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Hello everyone! This is a reward to Abby Ebon for doing my Dementor Challenge. The first chapter is the pairing version and the second the pairing free version.
"Ugh!"
Sirius scowled at the root he tripped over. 'Stupid roots! Stupid darkness! Stupid suspicion!'
He thought back to a week earlier.
It had been in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class and they had been talking about werewolves. Their homework was how to tell a werewolf from a normal wolf with examples of someone who had met a werewolf and manged to live and to look up the lunar chart and write down all the fullmoons that had been from their first year to their next, fourth year.
What Sirius did not really get was why Remus had been so fidgety when they got the assignment. When he did the assignment however, he realized that all the fullmoons was on the time when Remus suddenly dissapeared!
The suspicion gnawed at him for two days and he knew he had to have proof before he told anyone, especially if it was James. Thus, Sirius decided, he would have to find out on the fullmoon.
He would follow Remus on the day of the fullmoon and see if his friend transformed.
He came back out of his flashback and sighed in relief. He was finally out of the tunnel!
Then he looked around... And froze. He was in the Shrieking Shack!
"Bloody hell!"
Suddenly he heard footsteps coming towards him and immediately hid under the stairs against the wall.
Madam Pomfrey came to sight through the old stairs and he pressed himself against the wall even harder, and made sure not to breathe too loud so that she would not hear him.
'Please don't see me! Please don't see me! Please don't see me! Please don't see me! Please don't see me! Please don't see me!' Was the mantra he repeated in his head.
Luckily, she didn't.
Phew.
'That was lucky.'
As soon as she was gone he stood from his hiding place and started up the stairs.
'Why would Madam Pomfrey leave Remus here? Is he really a Werewolf? Why did she leave him all alone?' The questions Sirius ignored made their way to the top of his mind.
But one question stood out the most; 'What will I do if Remus really is a Werewolf?'
He came out of his thoughts in time to stop himself from walking into a door.
Sirius hesitated before opening the door.
It was slightly dark inside but still light enough to see. He could see a destroyed chair and the walls were all scratched up-
Sirius was startled out of his thoughts by a pained scream by his friend and yearmate.
He turned to him and ha to keep himself from gaping. Remus was transforming into a Werewolf and it looked very painful.
He was awed by the beauty of the fully transformed Werewolf when it turned to him and purred of all things! It took a few steps and was right in front of him in seconds. Sirius couldn't move.
The Werewolf laid his arms around Sirius pulling him down on the floor with it and curled up with him.
Sirius blushed.
«What can we do to help you?» James asked.
«You want to help me? But-but, I'm a werewolf!» Remus looked shocked.
«So? We don't care, you're still Remus Lupin, our friend,» Sirius firmly told him.
Remus blushed before sighing. «Seeing as I attack all humans exept my Mate you can't exactly be there during full moon.» He told James and Peter.
«Oh! Oh! I know!» James yelled excitedly jumping up and down.
The others eyed him carefully before Sirius dared to ask; «What?»
«We can become Animagi! That way we can be there on the full moon!» James grinned proudly.
«No,» Remus said at once. «You can get hurt or if example you're a fish and transform your human lungs into the ones of a fish you can die! There are too many ways to get hurt.»
«Don't worry 'bout it Moony! We'll be fine!» Sirius smiled.
«Yeah!» Peter piped up from the chair he had been sitting in quietly.
«Moony?» Remus asked Sirius. His heart did a flip when Sirius grinned at him.
«It's your new nickname,» Sirius explained.
«Oh cool! I get how you got Moony with Remus being a werewolf howling at the moon. We should have ones too! And we can have a name for our group! Like The Pranksters or something like that!» James smiled brightly and excitedly.
Remus wrinkled his nose, «No, I think The Maurauders would be better.»
Sirius grinned, «The Maurauders it is then.»
James and Peter nodded in agreement.
«Anyway, back to our nicknames. If Remus is Moony how 'bout the rest of us?» Sirius asked.
«Why don't we find out our Animagus forms first and name ourselves after those?» Peter asked having a moment of brilliance.
The other three blinked in surprise.
«You know.. That's a good idea.» Remus said.
«We'll do that then.» James said Sirius agreeing.
The four newly named Maurauders grinned at each other before James ruined the mood by asking; «So what's this about Sirius being your Mate, Remus?»
Sirius and Remus blushed a shade of red never seen before.
A/N: What I meant by Remus not attacking Sirius for those who don't get it, Sirius is Remus' Mate. It stands to reason that he won't attack his Mate no matter what form he is in. Thank you for reading this story! Please review!