"It was an Accident, okay?"

When they three reached the Great Hall, since they had double D.A.D.A and the stroll around the castle before, a small amount of people was left finishing their dinner. James, Sirius, and Remus grabbed some puddings, before seeing them disappear soon enough, and then left for the Gryffindor common room. Remus do not follow them back to the common room, but instead he seems to be going outdoors. Due to Remus' request to not follow him, James and Sirius, with a bit of hesitation, continued their journey back to the common room. They both met Peter and joined him in a table in one corner of the Common Room. So they all did their homework without distractions, except for a bit from Lily to James, but aside from that they all concentrate hard on their homework. Once in a while, some shrieking sound was heard from the shrieking shack, but only some first years seemed to take a second or more to think about what might make that sound. It has been like that since they started at Hogwarts.

"See Joseph, that's what I'm talking about" said Gabrielle, that turns out to be a Gryffindor.

"I don't think there even is such a thing! I better go. Relax yourself more often, Gabes." Joseph didn't take Gabrielle's words seriously, so he left, laughing.

"Hey! You! Umm… Gabriella?" Sirius shouted across the room. The little first year took a few steps backwards, looking around and pointing at herself with a look of confusion on her face. She soon realized she's the "you" meant by who she know as a 3rd year Gryffindor boy calling her name wrong. She started walking towards the group and Sirius gestured that the he knew what he was doing and that the others should not interfere in anyway, well somewhat like that.

"So you think that shrieking is from a werewolf do you?" Sirius started.

"Y… Yea…" Gabrielle stammer. "It happened about once a month and… and… well it sounded "like" one" Gabrielle sounded a little braver.

"What does Snivel-, Severus said about this? You know, that Slyth-" Sirius was cut mid-sentence.

"Well he IS reading a book about werewolves." Gabrielle raised her voice a bit. "I don't mean to be frie-, well he reckons none is around here anyway." Gabrielle explained, slightly blushed.

"I think he's right. Run along then. Go finish your homework, then go to bed, or whatever you… well." Sirius' voice fade and he didn't finish, but by the time when he put up a large satisfied smile, the girl was out of sight already. James seemed aghast by Sirius' decision, since he usually argue about what he think is right, or at least warn the girl about what might happen if she believe the statement, especially when against, or made by, Severus! But this time it seems like Sirius' opinion is exactly like Severus, James thought.

"Sirius, you looked totally calm in agreeing with Snivelly, your brain not working?" James asked.

"No, I mean, my brain's working alright, I just don't want to let the girl found out about that werewolf." Sirius said, when at the same moment James realized how stupid they have been. All the shrieking must happen every time it was a full moon! So, therefore, it came from a werewolf, well, probably.

"Let's just check it out then, Sirius!" beamed James.

"I… I… I don't think I'm going to come. It's d-d-d-dark out there." Squeaked Peter.

"Come on James! Hurry up!" Sirius ignored Peter. "Before our 'target' gets away?" Sirius reminded in a lower voice. So they ran up to their dorms and after checking if the common room is spacious enough for running around in invisibility cloaks.

They went out of the castle and reached the area near the shrieking shack. They hid behind a shrub after about a dozen tries in penetrating the shrieking shacks' (what seems like) protection charms.

They waited and waited, soon James hopes are almost all gone, while there's just still a hint and possibility of a smile on Sirius' handsome face.

"*sigh* I don't know why but I'm feeling rather sleepy today. Maybe the night sky is too calming for me." James confessed.

"Well you can sleep on that… umm… rock I reckon? I'll stand guard" Sirius said.

"Oh okay, but make sure you keep a lookout on that werewolf kid, or else…" James threatened.

"all right, all right. Now hurry up and snooze off before we feel victory because we found the 'kid'" Sirius simply said.

"Wha- What? Wouldn't it be goo- ohh, whatever." James started to lie on the rock.

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"Guys? What are you doing here? Guys? "A voice came from beside Sirius. "It's 2.30 a.m already…"

"Stupefy… Expelli.. No, wolf, wolf…" Sirius breathed unconsciously. The person beside him looked a bit worried but nevertheless shook James' body instead.

"James! Jame-"

"I'm up Sirius! Where's the… "Petrificus Totalus!" James said everything hastily, cursing the guy beside Sirius (who's not a werewolf by the way) by accident. The guy rolled his eyes.

"Ooh I'm sorry Remus!" James apologized and quickly put on the counter curse on Remus and wake Sirius up.

"Uhh. You said you're going to keep watch, or have you catch the creature alone?!" James questioned Sirius.

"No, no I don't want personal glory, I just simply fell asleep. It's late, and anyway, it was an accident, okay? Sirius said.

"Okay, I have no idea what's the creature or anything you're talking about, but we need to hurry up! The sun will rise any moment now and Filch will probably have his 'morning stroll' " Remus reminded both James and Sirius. So they three climbed the stairs to the great oak front door of Hogwarts, came in, and hurry up to their dorm, under the invisibility cloak of course.

"So how do you find us?" Sirius asked Remus in a whisper.

"Oh I just noticed you guys missing." Remus said quite convincingly, although James felt Remus' hand sweat and then pulled away hastily by Remus. They reached the common room without a word and went to bed only to wake up to a seemingly pleasant day… hm…