"Remus!" Ellie yelled as she skipped over the mossy rocks of the small stream, "Remus I think I s-"Suddenly her foot slipped and she stumbled. Remus threw his arms out, catching her under her arms but it was too late; Remus lost his footing and the two plunged into the shallow waters.

"I think I see the clue..." Ellie finished, giggling a little.

"Mmmm..." Remus mumbled, quickly standing up and wringing his robes dry.

"Help me up?" Ellie asked and Remus sighed and took hold of her hand. Ellie wasn't that bad really; Remus was just being stubborn. She was really quite funny and she was pretty smart too; she had figured out some of the riddles on the trail, Remus was just determined to prove Sirius wrong, even if it did mean being rather unpleasant towards her. Ellie twisted her hair between her fingers, draining the last few drops of water and made her way towards a large fir tree. Standing on her tip-toes, she pulled herself up onto the lowest branch and peered at the clue.

"What does it say?" Remus asked lazily; all he wanted to do was to go back and finish his book.

"This old one runs forever but never moves at all.

He has not lungs nor throat but still a mighty roaring call.

What is it?"

"The waterfall," Remus said almost robotically, "Easy one."

"Wow that was fast," Ellie said jumping down from the branch, "How did you get it so quickly?"
"I waste my life reading books," Remus said, unable to control the smile that was spreading across his face, "It's not that impressive."

"If you think you waste your life reading books why don't you do something else?" Ellie said innocently.

"Because there is nothing else at the moment," Remus shrugged pulling out the map, "Reading is about as close to adventure as I'm going to get anytime soon."

"Not unless you go looking for it," Ellie grinned, causing Remus to flash her a sideward glance. Not quite knowing how to answer her, Remus focused his attention on the map instead, looking for any signs of a waterfall. As soon as he turned around Ellie dropped to her knees in defeat, miming and pointing to herself, frantically waving behind his back. Why didn't he notice her? How much more obvious could she be? She'd tried cracking a few jokes, she'd tried talking to him; she'd even tried flattering him. Could he seriously be so naive? Suddenly aware of the noise she had made as she fell to her knees, Remus whirled round and Ellie quickly grasped her laces and flashed him a grin. Remus blinked and returned to the map. Ellie let out a silent groan and trudged back over to the low branch, pulling herself up and resting her head in her hands, watching him.

"Ok well, if we go over the stream and through the trees in that direction..." Remus said, pointing towards a particularly close cluster of trees, "Then we should be able to find the waterfall."
"Great..." Ellie said less enthusiastically; this alone time with Remus hadn't exactly been a hit. Remus rolled up the map and placed it back in his rucksack. Remus stopped for a second, still eyeing the contents of his rucksack before he slowly pulled out something that looked like a container full of pills.

"What are they for?" Ellie asked, slightly taken aback by how many there were and Remus hesitated.

"They're um...I have these behaviour problems..." He said nervously, "I have to take them at a certain time or else I...have an...'episode'. I forgot to take them this morning; you don't want to see me when I'm angry."
"What?" Ellie said with a grin, "You have behaviour problems? Come off it, you're the quietest person I know!"

"Well then they must be working mustn't they?" Remus smirked before he swallowed a few.

"Alrighty then..." Ellie said, shaking her head and jumping down from the branch.

"What, you don't believe me?" Remus asked.

"It's just a little hard to believe that someone so quiet and book smart could have behaviour problems..." Ellie grinned uncertainly.

"I'm not that quiet..." Remus frowned. Ellie raised her eyebrows and Remus blinked.

"Am I?"

"It's a good kind of quiet." Ellie winked before she picked up her own rucksack.

"I am not quiet," Remus sulked, "You just haven't spoken to me properly."
"Well then let's start," Ellie said, taking advantage of the fact that she still wasn't facing him and scrunching her face up in delight.

"Ok then," Remus said, still sounding rather sulky, "What quidditch team do you support?"
"You're into quidditch?" Ellie asked sceptically, turning to face him.

"I...well...no but I'm at least trying to make conversation," Remus said, almost blushing and Ellie laughed.

"Ok well, first off, I don't support a quidditch team; Lily's the sporty one."
"Ok then, what do you like?"
"Chocolate," Ellie shrugged, "My life is just chocolate." Remus grinned.

"Well...I can sort of relate to that..."
"Really?" Ellie laughed, "But seriously...how much do you love it?"
"I can't go through a day without it," Remus blushed.

"Finally, someone who understands!" Ellie laughed. Remus smiled and jumped across the stream; maybe he didn't have to be that unpleasant to her. Just because they got along didn't mean that they liked each other right? Remus held out his hand and Ellie took hold of it as she jumped across after him, secretly jumping for joy that he was holding her hand for that small moment.

"What else do you like?" He asked.

The two of them walked together through the forest as they made their way towards the waterfall; suddenly not feeling as uncomfortable in each other's presence. Suddenly the sound of rushing water filled the air and McGonagall and Slughorn came into view; they had reached the end of the treasure hunt.

"Oh ho! Young Remus and Miss Phelps, very good." Slughorn said as he saw them approaching, "I knew your clever young brains were a match made in heaven!" Remus blushed. It was a good thing Sirius hadn't arrived yet; not a great choice of words.

"Oh very good, very good." McGonagall said, still looking rather stressed, "We'll just wait for-"

"Calm yourself Minerva my dear," Slughorn said as McGonagall whipped out her trusty clipboard.

"I just don't understand how they students could have got themselves all mixed up!" She said looking rather flustered and Remus' eyes widened for a moment, "My list is completely different to yours, how will we know-?"
"Minerva, I'm sure it's just all one big mistake and the students are safe and sound," Slughorn said, "Here, take a piece of crystallised pineapple..."

Remus sat next to Slughorn on a rather mossy looking log and awaited the rest of the students, trying desperately not to look as though he might just know something about how the list got a little muddled up. Two by two the students emerged and McGonagall hastily rounded them up, checking the list for their names.

"Pineapple?" Slughorn asked but Remus shook his head. Eventually a rather ruffled looking Sirius emerged with a rather flushed looking Becky.

"McGonagall knows the list has been changed," Remus whispered when he got close enough, "Slughorn had another copy."
"Oh well..." Sirius grinned, "I got what I wanted." Remus rolled his eyes as Becky waved to Sirius and skipped over to her gaggle of girls.

"How'd it go with Ellie?" Sirius said in an extremely suggestive way.

"Yea it was..." Remus said suddenly stopping himself; he wasn't going to give Sirius the satisfaction, "...alright."
"Whatever." Sirius said shaking his head, "Stubborn." Remus grinned and Sirius nudged him, grinning back.

"Hey where's Prongs?" Sirius asked suddenly.

"I dunno..." Remus said, only just realizing the absence of his messy haired friend, "Lily's probably stashing his body somewhere."

"I'm counting down the seconds until they arrive arm in arm, faces stuck together." Sirius grinned.

"Don't hold your breath." Remus whispered.

"Hey...have any of you seen Lily?" Ellie asked, suddenly emerging from the crowd of students.

"No," Sirius grinned, "But I've seen Remus." Remus kicked Sirius hard in the shins and Sirius grinned uncomfortably to mask his pain.

"Great," Ellie thought, "Sirius get's it but Remus doesn't." Pretending not to have heard Sirius' comment she eagerly searched for her red-headed friend.
"Has anyone seen Potter and Evans?" McGonagall called out to which she was answered with several howls and wolf whistles.

"I told you we-!" McGonagall yelled suddenly but Slughorn interrupted her.

"Now now Minerva, I'm sure Mr Potter and Miss Evans are fine. Lily Evans is after all one of my gifted and talented, I don't trust she'll be getting lost any time soon."

"I didn't say they were lost..." McGonagall said suddenly wide eyed, "We'll have to go and search for them!"
"Minerva-"
"No, no! We can't-"

"Minerva we need you here," Slughorn said, "There needs to be at least four people in charge of a group this size, you know that."
"I'll go look for them." Ellie said suddenly.

"Well now Minerva, there's the solution!" Slughorn beamed, "Although I will suggest that-"

"I'll go!" came a voice from the crowd and everyone turned to look at Remus.

"See now I was just going to suggest that someone should go with you." Slughorn smiled.

"Oh no wait I didn't say-"Remus said suddenly, realizing with horror that he'd been set up.
"He said he'll go." Sirius interrupted and Remus glared at him.

"Oh wonderful! See Minerva this is much b-"

"Oh I don't know-"McGonagall said uncertainly.

"Nonsense! I am sure they're both capable of such a job!" Slughorn beamed.

"But I didn't-!" Remus tried but Sirius returned the previous kick with one of his own and Remus grabbed his shin.

"I trust you both have your backpacks still?" Slughorn asked and Ellie nodded, "Righto! I think it best you go straight away; it's already starting to get rather dark..."

"Did you really have to volunteer me for-?" Remus snarled.

"Of course!" Sirius interrupted, patting him on the back, "Have fun and once again...wear protection." Remus groaned and reluctantly trudged back the way he had arrived, away from the waterfall.

"Sorry..." Ellie whispered as they left the crowd of students.

"What for?" Remus asked.

"Well I kinda did start this whole mission thing off." She blushed. Remus shrugged and smiled encouragingly, although the anger boiled away inside of him at how easy it had been for Sirius to set him up. He was going to prove him wrong; he was determined.

"I have chocolate in here somewhere," Remus grinned, indicating his backpack, "So, so far I'm doing great."