A/N: Hey!  Here's chap 2!

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In a month, Madam Pomfrey walked Remus to the Whomping Willow again.  Remus thanked her and walked inside.  He ran to the Shrieking Shack where he transformed into the werewolf and paced the room angrily (ripping things apart) waiting for his friends to arrive.

            Soon afterward, he heard noises downstairs.  This meant that his best friends had arrived.  In came a big shaggy black dog, which was Sirius, followed by James who was a stag, and then came Peter the rat who was hard to see because he was so small.

            The four friends sat out together towards Hogsmeade.

            The four of them crawled out of the tree and headed towards Hogsmeade.  They could communicate through their minds in their animal forms (a tricky little charm James had found in an old book and taught to them).

            They walked into Hogsmeade and kept to the shadows.  The four friends already knew six passages out of the school.  They knew that Filch (the filth) knew about four of them. 

            Sirius had chosen most of the adventure for this month.  They would play truth-or-dare at the edge of Hogsmeade.  They could roam the whole town. 

            Since this was Sirius's idea, he was up first.  (Remus,) he said, in his mind, using the charm they had all cast, so that all of them could hear his thoughts, (truth or dare?)

Remus was feeling bored so he said dare.  (I dare you to sneak into the closest house and lick the first person you see in the face.)

            (Fine,) Remus replied, though he found the idea revolting, not only for him, but for the other person too.  Oh well, he figured, maybe it would be a pretty girl.

            He trotted to the nearest house and opened the window with his snout.  It was a little girl's room. Well, it's better then a man, he thought.  Remus climbed inside and licked her in the face. 

            This is so stupid!

He climbed back out and closed the window again.  He was only going along with this because he hated being a werewolf and needed something to distract him.  He wondered yet again what Dumbledore would do if he found out what Remus and his friends were doing.  Dumbledore had trusted Remus and had admitted him to Hogwarts.  Remus wondered briefly how he would feel if he saw that Remus was not in the Whomping Willow, which had been planted to protect the students from Remus, but out in Hogsmeade, breaking about fifty school rules, including the law.

            They played the game for a while.  Then it was Remus' turn again.  James dared Remus to go to the outskirts of town and howl like an idiot.  He wanted Remus to howl a stupid song.  Remus trotted to the edge of Hogsmeade and began to howl.  He was trying to howl "Itsy Bitsy Spider."

            However, as Remus started to howl, the wolf inside him was awakened.  Remus forgot where he was and what he was doing.  All he knew was what the wolf knew.  He smelled prey, and he went after it.

            Remus trotted toward the smell.  He saw the outline of another young girl sitting on a bench.  The human part of him wondered what she was doing there, in the middle of the night, but it was drowned out by his wolf instincts.  She appeared to be crying.  Remus wanted to ask her what was wrong.  He wanted to come up to her and help her, but his mind was no match for the wolf.

            Remus could hear his friends searching for him.  Calling out his name but they were irrelevant.

            He moved closer to the girl.  He could hear her words through her sobs.  "Why? Why does everyone hate me?  Why do I have to be a squib?" the girl was saying, "Why couldn't I be a witch like a normal person?"

            Remus felt sorry for her and wanted to help her but, the smell of prey was overpowering!  She smelled so good!  He was so hungry!

            Remus raised his haunches.  He got ready.  And, he pounced….

            The little girl heard Remus.  She turned around.  She looked up.  She saw an overlarge jaw with two claw-like paws flying right at her!

The girl let out a long piercing shriek, which was quickly stifled as Remus, fastened his jaws over the girl's head.  Only one person in town, Sirius, had heard the shriek.  He raced toward it followed by James.  Peter stayed behind, hiding under a bush.

            Sirius and James saw Remus about to kill the girl.  Sirius hurried forward and dragged Remus away.  He then bit his tail and dragged Remus all the way to the willow.  James transformed back and took a wand out of his pocket.  The girl stared at him, unable to speak.  James raised the wand.  "Obliviate!" He yelled.  The girl's vision became unfocused.  She dropped to the steps.  James left her at it.  He transformed back and got Peter.  Then, he ran after Sirius.

            The next day, Remus sat on his four-poster bed with his head in his hands.

"Don't blame yourself," James told him.

 "Yeah," Sirius said, "It wasn't your fault."  However, Remus knew that it was his fault for sure.

            That night, when everyone went to sleep, Remus sat alone on his bed, thinking.  Only bad things have happened since I came to Hogwarts Remus thought.  He remembered that time back in his second year.  Back when the Whomping willow was not fully-grown and he had transformed in a special room east of the hospital wing.  One night when the nurse (Madam Hunter) was leading him to the room and he had transformed too early and had bitten her leg off.  After having her leg magically re-grown, Madam Hunter had quit on the spot and Madam Pomfrey had taken her place.

            Remus knew what he must do to make things right.  He had to leave, tonight. 

            Remus packed the few things he would need into a bag.  He took his wand and cloak.  Remus was almost out the door when he thought of Hogwarts.  Of what leaving the castle would mean.  Remus looked over at the sleeping forms of his friends.  Then, he thought of all the people he had hurt. "No," Remus said aloud "I can't risk that happening again." 

Making up his mind, Remus dropped a piece of parchment with his words of "Good-Bye" on his bed.  He picked up his things and strode out the door.

            Remus did not meet anyone as he was walking through the castle.  Remus got safely outside.  He headed in the direction of the forbidden forest.  Remus took out his wand.  "Lumos," he muttered and the end of his wand let out a dazzling bright light.  HeRemus headed forward onto the forest path. 

            As he walked forward he heard the forest's inhabitants making noises.  Remus ignored them.  He walked forward.  He walked all night.  When day came, Remus went into a little cave he saw to get some sleep and eat.

MEANWHILE…

            James and Sirius awoke late on Saturday morning.  Peter slept even later.  James remembered how sad Remus had been last night and looked over at his bed.  He didn't see him.  James pointed this out to Sirius who shrugged and said that Remus probably went down to breakfast early and they shouldn't worry about it.  James agreed with him and they went down to breakfast.

            When arriving at the Great Hall, they noticed right away that Remus was not there.  James became rather worried but Sirius said that he probably went outside or to the library to think.  James agreed, but he was still worried.

            At that moment, James's girlfriend Lily and her best friend Jamie came in.  James and Sirius looked up.

"Hi, Lily," James said "Hello, Jamie."

            They answered with a "hi."

            "What's up?" Lily asked.  Jamie, who was shy, remained quiet.  James looked at them both meaningfully and said:

 "Remus is missing."

 "Oh," Lily said "Do you know where he is?'

            "No," James answered.

            "Not to worry about it, ladies," Sirius said with a wink at both of them "I'm sure he's fine.  He probably just went outside or something.  He was really upset last night."  Sirius was looking at Jamie while he said that.  He noticed that she was looking very radiant this morning.  Jamie noticed Sirius looking at her.  He noticed this and looked away.

"Why was he upset," Lily asked "Anything we should know about?"  She lowered her voice.  "He was ok in the Whomping Willow last night, right?  Nothing bad happened to him did it?"

            James and Sirius looked at her.  Sirius did not know what to say.  He did not want to lie to the girls.  They did not know that Remus had not been spending the night in the Shrieking Shack at all.

            James, however, didn't want to get the girls worried so he decided to lie.  "No, nothing like that," he said hurriedly.  Lily looked at him like she didn't believe him but decided to drop the subject.

            At that moment, Peter ran in.  He looked upset and was carrying what liked like a piece of paper with him.  When he came closer, they saw that the writing seemed to be smudged, as though the person writing it had been crying.  The four of them looked at it worriedly.

            "It's from Remus," he announced.

            James grabbed the paper and read it.  He bit his lip and seemed to be unable to speak.  Sirius grabbed the paper from him and read it.  "Oh no," he cried "It's Remus!  He's run away!"

A/N: Yes, sorry, I forgot to put up the second note last time.  LOL.  Anyway, as you can guess, its not over yet.

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