A/N: Hey, hey, hey! I'm back, and as I promised with a no-filler chapter. So, I hope you like this one, which is actually the one I wrote and inspired the whole story. Please review and tell me what you think!

Two days later, a painful day for Remus and Teddy arrived: Full moon. The Marauders were going to be with Remus while it all happened, of course; Remus would take the Wolfsbane potion and would seclude himself in the top of the Potter Manor. Teddy, for his part, got in a terrible mood and snapped at everyone who talked to him.

The Marauders, being themselves, noticed something weird as they went up to the attic to be with their friend. James Sirius had come down from his room with a face that clearly said he wasn't up for anything fun, this shocked them, and asked him about it.

"It's nothing, really," he had said, but after a second he had become red with fury and had yelled. "It's just Teddy and his 'time of the month'" and directing his voice upstairs he shouted. "HE'S LIKE A BLOODY WOMAN ON FULL MOONS!"

Peter didn't really get into the matter as much as James and Sirius did; he thought it was all in their heads, however, Padfoot and Prongs had already become suspicious, and this was not good.

The days had gone past and the Marauders had gotten used to the usual things happening at the Potter House. They would be woken up by Ginny's shriek as she chased James Sirius while he tried to read Lillian's new letter with no good results: Ginny would always sent him a Bat-Bogey Hex. Albus would enter the bedroom singing "Good morning, sunshine!" with Remus and a very sleepy Peter flanking him. Lily Luna, then, would proceed to scream bloody murder when James entered her room as he escaped from his mother ("I'm writing to Lysander, get out of here!" she would shout.)

Harry would be the peacemaker, and he would calm everyone down. The Marauders also knew that Rose and Hugo would come by daily for about half the day, and would be left in the care of Ginny, who had stayed at home for the holidays but was working on new articles for The Prophet.

James and Lily hadn't spoken muchsince the night they had bickered, and it seemed as if the both of them had accorded so. Every time James or Lily were left in only the other's company, one of them would excuse themselves, and would leave. This was killing them.

Sirius and Remus had noticed this, and the latter had tried to talk some sense into James, asking him the reason; question James hadn't answered. And truth was, he didn't know why hadn't he approached her. He hadn't been the one who started avoiding her, she was the one that tried to escape when he appeared on her line of vision.

On the other hand, Lily thought she needed to stay away from him for some time to think. The photograph she had seen and the fact that she was – in the future – just a dear friend of James' had stung in two different ways: being Lily Luna's namesake made her feel really sad and disappointed whereas the photograph had given her a strange feeling of longing, she wanted to kiss him, although not necessarily on the cheek...

She blushed, what in the world was she thinking? She looked at herself in the mirror as she washed her hands before having lunch. She refused to accept she wanted to kiss him, it was impossible. She shook her head violently before opening the door and bumping into something hard. She looked into the eyes of a very shirtless Sirius Black.

Lily shrieked.

"That's what they all do, mate. Scream when they see me." Sirius told James who was right behind him, also shirtless. Lily cursed herself as she stared at James' torso. Why did it have to be him to be shirtless? Couldn't it be Remus?

"Hey, have you seen my shampoo?" Remus said as he appeared from behind them. He didn't have a shirt on as well.

"What's with you and all the nude-walking parade?" Lily asked as she tried to look somewhere else.

Sirius smirked. "Like what you see, Evans? Because I'm sure you do."

"Leave her alone, Pads." James said, although he was also smiling.

"Yeah, Pads. Let's go and shower before having lunch." Remus added.

All of a sudden, Lily started laughing. The Marauders looked at each other with astonished faces.

"What are you laughing about, Red?"

"You..." Lily said as soft giggles escaped from her mouth. "They... they called you... Pads!"

Understanding dawned on their faces. Sirius frowned and huffed while Remus and James laughed out loud. Peter, who had entered the living room, thankfully, completely dressed, started laughing when he heard his role-models doing so.

"It's not funny." Sirius growled.

"Oh, yes it is." James said as he covered his mouth to stop the laugher from coming out.

"It's short for Padfoot." Remus explained, and when Lily looked a little confused he said. "You know, that name we call Sirius, the one all of us have."

"Oh," the redhead said. "Like, James is called Prongs or something like that?"

"Yes, I'm Moony and Peter is Wormtail."

"How very interesting nicknames. Where did they come from?"

The five of them turned to see Ginny with their recently washed and ironed clothes. She was giving them a teasing and amused smile which the Marauders interpreted meant that she knew their secret.

"Well, I guess 'Moony' it's a reference to the moon? I mean, your being a werewolf and everything." Lily said surprising them.

"Um, yes." Remus answered.

"Then what about the others?"

"Why are you all taking so long? Have you already showered?" James Sirius entered the scene as the bell saving the Marauders. They gave him a thankful gaze he didn't really comprehend. The three of them escaped to the bathroom while Lily frowned, suspicion written all over her face.

They had lunch, which consisted of roast beef with rice and went to the living room, having nothing else to do, Lily stayed to help Ginny with the dishes.. The four boys found James Sirius listening to the Wireless.

"What are you doing?" Peter asked him when James Sirius, noticing their presence, changed the station as fast as he could.

"Uh... searching for my mum's favourite programme! It's usually on at this hour – found it!" He grinned sheepishly.

"...and as I was telling you, Madge, there's been nothing new about Viktor Krum and his lady friend..."

"Ugh, James," Lily Luna said as she entered the place. "You know Mum hates Rita Skeeter, why are you even listening to that cow?"

James Sirius gave his sister a hard look. "Thanks, Lily." He muttered under his breath making Lily Luna roll her eyes at him.

The Marauders didn't comment this, but were pretty sure there was something the whole Potter family was trying to keep hidden from them, and they hated not knowing what is going on. Sirius knew he had to do something to dig in that secret everyone was holding.

James sat on his bed staring at the golden snitch on the small table on James Sirius's bed's side. Lying there, shining with the light of the moon outside. Could it be that he had finally moved on? Could it be true that he didn't love Lily anymore?

He sighed, knowing his future hadn't been as good as he had thought. He stretched to the side and opened the drawer, taking out a small rectangular box with the name 'Lily' carved on it. He had to give it to her, even if just as friends, he had to give it to her, and he had to do it now.

He was about to throw the covers of the bed away when he heard Sirius grunting and saw him stand up. Sirius walked to the door and left the room, closing the door swiftly behind him. James didn't know why, but instead of telling Sirius about what he wanted to do, he simply rearranged the blankets on top of him and shoved his face onto the pillow.

He had to give it to her, and soon.

It was late at night when Lily rested in her bed still completely awake – something that happened often now – that she took the decision of lifting her body off the bed, and go to the living room to warm up a little, for it was very cold.

She made her way out of the bedroom slowly, trying hard to not wake Lily Luna up when-

"Yes, dad. We won't say anything."

She turned around afraid that Lily Luna might have woken up, but she just stirred and turned; her eyes closed. Lily sighed and then shrugged. She must sleep-talk, she thought, and walked downstairs. Her eyes narrowed as light hit her face, and she realized she wasn't alone in the place.

"Hey there, Evans."

Sirius was sitting in the love-seat with James' invisibility cloak to his side. Hegave her a small smile, and she returned it blushing. She remembered how he had taunted James and her, and as she thought of James, she remembered their entwined hands after flying together in the same broom, holding to his chest as she yelled his name... she had to recognize she had felt very, very happy fooling around with him.

"Couldn't sleep." She muttered.

Siriuspointed to himself. "Me neither." and patted the seat next to him. She walked up to him, and sat down looking straight into the fire.

"I've been wondering," She told Sirius. "They haven't told us much, you know? Just that we're Aurors, and that James is Harry's dad," Lily flinched. "But they haven't given us important details, like who James got married to," Sirius' eyes flew to Lily. "And Harry didn't answer if any of the us had a spouse or kids."

"I've been thinking about that too. I mean, Harry said quite a lot of things about me and the others because he is supposed to know, since we are James' friends but, how come he knows about you? It's not that he's talked much about your future-self, but he seems to know you."

"According to Lily Luna, we became really close, as close as you are with him."

"Well, that must be it then, you're friends." He said, although he didn't look at her in the eye.

Lily felt as if she had been stabbed in the heart. It hurt her to hear him saying they were friends, reminding her that he was now a married man with a son, daughter-in-law and beautiful and intelligent grandkids. It was not fair that when she was starting to realize about her feelings for James, that she would have her heart crushed to pieces so soon.

Siriusseemed to sense her mood, and hesitantly wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her closer so that she would lean on him. She looked up at him, and he raised his eyebrows.

"Don't be sad, Lily. I'm sure he-"

And then, something smooth was covering them. Lily saw Sirius making her a silence sign with his finger, and she made the motion of zipping her mouth.

"So tired." A voice said from the office.

"It's Harry." Sirius muttered to Lily and she nodded noiselessly. They watched as Harry stretched, yawned and closed the door of his office, before going upstairs. They sighed in unison and Sirius let out a soft chuckle. Lily smiled at him, and she saw his eyes flicker towards the office; his eyes glinting with mischief.

Oh no, hell no! Lily thought and her eyes widened. Sirius gave her a smirk and she shook her head furiously at him. No, no, no, no! No way!

"Evans, what do you say about paying a visit inside Harry's office?"

"No."

"But-"

"No way."

"Listen to me, first!"

"No!"

"Fine."

"..."

"Come on!"

"No!"

"Lily," Sirius said huffing. "There might be something to tell us the truth inside that office! We can discover a lot of things from our future there!"

"I will not be trespassing someone else's privacy!"

"Fine. I'll go alone then." And before Lily could say anything back, he stood up and muttered "Alohomora." very quietly while pointing his wand at the door's handle. Something clicked, and the door opened slightly, revealing a strange glow.

Lily followed Sirius reluctantly. She had to stop him before he did anything. She entered the small office and found herself in between piles of papers, and some photographs surrounding the desk. Sirius looked back at her and grinned, signing the source of the glowing.

It was a pensieve.

Lily stared at it without words, Sirius frowned at it, and then looked at the red-head in front of him.

"Apparently, we'll get a few answers now."

DONE! Took sooooo long to finally finish it, well, I hope I get the next chapter sooner than I got this one, can't wait for the next chapter, which I think will be quite long!

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