The full moon covered almost the entire view from the window in the Gryffindor common room, making it harder for Sirius to look away from it.

When he had left Dumbledore's office that morning he had headed over to the hospital wing to see Remus. Before he got there he had over heard the Lupins talking, Remus could die tonight.

This was going to be the longest full moon he could remember. And that included the one where he would have to tell Remus that he had told Snape how to get under the Whomping Willow when the sun came up.

Sirius sighed, it was because of that night they were in this situation to begin with. If he had never told Snape how to get under that stupid tree, then he would not know that Remus was a werewolf.

Remus could die tonight because of Sirius.

"No, it was because of Snape," Sirius growled in his mind.

He had never been Snape's friend; he couldn't even stand to be in the same room as him. But now Snape had gone too far. He did not care that by law Snape had done nothing wrong, what Snape was doing was attempted murder and Sirius was going to make him pay for it.

"If only I could poison him like he did Remus and than find some loophole in the law that would make it to were I could not be punished," Sirius thought. He let out a sigh. "There is no way I could do that and get away with it. Snape had made it clear that he would like nothing more than to see all of use expelled. Not to mention the reason that Dumbledore did not punish that little vomit bag more was because it would bring unwanted attention to Remus. I can't do anything that will cause Remus more trouble."

Sirius started to absent mindlessly tap his head against the window as if by doing so his mind will come up with the prefect way to make Snape pay. Than it hit him.

"If Snape wants to play dirty than I'll play dirty to," Sirius said to the empty room. He didn't give himself time to consider if what he was going to do was right or even take time to think what he was going to do through. As soon as the words left his mouth Sirius got up from his perch by the window and headed out to the common room.

Being in the common room was hard for Sirius, knowing that Remus could die tonight and everyone was going about their everyday lives as if nothing was wrong.

It didn't take long for Sirius to find who he was looking for.

Lily Evans had taken a small table in the back of the common room and had her books spread out on them. She was clearly in the middle of writing the essay that they had been assigned, the same essay that Sirius had decided he wouldn't even attempt to do.

Sirius sat down at in the chair access from her causing Lily to look up from her work. Generally speaking, Lily could not stand the Marauders, thinking that they were both irresponsible and mean. These past few weeks however, she felt nothing but pity for them with what they were going through. Because of this she didn't tell Sirius to beat it like she normally would do, but asked him what she could do to help him.

"We know who poisoned Remus," Sirius answered Lily.

Lily's jaw dropped.

"Have you told Dumbledore, if he knows who did it than there is a chance to help Remus and that person can be punished for what they did," Lily said in a rush.

"Dumbledore knows and has done everything he can, but it will not help Remus," Sirius answered sadly. He than told Lily everything that he had discovered. Leaving out the fact that Remus was a werewolf, instead making it sound like the word of a house elf would not be enough to evidence for Snape to be expelled.

Throughout Sirius explanation Lily simply shook her head.

"You're wrong," Lily said when Sirius finished. "I know you and your friends don't like Severus, but he is a good guy who would never do anything like what you are try to say that he did. I know you guys are hurting but to turn Severus into the villain here simply so that you have someone to blame is horrible."

With that Lily quickly gathered up her belongings and headed up to the girls' dormitory.

Sirius watched her go, knowing that telling her was the right thing to do.

Morning came to quickly of Madame Pomfrey and the Lupins, they all knew that there was a high chance they would find Remus dead when they went into the Shrieking Shack.

When the trap door to the house was open it was clear something was off. Everything in the house looked the same as it did when Remus was lead up there last night. That had never happened before. Madame Pomfrey always had to repair at least one piece of furniture and clean up the blood and scratch marks to the best of her ability. Today however, there was nothing to clear up.

Mrs. Lupin pushed past both Madam Pomfrey and her husband, running up to the room that Remus used to transform.

Remus was laying on the bed at the far side of the room, clearly not having moved at all that night.

Mrs. Lupin could not move and her heart stopped. Remus looked to be dead and she could not find the strength to go find out.

Her husband, who had just entered the room, walked past her and up to the bed. He had a blank emotionless expression on his face. He bent down and put a hand on Remus' chest. His face was flooded with relief.

"H-he's alive."

That was all it took for Mrs. Lupin to regain he composure and go over to her son.

While he was still alive, Remus did not look good. He was pale with sweat pouring down his face. His breathing sound terrible as if he was trying to remember how to breath.

While Remus was carried up to the hospital wing, all Mrs. Lupin could think about was how was her baby going to survive that again. How was Remus going to survive another full moon if a cure was not found before than?

It wasn't long after Remus was brought to the hospital wing that the rest of the Marauders made it up there to see him.

"This is hospital wing, not a circus," Madam Pomfrey said when they had rushed through the door making as much noise as they could.

"Sorry," James said, then he got sight of Remus.

"I-is he going to be okay," James said, unable to take his eyes off of Remus.

Madame Pomfrey sighed and turned to face James.

"Sadly I don't know. Now I must ask you all to leave."

"We won't be any trouble. We'll just set here quietly." Sirius said.

"No, you all will have to leave," Madame Pomfrey said knowing the Marauders a little to well by now.

Than completely ignoring their complaints, she pushed them right out of the hospital wing.

"She never made us leave after a full moon," Peter said.

James did not openly express his feelings, but this worried him.

"We need to find out who did this," James said still looking at the door they were just pushed out of.

"I know who did this," Sirius said.

James and Peter both stared at Sirius for this. Sirius than explained everything that he had learned since he last talked to them.

"So that toad stool gets a slap on the wrist, while Remus is left fighting for his life," James all but shouted. It was clear that he was just as angry about this as Sirius was. "And you got Lily involved."

"What was I suppose to do," Sirius said. "If I did what I wanted to, unneeded attention would be brought to Remus and I will do nothing that causes him anymore pain."

"I know that," James answered, "but how does getting Lily involved do anything."

"James, you may be to busy giving Lily puppy dog eyes to notice, but she is that thing's only friend. She is a good person at heart and she will not stand for what Snape did. Losing his friend is the only idea I could come up with that will get revenge and make Snape help save Remus." Sirius explained.

"How will turning Lily against Snape make him help Remus?" Peter asked.

"I can't stand Snape, but I know that I could not stand to lose my friends. I'm hoping that Snape values his friendship with Lily the same."

Little did the Marauders know Sirius telling Lily had the exact effect he was hoping for.

Lily had cornered Snape outside of the Great Hall before breakfast that morning and questioned him about what Sirius had said. With in little prodding Lily was able to get the truth out of Snape. The whole truth.

"So Sirius shows the maturity of a toddler and you take it out on Remus," Lily said angrily glaring down at Snape.

"Lily, you don't understand…," Snape tried to explain, but Lily cut him off.

"I know you said it, Remus is a werewolf. You know what Severus that is no excuse for what you did."

With that Lily turned around to leave only for Snape to grab her shoulder.

"Let me explain," Snape said.

"No," Lily shouted, pushing his arm off of her shoulder. "Don't even talk to me."

With that Lily stormed away leaving Snape alone.

Late that night back at the hospital wing, Remus finally woke up. He felt weaker than he ever remembered feeling.

"Mom," he said when he noticed who was sitting at his bedside.

Mrs. Lupin who had been dozing for a while woke all the way.

"Remus, your awake," Mrs. Lupin said the relief showing in her voice.

"You had a bad moon, dear. Nothing that hasn't happened before," she explained.

Remus nodded knowing that there was more to it than that. His mom looked way to relieved for it to have simply been a bad moon.

Mrs. Lupin reached over the bed to Remus' bedside table.

"Here, Madame Pomfrey wanted you to drink this as soon as you woke up."

Remus nodded and went to sit up. What little color he had left was drained when he did.

Seeing her son's face Mrs. Lupin started to panic. "Remus, what's wrong?"

It took Remus a moment to calm the fear building inside of him to answer his mom. As she started to aske him again, Remus answered.

"I can't move my legs," Remus said.