I know it's been a long time but I'm in year 12 so…heaps of work etc.

It had been a week since the argument between James and Remus had taken place, nobody brought it up, they didn't stay away from each other on purpose as the four of them tended to hang around each other anyway, but when James and Remus were in the same room together they didn't speak unless they had to.

Peter didn't seem to care at all but it was really starting to piss Sirius off, seeing his friends so distraught about each other.

"Okay that's enough"

"What?" Asked James and Remus at the same time.

"You two need to apologize to each other, like right now"

"I don't have anything to say to him" James said angrily.

Remus spoke next.

"I haven't done anything worth apologizing for" he said simply.

In this case I do have to agree with Remus but they need to start talking again, this is getting out of hand.

"Look, you too share very different opinions on a particular person and that's okay but you need to-

"I was only trying to let James know that how he was treating that boy was wrong!" Remus cut in furiously.

James didn't know what to say, he was incredibly annoyed at having to continue this conversation but he really didn't know what to say.

Sirius placed his hands on Remus's shoulders and looked in the eyes.

Remus glared at him annoyed, wasn't Sirius on his side.

"Remus I agree with you" Remus smiled.

James sighed.

"What the he-

"I don't want to have to deal with this type of thing anymore, you have to come to some sort of understanding, you are both good friends, Remus you told me that James was the first real friend you had in a long time"

James looked up from his hands and back up to Remus. Remus looked at James.

"You were you know…you still are, I don't want to diminish our friendship over a silly disagreement" Remus scratched the back of his neck awkwardly.

James threw his arms around Remus, they held each other for a moment before letting go, James hand still on Remus's shoulder.

"It wasn't just a silly disagreement, and I'm sorry….I was an arse, I promise that I'll try not to be anymore"

Peter and Sirius smiled and proceeded to give them manly pats on the back, it was a good day.

….

"Where are you going Remus?" Said James with Sirius and Peter standing next to him.

"Oh, um just out I guess"

Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"We were just about to go to the great hall to you know, eat, and you'll miss desert" he said winking.

"I think I'll pass"

"You love chocolate what's going on?"

"Nothing, I just need to do something, it's none of your business" Remus was starting to get angry, he really needed to leave.

They were quite taken aback by Remus's anger but didn't push him any further.

"Okay, well…see you later Remus"

Remus watched them all leave and continued on towards the grounds.

"AHH!" Remus yelled in pain as he began to turn, he started running as fast as he could away from the castle as he could.

He finally reached the womping willing, he managed to dodge the incredibly dangerous branches that he was used to by now and threw himself through the hole leading to the shrieking shack.

"AHHHH!"

His nails suddenly starting growing drastically longer, his hair shortening, his back arching in pain of becoming so misshapen. His eyes changed colour, his feet grew, slowly his clothes were torn apart until all that was left in the dark and wooden room was a werewolf.

Being isolated from people during this horrible time caused Remus to attack himself in frustration, he began to claw, bite and scratch at himself in anger. He drew blood in almost every place he targeted. He ran around the room, thrashing chairs, tables anything he could destroy.

Meanwhile James, Peter and Sirius were making their way back to the Gryffindor common room, Sirius had a slice of chocolate cake that he was saving for Remus. James elbowed him in the shoulder and smirked.

"What?"

"Nothing" He laughed.

Sirius shrugged none the wiser and they continued walking. James suddenly stopped hearing awful noises, howling or some sort of screaming.

"James?" Sirius put his hand on his friends shoulder in concern.

"Do you guys hear that?"

They all stopped to listen.

"I think so?" Peter said curious.

"I've heard that before, it only happens every now and again though, do you know what it is James?"

"No, I have heard it before too though, let's follow it" he said with a twinkle in his eye.

Sirius and Peter sighed, smiled and followed their friend to go and retrieve the beloved invisibility cloak.

The howling and screeching was very loud but although they were outside the castle they could not pinpoint its location, it was becoming very frustrating.

"Come on James let's just go back inside we're going to get caught anyway" rushed Sirius.

"No don't you want to see what it is?"

"Yeah but I'm not curious enough to be doing this at this time of night!"

The noise had died down.

James sighed.

"Fine"
The three of them made their way back to the castle, managing to escape several ghosts and teachers and back to the Gryffindor common room.

James looked over to Remus's bed once the others were asleep and saw that he wasn't in it.

It was incredibly late and he dismissed it as him being half asleep, of course Remus was there, why wouldn't he be?

The next morning, James looked over at Remus's bed and smiled when he saw him standing next to it slipping jumper on, his back to him.

"Morning Lupin" James said, half yawing and stretching his arms. The others woke at about the same time. Sirius being on the other side of Remus gasped as he saw Remus, he walked quickly up to him before reaching out to touch his face, Remus swotted his hand away.

"What?" Remus interjected.

James curious as to what was going on joined the others on the other side of his bed.

"Remus" James placed his hand over his mouth.

"What? Have I got something on my face?"

"Don't you know?"
"Oh well I, um, ran into a tree last night but it was only a scra-

Sirius, Peter and James interrupted him by quickly dragging him in front of a mirror.

Remus stared at the person he saw in the mirror, it wasn't him. Or if it was, it was a more damaged version of him. Remus had known to hurt himself during his transformations, sometimes badly, but this was the worst time, maybe he hurt himself worse when he was under stress or something. But this was quite awful to look at, he had three long scars running diagonally across his face, they were raw and one was still dripping a little blood. None of them could think of anything to say at this point, they all watched as Remus got out his wand and said,

"Tergeo"

The blood coming from one of the scars slowly vanished. Remus then washed his face and made his way out of the bathroom. "Remus!" yelled Sirius, Remus turned, annoyed at him for not leaving it alone, but frowned when he saw that there were tears in his eyes. Remus said nothing as Sirius walked towards him. Sirius's voice was almost a whisper.

"What… Happened to you?"

"I told you" He said firmly, but he was throat was becoming very dry.

Sirius stepped closer again and Remus could fully see all of the emotion etched across his face, sadness mixed with anger, why was he angry?

"Don't lie!"

Remus stepped back and James and Peter stepped forward, concerned.

Sirius stepped so close to Remus that it made him a little uncomfortable to lie, but he did anyway.

Remus whispered, choking as he spoke.

"I…ran into…a tree"

Sirius stepped back from him towards the others.

James was the next to speak.

"Where were you last night Remus" This was the most serious Remus had ever heard James speak.

"I was doing something for Professor Dumbledore"

"What were you doing?"
"It's private"

Peter spoke this time.

"So, a tree did that to you then?"

Remus nodded, trying not to look at Sirius who was honestly making him feel horrible, he couldn't bear to see the sadness in his eyes.

Sirius suddenly walked out, not looking at any of them. Peter followed so only James and Remus were in the room.

Remus looked down as James walked towards him.

"You can tell us anything mate, anything, you need to know that okay?"
Remus nodded, he felt James hug him, and he needed a hug lately.

James was careful to avoid his face in case he hurt him.

Once they pulled away James smiled sadly before walking out as well.

After a few minutes of silence, Remus walked out to join the others in the great hall, scared at what kind of reactions his injury would cause.

Bgfsdgghudgs feels! I hope you guys liked that, I quite liked this chapter, it got me a bit emotional *grabs tissue. Please favourite, follow and leave me a review letting me know what you like about this story so far and what things you think will happen/want to happen etc