Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters mentioned below except for Sarah Beatrice Rosalynde Anne Therese Bones, which I am quite sad to say I created her. Yet I am quite happy, for I have created her perfectly, as the person everyone hates. =) *all smiles*

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Silent Confession

"JAMES, YOU BASTARD! GET IN HERE!"

Everyone in the Gryffindor common room looked up in surprise, wondering whoever the shouting came from, and whoever it was that had such audacity to call out the name of James Potter. When they saw it was only Remus Lupin, their shock subsided slowly, only later, to be replaced by another type of surprise. Why was Remus shouting for James, as if James were his mortal enemy? No one had the answers.

James, Sirius and Peter sauntered into the common room, as if nothing had happened.

"Who is it shouting like-" Sirius asked, with a note of displeasure in his voice, which quickly turned to surprise when he saw that it was only Remus.

"Oh. It's you?" Sirius cocked his cute head to one side, making him look cuter, and the girls in the common room would have screamed out in delight when he turned and smiled at them. If not for the tenseness in the air at that particular moment.

Remus rolled his eyes, despite the anger he was feeling right now. He felt like something molten was boiling inside him, as if it were molten lava deep inside a volcano. And one that was about to erupt any time now.

"JAMES YOU IDIOT-" Remus shouted across the room, and James squinted his eyes and frowned in confusion, as if he didn't have a clue about what Remus was shouting about. He didn't.

The rest of the people in the same room looked on, as if expecting some kind of show coming from the famous four Marauders themselves.

Then, as though Remus had just noticed the crowd, he yelled out at the top of his lungs. "WHAT ARE ALL OF YOU LOOKING AT? GET OUT! GET OUT!"

In minutes, the room was empty, without anyone except one angry Remus and the other three, who were very confused by Remus and his actions. After all, Remus never shouted in front or without a crowd before. Unless it was something really important. He didn't even shout when Sirius had put slugs everywhere in his room back home. So what was so important?

"What is this about, Remus?" James inquired in a calm voice, riling up Remus's temper even more.

"WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT? DON'T TELL ME YOU-" before he could continue, Sirius piped in with another comment of his.

"Yeah, Remus, why the hell are you so angry?"

Instead of answering Sirius's question, Remus said through his gritted teeth, "This doesn't concern you, Sirius."

"Yeah, I know, but-"

"So shut up." Remus stopped Sirius before he could proceed further with his ridiculous comments and remarks.

Sirius looked as if he was about to argue with Remus, but then with another deadly glare coming from Remus himself, Sirius snapped his mouth shut, swallowing whatever remark he was about to make.

"James-" Remus continued in a much more calmer voice, now that Sirius had disrupted his concentration a bit, he wasn't as angry as before. "- do you have any idea what your beloved girlfriend has done?"

James looked more confused, if that was even possible.

"Huh? Sarah?" he asked, puzzled. With a curt nod from Remus, he shook his head, indicating that he didn't have any clue about what Remus was talking about, whatever it was about Sarah.

"She-" Remus started in a sort of trembling voice. "- beat the shit out of Lily. Do you even know that?" Remus ended.

"BIT?!?!?" Sirius exclaimed in a loud voice, as if forgetting his deal of keeping silent until the discussion was over.

Remus's nostrils flared. "WILL YOU STOP INTERRUPTING ME, YOU ASSHOLE! SHUT UP FOR ONCE, WILL YOU?!?!?" Remus's shouting made the pictures leaning against the walls shake with tremor, as if an earthquake had just hit them, making the figures in the pictures hold on to their frames for dear life. They frowned at Remus for all the noise, but he took no notice.

Sirius frowned and shrugged, as if to show indifference. Inwardly, though, Sirius was sort of worried. He didn't care if Remus had shouted at him. In fact, this was many of the really rare times which Remus had done so. He was a bit worried for both Remus and James. Actually, more for James. Because the last time Remus had shouted like that, he had nearly beaten a guy to death. Sirius sure hoped it wouldn't be the same case as before.

"What are you talking about?" James's own temper flared. How dare Remus accuse Sarah of such a horrible act? She's too innocent to even hurt a fly, he thought silently and he had shouted that thought aloud to Remus, who really looked as if he was about to kill someone.

"TOO INNOCENT? HAH!" Remus exclaimed, his arms across his chest. "So you'd rather believe her than me, huh?"

"Wha-" James shook his head. "Don't take this the wrong way. What I meant was just that Sarah wouldn't hurt anyone. If she did, she must have some pretty good reasons."

Just as Remus was about to reply to that, the doors opened and Lily stood there in the doorway, shoulders suddenly slumped, as if she knew what was going on. However, she wasn't really alone. She was with Miss Perfect.

Lily glared at Remus, who looked away guiltily. He didn't want to deal with that kind of emotion, now that he was already dealing with something else so foreign: anger and hurt for someone else. Someone he obviously cared about.

"Here's your proof," Remus said instead, as he walked over and pulled a reluctant Lily to James. And after a minute's hesitation, he pulled Sarah over, too. Without any gentleness though. Sarah rubbed her wrist as she thought about the bruise Remus would probably leave, after using so much force on her. But she didn't really mind. She liked Remus and his strength even more now, but she didn't show that admiration openly. She scowled at Remus and tossed a fake smile towards James, who was smiling at her now. She smirked in her mind; she knew she looked good in that new dress of hers. It had a rather plunging neckline. It was just too bad that Remus couldn't take more notice of her, rather than that plain little Mudblood Evans. Even Sirius seemed surprised at her attire, and he quickly turned around to walk over to the couches, so that Sarah wouldn't see his scowl and roll of eyes. Sarah thought otherwise, though. She thought Sirius was hiding his blush. His blush, indeed!

Lily trembled under Remus's arm, who was around her shoulder lightly, as he knew of her hurt under that thin shirt of hers. He was about to pull the collars away slightly when Lily shook her head vehemently. Her face flushed and Remus knew what she was thinking about. It would be too embarrassing. So he lifted her arm tenderly and pulled back her sleeves.

"See?" Remus showed James a couple of already fading bruises. Lily tried to pull her arm back, but Remus seemed to tighten his hold on her with every withdrawal of hers, so she just stayed put.

Sarah seemed to know what was going on as she suddenly, literally fell into James's arms.

"Oh, James! He's accusing me of something I would never do! Never!" she shouted dramatically, with one of her hands flying to her forehead. As if she were Scarlet O' Hara and James was Rhett Butler, which was in other words, ridiculous.

James patted her dark hair softly as he muttered, "I know. Hush."

Before anyone could react to her self-conscious admit, Sirius, for once, pulled out of the stupor faster than anyone else.

"How do you know Remus was talking about you?" his eyebrows narrowed suspiciously. And for a moment, James felt confused and suspicious of his own girlfriend. Sarah must have sensed the sudden tenseness in James and she broke out in, sending torrents of tears down her cheeks.

"Not you, too, Sirius!" she moaned loudly, loud enough for everyone to hear. By this time, Lily had already managed to get her hand free from Remus's loosening grasp. She ran towards the girls' dormitory.

Remus wanted so much to chase after her, but he needed to stay to see how the situation would turn out.

James felt constraint in his eyebrows as he knitted them together. He didn't want to call Remus a liar, but he sure didn't want to suspect his own girlfriend, too. He was in a dilemma, no doubt. He sighed inaudibly, as he looked over at Remus's somewhat pleading blue eyes, and Sarah's watery eyes. Her mascara was running, and she thought that it would make her look more vulnerable.

Her plan had worked. James saw the 'vulnerability' in her and walked her back to the girls' dormitory without a single word to Remus, nor even Sirius. Peter, as usual, was sleeping through the whole commotion.

Sirius looked as Remus walked out of the Gryffindor common room quietly, shoulders slumped, as if admitting defeat.

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* to be continued…*

A/N: So… what do you think? Good? Bad? Review and give me your opinions? Let's see… how about… 7 more reviews for this one? All right, I'll except 5, I guess. But I promise, I'll post faster with the promised 7! =) *all smiles* (again)