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James and Sirius were acting weird. Well, weirder than usual. They were spending a lot of time, too much time in Remus's opinion, in the library. Whenever Remus tried to join them, they would always make a feeble excuse to leave, grabbing all the books they had previously been poring over with them.

It had gotten to the point where James had even stopped asking Lily out, and Sirius hadn’t so much as thrown a dungbomb at Snape. Remus was practically dying to find out what they were doing, so when he came into the common room one night after curfew to find the two boys alone, oblivious to his presence, he knew it was time to act.

They were bent over books upon books, whispering as Remus slowly walked over to them. Once behind them, he noticed a gold chain in Sirius’s hand. On the chain, a small hourglass sat spinning slowly between two rings. A time turner. Without any hesitation, Remus reaches out and snatches it from Sirius’s hand.

“ WHAT THE FUCK?! ” Sirius and James both whirl around and start to pull out their wands, but stop after realizing it was Remus.

“R emus! Moony! ” Sirius scrambles up and reaches for the time turner, but Remus backs away.

“W here the fuck did you get this? ” James and Sirius exchanged a panicked look. “ Why the fuck do you have this ?”

“R emus, it is nothing! Just a fake! ” Sirius said hurriedly.

“Y ea! ” James agreed, his voice high.

“O h well, if it really is nothing… ” Remus walked over to the fireplace, dangling the chain above it. “ You won’t mind if I get rid of it then, " he said, letting the chain slip further and further through his fingers.

“N O! ” James and Sirius both reach out to catch the chain, but Remus stops it before it falls through his hand.

“S o, ” he twisted it around his fingers, ” where did you get it ?”

There was silence as the two exchanged panicked looks until James finally spoke.

“W e bought it off some guy in the village .”

“A nd why did you buy it ?”

“W e wanted to study it. ”

Remus raised an eyebrow. “ Study it ?”

“Y es! ”

Remus rolled his eyes. “ You truly expect me to believe you bought a time turner just to study it? ” Sirius opened his mouth to respond, but Remus continued, “ I think that you two thought it would be funny to go back in time with a time-turner, which, let me add, is extremely illegal and can land you right in Azkaban, most likely for the reason of finding some dirt on Snape. ” He watched as James and Sirius’s jaws dropped, “ So how close was I ?”

“M erlin, Remus, are you a legilimens ?”

“N o, you two are just very predictable. ”

“S o, can we have it back? ” Sirius said hopefully.

“Y ou must be stupider than you look if you think I am giving this back to you .”

“B ut Remus-, ” James whined, but Remus cut him off before he could finish.

“D o you know how dangerous this is? One false move in the past can change everything we know !”

Sirius opened his mouth to retort but froze as the pendant started to spin in Remus’s hand.

The last thing Remus heard was James’s , WHAT THE FUCK?! Before the room around him had changed completely.

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It was stupid, Sirius knew that. He knew that buying an illegal time turner from some shady guy in Hogsmeade wasn’t the best idea, but really, what was the worst that could happen? He had thought James and he were doing well on hiding it, but he should have known that Remus would see through their bullshit. He knew them way too well.

Now, Sirius was watching the time turner spin in Remus's hand, and, impulsively, he reached out and grabbed Remus. As soon as they made contact, the room spun, and Sirius’s vision faded to black.

When he opened his eyes, he was lying next to Remus on the common room floor where they had just been standing. There was light spilling in through the curtains, wait, light? Hadn’t it just been dark out? His eyes fell on the time turner still wrapped around Remus's fingers. Fuck.

“F uck. ”

He heard a gasp behind him, and sitting up, he looked at the person who had made the noise. He saw a young girl, no older than 14, with a large amount of curly, brown hair.

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Remus groaned as he opened his eyes against the harsh sunlight; his head was pounding, and he felt as though he’d been hit by the knight bus. He lifted his head slightly to see if the time turner was still wrapped around his fingers. It was. He felt Sirius pull away.

“F uck” he heard come from Sirius’s direction, as he glanced up at the other boy.

Remus was going to fucking kill him.

Sirius was staring at something behind him, and Remus turned around to see what, only to see a girl there. Her eyes flickered to Remus, eyes widening, and jaw dropping.

“P rofessor Lupin?! ” She cried, and Remus felt all the color drain out of his face.

“S IRIUS BLACK YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!! ” Remus jumped to his feet so fast that the room started to spin again, but he ignored it, instead continuing his verbal (and what might soon be physical) attack on Sirius.

“Y OU ARE SUCH A FUCKING IDIOT!!! I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT SOMEONE WHO GOT STRAIGHT OUTSTANDING'S WOULD KNOW NOT TO BUY DANGEROUS AND ILLEGAL THINGS!!! ” Remus would have continued, but at that moment the door to the common room swung open and in walked two boys, one was holding a small rat, and he had bright red hair and freckles that littered his face, and the other had wild black hair, round rimmed glasses, and blazing green eyes.

"H ey Hermione, did you put Crookshank up in your dorm? I wouldn't want him to... " The boy with red hair trailed off as his eyes landed on Sirius and Remus.

"W ho are you... PROFESSOR LUPIN?! " Remus opened his mouth, but before he could speak, the girl, whom he now knew was called Hermione, took out her wand and pointed it at Sirius.

"W HOA WHOA WHAT DID I DO?! " Sirius put his hands up, looking shocked at having a wand pointed at him for no reason.

"H arry, Ron, it's Sirius Black! " At her words, both of the boys paled before taking out their wands.

"O kay, everyone, stop! " Remus put his hands up as well, " Can you just let us explain what happened before you blast our heads off? " Nobody responded, so Remus went on, " I'm Remus Lupin, and he's Sirius Black, though I can tell you know that already. You see, Sirius here and our friend James, " Remus noticed Hermione and the red-haired boy glance at the boy with round rimmed glasses, " stupidly and illegally bought a time turner, which seems to be broken , given how it just had us travel through time for no reason. " They were silent for a moment before Hermione spoke,

"R emus, what year did you come from? "

“1 976, what year is this? 65? 66 ?”

The trio exchanged worried glances, and the red-haired one finally spoke up, “ Mate, it’s 1993 .”

Remus’s mind went blank. All of this was impossible. Time turners can’t possibly take you into the future, only the pas t…

“P adfoot, I’m going to fucking kill you .”

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Harry was having a shit day. Not even a shit day, more like a shit life you can say. He had barely slept all night still frightened from what happened a couple weeks before. When Sirius Black, the murderer that has it out for Harry, apparently not only got into the castle, but also into his and Ron's dorm as well. His favorite teacher (don't tell Hagrid), Professor Lupin, had also been absent, leaving Severus Snape to be the substitute for DADA.

So it was safe to say that Harry's day has been shit. He was zoning out as him and Ron walked back to the dorm, Harry was barely aware and Ron ranting about Hermione's cat, he was too busy dreaming about getting an hour or two of sleep before dinner.

All his day dreaming is thrown out the window as he and Ron walk into the common room to find Hermione standing by the fireplace, fear and surprise etched on her face and two boys who look familiar, but harry couldn't place. One of the boys had curly brown hair and seemed to be yelling at the other boy that had shoulder length, wavy black hair, both of them wearing gryffindor uniforms.

"Hey Hermione, did you put Crookshank up in your dorm? I wouldn't want him to..." Rom trailed off noticing the two boys, he sounded confused now, "Who are you... PROFESSOR LUPIN?!"

Harry studied the brown hair boy, there was no way he could be Lupin, right? They both had the same hair, sure, but Lupin had scars all over his face and this boy didn't have any! Not to mention this boy was at most 17 years old and Lupin was… well… old.

Before Harry could voice any of his thoughts Hermione raised her wand and pointed it at the black haired boy. "WHOA WHOA WHAT DID I DO?!" He raised his hands, shock written on his face.

"Harry, Ron, it's Sirius Black!" Hermione shouted, wand still pointed. Harry felt the color drain from his face. Sirius Black, the mass murderer, who wanted Harry dead, was currently standing in front of him. He took out his wand copying Hermione's stance, and pointed his wand at Black and next to him he saw Ron do that same.

"Okay, everyone, stop!" Remus(?) put his hands up as well, "Can you just let us explain what happened before you blast our heads off?" Nobody responded, so Remus went on, " I'm Remus Lupin, and he's Sirius Black, though I can tell you know that already. You see, Sirius here and our friend James," Harry saw his friends shoot worried glances at him. Remus couldn't mean…

 "…stupidly and illegally bought a time turner, which seems to be broken, given how it just had us travel through time for no reason." Silence followed his words as they all tried to process what was said. Harry's mind was reeling, he couldn't have mean James as in James Potter? Harry's dad? It's impossible isn't it? There was no way that he knew James and if he did why would Professor Lupin never tell him. Harry was distantly aware of Scabbers squeaking in Ron's pocket.

"Remus, what year did you come from?" Hermione said quietly.

"1976, what year is this? 65? 66?" James Potter was at Hogwarts in 1976… Harry exchanged a look with Hermione and Ron.

"Mate, it's 1993."

It was impossible right? This had to be a joke? A prank, maybe? Draco has had it out for Harry for a while maybe this was a prank by him? Or maybe Fred and George were just trying to scare him?

"Padfoot, I'm going to fucking kill you."

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James knew as soon as Remus took the time turner that he was in for a big scolding, but what he didn’t expect was for the time turner to start spinning in Remus’s hand, or for Sirius to leap at Remus and try and grab it away from him right before they both disappeared. Fuck. James stared at the place where Remus and Sirius had just stood only moments before. He was so fucked. Fuck fuck fuck fuck! “Fuck!”

He needed help. As soon as that thought popped into his head he was running up the stairs to his dormitory, swinging the door open startling poor Peter who was attempting to finish his potions essay.

“Merlin James, where’s the fire?” James walked in and started pacing, running his hands through his hair anxiously.

“Peter I fucked up, I fucked up!” Peter looked frightened at James’s words and tone, the last time he sounded like this he had just stopped Severus from getting shredded to pieces by Moony.

“Okay, James, sit down and tell me what happened, alright?” Peter said, attempting to calm James. James sat down on the nearest bed to him, which happened to be Remus’s, and put his head in his hands. After what seemed like an eternity of silence, he started off. 

“Sirius and I met this guy at the village who said he would sell us a time turner.” Peter let out a gasp, “A time turner? Like a real one? Did it work?”

“Well it definitely worked.” James said grimacing, “we bought it from him and for the last couple of weeks we’ve been researching it and we were just in the common room studying it when Remus came in and took it.”

“Wait, you told Remus and not me?” Peter said, looking hurt.

“No no he found out for himself. Anyway, he took it and was scolding us when it started turning and then Sirius tried to grab it and they both disappeared!” Peter’s jaw dropped.

“Holy shit.”

“I know.” James groaned, “I’m so fucked, Peter. What should I do?”

Peter’s eyes were wide and he looked as if he was at a loss for words. There was a moment of silence before Peter spoke.

“You gotta tell Lily, she’ll know what to do!” James gaped.

“Are you INSANE?! She’ll kill me!”

“But James, she'll know what to do!”

“No way, nuh uh!”

“Okay fine,” Peter put his hands up in surrender, “what about the books? Is there anything in them about something like this?”

James ran his hands through his hair again, “nothing in the books I read.” 

“What about the restricted section?” James considered that. 

“That’s an amazing idea, let’s go now!” James rushed to grab the invisibility cloak from the chest at the foot of his bed, and covering him and Peter, they began their descent from the common room and into the library.

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James slipped the invisibility cloak off of him and Peter as they closed the library door behind them. It was dark so he and Peter lit their wands. It had been a while since they had gotten into the restricted section, the last time being when Sirius, James, and Peter were in the process of being animagi. After walking through the tall bookshelves they came to a locked door that led to the restricted section.

“Alohomora!” James said confidently, pointing his wand at the door. He tried to open it but the door wouldn’t budge. It seems security’s been tightened.

“Shit,” Peter said, trying his own unlocking charm, “must’ve been spelled.”

“Fuck Pete what are we gonna do?”

Peter smirked and the next moment he had turned into a little rat and slipped under the gap of the door.

“Well what about me?” James winced at the door, almost disappointed that he wouldn’t get to join in on the heist. He heard the lock click and stepped back as the door swung open revealing a grinning Peter. 

“You really thought that I’d go down there on my own?” James rolled his eyes upon seeing the other boy's smug face.

They walked down the stairs and started reading the titles on the spines on the books lining the shelves.

“Merlin, I forgot how crazy some of these books were,” Peter said, pulling one out, “Hookwines guide to making never ending love come from a bottle!”

“Peter focus!” James chastised. 

“Just saying, you could use this if you ever want a certain red haired prefect to fall in love with you.” Peter shrugged, teasing James.

James tripped him and ran up ahead. “Whoever finds it first owes the other a butterbeer!”

After an hour had passed they had gotten a considerable amount of books that could help them.

James had just pulled out “Screams of times” and flipped it open to see if it could possibly help, when the pages began to turn into a face and start to scream at the boys in a banshee like manner.

“OH SHIT!” James tried to close the book, and after a struggle in which the face bit his hand he was able to close it, only to hear hurried footsteps coming down the stairs from the library.

“Whose in there?” Filch called.

“Fuck!” Peter whispered, his voice cracked in a panic, as he picked up their book pile and tossed them into his bag.

“Quick under the cloak!” Just as James and Peter were covered, Filch stomped in with a distasteful look on his face and lantern in his hand. He was being tailed by Mrs. Norris, the old caretaker's cat. While he looked around the seemingly empty room the cat looked straight at where James and Peter were standing hidden under the cloak.

Can cats see through the cloak? James began to slowly back up, almost knocking him and Peter into a bookshelf in the process.

“No one’s here my sweet.” Filch cooed to his cat, James had to hold back a gag. Luckily Filch left and with Mrs. Norris following behind, she gave one final glare back at the two invisible boys. 

After they were sure the caretaker was long gone, James and Peter started their way back up to the common room.

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“There is NO way we are going to be able to go through all of these!” Peter groaned, falling back onto his bed. After returning from the library James and Peter had dumped all the books onto Remus’s unoccupied bed, and for the last two hours they had been scouring the books for anything about the time turner malfunctioning with no luck. The closest thing they found was from “The Dangers of Time,” it spoke about a time turner that broke and transported a man’s legs to prehistoric times.

“We have to keep going Peter,” James yawned, it was well past midnight by now, “if there is anything in these books that could help us find Remus and Sirius we have to look!”

James glanced at the clock, it was already 3 in the morning and he was exhausted but he knew he wouldn't be able to sleep without finding at least something that could be of use. He knocked the clock off the wall with a flick of his wand, he knew he’d just get more and more annoyed the more he looked at it.

“I know you said you didn't want to,” Peter started hesitantly, “but we could really use Lily’s help!” James opened his mouth to argue, but Peter continued before he could get a word out.

“I'm just saying we are getting nowhere, and you're always saying how Lily is the smartest, and I think she could really help us!”

James considered it. Lily was the smartest (and prettiest) in the whole year and he knew she could really help…

“Fine,” James surrendered, “how are we gonna get her? We can't go up the stairs to the girls' dorm.”

Peter grinned “I have a plan!”

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It turns out Peter's plan in question was to turn into a rat and attempt to run up the stairs but to his surprise the charm on the stairs also apparently worked on animagus which sent him flying back to James feet.

“I hope you have a plan B.” James said grimmily as Peter turned back into himself.

“A true Marauder always has a plan A, B, and C!” Peter exclaimed, James believed that Peter and his plans were going to be the death of the Marauders one day.

His next plan as it turns out was to perform a freezing jinx on the stairs and run up before they could turn into the slide. Though that plan, as James expected, failed with Peter getting sent back down and crashing into James, causing him to crash into the ground.

“Peter, if we were not in such a dire situation I would jinx you into next week!” James snapped.

“Don't fear, my deer Prongs!” Peter said happily, “Plan C is sure to work!”

To Peter's credit, plan C did work. The plan was to charm a paper airplane that said “SOS” into the girls dorm and into Lily. The plan did come with a downside, as it seemed Lily did not like being woken up to a paper airplane smacking her in the face. She was now even more pissed at the boys.

“You’ve better have a good explanation for driving a paper plane up my nose!” Lily shouted at them, coming down the stairs.

“Lily, I’m sorry!” James stepped back from the stairs as Lily stomped down, “It's an emergency!”

“Really James, what could be such an emergency?!”

“It really is, we swear!” James started off, “So we…”

“Not we.” Peter interrupted.

“What?” 

“It was James and Sirius, not we .”

“Wow,” James rolled his eyes, “Thanks for not throwing me under the night bus or anything.”

“You’re welcome!”

“James,” Lily ran her hands over her face, “You have 10 seconds to explain what the emergency is before I hex both of you.” It was clear that she was both tired and annoyed by now, which, from the boy's experience, was not a good combination to be had when asking something of her.

“Ok! Ok! So Sirius and I were able to obtain a time turner…”

“A TIME TURNER!” Lily exclaimed.

“Actually an illegal time turner.” Peter added, sliding further and further behind James, as to not be in the direct line of Lily’s wrath.

“PETE YOU’RE NOT HELPING!” James spun around and silenced him with a wave of his wand. It was silent for a moment, and all you could hear in that split second was a mumbling from Peter as he tried to undo the spell.

“OH JAMES HOW COULD YOU?! WHERE IS BLACK! I WANT TO YELL AT HIM TOO!!!”

“Ok well about that…” James 

“James. What. Did. You. Do.”

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“Let me get this straight, you and Sirius bought an illegal time turner to ‘study it’ and Remus found out, and while scolding you, it malfunctioned, transporting Sirius and Remus back into the past, but we don't know when they are. As well as you and Peter broke into the restricted section of the library and stole as many books as possible  in hopes to find anything that could help explain what happened to Remus and Sirius, but has since found nothing so you woke me up to help you?” Lily said from where she was sitting on Sirius’s bed.

“Yea, that's pretty much it.” James confirmed, Lily sighed and ran her hands through her hair.

“Did I mention how absolutely fucking STUPID you are?” She yelled at them for the last time. James hung his head, he had found them help, but at the cost of his dignity.

“I would like to add that I did tell James we should tell you when he first told me.” Peter felt the need to add in, sort of trailing off at the end out of fear of Lily.

“Traitor.” James mumbled, one of many snide remarks

“Ok enough,” Lily commanded, “who did you buy the time turner from?”

“Some guy from Hogsmeade. I think his name was Mundun- something, I can't remember.” James said, already sounding defeated.

“Was it Mundungus Fletcher?” Lily and James both turned to Peter in surprise.

“What? I bought weed off him a couple times, don't judge me.” 

“Do you know how to contact him?” 

“Of course.” They stared at him expectantly, “what?”

“How do you contact him?” Lily said with a sigh, putting emphasis on each of her words as she said them. She sounded like a tired mother, and practically was

“Oh by the owl, but we can't send any till the morning.” Peter said confidently, it was clear he bought weed from him  more than a couple of times.

 Lily stood up, “Alright then! Let's all get some sleep and I expect you both in the common room by 8 A.M. sharp.”

Before they could respond she had already left the dorm, she was evidently tired of the two boys.

“8 A.M.,” Peter groaned, "it's already 4:30, I can't live off 3 and a half hours of sleep!”

“We have to lock in if we’re gonna find them.” James chimed in, rolling over and quickly covering himself with his blanket.

“I hope Sirius and Remus are doing better than us.” Peter whispered, with the goal of only reassuring himself.

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The halls were empty as Remus, Sirius, and the trio made their way down them. A quick glance at the clock hanging in the hallway told Remus it was dinner time. Remus and Sirius were shoulder to shoulder, with Hermione in front leading the way, and Ron and Harry tailing them.

Sirius leaned over to Remus, whispering, "Don't look now, but that Harry kid, he’s staring at us.”

“Yea, well if two people from the past somehow appeared in the common room and one happened to be my teacher, from the past, I would sure stare at them.” He replied coldly, still angry at Sirius.

Sirius opened his mouth to say something, but at that moment voices could be heard from around the corridor.

“Oh shoot!” Hermione said, stopping in her tracks, “It's Draco! Hide them!”

Remus looked around for a broom closet he and Sirius could hide in, but they seemed to be in the one corridor without any. In one swift moment Harry pulled a cloak out of his bag. Not just any cloak Remus realized, it was the invisibility cloak.

Before he could ask how Harry had it he had covered him and Sirius, right as a scrawny boy with blonde hair and two tougher looking boys, seeming to be body guards of the little one, rounded the corner.

“Oh it's you…” The blonde boy, Draco, snarled.

“Move along Malfoy, we don't want any problems.” Hermione said. Malfoy. Did that mean he was Lucius’s son? So many thoughts clouded Remus’s mind as he was trying to piece together who everyone was.

“Dont talk to me, Mudblood!” Draco hissed. Ron started forward pulling out his wand, but Harry stepped in front of him.

“Come on guys, let's go. He’s not worth it.” Harry’s hand was still on Ron’s chest. Ron slowly lowered his wand and began to turn in the other direction.

“Oh always trying to run away from a fight, are you Potter?” Draco mocked, reaching for his wand. It was clear Draco was trying to pick a fight.

Potter. Harry Potter. Holy shit.

He had noticed the similarities of the two, the same messy black hair, round glasses, but he’d been too busy being mad at Sirius to really think too much into it. Before Remus could react he was dragged back by Sirius following the rest of the trio away from Draco and his goons.

“Potter?!” Remus said, pulling off the cloak after they turned the corner. “Your last name is Potter?

“You knew my dad, right?” Harry responded, “you told me you did, or really, future you did.”

“What do you mean ‘knew’?” Sirius cut in before Remus could answer. At his words Remus watched the color drain out of Harry’s face and both his friends tense up.

Harry opened his mouth to respond but at that moment a voice came from down the corridor.

“Oh Merlin.”

They all turned towards the voice and Remus saw a man in his mid thirties, scars covering his face, with light brown curls that were streaked with grey.

Remus Lupin was staring at himself.

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It was Remus’s fifth year when he fell in love with Sirius. All four marauders had been in the shrieking shack waiting for the sun to set and the moon to rise. It was something Remus has done hundreds of times, but this time it was different. Remus was shaking, the same as he always did before the full moon, but tonight was different. It was because of his nerves instead. He’d always been alone, and ever since his three friends had come to him, revealing their animagus forms and their plans to join him the coming full moon, he’d had a knot in his stomach. 

Remus and Sirius were alone in the damp bedroom, James and Peter were down the stairs exploring the old shack. Remus was sitting on the bed, unclothed, only covered by a thin blanket. Sirius was looking through the gaps between the wood panels, up to the sky. Remus thought Sirius had looked beautiful right then, not that he didn't always, but now the sun was setting and leaving lines of gold rays across Sirius's face, making him look borderline angelic. 

“It shouldn't be much longer, Moons.” Sirius tried reassuring him, it never seemed to work how he wanted it to. He turned toward Remus and broke him from his trance.

“Oh, right…” Remus responded, voice quiet and weak, as he fidgeted with the thin blanket.

“Stop worrying.” Sirius placed his hand over Remus’s. His hand was so soft. 

Remus let out a sigh, “Are you sure that you want to do this? You can get hurt. I can hurt you!”

Sirius looked at him with an undistinguishable expression. 

“Remus, it’ll be alright, don't worry yourself.” He opened his mouth to respond, but at that moment a flash of hot pain shot through him as the transformation began.

“CHANGE!” He shouted at Sirius from where he’d collapsed onto the bed in pain. He distantly heard Sirius yell down the stairs at the other two boys before he came back to him, quietly talking into Remus’s ear.

“It will be ok, Moony. I'll see you in the morning.” Sirius kissed Remus’s forehead before transforming into a shaggy black dog. Remus laid there in pain until he was gone and all that remained was the wolf.

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Remus was having a good day. The moon had long since passed and he was feeling his best. The second years had all mastered the protego spell and his shipment of grindylow had come in. 

By the time he’d finished putting them in their tank for the third year's lesson the next day, it was time for dinner so he started to make his way down to the great hall.

After turning the corner from his office he recognized three of his students, Hermione, Ron, and Harry. But they weren’t alone. Standing there talking to the trio was his younger self and… young Sirius Black.

“Oh Merlin.” He felt himself freeze up. 

It was as though Sirius had been frozen in time, his long raven hair was in neat waves framing his face. He had on that one leather jacket that Remus had always loved, the one that used to be Remus’s before he had given it to him in their third year. He was wearing his black eyeliner that he purposely smudged under his eyes, constantly making him look more tired than he already was, Remus used to think that it was so hot. He looked nothing like the man that had been in the daily prophet under the same name. He looked nothing like the man who they all thought had betrayed his best friends. He looked nothing like the man who had been in Azkaban for the last 12 years. He looked like the boy Remus once knew. The Sirius Black he was staring at was the same man whom he had once loved.

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“James! Turn off that bloody alarm!” Peter yelled, throwing his pillow across the room at James. He heard James groan before the alarm shut off. Peter sighed, laying back down and fully intending on going back to sleep before a blinding light came through the window from where James had just opened the curtains. Peter let out a little yelp, covering his head with his blanket to stop the assault on his eyes.

“Come on, Pete! I don't want Lily to yell at me again!” Oh shit. Peter sat up quickly, the memories from the previous night rushing back to him.

“I thought that was a dream!” Peter jumped up, looking at James. James just frowned.

“I wish, mate.”

They hurriedly dressed and ran down the dorm stairs to find Lily already there, holding a cup of coffee.

“You wouldn’t have happened to get us one of those would you?” James asked hopefully, but Lily only grimaced.

“I’m still mad at you,” She shot him a glare. James looked down sadly and Lily turned to Peter, picking up a cup off the table next to her and handing it to him, “but I’m not mad at you.”

“Thanks Lily!” Peter said gratefully, choosing to ignore James’s expression.

“Ok, let's get down to business! While Peter writes to Mundungus, James and I will find a way for us to sneak out the castle to meet with him.”

“Don't worry about that, my sweet flower,” James grinned at Lily, who scowled at the nickname, “I have many ways to leave this castle unnoticed!"

“Which are?” She stood there with her arms crossed, expectantly. James hurriedly pulled a piece of parchment out of his pocket, passing it to her.

“Is this a joke?” Lily said, annoyed, but James only smiled, tapping the parchment with his wand.

“I solemnly swear I am up to no good!” In an instant the parchment had the words “Messrs. Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot, & Prongs are proud to present the Marauders Map.” 

Lily's eyes got wider, realizing what she was holding, and Peter had to hold in a groan. There was no way they would be getting it back.

There was a silence as Lily took in the map, and after a while, she spoke, 

“Why is ‘Moony’ spelled like that?”

“Because Peter has the best handwriting but the worst spelling!”

“Moving on,” Peter said, rolling his eyes, "I'm going to write the letter.”

Grabbing parchment and a quill that had been left on the coffee table, Peter started writing the letter while James and Lily looked over his shoulder.

Deer Mundungus Fletcher, 

I am in dyer need of some grass for a littl get together I am having today. Please meat me at the aly bettween the hogs hed and the owlry as soon as you get this letter. I need a LOT more then useal!

Yours truly, Peter Petigrew.

“Oh merlin Peter, your spelling is really poor.” Lily said after Peter had finished writing. “Look, you’ve even spelt your own name wrong!”

“That doesn't matter,” Peter said, picking up the letter, "I'm going to mail this, you two find the best passage out.” And with that Peter left the common room, leaving behind James, Lily, and his pride.