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James Potter (foureyedwonder) wrote in beyondthepages,
@ 2010-03-28 22:18:00

Entry tags:

!complete, 2023 08, james potter, lily evans, lily luna potter, sirius black

RP: ... Welcome Back Potter?
Characters: James Potter, LilyLu, Lily E. Potter; Sirius Black
Time/Date: 28 August 2023, early evening
Location: Godric's Hollow
Warnings/Rating: ANGST
Summary: James isn't really sure what's going on.
Status: Closed, complete-ish

It took James several seconds of blinking before he could piece together what was going on.

One of two things had just happened: either he had just Apparated to a location he had never seen before, likely splinching himself in the process (aaaand quick check to make sure everything vital had come along) or he was never touching Firewhiskey again, because clearly it played havoc with his memory. What had they done last night that had ended him up in some... random house in who knows where (though without any other ideas, he was assuming Hogsmade), without his wand and so-called mates, who had clearly abandoned him in his hour of need. When he got back to school, there would be words. There. Would. Be. Words.

Though maybe that was a slight exaggeration. Just because nothing was familiar, didn't mean that he needed to assume the worst: that they'd broken into some bloke's house in Hogsmade after sneaking into the Hogs Head and sneaking some Firewhiskey. Surely they were more responsible than...

... Right, okay, that was a stupid thought. Of course he should always assume the worst.

Not seeing his mate's anywhere close by, or anyone else for that matter, James decided to count his lucky stars, and starting to ease his way in the direction that he hoped was the exit. He'd find a way back to Hogwarts and hash out the details of what the hell had happened later - right now, he didn't want to be caught breaking in. He had enough black marks that were NOT HIS FAULT to his good name already - he didn't need to add this bizarre occurrence to the list.

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-29 06:55 am UTC (link)

Sirius was elated with the letter from Remus. He'd just been sinking into the swirling gloom again as evening began to press in on the house when the owl had arrived.

And now he had the letter. Sure, Remus was up a year on him, but he was certain they could flash some charm, claim some distress, and end up in the same year by the first.

It'd be the two Marauders. Together again. Half the group.

Who apparently hadn't been as cohesive a group as he thought. He still couldn't believe that Peter had been anything but loyal. They'd all been friends since they were eleven. Hell, James had been practically his brother.

Sirius scowled to himself, aware that his initial happy moment was getting buried under the same depression that seemed to be following him everywhere he went. He had to move -- to get out of the room.

It was ridiculous to try to escape his own thoughts, but Sirius rather thought he wanted to try. He was Sirius Black. If anyone could run from his problems, it was him.

Sirius eased off his borrowed bed and headed to his closed door, pausing when he heard movement in the hallway, but then opening the door regardless.

At first, he thought it was Harry. He hadn't gotten a proper chance to talk to him yet with the Aurors so busy and he thought now might be the time, but after the split second it took for his brain to catch up...

"Prongs!" Anyone going to bed early be damned. Sirius slung himself at his best mate, tackling him before he likely had any idea what sort of horror had just sprung from the room. "Took you bloody well long enough!"

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foureyedwonder
2010-03-29 07:46 am UTC (link)

He was lost in thought, wandering down the hall until he found the room he was pretty sure someone had mentioned was Sirius', desperate to see his mate right now and just talk about how bloody weird all of this was. He paused at the door, it just then occurring to him that Sirius might be older too. He thought that he had heard something about school, but that didn't mean that they were the same age anymore. What if things were different between them too? He wasn't sure that he'd be able to take that, not right now. It made him pause in the hall, with his hand raised ready to knock, or turn the knob to enter.

He supposed he needn't have bothered when the door snapped open, and after a half second where they both just stood bewildered and waiting for the thoughts to process, his face split into a wide grin as he suddenly found himself with an armful of Sirius. He grunted a little as the air left his lungs, the sudden exhale choking back a laugh as he wrapped his arms around him.

"Something like half a century I'm told," he said to Sirius' comment, "Bloody hell mate, is it ever good to see you. Pretty sure I've lost my mind. Either that or you blokes have just succeeded in the greatest prank ever."

In a really distant way, he was still sort of hoping that that was the case, though he highly doubted it.

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-29 09:42 pm UTC (link)

Sirius pulled back to look at James' face, matching grin in place. Merlin, was it ever good to see someone actually familiar. James looked the same as ever, though Sirius supposed if he was just a year off in either direction he wouldn't be able to easily tell.

Like it was with Remus, though. They could catch each other up on just a year. It was better than with Evans where everything was bizarre and wrong.

The thought blipped quietly in the back of Sirius' mind, making him wonder if James had seen Evans yet, but it was quickly overrun by the fact that his best mate was right here.

"For a while there I thought some bloke had properly befuddled me and landed me in the Hospital Wing," Sirius admitted. He peered around James' shoulder, then returned his attention to the other boy. "Who'd you run into downstairs? How much did they tell you?"

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foureyedwonder
2010-03-31 01:25 am UTC (link)

"Befuddled," he scoffed. "Us. Really. Think we built up an endurance to that one a while ago," it had certainly been the subject of quite a few pranks at the beginning, but then he paused, shaking his head before gesturing vaguely in the direction he'd come from. "Evans and a... smaller Evans, who's really a... Potter?" he raised an eyebrow to Sirius, just now realizing he'd never really gotten a name, he didn't think, for the girl he'd thought was Lily's sister. "Because apparently I spawned. I don't know mate, that doesn't sound like the greatest idea. I'm pretty sure one of me is all the world can handle."

And he was pretty sure that that was just the tip of the iceberg, if the looks he'd picked up from Lily were any indication.

Which made him wonder if Sirius had spawned. But that was somehow was stranger to think about at the moment, so he brushed away those thoughts and grinned again, moving into Sirius' room.

"Do I get my own room too, or am I bunking with you?" he asked curiously, peering around. "And is Moony around?" he suddenly paused, a shocking and somewhat strange thought crossing his mind as he turned back to face his mate. "Is he old?"

And then he felt horrible, because if Remus was young that would have meant that he died. And how, exactly, was that better?

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-31 03:51 am UTC (link)

"There's three of them," Sirius shared, eyes widening as he realized just how much weird information he had to share. "Two of 'em are older than me!"

That was the part that just kept weirding him out. He'd been flirting with James' youngest grandkid over breakfast. And didn't feel like anything was strange at all until he had a moment to stop and say to himself, "Wait."

"I haven't snogged any of them," Sirius added, as if that was important. "And you can bunk with me, I s'pose."

Choosing to move right along to the Remus question, Sirius turned to head back into the borrowed room, beckoning for James to follow after as he moved to the bed and snatched up the letter before handing it off to his mate.

"He's come back like us, only seventeen," Sirius explained, eyeing James critically. "Er... you're... we're... you're my James, right? Not some odd one all graduated and doing odd stuff, right?"

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foureyedwonder
2010-03-31 05:28 am UTC (link)

"Three?" he groaned. "All of them his, right? I just had the one before I kicked it?" He joked, because facing the reality of the situation was just too much for him right now. He did not have a son who was old enough to be his father, and two grandkids that were older than him. He couldn't. That didn't make sense. None of this made sense. He was going to wake up any second now.

"God, mate," he groaned, wondering if that was some kind of incest. Though probably not. It wasn't like Sirius was related to any of them. Likely. Unless he had spawned. But again, too weird to think about, even if his mind did keep coming back to it.

Giving the owl a quick once over when it was handed to him, James grinned, planning on surprising Remus with his own owl in short order before he looked back up. "Seventeen?" he frowned. "Well damn, now he'll really be able to hold school over our head. Think he'll make head boy?"

Joke, joke because this whole thing was just too weird to think about.

He looked up from the owl abruptly when Sirius asked if he was his James, making an incredulous face, and scoffed loudly. "Like that's even a question," he said, waving a hand dramatically and offering Sirius a large grin before returning to the owl briefly. "Moony's ours too, even if he came back a year older by accident." He glanced up, raising an eyebrow. "It is only a year for you, isn't it?" Maybe Sirius had come back a year younger. "Come on mate, too much happened in fifth year for me to catch you up to speed."

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biscuitforblack
2010-03-31 06:02 pm UTC (link)

"I'm halfway through sixth year," Sirius declared smugly, taking back the owl and dropping it on the floor beside his bed before flopping over onto the bed. He put his hands behind his head and frowned slightly before pouting. "Bet they'll put me back at the beginning of sixth. Merlin, mate. I could see the end of bloody classes and now they're starting all over again."

He picked up on the need for a few jokes right now and changed his pout into a grin as he gestured to the foot of the bed. "You can have about three inches. Unless you've hit seventeen and can transfigure this into a bunk."

It was a weird concept, not knowing exactly what James and Remus had gone through. This time traveling business had him all out of sorts.

And Peter, too, if he showed up.

That thought sent a dark shadow over Sirius' expression. He imagined James hadn't heard about Peter yet and he didn't know that he was the one to tell him. But who would be better to hear it from?

Hoping to act like nothing was wrong before James could notice, Sirius pulled a smirk back into place. "Bet they'll demote Moony to be in the same year. Or promote us. But I'm sure it'll break his heart to stay at Hogwarts longer and learn more."

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foureyedwonder
2010-04-02 05:05 am UTC (link)

"I know mate, it's bloody torture," he said. "They should give a back-from-the-dead pass. I mean, we graduated in some timeline, right? That means we've already proved we know our stuff. We shouldn't have to prove it again to these youngsters."

He paused, suddenly thoughtful. "Even if it might be fun to teach some of the students a thing or two."

He stared at the three inches of bed that Sirius had left, smirked a bit and moved to crash down onto it. If Sirius didn't move, he'd have been smushed. James'd give him his fair share, obviously, but at the moment he was going to be clear that he was going to need more than three inches of bed space.

"He'll probably ask to be demoted, knowing Moony," James said thoughtfully, pretending like he hadn't just tried to crush his best mate. "Wanting the extra study time to relearn half a century of schooling. Hey, how out of date do you really think we're going to be?"

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biscuitforblack
2010-04-02 02:57 pm UTC (link)

Sirius grinned. That was about the only reason he was excited about trudging through sixth year again. It's be bloody brilliant to have an entire new batch of students to show off to who hadn't seen his brilliance so often that they rolled their eyes and went back to their dinner.

"Well..." Sirius began, attempting to get out of the way.

He didn't make it completely and let out an "Oomph! Prongs!" before scooting over to actually make room for his mate.

Settled, Sirius continued. "I dunno. We'll do all right in Binns' class. at least?"

Ancient history tended not to change too much. Unless someplace got conquered and ordered to re-work everything.

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foureyedwonder
2010-04-04 01:00 am UTC (link)

"I dunno mate, I heard we missed a whole war while we were dead," he said, shifting a bit to get comfortable as Sirius did the same. "Besides, did we ever do well with Binns? I couldn't pay attention half the time to his dronings."

He paused. "You suppose it's still Binns? Not like he can die, but he can come back, right? And if he does come back, suppose he'll still teach or will they fill the spot?"

He waved a hand to dismiss the topic. "Either way, we can't stand for this injustice of bringing us back so far behind. 1 week, and then we must be caught up on all new jinxes and prank ideas, at the very least. We can't be slipping there."

Though he did wonder how long it would really take before they were all caught up on everything. He hoped it wasn't something ridiculous, like months.

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biscuitforblack
2010-04-04 04:07 am UTC (link)

Sirius contemplated Binns and if it would be any more interesting hearing new history that they'd missed out on. He would be interested in all of it, but...

Well.

Binns could make dragons seem dull. He wasn't sure how the ghost of a bloke did it. It took special skills, he supposed.

"I hear one of your grandkids is a prankster," Sirius informed, stretching slightly before settling completely. "And one of them has gone and got our map! We'll have to deal with that."

All in good time.

"I suppose the worst that can happen is being demoted to fifth year. Dunno about you, but I'd rather not go through O.W.L.s again, mate."

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foureyedwonder
2010-04-04 04:45 am UTC (link)

"Only one?" James asked, and then scoffed. "See, mate, if I'd be around, they'd all be far better at this whole thing. None of this goody-goody perfect student nonsense - they must get that all from Lily," though that was a bit of a touchy, angsty subject that he didn't really want to dwell on right now.

So he settled for indignant. "Got our map? Blimey, Pads, that's an injustice that just won't stand. It is clearly labeled as the property of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, and I highly doubt that any grandchild of mine can claim that namesake." He rested his hands behind his head. "Clearly, we'll just have to come up with a plan to recover it."

He paused. "Here, I'm assuming that you pointed out to... it... that it was using stolen property, and it refused to surrender the property?"

He was vaguely excited now. This was the sort of stuff that was familiar. Even if it wasn't familiar to be planning on stealing things from his own grandchildren.

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