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'Ow. Ow. Ow. I feel like crap. Ow. Ow. Ow.' Remus was trying his best to keep the outbursts of pain he longed to voice confined strictly to his mind.
The Fat Lady returned to her sleep as they climbed through the portrait hole and into the empty common room.
They hurried up to their dormitory, Remus ached with every step. And., once in bed –fell immediately into a deep sleep.
Someone was screaming. It was high-pitched and blood curdling. He flinched as someone hit him, their nails digging into his skin and leaving a trail of blood in their wake. He staggered back, falling to the floor as the person's screams were joined with another.
He couldn't see who it was that continued to attack him. But, through the haze of noise, pain and confusion he picked up some words.
"Monster!... Freak!... Deserves to die!" Remus recognised the voices now, heard the familiarity in the screams. He curled up into a ball, just as the red hair whipped his face as she attacked again.
James groaned and rolled over, not wanting to leave the dream he had been having. It was a rather suggestive one containing Lily, himself, a starlit night and a picnic. James had always been one for romance.
But, annoyingly he knew that he needed to properly wake so he stretched out his arms and fumbled around his bed-side table for his glasses. Putting them on, he searched for his wand and- upon finding it, whispered Lumos and tried to avert the light from any of his friend's eyes.
He trudged downstairs to the common room to find it almost empty, besides four people.
They looked up as he entered, two of them looked relieved.
Smiling awkwardly, he shuffled over to the group and took a seat beside his friends.
"How long've you been up?" James asked Sirius and Peter.
"'Bout two minutes. We didn't want to explain anything until you got here." James nodded.
"So, um…" He began, looking over at the other two people of thee group, "What do you want to know?"
There was silence for a moment, it was tense and uncomfortable. James was beginning to think he might get slapped judging by the look on her face.
"Everything." Lily breathed, "I want to know what the fuck we saw last night." Her face was strained, her eyes glassy. She looked as if one word might send her over the edge. Even though she was a witch, Lily Evans was sometimes still shocked at the impossible. Well, the impossible for muggles at least. She hated being confused and despised not knowing.
Her eyes were red and she appeared frazzled- she obviously hadn't slept well that night. Rose looked similar, except she kept her eyes on Lily, a comforting hand on her back.
"Well," James began, negotiating how to start, "I suppose it starts… with second year."
"You remember," Sirius took over with a controlled tone. "how Remus would always say he had to visit home, then he'd disappear for two days while school was happening?" Lily and Rose nodded.
"Well, um… after a while, we began to get suspicious. So we did some checking up on him." James said, his voice becoming more confident, "We noticed that his mother would always be 'sick' -or he'd sleep for two days straight- on the day of the full moon."
"So we confronted him about it!" Peter added, his voice squeaking with nerves.
"And, he admitted it." Sirius said gruffly.
"It took a while to get it out of him, mind you." James smiled slightly at the memory.
"So," Lily began, her voice shaking. "that… wolf last night. That was really… Remus?" The three boys nodded and Lily whimpered. Rose appeared to be keeping a steady head through the conversation.
"Ok," Rose, looking at Sirius for an explanation, "then what the hell was with the other animals?" Her tone of sarcasm lightened the mood slightly.
"Well, that is an interesting story," Sirius winked, "After a while, we noticed how down Remus was during his transformations. We couldn't blame him- he'd told us what he used to do because he wasn't allowed out of the Shrieking Shack." James looked to the ground at that, not wanting to picture the familiar scene he had made up in his head which followed the description Remus had given them.
"So, in third year- when talk of Animagi was about, we thought of the perfect solution."
"Werewolves are only a danger to humans," Peter explained, "animals, however are in no danger."
"So, we thought that-"
"We'd become Animagi-"
"To keep him company-"
"Talk to him, keep him human. Keep him Remus during the full moons." James finished.
"We'd explore the castle and grounds, and record it on a map." Sirius supplied.
"The Marauder's Map." They finished in unison.
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