very uncomfortable. Who knew?" Sirius followed and Lily sniggered. "Pretty much everyone. It's common sense."
Maybe it really was a good idea to put faith in Lily Evans.