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Ties of Friendship, Bonds of Fate	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Snape/Remus Views: 5675 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: Ties of Friendship, bonds of Fate
Pairings: Future JamesxLily and RemusxSeverus:ave
Rating: K to start but future M.
Summary: snupin prequel to Bound to You set pre-Harry Potter Era Hogwarts in a Marauder era AR/AU. Traces the bonds between snupin and jily as well as the falling out/distancing of Peter from the others.
A/N: This chapter is for mandancie for gave me some great ideas and being a muse of sorts. Apologies for the shortness but I couldn't think of anything else...
Chapter 37- Hogwarts

September 1, 1977

Lily, Severus, Remus and James arrived early.

Remus and Lily had been made Head Boy and Head Girl respectively, while James had joined Severus as a prefect.

They claimed the Heads Carriage around ten o’clock even though the train wasn’t leaving until eleven.

Their familiars were made as comfortable as possible: Lily’s Solarin claiming the sunniest spot, Remus was gifted a Chesepeake Bay Retriever named Athena for becoming Head Boy, Severus had Amaryllis, James an eagle owl named William and Sirius an hawk owl named Arrakis.

Solarin and Amaryllis were both cats that had been bought together and had spent more time at the Evans because after Tobias strangled Zar, Severus hadn’t wanted another owl.

Lily hadn’t bothered with a familiar until they were given to them by Ted Tonks as part of their treatment.

Now they were headed to Hogwarts for their final year, time for Lily and for James was misting away like sand in an Hourglass…

Thankfully, James was still oblivious and Lily hoped for his sake he stayed that way.

If it were possible to make Severus forget her and James’ ever encroaching deaths, then Lily would do it. Being twins that was impossible and soothing Severus each time he realised it would break her heart anew…

Asking Severus to keep this from Remus was somewhat cruel, a choice that would haunt her to her last breath no doubt but if it kept it from James, it was worth it.

James had suffered enough, to learn he would die so young would change him and she didn’t want that for him.

“Lily? Is something wrong?”

Inwardly, Lily flinched but she forced herself to relax. “I was just thinking; this is our last September…”

James wrapped his arms around her, “I’ve grown up a lot from that brat who insulted Severus…”

Lily chuckled, “I wouldn’t be wearing your ring if you hadn’t…”

“I still think you’re too perfect to be a mere witch.” James teased.

“Perhaps…perhaps…” Lily murmured.

Mere witch she was not, but given her ancestry Lily would never be a mere witch.

XoooooX

Lily and Remus had led a meeting of the Prefects and Quidditch Captains.

This year would be a bit awkward, after all since both Sirius and Regulus were rival Quidditch Captains.

With Bellatrix gone it was easier to forbid bullying of any kind; Lily, James, Remus and Severus had taken turns with rounds to make sure that the first years were sharing compartments in hopes that they could make friends regardless of future house affiliation.

Given that Remus wasn’t exactly welcome in Slytherin proper, they chose to keep the same apartment as last year that wasn’t far from the library. This was in spite Severus having a prefect apartment in the dungeon and Remus, the Gryffindor Head Boy apartment; they chose the more neutral choice.

Remus’ refusal of the Head Boy apartment had annoyed both Professor McGonagall and the Headmaster, not that either really cared.

Despite being soulmates and legally bonded, there were persons in each House that didn’t approve of Severus and Remus as a couple.

Not that her twin and good friend gave a knut about their opinions.

Lily felt a strange sadness; this would be her last Sorting…

A part of her had considered teaching; if she had had a future then she wished that she could have seen her children’s future.

Severus gently brushed her mind with the impression of a hug while Dumbledore treated them to his usual welcome.

Only he singled out Remus and Lily as Heads from his old House making them both uncomfortable.

Remus really ought to join Lily after dinner in escorting the First Years to the Tower but he decided to support Severus instead.

Lily didn’t mind, she had James as a Seventh Year boys prefect anyway…

She knew that it was difficult for Remus to be separated from Severus.

They had most of the same classes and those they didn’t share, Remus usually did his homework in a corner such as in Potions.

Even a year after Severus’ trauma, Remus was protective and worried…

Lily knew that her son and her twin would be safe with Remus…

XoooooX

Severus and Lily had arranged to have their prefect Rounds during Gryffindor’s Quidditch practices.

Technically, Remus and Lily should have be partners but this year was different.

Remus had been pouted onto the Team since Sirius needed a decent Beater to partner with him’ while James was still flying as a Chaser with Ross King and Michael McGonagall who were rumoured to be Professor McGonagall’s nephews…

Lily and Severus didn’t mind all that much, after all James and Remus were quite sexy while playing Quidditch after all.

Remus always came in rather horny after practice and Severus quite enjoyed that…

Unlike Lily who preferred to maintain a respectable image, Severus was already bonded and as far as he was concerned what happened in their bedroom was no one’s business.

Lily and Severus were able to shield the other from experiencing their private moments of sexual intimacy with their lover. They might be friends with James and Remus but neither really wanted to experience sex as their twin that would be awkward.

XoooooX

Lily had always been more interested in her books than the frilly girly things like dolls and make believe weddings.

While she had grown closer to Narcissa since the elder witch saved her from a nasty fall, she wasn’t as interested in planning a bonding.

Narcissa wasn’t in love with Lucius, but she intended to spend as much money as she could to make up for it. Apparently if she couldn’t marry the wizard of her dreams, the youngest Black heiress was going to have the bonding of her dreams…

Lily wasn’t sure what she wanted and leaving it up to her Burbage cousins or James’ Bones cousins just seemed unrealistic.

Between her NEWT courses and studying for her exams, Lily let Narcissa help her plan her bonding.

While she knew their end, James deserved all the wonderful memories could give him…

Strange as it might be, Lily was far more concerned with James having no regrets then herself.

Severus had never needed fuss, being bonded to Remus by contract was far more important to him than ceremony.

Lily would do anything to make her loss less painful even plaining a wedding that wasn’t really her wish.

After all, James was a Lord and having a fancy wedding was expected…

While his parents had passed to The Veil, hers had not and they too would expect a wedding.

Since Andromeda had a Muggle ceremony according to Narcissa to appease her brother-in-law’s Muggle relations, she had asked Andromeda to help her plan a Muggle ceremony.

James would want a fancy wedding for her parents’ sake after all.

Lily just wished this would all be over…

Not that she wanted to die mind but planning memories to leave behind…

XoooooX

Eventually it was June, their NEWT exams over and Graduation was upon them.

Remus and Lily were exempt from Head Boy and Head Girl duties as were James and Severus from Prefect duties.

Lily was still planning her wedding and Bonding with help from Narcissa and Andromeda.

Bellatrix was kept out of the loop for both Narcissa and Lily’s sake, the narrow-minded Black sister would not approve.

For her Muggle Ceremony, Lily had decided that as much as she wanted Severus a male maid of honour would upset people.

So she shyly asked Narcissa who surprisingly said yes.

Apparently, she’d stood up for Andromeda behind Bellatrix’s back escorted by Lucius…

Asking her Burbage cousins Charity and Irma wasn’t as stressful...

James would of course have Sirius, Remus and Severus whose suits Ted Tonks had picked up for her.

Lily had arranged to have her family’s church reserved but getting married right out of school wasn’t her plan.

She wanted a year of apprenticeship out of the way first, just because she wasn’t going to be able to finish didn’t mean that she shouldn’t start. Not apprenticing would alert James that something was wrong and that was the last thing she wanted.

It was Narcissa who was had no choice but to bond after graduation due to the strict contract that Sirius’ mother arranged but hers was set for October.

Unlike Andromeda, Narcissa made no effort to bond to another…

XoooooX

Graduation day dawned, Lily felt a bit bad that her Muggle adoptive parents couldn’t be there but she was surprised to see her birth mother Eileen hiding in the crowd.

Lily and Remus were to be called up first, and then Severus and James would be.

Lily had been asked to make a speech on behalf of her Year and had chosen not to refuse.

“Change,” she began, “today we officially leave behind our childhoods and enter the adult world. We are entering jobs, apprenticeships, training and even bondings. Change can be a good or a bad thing depending on our choices and attitudes. Some of us will look back on our years here and thing, ah life was so much easier then. Perhaps, it was but we cannot go back. We must press ever forward. Life is what you make it, dreams maybe short lived but they can be achieved with hard work. When I first arrived a September not so long ago, I was naïve entering into a world I could hardly imagine. Now I am a Head Girl, a former prefect and engaged. I am to enter an apprenticeship, my best friends Severus and Remus are as well. James, my betrothed and his cousin Sirius are going to be aurors. We have changed from those starry-eyed children of yester year, to adults. There is so much we still don’t know, experiences that will force us to grow will come. But as long as we have bonds and companions, we will continue to move forward. I wish you all a bright future, thank you.”

Lily felt Severus’ anguish; the speech had been for him.

She wanted him not to worry for her, he was her brother but he had Remus who would help him recover from her loss.

James kissed her cheek as Remus went up to receive his certificate of graduation.

Their Bones and Burbage kin were taking them out to celebrate, Severus and Lily would be expected to Sunday dinner to celebrate with their Muggle ‘parents’ along with Remus and James but for now it was enough.

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