The house on the corner burns, the locals wonder, and Peter Pettigrew meets his employers.

In an attempt to return the baby left on her doorstep, Petunia faces the wreckage.

Remus spent eleven Christmases with the Marauders / Wolfstar / angst, romance, friendship

Their entire relationship was a series of long waits. Eventually, they became too long. / Nineteen waits in the lives of Severus and Lily. (one-sided Snily) (mild Jily)

November 1, 1981 - Lily and James were dead. Peter was the traitor. All Sirius could do was laugh, because what else was there to do? / Sirius' arrest

I cannot do anything without thinking that it would be better with two. I consider giving up, but he'd think me a coward, so I live, however much it kills me to do so. / Grief. Pain. Bitter emptiness. This is George without Fred.

Petunia was wilting. Her mother had said they bloomed when they were together, but now they weren't. They were very far apart, so her petals slowly spiralled to the ground. / Petunia and Lily through the years.

Hope Lupin. Mother. The sweetest woman you could ever meet. Killed in an attack by Death Eaters using the avada kedavra curse. Remus Lupin. Son. He who bore the pain. Remus was in potions when the world came crashing down. Chapter 2: Frank and Alice Longbottom / Neville

It was the Christmas of seventh year and Sirius Black was happy. Years of sombre celebrations were past, and now he was free. Free on Christmas day. / Sirius is told to choose a gift, and he comes back with a motorbike.

The thestrals of Hogwarts have lived for thousands of years. They watch as children pass through the school. They witness them as they gain the ability to See the thestrals. / The thestrals watch the Marauders through the years.

The amount of times Sirius Black escaped the household in his school years was uncountable. He always returned, time and time again. Not this time. Regulus knows, deep inside, that he's all alone now.

He found himself falling, falling, falling. Down into the well of loneliness and despair. He didn't want to drag her down with him. / Remus has to get away from Tonks, beyond temptation. When he leaves on a dangerous mission, he leaves her alone to weep.

Every shadow was a lurking enemy. Every stranger was a spy. Every glow of a street lamp was the Dark Mark. Minerva McGonagall didn't know what trust was anymore. / There is a spy in the Order, and it eats away at the soul.

Dead. The word seems unreal - it doesn't connect in my mind to the names that accompany it. Dead. The word burns a hole through my heart. / Remus is the last Marauder, and he doesn't know how to carry on.

The Marauders go to Moony's house, and Sirius is, yet again, amazed by the imagination and skill of muggle invention.

It must be the truffles messing with his head. Why else would he want to reach forward and kiss her? Remus Lupin can't resist when it comes to chocolate truffles ... or Nymphadora Tonks. (Remadora)

"One night I said it to me girl and now me girls my wife!" / After James Potter watches a muggle movie with his cousin, he can't get a certain word out of his head. But eventually it becomes so much more than that. (Jily)

James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and Remus Lupin. Almost the moment they met, friendship blossomed between them. But it won't be that easy. Lord Voldemort is on the rise, enemies are made, and two of the four are hiding secrets. Will their flaws get between them, or will friendship prevail?

Regulus Black knew it wasn't right. So he drank and he died to destroy his master. (Regulus' death)