"We looked like complete and utter idiots. Why did you tell me if you hadn't told me he would have came in and we would have been in an awful situation but at least we wouldn't have looked that stupid." Moaned Sirius. "Well I panicked okay, the last time we saw him we were 17 and in trouble for drinking fire whiskey in the broom cupboard." Remus protested. Sirius laughed "Oh I remember that we nearly got suspended. Dumbledore was raging but he was so forgiving, ah if James was here now." They sighed in chorus. "Hey any marshmallows?" Sirius asked. "Oh as a matter of fact I do, wait are you thinking what i'm thinking?" Remus suggested "I don't know, what are you thinking?" Sirius laughed "I'm thinking camp fire in the middle of the floor." laughed Remus. Sirius smiled and stood up offering his hand to Remus. Remus took it "you get the marsh mallows, I'll get some wood and stones from the forest." instructed Remus. "No chance mate I'm coming with you, we've never gone walking in the forest on our own and we're no starting it now." said Sirius. Remus sighed "Right fair enough, move your backside then." They walked towards the door to be halted by a lovely familiar figure. "Severus can we help you?" Remus asked. Sirius chuckled "far too nice Mooney, Hull whit do you want greasy is more like what you should have said." Severus let out a small laugh "Charming Sirius, Dumbledore will be delighted to know that you're still being rude." Sirius shook his head "Still running to Dumbledore are we?" Remus gave Sirius the behave look "Now now Sirius be nice to our guest. So what did you want?" Severus glared at Sirius "I came to ask a favour." Sirius fell to the ground and began to roll about in laughter "You're asking us for a favour?" Severus smiled "No I'm asking Remus for a favour, luckily he isn't as immature as you are." "And what might this favour be?" asked Remus Severus took a deep breath "I have to pop out in the morning and I wondered if you would cover my class." Remus shook his head "Sure, I'm not doing anything anyway." Severus looked surprised "Thank you it's appreciated." Severus walked away while Sirius picked himself up off the ground "you must be joking I'd have told him to p*** right off." Remus sighed "You should try being nicer to Severus. We're not 15 anymore." Sirius laughed and walked out the door.

The night air was cool, the forest was silent and fox was circling the grounds once again. Remus yawned "lovely night isn't it." "Yes it certainly is." agreed Sirius. Sirius stopped abruptly "Why are we here again?" Remus shook his head "To get fire wood and stones." Sirius lifted his head "Oh yeah. Look let's just lift some and get out of here even though we're older now this place still sorta freaks me out." Remus shook his head and picked up some twigs that were in front of him "Right come on then let's find some stones and we'll be gone." Sirius nodded in agreement. The two walked away from each other when there was a loud crash. Sirius and Remus turned to face each other "What in the name of Merlin was that" whispered Sirius. They edged closer together. "Ahhhhhh help anyone" came a voice. Remus turned to Sirius "I know that voice." Sirius looked at Remus "So do I, wait that's." Remus cut him off "Draco" Remus left Sirius on the spot and began to sprint towards the voice shouting "Draco" Remus ran until he met the boy. Draco looked up "Professor?" the small boy was lying on the ground with a branch on his stomach. Remus lifted the branch with great difficulty before he spoke "Draco I'm not being funny but I'm going to ask a few questions. "Number one how did you get out of the castle? Number two why on Earth are you in the forest and three what the hell happened?" Draco looked up "To answer your questions in order. Number one I walked out the front door number two I was supposed meet my dad here and three I fell out of that tree." Sirius walked towards Remus "Hurry up and get back to the castle we're grassin him up." ordered Sirius. Remus looked a polled "No we are not." It was Sirius' turn to look a polled "What's gotten into you?" Remus pointed towards the castle "maybe it's better if you go back." Sirius sighed and walked away shaking his head. Remus turned back to Draco. "Right explain and hurry up about it." said Remus this time not in his usual soft voice. Draco took a deep breath "Well basically I received a letter saying meet me in the forest 4 trees along and 12 in at 10 o'clock love dad. So I automatically assumed that it was important so here I am but only there's no sign of him." Remus stopped to run this over in his head after a few minutes of thought Remus spoke "I'm not being funny but have you considered that the letter may not have been from your dad?" Draco stopped to consider this "No" Remus took a deep breath "well there's your answer" Draco looked at the ground "I suppose you think I'm stupid now." Remus laughed "Of course I don't but" Draco interrupted "There goes the but." Remus continued "You're very lucky that myself and Siri... eh Professor Black came out. You could have been lying here for days." Draco dropped his head. Remus put his arm around him "Right let's..." A familiar voice came from behind the pair "Draco son step away he's not safe, how dare you try to befriend my son." Remus took his arm from Draco's shoulder and faced Lucius "Long time no see how are you?" said Remus offering his hand to Lucius. Lucius refused it and spoke to his son "Draco come away I don't want you speaking with this creature." Draco stayed put. "Draco come away I mean it." Remus tapped Draco on the shoulder "Go with your father, I'll catch you later." Draco shook his head. "No." Lucius sighed "This is all your fault. You've twisted his mind until the point when he won't even speak to his own father well done Mooney." Remus looked at Lucius and mouthed sorry. Before you could say Merlin Remus had flew head first into a tree and Draco was running over to make sure he was okay. Remus grabbed his head and stood up. "What in the name of Merlin's longest toenail was that for?" Lucius laughed and sent Remus flying 20 feet into the air. Remus landed on the ground, rolled for a few seconds and got up saying "Quiet finished" Lucius just laughed. Before he knew it Remus was flying through the air spinning constantly. He landed with a thud but this time he struggled to get up. Refusing to fight back Remus was thrown through the air another 16 times until he finely could get up no more. Draco was horrified at his father's satisfaction. Running towards Remus Draco shouted at his father "How can you stand there and continue to throw spells at him you've threw him through the air 19 times and you don't even care." Lucius raised his wand and pointed it in Draco's direction "Are you saying Draco that you actually care about this stupid wolf?" Draco looked into his father's eyes. "Yes you know what I do, he has been nice to me when I've been rotten to him he's looked out for me and to be honest I don't want to end up like you, you enjoy watching people suffer and I think it's terrible." Lucius looked at his son with disgust before sending him 40 feet into the air. Remus who had been struggling stood up. "You sad evil man, what's wrong with you that's your son that you just threw through the air . Lucius began to laugh "What's got you so worked up he's just a sad little boy that has his loyalty in the wrong place." Without warning Remus punched Lucius across the face. He fell to the ground in pain before getting up and punching Remus in the stomach followed by bursting his nose. Remus grabbed Lucius by his shirt and pulled him into his punch aimed at the stomach before punching him in the jaw. Lucius kicked the back of Lupin's knee causing him to fall to the ground. He then swung for Lupin's face. Lupin ducked under his punch just in time he then punched Lucius in the face causing his head to swing back. He then punched him in the stomach making him hunch over then finished the battle with an almighty punch to his face bursting his lower lip and causing him to faint. Draco ran over "Right two quick questions number one are you all right number two have you killed him?" Remus laughed "To answer your questions one that hurt when I laughed but I'm fine and two no he's just knocked out." Draco put his hand o his chest "Few I thought you'd killed him. Remus picked Lucius up and put him on his shoulder. Draco looked at Remus in an odd way "Eh what are you doing?" Remus then looked at Draco in an even more odd way "Taking him to the castle we're hardly going to leave him out here are we." Draco shook his head "Well I suppose that makes sense."

Draco and Lupin walked into the classroom. Oh my god what happened to you?" Sirius said rushing over with a chair. Draco was first to speak "Turns out my dad was waiting." Sirius grabbed Draco by the neck. "You...you...you bast***. I can't believe you he stood up for you looked out for you and then you get your dad to beat him up." Remus jumped up "let him go Sirius it wasn't planned and before you ask I have no proof but I trust him." Sirius let Draco go. "What happened anyway."

"Well this is fun" Said Sirius in a sarcastic tone. Remus sighed "Oh Merlin's beard Sirius cheer up and have a bottle of fire whiskey." Sirius walked over to the cupboard and pulled out three bottles of fire whiskey. "Why three?" said Remus "Is Draco not drinking?" said Sirius "Merlin's beard Sirius he's fourteen." Sirius laughed "So is Harry and we let him drink." Remus shook his head and Sirius walked back over and sat down. Sirius handed Remus and Draco a bottle of fire whiskey each. Remus went to take a drink then stopped "Should we really be letting him drink that what if Snape comes in?" Sirius sighed "Oh lighten up Mooney he'll be fine in fact let him decide." Sirius said. Now talking to Draco he said "Look if you don't want it, don't drink it if you do, drink it. If you don't tell me and I'll get you butter beer." Draco opened the bottle and had a large gulp. "Not too bad I'll drink it." Sirius burst out laughing "Told you he'd like it. Remus looked away before getting up and walking over to his desk and grabbing a bag of marsh mallows. Sirius picked up the stones that he had collected from the forest and put them in a circle. He then placed a pile of wood in the centre of the circle and said "incendio" The wood went on fire and there was a lovely camp fire in the middle of the floor. Remus threw Sirius and Draco some marshmallows and the three began to roast them.