Moving Towards The Future

Chapter 6.

After a month full of pranks, detentions, close calls, and a full moon, it was Christmas break!

"Everyone has everything?" Sam asked the boys.

"Yeah." they all responded together.

"Okay, good!" she said cheerfully. "Time to go!"

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"Made it!" they all panted, standing in the corridor of the Hogwarts express.

"Thank Merlin!" James said.

Sirius shook his head. "Did we HAVE to take that short cut? It wasn't short! It took us to the wrong side of the castle!"

"Oh, shut up." James said, punching Sirius in the shoulder. Suddenly the train lurched forward, and they were off.

"Lets go get a seat, even though they're probably all gone..." sighed Sam. They took off down the long, crowded hall.

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About 5 hours later the train was slowing down, about to stop in Kings Cross.

With a smile on her face, Sam grabbed her bag from the top shelf. She looked back to everyone else, seeing they were ready, she started walking out heading toward the platform.

The Marauders were greeted by a excited Alfred who was there to pick all of them up. Sirius and James were coming with Remus and Sam for the first week of vacation, then heading back home for their second... well, more like Sirius heading with James to the Potters, seeing as Sirius left his home this past summer, done with his parents and their Pureblood non-sense.

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"James! That's not how you work a toaster!" Sam screamed at James. He was trying to toast toast in a toaster for breakfast, but he'd never worked a toaster before...

"Well, how does it work?!" James yelled. "I'm doing my best!"

Sam shook her head at him. "You're like a little kid!"

"Well, I'm used to having toast made for me! And when it is made it's made by magic! I'm sorry I didn't grow up with Muggle things!"

"Yes, but if you just took a minute to read the words by the buttons you wouldn't have almost burned your finger off! You've got so much mischief in you... it isn't good!"

Samantha gave medicine to James for his finger he badly burned, then grabbed two more pieces of toast, making them for Prongs so he didn't actually burn his finger off this time.

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Later that night the four of them sat around Alfred's living room, talking, thinking of pranks to do.

"How about setting up a trap over the door to the Slytherin Common Room? We could set up something to spill pink paint on them... pink paint that only comes off when we take it off." grinned James.

"I love it!" Sirius grinned, giving his best friend a high-five. "Now my idea..." He thought for a moment. "THAT'S IT! On Valentine's day we'll anonymously send Snape a card from his "secret lover" giving him a hint where to find the next hit and so on, making him go all over the castle! At the end we can do some major prank!"

Sam grinned. "Brilliant. Time for my idea...."

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The next morning Remus woke up on the couch next to Samantha. He slowly leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. "Morning." he whispered to her.

She slowly opened her eyes. "Why'd you have to wake me up?" mumbled Sam.

"Because, everyone else is asleep. We've rarely gotten time by ourselves these past few weeks."

"We'll have all next week alone." replied Sam.

"I can't wait that long." Remus said.

"Shut up." James said, sitting up. This woke Sirius up and he sat up also. "You're like a married couple, it's gross."

"Yeah." agreed Sirius. He turned to Prongs. "How much you wanna bet they're engaged?"

"5 galleons!"

Sam and Remus looked at each other at the same time. Howler raised an eyebrow as to say, "Did you say anything?"

Remus shook his head.

Authors Note: It's finally up! It's been more than a month, sorry! It's not great, but it's what there is... blah.

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