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Chapter 3 Improper Partners

"Hey Sirius, have you seen Remus?" James asked looking around the room. An hour before, Peter had went to bed. And Remus would usually be in his room at 9 sharp.

"Not sure. Me and you came crashing through here. We probably scared him. He's probably downstairs," Sirius concluded.

On the other side of the castle, Snape's wand glowed victoriously. "You have no idea how long I've waited to do this. And since their pet is in trouble I'm sure I can think up of a spell to permanently turn you rock solid! Petrifi…"

"Expelliarmus!" Snape turned around to see Angellous with her wand pointed at him. "Let him go," she said coolly.

"Traitor." Snape glared at her and walked to his wand and into the Slytherin Common Room.

"Are you ok, Remus." Angellous bend down and opened her hand to help him stand. He accepted and dusted off his robes.

"Thanks."

"It's cool. I saw you coming and Snape was walking your way. He's been following you for the past hour." Angellous leaned against the wall.

"It's been an hour already!" Remus panicked. He would be in so much trouble if he was caught wandering the halls at the hour.

"Well, it is late, so I'm going to go ahead and take the night off." Angellous yawned and stretched her arms.

"Angellous?"

"You can call me Angel."

"Ok, Angel, I know this is last minute, but do you want to come with me to Hogsmeade this weekend?" Remus' sweat had dripped through his hair. "I mean, we're from different houses so you don't have to go. I-I-I just thought, I would thank you for the n-n-notes." Remus looked down.

"Sure." Angel smiled widely. Remus looked up and smiled back.

"Really?"

"But I doubt your friends would enjoy that. I'll see you then."

Sirius was now worried. Remus wasn't there yet. He went down stairs and found the common room empty. Sirius swallowed a bad gut feeling and ran to James who was flipping through his parchments reading his old doodles of him and Lily. "James. Something isn't right. We have to go and find Remus."

"He's still not here?" James sounded concerned. "I guess the Invisibility Cloak is needed once more. The two boys ran to James' trunk and pulled out the same cloak they had hidden in in the library. Quietly, they sneaked out of the Gryffindor wing and tiptoed through the castle under the cloak. "Hey, Padfoot, can I ask you something?" James whispered.

"What?"

"Do you think we're being a bit mean to Wormtail?"

"I don't think so. Sometimes he does come through for us, but he's been disappearing a lot."

"Ok. I just had a nagging feeling about him."

"Oh. I wouldn't worry about it too much." The two boys heard a noise from ahead and stopped beside the wall. Albus Dumbledore had walked right past them. James and Sirius held there breathe as Dumbledore looked straight at them as if they were there.

"Well, it's late. I'm very tired and my blood's running cold." Dumbledore said to himself. Dumbledore looked behind him as if waiting for someone and then walked on to his room.

"That…was…weird." Sirius said.

"Blood? You know he's been saying that a lot lately." Sirius looked at James confused. "Yeah, you were asleep during his annual speech. He said that blood is thicker than wine after some family stuff."

"Well, Dumbledore does have ways of telling the future. Remember last year he said to watch your closest friends and during Halloween that Hufflepuff killed her best friend." They had begun walking again whispering theories on why Dumbledore was the way he is until they heard another set of footsteps, running. They turned around and saw that Remus was headed straight for them. Remus had run straight not seeing James and Sirius in the way. In a matter of seconds, Remus had tackled the two other boys down on the hallway. At first Remus was surprised, but then realized that it wasn't the first time that they've ran into each other. Sirius and James just laughed. But because of the noise that they had made, a professor with long black hair had stepped in the hallway to see what happened. Her red eyes were sharp and keen. Even without smiling, she had a hidden grin behind her face waiting for something. When she got there, no one was around. The three boys had all gotten in the Invisibility Cloak just in time. After the teacher left, they had begun to breathe again. "Who was that?"

"Well if you two had paid attention, that is our new DADA teacher, Arvania Aries." Remus scolded.

"Yep, that's our Moony! Even though we save his butt, he still acts like our mother," James joked. Remus laughed.

The next day was a day that James would never forget. They had all awoken in time for breakfast and were on their way to class, but through some way, Remus was separated. Remus looked around to find his friends, but he was out of the crowd by then. He realized that someone was pulling him. It was Angel. His nerves tensed. "Hey, I'm sorry, I needed to talk to you about tonight."

"Huh? Oh sure." Remus smiled at her and led her to a nearby tree. As they watched the students pile into their classes, Remus awaited what the news was.

"Well, I can't wait to go this weekend. Is it alright if we go next weekend too?"

"Next…uh," Remus chuckled nervously.

"Yes. Do you mind?"

"It's the full moon," Remus said accidentally out loud

"Huh? What's that got to do with it?" Angel looked at Remus a bit concerned. "It'll be at day time, I can't stay up past midnight. It's too dangerous for me."

"Oh." Remus looked down and felt extremely disappointed. He had finally met a girl that he was interested in and she was interested in him as well. She was smart, witty, beautiful, and loved the moon along with werewolves. Sadly, he had to turn the girl of his dreams down. "I'm…sorry. I won't be able to make it." Remus turned the other way around afraid of the look on her face. Even before the night of the full moon started, Madam Pomfrey had to keep an eye on him.

"Hey, it's alright. Today's fine," Angel said turning pink. Remus looked in her eyes and sighed. Before anything was going to happen, they both realized how empty and quiet the school grounds were. "Oh no! We're late!" The two jumped up and headed for their DADA class. The door burst open and everyone turned to look at Remus and Angel who were panting for air.

The teacher had a mischievous smile and said ", so are you two always playing hooky?" She giggled a bit then directed them to their seats. Remus and Angel both blushed as James and Sirius gave Angel disgusted looks. "Well, since there are only 4 more students left, James…you're paired with…" Prf. Aries looked around. James crossed his fingers for Remus since he was basically the smart one. "I know, James and Snape." Everyone's eyes grew big. They all knew of how the two didn't get along. James looked as if all hope was gone. "I guess that leaves the two of you, Remus and Angel." Remus smiled as if it was a sign to him. The teacher sat down and waved her wand. Parchments all had floated above the students. "Class, these are magical parchments that will make my job easier. What we are going to do, is write a report, both you and your partner. If you don't like how I've paired you up, you'll have to deal with it. Now, just scream out what magical creature you will be doing you're…"

"WEREWOLVES! ME!ME!ME!" Sirius was heaving from his ranting.

"Uhm, alright, I guess Sirius and Sasha made the first decision." Before their eyes, the parchment had written werewolves on the sheet. Unfortunately, because of the spell, everyone who shouted out the same creature had gotten a bit electrocuted. Prf. Aries had purposely forgotten to mention her little prank.

"That's not fair!" James gave Sirius an evil look. "Cheater," James mouthed to his best friend. Sirius shrugged. "Alright Snivelly, we're doing…"

"No, I suggest we do it on…"

"Look, you're not the boss of me!"

"This is both of our grade." Snape and James had gotten louder and louder as they argued until they realized that the whole class was looking at them and apparently, got most of the magical creatures.

"Well, are you two finished? It seems like most of the commonly known creatures are taken," Prf. Aries said with her eye brows cocked. "I can pick something for you."

"Fine go ahead, we'll be arguing about anything either way," James said giving up. This was the worse day of his life. He had been partners with the person he disliked the most. And half his grade depended on Snape.

"Alright, how about Vampires." The class shivered at the word.

"They're almost as bad as You-Know-Who," said Sasha, Sirius' partner. Her golden locks flowed naturally and her blue eyes were small. She was a Hufflepuff, though many people believed that she belonged in Ravenclaw. "I heard that You-Know-Who had an army of them for back up."

"Alright then, I expect a 5 page report in two days." The class started to groan until Prf. Aries gave them a sharp, stern look.

The first people to rush out was Remus and Angellous. Remus thought it better if his friends stayed out of his business for a while. The two had went near the forest and sat on the grass. After a bit of laughter, they began to talk about their project. Angel had suggested Centaurs. Remus didn't' care what they picked, he was smart and he knew that he'd pass. Even though, it would have been easier if he snatched werewolves first.

Remus and Angel opened their books and began to jot down ideas for their report. Angel played with her braid as she read through her book. Remus watched her on the corner of his eye and couldn't wait until later on in tomorrow.

As the two sat down, neither had sensed that they were being watched. James and Sirius had been athletic enough to catch up with Remus and Angel. They stood behind a rock and had a disgusted look towards Angel, at least James did. Sirius had no expression. It was starting again. He could feel it. His past. His destiny. His heart. Something was about to unfold that would change all of their lives.

OK! That's 3. Hope you all like it. Please review, good and bad. I accept. BTW this is 6th year. Byez.