I woke up slowly, my eyes still tightly closed, I didn't feel like I could open them at this point. I tried to listen to the sounds around me.

"How are you Moony?" James asked.

"I'm fine, I'm more worried about Ras though."

"I know, she hasn't woken up yet. How is she still asleep, she wasn't as injured as you were." Sirius said quietly.

I heard Remus sniffing the air. "She's awake, she's just very tired still."

I heard Sirius stand up and quickly move to stand by the bed. "Rasalas, are you ok? Please tell me you're ok." He said, sounding extremely worried as he lay his hand on my shoulder.

I slowly opened my eyes and looked up at my brother. "I'm fine, but thanks for worrying."

"Come on, lets see if you can go back to the common room." He said, quietly, looking over at James who nodded and headed over to Madam Pomfrey's office. It wasn't long before He was back, Madam Pomfrey in tow.

"How are you feeling dear?" She asked quietly as she waved her wand over me.

"I'm fine, I just want to go to my room."

"Yes, but it would be better if you stay here, you need someone keeping an eye on you."

"We can do that." James spoke up, the other Marauders nodding in agreement.

Madam Pomfrey looked between the four boys before answering. "Ok, but if anything goes wrong you bring her straight back here. I trust you to do the right thing Remus."

Remus nodded as he and Sirius helped me up. I stood shakily on my feet for a few minutes before I felt I was going to fall. Remus sensed my discomfort and quickly put his arm around my waist holding me up.

"Will you be ok Miss Black?" Madam Pomfrey asked.

I smiled at her weakly. "I'll be fine, I just need to rest and I will do it better in my own room." The Marauders started helping me walk to the door and started heading up to Gryffindor Tower.

"Your sleeping with us tonight." Sirius said. "I'm not going to let you out of my sight, not until I know you are ok."

I smiled up at him. We reached the Common Room and was just about to walk up the stairs when Lily walked up to us and stopped us from walking.

"Rasalas? Are you ok? You look terrible."

"Thanks for that Lily." I replied sarcastically. "Just had a rough night is all." I said quietly.

Lily nodded in understanding. "Do you want help up to the dormitary?"

"No, she's staying with us." Sirius said stepping forward slightly.

"But, she can't sleep up there, it's the boys rooms."

"Look Lily." Sirius said, sounded very aggrivated. "I don't care if you head girl or not. I will not be leaving my sister while she recovers. Go complain to Dumbledore if you have a problem with it, but I will not be leaving her side."

Lily looked at Sirius shocked for a minute before looking at the other boys who nodded their agreement to what Sirius just said. She walked away in annoyance and out the portrait hole.

"Come on, lets get you up there." Remus said quietly as he started moving up the stairs.

We got upstairs and Remus lay me on the beds carefully. He got changed and got into bed beside me while Sirius got in on the otherside. I fell asleep after a few minutes.

I woke up the next morning feeling very sore still. I look over to my side and saw Remus lying beside me. I started feeling drawn to him. I reached over and touched his cheek lightly as his face shone in the early morning light. He opened his eyes and I quickly withdrew my hand. He looked over at me in surprise.

"Were you just touching my cheek?" He asked, sounding slightly surprised.

I looked away blushing. He chuckled softly. "It's alright." He got up and went into the bathroom. I was lying there for about five minutes when he came back in, I looked over at him, blushing slightly. He only had a towel wrapped around his waist. He looked over and noticed me staring. He blushed and looked away. He quickly walked to his draws and got dressed.

"How are you feeling?" He asked quietly.

"Still a bit sore, but I feel fine."

"Can you stand up?"

I moved to get up to see if I could. I reached out to him to take my hand to help me get to the edge of the bed. I let go of his hand and pushed on the edge of the bed and shakily got to my feet. I almost lost my balance for a second before Remus reached out and grabbed a hold of me to keep me steady. I looked up at his face filled with worry and concern for my safety before something else flickered across it for a second. He leaned in carefully and kissed me on my mouth. I reached my hands around his neck, steadying myself as he put his hands around my waist pulling me slightly closer.

"What's going on here?" Sirius called out as he woke up and saw what was going on. James and Peter startled awake and looked in the direction of the yell seeing me in Remus' arms.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that." Remus said as he let go of me, looking guiltier as the seconds went by. He grabbed his back with his books in it for the day and rushed out of the dormitary.

"What's going on?" James asked.

"Nothing." I said, slowly making my way to the door. Sirius jumped out of bed and stood in fornt of the door stopping my exit.

"Why did you kiss him?" He asked me.

"I don't know." I said quietly.

"Tell me, why did you cast the spell? I know how that spell that you cast works. I've seen it before in one of the books in Grimmauld Place. It wouldn't have worked at all if I hadn't died, but there must have been another reason. What was it?"

"Please just leave it Sirius." I asked quietly, looking towards the floor and closing my eyes.

"No, tell me, what where you trying to do, what were you trying to get sent back to do?" He asked me firmly.

I had tears in my eyes as I looked up and opened my eyes. "I was only trying to go back a few weeks to when my two best friends were taken from me, when they were murdered. I wanted to save my fiancee. We were going to marry just after the war."

"So why were you kissing Moony if you already had someone. They were bound to come up sometime again."

"You don't get it, where I was from my fiancee wasn't just anyone, he was a werewolf."

"I'll ask again, why did you kiss Moony if that was the case?"

"Please stop asking my. I love you, your my brother but I will hex you if you don't stop asking."

Just then I felt someone yank at my bag. I looked behind me and saw James with my wand, holding it up in his hand, a big smile on his face.

"No, you can't, now tell me why."

I started sobbing quietly. "My fiancee was werewolf that marked me as his. The werewolf wasn't just anyone though. The wolf was my old Professor. He was Remus Lupin."

Sirius looked stunned. I pushed past him, my bag on my back and started walking down the stairs to the common room and out the portrait hole. I walked along the seventh floor and took the shortcut to the bottom floor and walked towards to great hall. I didn't even realize I didn't have my wand until I was at the great hall. I didn't want to face them after that. I sat down by Remus and started putting food on my plate.

"Are you alright?" He asked, looking at me in concern, his nostrils flaring. I knew he could smell my distress.

"It's fine."

"Then why are you here instead of resting? You need to rest."

"I'm fine Remus. Please just leave it." I asked, closing my eyes.

"Ok." He said quietly. He turned back to his food and ate, watching me out of the corner of his eye.

I caught their scent as they walked into the great hall. I got up as I grabbed my bag. "I'm going to head to class now." I said, turning to walk off.

"Do you want some company?" He asked.

"No, stay and finish here. I'll see you in class." He nodded. I turned and walked off. Sirius grabbed my arm as I walked past him.

"Ras, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you."

"I told you to drop it, you should have just listened and let it go instead of taking my wand and not letting me go."

"What?" I heard as Remus walked up to me, having heard the conversation. "Did you just say they took your wand?" I nodded quietly and yanked my arm free and started walking again. "Have you given it back to her?" He asked.

"No, we were going to then but she doesn't want to talk to us." I heard Sirius say as I left through the doors.

I walked in silence towards Care of Magical Creatures. I couldn't help but wonder if they would tell him what it was about. I had almost reached class when Remus caught up to me.

"Hey, here's your wand." He said, smiling shyly as he passed it to me.

"Thanks." I said pocketing it.

"What happened in there?" He asked cautiously as he stopped me, just before we got near the group of Gryffindor and Slytherins, away from everyone else.

I sighed. "They were asking me why I kissed you then demanded to know why I cast the spell that bought me here in the first place."

"You can tell me if you like." He said, looking concerned.

"I told them it was to save my two best friends and to save my fiancee."

He looked dissapointed, but tried to hold it back for my sake. "Who was your fiancee?" He asked quietly.

"I'll tell you what I told them. He was a wolf that marked me as his. He was also my professor." He looked slightly confused. I moved the jersey off my shoulder and showed him the mark from my fiancee. "What wolf do you pick up from it Remus? You would be able to tell a bit from the mark. Tell me what you can tell from it." He leaned forward and sniffed my shoulder. I could feel the air from his nostrils tickle my shoulder. He sniffed it for a few seconds before looking up. He was looking at me in disbelief.

"That smells like me."

"That's because it is. I was mated to you in the future, which means I'm still mated to you now."

"He doesn't like it." I looked at him confused. "My wolf doesn't like that you are marked, even if it is by me, he didn't get to mark you. He wants to be it again."

"My wolf will want to do the same Remus, mark you as mine. You marked me before I turned I was worried that would have changed how you felt about me being back here and marked. I wasn't sure if your wolf would still except me, another wolf."

"It does explain why he was so confused when I first met you, he could sense you were important but could also sense there was something different about you."

I smiled shyly. "Lets go to class." I said, walking the last of the distance to the class, Remus right behind me.

We stood near the back of the group of Gryffindors, waiting for the class to start but Professor Kettleburn hadn't arrived yet.

"What's taking him so long, he's never run late before." Remus said quietly beside me.

Just then Professor Kettleburn came running up to the class and that's when we noticed a large shape covered up at the front of the class.

"I'm sorry I'm late class. Let's jump right into it shall we? Good." Je said without waiting for a reply. "Now who can tell me what a Porlock is?"

I immediately raised my hand.

"Yes Miss Black?"

"Yes SIr. The Porlock is a horse gardian which is native to England and Southern Ireland. They are quite small, only reaching the height of two feet when they are fully grown. They are covered in rough, shaggy hair. They are also said to have quite large noses, small arms with four stubby fingers and on it's hind legs are two cloven hooves. The Porlock guards horses and lives on the grass lands. It can be found in either the straw of a stable or in the middle of the herd it is protecting. They are also quite mistrustful of humans and do their best to hide if they catch a human trying to approach."

"Excellent Miss Black, ten points to Gryffindor. Now," He said as he grabbed the cover and pulled it off the cage. "You have a description of what one looks like, here is one right here. As Miss Black also stated they are mistrustful of us, which also means they are difficult to catch. I want you to spend time drawing the Porlock and for hoework today you will be writing a foot long essay on the Porlock and it's habits."

I grabbed a scroll of parchment out and started drawing the creature infront of me. I was halfway through when I heard a soft noise of to my right. I looked up and saw a Thestral coming out of the Forbidden Forrest. I couldn't help myself, I stood up and started walking over to it.

"Ras, what are you doing?" Remus whispered.

"Do you not see it?" I asked in return.

"See what?" He asked in confusion, looking around.

"Trust me Remus, it's good that you don't." I moved closer to it slowly and reached my hand out to it.

"What are you doing Miss Black?" Professor Kettleburn asked

"It's a thestral, sir." I replied as I put my hand out and patted it.

"Sit down and continue your work." Professor Kettleburn replied.

The class started snickering at me as I patted it.

"Is there any need to ask if any of you can see it?" I asked as I looked over at them, my hand still on the thestral, it turned it's head to nuzzle it's muzzle in my hand.

"Of course we don't, we don't see imaginery creatures like you Black." Avery replied with a sneer.

"They are very much real Avery. Just because you don't see them, does not mean they aren't there."

"She is quite right Mr Avery. Tell me Miss Black, what do they look like?" Professor Kettleburn requested as he watched me with interest.

"They are huge wingbacked horses. Bigger then the average horse. They are sketetal creatures, their skin is black, as well as their manes. Their eyes are pure white. They love to eat raw meat. Their skin feels slippery. They are fleshless cretures and their skin is translucent and glossy, very smooth to the touch. You can see the bones right through their skin. They have sharp fangs to rip apart their prey. Their wings are over a metre long when they are fully long, looking a lot like the wings of a bat. When you jump on them and ride them, you can feel their bones pressing into your bones, feel the beat of their powerful wings against you. They are considered dangerous creatures because of the circumstances that they are seen. New borns can not be seen even under the circumstances that they are usually seen in."

Everyone was just looking at me in shock. "Does anybody have any food in their bags?" I asked. Remus walked up to me straight away with his bag and passed me an apple. I took out my wand and transfigured the apple into a raw streak and help it out to the thestral to eat. The class watched in amazement as the steak looked like it just disappeared into thin air.

"How do you know so much about these creatures Miss Black?" Asked Professor Kettleburn.

"I have been around them before Sir."

"Would you mind telling the class how they are seen?"

I hesitated before I replied. "You have to have seen death, seen somebody die right in front of your eyes to be able to see them."

The class went deathly quiet as they looked at me.

"How do I know your actually standing by one?" One of the slytherins asked. I reached for Remus' hand and put it on the thestral.

"Do you want to come over here and I'll show you?"

The slytherin sat there, unmoving. I leaned into the creature and whispered something to the thestral so no one else could hear. The only one to hear was Remus and he chuckled at my sugestion to the giant creature, but to his surprise the creature disappeared form under it's hand as it knelt down.

"Where did it go?" He asked.

I climbed on and sat on it's back. "Come on Remus, come join me for a fly." I pulled Remus on behind me.

"What do you think you a doing Miss Black?" Asked Professor Kettleburn.

"Showing the class there is something here Sir." I said as I leaned forward on the creature. I whispered in it's ear again and it stood up. To the rest of the class it looked like we just moved up of the ground by an invisible force to just over a foot high. "Hold on tight." I said to Remus as I wrapped my arms around the thestral, getting ready for take off. Remus wrapped his arms around my waist quickly. The thestral leap into the ear and we did a quick loop around Hogwarts and back down to the ground. I carefully climbed of the creature and helped Remus off. I looked behing the thestral we had just been on and there were a few more standing behind it. I realized they must have followed the thestral we just rode.

"Does anybody want to feel one and see what they feel like?" SOme of the class rose and slowly walked over to me. I grabbed their hands and slowly bought them over to the creature standing around and put their hand on the creatures one at a time. Soon everybody had their hands on the testrals.

"Can we ride them like you just did?" Asked an excitable Slytherin.

"I don't think that's a good idea. It's really nto a good idea unless you can see them. Anyting can happen if your not careful."

"But you just took Lupin on one."

"That's because he was on one with me."

"Right, I don't think you will be getting anything else done today after all this excitement. Along with the foot long essay on the Porlock you will also be required to do a foot long essay on the Thestrals. We will see how much you took in and how much research you can do on them. Class dissmissed." Professor Kettleburn announced. The extra work was met with a groan. We all packed up our things and slowly made our way back to the castle. Remus and I trailed behind.

"Sirius." I said quietly.

"What?" Remus asked in confusion.

"Sirius, he was the first person I saw die."

He put his arm around me in comfort. We walked the rest of the way back up to the castel in silence. The rest of the day went smoothly. After my last class of potions I walked off with Remus, telling Sirius, James and Peter I just needed a bit of a break and for them to go to dinner. Remus and I made our way up to the Gryffindor common room and sat down on the couch. Before we knew it we had both fallen asleep.

We got woken up sometime later by the repeated noise of 'a wema way'. I looked around to locate the noise, Remus stiffened behind me I looked over at him and looked in the direction he was looked. Sirius, James and Peter came out from under the invisibility cloak.

"A wema way, a wema way, a wema way, a wema way." Sirius was saying over and over again.

"No." Remus said.

"In the Jungle." James sang.

"No." Remus and I said together.

"The mighty jungle." Peter sang.

"No." Remus and I said louder.

"The werewolves sleep toniiiiiiiighhhtttttt." All three of them sang at the same time.

"Go. To. Hell." Remus said through gritted teeth

"What were you thinking?" I hissed at them. "What if someone was in here."

"They weren't we checked." Sirius said grinning. I got up, pulling Remus by the hand.

"Come on Remus, lets go sleep in the dormitaries. Leave these boys to sleep out here." I said as I dragged Remus up the stairs, looking behind me, seeing the shocked look on the boys faces.

"No, don't do that." James called up after us as they started following us.

I shot a spell behind me for good measure as we ran up and made it in the dormitary. I quickly shut the door, locking and warding it. They started banging on the doors.

"Come on, let us in. We're sorry."

"Have a nice night boys." I called as I climbed into my brothers bed and Remus climbed into his. I heard Sirius swear all of a sudden and I couldn't help laughing.

"Ras, what did you do with our clothes?!" He yelled.

"You will get them back in the morning. If I was you I would keep quiet unless you want everybody coming out and seeing you like that."

"But, you can't leave us like this, we have nothing on."

"Well maybe you should go down to the common room and get a blanket to sleep under before anybody sees you." I called out.

I looked over at Remus who was looking at me in shock. "Remind me never to get on the bad side of you." Remus said, chuckling.

"Your fine Remus as long as you never wake me up or joke around about something that really isn't funny, now lets get some sleep. Goodnight Remus." I said rolling over and falling asleep straight away.