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no hang on hang on hang on you are our leader
since WHEN
what experience
i didnt vote for you

first and best of course
and you mine
never will you be forgotten every time im on a train i am reminded of the romance that we shared
ah youth! ah romance! ah ❤!
and we are speaking of evans because... she is your love? i thought? and will try to replace me in your ❤ but of course first & best as i said?
get with it potter

you want to get involved with them
i mean we could join up with one of their teams but
seeing as i too want to tell them to bugger off
also i hate teams as you know
except team marauder
and qudditch team

I wasn't talking about as the Marauders' captain
quidditch team captain, mate.
still a captain, still more experience than you.

shared
is that a past tense I see there
my feelings for evans are 1) none of your business and 2) quite different from the ❤ I give to you.
it's saddening to think you would ever doubt my love for you
what will I become

no.
I really don't.
because from what I can tell it's a crap-shoot trying to get anything done
and maybe I can understand what they're trying to do, or accomplish
I don't think I can trust a team that just watches things fall apart like that

no if I'm going to be a part of a group or a team it's only going to involve us
and whoever else needs the help.

[ and there we go: james can try to be all big and tough and 'watch our own backs and only our backs' but when the time comes, you know he's going to jump right into the mix to save everyone. ]

oh well that hardly counts youre captain by default
because i have no interest in being captain

[in other words: yes all right fine he defers to you in this.]

the romance we shared AT THE TIME what we have now is deeper than romance
soulmates et cetera
& your feelings are very much my business thank you
i have to know everything
anyway dont act like said feelings are such a great secret i am the one that helped you nurse your broken ❤ for years & years when she was rejecting you

[a pause at the rest of that.]

yeah
youre right

even if its one of those insulting bastards that needs help i suppose we have to help them anyways right

no but it does give me a leg up on your for the candidacy
you'd make a fantastic first mate, though.
what do you say? :)

ohhhhh well yes of course.
our bond reaches much further than simply romance and flowery words
and excuse you my heart has not yet been broken seeing as Evans hasn't taken it in the first place
as far as she's concerned, at least.

[ oh ouch let's not talk about this okay sirius, james is still trying to get over lily not remembering them dating. sort of. ]

yeah.
we do

all right yes i say yes
but i will not do your work for you and if you ask me to tidy up after you i will thump you
agreed captain?

EXACTLY
they will write sonnets of our love my love
which are flowery words but i really do mean them!
she broke your heart without having it just by refusing you
but hang on do you

[ooooh and then he works out what James must mean.]

think of this as an opportunity mate
charm all over again but in bonus creepy space setting
drives her to your arms all the faster see if it doesnt
anyway now you have insider tips

brilliant. I'm glad that's settled then.
and of course, as first mate you're above all the tidying duties.
that's reserved for our crew
once we get one.

but you see it's because OTHERS are writing of our love that the flowery words are necessary
they can't possibly understand it otherwise

an opportunity to have to redo everything I've already done?
ahhhh it's just bloody annoying is what it is
and you know just as well as I that if the creep space setting is going to do anything
it's going to make her fend for herself all the more.

but I do thank you for your wisdom good sir.

oh well in that case i am VERY enthusiastic about being first mate
provided i get to help select the crew
we cant have just anyone after all

and well i suppose i understand now
flowery words still make me vomit a little but if it helps the world to understand our deep complex love even a little than so be it

you know potter i think you vastly underestimate creepy space setting
i think you are forgetting that there are few wizards here whose shoulders she will feel comfortable crying upon/leaning upon
who is she going to turn to in times of need?
YOU if you play your cards right

do you happen to have anyone in mind?

your sacrifices are appreciated and noted for the sake of our everlasting love
plus now that we can talk to each other with words on this little book thing
they're more useful than you'd think

you think that she's going to feel comfortable around someone who knows a good five months of her future
a future that involves us, that she doesn't want to know about
I can play my cards as much as I want but it's not going to be nearly as easy as you're making it out to be.

ill put together some dossiers just for you
have them on your nonexistant desk by monday
or
someday

i guess this thing is useful but it is also weird
i dropped it once and it turned itself on and it wouldnt turn off
hours of empty recording of the inside of my pocket
imagine inopportune recordings going on all of the time THE MUGGLE FUTURE IS A MAD WEIRD PLACE
but for talking with you they are very useful my lamb

well yeah bu

[and there's where he cuts off because Sirius is actually fairly incapable of understanding and putting to words things so complex as this current topic. she's a girl, isn't she! she is an important girl but why are they wasting this much time on her. (because she is an important girl, all right, yes, arguably James' most important girl, which Sirius is sympathetic to. but the fact remains: SHE IS A GIRL and this is dangerously close to the mopey James Potter days, the days when he bemoaned the fact that Lily couldn't be arsed to spare him so much as a second glance. this time he has a bit more of a leg to stand on, considering the timeline thing is not his fault but still. still.

Nwejrsfwer Sirius says to himself, and rubs a hand over his face, and soldiers on. for James.]

i think its not going to be as difficult as YOURE making it out to be either
just so you know
i mean yeah shell be wary but youre also one of very few people that she knows
right
so that will count for something
and anyw
look has she hit you once since shes been here
she has not even hit me (i think) not even once not even when i pretended as if i was going to hang around her po [wait abort abort DON'T SAY YOU WERE GOING TO TRY TO SEE EVANS NAKED] hang around her for ages and ages and annoy her. nothing.
and anyway then theres the dangers untold of space which are really good chances for you to demonstrate just how great of a non prat you are
difficult to do as you in fact ARE a humongous humongous prat but
she might be deceived by brave deeds
and ANYWAY anyway youve got us to help you

and that was a bloody lot to write and my hand is crippled so i hope you are ready to write for me for the REST OF MY NATURAL LIFE POTTER

what did I tell you?
prime first mate material here.

I actually meant the words themselves are useful
but this thing is also bloody genius
it's like all the pictures and calls and things are all in this one little book
and sure it's not fullproof but it can be advantageous to our master plan
somehow

[ okay no actually James just likes playing with this new toy. that's really all there is here. ]

but it also means we can be in almost constant contact
my heart no longer mourns the moments apart

[ but then sirius is giving what sounds quite similar to a pep talk he would rather not remember getting (more often than once) and okay. maybe he's being a little mopey. and he should man up. but what if he doesn-

okay yeah who is he kidding here. ]

you know, sirius.
it's been quite a while since I've gotten to hear your talks.
I've almost missed them
but no, you're right.
it's just a matter of making this ship full of insane muggles and others work to my advantage
and prove I'm a non prat.
again.

[ CASUALLY IGNORING THAT COMMENT ABOUT FOLLOWING LILY AROUND FOR YOUR OWN SAKE, SIRIUS. ]

does that mean I get to follow your around for the rest of this natural life of yours?

[ to write for you of course ]

of course you would like the thing as it makes your stalking of evans all the easier
but if you put it that way yes i do like always being in your heart (your ❤) (your pocket?) and with you at all times
a mere :) away
or :(
more :) than :(

[EYEROLL do not call this a "little talk" gross he is being a best mate it's not like they're GIRLS James honestly]

well someone has to set you straight
or else you get all damp and depressed and bring me down and i do so hate being brought down
id prefer to skip around the spaceship with you
if i must suffer giving talks and watch you try desperately hard not to be a prat for evans then i will do so
for you and for myself

anyways you can do it youre brilliant
what are you so worried for

hang on were you not going to follow me around
+ what about my unnatural life

easier, yes. but also slightly less fun. no room to be creative with this outside of ❤ and ;)
and why would I ever want to :( you that is saved strictly for Moony and sometimes Evans but mostly Moony
:)

I do not get damp and depressed excuse you
maybe a little down but nothing a good gallivant can't cure.
we do not skip padfoot, goodness.
where is your head at these days

what am I

[ also, there is a pause here. maybe a minute or so, before the next text comes. well, sirius, if he's going to open up to anyone about this... ]

I'm worried I'll cock it up and it'll end up changing back home.
I'm worried that this whole future catastrophe is going to make her change her mind
I'm worried

bloody hell Sirius what if getting with Evans is the reason this whole thing happens in the first place.
what if I can stop it from happening by just
not
being with her.

anyway
of course I was going to follow you around.
this would just make me a more constant and permanent figurehead in your life
do you think you could handle that?
really and truly?

also natural makes me think normal and I'm fairly certain you are anything but normal.
normal is boring

are you saying you are only :) never :(
as in, NEVER EVER
as in there is nothing i can do to be :(
WHY POTTER....... :) :) :)

also my head is in space
& i dont think you get to be irritated with me for saying skip as you just told me
always :)

also i am very normal & natural even if you dont understand me
& i always want your head to figure in my life
and your figure to head in my life
ooh potter are you asking me to marry you because if so the answer is

YES MY DARLING YES

[sooooo okay the rest of this... is more difficult. which is why he saves it for the end, because it takes Real Thought and Real Feelings, both of which Sirius has in rather short supply (or so he would claim). But when your best mate needs you, you step in, no matter if it's dragons or girls or the horrible inevitable future or weird relationship crises (made weirder by the fact that the relationship isn't really defined as a relationship yet) (too weird).]

look you are being an idiot
you are thinking much too hard and you know what happens when you attempt real thought
boiling over like a shit cauldron! we cant have that

if it happens the way it happened at hogwarts where one day evans wakes up and decides she might actually be able to see past your humongous head and inflated ego then it happens that way
and if it happens because she looks up from her mushy spacemeal one day and sees you standing dashingly across the room eating your mushy spacemeal then it happens that way

if she hated you then shed not talk to you but she is talking to you and she does talk to you and she doesnt hex you or throw books at you so already your record has improved

and if she lets some weird mad future stop her from getting together with you then shes not worth it anyways
but shes clever so she wont
because youre actually secretly brilliant? and there was something that made her wake up and see that right

but youre not seriously telling me that you think that VOLDEMORT COMES TO POWER just because YOU snog lily evans & more a few thousand times
james
that is big headed even for you evans is never going to go for that

this doesnt happen because of you or because of her or because of anything you do
this happens because theres evil shit out there in the world
but fortunately we are equipped to deal with it
because were marauders + prefect girl
with a future son sidekick
we cant fail

in short: get out of it potter
get out of it and go out there and get that girl for god queen & country
because youve got to. and thats it.

see my first response would be yes.
but then you take it a step too far and I start second guessing my answer but as far as I know
in this moment
yes as in never ever I do believe you're stuck with me for life now :)
I hope that was your intention
because even if it wasn't you've signed the contract what's done is done.

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