The last year has slowly started to come to an end, if you would have asked Sirius how he saw all of this going down in first year, he probably wouldn't have thought that far and at the same time would just say 'badly' and at first it wasn't exactly a lie, but it was definitely not the entire truth.
You see in fifth year Sirius had fallen madly in love with Remus, and after some fighting with his internal issues and then coming to terms with all of it together with Remus, they became quite the couple.
James would always say he couldn't wait to not have to live with them anymore, just so that he wouldn't have to listen to the pickering, and the fucking to make up after the pickering.
The fighting calmed down as time went on, and it became less frequent, and they got closer, even when it seemed you couldn't get any closer. By the time the last year came around, Sirius and Remus had a plan for a apartment together, a happy marriage and everything.
Who knew it would happen so fast...
The common room was full of students eager to go on summer vacation, everyone running around looking for their stuff they had lost, and borrowed, there was noise, but for the first time in a while it was a good thing. Sirius had his legs thrown over Remus's, Remus was reading a book and slowly running his free hand up and down Sirius's leg. James was sat on the floor playing a last game of chess against Peter, Marlene, was sat at the fireplace looking through photos that she had acquired throughout the year, Mary was sat on a armchair braiding Lily's hair who was sat on the floor looking at every photo Marlene would show her.
"oh look this ones a picture of Sirius and Remus practically eating each other." Marlene showed a photo of Remus and Sirius kissing at a griffyndor party.
"That's what you call eating each other, jesus you should see what they do in the dorms." James said after looking at the picture briefly, Sirius threw a pillow at James from the sofa, and Remus just laughed.
"Hey, did I lie though?" James laughed.
"No, but they don't need to know that!" Sirius yelled, in a pretend annoyed tone.
"Oh we know plenty." Lily noted from the floor, witch forced laughs out of both Mary and Marlene. Sirius gave them a look of open mouthed shock, and in the end Remus had to physically close Siriuses jaw.
"Oh look a picture of Sirius in one of Lily's dresses." The picture was slightly blurry, but you could see Sirius holding a bottle of wine, and a cigarette, wearing a flowy dress that was too big on him, he had flowers in his hair, and sunglasses on, they were clearly at the Potters house on the balcony in James's room. That day they had the entire house to themselves and they had decided to hold a picnic on the balcony, because it had been raining, and they couldn't do it outside.
"Wow I totally forgot about this." Remus reached for the picture to see it closer up. He looked at it for a while and then gave it back nodding approvingly,
"You look good in a dress, Black, you know what I think that's the only way I'll marry you, if you're wearing a dress."
Sirius laughed.
"Why thank you, and to that I say, then we shall never marry, for I will not wear a dress to my wedding." He declared rather dramatically.
"Always with the dramatics." Peter laughs.
Everyone else also laughs including Sirius himself and Remus.
After the laughter quiets a little Sirius says only to Remus, "But I will wear white if you so wish." keeping up the dramatics but this time just for him. Remus smiles and kisses Sirius, no one else even looks their way, except Marlene who snaps a picture of the moment, neither Sirius or Remus even flinch they're used to this.
"To the collection! " Marlene opens a entire page full of pictures of Sirius and Remus being all cute.
"Uh, creepy much?" Sirius says looking at the page.
"Oh don't worry dears, you're not the only ones, I have a page like this for every singel couple in thia group, including myself and Dorcas." Marlene says, showing some of the other pages, many have multiple pictures placed in one pocket, and some others not so many, the amount of pictures depends on how long the couple has been a thing. And some pages in between are plank and this Sirius guessed, means there used to be a couple there but they broke up. So far Remus and Sirius have the most pictures in the entire book.
They all sit there like that for another hour or so, the noise of the common room has quieted, and most students have gone to sleep already wanting to be ready for going home the ndxt day. Their group lingers in the common room for as long as they can, just enjoying each others company, they can still see each other any day, they can still be friends and communicate, but no matter what it will all feel different ones they leave school, so they want to keep this moment for a little while longer.
The first to go are Lily and Mary, Mary so tired that she nearly falls asleep sitting upright. Before Lily goes tho she kisses James on the cheek, and tells everyone good night.
Next is Marlene, and quite quickly after her Peter, the last people left are James, Remus and Sirius. After a while James decides to head to bed also, asking the two left if their coming,
"We'll be right there." Sirius tells James and gives him a smile, James smiles back and nods, leaving the two.
Remus is very tired, and for a second or two Sirius hesitates, maybe he'll just wait till tomorrow, but no he wants to do this now.
"Moony," He places a hand on Remus' arm to gently make sure his still awake, Remus just hums and turns to Sirius, "I have something to ask you." Remus clearly tired let's out a long breath, and then says,
"Are you gonna ask me to marry you?" he's clearly joking around, but Sirius stops and freezes, after a second or two Remus sits upright and his eyes are open wide, "Shit, you are aren't you?" Sirius laughs a little,
"Yeah I might be." Remus looks apologetic now,
"Sorry." but all that Sirius does is laugh and pull Remus in for a hug, "nothing to be sorry about." they stay like that for a bit, then Remus whisperers in Sirius' ear,
"Yes." Sirius confused just asks, "what" and Remus repeats saying, "The answer is yes." They break the hug to look at each other and Sirius smiles, they kiss, and hug.
When they eventually go up to bed Sirius can't be anything but happy, even if school is over, at least he'll have Remus.
The preparations for the wedding began almost as soon as they entered the Potters house, they had a flat waiting in London for after the ceremony, and the Wedding would be held at the Potters, they had chosen the date for it only two months from the day Sirius had proposed, which Lily and some of the others thought was insane, but they were determent, at least Sirius was.
Euphemia was a huge help, helping with the food side of things, Lily and Mary took care of most of the decorations, and flowers, Marlene insisted on a photo booth so she could collect pictures of all the quests, and she also said she would be taking photos all throughout the day. Sirius went to get himself a suit accompanied by James and Regulus, and Remus did the same with Lily and Mary.
Sirius had know since second year that James would be his groomsman, and then when him and Reggie had reunited he had decided that Reggie would be another groomsman. And because they wanted everything to be even and perfect Remus had asked Mary to be his second groom's lady, since he had picked Lily immediately when the talk of a groom's person had began. Turned out they made some great choices, because all the way up until the very day, Lily and Mary were extremely helpful, and James and Regulus were also truly helpful, but nothing could beat Lily, she was keeping everything together all those moments that Remus was sure it was all falling apart.
The day before the wedding everything looked perfectly fine to Sirius and Remus, but on the day it self it wasn't quite so, the morning began with Lily complaining that the flowers for the so called altar hadn't arrived yet, and she was running around the place trying to think of a alternative if the flowers wouldn't be there on time, Mary had found that 10 of the 50 plates were broken, and witch meant that they didn't have enough plates, this worried Remus, not because they didn't have enough plates, but because why were there so many people coming. They had James's tie had disappeared, and Reggie shoelaces broke when he was tying his shoes, Sirius was basically breaking apart from the seams in the situation.
When it was time for the guest to arrive some arrived last minute and some weren't even there yet, this is when Remus made a note that he didn't know where Sirius was, he didn't mention this to anyone and instead went to look for him.
He found Sirius in the bathroom of James's room, the last place that the others would think to look, but somwhere that Remus or James would know to look.
Sirius was sat on the floor of the bathroom, looking distraught, Remus sat in front of him with some effort, leaning his cane, that had been decorate by Marlene, on the sink.
"Hello, husband." Sirius smiled at this,
"Not quite yet." he corrected, and Remus just shrugged,
"Practising." they sat that way for a while, just both quietly breathing and looking at each other.
"You know it's bad luck to see each other before getting married." Sirius said looking at Remus,
"It's also kind of a bad start for the groom to run and hide before the wedding." Sirius looked away from Remus and hugged his knees tighter.
"It's not perfect."
"what?"
"it's not perfect, none of this, this is not what I promised you, I wanted it all to be perfect, and now we have some guests still late, flowers missing, plates broken, and everything is just wrong, I wanted this to be perfect for you." Sirius was now crying and Remus finally saw what was going on.
"Oh, Sirius, love, I didn't ask for this, look at me," he lifted Sirius's chin so that he was looking him in the eyes, " I didn't need all this, I would have simply been okay with just us and maybe two other people, getting married quietly somwhere, and afterwards eating a frozen cake on the floor of our new flat with just two forks. I would have been alright with that." Sirius wiped his eyes,
"Really? "
"Yes, because I love you, and I don't care if the decloration of our love is witnessed by a thousand people, and some flowers, or simply two people, and some empty walls, because I'm not gonna love you less either way." This made Sirius cry even harder, but this time out of relief, and happiness instead of stress and sadness. After a while of crying, Sirius was playing with Remus' hand, when he asked,
"What are we gonna do now? I mean everyone's waiting for us out there right now." Remus thought for a while, and then smiled at Sirius, "I have an idea, if you're up for it." and then he whispered to Sirius his idea, his eyes lit up and in seconds they were downstairs, where they found Lily pacing the kitchen floor,
"There you are, everyone is waiting, or not everyone we still don't know where for example the Pettigrews are, or where Pandora and her brother are, and some others, and also about the flowers," Sirius cut Lily off, "Lily fuck the flowers listen..." and then he told Lily the idea, at first it seemed that Lily was never going to close her mouth and was not on board with the plan, but then she straightened up, "I'll go find Reggie." and she went outside.
Sirius and Remus went to the front of the house to wait, out of the field of everyone's vision, they waited for a while and then Regulus and Lily appeared from the front door,
"You know this is idiotic right?" was the first thing Reggie said to them. And Sirius just smiled and nodded, and Remus just answered with a "yeah"
They were about to leave when Lily stopped on her tracks, "James will kill you both if he finds out he missed this." They stood there for a little and then Lily continued, "I'll go get him." and when she was already going, Sirius half yelled, "Yeah you know let's get the entire trouble here." but he was smiling. On her way out with James Lily grabbed one of Marlene's cameras, and they were on their way.
Throughout the entire thing Lily snapped pictures, and every time she took a picture in her head she thought," You’re welcome Marls."
Regulus had found someone who could marry them on such short notice, and when Sirius tried to ask too many questions he simply said, "I've thought about this before" smiling looking over at James and Lily messing with the camera. This simply got a reaction of fake disgust out of Sirius.
They were married in the peace of their own new, still mostly empty, apartment, with Lily, Regulus, and James as their witnesses. Afterwards Sirius and Remus were left to the apartment alone, and Sirius got a cake from the fridge, along with two forks, and they sat on the living room floor eating it, wondering how everyone reacted when they realised that they were not coming.
Late in the evening when they were certain that no one else was at the Potters anymore other than their friends, they went there, and were greeted with hugs from both Fleamont and Euphemia, but also some words from Effie, in the end she said she was happy for them, but that they could have at least said something.
That evening they simply enjoyed each others company, Marlene was going through the photos Lily had taken and organising them in a whole new album, when she was done she handed the album to Remus and Sirius,
"This is my wedding gift for you, so you're welcome. It's almost every picture of you two since you got together, and maybe a little before that."
Sirius looked like he might cry, and couldn't say anything, Remus hugged Marls,
"Thank you, it's lovely."
Remus and Sirius had seen all the gifts everyone brought, and were already making a thank you, and we're sorry card for the guests.
This is when Effie brought one more gift into the living room, on her way up to sleep. Sirius took the gift and almost instantly started crying when he saw the card on top of it. Remus looked at the card, and then hugged Sirius.
Wishing all the love, and happiness to you Sirius and Remus,
Cissy.
It had been a good day after all.