Part 7:

"I proposed! I proposed!" screamed a hysterical James Potter as he walked through the door of the dormitory jumping madly around and pulling at his hair, his eyes looking for his best mates.

"Morning' Pronks" muttered Peter sleepily as he stumbled to the bathroom.

"Remus! Sirius!" shouted James as he headed towards Sirius's bed and threw opened the curtains with little discretion.

"What the hell!" said Moony sitting up and shielding his face from the bright sunshine.

"I am fucking engaged!" yelled James his brown eyes bright his hands running through his hair, his entire face filled with the gleaming features of somebody too happy with themselves.

Remus sat up his eyes wide in astonishment as he looked at James as if there was something wrong with him. "You. Are. Engaged," he muttered his lips scarcely moving at all. James nodded enthusiastically. Next to Remus Sirius lifted his head up sleepily rubbing his eyes.

"I'm engaged!" yelled James suddenly over taken with a mad rush of emotions and jumping on the bed. He threw up a pillow laughing like a mad man so that both Sirius and Remus were staring at him wide eyed. "Come on let's celebrate mates!"

Sirius coughed, "You're not mad at me?"

James paused for a moment. Sirius slept with Lily. The thought had simply disappeared from his mind after he had proposed. No, that wasn't exactly true; the thought had still been there at that point. He had forgotten about it the moment she said the word 'yes', the moment her eyes filled with that pure happiness and her smile became the only thing he cared about. "No I'm not mad at you anymore, but you owe me Sirius. You owe my big"

"So you won't tackle me to the floor with surprising weakness?" asked Sirius cheekily.

"Oh now your going to get it!" James was about to lunge at Sirius a grin plastered childishly on his face when Remus spoke:

"I don't think you want to do that" he spoke so politely that both of the rather barbarious boys looked over at him with a sort of wonder.

"And why would that be"

Remus blushed "Because he like I is naked"

James's entire face fell. "I'll be getting off now" he mumbled stumbling off of the bed but staying near.

"Hey would you look at that," said Sirius suddenly pointing to Prong's forehead as he sat up his hands holding the sheets loosely to his waist.

"What?"

Remus laughed slightly "Let's just say there's a second name on your forehead James"

He blushed covering it up with his hands. "You and your bloody Prank"

OOO

Lily sat by the lake a look of complete wonder filling her face. She was waiting for James to show up with the bride's maid and best man (they had decided that as a joke Remus would serve as bride's maid and Sirius as best man).

But somewhere inside herself the phrase that Remus uttered came back for an instant to mock fate, to tease fortune, and to mortify death. And when each of them the Marauders were laid in their tomb the words came back as strings of satin in the darkest of nights.

Long Live the Marauders

The END