Telling and Aftermath
"Lily, Lily, wake up, love," Lily Evans heard the voice of her fiancé James Potter in her ear.
When she rolled over she expected to see him, but all she saw was a fat brown rat, right in front of her face. She screamed and rolled off the bed. She tripped standing up, only to find a great, shaggy black dog was what she had tripped over. She screamed louder. Running into the hall, she bumped into something, only to turn and find a many pointed stag, she screamed the loudest at this, and went running down the stairs two at a time into the living room, praying to find James.
She backed into the room her back to it, when suddenly, she heard a familiar voice, "Good evening, Lily."
She quickly turned around, clutching her heart, her back to the wall, only to find her dear friend, Remus Lupin, standing there smiling. "Oh thank Merlin! Remus-upstairs, a-a-rat-and-a-a-dog-and-a-a-stag-and-where's James? And how did you? And-and," Lily said pointing in all directions as she talked.
Remus just stood there smiling until she was done, hands folded across his chest. "Lily, Lily, calm down! It'll all make sense soon enough. First, there are some people I want to introduce you to," Remus said once she was done.
Lily had a grave look on her face as she witnessed first, the brown rat crawl on to Remus' left shoulder, then the shaggy black dog sit down to the right of him, and last, the huge stag canter to the right of the dog. "I see you are confused. Let me introduce, Messrs. Moony," he said, indicating himself and bowing deeply, "Wormtail," at this the rat scampered off his shoulder to be transformed into the fat, brown-haired man Lily knew as Peter Pettigrew, "Padfoot," to this the dog walked forward, bowed, and transformed into Sirius Black, the fur turning into the instantly recognizable long black hair, "and last, but certainly not least, Prongs," and at last, the stag repeated the bow, cantered forward so that he was directly in front of Lily, and transformed, into her fiancé, with his raven hair and hazel eyes.
The four Marauders grinned at her, hoping for a reaction. Lily, still clutching her heart, whispered, "You're animagi, you're all animagi,"
"Well, actually, Lily, that's actually only half of what we wanted to tell you. Moony, you wanted to tell her something?" Sirius answered back.
Remus looked to the ceiling, coughed, then indicated for Lily to sit down on the couch. He grasped Lily's hands, "Lily, well, no, I'm not an animagus, I'm-well-I'm-erm- how do I put this? I'm,"
"OUT WITH IT MAN!" the Marauders yelled at him.
Remus gulped, and shut his eyes tight, "Lily, I'm a werewolf!" he yelled. He opened his eyes, expecting to see her back away, but what he actually saw both astonished and surprised him. He saw Lily, smiling her kindest smile at him, and then she hugged him. He could do nothing but sit there in shock.
Lily broke the hug, "Remus Lupin, do you think that matters to me, to me of all people? Do you think I care about any of this; all I care about is what's on the inside, not how you look on the outside. You know that, and you must be a great buffoon to think otherwise," Lily said kindly.
"But I could hurt you, I could hurt one of them," Remus said sadly, indicating the others.
"You are a werewolf twelve days a year out of 365, we haven't got hurt yet," Lily reassured the werewolf. They hugged again, the other Marauders joining in on it, a thousand words being said through the silence.
They then went to the kitchen for some tea, the Marauders sharing the story of why and how they had become animagi in the first place. Lily found it a fascinating story, reaffirming her belief that they all were truly great wizards. They also told them of how they had formulated the plan to tell her in the first place. She showed them to the living room, but before they left, she said she wanted to tell them all something. Then, out of the blue, she whacked James in the back of the head.
"That, is for giving me a Sleeping Draught!" Lily said.
The other Marauders howled with laughter, the howl, Lily noticed, most apparent, in Remus and Sirius. She then whacked Sirius.
"That is for giving it to him, and formulating this whole thing!" James joined in his friends' laughter, while Sirius gave them all a death glare. She whacked Peter.
"That's for practically sleeping with me!" Sirius rejoined the laughter. She whacked Remus.
"What was that for?" He questioned staring at her and rubbing his head.
"For being that 'great buffoon' I mentioned earlier," she answered with arched eyebrows.
They all howled, until that is, she whacked them all simultaneously. "THAT IS FOR ALMOST GIVING ME A HEART ATTACK!" Lily yelled.
The room was silent, until she proceeded to kiss them all on the cheek, which made them all blush. "But, that doesn't mean I don't still love you all, with all my heart." She said, smiling.
James then wrapped his arms around her waist from behind and kissed her, "And we, you Lily."
With that, the four Marauders disappeared into the fireplace.