"You lost the Invisibility Cloak?"

"Yeah, don't need to rub it in, Moony." James rolled his eyes, levitating a book above his head.

"I'm not rubbing it in." Remus snapped, tightening his tie. "I'm simply remarking on your stupidity at drawing McGonagall's attention to it."

"Since when did you start talking like you swallowed a dictionary?"

"Shut up Padfoot."

Sirius held his hands up and dropped onto his bed, grabbing his shoes. "How are we going to get it back?"

"Well, it'll be in Filch's cupboard. So we go there."

"Great." Peter said, bounding up. "We'll go there."

"No, we won't. We'll wait," Remus grabbed Peter by his robes and sat him down on his bed, "until the proper moment."

"Which is?"

Remus grinned. "Night time."

"Now?" Sirius hissed.

"No." James whispered back. "We wait until we're absolutely sure."

"But I'm absolutely sure now."

"Until we're all absolutely sure, Padfoot." Peter whispered. Remus shot up in bed and looked around, grabbing his wand.

"Is it safe, Moony?" Remus reappeared dimly in the doorway of the dorm.

"There's one straggler in the Common Room but I doubt they'll see us. Out cold."

Sirius jumped out of bed and grabbed his wand. "Let's go, then."

"Wait." Peter said, feeling under his bed. "I've lost my shoes."

"We're going on a stealth mission." James said. "Where we're going, we won't need shoes."

"Is that some obscure Muggle reference?" Sirius asked after too long a beat of silence.

"Kinda." Remus said. "Now come on."

The four Marauders crept down to the Common Room. The fire hadn't died, it was just burning out and they could all see a figure with fiery hair slumped in a chair, asleep.

"Hey, I know her." James said excitedly. "She's Rose Green. She's the head of the Quidditch team."

"Who cares?" Peter asked.

"Hey, yeah, it is."

"Well there's that question answered." Peter said as Remus rolled his eyes.

"Marauders, we haven't got all night. Let's go."

James and Sirius sighed and followed Peter and Remus out of the Gryffindor tower.

"James! James, where are you going?!"

"Filch's cupboard over here."

"No it's not." Remus snapped and grabbed James by the arm, pulling him away. "I know every inch of this castle and that is not Filch's cupboard."

"What did you do? Read Hogwarts: A History?"

"Yes actually."

"Jesus Christ, you are a nerd."

"Thank you. Now come on. Time is short." Remus let go of James' arm and led the group up and down staircases, holding his wand out in front of him.

"How d'you think he knows where we're going?" Sirius whispered to James.

"Who says he does?" James hissed back. A yelp from behind them alerted them to the fact that Peter was missing.

"Oh crap." Remus hissed, running over to the staircase. "Guys, I'm gonna need some help. Wormtail's fallen prey of the trick step."

"Oh Merlin." Sirius sighed as James rushed over to help Peter. He and Remus grabbed Peter's hands and pulled him up, out of the trick stair.

"You okay Wormtail?" James asked as Peter dusted himself off.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks."

"No problem. Now, let's go. Nearly morning." Remus turned away and led them down to Filch's cupboard. "Take only the cloak. Anything else and he'll notice something's missing."

James grabbed the cloak and threw it over himself, disappearing. His hand appeared and lifted the end of the cloak up.

"Come on." He hissed. "So we won't get caught."

"Is that thing big enough for all of us?" Sirius asked sceptically. James shrugged.

"It's either that or risk getting caught."

Yeah, odd ending. And also, apparently James can see the future because he made a parody reference to Back To The Future. Do I care? No. Am I going to change that? Also no.
Bye,
Blaize