Disclaimer: Why do I even bother? I don't own Sirius, James, Remus,
Dumbledore ext. (unless of course Jk Rowling wants to give me Sirius for my
birthday () But…I'm almost positive I own Morgan Donnelly, Adam, Renee, and
all the people that I own. But I do not own Jessica Flora, cuz Jessica
Flora owns Jessica Flora…right I'm done; here's the story.
Chapter One: A Furry Friend and a Pink Foe
"SIRIUS!"
"Oy! James one more time, last one I swear," Sirius cried happily, grinning, full of mischief.
"Sirius! We have to figure out why Remus has been missing at Hogwarts, its bothering the hell out of me!"
"So he gets to miss two days of school a month, Big deal," Sirius said, "Now, seeing Snape humiliate himself, that's what I care about!"
"He's been missing forever! Don't you care if he's sick or something?"
"Of course I do… Remus is my best friend too, its just, well…cant we figure this out after we put super glue on the Slytherin toilets.
"SIRIUS!"
"James is right Sirius, we should really figure out why Remus has been gone," Peter said, and with a squeak hid behind the couch just in case Sirius would get mad at him.
"Shut up Peter, for all we know, Remus is gone chasing werewolves in Peru…"
"Sirius that's it!"
"What? James you oaf, I was kidding, Remus is not a werewolf slayer, nor does he live in Peru, I see Remus more of a tropical guy myself"
"Not a werewolf slayer, a werewolf in general…" James said, ignoring Sirius' little bit on the tropics.
"What? James are you off you're rocker?! Remus? The werewolf? You have got to be kidding! Remus is anything but a monster! If anyone here is a werewolf it's Peter…his arms are really hairy!"
James rolled his eyes. " Look at the evidence! It all makes sense, besides, it was your idea," James said happily, "Come with me…I think I have proof!" James said as running out of the common room,
"Where are we going?" Sirius cried after James.
"You'll see!" James yelled over his shoulder.
"C'mon Peter," Sirius shrugged and they both ran after James.
James, Sirius and Peter ran across the castle, completely out of breath, Sirius was about to state that Peter looked a little blue and they should stop for a rest, when they bumped into the potion's teacher, Professor Gevine.
"Going somewhere boys?" Professor Gevine said, in a twisted smile. It was a fact that Gevine was cruel to all his students, but to Sirius, James and Peter, he was frankly evil.
"Are you?" Sirius demanded. James poked Sirius in the rib.
"We're going to the library Professor…"
"The library is on the other side of the castle, it is after dark, you should be in your common rooms, Detention," Gevine said.
"What! But…we didn't do anything wrong…yet. We didn't even blow anything up!" Sirius cried.
"Are you suggesting I wait till tomorrow and give you double detention?" Gevine asked.
"Yes! No! I mean… no sir," Sirius said.
"Well I have other rodents to give detention to as well. Good Bye boys,"
"Slimy git. If Remus were here, Gevine wouldn't have done anything. He'd be able to sneak up some excuse, now we got detention." Sirius said.
"So you miss Remus too!" James said.
"Of course I miss him," Sirius stated. "But…the whole werewolf thing, you've got to admit, pretty strange."
"Where are we going?" Peter asked, holding a stitch in his side, still panting.
"The astronomy tower, they have the moon charts from 1732…" James replied.
"You still think Remus is a werewolf? Come off it!" Sirius growled.
"It's remarkable how much you sound like a dog," James said.
"It's remarkable how much you sound like a idiot."
"If you don't believe me, let me show you…"
"How? Are we going to go up to Remus and ask… 'Hi Remus, sorry to bother you, but are you a werewolf' sorry James, but it sounds kind of blunt."
"Just come to the tower with me…"
"Why?" Peter chirped. "Is that were Remus is?"
James groaned, and started to the astronomy tower.
When the three reached the astronomy tower, James started to rip out parchments, with writing and strange pictures of all the phases of the moon, and strange dates.
"Help me would you?" James cried, pulling out a chart with a moon that looked like it was melting, a waxing moon.
"I don't even know what we're looking for," Sirius snarled.
"The moon chart for this year," James said.
Sirius bent down and got a parchment sprawled carelessly on the floor.
"Oh, well this is it, isn't it?" Sirius yawned casually, handing James it to James.
"Thanks Sirius, um… he first was gone here… the day of a full moon," James said, with a look of triumph.
"Luck," Sirius yawed.
"And he was back when it wasn't a full moon, the next time he was gone… it was a full moon too…"
"So? That doesn't prove anything," Sirius said sharply.
But it went on, every time Remus was gone it was a full moon.
"See! I told you!" James said happily.
"Did you ever know how much the moon looked like cheese? I mean not that Italian cheese, but that good old Swiss cheese?" Sirius asked.
"Sirius…our friend is a werewolf! And all you can think about is cheese?" James asked angrily.
"I'm hungry…" Sirius explained.
"Please…Sirius! Be serious!"
"Erm…okay." Sirius said.
"Focus on Remus for now…not cheese."
"I'm kind of hungry too." Peter put in. "And I like cheese too…"
"Please," James begged. "Remus…"
Peter looked up at James, tears in his eyes.
"I still can't believe it, Remus is…a werewolf," Peter said, almost as if he was disgusted.
"Its not so bad…" Sirius said, "He just gets a little hairy, he's normal 28 days of the month."
"It has got to bother Remus though. Imagine it. Being something else…having to strain you're self to remember who you really are. No wonder he's always tired."
"What…what if he bites us?" Peter asked. "You know, one day when we're asleep…he could just creep up and…SNAP!"
James looked at Peter crossly.
"Do you really think Remus would do that too us?" James asked.
"He's not even that vicious with his food…" Sirius pointed out.
"But…But…." Peter started, his gray eyes filled with fear.
"You really have to have more faith in Remus,"
"Besides, just because he's a bit different once every month doesn't make him want to kill his only friends. He's more loyal than that."
"But…he's a werewolf! They kill people…"
"Peter!" James yelled at him, his gray blue eyes getting fierce. "You don't get it, Remus is still Remus, always! Remus is that kindest person I have ever known… he would never…ever put you or me in danger!"
"Me…on the other hand…is a different story." Sirius said, with an evil grin.
"Are you…sure?" Peter asked.
"One Hundred percent…even more. We just have to assure Remus we feel this way."
"Well, he must be coming back tomorrow, tonight's not a full moon, yesterday was," Sirius said, brushing his black hair out of his blue eyes.
"Right… so… when he comes…we'll tell him we know he's a werewolf right?" Peter asked, pleased to know what Sirius and James were going to do.
"Not really. He might be a little afraid and embarrassed of what he is… I mean why else would he not of told us before? What we're going to do is ask where he was all the times he was gone, if he tells us he's a werewolf we'll tell him it doesn't bother us, if he lies, we'll…"
"Tie him up on a chair, feeding him turnips until he tells us!" Sirius cried.
"No, tell him we know about him," James said, shaking his head.
"Oh, that isn't as fun. "
"All we can do is wait until Remus gets back, " James said.
"What of we're wrong about this whole werewolf thing?" Sirius asked.
"Um… well…" James started. "We won't be wrong,"
"Yeah, we 're never wrong," Sirius said sarcastically. "Do you have any cheese?"
~*~
The next morning, James woke up first as always. He pulled open the curtain that separated Sirius's bed from his. Sirius was still sleeping, snoring to be more like it, but nothing to what Peter was doing. He was talking, practically telling James what he was dreaming about. James thought Sirius would be easier to wake up then Peter, but he really should of known better.
"Sirius wake up!" James whispered, shaking Sirius slowly and carefully to wake him up. All he got in return was a loud snore.
"Sirius!" James yelled, but he would not wake up.
"SIRIUS!" James bellowed on top of his lungs, but that to did nothing.
"God, Sirius! Wake the hell up!" James said, but Sirius wouldn't wake up.
"Cheeeeese." Sirius sighed, turning to his side, smiling.
"He's incapable of being woke up," said Adam, the boy James shared a dorm with.
"I realized that, thanks," James said sarcastically.
"What're you doing up so early anyway?" Adam asked. "You're not going to blow something up again are you?" Adam added suspiciously.
"No, not today, or right now anyway," James said.
"Well, if you don't mind, I'm going back to sleep," Adam said. "The only way Sirius will ever wake up is if there were girls in here dancing the hula." Adam said, and went back to sleep.
"Girls huh?," James said. "Sirius, Sirius, hot girls are swarming our dormitory, demanding you!" James said.
"Oh! Okay then! I'm awake!" Sirius said happily jumping out of bed. "Hey, where are they?"
"They left," said James hotly, "I told them you don't like being woke up early,"
"Ah, James what did you do that for?" Sirius asked.
"Never mind, help me wake up Peter," James said.
"Sure! All we have to do is put a firework in his ear and…"
"Never mind, I'll wake him up myself,"
" Ah, James, you're no fun,"
" When it comes to you Sirius, I cant be fun. Peter…wake up…" James whispered softly in Peters ear.
"Five more minutes mummy,"
"Oy! Pea brain! Wake up!" Sirius barked.
"I'm up… I'm up… Is Remus back yet?" Peter asked rubbing his eyes with his fists.
"We don't know…where would he be?" James asked.
"Well if I was a man eating beast, not able to eat man…I'd probably be in the Great hall…eating" Sirius pointed out. "Come to think of it… even if I wasn't a man eating beast, not able to eat man I'd still be eating."
"Sirius, you're weird, come on lets go," James said and they left there dorm. On the way out of the common room, they bumped into Lily Evans, literally.
"Watch it Lil!" Sirius yelled good naturally, helping her pick up the books she dropped.
"Oh sorry Sirius, I wasn't paying attention,"
"Obviously," James said, wiping ink of him that Lily spilled on him.
"Sorry James, I'm a wreck, I forgot all about our test and…"
"What test?" Sirius asked curiously.
"The one today with Flitwick…"
"Today's Saturday," James answered.
"Oh! It is isn't it?" Lily asked, laughing. "Well if you don't mind, I'm going to sleep then…good night."
"Right, that girls got problums… Great Hall…James you coming?" Sirius asked, trying to shake James out of a trance.
"What? Oh yeah…I'm coming," James said.
They walked in the Great Hall, and sure enough, Remus was at the end of the Gryffindor table. He looked miserable. His eyes were bagged and it looked as though he hadn't slept in weeks. When Remus saw the three, he smiled and waved. But in the back of his eyes, they saw fear; and a look saying unmistakably " Don't ask where I was."
"Where were you?" Sirius asked sitting next to Remus.
"I was at a funeral," Remus said, his voice shaking.
"Who died?" James asked quietly.
"My Aunt Linda," Remus said.
"She died last month, and the month before that…hold on come to think about it the month before that," Sirius told him.
"Did she? Oh well… it's a family name, Linda,"
"What did she die of?" James asked.
"The um…five letter name curse," Remus said, shifting in his seat.
"Then are you going to die?"
"Why would I?" Remus asked.
"Your name has five letters," James said happily.
"Oh no! So does Peter! I'm going to die! P-E-T-E-R…oh my Mommy I'm going to die!" Peter cried, and started to bawl, bringing quite some attention to the marauders.
"Oh, bloody hell, Peter he was lying, Sirius tell him," James said, but Sirius was to busy, counting letters of Slytherin names.
"S-N-A-P-E, five! Snape's gonna die! Cha-ching!" Sirius cried happily.
"Snape's his last name, Severus is his name," James pointed out.
"Damn! You sure it's not the six letter curse?"
"Severus has seven letters,"
"Oh."
"Remus, We don't buy this whole "Linda" deal. Tell us really, where were you?" James asked in a voice that was soft, but very powerful.
"I can't tell,"
"C'mon mate!" Sirius said, patting him on the back.
"I was… well…"
"We know Remus," Peter said quietly.
"Know what?" Remus asked quickly.
"Where you were, why you're gone,"
"Yeah, it's not so bad! You can bite anyone and make it look like an accident, I couldn't do that ever since I was five," Sirius said, sighing at his recollection.
"What? You mean you know about me…and your not gonna run and tell everyone?"
"Why'd we do that? You're our friend, our best friend," Sirius said, paused and shook his head. "That was too sappy."
"But nonetheless, you are our friend, Remus…"
"You can still be my friend? But I'm really dangerous," Remus said quietly.
"Well, so it Sirius when you give him a lot sugar, but we're still his friend,"
Remus laughed, and his circles disappeared, well got lighter anyway. "Really, you truly mean it?"
The three nodded.
"You guys are true friends…you really are…" Remus choked out. Face streamed with tears of joy.
"Of course we are," Sirius said happily, squeezing Remus' shoulder tightly. "And we always will be."
"That's a promise," James answered.
Remus nodded. "I just cant believe it…you guys are my friends."
There was an awkward silence for a while, but Sirius broke it quickly.
"Let's celebrate then, " Sirius said happily.
"What of?" Peter asked.
"Still being Remus' friend of course!"
"Of course," Said Remus.
"What are we gonna do?" Peter asked sighing.
"Nothing involving explosives right, because cleaning that rat guts off Professor Gevine's desk wasn't very fun." Remus told Sirius.
"No, I'm out of dung bombs…But, I stole some food coloring…"
"What are we gonna do with that?" James asked.
"Well Snape sleeps late, and all his freak friends are already eating," Sirius said, pointing to the Slytherin table. "So were going to give Snapey a new hair do," Sirius cried.
"Sounds risky… " Remus said, frowning slightly. "But, hey… live a little right?" Remus cried, and they left to prepare.
~*~
"Got the cloak James?" Remus asked.
"Yeah, Sirius do you have the dye?" James asked.
A head popped from under a bed,
"Yup, it's here," Sirius said, grinning ear to ear.
"Great, we're ready…do you remember the password?"
"From last year…" Remus answered.
"Well that's great," James said.
"Just go in when a Slytherin's going in or out,"
"Sirius! You're a genius!" James cried
"Of course I am," Sirius said.
The four scampered out of the Gryffindor tower and tiptoeing quietly… into the entrance of the Slytherin common room.
"God, it's cold," Sirius said, chattering his teeth.
"Shut up, here's a Slytherin," James said.
"It's Lucius Malfoy," Peter whined.
"Death, ("Well, that's original.")" Said a cold drawling voice.
He opened the entrance and he climbed in, the marauders at his tail.
When Lucius Malfoy, strolled into his dormitory. The four quickly went into Snape's dormitory, (they all ready knew where it was exactly, after all the little trips there to give Snape the acne potion and such) and sure enough it was only Snape, snoring louder than Sirius and Peter combined.
"Rita, Rita my sweet come back!" Snape mumbled.
"But Snape you're a slimy little bas-" Sirius started in a high pitch voice.
"Sirius shut up would you," James hissed.
"Fine. Down to business, the pink hair dye-"
"Pink? Sirius you didn't," James said, grinning so madly.
Sirius grinned like a mad man while putting the pink food coloring in his hair,
"God, his hair is greasy, you could cook French fries on him" Sirius said, pouring the last bit of dye in his hair. "I have green too, Remus, you want the honor?"
"Sure," Remus said, looking at the dye that Sirius handed him, "Um… Sirius this distinctly says do not put in hair," Remus said.
"I know, isn't it wonderful!" Sirius said happily.
"Hurry up Remus, Snape's gonna wake up soon," James said.
"Right I'm done," Remus said, standing back to see the pink and green headed freak.
"It's a piece of art all right," James sighed.
"More like piece of crap…"
"That gives the wrong mental image, Sirius." Remus told him.
"C'mon, let's go," Peter whined.
"Yeah, all right," Remus said. And the marauders left the Slytherin common room.
"Who did this?" Snape screamed as he woke up Saturday afternoon.
"Oh my god! Severus what happened?" Rita, a second year asked as Snape walked in the common room.
"I woke up and my hair was pink and green! It was Potter and the others, I know it!" Snape said.
"Well, that's kind of disgusting. You can magic it out cant you?"
"I've tried!" Snape cried, flinging his hands in the air. "Nothing happened, I can't seem to put my mind on a anti-charm, I'm so bloody hungry."
"…you have to go out sometime." Rita said. "I'm going out to eat breakfast, want to come?"
Snape hesitated, but when his stomach started to growl, he swallowed his pride, and left with Rita to eat.
When Rita and Snape entered the Great Hall, everyone turned to see Snape, sniggers and laughing were heard around the room. Even Professor McGonagol found it amusing enough, to twitch her lips into a slight smile.
"Lovely Hair Snape!" Sirius cried, "Really brings out the slime."
"Wow, It really does Sirius…" Remus observed happily.
"You-you did this!" Snape screamed pointing at the four.
"Us? Never," James said sarcastically.
"You always assume it's us, it hurts," Sirius said, wiping a pretend tear of his cheek.
"Yup, pick on someone with your own…uh…" Peter started.
"Slime," James put in.
"Enormous nose," Sirius said,
"Fowl stench," Remus added.
"Ooooooooh," Sirius and James said in unison.
"You don't scare me," Snape said.
"Oh we don't? Damn, you've hurt my feelings," James said.
"All right a duel," Snape said, with a twisted smile.
"A d-duel?" Peter whined. It was obvious that Snape knew all the curses there were.
"Not with you, prat," Snape said coldly.
"Hey Bozo! No one, but me can call Peter a prat!" Sirius yelled.
"Yeah!" Peter cried.
" A duel with James, what do you say?" Snape asked, ignoring Sirius.
"Sure," James said through clenched teeth.
"Good, Lucius is my second," Snape answered.
"Malfoy? But he's a sixth year!" Peter cried, even more nervous than before.
"Yes, I know," Snape cried happily, "You're not Chicken are you?"
"Of course we're not, Sirius is my second, unless… you don't mind Remus do you?" James said, not even thinking of Peter as a choice.
"No, he's better with curses anyway."
"Both kinds." Sirius said, grinning.
"What time do you want us Snape?"
"Midnight?"
"Yeah okay," James said.
"If you're not going to show up though, and you're trying to give us detention, it won't work, we've already got detention," Sirius said. Snape looked bewildered.
"How did you know I was go-"
" We're smarter than that!" Remus cried.
"So… we're going to have to fight?" Snape asked, trying to be casual.
"Yup, and Lucius is going to be your second,"
"But- I don't even know Lucius…" Snape said, his voice going a scale higher.
"Pity," James said.
"Maybe we should call it off then," Snape said.
"Ok, if you want to," James said, shrugging. And Snape left to the Slytherin table.
"That was brilliant!" Peter cried.
"I'd still like to kill him though…" Sirius said, eyes twinkling.
"Oh no, Sirius's got that look," Remus whined.
"The deadly look? With the little gleam on his left eye, his lips twitching into that twisted evil smile?" James asked.
"That's the one."
"Revenge," Sirius gritted.
"Uh Sirius, he's got pink hair, we're not the one's who need revenge," Remus stated.
"That's not big enough," Sirius said.
"He hasn't done anything yet!" James cried.
"What about those times he punched Peter, and cursed him huh?" Sirius cried.
"Sirius, you already dealt with that, Snape was with madam Pomfrey for a month…"
"Yeah but-" Sirius started.
"Sirius! I hate him as much as you do, even more …but think… what the hell can we do?" James asked, murdering his eggs with his fork.
"I dunno, I'd think of something…" Sirius said.
" I don't doubt it for a second, but Sirius, think about that little voice in your head…your conscience…" Remus said.
"Oh, I lost that a long time ago along with my common sense," Sirius said.
James sighed.
"Sirius, you're right," James said.
"I am?" Sirius asked surprised.
"Yeah, Snape is a bullying git, but… let's wait until he does something to us…" James said.
Sirius thought it over, but in the ended, frowned but…
"Okay, deal," Sirius said, hopping Snape would do something soon.
Right then, Lily Evans, Morgan Donnelly and Renee, unfortunately Sirius's twin sister, Black came to the table.
"Hey," Sirius said as Morgan came to sit down next to him.
"Hi, I couldn't copy your potions homework could I? I have Quidditch all day," Morgan asked Sirius. Morgan was one of the Gryffindor chasers.
"Sorry, I didn't do it yet," Sirius said.
"Sirius! You have Quidditch all day too!" James cried.
"Yeah," Sirius said, obviously. "I'm going to copy it from you!"
"Ugh! Here," James said looking trough his bag for his homework.
"Thanks, you can copy mine after words Morgan…do you need it too Lil?" Sirius asked.
"No, I'm responsible and actually do my homework," Lily said sarcastically.
"You really shouldn't copy homework," Renee scowled.
"Oh well, it doesn't hurt to do it once or twice," Sirius said.
"You copy it every night!" Renee shouted.
"Shut- up, you're not my mum," Sirius said.
"I'm your sister aren't I?"
"Unfortunately yes!" Sirius shouted.
"I thought twins were supposed to have a friendly connection," Lily whispered to Morgan.
"Yeah well not Ren and Sirius, that's for sure," Morgan said.
"There always fighting about something…" Remus agreed.
"They just never agree…"
They also switched debate subjects quickly, just before it was copying homework, now Renee was telling Sirius off how he shouldn't hit a bludger right to the bleachers to hit Snape.
"Well he provoked me!" Sirius shouted.
"Oh yeah, how?"
"He looked me strait in the eye!" Sirius said.
"How threatening! You could get kicked off the team for that!" Renee cried.
"I think I know I bit more about Quidditch than you do…" Sirius said.
"Look, here's Wood, " (Oliver wood's dad) "Bet he's here to kick you off the team."
"Just for one bloody foul?"
"Hey, Sirius could I talk to you and James?" Wood asked.
"Sirius and James in trouble?" Remus asked.
"Have you ever known them not to be in trouble?" Wood asked.
"Good point." Remus agreed.
"What's up, Alex?" James asked, as the two were pulled aside.
"We need to practice now! Really quick! The Slytherin seeker, Malfoy or something, was on a E.R.T!" Wood said.
"Come again?" Sirius asked.
"A England reserve team! He must be really good because he's only sixteen…James you may be good, but your only a third year,"
"Ok, hold on let me finish breakfast…"
"No time! Quick get on your robes! Morgan… you need to come too…" Wood said.
"All right," Morgan sighed and followed the three up to the Gryffindor tower.
Chapter One: A Furry Friend and a Pink Foe
"SIRIUS!"
"Oy! James one more time, last one I swear," Sirius cried happily, grinning, full of mischief.
"Sirius! We have to figure out why Remus has been missing at Hogwarts, its bothering the hell out of me!"
"So he gets to miss two days of school a month, Big deal," Sirius said, "Now, seeing Snape humiliate himself, that's what I care about!"
"He's been missing forever! Don't you care if he's sick or something?"
"Of course I do… Remus is my best friend too, its just, well…cant we figure this out after we put super glue on the Slytherin toilets.
"SIRIUS!"
"James is right Sirius, we should really figure out why Remus has been gone," Peter said, and with a squeak hid behind the couch just in case Sirius would get mad at him.
"Shut up Peter, for all we know, Remus is gone chasing werewolves in Peru…"
"Sirius that's it!"
"What? James you oaf, I was kidding, Remus is not a werewolf slayer, nor does he live in Peru, I see Remus more of a tropical guy myself"
"Not a werewolf slayer, a werewolf in general…" James said, ignoring Sirius' little bit on the tropics.
"What? James are you off you're rocker?! Remus? The werewolf? You have got to be kidding! Remus is anything but a monster! If anyone here is a werewolf it's Peter…his arms are really hairy!"
James rolled his eyes. " Look at the evidence! It all makes sense, besides, it was your idea," James said happily, "Come with me…I think I have proof!" James said as running out of the common room,
"Where are we going?" Sirius cried after James.
"You'll see!" James yelled over his shoulder.
"C'mon Peter," Sirius shrugged and they both ran after James.
James, Sirius and Peter ran across the castle, completely out of breath, Sirius was about to state that Peter looked a little blue and they should stop for a rest, when they bumped into the potion's teacher, Professor Gevine.
"Going somewhere boys?" Professor Gevine said, in a twisted smile. It was a fact that Gevine was cruel to all his students, but to Sirius, James and Peter, he was frankly evil.
"Are you?" Sirius demanded. James poked Sirius in the rib.
"We're going to the library Professor…"
"The library is on the other side of the castle, it is after dark, you should be in your common rooms, Detention," Gevine said.
"What! But…we didn't do anything wrong…yet. We didn't even blow anything up!" Sirius cried.
"Are you suggesting I wait till tomorrow and give you double detention?" Gevine asked.
"Yes! No! I mean… no sir," Sirius said.
"Well I have other rodents to give detention to as well. Good Bye boys,"
"Slimy git. If Remus were here, Gevine wouldn't have done anything. He'd be able to sneak up some excuse, now we got detention." Sirius said.
"So you miss Remus too!" James said.
"Of course I miss him," Sirius stated. "But…the whole werewolf thing, you've got to admit, pretty strange."
"Where are we going?" Peter asked, holding a stitch in his side, still panting.
"The astronomy tower, they have the moon charts from 1732…" James replied.
"You still think Remus is a werewolf? Come off it!" Sirius growled.
"It's remarkable how much you sound like a dog," James said.
"It's remarkable how much you sound like a idiot."
"If you don't believe me, let me show you…"
"How? Are we going to go up to Remus and ask… 'Hi Remus, sorry to bother you, but are you a werewolf' sorry James, but it sounds kind of blunt."
"Just come to the tower with me…"
"Why?" Peter chirped. "Is that were Remus is?"
James groaned, and started to the astronomy tower.
When the three reached the astronomy tower, James started to rip out parchments, with writing and strange pictures of all the phases of the moon, and strange dates.
"Help me would you?" James cried, pulling out a chart with a moon that looked like it was melting, a waxing moon.
"I don't even know what we're looking for," Sirius snarled.
"The moon chart for this year," James said.
Sirius bent down and got a parchment sprawled carelessly on the floor.
"Oh, well this is it, isn't it?" Sirius yawned casually, handing James it to James.
"Thanks Sirius, um… he first was gone here… the day of a full moon," James said, with a look of triumph.
"Luck," Sirius yawed.
"And he was back when it wasn't a full moon, the next time he was gone… it was a full moon too…"
"So? That doesn't prove anything," Sirius said sharply.
But it went on, every time Remus was gone it was a full moon.
"See! I told you!" James said happily.
"Did you ever know how much the moon looked like cheese? I mean not that Italian cheese, but that good old Swiss cheese?" Sirius asked.
"Sirius…our friend is a werewolf! And all you can think about is cheese?" James asked angrily.
"I'm hungry…" Sirius explained.
"Please…Sirius! Be serious!"
"Erm…okay." Sirius said.
"Focus on Remus for now…not cheese."
"I'm kind of hungry too." Peter put in. "And I like cheese too…"
"Please," James begged. "Remus…"
Peter looked up at James, tears in his eyes.
"I still can't believe it, Remus is…a werewolf," Peter said, almost as if he was disgusted.
"Its not so bad…" Sirius said, "He just gets a little hairy, he's normal 28 days of the month."
"It has got to bother Remus though. Imagine it. Being something else…having to strain you're self to remember who you really are. No wonder he's always tired."
"What…what if he bites us?" Peter asked. "You know, one day when we're asleep…he could just creep up and…SNAP!"
James looked at Peter crossly.
"Do you really think Remus would do that too us?" James asked.
"He's not even that vicious with his food…" Sirius pointed out.
"But…But…." Peter started, his gray eyes filled with fear.
"You really have to have more faith in Remus,"
"Besides, just because he's a bit different once every month doesn't make him want to kill his only friends. He's more loyal than that."
"But…he's a werewolf! They kill people…"
"Peter!" James yelled at him, his gray blue eyes getting fierce. "You don't get it, Remus is still Remus, always! Remus is that kindest person I have ever known… he would never…ever put you or me in danger!"
"Me…on the other hand…is a different story." Sirius said, with an evil grin.
"Are you…sure?" Peter asked.
"One Hundred percent…even more. We just have to assure Remus we feel this way."
"Well, he must be coming back tomorrow, tonight's not a full moon, yesterday was," Sirius said, brushing his black hair out of his blue eyes.
"Right… so… when he comes…we'll tell him we know he's a werewolf right?" Peter asked, pleased to know what Sirius and James were going to do.
"Not really. He might be a little afraid and embarrassed of what he is… I mean why else would he not of told us before? What we're going to do is ask where he was all the times he was gone, if he tells us he's a werewolf we'll tell him it doesn't bother us, if he lies, we'll…"
"Tie him up on a chair, feeding him turnips until he tells us!" Sirius cried.
"No, tell him we know about him," James said, shaking his head.
"Oh, that isn't as fun. "
"All we can do is wait until Remus gets back, " James said.
"What of we're wrong about this whole werewolf thing?" Sirius asked.
"Um… well…" James started. "We won't be wrong,"
"Yeah, we 're never wrong," Sirius said sarcastically. "Do you have any cheese?"
~*~
The next morning, James woke up first as always. He pulled open the curtain that separated Sirius's bed from his. Sirius was still sleeping, snoring to be more like it, but nothing to what Peter was doing. He was talking, practically telling James what he was dreaming about. James thought Sirius would be easier to wake up then Peter, but he really should of known better.
"Sirius wake up!" James whispered, shaking Sirius slowly and carefully to wake him up. All he got in return was a loud snore.
"Sirius!" James yelled, but he would not wake up.
"SIRIUS!" James bellowed on top of his lungs, but that to did nothing.
"God, Sirius! Wake the hell up!" James said, but Sirius wouldn't wake up.
"Cheeeeese." Sirius sighed, turning to his side, smiling.
"He's incapable of being woke up," said Adam, the boy James shared a dorm with.
"I realized that, thanks," James said sarcastically.
"What're you doing up so early anyway?" Adam asked. "You're not going to blow something up again are you?" Adam added suspiciously.
"No, not today, or right now anyway," James said.
"Well, if you don't mind, I'm going back to sleep," Adam said. "The only way Sirius will ever wake up is if there were girls in here dancing the hula." Adam said, and went back to sleep.
"Girls huh?," James said. "Sirius, Sirius, hot girls are swarming our dormitory, demanding you!" James said.
"Oh! Okay then! I'm awake!" Sirius said happily jumping out of bed. "Hey, where are they?"
"They left," said James hotly, "I told them you don't like being woke up early,"
"Ah, James what did you do that for?" Sirius asked.
"Never mind, help me wake up Peter," James said.
"Sure! All we have to do is put a firework in his ear and…"
"Never mind, I'll wake him up myself,"
" Ah, James, you're no fun,"
" When it comes to you Sirius, I cant be fun. Peter…wake up…" James whispered softly in Peters ear.
"Five more minutes mummy,"
"Oy! Pea brain! Wake up!" Sirius barked.
"I'm up… I'm up… Is Remus back yet?" Peter asked rubbing his eyes with his fists.
"We don't know…where would he be?" James asked.
"Well if I was a man eating beast, not able to eat man…I'd probably be in the Great hall…eating" Sirius pointed out. "Come to think of it… even if I wasn't a man eating beast, not able to eat man I'd still be eating."
"Sirius, you're weird, come on lets go," James said and they left there dorm. On the way out of the common room, they bumped into Lily Evans, literally.
"Watch it Lil!" Sirius yelled good naturally, helping her pick up the books she dropped.
"Oh sorry Sirius, I wasn't paying attention,"
"Obviously," James said, wiping ink of him that Lily spilled on him.
"Sorry James, I'm a wreck, I forgot all about our test and…"
"What test?" Sirius asked curiously.
"The one today with Flitwick…"
"Today's Saturday," James answered.
"Oh! It is isn't it?" Lily asked, laughing. "Well if you don't mind, I'm going to sleep then…good night."
"Right, that girls got problums… Great Hall…James you coming?" Sirius asked, trying to shake James out of a trance.
"What? Oh yeah…I'm coming," James said.
They walked in the Great Hall, and sure enough, Remus was at the end of the Gryffindor table. He looked miserable. His eyes were bagged and it looked as though he hadn't slept in weeks. When Remus saw the three, he smiled and waved. But in the back of his eyes, they saw fear; and a look saying unmistakably " Don't ask where I was."
"Where were you?" Sirius asked sitting next to Remus.
"I was at a funeral," Remus said, his voice shaking.
"Who died?" James asked quietly.
"My Aunt Linda," Remus said.
"She died last month, and the month before that…hold on come to think about it the month before that," Sirius told him.
"Did she? Oh well… it's a family name, Linda,"
"What did she die of?" James asked.
"The um…five letter name curse," Remus said, shifting in his seat.
"Then are you going to die?"
"Why would I?" Remus asked.
"Your name has five letters," James said happily.
"Oh no! So does Peter! I'm going to die! P-E-T-E-R…oh my Mommy I'm going to die!" Peter cried, and started to bawl, bringing quite some attention to the marauders.
"Oh, bloody hell, Peter he was lying, Sirius tell him," James said, but Sirius was to busy, counting letters of Slytherin names.
"S-N-A-P-E, five! Snape's gonna die! Cha-ching!" Sirius cried happily.
"Snape's his last name, Severus is his name," James pointed out.
"Damn! You sure it's not the six letter curse?"
"Severus has seven letters,"
"Oh."
"Remus, We don't buy this whole "Linda" deal. Tell us really, where were you?" James asked in a voice that was soft, but very powerful.
"I can't tell,"
"C'mon mate!" Sirius said, patting him on the back.
"I was… well…"
"We know Remus," Peter said quietly.
"Know what?" Remus asked quickly.
"Where you were, why you're gone,"
"Yeah, it's not so bad! You can bite anyone and make it look like an accident, I couldn't do that ever since I was five," Sirius said, sighing at his recollection.
"What? You mean you know about me…and your not gonna run and tell everyone?"
"Why'd we do that? You're our friend, our best friend," Sirius said, paused and shook his head. "That was too sappy."
"But nonetheless, you are our friend, Remus…"
"You can still be my friend? But I'm really dangerous," Remus said quietly.
"Well, so it Sirius when you give him a lot sugar, but we're still his friend,"
Remus laughed, and his circles disappeared, well got lighter anyway. "Really, you truly mean it?"
The three nodded.
"You guys are true friends…you really are…" Remus choked out. Face streamed with tears of joy.
"Of course we are," Sirius said happily, squeezing Remus' shoulder tightly. "And we always will be."
"That's a promise," James answered.
Remus nodded. "I just cant believe it…you guys are my friends."
There was an awkward silence for a while, but Sirius broke it quickly.
"Let's celebrate then, " Sirius said happily.
"What of?" Peter asked.
"Still being Remus' friend of course!"
"Of course," Said Remus.
"What are we gonna do?" Peter asked sighing.
"Nothing involving explosives right, because cleaning that rat guts off Professor Gevine's desk wasn't very fun." Remus told Sirius.
"No, I'm out of dung bombs…But, I stole some food coloring…"
"What are we gonna do with that?" James asked.
"Well Snape sleeps late, and all his freak friends are already eating," Sirius said, pointing to the Slytherin table. "So were going to give Snapey a new hair do," Sirius cried.
"Sounds risky… " Remus said, frowning slightly. "But, hey… live a little right?" Remus cried, and they left to prepare.
~*~
"Got the cloak James?" Remus asked.
"Yeah, Sirius do you have the dye?" James asked.
A head popped from under a bed,
"Yup, it's here," Sirius said, grinning ear to ear.
"Great, we're ready…do you remember the password?"
"From last year…" Remus answered.
"Well that's great," James said.
"Just go in when a Slytherin's going in or out,"
"Sirius! You're a genius!" James cried
"Of course I am," Sirius said.
The four scampered out of the Gryffindor tower and tiptoeing quietly… into the entrance of the Slytherin common room.
"God, it's cold," Sirius said, chattering his teeth.
"Shut up, here's a Slytherin," James said.
"It's Lucius Malfoy," Peter whined.
"Death, ("Well, that's original.")" Said a cold drawling voice.
He opened the entrance and he climbed in, the marauders at his tail.
When Lucius Malfoy, strolled into his dormitory. The four quickly went into Snape's dormitory, (they all ready knew where it was exactly, after all the little trips there to give Snape the acne potion and such) and sure enough it was only Snape, snoring louder than Sirius and Peter combined.
"Rita, Rita my sweet come back!" Snape mumbled.
"But Snape you're a slimy little bas-" Sirius started in a high pitch voice.
"Sirius shut up would you," James hissed.
"Fine. Down to business, the pink hair dye-"
"Pink? Sirius you didn't," James said, grinning so madly.
Sirius grinned like a mad man while putting the pink food coloring in his hair,
"God, his hair is greasy, you could cook French fries on him" Sirius said, pouring the last bit of dye in his hair. "I have green too, Remus, you want the honor?"
"Sure," Remus said, looking at the dye that Sirius handed him, "Um… Sirius this distinctly says do not put in hair," Remus said.
"I know, isn't it wonderful!" Sirius said happily.
"Hurry up Remus, Snape's gonna wake up soon," James said.
"Right I'm done," Remus said, standing back to see the pink and green headed freak.
"It's a piece of art all right," James sighed.
"More like piece of crap…"
"That gives the wrong mental image, Sirius." Remus told him.
"C'mon, let's go," Peter whined.
"Yeah, all right," Remus said. And the marauders left the Slytherin common room.
"Who did this?" Snape screamed as he woke up Saturday afternoon.
"Oh my god! Severus what happened?" Rita, a second year asked as Snape walked in the common room.
"I woke up and my hair was pink and green! It was Potter and the others, I know it!" Snape said.
"Well, that's kind of disgusting. You can magic it out cant you?"
"I've tried!" Snape cried, flinging his hands in the air. "Nothing happened, I can't seem to put my mind on a anti-charm, I'm so bloody hungry."
"…you have to go out sometime." Rita said. "I'm going out to eat breakfast, want to come?"
Snape hesitated, but when his stomach started to growl, he swallowed his pride, and left with Rita to eat.
When Rita and Snape entered the Great Hall, everyone turned to see Snape, sniggers and laughing were heard around the room. Even Professor McGonagol found it amusing enough, to twitch her lips into a slight smile.
"Lovely Hair Snape!" Sirius cried, "Really brings out the slime."
"Wow, It really does Sirius…" Remus observed happily.
"You-you did this!" Snape screamed pointing at the four.
"Us? Never," James said sarcastically.
"You always assume it's us, it hurts," Sirius said, wiping a pretend tear of his cheek.
"Yup, pick on someone with your own…uh…" Peter started.
"Slime," James put in.
"Enormous nose," Sirius said,
"Fowl stench," Remus added.
"Ooooooooh," Sirius and James said in unison.
"You don't scare me," Snape said.
"Oh we don't? Damn, you've hurt my feelings," James said.
"All right a duel," Snape said, with a twisted smile.
"A d-duel?" Peter whined. It was obvious that Snape knew all the curses there were.
"Not with you, prat," Snape said coldly.
"Hey Bozo! No one, but me can call Peter a prat!" Sirius yelled.
"Yeah!" Peter cried.
" A duel with James, what do you say?" Snape asked, ignoring Sirius.
"Sure," James said through clenched teeth.
"Good, Lucius is my second," Snape answered.
"Malfoy? But he's a sixth year!" Peter cried, even more nervous than before.
"Yes, I know," Snape cried happily, "You're not Chicken are you?"
"Of course we're not, Sirius is my second, unless… you don't mind Remus do you?" James said, not even thinking of Peter as a choice.
"No, he's better with curses anyway."
"Both kinds." Sirius said, grinning.
"What time do you want us Snape?"
"Midnight?"
"Yeah okay," James said.
"If you're not going to show up though, and you're trying to give us detention, it won't work, we've already got detention," Sirius said. Snape looked bewildered.
"How did you know I was go-"
" We're smarter than that!" Remus cried.
"So… we're going to have to fight?" Snape asked, trying to be casual.
"Yup, and Lucius is going to be your second,"
"But- I don't even know Lucius…" Snape said, his voice going a scale higher.
"Pity," James said.
"Maybe we should call it off then," Snape said.
"Ok, if you want to," James said, shrugging. And Snape left to the Slytherin table.
"That was brilliant!" Peter cried.
"I'd still like to kill him though…" Sirius said, eyes twinkling.
"Oh no, Sirius's got that look," Remus whined.
"The deadly look? With the little gleam on his left eye, his lips twitching into that twisted evil smile?" James asked.
"That's the one."
"Revenge," Sirius gritted.
"Uh Sirius, he's got pink hair, we're not the one's who need revenge," Remus stated.
"That's not big enough," Sirius said.
"He hasn't done anything yet!" James cried.
"What about those times he punched Peter, and cursed him huh?" Sirius cried.
"Sirius, you already dealt with that, Snape was with madam Pomfrey for a month…"
"Yeah but-" Sirius started.
"Sirius! I hate him as much as you do, even more …but think… what the hell can we do?" James asked, murdering his eggs with his fork.
"I dunno, I'd think of something…" Sirius said.
" I don't doubt it for a second, but Sirius, think about that little voice in your head…your conscience…" Remus said.
"Oh, I lost that a long time ago along with my common sense," Sirius said.
James sighed.
"Sirius, you're right," James said.
"I am?" Sirius asked surprised.
"Yeah, Snape is a bullying git, but… let's wait until he does something to us…" James said.
Sirius thought it over, but in the ended, frowned but…
"Okay, deal," Sirius said, hopping Snape would do something soon.
Right then, Lily Evans, Morgan Donnelly and Renee, unfortunately Sirius's twin sister, Black came to the table.
"Hey," Sirius said as Morgan came to sit down next to him.
"Hi, I couldn't copy your potions homework could I? I have Quidditch all day," Morgan asked Sirius. Morgan was one of the Gryffindor chasers.
"Sorry, I didn't do it yet," Sirius said.
"Sirius! You have Quidditch all day too!" James cried.
"Yeah," Sirius said, obviously. "I'm going to copy it from you!"
"Ugh! Here," James said looking trough his bag for his homework.
"Thanks, you can copy mine after words Morgan…do you need it too Lil?" Sirius asked.
"No, I'm responsible and actually do my homework," Lily said sarcastically.
"You really shouldn't copy homework," Renee scowled.
"Oh well, it doesn't hurt to do it once or twice," Sirius said.
"You copy it every night!" Renee shouted.
"Shut- up, you're not my mum," Sirius said.
"I'm your sister aren't I?"
"Unfortunately yes!" Sirius shouted.
"I thought twins were supposed to have a friendly connection," Lily whispered to Morgan.
"Yeah well not Ren and Sirius, that's for sure," Morgan said.
"There always fighting about something…" Remus agreed.
"They just never agree…"
They also switched debate subjects quickly, just before it was copying homework, now Renee was telling Sirius off how he shouldn't hit a bludger right to the bleachers to hit Snape.
"Well he provoked me!" Sirius shouted.
"Oh yeah, how?"
"He looked me strait in the eye!" Sirius said.
"How threatening! You could get kicked off the team for that!" Renee cried.
"I think I know I bit more about Quidditch than you do…" Sirius said.
"Look, here's Wood, " (Oliver wood's dad) "Bet he's here to kick you off the team."
"Just for one bloody foul?"
"Hey, Sirius could I talk to you and James?" Wood asked.
"Sirius and James in trouble?" Remus asked.
"Have you ever known them not to be in trouble?" Wood asked.
"Good point." Remus agreed.
"What's up, Alex?" James asked, as the two were pulled aside.
"We need to practice now! Really quick! The Slytherin seeker, Malfoy or something, was on a E.R.T!" Wood said.
"Come again?" Sirius asked.
"A England reserve team! He must be really good because he's only sixteen…James you may be good, but your only a third year,"
"Ok, hold on let me finish breakfast…"
"No time! Quick get on your robes! Morgan… you need to come too…" Wood said.
"All right," Morgan sighed and followed the three up to the Gryffindor tower.