Disclaimer: I don't own anything. – This is a seven chapter story with each chapter resembling a short drabble.
The corridors had been quiet on the way to the Hospital Wing and the large room in question was quiet now as Lily Evans snuck into the room. She hadn't been able to sleep and had decided to grab the bull by the horns and get everything out in the open. So here she was. In the Hospital Wing.
She knew that he was alone since she's passed the others in the common room, all of them sprawled on the couches and armchairs where they'd fallen.
She looked at the curtained off hospital beds and ticked them off when she realised that they were too close to the others; he wasn't even meant to be here after all. Now that bed, the one right at the back, in the corner, with a Notice Me Not charm on it. That was all for him.
She snuck forwards past the other beds, a silencing charm placed on herself, until she was just outside the curtain in question. She knew he'd be awake; she'd looked into Lycanthropy and although the werewolf had been up all night and had thoroughly tired Remus out, the werewolf inside was still full of adrenaline from his freedom. She slipped through the curtain making sure it sealed shut behind her and sat down on the chair at the end of the bed, watching him.
Remus was staring out the window, his eyebrows furrowed and his fingers twiddling with the blanket. "Sirius, go back to bed." He mumbled, not looking in her direction.
"He didn't even make it that far."
Remus's eyes shot to her, wide and panicked as he pulled the blanket up from around his hips to cover majority of his body. "Lily!" He gasped, looking around the small curtained off area. "What are you- I mean how did you- so why are you-?" She smiled at him and moved to the chair closer to him, the one on the left side of his bed.
"So Remus, is your mum having to deal with a werewolf and a horrible sickness or is it just a lie?" He looked at her with narrowed eyes before sighing and shaking his head.
"My mum is perfectly healthy." Lily grinned.
"What a relief. Here I brought you some chocolate." She reached into her pocket and pulled out a Honeydukes bar which she had brought just for this occasion. "Now, tell me everything."
Remus looked bewildered and confused but did what she asked, recapping the story that he had only told once to the other Marauders. She seemed to form a face of thunder when he told her of how his parents had practically disowned him and treated him more like a monster than a boy who needed his family and her reaction was the same when he told her that he was a monster.
"Don't you dare say that! Once a month you turn into a werewolf, but for every other day of the year you are Remus Lupin. You're kind and smart, but secretly cunning and able to prank and have a laugh. If you were any part of the monster that you think you are then you wouldn't even be able to care what people think about you."
Remus was silent for a moment before smiling tentatively at his fellow fifth year. "Why aren't you running from me? Even if you believe I'm not a monster, I could still hurt you." She rolled her eyes and broke off a chunk of his chocolate, waving it around as she spoke.
"I've known since second year and if anything, I made it my life mission to become your friend because I could just see the self-hate in your eyes. You're a great guy Remus and you have some mighty fine friends. Just, have some faith in yourself, yeah?"
They spoke for a few more minutes before she had to make her way back to Gryffindor Tower otherwise someone would miss her and Remus was left alone with his thoughts. This had definitely changed their friendship; he could be more open with her and from the past hour, he knows he can tell her things that he couldn't tell the boys.
Being a werewolf had strangely brought him closer to all his friends.