'Til The End

Birthday Surprise - Part One

'Come on, we've got plans.' Sirius grinned devilishly. 

Sirius and Remus crept along the corridor, levitating presents and balloons behind her, giggling and whispering as they went. It was 11:57, and Sirius wanted to carry out their plan at midnight. So they stood outside the door, shushing each other loudly. 'Three... Two... One... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!' Sirius and Remus pushed open Harry's bedroom door and dragged him out of bed without giving him a chance to say a thing. He landed on the floor with a great *thump*, laughing with ease. 'Why am I on the floor at 12:01?' Harry asked, squinting up at the alarm clock. 'Because, this year, you have a Marauder's birthday. Marauder's birthday's used to consist of drinking until we were passed out, but apparently that's frowned upon by Molly, so we'll do everything but the drinking.' Sirius grinned, hauling Harry to his feet. 

'Grab some coffee and meet us in the living room, we remember what it's like being a teenager, kid.' Remus said, grinning broadly. Harry yawned and ruffled his hair, just life James used to. Remus dragged Sirius out by his hair. 'Wingardium Leviosa.' Sirius had spent hours making a birthday cake in the shape of a golden snitch, just bigger, and was determined to have it flying around the room when Harry came in. He and Remus had (magically) carved all the food into magical objects. They had broomstick chocolate logs, Quaffle apples, Whomping Willow crackers, pizza howlers, gobstone cherries and ordinary wizarding treats such as cauldron cakes and Bertie Bots every flavour bean. The room had been decorated Gryffindor colours. 

'So why am I up at- What?' Harry's face was priceless. His mouth turned into a perfect 'o' and his eyes widened. 'This is all for me?' Harry said shakily. 

'No, it's all for some other random Gryffindor who happens to have a birthday today.' Sirius snorted, 'of course it's for you!' Harry hugged Sirius tightly, then Remus. 'Thank you so much, I can't tell you how much it means to me.' Sirius chuckled lighting and punched Harry's shoulder. 

'You're welcome kid.' After three intense rounds of exploding snap, Harry finally noticed his birthday cake wizzing around the room. 'Is that... an oversized snitch.' He asked, squinting at it. 

'It's your birthday cake!' Sirius said excitedly, then flicked his wand to lower it onto the table. 'I made it yesterday!' He said proudly. Harry grinned at him and set his cards down. 'Only one way to make this a Marauders birthday.' Remus smirked. Sirius was glad he made two cakes. They forced Harry's head down into the icing, laughing. That begun an entire food war. Remus paused mid-fight so he could duplicate all the food and decoration to send them to the kitchen so they didn't get ruined. Harry won. 'Well done, champ, guess that makes you the winner.' Sirius put an arm round Harry's shoulders, wiping mash potato from his eye, he didn't exactly know how it got there seeing as they hadn't even made mash potato. 'Birthday victory!' Harry yelled, punching the air. 'Shower then ice-cream party?' He suggested and Sirius gave him an enthusiastic nod. 'You take first shower and we'll meet you in the living room.' Harry nodded and pushed open the door to the bathroom, while Sirius and Remus traipsed to their room. 'That was brilliant.' Sirius said, shutting the door. 

'It really was. Though I think it could've been better if-' Sirius shut him up with a kiss. 

'Sirius, Harry's here.' Remus said sternly, breaking away. 

'Harry's showering.' Remus rolled his eyes, telling Sirius 'no' and started to wriggle out of his food-stained clothes. 'Boring!' Sirius complained, pulling his own jeans off. 'What's the point in being with the hottest man on the planet if I'm not allowed to shag him?' Remus rolled his eyes again, and, hearing the water switch off, headed into their own bathroom. 'Well?' Sirius demanded, following him into the bathroom. 'Moooooony.' He whined. 

'Out, Sirius.' Remus sighed. Sirius gave Remus the best pout he could perform and crossed his arms. 'Can't make me.' Sirius could've sworn Remus grinned like they were teenagers again. 'Sirius Black. Get out of this bathroom right now or I will start sleeping in the spare room again.' Sirius moved quicker than he ever had before. When Sirius had first returned from Azkaban, Remus had refused to be close to him. It was actually Sirius sleeping in the spare room, then when they had a fight Remus would go in there to prove a point. That was until Sirius slipped in beside him, cuddled him and said sorry. Remus and Sirius had only gotten closer a few months ago, and both were terrified to hurt their relationship again. Sirius' biggest fear was losing Remus. Remus was the moon to his star, and without a moon stars can't exist. When Remus emerged from the bathroom, fully dressed and his face pink from the water temperature, he gave Sirius a quick peck on the cheek, showing Sirius he was forgiven. Sirius promptly showered, knowing Remus would be cold again if he took ages. he wriggled into a t-shirt and jeans before pushing the door open, also knowing Remus wouldn't appreciate it if he wasn't ready. Remus was trying, and failing, to put a glam charm over his scars to hide them.