As things started to get back to normal, the Gryfinndor seventh years found themselves to be piled with more and more work. No one seemed to be able to handle it anymore and just wanted to scream. Lily was excited for Christmas even though it was still well over a year away. She was just glad to get away from the school and homework. Hoping that she could take that time to rest and catch up on the essays.
Herself, Alisha and Megan were lazily lying around Lily's room doing their work together on Thursday night, since all of their boyfriends mysterly vanished saying that they wanted to hang out with the boys for the night. It didn't bother them, since they realized that they hadn't hung out with just the girls in at least a month.
Alisha had stopped doing her work and was now starring out the window at the fullmoon. "Did you guys ever realize how big the moon got when it's full?"
Megan and Lily looked up from their work. Both looked out the window and realized that the moon was strangely huge tonight. "It is isn't it? I always imagined that there was a werewolf here at Hogwarts after we learned about them in third year. Do you think that there really is one?"
Lily shrugged, she had been thinking about James. She knew that he and the other guys were keeping something from her, Alisha and Megan, but she just couldn't figure out what. "Do you guys ever think that James, Remus and Sirius are keeping something from us? I mean what are with those nicknames, they have to mean something, right? I mean they didn't start calling eachother them until the end of fifth year..."
"I don't know Lily." Megan said, "But I think that they are keeping something from us. They always disappear once a month... And come back tired and battered up. Did you see Sirius last time? He had this huge gash on the back of his neck."
"I know Remus always is so tired. I mean did you see him the last few days he looks horrible..." Alisha sighed. They all agreed then went silent each thinking about their own boyfriends. Lily got up and stood by the window looking at the moon... the full moon.
Lily's mind spun. They always disappeared around the full moon, Remus was always tired, and they all came back the next day battered up. What did it mean? 'I...I wonder...' Lily thought, 'It could be possible... But Remus, of all people...'
"Do you guys ever notice that they disappear around the same time each month?" Lily asked looking at her best friends, "I mean look its the full moon. What comes out on the full moon?"
Alisha looked at Lily, then her eyes went wide. "You don't honestly think that... that one of them is a werewolf?"
"It makes sense, think about it. They always disappear together and come back scratched and bruised up. And Remus is always tired and saying that his mum's sick." Lily began.
"But what about Sirius, James and Peter? What could they be doing?" Megan asked.
Alisha looked at her friends, she had tears in her eyes. "You aren't honestly accusing Remus of being a werewolf, are you?"
Lily stopped pacing the room to look at her friend. "'Lish, I don't want to believe it either but it makes sense."
"No!" Alisha jumped up, "It doesn't."
"'Lish it sorta does.." Megan whispered.
Alisha walked over to the door, "No, it doesn't." With that she walked out of the room, leaving her two friends speechless.
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James and Sirius transformed as Peter hit the knot on the Whomping Willow to make it still. They dropped the marauders map and Jame's invisible cloak behind the tree out of the sight of others. They slowly slid down the pathway to the Shieking shack in their animal forms. Screeching sounds hit their ears making them realize that Remus was already transforming.
James shook his head for Sirius to go first, they followed the sounds until they came to the opening where Remus was in his werewolf form. Whenever Remus was in this form, he wasn't himself. But as soon as he saw his friends and smelt them everything seemed to be better. He had calmed down quite a bit since he had first became a werewolf ten years ago.
The marauders quickly got their friend under control and went outside to have some fun. They always looked forward to these days since they all felt so free in their animagi form. James was happy that they could hang out like this, since once they all got steady girlfriends they never seemed to hang out as much and truthfully James missed that. No matter how much he cared for Lily and loved spending quality time with her, it wasn't the same as being with the boys.
The stag, dog, rat, and werewolfe trotted through the forbidden forest happily. If you ever saw them together, you'd have to look twice since it was odd to have those animals together.
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Lily layed in bed at night, thinking about what they had talked about earlier. It all made sense of Remus, except she still couldn't figure out what James, Sirius and Peter did. They couldn't go and see him, they'd get bitten and become a werewolfe. 'No... that couldn't be it.' Lily thought, 'The only thing that can get bitten and not have to worry about being a werewolf is another animal...' Lily sat up in her bed. 'James, Sirius and Peter were animals... They were animagi... It all made sense now... The nicknames... The way they always seemed to come up with excuses when the girls asked about them. It all made sense.'
Lily got out of her bed, put her night cloak on, grabbed a blanket and a book, then headed downstairs. She was determined to talk with James about this, the second that he got in.
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James slowly made his way to the heads room. Tonight had been rough. Remus had seen a rabbit and chased it down, making him and Sirius chase him down before he did anything stupid. He knew that he was all scratched up and all he wanted to do was go to bed and sleep.
The portrait was not happy when he got woken up to let James in the head room. The portrait lectured James that he wasn't allowed to be out this late and that he wasn't going to let him in the next time. After five minutes, James was let in to see Lily sitting on the couch.
Lily heard the portrait swing open and James walk in. "Hey."
He looked at her surprised that she was up. "Hey, what are you doing up?"
"I needed to talk to you. And I couldn't sleep until then." Lily patted the couch beside her for James to come sit down.
"Can it wait till tomorrow Lils' I'm pooped."
"Sorry no." Lily said as James sat beside her, "I know about you and Remus and Sirius and Peter."
James looked at her shocked, "Wh... What are you talking about?"
"I'm not stupid James. Alisha, Megan and I were talking earlier and it dawned on me. Remus is a werewolf."
James looked at her, horror struck.
"And you... You're an animagi. That's where your nicknames came from."
"How... Lily, I'm sorry."
"Why are you sorry. I'm proud of you for being able to become an animagi, I mean it takes witches and wizards years to become them. And your only sixteen years old."
James smiled. "Thanks... Do Megan and Alisha know about Remus and us?"
"No only Remus. Alisha kind of got mad at me when I said that Remus is a werewolf." Lily looked down, "You should go to bed you look tired."
James smiled at her and started to play with her hair. He grabbed her hand at brought it to his face, he kissed it then slowly kissed up her arm, making her giggle. He stopped at her neck and kissed the place that always made her moan. Lily brought herself closer to James, so that he could have better access. James stopped and looked her in the eyes. She leaned down and kissed him, deeper then ever before. Lily felt James' tounge slide across her lip for access into her mouth. She couldn't resist herself, she opened moaning at the same time. James brought Lily so that she was sitting on top of him. He put his arms around her, under her shirt rubbing her back. Lily snaked her arms around his neck and played with his hair making James' moan.
After ten minutes the two broke apart, breathless. Lily rested her head on his chest. She didn't want to move, it was so comfortable to be in his arms. Lily felt James pick her up and lay her beside him as he layed down on the couch. He then put the blanket over them and cuddled her into him.
Lily and James fell asleep together on the couch, both having the best sleep they ever had in their lives.
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The next morning Alisha woke up earlier then ever. She couldn't sleep, to much was on her mind. How could one of her best friends accuse her boyfriend of being a werewolf? But the more Alisha thought about it, the more it seemed to make sense. She had to talk to Remus today, alone.
Alisha got out of bed, then headed into the showers hoping to drown out her thoughts.
Megan awoke to the sound of a shower running. She looked around her to see that Alisha's bed was empty. Megan felt bad for Alisha, she didn't know what she would do if Sirius was the one that they thought was the werewolf. Megan sighed into her pillow hoping to get at least a few more minutes of sleep before she had to get ready for the day a head of her.
Alisha stepped out of the shower refreshed and in a better mood. She looked at Megan walked over and told her it was time to wake up and that she'd meet her down stairs.
Alisha walked out of the girls dormitory towards the boys. She had to talk to Remus and it was now or never.
She slowly made her way up the stairs, towards the seventh year rooms. Alisha stood in front of door, not sure whether she should knock or just walk in. She lightly knocked then walked in.
The dormitory wasn't anything like the girls, there was clothes everywhere, and it didn't smell all that well. Alisha looked around and was easily able to see where Remus was since his area seemed to be a little bit cleaner then rest of the room.
Alisha cleared her throat hoping to wake them up, but no avail all of them just rolled over. She walked over to Remus' bed and tapped him on the shoulder. "Remus!" She whispered. He rolled over and opened his eyes.
"ALISHA!!!" Remus jumped up. Alisha looked at him. He was only wearing pajama pants, but there was scratches all across his chest.
Sirius jumped out of his bed. "Girls!" He said half asleep making Alisha giggle.
"Yes Sirius tonnes of girls all looking at you drool." Alisha joked. Sirius opened his eyes. He glared at Alisha then went back to bed, muttering about getting a guys hopes up.
"Alisha, what are you doing in here so early?" Remus asked grabbing a shirt to put on.
Alisha looked at him realizing that she needed to talk to him, "We need to talk, down stairs. Meet me down there in five minutes." Alisha walked over to the door leaving.
Remus stood there stunned. What did Alisha want to talk about?
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James woke up to see a mass of redness. He reached over to the table to grab his glasses. When he put them on her realized the redness was from Lily. James smiled to himself as he stroked Lily's face. It was so soft and delicate. He kissed her forward as he saw her eyes slowly open.
"Hey." He smiled.
Lily looked at him dreamily, "Hey yourself." She snuggled in closer to him. "Do we have to go to class today? It's so boring!"
"I'm sorry love but yes. As you said, you have a schedule to keep and missing a day of classes doesn't fit into that schedule, now does it."
Lily shook her head 'no', and started to get up. But before she could James grabbed around her waist pulling her on top of him. "Where do you think you're going?"
"I gotta get ready." Lily yawned.
"Mmmm alright." James hugged Lily then let go and watched her walk up the stairs to her room. He too then got up and went to get ready to start a new day.
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Alisha sat down on the couch waiting for Remus. It was still only 7:30am so most were getting ready in their dormitories, so no one was downstairs occuping the common room.
Remus walked down the stairs to see Alisha sitting down. "Hey what did you wanna talk about?"
Alisha looked at him, "Umm... You know how you always tell us that your mum's sick... Well I think I know the truth..."
Remus went white at what Alisha was saying.
"Your a werewolf, aren't you?"
Remus looked horrified. He was planning on talking with the girls tomorrow evening. He couldn't believe that, Alisha that girl he cared for was confronting this to her. "I totally understand if you want to break up." Remus whispered.
"Why would I want to do that?" Alisha asked.
"Because I'm a monster."
"No your not... Your sweet, loveable smart Remus. I mean your kind of like a girl, a monster once a month." They both laughed.
"I was going to tell you soon. It's just... It's just I was worried on how you'd take it..."
Alisha put her hands on his face. "I care about you, Remus. Nothings going to change that." She leaned in and kissed him fully on the lips.
They parted with smiles on their faces.
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The early weeks of November passed. The marauders told Lily, Alisha and Megan everything about them. They asked to see what they looked like in their animagi forms and they each transformed for them. Megan flipped out and broke up with Sirius then ran out of the room. But five minutes later she ran back in and said that she was just kidding and still wanted to go out with Sirius.
All and all they all had a pretty good laugh over the hole scene.
Soon November was near the end of it and the snow began to fall. They all woke up to a blanket of white, on a Saturday morning.
The seven Gryfinndors and Mona all went outside to have a snowball fight. It was boys against girls.
"Your going down Lemons!" Sirius shouted as he threw snowballs at Megan.
"Try your best Black." She shouted back.
Lily and her friends had a great time. They spent all afternoon in the snow and came inside for supper soaking wet with huge smiles on their faces.
James and Lily realized that they had to start to plan out the Christmas ball.
So here they were one Sunday evening sitting across from one another in the heads room, trying to figure out all they wanted for the ball.
"Ok, so I think that the theme should be 'Winter Wonderland' and that instead of the candles we should put glittering snowflakes." Lily said as she wrote down her ideas.
"Yeah that sounds good." James said.
"You think that everything sounds good." Lily sighed setting down her quill to look at James.
"That's because all your ideas are!" James said.
"Ugh'... You need to say something helpful. Like tell me what you think!"
"Ok, I think that we should have this on December twenty-third and that it should be available to fourth years and up. Third years and younger are only aloud if they are someones date."
"Thank you!" Lily said then quickly kissed James and went back to work.
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The Christmas ball was well planned and Lily and James met with Professor Dumbledore to confirm their ideas. He agreed with them and thought that everything was excellent.
Lily and James were walking back from the Headmasters office when they ran into Malfoy, Bellatrix and Snape.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? The blood traitor with his mudblood girlfriend." Malfoy sneered.
"You better watch your mouth Malfoy. And never call Lily that again, she's better then you'll ever be." James snapped.
"Oh what are you going to do?" Bellatrix laughed.
"We're going to take twenty-five points away from each of you for talking to the Head students in such a manor. And you'll be going to detention tomorrow night too. Now go back to your common room before we do more." Lily uttered. She was face to face with Bellatrix now.
"What ya' going to do Mudblood?" Bellatrix mocked.
"I'd leave before you found out."
They all turned around to here foot steps coming their way. Bellatrix looked Lily back in the face. "You lucky this time. But you watch your back, you never know what or who is lurking around behind the next corner." With that the three Slytherins headed towards the dungeons.
"Wow Lily. I'm impressed." James hugged her.
"Oh my god. I can't believe I just did that." Lily sighed looking at the portraits.
The two looked back to the corridor to see their friends running at them.
"We saw you guys and Malfoy, Bellatrix and Snivelly together." Sirius explained.
"We handled it." James said grabbing Lily's hand and leading them back to the heads room.
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