It was dark in the corridors of the fourth floor. It was late at night and almost everyone was asleep. Almost, because if you listened very closely you could hear a scraping sound. This scraping sound was caused by James Potter, who was serving his detention in one of the classrooms.
"Make sure I don't see a single spot on those tables Potter." "I'm going to take a look at Black, to see if the classroom's still in one piece."
James sighed. Mister Filch was the new caretaker. He was only in duty for three weeks but the Marauders were already his regular customers during detentions. James put his scrape down and whipped the sweat off his forehead. His duty was to get all the gum off the tables, without using any magic of course. James looked out the giant window in the wall behind him. The full moon was only visible for a little part, the rest was covered in dark clouds.
I'm sorry Moony...
"By Merlin Black, can't you do anything?"
James quickly grabbed his scrape and continued to remove a very large greenish piece of gum. Sirius and Filch walked in.
"Perhaps it's better if I keep you two in one room, so I can keep an eye on you two."
Sirius took one scrape from the bucket and got working on the table next to James's.
"What did you do?"
"I set the place on fire..."
"What...without a wand?"
"Well, I didn't see that candle..."
James laughed. He could see the image of Filch cursing at Sirius while killing the fire with his wand.
Wait a minute...I've never seen Filch with a wand of his own before...
"Who killed the fire?"
"I did, Filch threw my wand at me and screamed, well spit is a better word, to fix it."
The two kept on with removing gum and after fifteen minutes, Filch muttered something about finding Mrs. Norks and left the room.
"What's a Norks?" Sirius asked.
"Don't know, some kind of tree gull maybe."
Sirius sighed and looked at the now fully exposed moon.
"You're thinking about him too?"
"Yeah..."
"We should have thought about the moon stand before we blew up those dead frogs." Sirius said.
"It's Snivellus's fault, he kept on sucking up to Evans."
The image of Snape covered in frog guts appeared to them and both boys burst out in laughter.
"Black, Potter, you can leave." Filch said when he walked in with a pretty large cat with big yellow eyes.
Sirius and James both had a "Oooh so that's a Norks" look on their face.
"Didn't you hear me, get your asses out of here!"
The sixteen year old Gryffindor's ran out of the classroom. The windows were filled with the first glances of morning.
"I can't believe Filch kept us in detention for the entire night!" Sirius said.
"Yeah, we better get to our dormitory to check on Remus."
They walked three stairs up and walked into the seventh floor corridor.
"I hope he...aaah!"
Sirius walked into a small, chubby, blond boy. Both fell on the floor.
"Peter watch your step!" Sirius growled.
"Sorry Sirius..."
"What's going on Peter, why are you so nervous?" James asked.
"And why aren't you with Remus?" Sirius, who just stood up, asked.
"Well...he, I can't find him."
"What do you mean you can't find him, you were with him all night, in the shack...right?" James asked with a stronger voice with each word.
"Well...you weren't going so I thought..."
"You thought?" Sirius asked with a dark voice.
Peter Pettigrew's head got as red as the carpet.
"We've been with him for so many times, I got sick of it, staying all night up only to see a werewolf."
"TO LOOK AFTER YOUR FRIEND YOU'LL MEAN!"
"B...but...but it's going on for five and a half years now..." Peter squeaked by Sirius's outburst.
"And it will go on Peter, it never stops." James said almost like a whisper. "And we'll be there for him as many times as we can, at least I know I am."
Sirius nodded. "We better go look for him."
James, Sirius and Peter turned around and ran down the stairs.
"If anything happened to him, I'll kill you Peter!" Sirius growled.
"I still don't get it."
"Get what Peter?" James asked.
"Why we have to go with him every time, I mean, he's never that injured that he can't heal himself."
"One more word Pettigrew and I swear..." Sirius said.
"Keep it quiet, we don't want anyone catching us this early!" James hissed.
The three of them crossed the grounds towards the Womping Willow. Peter just turned himself in a rat when Sirius saw something.
"Blood marks..." He said pointing to a small trail of red. "It's heading towards the forest."
"Peter Pettigrew you selfish cowardly bastard!" James screamed.
The rat squeaked and ran away, just avoiding a curse from Sirius.
"Come on."
Sirius turned away from the rat and followed his friend into the forest.