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Luna sighed. It was two days until Remus' birthday and she still didn't know what to get him for his birthday. She felt the need to get him something. But what she wasn't sure. The Marauders were throwing a huge party for him, Luna and Heidi (Sirius' latest girlfriend) were the only fourth years invited, but Remus told them they could bring their dorm mates if they wanted. Everyone else would just be fifth and above. There would be no Slytherins, though.

She sat in the Common Room tapping the cover of the book in her lap, thinking. What could she get him last notice on a Wednesday? If she did get him something, she'd have to steal the cloak again from James or Al and sneak to Hogsmeade, which she didn't feel like doing. She'd guessed she'd better give up. She wouldn't be the only one not getting him a present, but she felt like she had grown close enough to him to get him a birthday present. She looked over to where the werewolf was sitting.

He and all the other fifth years (minus Sirius) had formed a study group for O.W.L.s that meet in the Common Room every week day from 6p.m.-9p.m. The only excuse for not being there was detention, sickness, or practice/meeting for extracurricular activities. Sirius attended sometimes (if Remus threatened his life and dragged him by the ears) but he was usually preoccupied. "Preoccupied" meaning him making out or banging some girl in a closet somewhere. Luna had recently hooked him up with Heidi (which she had gotten on her knees to thank her for) and the two were currently sharing an armchair in a corner, snogging. The two broke apart and Sirius grinned down at her and went off to join the study group made of his best friends.

Heidi went to join her.

"Today was a lovely day wasn't it?" she asked Luna with a dreamy expression in her eye.

"Well, I suppose it was alright. But it was probably a bit lovelier for you, snogging Black all afternoon."

Heidi blushed and shrugged, "Yeah, pretty much."

The girls laughed and Alice came over to join them, "Guys, guess what?"

They looked at her. Heidi giggled, "What?"

"I think Frank Longbottom likes me!"

Heidi squealed and hugged and Luna laughed.

Alice looked at her, "What, you think I'm wrong?"

Luna shook her head, "No, I think you're right. I'm laughing for you, in happiness."

Alice and Heidi, who had already grown used to their new friend's strange ways, smiled and laughed too.

The next two days flew by and Lily was walking down to the Room of Requirement (where the party was to be held) with Alice, Georgia and Heidi. On the way down they ran into Dorcas Meadows. She was a sixth year Gryffindor Luna had seen hang out with Lily a couple of times. She was also friends with Alice and she introduced her to Luna, Georgia, and Heidi.

"Hey, aren't you the girl who is dating Sirius Black?" she asked Heidi.

"Yes," she said with a proud smile.

Dorcas, or Cassie as she was called, gave her a look of pity which confused Heidi, and exchanged hellos with Georgia and turned to Luna.

"I know you, you're Albert Krum's little sister. I'm in his year and most of his classes. He told me about you."

"Oh, what did he say?" asked Luna politely while shaking her hand.

"Said you were nice and that you and me would be good friends," said Cassie.

Luna smiled at her for lack of words to say and the five continued on to the seventh floor. She still didn't have a present for Remus; even Heidi, Georgia and Alice, who hardly ever spoke to him, got him one. What if he got mad at her? What if he never wanted to talk to her again? What if-

"Hello ladies."

Mundungus Fletcher, a greasy third year Hufflepuff, was apparently hired by the Marauders to be doorman for the party.

"Hello Dung," said Georgia cheerfully as they walked through the door. After it closed behind them Alice turned to her.

"He gives me the creeps, Georgie."

Georgia waved her hand airily, "Dung is a bit off, perhaps not the most honest guy, but at least he doesn't believe in Death Eaters or anything like that."

At that moment Sirius spotted Heidi and walked gracefully through the large and growing crowd, Remus Lupin right behind him.

"Hello, milady, may I?" Sirius bowed and kissed Heidi's hand nodding to the dance floor.

"You may," smiled Heidi. "Oh, Happy Birthday Remus!" she added tossing him an envelope.

"Thank you," he called after them, but Luna was pretty she her friend didn't hear him.

Georgia, Alice and Dorcas handed them their presents and left. Luna blushed and looked at the ground while Remus looked at her. She couldn't see his face, so she didn't know he was still expecting her to hand him a gift or had already figured she hadn't gotten him anything.

"Lily-Lu?" Luna's brothers, the Marauders, Lily, Snape, and Regulus had taken to calling her by that nickname. It turns out she really had gotten sick of being called 'Luna,' so the people who knew who she really was had come decided to call her that. They told everyone else that Luna's mother's name was also Luna, and she had always gone by 'Lily' as it was short for her 'middle name,' Liliana. She claimed that when she had met the other Lily on her first day she had tried to go by her first name, but it simply wasn't working for her. She had invited Heidi, Alice, and Georgia (or H.A.G. as she calling them in her head) to call her by the nickname, but they preferred Luna, mainly to get on her nerves.

"Remus?"

"You look... guilty?"

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I meant to buy you a present, I really did try to, but I couldn't find anything! I wanted it to be something special, but I didn't know what. I'm really sorry, I'll make it up to you in any way I can."

Remus smiled at her and chuckled, "Its fine. Most people just got me money or books. I've already gotten 5 copies of Star Wars, 6 of Dancing Magic, and 4 of Hogwarts, A History. And I'm also pretty sure by the end of the night I'll have triple the amount of money I had yesterday. Anyway, I think I know the perfect way for you to make it up to me."

"Oh, and what's that?" she asked smiling and lifting an eyebrow playfully.

"Wishes."

"Wishes?"

"Yes, wishes. I guess about three? Like genie."

"Hm, fine. But I can't just give or do anything, I'm not an actually genie. And nothing that will sacrifice my dignity."

"Yes ma'am. My first wish is that you dance with me."

Luna gave him a coy smile, "You needn't have wasted a wish on that, I would have granted you the honor anyway."

"So I keep my first wish?"

"No."

Remus laughed and they stepped out onto the dance floor, after depositing the other girls' presents on the table with the rest.

Luna woke up the next morning with a deep pounding in her head. It also didn't help that some faggit was shaking her and calling her by her middle name for some retarded reason.

She opened her eyes reluctantly and meet a pair of glowing amber eyes that were just like Teddy's only guessing by the fact there wasn't any odd colored hair around the golden orbs, it wasn't her god brother. The boy lying next to her had sandy brown hair and a scarred, but handsome face that was indeed similar to Teddy's, but not heart shaped. And he looked to be more of around her age and did not have the goatee she had seen him wearing at Christmas time.

A small voice in the back of her head whispered, Remus, and the memory of the last three and a half weeks presented itself in her mind.

"Oh shit," she said. Did she really just wake up in a bed with Remus John Lupin, dead war hero, husband and father, as a teenager after being at a party with him the night before where everybody got drunk? Yeah, she did.

"Yeah, crazy night, huh?"

Luna snorted, crazy night, wasn't he the least bothered by this?"

"Aren't you the least bothered by this?"

"Well, we both have all of our clothes on so no. Actually, I'm rather hot and bothered."

"Oh hush up."

"So I take it you don't remember what happened last night?"

"No. You?"

"Last thing I remember is dancing with you while chugging down my fourth of that alcoholic drink James had. I don't know what it was but he sure provided a shit load of it."

Luna nodded, "I'm guessing we just made out quite a bit at the most. Probably not even a blow job, we more than likely would've left your pants down. I don't think a hand job or fingering either."

Remus looked at her. "How in hell did you just say that so calmly?"

"It's a gift. How's dorm are we in anyway?"

The curtains around the bed they lay in were drawn, and they couldn't hear anything from outside to give away any clues.

"Probably mine, I don't know how we would've got me up those sliding-"

Remus was cut off by a snore. He was about to tell Luna that it was Sirius' signature snore, when they also heard a softer, girly giggle.

"Looks like I'm not the only lady who wandered off in the wrong direction."

They pulled back the curtains and looked around the room. On the bed next to them was Sirius and Heidi, who were both obviously naked, and had all of their limbs curled around the other. On the bed across from them was James, who lay on it with only his torso on the actual bed. His head and legs hung off either end. On the bed next to him was Peter, who lay like you see dead people lying in coffins, only his chest was slowly moving up and down.

Remus laughed, "We're in the wrong bed. All of us."

"Really?"

"Yeah. This bed is Sirius'. The bed he and Heidi are laying in is James'. James is lying in Peter's bed, and Peter is laying in mine."

Luna curled up her lip in disgust. The rat was lying on her wolf's bed. Wait, her wolf? Since when was he her wolf?

Remus chuckled, "You'd better get up from the bed before the rest get up. I'd never hear the end of it if they knew. Waking up with some girl in bed with you is Sirius' thing."

"Oh, so now I'm 'some girl?'"

"No, that's not what I meant- I-I-"

Luna laughed and kissed him on the cheek, "I know what you meant."

When she stood up, she realized that she and Remus really did come close to doing it. Her bra was still on, but it was unfastened and the straps were threatening to slip off completely. Her shirt, which was a green V-neck button up cardigan with a plain white t-shirt underneath, was almost completely gone. She saw the cardigan lying on the floor next to the bed and the t-shirt was extremely rustled. Her skinny jeans were unbuttoned and when she stood up they were hanging around her knees and she had to pull them up to keep from tripping. Her black ballet flats lay next to her cardigan on the floor. She blushed while Remus laughed as she fixed her outfit.

"Let me see what you look like!"

Remus shrugged and stood up, and immediately face planted. His loose fit jeans were undone, too, so when he stood they fell all the way down while he tried to step forward, causing him to fall forward and land in the pile that was Sirius' and Heidi's clothes.

Luna fell to the ground with laughter as Remus pulled a pair of Sirius' boxers off of his face. Remus looked at her and froze. He didn't really get a good luck at her in the bed, there was hardly any light with the curtains closed, and now he noticed. Remus had assumed Luna didn't have any scars, because of that wolfsbane potion they have in the future, but he was wrong. There were quite a couple on her face and several littered her arms. Remus wished she could see her legs, he could see a scar on her left foot that disappeared under her jeans. He was curious to know how far it went up her leg.

She was confused as to what was wrong with Remus, and then she remembered, her scars. He must be looking at them. She blushed and stood up, helping Remus up, too. He pulled up his pants and zipped them up.

"I didn't know you had scars."

"Oh, I-I-"

"Why do you cover them up?"

"Huh?"

"I like them. You look great. Even better than you did without them."

Luna stared at him blankly for two seconds, then reached forward and kissed him on the lips. A few moments, or minutes, possibly hours later, they broke apart. Then they saw that the other occupants of the room were fully awake, including Heidi.

Luna hide herself behind Remus, making sure that Heidi didn't see her. She couldn't, wouldn't let her see the scars.

"Um, Luna?"

"Yeah?"

Heidi frowned; Luna still hadn't come out from behind Remus. She was probably just really embarrassed or something.

"So I guess we both had wild nights, aye?"

"Uh, yeah, sure. Can you get your clothes on, please? We need to get back to Georgia and Alice in case they freak out."

"Ok, sure."

Luna heard the rustle of sheets and saw Heidi's back wrapped up in bed sheets carrying the outfit she had worn to the party the night before and disappear in the bathroom.

"Good job, Lupin," said Sirius, walking over to high five his friend. "I knew you'd snag her eventually."

Remus shook his head at his friend, but returned the high five. Luna came out from behind him.

"So, what did you do last night?" asked James wagging his eyebrows.

"We didn't have sex, Prongs," said Remus.

"Wait, you actually remember what the fuck happened?"

"No," Remus said.

James frowned, "Then how do you know you didn't-"

"We woke up with clothes on. Unlike some people," said Luna while looking pointedly at Sirius, who gave her a cheeky grin.

"You know you secretly wish you were her, Krum."

Luna rolled her eyes, "Shut your mouth, Black. Tell Heidi I went on ahead, couldn't deal with her boyfriend's stupidity any longer."

She turned around and left dormitory after picking up the cardigan off the floor and slipping her feet into the flats.

"Moony!" yelled Sirius.

"What?"

James rolled his eyes, "You're supposed to follow her."

"But she didn't say-"

"Just go."

Remus frowned as he walked down the staircase to the Common Room. If he actually needed advice form James, then he really was horrible with girls.

When he got to the bottom of the stairs he saw a girl with light ginger hair step out of the portrait hole. He followed her.

"Lily-Lu?"

Luna was halfway down the staircase leading up to the Gryffindor Tower when she heard him call her. She stopped and waited for him to catch up with him, then continued walking.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, just wanted a walk."

Remus looked at her. He knew enough about Luna by now that whatever it was that was bothered would come out sooner or later if he was patient. Sooner rather than later.

"It's just, that kiss..."

"What about it? I quite enjoyed it."

Luna smiled, "So did I. And that's the problem."

Remus sighed, "I know."

They walked in silence until they got out of the castle and was walking across the grounds to the lake.

"So you know all about mates and-"

Luna interrupted him, "Yeah. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have kissed you."

"Don't apologize. I said I enjoyed it. And another thing..."

"What?"

"Can we give it a try?"

Luna looked at him, "Sorry?"

Remus grabbed her hand. "This. Can we give it a try?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"You know why!"

"It's not like it's guaranteed that we'll become mates."

"If you really want to go out with me that much, then yes it does, and it is not just that..."

"What do you mean?"

Luna sighed, "I can't tell you."

"Not another secret about the future," Remus groaned.

Luna didn't answer.

"Just tell me. Whatever it is I can take it."

Luna turned to look at him, "You can take it? You can take it? What about me? Do you think I can take it? You're dead! It's wrong, you have a son! A son who is like my brother, he is my god brother! He'd probably hate me if he found out. And the only thing I'd be able to think about when I'd be with you is about him and his mother. How could I date you, even casually, knowing exactly what's going to happen to you when you grow up? And knowing that I'm not even an option for you or you for me. Because I have to go back, I want to go back. And I will. Dumbledore told James the other day that the Time Turner would be ready before school ends. And if we do go out, no even if we don't go out, I won't be able to look him in the eye..."

Remus let go of her hand and looked at her with wide eyes. Then he leaned in and hugged her. She tensed.

"That's not helping."

He ignored her comment and whispered, "Is he like us?"

Luna knew what he meant, "No."

He sighed with relief.

"Lily-Lu?"

"Yeah?"

He pulled away from her, but not far, only far enough so he could look her in the face.

"Do you think I still have two wishes?"

"Probably."

"Great," he said and kissed her. It was another long kiss; it made Luna forget about every point she just told him as to why they shouldn't date.

"Now I'll use my second wish. My wish is that you answer this question truthfully; did you think of my future son and wife at all during that whole kiss?"

"No."

"Excellent. So, will you go out with me?"

Luna looked at him closely. She shouldn't, she really shouldn't.

"The heart is one of the most important organs of the body literally, and the most easily hurt metaphorically. That is why you must protect it with all of your might in both senses."

"Who said that?" asked Remus with a frown.

"Me."

"So that's a no?"

"That's a maybe."