Finale.
The Marauders
James
guys!!!!!!! come to the living room ive got some shit to show u all
Sirius
one minute
Remus
give us five
Sirius
whos us?
Remus
dont even w me sirius, we’re in the same room, i can see u on ur phone
Sirius
oh.
Peter
coming rn!
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Once they all gathered in the living room, James turned around his screen to show their latest video.
“That’s literally just our latest video.” Sirius said.
“Thank Sirius, I didn’t know what I was looking at.” Peter said.
“You’re welcome, Pete.” Sirius said.
“Guys. okay. Look at this part.” James said and found a timestamp. He pressed play and in the corner of the screen, it looked like part of a person was there. “Did you see that?”
“I dunno, James, it looks like a ghost to me.” Sirius said
“Of course you think it’s a ghost you unobservant littl-”
“Okay. Remus shut up.” James snapped. “You can see like an actual human here. Like its not just an apparition because those don’t really show up on camera. Our light must’ve hit the perfect spot so that we could see the person.”
“I can’t say who that is.” Peter said.
“Yeah of course you can’t. It's dark.” Sirius said
“Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Siri.” Remus said, rolling his eyes.
“Siri? That’s a new one.” James said, absentmindedly. He didn’t notice the fact that both Remus and Sirius had gone quite red.
“Yeah. Um.” Sirius said, he looked at Remus frantically.
“He reminds me of Siri on my phone, you know? He always appears when you don’t want him.” Remus said, smiling at Sirius.
“Gee thanks Mr Remus.” Sirius said, trying to hide the smile that appeared on his face.
“Stop flirting and look at this.” James said, and both of them turned into another shade of crimson.
James pressed play on his laptop and on the stairs, it looked like an actual person was standing at the top of them. They were very, very still but it was obvious that it was a human there. Then when Peter turned the light on, it blinded the camera enough that the person disappeared.
“Wait, that one looked like the guy who guided us in the house, I might be going crazy though.” Peter said.
“That’s exactly what I thought.” James said.
“Looks like a person.” Sirius said with a shrug.
“Yeah I think his name was Ezra or like Elias or something.” Remus said.
“Hm who knows.” James said.
“Didn’t you, like, hire the dude to tour us? Why don’t you remember his name?” Sirius said. Remus shot Sirius a death glare.
“Yeah I did.” James said.
“Then shouldn’t you remember the name of the guy?” Sirius said.
“Not everyone has your great memory of names, Sirius.” Remus said. James and Peter snickered, then Sirius shot each of them a glare and they poorly disguised their laughs as coughs.
“That was it, you can go now.” James said and waved his hand dismissively. Remus and Sirius left, leaving James and Peter alone.
James turned his computer back to himself and he began typing very aggressively.
“Not sure if I’m interrupting some very important email, or you cussing out some six-year old on the internet but how’s you and Lily?” Peter asked, fidgeting with his hands.
James stopped typing immediately. He went red in a second. “Ohhh.. Lily. Yeah. We’re great. Um, we’re actually going out next weekend. It’s kind of cool. Um. Yeah.” James said and immediately resumed typing.
“No, actually. How are you, I mean. After Reggie and all of that. Are you moving on?” Peter asked gingerly.
“No!” James snapped. Then he regained himself and continued. “I mean. I could never move on from Regulus. But I think it’s a nice change to be able to go out. She is probably the first girl I’ve ever dated. I’ve only dated one person and that’s gone to shit. Or more six feet under.” James laughed nervously.
“Mate it’s alright to be nervous, nobody’s judging you. You can make your own calls in life. I’ll see you soon.” peter said and then he scurried to the kitchen.
James sighed and continued to cuss six year-olds out on the internet.
****
“Sirius.”
“Remus”
“We need to talk.” Remus said.
“About?” Sirius said.
“Us.” Remus said. That word made Sirius feel all sorts of things; Us, it’s inclusive. He wondered what it’d be to be included in Remus’ life. In everything.
“Us? What is there to talk about?” Sirius said, letting out a nervous laugh.
“I don’t know what we are, and putting a label on it would be great.” Remus said.
“Can we label it as ‘sneaking out of haunted houses to make out and then go back and act as if nothing happened’?” Sirius said.
“That’s not a label and you know it.” Remus said. “I want to know what we are so I can tell people.” The face Sirius made, somehow made Remus add, “or not.”
“Well.” Sirius said. “I do like you, but I’m scared of a relationship.”
“That’s okay. We can take it slowly. Or we could be exclusive with each other?” Remus suggested.
“The minute you kissed me, I was exclusive with you.” Sirius whispered under his breath.
“What?” Remus asked.
“Nothing.”
“You said something.”
“Did not.”
“Did so.”
“Not”
“So”
They argued like little children. It continued for about ten minutes. Ten. Whole. Minutes.
“Fine!” Sirius said. “I’ll repeat it: ‘the minute you kissed me, I was exclusive with you.’”
Remus’ jaw dropped open. “I was literally the same.”
Sirius’ jaw dropped. “Oh my god. We are the same person. We are so linked.”
“Yeah.”
“Yeah.”
“So, can we be boyfriends?” Remus asked quietly.
“Based on our little telepathy moment there, I think we should be. But can we take it very slowly?” Sirius asked.
“Yeah I think we can.”
“Then let’s do it.”
***
From his spot in the living room, James could hear a shout of “I’M REMUS’ BOYFRIEND NOW”
James smiled to himself and went to the comments of one of the videos and he commented:
JamesPooter:
One of your ships has just sailed and i think u know which one it is ;)
That comment blew up literally every device in the house. Chaos ensued.