A Different Take On Things

*A/N: don't worry, no incest in this story! Eeeeeew! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I kind of forgot about this story! It will be finishing soon I'm afraid!

Chapter 6: Relief

"You are?" Sirius asked cautiously.

"Yep! I'm a cat (of course!) and Lily's an owl!" Kat replied enthusiastically.

Both boys mentally sighed with relief. They meant Animagi! Their secret was safe.

"Cool, but you guys shouldn't talk about it so loudly. It's illegal in this country." James said anxiously.

"It is? Weird laws you have here." Lily shook her head, then jumped as a flash of movement caught her eye. "Ah! Fiss, Remus, just the people we were looking for!"

"You were?" asked Remus.

"Yes." James, Sirius, Lily and Kat dragged the two into the girls dorm.

"Now, don't you two have something you want to tell us?"

Fiss and Remus looked at the group and saw no pity, no fear, just friendliness. Perhaps now was the time to tell, as they had no choice.

"I think you know." Fiss said heavily.

"Yes, but we'd like to hear it from you guys," said Sirius, for once in his life completely serious. (*A/N: sorry bout the pun, it was unintentional, I swear!)

"Well, I'll make it brief. I was bitten as a child, and as you know there is no cure. Later, I accidentally bit Fiss, and her family threw her out, so mine adopted her. That's why we've got different surnames. When Dumbledore arranged for us to come here, he planted the Whomping Willow over a tunnel which leads to the Shrieking Shack. We both go there to transform on full moon nights. Yes, we are both werewolves."

"Brilliant!"

Everyone looked at Kat after this outburst, who they now considered quite, quite mad.

"Don't you see? We can go around with them when they're transformed!"

Sirius slowly began to explain, as one to a child, "No, we can't, cos you see, we don't want to get bitten-"

Kat interrupted, "God, you're all dumber than I thought. Werewolves don't attack animals! We can transform into our animagi selves! Isn't that the reason you two _became_ animagi?"

"Yes, it was. Duh!" James replied.

And so, a gang was formed. It had no official name, like James, Sirius, Remus and Peter as their prankster selves were the Marauders, but it was a gang all the same. On full moon nights, they would roam together, the animals keeping the wolves in check.

And all went quite happily until the summer term of Seventh Year.

*A/N: last chappie next! Please review!

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