Chapter 6

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Becca was watching and saw Emily faint. She rushed out of the doors to face Peter.

"What are you doing here?" he questioned.

"Just happened to be around the halls, that's all," she lied.

"That's bull shit," he snapped.

"Maybe it is, what's it to you?" she spat. She then purely out of anger punched Peter right in the eye, then she quickly helped Emily up who was coming to and got inside. Peter was so shocked by her punch that he didn't have time to react.

Emily and Becca were running full speed towards their "house" inside of Hogwarts. Of course they would occasionally look back to make sure that no one was following them and that Peter wasn't after them.

Both of the girls rushed in out of breath to find Lily, as if she had been waiting up for them.

"Are you guys alright?" she asked worriedly.

"Yea we're fine, I gave Peter a fair beating though," replied Becca gleefully.

Emily just sat there silently, partially listening to the conversation, while partially reviewing the nights events in her head.

"Hey guys, I don't think Peter was lying," she began.

"What do you mean Em?" asked Becca.

"He pointed out everyone to me," she replied quietly.

"What do you mean everyone?" inquired Lily.

"Oh, erm, nothing," said Becca quickly, Emily knew why she had done this. Lily was against rule breaking and she would probably freak if she found out their friends were doing illegal things.

"Everyone who was taking part in a huge prank on the Ravenclaws," covered Emily, Becca soon nodded in agreement.

"Then why were you two there?" she asked. Emily and Becca exchanged worried looks, they knew they would have to tell her, and hope she wouldn't blow up.

"Ok, to be truthful Lils, Peter pointed out that James, Sirius, and Remus were illegal animagus, while Remus is a werewolf," Becca said rather quickly. Lily remained silent for a couple of minutes.

"I know," was all she said.

"YOU KNOW?!" screamed Emily.

"Yea, I helped them make the potions back in 5th year," she replied calmly.

"Boy I feel left in the dark," said Becca under her breath.

"You're not the only Becca," said Emily.

"Why didn't you tell us?" asked Becca.

"I couldn't I was sworn to secrecy, and since Peter let it all out in front of you, he's going to go through hell. I think that Sirius and Remus were waiting for exactly the right time to tell you both, it's not an issue you can just blurt out you know," she said.

"Lily, you're always so good at making sense of situations, I guess I can't really be mad at him, but I won't approach him about it, after all, he's a werewolf," smiled Emily. The fact that Remus was a werewolf didn't really bother her, it was just the initial shock.

"Totally understandable. I guess we can't really be mad at them in the first place. They don't know I know, so the only other person they think that knows would be you, Emily. So I'll just play stupid and then let them bring it up on their own accord," said Becca.

"You guys are taking this better than I had expected," said Lily.

"Well, we were afraid you were going to flip about the whole animagus thing, but we were wrong," smiled Emily.

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Dawn was slowly rising in the east, spreading light slowly from the east. James, Sirius, Peter (who had joined them after Becca punched him), and Remus were roaming along the hillside near Hogsmeade, where it was still pitch black, and the moon was still high in the sky. Soon enough the moon slowly began to lower and the sun began to rise, causing Remus's transformation to end until the next full moon. By that time, they had returned to the Shreiking Shack just as they had transformed back. Nothing but a few bruises and scrapes were among them, which meant it had been a good night.

"I'm so tired, and we've got History of Magic first today," whined Peter.

"You know we're going to be out late, so quit your lame ass whining. By the way, who was that out on the steps last night?" asked Sirius fiercely.

"Oh, erm, well." he began nervously.

"Well what Wormtail, who was it?" asked James this time.

"ItwasEmily," he said extremely quickly, he was hoping they didn't understand him, however, they did.

"WHAT?!" shrieked Remus.

"It was Emily," Peter confessed.

"Why the hell would you bring her out here when I was in my form, let alone, she didn't even know about it! How could you?" So much pain had filled Remus's eyes, he thought he could at least trust Peter, but he had betrayed Remus. The thought that Emily knew went running through his mind.

"Cheer up Remus, I'm sure she'll understand, isn't she an understanding person?" asked James.

"Yea, you've got nothing to worry about Moony, she's a great girl, she won't be mad, more caring naturally," suggested Sirius who continued to shoot icy glares at Peter, who had his head looking at the ground.

Although it was only 6:30 the four friends (well, I wouldn't exactly call them that now) headed towards their home. Remus couldn't stand to look at Peter before entering, soon followed by James and Sirius. The three boys entered to find all three girls still fast asleep.

James got brave and decided that he would fall asleep next to Lily, it was as if it was a comforting feeling sleeping next to her. He crawled in quietly and soon fell asleep next to a red head who was pretending to fall asleep and then fall back to actual sleep.

Remus was uneasy about climbing into bed, he didn't know how she was going to react to it all. He soon laid down looking at her sleep when she stirred awake, looking into his eyes.

"Look, just let me explain," he began before Emily put her index finger to his lips.

"I know that you're a werewolf, and I'm fine with that, and I understand that it's not an easy thing to tell someone, I'm not mad," she said with a small smile.

Remus remembered that both James and Sirius had said that she would be understanding, and they were right, a weight had been lifted off of his chest.

"Em, how exactly did you find out, was it when Peter took you out," he asked, searching for the answer in her eyes.

"Actually, I wanted to talk to you about. Peter," she said uncomfortably.

"What about him?"

"Um, he well, erm, tried to make a move on me, and he kissed me, and said awful things," she said while tears were forming in her eyes, and a lone one fell down her cheek. Remus was quick to wipe it away with his thumb.

"He what? Oh he will pay, he's screwed up," said Remus angrily. He then pulled Emily close to him, gave her a quick kiss and soon they had fallen asleep.

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Lily and James had woken up and ended up staring at each other. Lily blushed a little while James let out an award winning smile.

"Lily, do you think that, maybe we could, go on a date to Hogsmeade?" he asked.

"I think that'd be nice," she smiled, it felt as though her world couldn't get worse, but only get better.

James on impulse kissed Lily, and Lily didn't mind it at all, in fact she was enjoying it all. This feels so right, she thought. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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