Hey guys. Here is the next chapter. Thanks to all those who voted for different ships. The votes for each ship are at the end of the chapter.

I do not own the Harry Potter characters.

Lily was on her bed in her dorm. She glanced over to the other beds and realized that everyone was asleep. Everyone but her. She just couldn't sleep. She remembered what had happened a week ago-

Lily was pretty distressed when she heard the news about another death eater on muggles. She saw Ginny leave the great hall to check up on Hermione and decided to go after her to see if Hermione was okay after last night. She reached her dorm but when her hand was an inch away from the knob she heard something.

"-Remus wasn't there in the common room last night?" It was Hermione.

Lily didn't mean to eavesdrop but she couldn't stop herself from listening.

"Yes" Lily recognized Ginny's voice "So?"

Hermione said,"Gin it was a full moon last night."

"Oh. That makes sense. I forgot it was a full moon. No wonder Remus looked so sick yesterday in class. That's why Peter, James and Sirius decided to go on a 'field trip' to the kitchens, didn't they? To keep Remus company." Ginny said in a startled manner.

Lily held her breath. There was no way they could have known about Remus being a werewolf. And why would James, Sirius and Peter go to keep Remus company on a full moon?

"Yeah well I looked for this in my bag last night," Hermione continued "And found this."

Ginny sounded impressed "That's great. But how are you gonna get the ingredients? You do realize that many of them are very hard to get, don't you?"

Ingredients for what? Lily thought.

"I know. That's why I am gonna go to Dumbledore's office today to discuss it with him and we can also get to know about the meeting that happened yesterday." Hermione said.

"Okay." Ginny agreed. "But first of all you need something to eat."

Slowly Lily backed up without a sound and went back to the common room to make sense about what she had just heard.

It was after that day that Lily decided that Hermione and Ginny weren't all they seemed. Her behavior towards them had changed and she knew that it had not gone unnoticed by Hermione, Ginny and her other friends. Dorcas had even confronted her about it by asking Lily if Hermione and Ginny had done something wrong. Lily didn't know how to tell Dorcas about the conversation she had heard because Lily herself couldn't make sense of what she heard. So she told Dorcas that there was nothing to be worried about.

The others let it go eventually. They were under the impression that Lily was still upset about the death eater attack on the muggles because her parents were muggles themselves. She didn't bother correct them. It saved her from explaining the real reason behind her strange behavior.

But her problem didn't end here. She knew she had a choice to make.

All week she was in a dilemma of whether to tell the marauders that their secret was out or not. She would have told them that very day but there was a small part inside of her that didn't want to. A part that wanted to trust Hermione and Ginny.

But she changed her mind when that day she saw Hermione and Ginny talking to Remus, James and Sirius after quidditch tryouts. She realized that she needed to tell Remus. He deserved to know the truth. So she went to the boys dorm and told them everything-

"There's something I need to tell you guys. Something that's been bothering me for a while," Lily took a deep breath "It's about Hermione and Ginny."

"What about them?" James asked

"About a week ago, I heard them talking about something. Something that they shouldn't have been able to know." She turned to Remus "They know you are a werewolf, Remus."

She watched Remus' shoulder tense as Sirius exclaimed "What?!"

James asked cautiously "Lily how did you know about Remus being a-a werewolf?"

Lily rolled her eyes, "I have known since first year."

Sirius was shocked "Wait, you've known since first year? That's not possible. We couldn't figure it out till our second year."

"Yeah, well I'm not stupid like you." She turned to Remus whose face had become pale now "Remus, don't worry. I have never told anyone about your secret and I never will. You can trust me."

Remus asked incredulously "Y-You are not scared of me?"

Lily assured him "Of course not. You are my friend, Remus. Turning into a werewolf once a month doesn't make you a monster."

Remus relaxed a little after hearing this. He knew that he could trust Lily. But there was still the matter of Hermione and Ginny.

"But h-how could Hermione and Ginny know?" Peter asked the question that everyone was thinking "I mean, only one full moon has passed since they've been here."

Sirius turned to Lily "Did you hear anything else?"

Lily nodded "Yeah, I did. But most of it didn't make sense to me. They were talking about some ingredients and something about discussing a meeting with Dumbledore. And there is something else. Ginny said something about how it made sense that you three...," she pointed toward James, Sirius and Peter "...suddenly wanted to go to the kitchens. They said you were keeping Remus company. How is that possible? I mean, there is no way you guys can keep a werewolf company and not get shred to pieces." She looked to Remus "No offence to you, Remus."

She looked at the boys but was confused when she saw them staring at her with their eyes wide open.

"W-what? What's wrong?" Lily asked worriedly.

Remus sat down on the bed while James and Sirius looked at each other.

"There's no possible way that they could know about it." Sirius said, completely shocked.

"Know about what?" Lily asked "Will someone please tell me what's going on?"

The boys looked at each other, unsure if they could tell Lily about three of them being unregistered animagi. In the end they made a decision.

"Lily, listen," James began hesitantly "If we tell you a secret, you have to promise that you will tell no one about this, alright? No one."

"Alright I won't. I promise." Lily was really confused now.

"So here's the thing." James explained "When we found out about Remus being a werewolf and him going to the Shrieking Shack alone once every month for his transformation, we wanted to help him. In any way we could. So we began searching for something that would let us do so. We finally found a solution in our fifth year. It was dangerous and we had no idea how to do it but by the end of the year, we succeeded."

"Succeeded in what?" Lily had a feeling that she was not going to like the answer at all.

James took a deep breath "In becoming animagi."

There was complete silence in the room for a few seconds while Lily waited for someone to tell her that it was a joke, but when no one did, she realized that they were serious.

"YOU WHAT? YOU BECAME ANIMAGI? UNREGISTERED?!" She was shocked beyond anything.

"Yeah why don't you just go and shout it in the common room so that everyone can know." Sirius said sarcastically.

After a few minutes of explaining everything to Lily, including the reason behind the Marauders' nicknames, they were able to calm her down.

"So wait. You don't think Hermione and Ginny know about this, do you?" Lily asked them

"We're not sure. But from what you have heard them talk about, it seems like they do know." Remus said

"Yeah" Sirius agreed "We cannot trust them."

"So what are we going to do now?" Peter asked

They all looked at each other, unsure of what they should do.

"We'll have to figure something out." James said.

They all sat there for an hour trying to come up with a solution. Once Sirius proposed to give Veritaserum to Hermione and Ginny but Lily rejected the idea because it just felt wrong to her. Then Peter suggested that they could all go to Dumbledore, but Remus reminded them that Dumbledore didn't know about there being three unregistered animagi in the school and if they told him anything about Hermione and Ginny, then Peter, Sirius and James could also get inTO trouble.

In the end, Remus thought that confronting Hermione and Ginny directly would be the best idea. Nobody else had any better ideas to give so they all agreed and Lily went back to her dorm.

With so many things going on in her head, Lily was having trouble falling asleep. She tried to reassure herself that things would be okay. But deep down she had a feeling that things were going to change now.

Here are the ships and the number of votes they have got:-

Hermione/Remus-5

Hermione/Sirius-8

Hermione/Severus-2

Hermione/Regulus-3

Ginny/Remus-3

Ginny/Sirius-4

Ginny/Severus-1

Ginny/Regulus-5

Severus/Hermione/Remus-1

Sirius/Ginny/Regulus-1

Right now the ships with the highest vote count are Hermione/Sirius and Ginny/Regulus. And I Think I'm also gonna add Hermione and Ginny love triangles in the story. What do you guys think?

As for what the final ship is...I'm going to wait a few more chapters before I decide that.

Don't forget to review and keep voting for your favorite ships guys.