- in sixth year, sirius and remus’s favorite passtime was to make james and peter uncomfortable.
- they just love to see their friends embarassed.
- so obviously it all starts with sex jokes
- even if they aren’t there yet
- so when james innocently say that a question for a potion homework is “a really hard one”
- remus grins and winks at his boyfriend,and add “yeah, you’re not the first one to say that today.”
- and sirius is half laughing half trying to hide himself under the table because “gosh moony, you were suppose to be the cute and awkward one in this relationship”
- but the jokes go on and soon all hogwarts has a list of forbidden words
- their other fav way to embarass everyone is too always pretend they were about to shag when someone enter a room they were in
- even if really they were just innocently chatting
- they even hide in broom cupboards waiting for people to come in
- now everyone knock before to get in the dorms/bathrooms/classrooms/offices and yeah, even the cupboards
- (which padfoot and moony will be very grateful for when they will really have sex )
- but they soon realize that it isn’t the best way to embarass everyone
- because everyone hate to see a couple getting all soppy
- and the Nicknames Era had begun
- “love” and “sweetie” clearly weren’t enough for marauders
- “sweet ray of sunshine”, “thief of my heart”, “light in the darkness” neither
- so you could hear in the middle of the common room
- “you are the knife to my fork” “your eyes shine more than dumbledore’s beard” “you’re sweeter than chocolate” ( “cAlm DOwN HeRE pADFoOt YoU DOn’t JOKe wITh CHOcOLate” )
- and they say it with the most serious look so no one knew if they were kidding or not
- ( which was the perfect cover for the soppiest couple ever )
- basically james and peter feared every moment they would be with the two of them
- ( and james planned his revenge for when he will finally be dating lily )
BONUS ANGST
- after the prank, it took months to remus to finally call sirius with his petnames
- and sirius died a little everytime remus would call by his name
- and he cried a little when remus called him “love” again