Boys in the Band

Chapter One

"He's gonna say no," stated Peter, voicing the thought going through the whole trio's brain.

Sirius rolled his eyes despite the feeling that his friend was right. "Probably," James replied. The traitor.

"You guys, have a little faith. We were once the marauders, and we will be again. Come on, you gotta admit you're at least a little excited at the thought of him saying yes."

Ten minutes later they arrive at his house. They sit in the car for a few minutes, none of them daring to get out. Eventually Sirius, the most daring of the three, gives up waiting and opens his door. After what feels like an hour he knocks.

A clearly disheveled Remus John Lupin opens his door and bloody fucking hell. Did he get even more gorgeous? Sirius' heart feels like it about to burst as a warmth rushes into his chest at the sight. So much so that he doesn't hear Remus speak.

"I'm sorry what?" Sirius catches a flash of something in his ex's face, but it disappears so fast he doesn't have time to decipher it.

"I said what are you doing here?"

"Um, the boys are in the car, we were wondering if we could have a talk." His old posh accent started coming out, giving away his nerves. But other than that he thought he was doing fairly well at this whole "acting nonchalant" thing.

Remus seemed to contemplate this for a moment, then groaned a little as if he settled on a decision but thought he would regret it. "Well, I suppose. Go get them, and then you can come inside. Just give me a moment."

After seven minutes of pure chaos for all parties involved, the four men were sitting in Remus' living room in a tense silence. "So," Remus started. "What did you want to talk about?"

Straight to the point, as usual Remus style. "So we had to drop our bassist and we were wondering if you would be willing to re-join our band."

"As your bassist? Isn't that your job Siri." And now Sirius was having a full blown gay panic attack at the usage of the Remus exclusive nickname.

He quickly composed himself and answered. "I switched to drums after Gid was added cause he couldn't play and we decided someone had to. And I could switch back, but then we wouldn't have a drummer. And we can't have that now could we because-"

Thankfully Sirius' ramble was cut off by Peter who somehow seemed to be the least affected by the situation. "Anyways, we have a meeting with a manager in a month and we need a complete band. So, are you in?"

"Give me a minute," was all Remus said before walking away into his bedroom. There was some indicernable yelling, and then a messily dressed woman walked out carrying her shoes. She tried to speak but Remus cut her off. "No, you have to leave. I told you before that this was just a one night stand and now the night is over. So get the fuck out."

The lady started quietly crying, but then walked out, slamming the door on her way out. "Um Remus, that was a bit mean don't you think?" James said like the idiot that he was. If there was even the slightest hope that Remus would re-join critisizing him would definitely ruin that.

Remus, looking not even the slightest bit offended answered quickly. "Well, first, she bit the shit out of my lip last night. Second, she told me she loved me even though we only met yesterday. And finally, she insulted my mother when I politely told her that I had guests so she had to leave."

Peter laughed and said, "Damn RJ, always the heartbreaker." Shit. Both Sirius and Remus grimaced at that little sentiment. His and James were really trying to fuck this up weren't they?

"So," Sirius started hoping to brush over Peter's comment. "What do you think."

"I think this is going to be the stupidest thing I've ever done, but what the hell. Why not. I needed something to do anyways."