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            Remus Lupin was having a hard time eating his breakfast New Years morning. This was because of the extremely pink hair that his archrival had been sporting that morning, as you could have guessed, Remus was unable to stop laughing. He wished the whole school could have seen Severus Snape in this predicament, but unfortunately many people were still on holiday. Luckily James and Sirius had gotten lots of pictures to show once everyone got back.

            "We told you this was gonna be good!" Sirius exclaimed full of pride.

"Glad we took those pictures, too, thanks for the camera Lils." James said after recovering from his fits of laughter. "So what are we up to today guys?"

Remus looked at him, for Hogwart's Head Boy, James sure could be dumb.

"You have homework to do remember? Term starts again in two days, that's forty-eight hours to finish your potions essay, herbology essay, and that transfiguration project. And Sirius you haven't done anything, you have even more to do than James."

"Rems is right you two are such slackers!" Lily exclaimed, Arabella just nodded beside her unable to talk because of the all the food she was downing.

Remus rolled his eyes, Arabella and Sirius had to be the biggest pigs in the world.

"Sorry Lils." James said blushing, looking upset that Lily had called him a slacker. While Sirius took no notice of James' reaction, actually Sirius never took notice of anything, Remus sure did. If he wasn't very much mistaken James had feelings for his best friend. Remus knew that Lily had fancied James for the longest time, but just a few months ago her feelings had changed and she just enjoyed being his friend. In Remus' opinion, James' timing couldn't have been worse. Lily had spent a lot of time crying in Remus' arms about her troubles about James. He had been most relieved when she got over her feelings for him; he honestly didn't know what would happen to Lily if James started to return to those feelings. He reminded himself to talk to his friend later. Even though Remus was the one everyone went to for love advice, he had never dated anyone. It wasn't that Remus didn't like girls, it wasn't that girls didn't like him, quite the contrary actually, no, what Remus had a problem with was the fear of rejection. In his opinion, no one could ever love a werewolf. Remus was jerked out of his thoughts when everyone started to leave the table to go back to the common room.

"Come on Moony, I thought you said we had to do homework?" Sirius said. Remus smiled and followed him and the rest of the group up to the common room.

Sixteen rolls of parchment, seven broken quills, three spilled ink wells, and one torn text book page later, the Gryffindor seventh years had finished their holiday homework just in time for bed.  The boys said goodnight to the girls and headed up the stairs.

"Hey Moony?" James said.

"Yes James?" Remus replied. James walked over and flung himself onto his bed.

"I have a problem." Remus sighed, this had to be about Lily.

"Ooh has our little Jamsie having girl trouble, oh dear me."

"Not helping Padfoot!" Remus said, resuming his usual position as peacekeeper. Sirius mumbled something about going to take a shower and left Remus and James alone in the room. Remus turned to James.

"You had a problem Prongs?" he asked. James nodded.

"Well, you see… I sorta, well these past few weeks…" James started. Better help him out Remus thought. Best save him from actually saying this himself.

"You have had feelings for Lily." Remus prompted. James looked up, frowning at first then smiling.

"Is it that obvious?" he asked, a little embarrassed. Remus shook his head, the Marauders, no matter how smart they all were, Sirius being fourth in his class and Remus second only to James and Lily (mostly because of being a werewolf), had to be the densest group in the school. While Remus could notice who had eyes for everyone else, he failed to notice the people who had eyes for him, even the one that hung out with him every day.

"Not really, but I just want to know, why do you like Lily, you know… what are your 'intentions'?" Remus said making air quotation marks. James cocked his head.

"You sound like my father, but I'll tell you. I like her because she's sweet, caring…" he looked at Remus, "she helps you out around the full moon, tutors all those first years, she's smart, funny, not to mention damn sexy." Remus frowned, James seemed to have seen that because he quickly tried to recover that statement, "but that's not why I like her, she just… she's just amazing." Remus tried to ignore the dreamy look in James' eyes and sat down next to him. I got a better answer from him that I ever got from Sirius, he could be serious, Remus thought. His eyes widened at what he had just said in his head. In all the years of knowing Sirius it took him that long to realize that Sirius and serious sounded the same, he sure was dense. Still feeling ashamed of his own stupidity, he turned back to focus on James.

"I'm gonna say you have a shot at this and I am glad your reasons for liking a person are not the same as Sirius'. Just be careful not to hurt her, I don't know if you know this but," Remus paused, should he tell James about Lily? He knew James wouldn't let it go to his head, he was more mature than that, "… Lily used to like you, … I emphasize used to," Remus added at the look on James' face, "it took her a while to let it go, so whatever you do, don't put her back in that position again, okay?"

"I would never want to do that." James said. Seeing the sincerity on James' face was enough convincing for Remus.

"Thanks Rem."

"Anytime Prongs, anytime."

Remus stood up and walked over to his bed. He pulled of his school clothes and put on his pajamas. Falling asleep to the sounds of Sirius snoring and the wind blowing outside, he drifted into the dreams that of memories that came back to haunt him at least once a week.

He was running along a dark path, ignoring the protests of his parents. They didn't understand how important his cat was to him, and his cat had run away. Of course he had to find him. The darkness of night couldn't stop him. He kept running straining his ears for any sound of movement, the light of the full moon leading his way. Finally coming to the clearing where he had last seen his cat, he slowed down and started to search through the bushes at the edge of the small part in the trees he had come to. Heading to the first bush the snap of a twig made him turn around. Standing over him was a creature both elegant and deadly. A pure silver wolf was slowly approaching him. He slowly backed away, trying to hold back the scream he so desperately wanted to let lose. His right foot caught on a tree root and he fell backwards. He scrambled to get away from the wolf that was still coming at him, but the wolf had the advantage. Unable to stay quiet any longer, he let lose a long blood-chilling scream, but his parents were far away, unable to save him. He scrambled up and tried to get away, but the wolf caught his ankle in his mouth. The pain was too much to bear; he pulled his foot from the wolf and kicked him, ignoring the stabbing pains in his ankle. Using those precious seconds he had just bought himself he got up and ran. The wolf was gaining on him though. Frantically searching for a place to hide, he spied a hollowed out tree log that had fallen across the forest floor. Quickly he scrambled inside. The wolf dove in after him, but he was much to large to fit. The wolf got stuck in the log. Seizing this second opportunity he ran, and ran, the terrifying howls of the wolf behing him ringing in his ears and the pain of his injury flowing up his leg. Finally reaching the house he had come from, his cat forgotten, he passed out from the pain and the terrors he had just seen.

Remus sat up in a cold sweat, breathing hard. The night he recived the dreaded bite would always stay fresh in his mind. If he hadn't been so foolish, if he hadn't ignored his parents, he wouldn't be where he was today. He looked over at James and Sirius sleeping in the beds next to his, and silently thanked them for being the two best friends anyone could ask for.

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