Date: June 12th, 1984 Location: The Flaming Dragon, Early Evening Open to anyone, just one or two people please!
This party was technically for him. And it wasn’t that James was bitter about it - a party is a party and he generally liked parties - but he also would’ve preferred the actual homecoming he’d been thinking of for four fucking months while locked up in that cell. Instead, he got friends torn apart, a girlfriend (ex) who’d lost her damn mind, and a weird aversion to quiet darkness. But he was fine.
He was fine. Whatever Hestia and Caradoc and Alice and Frank said be damned. Still, it wasn’t like he had anything to do tomorrow. Not having a job meant he could sleep off the hangover that would undoubtedly happen. Maybe he could fall asleep curled up next to Sirius again - maybe he could even convince the man to sleep as a dog because his dog form had soft fur, which was much better than a hairy ballsack if Sirius decided to sleep naked again.
Damn, he should get a job. Just to have something to do, since Hestia had decided he was too fragile for leadership and, for some fucking reason, everyone listened to her. He took a drink - a long one, a really long one - of his firewhiskey and looked around, grabbing the first person he saw by their shirt, dragging them towards him. “Take a shot with me.” A demand, sort of.

















