Ok, I'm not going to be 100% accurate here so brace yourself...
For one thing the wolfsbane potion was created after Remus' teenage years and it effects are only lying dormant during full moon. So just use your imagination!
Also, because I had such a good response to my change of perspective, I think I'll do a bit of it this chapter. Just for the fun! :D
Oh and thanks for the reviews! Love you guys!
"Hey Remus, what's with the potion?" Jade said gesturing at the table where I'd laid down my wolfsbane potion.
"Um, that? That's just a... just a... Cough Potion! Yeah, that's all it is, a cough potion."
You idiot! You stupid ignoramus! You had the most perfect opportunity to tell her, yet you blew it! I mentally kicked myself.
"Cough Potion? Strange sort of cough you've got there, why the hell is it yellow? Cough Potions are purple."
Dammit! You try to pull the wool over her eyes, in the one subject she beats you at! Well done Remus, well done indeed!
"I... I think its a new variety." I said foolishly.
And again! You could have made up for your previous cowardly behaviour, but no... you had to be the idiot.
"Oh, ok! You have a cough?"
"Emm... no but Sirius does! This is for him!"
This wasn't entirely untrue, Sirius did have a cough, a fairly bad one at that.
"Its great you care so much." she smiled kissing me on the cheek.
Boy, did the guilt start to kick in...
Then guess who decides to join us?
"Hey, guys!" Sirius said hoarsely.
"Oh hey!" greeted Jade. "How's your cough?"
"Bloody awful."
"Don't make me put you under that table!" she warned gesturing threateningly at the coffee table.
"Like to see you try!"
"Whatever! Anyway, good news, Remus got your cough potion!"
"Cough Potion?" he said then seeing me gesturing rapidly behind her back he said," Oh... my cough potion! Thanks mate! But I've already got some... I forgot I'd asked you!"
He placed a vial filled with yellow liquid on the table next to mine.
"New variety, from Romania apparently!"
Wow, who knew there actually was a new variety of yellow cough potion?
"Yeah, its rotten stuff, tastes like piss!" he continued.
"What was I saying about that table?" Jade grinned.
"Fine, it tastes like urine! Happy now?"
"Ecstatic. Anyway, you'd better return that potion Remus!"
"Ok, yeah... I'll just do that... "
"Here, I'll come too." said Sirius. "Maybe Madam Pomfrey has a potion I can actually swallow!"
We took our potions and headed out.
Once we were in the corridor Sirius cornered me.
"What the hell are you playing at Moony! Why didn't you just tell her it was wolfsbane?"
"Its... Its not the kind of thing you can exactly break to someone easily..."
"You haven't told her!"
"Well... no."
"You idiot! Why the hell are you hiding the one thing, with the most effect on your life from her? She should know!"
"I know! But I can't! I try but the words don't come!"
"Why? She's a great girl Remus! If she really likes you she can deal with it!"
"But, its not that easy..."
"Why? Give me one good reason!"
"Because... her brother was killed by one of us. One of my kind... "
There was a short pause.
"Ok, that is a good reason! But listen Remus, you have to tell her..."
"Why? I never told any of my other girlfriends!"
"Girlfriends? More like girlfriend! And besides she was a bitch!"
"Hey! Taylor was not a bitch!"
"Then why'd you break up with her?"
"She broke up with me! Anyway, why did you hate her so much?"
"She was way too clever for my taste! And just mean and competitive! I bet she only got together with you so that it wouldn't look so bad when you beat her in a test!"
"Hey! I resent that! But yeah... its true."
"Anyway Jade's different."
"How so? I mean, apart from the fact she's obviously not a bitch?"
"You and her... you belong together. I don't know why... its just, you know... destiny and all that crap. You should see yourself with her, its like, like you're a different person with her! You're more fun, you talk more, and you smile all the time. She's perfect for you."
"I guess..."
"So tell her! Stop giving her this bull about cough potions! Tell her! She deserves to know!"
"Yeah, you're right. I'll tell her."
"You'd better man! Now drink that potion before she spots you!"
"Yeah.. and Sirius?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks."
"Yeah, same to you."
"James?"
"What!"
"Are you gonna talk to us at all?" Sirius said cautiously.
"When I've finished!"
"Please! We get to see you for twenty minutes a day! I don't want to spend that time watching you write this essay!"
"I'm sorry. But I need to do this!"
"Please! James, its school work!"
"Its not for me! Its for her!"
"You're telling me you actually wrote that 6 foot essay for her?"
"Of course I did!"
"1 word. Desperate."
"2 words. Piss off!"
"Come on mate! Five minutes?"
"Yeah, fine. There's not much else to write anyways..."
"So, guess who's got a date for valentines day?"
"Oh, I don't know? Merlin's wrinkled, saggy faced widow perhaps?"
"Ha-ha-ha! That was just so funny I forgot to laugh!"
" So, who is it?"
"Duh! I told you!"
"Well believe it or not, I do not memorise every word you utter! Just tell me who the f**k, has to put up with you for a day!"
"Mary... you know?"
"As in Mary MacDonald? That girl with the curly hair who hangs out with Lily? "
"Uh-huh."
"Nice. She came to see me today actually."
"What!"
"Yeah, me and Mary go way back."
"Really?" I asked curiously.
"Nah, not really. I'm just trying to wind up Padfoot here!"
"F**k you Prongs!" he retorted.
"Same to you! I believe five minutes are long up. Let me return to my studies?"
"Yeah fine, Let's beat it Remus."
I gave James a parting smile which he returned, pulling a face behind Sirius' back.
Maybe it had been a good idea for Lily to tutor James. After all, she was the only one he would ever write such a long essay for.
Lily's POV
"Jade? Lily? Alice? Emmeline? Major news!"
"Oh, what is it now Mary?" sighed Jade. "Did a cute guy look at you?"
"No! Am I that predictable?"
Jade and I exchanged knowing smiles.
"Hey! R&R!"
"How can we rephrase and redirect something we didn't say?" I said rooting through a pile of books.
"You didn't have to say it! It was extremely clear what you meant!"
"Fine! We're sorry! So, the news?" said Jade.
"I'm going out on valentines!"
"Wow, would you know, I thought we were all going out, but I guess I was wrong." Jade said sarcastically.
"No! I'm going out with a guy!"
"Wow, was there something suggestive in one of those looks today?" she teased.
"Ha-ha-ha. That was so funny... not! Don't you want to know who?"
"Of course we do! Don't mind them!" encouraged Alice, shooting us dirty looks.
"Sirius Black!"
"WHAT?" we cried in unison.
"Sirius Black!" she repeated her grin too big for her face.
"No way! You're having us on!" cried Emmeline in disbelief.
"Sirius Black? The actual, ' I'm so hot, I cause millions of girls to swoon when I as much as look at them' Sirius Black?" asked Jade as shocked as the rest of us.
"Yes! Really I'm not kidding!"
"Oh, My, God!" we cried together.
"Wow, Mary, that's brilliant!" I said knowing how long she'd crushed on him with no avail.
"I know! I can't believe it myself!"
"So? Details?" Alice said excitedly.
"Yeah, tell us everything!" said Jade smiling.
"Well, I was walking up the stairs. And then he just pops out of nowhere and asks if he can help me with my books. Then he takes my books and we walk upstairs together. He asks me if I'm going out on valentines. I say yes and he asks me who with. I tell him I'm going with my friends and he just smiles. Then he asks me if I'd rather go out with him instead. I ask him right back if he'd rather go with me than the rest of the marauders. And he says, 'Always' and he kisses me!"
"Whoa! Mr 'if looks could kill, you'd all be dead' kissed you?" Jade gasped.
"Yeah! And it was brilliant!"
"Looks like we'll be spending most of our time with the marauders on Friday." I sighed.
"And, are you suggesting that's a bad thing?" said Jade curiously.
"Well, if I'm with Severus..."
"Jesus! Not him again! Lily, if he likes you he will be willing to spend time with anyone. If not, well... we were right and he really is a possessive git."
"He's..."
Ok they were right I wasn't going to bother defending him this time. If he liked me he'd hang out with my friends and the marauders. If not... it was time to let my friends be right.
"Wow, would you believe two of us are actually going out with marauders!" Mary sighed.
"What's in a name? The whole marauder thing, like it matters! They're guys, sweet, funny, cute guys and nothing in the name changes anything!" Jade said.
"Whatever Ms Equality! Anyway, who knows maybe three of us will be going with marauders?" Mary grinned looking in my direction.
"Please! Does it even matter to you guys that I have a boyfriend?"
"A possessive git of a boyfriend who doesn't appreciate you!" Jade said.
"Hey! R&R!"
"Fine, a guy who just doesn't seem to have your best interests at heart!"
"Better but harsh. I know you guys don't like Severus but..."
"Don't like him? Understatement!"
"Fine you hate him, but can you really see me with Potter?"
"Of course!"
"But he's arrogant, he thinks the world revolves around him, he has no consideration for anyone else's feelings..."
"But he's also a lot of other things! He's sweet, kind, caring and majorly cute." Jade contradicted.
Suddenly I found myself thinking back to yesterday, when I was tutoring him.
His sweet dopey smile, his messy black hair, the crooked glasses perched on nose, those cheery hazel eyes and that look, the one that told me I could trust him, the one that told me he'd do anything for me, the one that I wanted so badly wanted to forget...
Yeah, I know you're yelling, "You idiot Lily! Follow your heart goddammit!"
I can't control Lily! Ok, I can but I can't change her! She is proud and level headed, she won't just drop down on her knees for James! That's why what happens next should be a pleasant surprise... Ok maybe not, but one can hope!
See ya!
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