Recovery. [Jaimi and Marauders]

[Sirius Black]

"I'm sure we could arrange forgiving you for that little oversight." he said with a grin at James, smiling despite himself at Jaimi's retorts. He accepted her hug with a "See you later chick." But her farewell to Remus left his mouth hanging open. He watched her as she exited, hips swaying in the way that most girls seem to manage without trying, as turned back, still gaping to look between Remus and James in turn.

"She certainly doesn't need any lessons." he said when he could finally speak. ""But I guess that answers your question about her bedside manner eh James?" he laughed, and punched James playfully on the arm.

[James Potter]

James gave Jaimi a small cheeky waqve in return, and as she gave Remus his fairwell kiss, his eyes popped out and his jaw dropped. As she walked away, he mouthed silently. "Wow!" He nodded in agreement about her bedside manner. Still staring with wide eyes, he looked at Remus. Blimey mate. I take it all back. Whatever you're doing. Keep doing it." He laughed and gave Remus a friendly punch.

"So how do you feel?

[Remus Lupin]

Remus laid back against the pillows and smiled to himself, as they others gathered their wits about them, after being so awestruck. He rubbed his arm after James' friendly punch. "Well thank you, both for your seal of approval." He grinned. He felt quite proud, that Jaimi was his girlfriend now, and that she was feisty enough to deal with James and Sirius.

"I'm a little sore and groggy James, but I should be OK later. I felt like I had been hit by the Knight Bus when I first came in this morning though." He smiled at them. "I suppose you want to know more about how me and Jaimi became official?" He said with a sigh.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius grinned at the fact that Remus seemed so pleased with himself. Though in all honesty if Jaimi was his girlfriend (not that he'd ever looked at her that way) and he'd just been kissed like that in front of Remus and James, he'd be a bit smug too.

"That sucks mate, it really does, we're gonna have to keep working on this plan of ours. I hate seeing you like this, and clearly Jai does too." he sighed thinking about the recent lack of progress with said plan. Sirius raised his eyebrows in slight surprise.

"You are willing offering information about your private life? Or do you just know you're going to lose the argument and aren't in a fit state to put up any resistance? Either way, yes please" he said with a grin back, getting over his initial surprise fairly quickly, and now feeling himself almost lean in closer for this, uncharacteristically willing explanation of how he got the girl.

[James Potter]

James frowned a little, as Remus spoke and the playfulness left him. He shook his head slightly and agreed with Sirius. "Yeah mate. It's awful seeing you like this. We do need to work on that plan, and the sooner the better."

He couldn't help but grin a little, as Remus offered information willingly. He laughed at Sirius and nodded. "Yeah, more likely, he knows he can't win mate." He leaned forward slightly and muttered conspiratorially. "So.... Spill Moony."

[Remus Lupin]

He put his hand on Sirius' shoulder and gave it a slight squeeze, as he voiced his concern for him. He smiled and gave them both an appreciative look. "Thanks guys. You really are the best friends anyone could have." He knew that they had been trying to get going on the plan, but with their studies and Quidditch, it was proving difficult.

He chuckled as they both drew closer to listen to the details. "It is because I know you two, and I won't win the battle of wits, so I'm saving time." Remus smirked at James. He leaned forward and took a deep breath. "Well....I was in a deserted classroom, just trying to shake off all the tiredness and agitation. When she walked in and I just seemed to calm down."

[Sirius Black]

"Ahhh, don't get all soppy on me." he said with a laugh as he shrugged Remus' hand off his shoulder with a grin.

"Win without even fighting, nice one." he said holding his hand up to James for a high five. He settled himself more comfortably on the bed to listen to the story. "I did wonder why you were gone so long that night." he said almost to himself. "So what hapenned next?" he asked eagerly.

[James Potter]

James made a gagging noise, as Remus got all soppy on them. He chuckled and gave Sirius a high five. "Result!" He listened eagerly, as Remus began to tell them what had happened. He to had wondered why Remus had been gone so long that night.

He nodded in agreement with Sirius. "Yeah Moony, what happened?"

[Remus Lupin]

Ignoring their protests of his 'soppy behaviour' he continued with his story. "Well, she was going to leave, but I asked her to stay." He said, his manner becoming more animated, and his eyes shone. "We sat on a desk and cuddled a little, she listened to how I was all worked up about the transformation, and she said how worried she was for me." He paused a moment before continuing, as he tried to remember the details.

"Anyway, she said she was entitled to be worried, as what kind of a girlfriend would she be if she wasn't!" He gazed between his two friends waiting for their response.

[Sirius Black]

Sirius grinned and raised his eyebrows with a laugh. "You really know how to reel 'em in don't you." he said, punching Remus on the arm.

"So... Anything else you want to tell us?"

[James Potter]

James sat and listened to Remus, he grinned at how happy his friend was. He chuckled at Sirius' comment and waited for Remus to continue.

[Remus Lupin]

He blushed slightly as Sirius asked him if there was anything else. "Well I was really pleased of course." He said evading the details. He muttered. "You saw how she said goodbye. Use your imagination."

He reached over for a glass of water and sipped it. "So come on guys. How soon can we get back to working on our project?" He leaned forward and spoke quietly. "I've had this idea, that might help us get around the school."

[Sirius Black]

"I'd rather not use my imagination thanks." Sirius said with a laugh, "but we get the idea."

Sirius thought for a moment. "I'd like to continue as soon as possible, we've still got to catch Peter up to speed of course, and that's going to take a while, but as our chief researcher has been a little distracted as of late we've been stalling." he leaned in to listen to what Remus had to say about his new plan.

"I'm intrigued Moony, go on."

[James Potter]

James just grinned wickedly. His imagination was working overtime. He came out of his revelry when talk moved to the project. "Yes we do need to get Peter up to speed. I'll lend you the Invisibility cloak Moony, so you can get into the restricted section. I know there has to be some books there, that the room of requirement hasn't supplied, that you could use." He inches closer and raised an inquiring eyebrow. "Oh do continue Moony. I'm all ears."

[Remus Lupin]

Remus chuckled and shook his head. "You two really need to find something constructive to do with your time. Your imagination is far to active." He nodded at James' suggestion and blushed slightly about being distracted. "Yeah I know, I'm going to try and get more focuss on research."

He sat quietly for a moment, running his fingers through his hair. "Right." He began. "What would you think of a map of the school and grounds, that we could tell where everyone was at one given time? Imagine it, if we could see at a glance where everyone was so we could move around without using the cloak." He paused a moment. "We could add to it the secret passages we know, and add to it, as we discover more."

He looked at Sirius and James respectively."Well? What do you think?"