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Chapter four- Full moon.

A jet of water hits my face, and a sound that suspiciously sounds like a growl comes out of my throat.

"Dammit Lily! You know I hate it when you do that! Wake me up like a normal person!" I yell, wiping the water off of my face as best as I can, while my eyes are still closed. The sound of playful laughter causes my eyes to shot open in shock.

"James?" I ask in disbelief. All four boys are staring at me with a look of amusement on their faces.

"So Evans, uses water to wake you up?"

"Yes she does every morning, it's really annoy- Wait!" I say stopping mid rant. "Why the hell am I in here?" I look down and then add, "And in your bed?!" Remus frowns while the other boys chuckle.

"Remember, last night, patronus, fainting?" James tells me. I gulp remembering the memories I relived last night. I even threw up in front of them. As if the passing out wasn't enough. My cheeks blush crimson at the thought.

"Is that a blush I see?" Black asks.

"No." I say whipping out my wand and making him fly backwards.

"BROOKS!" Black yells, I ignore him, and turn back to James.

"Well, we just decided to bring you in here with us, not wanting to wake Evans up. Don't worry I was a good boy and stayed as far away from you as possible." I look at James and smile slightly than glare as he adds, "You know you're quite amusing in your sleep? Did you know you talked?" I raised an eye brow, and say through gritted teeth.

"Seems as though Lily and Alice never mentioned that fact." I glance at them nervously. "What did I say?"

"Oh you just said my name a lot, but it's not as though you don't scream it every night anyway." I turn my glare on Sirius.

"Merlin Black, can't you give it a rest for 10 minutes. I seriously think it's impossible for you to stop thinking about sexual related things."

"I can too!" he yells back.

"Oh so the different girls every other day is fact to that?" I ask with a smirk.

"You're just jealous because you aren't one of those girls."

"Really? But you just told me that I scream your name every night. So make up your mind dog." He looked stumped. "And besides maybe your just jealous about not being one of the boys' name I scream."

"I knew I always like her for some reason." James muttered.

"What time is it?" I ask interrupting Black, as he opens his mouth to probably say something else unintelligent.

"You have about 15 minutes until breakfast." I shoot up out of bed, but the blankets tangled on my feet make me tumble to the floor. Remus taking pity on me helps me untangle them while Black, James, and Peter crack up.

"Lily is going to murder me, so thanks for causing my death." I say as I stand up. I walk towards the door and slam it shut. As I walk through the common room I'm getting stares about what I'm wearing and whispers about where I was. I raise my head up not caring about the comments. Upon reaching my room I hear Lily talking furiously.

"Where the hell is she Alice? She isn't stupid enough to skip out on class, I mean sure sometimes she does skip like History of Magic but a full day?! What if she's pranking? What if a slytherin caught her! I just-"

"Lily! Calm Down!" Alice yells in attempt to stop her ranting. "I'm sure she's just-"

"Fine." I say with a smile as I enter. Lily runs over to me, and starts moving my body every which way. "Uh Lily?" When she doesn't I try again. "Lily? What are you doing?"

"Checking for injuries." She says in a way that should have been obvious. "Though it seems you don't have any so I can do this!" She says as she slaps me on the arm.

"What in bloody hell was that for?!"

"Oh dear." Alice mumbles.

"That is for probably pranking last night, I swear if I see something that I shouldn't today, I'm giving you a detention." Alice and I exchange glances. "Okay maybe I wouldn't give you a detention but you get the point."

"I wasn't pranking." This time Lily and Alice exchange glances. "I uh- I urm, slept in the boys' dorm last night." Silence falls upon us three, though Jenna walks out of the bathroom and of course her snide comments make me seethe.

"So which one? Sirius Black or James Potter? I knew you wouldn't be able to resist their charm forever."

"Excuse me?!" I say, my hair and eye coloring changing. She obviously notices this but doesn't stop.

"Oh I'm sorry that seemed to have offended you, I bet you shagged both didn't you?" She turns on her heel and walks towards the door, but as she steps through it I hear, "Slut."

"Did she just call me…" I trail off and follow her down the steps my wand out.

"Lu! Lu! Get back here!" I ignore Lily.

When I enter the common room everyone turns to look at me with my hair and eyes and they all move out of the way knowing I'm mad. And there she was in the corner with her friends. I walk right over to her, pull her body around and punch her dead in the nose.

"Oww! Damn you freaky bitch!" The word of freak rings in my ears. No matter what anyone calls me, it's only freak that makes me see red. It's what my parents call me, and my sister, and when someone else calls me one….

"Call me a freak again!" I say while jumping on top of her and punching her every where I can reach. She reaches up and starts tugging on a piece of my hair.

"Dammit!" I hear someone yell from behind me. "JAMES!" Then I realize it's Remus who's yelling. I don't stop though. She reaches up and gets a good punch on my cheek. And I then punch back ten times harder. I feel a pair of arms go around my waist and lift me off of her.

"Dammit, let me go!" I start struggling against the arms. As she reaches for me only for her to be pulled back by Black.

"Hey come on, let's go." And then I realize it's James behind me. I slump my shoulders in defeat as he pulls me away and towards the couch. He sits me down on the couch where Remus is. Sirius then walks over and take the other arm chair, Peter is already in one.

"What were you thinking?" Remus asks me. As Lily runs up asking the same question, more like screaming it.

"You know what?! Don't answer that because you obviously weren't thinking!" Lily yells, standing now in front of me. I reach up and touch my sore and swollen cheek.

"I was too thinking!" I yell back.

"Oh yeah about what?" I turn to Remus and put a wicked smile on my face.

"I was thinking of course about how much I wanted to hit her." James and Black burst out laughing, and I grin at them.

"I'm sure she had a good reason Evans. Leave her alone. She's your friend for merlin sakes. You should be taking her side." Lily stares at him, and when she opens her mouth she doesn't speak. And she actually looks, I'm not exactly sure, I can't put my finger on it, but does she agree with James?

"You're right. I'm sorry." Lily Evans, admitting James Potter is right? What has the world come too? I look to James and see that he's staring at Lily with a blank expression. To be honest I think we all were. James recovers after a shake of his head and turns to me.

"What did she do anyway?"

"She told me that I probably shagged either you or Black. Then when I asked her what she was talking about she went on saying how I probably shagged you both and then called me a slut while walking away. I knew nothing good would come of sleeping in your dorm. You should have risked Lily waking up by carrying me to my dorm!" I tell him, but none the less smile anyway. He smiles back.

"Let's go to the hospital wing shall we?" He offers his hand and I stand up taking it.

"Tell McGonagall that we'll be a little late Evans." James says, and is followed by Black. Once we start walking down the corridors I turn to black and ask what he's doing here.

He looks at me with a smirk, "Opportunity to miss class."

"I should have known." I mumble to myself. He obliviously heard me because he then says,

"Like you wouldn't have done the same thing." He has a point there.

"Very true." I move my hand a little to motion towards him and stop as a shooting pain runs through my knuckles.

"Shit." I say looking down. The knuckles on my right hand and swollen, bleeding, and bruised.

"What?" James asks and then looks down.

"You have a nice right hook. I watched the whole thing but then Moony yelled at me to stop it."

"Yeah" I say cradling my right hand. "Sounds like something he would do."

"You know," James begins as we enter the hospital wing. "You're more like us then I thought." I open my mouth to answer but get interrupted by Madam Pomfrey.

"I'm assuming you're the one who made this girl," She says motioning to Jenna. "Look like this?" I grin sheepishly, at all the blood from her nose and lip and the two black eyes forming.

"Yes?"

"What in- You know what I'm not even going to ask." She continues working on healing her face and I laugh to myself thinking about how she's going to need to be a miracle worker to fix that.

"What are you laughing at over there Miss Brooks?" Madam asks me. I stiffen at the sound of my last name, like I normally do, but look past that to put an innocent smile on my face. One that I have perfected over the years.

"Nothing Madam, James told a rather funny joke is all." She smiles at me, and then turns away.

"Oh and what was the joke?" James whispers to me, with a large smile on his face.

"Hmm, give me a few minutes and I'll come up with one."

"Alright Miss Brooks. Come over here." James, Black, and I all get up to walk over there at the same time Jenna is leaving. She slams into my shoulder hard, and I turn around to hit her, when Black grabs my arm.

"Don't." He warns. I scowl at him and walked towards Madam Pomfrey.

"Look at this!" She says when she takes my hand. "It's a bloody mess! Literally." She adds on. "I'm not fixing it!"

"Thanks you know- Wait! What?!" I say glaring at the young woman. "You're not fixing it. This is my wand hand! I have quidditch!" I tell her heatedly.

"Yes, well you shouldn't have punched her. Repeatedly."

"But Madam, Jenna started. I was there I saw it." James says sounding every bit head boy and I couldn't wait to make fun of him for it later.

"Yes Mr. Potter I understand that, but the fact still remains that she shouldn't have resorted to Muggle fighting. I will fix the bruise forming on your cheek but nothing more. I'll just wrap up your hand."

"Fine." I say stiffly. "I've had worse." She looks at me questionately but I don't say anything. We sit in silence as she wraps my hand, and heals my cheek. With a stiff goodbye I walk out the door towards transfiguration.

"What did you mean you've had worse?" I shrug.

"You know, stupid stuff. Falling down stairs, bludgers to the head, falling off brooms. That kind of stuff." I lie.

"Oh." James says, and I can tell he doesn't exactly believe the lie.

XXX

Remus only stays in school for half the day and the other half he is too weak to move. We are all sitting in the common room after dinner, when James walks up.

"Hey Lu."

"Hey there James!" I say with a smile of encouragement. I know what he's here to do. He smiles back and then turns to Lily, his smile dropping.

"Uh Evans?" She doesn't look up from Binns' essay.

"Yes Potter?"

"I was uh, well I was wondering if you could get a replacement for me tonight, I can't do patrolling." He finishes hesitantly. She looks up from the parchment with a glare on her face.

"And why not Potter? Have a prank planned?" He stiffens.

"No." he says shortly.

"So what have you got to do that's so bloody important?!" James opens his mouth but I jump in.

"Remus is sick in the hospital wing!" They both stare at my outburst, Lily with a look of surprise and James with a small smile.

"Oh." She says and then turns to James. "Why didn't you say so Potter? Fine you can miss but now I have to look for someone to-"

"I'll help you." I volunteer.

"You?" She says increducusoly.

"Well sure, I may not be a model student but I'm not an idiot I know how to patrol." She sighs.

"Fine." She turns back to her essay. James sighs in relief and with a hug for me, he heads upstairs. I notice how it's getting close to time, so I stand up and drag Lily with me.

"Come on, let's start now!" She looks at me again, with a look of irritation.

"But I need to finish my essay!"

"We can do it later, patrolling shouldn't take too long." With about her fiftieth sigh that night she allows me to lead her away.

We're walking down the corridors near the entrance, I tried to make her walk a different way to give her sometime but she wouldn't be persuaded.

"Ouch you damn rat, that was my foot!" I stiffen at the sound of Black's voice. I knew they were under the cloak.

Lily turns towards the noise, and says "Did you hear that?" I look to my left and see a suit of armor, and throw myself into, breaking it, in attempt to sway Lily's mind.

"Thanks." I hear James whisper while walking past me.

"Good luck."

"Lu! Oh my goodness are you okay?!" She says untangling me from the armor.

"OW!" I scream when she helps me up by my arm. She immediately lets go.

"Are you okay? I'm sorry!" She apologies

"I'm alright, just a bruise." I say reassuringly. With a sigh, I follow her off to finish the rest of patrolling.

XXX

I never sleep the night of the full moon. I stay up listening to the howling, and now that I knew what it was the barking. I was always too nervous to sleep, never knowing if he was going to be okay, or if he hurt himself, because what would the other marauder's think if I showed up in the hospital wing the next day to check on Remus? But now that they know I'm sure it won't be a problem.

The second the first light hits, I run down to the common room and out the door sprinting all the way to hospital wing. When I enter I barely manage to make out,

"Remus?" She smiles and points to the back room. I run back there and bend over to catch my breath.

"Lu?" James asks. My head shoots up.

"Ran," Pant, "All." Pant ,"The way." Pant, "Here" I finish. James grabs my arm to help me stand up and I shriek and push away from him.

"OW!" I yell for the third time that day. The boys all give me questioning gazes.

James lifts the sleeve of my left arm, and exclaims, "Bloody hell." I look down at my arm, which I didn't bother to check out before. My whole forearm is covered in a huge bruise; it's completely black and blue. There is also a deep cut from where the corner of the armor must have cut it, and it's covered in dried blood.

"Hmm." I say. "Didn't really look at it before."

"What did you do?" Remus asks quietly. Oh yeah, Remus. I run over to his bed and start to pull the blankets over him, tucking him in and messing with his pillow.

"Are you okay? Are you in a lot of pain?" I shoot off even more questions and he smiles weakly at me.

"I'm used to it." Was all he says. "Madam Pomfrey is going to give me a sleeping draught when she comes back in here."

"Okay good."

"You look terrible." He tells me.

"Like you have room to talk." I say with a smile. "I can never sleep the night of the full moon." I explain. "I'm always so nervous. And I could never come check on you after because the boys didn't know, so I would stay up all night listening to your howls because if I heard them then I knew you were okay." He looks at me for a second and then pulls me into a tight hug.

"I'll be okay. Especially if I have all of you." I hug him back and allow myself to really look at him when I pull away. He has large gashes on his face, that is being healed. I look to the boys and notice that they look soiled, though it would be hard to tell seeing as they're all wearing black. I made a note to heal them when I got back.

"Alright Remus," say Madam Pomfrey. "Drink it all, and afterward I want you all to leave understood?" We all nod.

"Well, see you all later." He says, before he downs the potion.

"Good night." I say kissing his forehead just as he falls asleep.

We make it out of the hospital wing, and silence falls on us. I take that time to notice that Sirius is walking with a limp, James is unconsciously cradling his right upper arm, and Peter is has a hand on his back.

"You really care about Remus don't you?" James asks turning to me.

"I just worry about him. Just like you do, except it's harder for me because I don't know what's going on. And you all do. I hate not knowing."

"You'll know soon." He says with a tired smile.

"You're right. I will." When we enter the common room, well all head up to their dorm.

"Alright I want your clothes off and I want you in bed understand!" I say when we walk in.

"What?!" Peter asks.

"I notice that you're all hurt and I'm going to heal you." They all shake their heads. "Don't be stupid." With a sigh they all take of their clothes leaving them in just knickers and lay down on their beds.

"Accio first aid kit, and healing book!" I say and my books and kit come flying into my waiting hands.

"Alright Pete, I'll start with you." I walk over to the boy who was already half asleep, and wave my wand over the gash across his back to stop the bleeding. When it finally stops, I put a lotion over top of it and tape it.

"Of course you know you'll have a scar." He says yes, but just barely. I move on to James.

When I start healing the large gash the covers his upper arm he opens his eyes.

"How do you know all this stuff?" I stiffen, the reason I know all of this is because of my parents and the sometimes regular beating I get from my father but of course I can't tell him that.

"I was curious." I decide to tell him. He looks at me questioningly, but doesn't comment. I take the time to notice how many scars he has covering his body. He sure does have a lot. I heal all the rest of his little cuts, and gashes.

"I can't heal bruises." I tell him.

"S'okay." He says starting to fall asleep. I wrap his arm up, and move on to Black.

When I reach him, he was asleep and I notice he has more scars on him than James and Peter put together. My finger unconsciously touches the large one on his chest.

"That was done by my mother." I take my hand back, shocked that he was awake. "Most of them are." I swallow thickly. I heard the rumor that he was nearly killed this summer but I shook it off, never really believing it.

"I know how you feel." I say thinking of the various scars I have covering my body. He looks up at me, and is probably trying to guess how I would know, but I move down the large gash on his thigh, I stop the bleeding, and wrap it up tightly. Then I heal all the little cuts as well.

"Thank you." I look to his face and see that he is being sincere. "For everything, even for this." He says touching my bruised arm. "If Evans would have heard me we would have never made it to get to Remus." I nod and start to turn away when I realize he still has my arm. "Thank you for caring about my friend. It means a lot to me." I smile at him.

"Your welcome." I move towards Remus' bed and sit down. "I'll just wait here until, you all wake up to make sure you get up for school, and so I can change your bandages."

"You should get some sleep. You're probably tired too." James says from his bed.

"Nah. I'll be fine." He doesn't comment again and I turn my gaze to the window. I look at the sun that begins to rise thinking about how the moon and sun change everything. How the sun is Remus' salvation on those horrible night. I sat there wondering how in the world I was going to be able to take watching him in that much pain and if I was ready. I shook my head, of course I was ready. I was tired of feeling helpless towards him. I want to do this. I want to prove to Black that I'm a person, not someone that just picks fights with him. I want to prove to them that I'm not a freak, and I want to prove to my parents that magic is good for something.