Lily Evans walked towards her boyfriend in the common room. She still found it odd to call him that after years of hating him- but now was not the time for reminiscing, she had a job to do.
James looked up at her with that dazzlingly brilliant smile of his, 'don't get distracted Lily! Focus!' she thought as she continued towards him. He stood as she neared, and, returning his smile, she grabbed his hand and pulled him away from Peter who was slouched over some homework.
They wandered down to the grounds. It was the Christmas holidays, most of the Hogwarts population had gone home, but the Marauders and Lily were among the few who had stayed, so the grounds were practically empty, only a small group of second years where having a snowball fight by the lake.
Lily lead James to a bench and sat down. He placed himself next to her, suddenly looking cautious.
"Have I done something?" James looked at her with genuine fear in his eyes, she laughed lightly at him and shook her head. Relief washed over his face, before being filled with confusion, "What is it then?"
"Well, I've been told something by a certain someone-" Lily began but was interrupted by James.
"Well you've got to mean Remus or why would you be talking to me about it?"
"Yes, it's Remus. But, I think, that I should help him. And who can help me more than his best friend?" Lily said with a grin any Marauder would be proud of.
"Ah, so you want me to help you meddle in Remus' life? But if so, you are going to have to tell me the secret."
"Fine, but you have to promise not to tell ANYBODY!" James nodded at her, "Say it!"
"I promise not to tell anybody Remus' secret which you, who I imagine promised a similar thing to Remus, are about to tell me."
"Good, and this is a pretty big secret, just try not to overreact... Remus has feelings -" a small gasp escaped from James' mouth, "-for Sirius."
James stared blankly over Lily's shoulder, his face poker straight. After a few minutes he look at Lily and started trying, and failing, to form words.
"Yes James. He likes Sirius. And I've been noticing some of Sirius' behaviour recently (and by noticing I mean watching out for) and, unless I'm very mistaken, Sirius may feel the same way."
James' face was horror struck: partly because he had just found out his best friends possibly really liked each other, also because he hasn't picked up on it, yet his girlfriend did. Had James been turning a blind eye to it for all these years? He forced himself to think back.
He remembered all those times Sirius would drape his legs across Remus in the common room. All those times he would catch Sirius staring intently at Remus during class. Those couple of times he found Sirius curled up next to an exhausted Remus after a full moon in human form instead of as Padfoot. That time back in fourth year when a third year asked Remus out on Valentines Day and Sirius had gotten very annoyed at Remus, and after shouting at the small girl for bothering them, stormed off to the dormitory. James realised just how stupid he had been..
And then there was Lily, who had realised all this (with help from Remus) and had decided she wanted to meddle in their complicated feelings. James was impressed with her Marauder-ish ways.
"Okay, let's do it then. Let's get them together." James said, sharing in Lily's mischievous grin.
"Right, well we need to get Sirius aware of his feelings first. That's your job. You talk to him, as soon as possible. Make sure you are alone and tell him..." the pair quickly began planning and the snow settled around them and the sky turned grey.
Up in Gryffindor tower, all of the people staying over Christmas had headed of to bed, leaving a sulking Sirius, and the other two Marauders, who were sat by the fire, Remus reading and Peter shovelling food down his throat.
Remus shut his book suddenly, making a dozing Peter jump. After a murmured apology, Peter scurried off to the dorm. Sirius barely noticed as Remus slid into the chair opposite him. After the full moon, Sirius had gone back to being cold with him, so Remus ended up in pretty much the same position he was a few weeks ago.
"Look, Sirius, I'm sick of this. Why do we have to fight over this? It's so stupid, I can't stand not being your friend. And I know you're annoyed because I won't tell you what me and Lily were talking about, but it's so stupid and not important, I don't even know why I bothered Lily with it to be honest. But Sirius, I just can't tell you right now. And I'm sorry. But please, please, just talk to me again?" as Remus spoke to Sirius, his voice sounded the way it always did, soft and with a slight hint of his professor voice, yet Sirius could see the pain in his eyes, he knew Remus was hurting without him. He thought about the first time he heard Remus talk in a voice other than this one: when Remus is incredibly happy or trying not to burst out laughing, you could hear it in his voice. This voice was very rare, and Sirius liked to think he was the sole cause of it. He pushed away these thoughts in order to reply to Remus.
"Sure, I forgive you," he said with a small smile that turned into a wide grin as Remus flung his arms around Sirius' neck. Sirius' barking laughter was muffled by Remus' shirt. Remus quickly pulled back, a slight blush in his cheeks. Still smiling, the pair headed for the dorms.
A/N thank you so much to those who have reviewed! So as promised, this chapter was written as soon as I could, what do you think?