1 hour – prompts used: 'broken' 'thief' 'gone' 'lies' 'tears'

Lily had stolen his heart like a thief during the night. It was quick, sudden and out of the blue but he never regretted it. One second, he'd been persuading her to try and give James a chance and the next, they'd been in a broom cupboard with her skirt bunched around her waist and his pants by his ankles. Their physical relationship grew from there, them going at it like rabbits every chance they got whilst he continually pestered her to go out with James.

Eventually, after a rather gruesome confrontation with Slytherins on patrol, James and Lily did end up together but it was only brief. A brief, short relationship that lasted only two weeks because Lily had confessed in a small argument that she was in love with someone else. That was when Sirius realised that he'd stolen her heart too.

They carried on with their lies and carried on with their purely sex relationship that had now added the part of cuddling and kissing which replaced the James pestering.

Then James and Remus found them during their patrols and Sirius had never seen so many tears. Lily was a blubbering mess, and cradled his face when James punched him repeatedly but then he too broke down, claiming that he had been betrayed.

It was worse than the sixth year incident when he'd told Snape about Moony.

They'd sat down a couple of days later as a group when James could finally bring himself to be in the same room as Sirius and explained that it hadn't been intentional. Sirius really had tried to get them together but one thing had led to another – things that they couldn't remember anymore – and here they were, in a loving relationship.

James understood, and it took him months to be okay with the duo, but eventually the Marauders were a team again and James and Lily struck up a healthy brother/sister relationship. When Sirius proposed, it was secret and romantic and caused the pair of them to cry with joy and love. When they got married, the ceremony itself was small and sweet, with James as the best man and Alice Longbottom as bridesmaid. They fought in the Order for years, defying Voldemort himself multiple times and then Lily fell pregnant. It was a shock to the system and Sirius disappeared for two days as he tried to control his emotions; returning back home greeted him with hexes to the chest, books to the legs and slaps to the face but ultimately a loving wife and unborn child. Seven months later and they were graced with a baby boy called Harry.

But it was all gone now.

All because of a stupid prophecy.

James had been home with Lily to look after her and Harry whilst Sirius was on a mission with Remus. And now his home was a crumbling, burning mess. He'd gone inside, though he wished that he hadn't, and was graced with the presence of his dead best friend who was on the stairs. Running past, tears dripping down his face, he burst into the nursery although the door was partially blocked with some of the roof. But he made it in and came across his dead wife, arms flung out and eyes glassy as she clearly fell protecting their son. Their baby boy who was crying, reaching for his mother and crying louder when she didn't respond. His baby boy who would never get to hear her voice again or feel her kisses. His little boy who was only two and had been learning to potty train was now without a mother or an uncle.

"Dada? Mama sleeping." Sirius sobbed, resting his head on Harry's.

"Yes baby boy. Mummy's sleeping."

The two would grow up – Sirius in Azkaban due to being arrested for the murder of Peter Pettigrew and multiple muggles and Harry with Petunia and Vernon Dursely. Both of them broken and only one of them knowing why.