Undying Love

Remus walked to the Great Hall for lunch and found Sirius sitting at the Gryffindor table, munching on a sandwich while he read the Daily Prophet.
"Look at this, Remus," Sirius said as he sat down. He took another monstrous bite of his sandwich and went on. "There's this new Rita Skeeter reporter for the Daily Prophet. She's only a few years older than us. Here's her first article that she's ever published in the newspaper. It's about these two gay wizards and how gay love shouldn't be allowed. I never thought the one guy was gay at all, but she makes them both out to be head-over-heels for each other. I think it's rather funny, how she keeps insulting them and then they say the weirdest things to her about their relationship. I hope she's not with the Prophet for long, though. Articles like this could start to get really annoying." Sirius slid the article over to Remus, who skimmed through it and frowned.
"She's a nut case, Sirius," Remus said, grabbing himself a sandwich. "I know for a fact that the one on the left there has a wife and two kids. The two guys are just close friends because they work for the Ministry in the same department! Good God. If the Prophet is that desperate, then maybe they need to just quit for a while until they get some better reporters."
Sirius shrugged and took another sandwich. They sat in silence for a while, then Remus wiped the crumbs off of his face with a napkin propped his elbows on the table.
"Sirius, I've been thinking," he said, then waited for Sirius's reaction.
"Thinking," Sirius mused. "Sounds like fun. But mind you don't do it too much or your brain might explode."
Remus sighed. Having a straight conversation with Sirius was out of the question except on the rarest occasions.
"Well?" Sirius asked. "That's it? You were thinking. What else is new? Were you thinking about anything in particular or were you just thinking about nothing? Come on, old chap! Spit it out!"
"I was thinking about-" he stopped, wondering how to say this without sounding like a complete moron. "Sirius, you have to promise not to laugh."
"All right," Sirius said. "Now, what were you thinking about?"

"Undying love," Remus replied.
Sirius, who had just taken a relatively large gulp of pumpkin juice, burst out laughing, spraying the whole end of the table with his juice.
Remus scowled, brushing off the front of his robes. "Undying love!" Sirius hooted. "What the hell does that have to do with anything?"
"You promised you wouldn't laugh," Remus said, clearly not amused.
Sirius, who was now doubled over onto the table in fits of laughter, gulped some deep, calming breaths of air, and wiped his eyes. "Now, Remus, I said 'all right', not 'I promise I won't laugh'," he said. "There's a difference, you know."
"There's always a difference," Remus muttered. "And now I don't think I'm going to ask you the question that I thought of."
"Oh, come on, Remus!" Sirius protested. "I just had a bit of fun, that's all! I promise I won't make fun of you this time."
"Ok," Remus said. "I was thinking and then I realized that I had no clue as to what undying love was."
Sirius, who had just completely recovered from his first laughing fit, now began to double over again, howling with laughter. Remus waited for him to calm down.
"There's a difference between making fun of someone and laughing at them, isn't there," Remus said.
"Sure is, old chap!" Sirius said jovially. "And, you know what? I think this is the funniest conversation I've had in quite a bit!"
"It's really not that funny," Remus said. "Now, are you going to listen, or what?"
"Yeah, alright," Sirius said.
"Well, Sirius, I've been meaning to ask you, what exactly is undying love?"
"Well," Sirius replied. All of the laughter had drained out of him and he sat pondering for a minute. "I guess it's a love that doesn't die, you know?"
"Yeah, but what is that?" Remus asked.
"As if I'm supposed to know?" Sirius asked. "Honestly, though. I have no clue. My guess is as good as yours, Remus."
"I was just wondering," Remus said.
"I tell you what. Let's go ask James. Now you've got me interested," Sirius said, just then noticing that there was pumpkin juice all over the table. "By the way, did I do that?" he asked, pointing to the juice.
Remus nodded and Sirius shrugged. Then, they left the Great Hall to go find James.

Sirius and Remus walked out of the Great Hall and turned into another corridor that led up to Gryffindor tower.
"I wonder if Lily turned up yet," said Remus.
"Probably did," said Sirius. "She can't stay lost forever."
"Yeah, I guess," Remus replied. They walked in silence for the rest of the way there.
When they entered the common room, they found James and Lily sitting on one of the couches together, kissing.
"Great," whispered Remus. "What do we say?"
In response, Sirius plopped himself down on the couch beside James and slapped him on the back.
"Hey, James!" he chimed as though his friend was not engaged in other important matters at the moment. "Whatcha' doin'?"
James pulled away from his girlfriend abruptly. "Sirius!" he exclaimed, startled.
Remus walked over and sat down beside Sirius. "Hi," he said, smiling at James and Lily.
Sirius decided it was time to cut to the chase. "James," he said. "We've been meaning to ask you a question. And Lily, whatever your opinion on this topic is, it would be greatly appreciated as well." Lily nodded.
"Well?" said James, after a pause. "What?"
"Remus, you can explain it," Sirius said.
"Well," said Remus. "We were wondering about undying love."
"What exactly about undying love were you wondering about?" Lily asked.
"I dunno!" said Sirius. "Everything!"
"Well, we would like to know what, essentially, it is, if you catch my drift," Remus said.
"Interesting thing to be wondering about," James mused.