Once Remus was completely healed from the affects of the full moon he told me to meet him in the hallway outside the Room of Requirement after dinner. I agreed and was currently standing across from the Barnabas the Barmy painting as I waited for him to show up.

When he did I was surprised to see Sirius, James, and Peter walking behind him. At first I didn't know why they were there, but it hit me as soon as I looked into his worried eyes.

I chewed the inside of my cheek nervously, "Ready?"

He sent his own nerve filled smile, "As I'll ever be."

Pushing away from the wall I paced in front of it until the familiar red door began appearing. The sight had the other three Marauders gasping.

"Remus," Sirius spoke up, "what's going on?"

Because of his nerves Remus didn't say anything. I could tell his upcoming confession was giving him a lot of anxiety so I answered the question, "We have to tell you two something and Remus wanted us to do it here." Grasping the handle of the door I pulled it open to reveal the room Remus and I always used.

The five of us filed inside and I sat in the comfy black armchair at the head of the table like I always did. Remus sat in the red armchair on my right since that's where he always sat. Peter sat next to him while Sirius sat to my immediate right, across from Remus, and James sat on his right, across from Peter.

Remus and I looked at each other, both of our eyes filled with anxiety, "Shall I go first?"

He nodded gratefully, "Please."

Taking a deep, shaky breath I leaned forward in my seat to look Sirius directly in the eye. "Remus and I have…a secret to tell all of you," my eyes flicked to look at James and Peter before falling back onto Sirius.

James tried to joke, "Are you two dating? 'Cause that's not much of a secret." The serious air hanging around me and Remus prevented anyone from laughing.

"My secret involves mostly you, Sirius."

His eyebrows rose, "Me?"

I nodded, "You have a friend named Alex who you're always sending letters to." He nodded suspiciously. "What would you do if I told you it was me?"

He scoffed, "How could she be you?"

I raised an eyebrow, "How couldn't she?" Taking a deep breath I closed my eyes so I wouldn't see the look on his face, "My name is Alex Palmer. I grew up in America until I was eight years old, my mother and I let because my muggle father couldn't take that his family were magical freaks, I am the heiress of the Noble houses of Fox and Winslow, my dogs name is Barney while my owl's name is Hooter. My favorite color is blue. I've written to me best friend, you Sirius, since I was nine after I tumbled out of your fireplace. The next time I saw you it was in Diagon Alley in the Quidditch shop where I met James. Then the Alley was attacked and morphed into a seventeen year old boy to protect you two. Took down a Death Eater named Macnair and was crucioed by Voldemort." I took a very deep breath after my monologue before taking on another piece of information, "I'm also a metamorphmagus."

My breath was coming in short pants while I tried to reign in my nerves. Most of the things I said were meant to prove to Sirius that I was really his Alex. The situation with my father was something only he knew, and if I wasn't his Alex then I wouldn't have known at all.

When I felt someone brush the tips of their fingers against my cheek my eyes snapped open to see Sirius looking at me with shining eyes, "You're my Alex?"

I nodded feverishly, "Yes. Please believe me."

"You…" his voice trailed off until it came back with an edge, "Prove it."

Without a second thought I changed myself to look like a carbon copy of him. Peter gasped while James laughed, "That's definitely you Alex. I've had a hunch, but since Sirius didn't say anything I thought I was imagining it."

With James believing me my body relaxed and I morphed back into my usual self, "You believe me?"

"Of course! Now that I'm thinking about it there have been a bunch of signs pointing to you being Sirius' Alex." He rolled his eyes at himself, "We're pretty dense for not noticing."

I chuckled in agreement, but my worries were not completely gone. Sirius was sitting in complete silence, not having said a single word besides asking for the proof.

"Sirius," his grey eyes snapped up to meet mine, "do you believe me?"

All of us were frozen in our seats. The only noise in the room belonging to the crackling fireplace behind me while the anticipation in the air grew thicker and thicker. I threatened to have a nervous breakdown from how long he sat there staring at me with no emotion.

When he slowly started nodding all of the air in my body left in a gust of air. I laid back in my seat with a hand pressed to my chest, feeling the rapid beat of my heart, "Thank Merlin."

I heard a chair being pushed away from the table and I looked up to see Sirius hovering over me with an angry expression, "What I can't believe is that you, my best friend, went two years without telling me you were here. Two years, Alex! I thought we were friends! Did you not trust me? Do you not like me enough to tell me you were here?"

"Of course I wanted to tell you!"

"Then why didn't you!" his voice echoed around the room. "I thought we were friends! Best mates! We tell each other everything!" He suddenly sneered, "At least, we used to. Our friendship obviously doesn't mean that much to you."

"Sirius, please listen to me! You are my friend! The most amazing friend I've ever had in my entire existence!" When he didn't move I plowed on, "I didn't tell you, not because I didn't trust you, but because I didn't know how to do it. When we were being sorted I thought you would have recognized me right away, instead you were busy making faces at James." James looked guilty at this. "Then I thought you would have remembered me when you heard my voice, but you still didn't."

Sirius grimaced at that, "You do sound exactly the same. With your metamorphmagus abilities I didn't honestly know what you looked like so…yeah. I guess I didn't recognize you because I'm a complete idiot."

I smiled softly, "Yes you are." He sent me an indignant look that made me smile, "You said it, not me. Besides I didn't really make an effort to get you to recognize me. I would have preferred if you found out before Remus though."

Sirius' eyes snapped towards him, "You knew she was my Alex?"

Remus shifted uncomfortably, "I found last year on the first day."

"And you didn't tell me?!"

Now that his anger was no longer on me I felt a little relieved, but then immediately felt bad for Remus, "Sirius don't be mad at Remus." His grey eyes locked onto my blue. "I didn't want him to say anything because I wanted you to find out for yourself."

Sirius exhaled a heavy breath before pulling me out of my chair and crushing me against his chest in a hug. He buried his nose into the side of my head and took a deep breath before slowly releasing it, "I can't believe you didn't tell me, and that I didn't see it."

James smiled, "I can. You're smart, mate, but you can be pretty dense."

Sirius glared at him and playfully cuffed and moved to cuff him upside the head, "You're dense too for not recognizing her."

"Yeah, but she's your best mate. Probably more so than I am."

Hearing James say this made me smile a little sheepishly and duck my head so my hair covered my face. I knew how close the two of them were, and hearing him say that warmed my heart.

"Alex?" I looked at Peter. "I'm Peter Pettigrew."

There was a beat of silence before James, Sirius, and I began laughing with Remus chuckling along. Sirius and I fell back into our seats until we could get out laughter under control. "I know who you are Peter," I wiped tears of mirth from my eyes, "but it's nice too formally meet you. I'm Alex Palmer."

Taking a deep breath I looked at Remus, and when he looked back I saw him pale a little bit, "Are you ready to tell them?"

His hands shook above the table top and he put them into his lap where he balled them into fists. "I've also been keeping a secret from you guys for the past two years."

Sirius sighed loudly and I kicked him under the table, "Shut up. It's hard enough for him to do this as it is."

With a sullen look in my direction Sirius hunkered down into his chair and stared at Remus expectantly. It made him take a deep breath and I stretched my left hand out over the table, palm up, in silent invitation.

Remus immediately grabbed onto my hand. I hid my wince at the amount of force he behind his white knuckled grip but made no move to let go of his hand.

"I'm…" he tried to take a deep breath but it got caught in his throat. He gave a few loud coughs before shouting it out, "I'm a werewolf!"

Peter, James, and Sirius all leaned back in surprise, stunned by the loud admission. I saw fear build in Peter's eyes and I waited for him to do something that would destroy their friendship, but James swooped in, "So that's why you always disappear every month!"

"Oh yeah!" Sirius slapped his hand against the table top. "And why you always get so pale around notes times and come back with scratches. Doesn't happen as often now though."

Remus was looking between the two of them with a lost expression, "Aren't you scared?"

Sirius scoffed, "Of course not. Why would we be scared? You're Remus, the most gentle person I've ever met."

James was nodding along, "Yeah. So what if you change into a wolf? It's only for one night a month, no big deal."

With every word that came out of their mouth Remus sagged with relief and his grip on my hand loosened until it was just sitting on top of mine, "You don't mind?"

"No, we don't mind."

I squeezed his hand with a smile, "I told you they won't care." He smiled back.

"So," Sirius' eyes were narrowed onto our joined hands, "anything else you want to tell us?"

I frowned thoughtfully before shaking my head, "Not that I can think of. Remus?"

"Nope."

"Nothing?" James stressed. "No new relationships?"

I raised a brow at the two of them, "No." My hand slipped out of Remus' as I sat back into my chair, "Why? Have you two found anyone?"

Sirius rolled his eyes, "I'm not about to tie myself down with some needy girl."

My eyebrows rose in surprise, "No, but you seem content with dragging them into the nearest broom closet to kiss the life out of them."

"Jealous?"

I snorted, "Not in the slightest." An emotion flickered in his grey eyes, but it was gone so fast I brushed it off as a trick of the light. "Do you guys have any questions about any of this?"

Peter raised his hand and I gestured for him to ask with amusement in my eyes, "So, uh, you guys found out one another's secrets and started hanging out because of it?"

We nodded and I answered, "Yup. People were always saying we're secretly dating, but I didn't bother trying to correct those rumors."

"How did you two find these things out anyway?" James asked.

"I saw her hair change colors on our first day back last year," Remus replied. "Later on I just put all the pieces together. It wasn't hard since Sirius tells us practically everything about her." Sirius had a slight blush dusting his cheeks when I glanced at him.

"I found out he was a werewolf by, well…" I bit my lip. I couldn't tell them I knew because of movies and books in previous lives I lived, so I would have to tell them the way Remus thinks I found out.

"You guys know what an animagus is right?" James and Sirius nodded while Remus explained to Peter what they were. When they finished I continued, "I was testing out my form out in the Forbidden Forest on the night of a full moon when Remus, um, attacked me."

The three boys were staring at me with wide eyes. "You're an animagus?" James breathed in amazement.

"And Remus attacked you?" Sirius tacked on.

"Well he didn't exactly know it was me," I defended. "A wizard, or witch, doesn't keep their human mind when in their werewolf form. Even if he hadn't been a werewolf at the time he wouldn't have known it was me."

"I thought you said no more secrets," Sirius accused.

I held up my hands defensively, "It never came to mind."

James was smiling wickedly, "What's your form?"

With mischievous eyes I pushed back my chair until I deemed it enough space and crouched onto all fours. Now that I've done this several times to help out Remus I've become pretty adept at the change. It only took a couple of seconds to complete it, and the reactions made it worth telling them about it.

Peter looked absolutely frightened at seeing a grizzly bear not six feet away. Remus was indifferent since he's seen it so many times. James and Sirius were both looking at me in amazement before scrambling over to dig their hands into my fur. Their voices mingled together but I understood that they thought I was "bloody brilliant" and needed to teach them to become animagi as well.

I rolled my blue eyes before reverting back to my normal self. The boys immediately pulled their hands away and returned to their seats. "I don't see why I can't teach you," they cheered, and even Peter gave a small but excited smile, "But you need to know, right now, that becoming a animagus isn't something to be taken lightly. If you aren't careful you can get really messed up. Stuck as half an animal and unable to change back. It takes a lot of patience to pull off."

The boys nodded seriously. "It'll be alright Alex," James assured me, "we're completely patient."

All I could do in response was sigh, "We'll start another day. It's too late to do it now, and you guys have to take a potion to figure out what your animagus is before trying to turn into it."

James and Sirius mock saluted before rising out of their seats. Peter scrambled to follow while Remus and I stood patiently. Remus, James, and Peter strode towards the door while Sirius lingered behind to look me in the eye, "I've missed you, Alex."

I smiled softly, "As have I. I really am sorry I didn't tell you."

He sighed, "I know, but it would have been nice to know my best mate was in the same school as me. You could have gone into Gryffindor and been a Marauder with us!"

I chuckled, "That's alright Sirius, I can live without being a Marauder. Pranking isn't really my thing anyway, it's yours."

Sirius pulled me into a quick hug as we exited the Room of Requirement. I returned it without hesitation, and when we let go of one another Sirius rushed to catch up with the other three boys while I watched them go with find eyes. The meeting went a lot smoother than I anticipated. No uncontrollable fits of anger, and I could fall asleep tonight knowing my best friend wouldn't be ending our friendship any time soon.