Night time

[maraudings]

[James is sprawled over the sofa, with the map of the Nexus on his stomach. He's just completed the last of the tracer spells so it's ready to show off. He's fallen asleep.

Behind James a new door has opened in the wall. He's magically expanded the flat again and the door has a sign on it saying Moony's Den. The room is completely blank apart from a framed photo of the three of them, a stack of cds ranging through the decades and cd player.

James twitches in his sleep. Uneasy in his dreams, chasing a shadow that won't let him near his friends. The shadow turns to him and starts to envelop him until he can no longer see them. He cries out]

Comments

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

[James punches him lightly on the shoulder, laughing] I'd have settled for loved

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

[Laughs and stops bowing.] You are loved. You don't need me to tell you that one.

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

Yes I do many times [James grins] mostly because I love hearing it

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

Well then, I love you. [A pause.] Happy now?

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

Very [just a little more softly] you're loved to,

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. [Remus smiles at him.] Perk of Marauder membership, isn't it?

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd put it somewhere on our membership card but it's too sappy and we don't have a card

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

That would be a slight problem, yeah. S'all right, that can just be one of the parts of membership that no one gets to know about. Which is true for most of it to be fair.

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, [James grins] about all they know is who is in it

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

And what it's called. And what *we're* called.

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

Yes but they don't know what it means

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

Course not. That'd defeat the purpose. Mind you, I always wonder what on earth they *think* it means. Not exactly normal nicknames, are they Prongs?

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

Nope, Moony, not in the slightest. They probably thought we picked them out of a book or something

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

Don't be silly. They don't think we read!

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

Sirius is giving us a book reputation !

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

Oh. Yeah. Actually that's a fair point. He's gotten *really* into books in the Nexus. It surprised me.

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

It's starting to scare me, I think someone swapped his brain for a different one

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

[Remus shrugs.] He says he's always liked reading.

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

Yeah. never seen that before

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

Maybe we're unobservant.

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

No, can't be not when spend all day with him

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

[A pause.] What's your explanation, then?

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

that...he's changed

[lupin-remusj.livejournal.com]

But why? [Sounding very slightly frustrated.] You've been here with him all this time.

[prongs-jamesp.livejournal.com]

He...I don't know! He's got further and further away from me