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“Stop assaulting me with love all the time! I’ll row up to have unreal expectations!”

Sirius laughed, his eyes bright from ingesting a bunch of gigglewater they’d found stashed away in Fleamont’s possessions.

“Just trying to prepare you, mate… you’re welcome.”

“James --- “ She didn’t like this, not one bit. Too many things could go wrong, and they had been having an unusual string of “bad luck” lately. Someone was spoon feeding Voldemort information on them, and the Order had just started to put together the pieces. They had no idea who the spy was, and they had no idea what information got to Voldemort’s ears. 

“James, I just --- what if something went wrong?” She gave a pleading look to the man in front of her. She loved him, he knew that --- they’d been even talking about marriage. Yes, they were only nineteen, but everything was happening so fast, and who knew if they’d be alive the next day -- why wait? 

“Let’s just… put the book down, yeah, Charlie?”

Alexei gave the other man a stern look. Potter and Black were always up to no good, even as adults, and Alexei had found he’d had to fix their silly mistakes. Damned good Aurors they were, yes, but still trouble makers.

⅌ - Drop a kitten on my muses lap

“Sirius, you prat! Put me down!”

Sirius ignored James’ yells and swung him around then dropped him on the couch in the common room and flopped right on top of him. “Don’t act like it wasn’t fun… killjoy.”

“It wasn’t intended to be dramatic.” James muttered, glancing up at the house’s exterior one last time. “Oh, Merlin… Please tell me you were kidding about the elves’ heads.” It was bad enough that James was unnaturally anxious about Sirius’ parents, let alone the thought of dead heads hanging around.

Sirius looked curiously at his friend as they entered his home. He had thought James had been joking but could now see that the other boy was really quite seriously nervous.

“Wasn’t joking about the heads, mate. Sorry about it. We’ve got several generations of them. And a troll’s leg umbrella stand.”