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A/N: Wow, I actually came up with a title for it… That took a while, didn't it now? Anyhow, I really don't have any more ranting to do… yeah. I feel like crap. Stomach hurts, but hey, I got ideas to write in this story. Voldemort is going to attack at one point; and something is going to happen with Erin's family and Erin in some later chapter, like chapter 13 or something. Something will happen to Remus in this chapter. Not giving away much more than that.
~Neon
IMPORTANT: I am now going to toss two chapters into every update I make. There'll be fewer documents that way; and it'll be a lot easier on my part. So chapters four and five are going to be in this one document, while chapters six and seven will be in one, and so on and so forth.
I, once again, am in the process of, again, reading the third book… again. My favourite of the five current Harry Potter books; and so I am also going to be using it to help my views on Sirius, Peter and Remus. Just so you know.
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Chapter IV – Sad Happenings
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"Gryffindor!" the sorting hat shouted, there were brief cheers, until they realized that Patrick was Erin's brother, yet Erin was in Slytherin, and Patrick in the rival house. Everyone seemed pretty well confused, but would be over it by that night.
"Well then; maybe only boys in your family make it to Gryffindor," Sirius said.
"But my aunt is a girl and she was in Gryffindor," James said, confused.
"Ah well, let's just give him a place to sit," Remus said, whistling for Patrick to come and sit with them. Patrick looked over at them and bounded over to them after handing the sorting hat to a different person. He sat between Remus and James; since he knew them best.
After Dumbledore's usual speech on the rules and regulations and such, the food appeared at the tables, and the Great Hall erupted into the sounds of people talking happily over their dinners.
When dinner ended; everyone headed to the respective common rooms after saying goodnight to anyone who was in a different house, or congratulating first years that were their siblings.
James and the other Marauders were now seated in the Gryffindor Common Room. Most of the Gryffindors had already gone to bed.
James was seated in an armchair, Sirius sitting up on the back of the chair, so that James was leaning back against his legs. Remus and Peter were both seated on the couch; Remus had his feet up on the cushion. Lily and Suzuki had gone to bed.
"Come on Prongs; we know Lily hates you, but you don't hate her, and that's obvious, you always find some reason to bring her up," Sirius said.
James looked up at Sirius. "You want to lose your manly hood to my wand?"
"No, but I was just saying…"
"Stuff it or I'll make sure we test our next prank potion on you rather than Wormtail," James threatened, pointing his wand up at Sirius.
Sirius removed James's glasses. "Did you know you have beautiful eyes?"
"God Padfoot…" James snatched his glasses from Sirius and put them back on. "You are such a dork sometimes."
"Yes Prongs, I am your God! Bow to me! All of you!" he pointed accusingly at Remus and Peter as well. Peter jumped, and ended up falling off the couch. "Good boy Wormtail."
"No," James warned. "You might not want to praise Wormtail; he might turn on you."
"The only one here likely to turn on me is you Potter," Sirius said.
"Don't call me that," James said, wincing slightly. "I wasn't serious…"
"That's right, because I am Sirius," Sirius said proudly.
"That wasn't what I meant."
"So, seriously James, how about answering Padfoot's question?" Remus said.
"What? You mean when he asked if I knew I had beautiful eyes?"
"No, when he was about to ask what you really think of Lily, why not tell us? We won't tell her, we're your friends, we swear it," Remus said, holding up all his fingers to show he wasn't crossing any.
"All right. I am attracted to her…" James muttered softly under his breath, and Sirius nearly fell off the back of the chair when he swung an arm up in triumph to being correct. James glared at Sirius. "So then, Padfoot, why don't you tell us who you're attracted to?"
"Can't choose, I'm stuck between two girls," Sirius said.
"Which two?"
"Erin and Suzuki," Sirius answered with a short nod.
"My cousin and that girl that hangs out with Lily all the time and constantly agrees with my cousin?" James nearly choked.
"Actually, I believe it's Erin who nearly always agrees with Suzuki, but whatever you say," Sirius said with a shrug. "Why not talk a little more about Erin then? You'd know a lot about her, and I'd like to know a few things. I think I'm going to ask her out."
"I think I'm going to go to bed," Remus said suddenly, getting up, he faked a yawn. "I'm tired. Talk to you guys tomorrow…" with that he walked up to the dormitory, shutting the door behind him.
"What's up with him?" Sirius asked.
"Not sure," James said. "But I think I'm going to go upstairs as well."
"No… tell me about Erin…"
"Maybe another time Padfoot, good night you two," he said, nodding to Sirius and Peter before getting up, and walking to the dormitory as well shortly after Remus had.
About half an hour later the two boys were joined by Peter; and an hour or so after that Sirius.
Remus was lying on top of the covers of his bed, curtains pulled around so that nobody would see him, and he was just staring blankly at the ceiling. He wanted to be left alone; so he was pretending to already be asleep, even if he was wide-awake.
He started to become drowsy at the sounds of Sirius's snoring; and was just about asleep when something landed on his chest.
His eyes shot open and he looked, wondering what it was, he spotted a large, official-looking owl standing on his chest, a notice pinned to its leg.
Remus looked at the owl quizzically. The owl hooted softly, holding out its leg until Remus relieved it of its note.
Slowly Remus unrolled the piece of parchment and began to read it. As if he had been hit with some form of curse Remus began to shake, dropping the letter from his hands. The owl had flown away by now; and was long gone. Quietly, still shaking, Remus got up, and left the dormitory.
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The next morning, James, Sirius and Peter woke up to a Remus-free dormitory. "Maybe he just went down to breakfast early," James said when Sirius searched the dormitory for Remus.
"You're probably right," Sirius said and, giving up his search, he moved to the bathroom to change out of his night clothes and into his school robes.
Once James, Sirius and Peter were ready; they all headed down to the Great Hall. Remus wasn't there.
Erin was seated between Lucius and Severus at the Slytherin table; the two boys leaning over either one of her shoulders, reading the Daily Prophet she had clutched in her hands.
Suzuki and Lily weren't there; no doubt Lily was trying to wake Suzuki up in order to eat and get to classes on time.
Sirius nudged James softly. "What's with your cousin and the two slimeballs leaning over her shoulders?" he whispered.
James glanced at Erin, Severus and Lucius. "They're her friends as well Padfoot; and if you're planning to date my cousin you're going to have to live with it," he added. "You'd be better off dating Suzuki, or Lily."
"Lily, eh? Giving her up that easily Prongs?"
"No! I'm not… I mean, I… uh…"
"You've shut yourself in the dragon's den mate," Sirius grinned cockily, before turning to his breakfast hungrily. He seemed to have not noticed that Remus wasn't there.
Peter was already stuffing his face. Sirius didn't seem to notice Remus wasn't there until he went to ask Remus to pass something, since they were in their regular seating arrangement; Sirius beside James, Peter across from James and Remus was supposed to be beside Peter.
"Hey, Moony's not here!"
"Little slow, aren't you Padfoot?" James asked. He had not touched his breakfast yet.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I thought you noticed. I didn't think you were that slow," he said. "Besides, I'm sure he's all right; probably wasn't feeling too good and went to the hospital wing or something. We can check after breakfast."
"Good idea," Sirius said, and resumed eating.
Sirius isn't worried about Remus; so I don't know why I am so much, I'm sure he's fine, James thought to himself, watching Sirius and Peter eat rather than eating himself. Although, Remus isn't one to do this, he'd at least give some warning if he knew he was not going to be here…
"Guys, I think I'm going to go to the library before classes, I'll see you two later," James said, standing, he walked out of the Great Hall. His footsteps echoed, since he was the only one standing, and at him standing the Hall had fallen silent. Everyone watched him leave.
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CHAPTER V – Bound Souls
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A/N: And here's the second chapter of this document. Which is actually the fifth chapter in this story, but hey, I'm not doing too bad on the semi-frequent updates so far… so far. Here's the chapter then!
Slowly, thoughtfully, James made his way to the library with thirty minutes to spare before classes. He sat down, setting down his book bag and leaning his arms on one of the tables. He began to fall deep in thought.
Remus where are you? There are not many places in this school you could hide! Okay, well, actually, there are several places. But where'd you get to?
I doubt that you're in the Shrieking Shack, you HATE it in there; and I doubt you're in the first floor girl's lavatory. And I already know because of Peter that you aren't in any of the boy's lavatories. There's no way you could have gone to see Erin; not to mention the fact she was at breakfast.
And there's absolutely no way you could have gone up to speak with Lily or Suzuki, because boys can't get up the stairs to the girl's dorms not to mention-
"That I'm right here, and I've definitely not seen Lupin this morning," Lily's voice interrupted James's thoughts.
James jumped, closed eyes snapping open, he raised his hazel eyes to look up at the young girl. His elbows were propped up on the table, and his hands were in fists, knuckles against each other, and his head had formerly been resting atop them.
"I figured as much," James said. "We just can't… wait, how did you know?"
"You were just talking," Lily said. "Muttering about where Remus could be, and where he couldn't and isn't."
"No I wasn't Evans," James said. "I was thinking it. Mouth wasn't moving; and I know nobody else in the library heard a thing that I was thinking, except for you."
"No, you were speaking, didn't you hear him Suzuki? Wasn't he talking out loud?" Lily asked, turning to Suzuki, who had walked over to them to hear what they were arguing about today. To Lily's surprise, Suzuki shook her head.
"Sorry Lily, no dice, James here was not talking," Suzuki said. Suzuki soon left however to have a quick shower before classes.
James was still watching Lily intently. Lily looked down at him, hugging her book bag closer to her chest. The two of them watched each other for a long moment, before Lily tore her gaze away from James and stormed out of the library.
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Lily stormed down the corridor and to the potions class they had with the Slytherins. Lily took her seat on Erin's left side, while Suzuki sat herself on Erin's right.
"I don't know how you put up with him!" Lily said, agitated, to Erin.
Erin looked up from the small doodles she was making on her parchment, but Suzuki did not look up from hers. "What do you mean?"
"That blasted cousin of yours! He is so annoying! He was speaking perfectly clear, and so I responded to something he said, and then he said he was thinking it and not saying it!"
"Lily, calm down," Erin said; tapping her quill on the parchment. "He isn't that bad, honestly. And maybe he was telling the truth."
"You know he likes to play cruel jokes on me so why would he be telling the truth now?" Lily asked, still angry.
"Actually Lily, it's always Sirius who pulls the pranks on you. That and the fact that James probably was telling the truth; don't you remember we studied in Divination last year?" Erin asked.
"You hate Divination, why would you remember?"
"I don't know," Erin shrugged. "I tend to put things into the back of my mind and not think about them for a while. But remember, the Professor told us that sometimes you can tell who you'll be with in your future as a close friend or as a lover, if…"
"I will never be either of those with Pot-head," Lily glared at Erin, sitting in a similar position to what James had been.
But before Erin could continue what she was saying; the Potions Master entered the classroom and began the lesson. Erin, Suzuki and Lily were to work on a potion together; Sirius, James and Peter were together, and there was still no sign of Remus. Sirius and Peter had gone looking for him in the Hospital wing after breakfast but he had not been there.
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Later that day at lunch, there was still no sign of Remus, and it was also time for Erin to continue lecturing Lily.
That meant that there was a Slytherin at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall that day, seated on one side of Lily while Suzuki sat on the other.
"Now, on with what you were saying earlier Erin?" Suzuki said. Lily groaned; she was hoping that Erin had forgotten about that and wasn't going to carry on.
"If you can hear someone's thoughts, whether you're close to them or not, whether you love them or hate them, your souls are somehow bound together. That means you'll never be apart; and you'll always be at least a friend with that person. There's other signs as well, it's not always being able to hear their thoughts. Being able to hear another's thoughts usually means you'll become lovers."
"I swear Erin sometimes you're just trying to torment me," Lily said through clenched teeth to her friend.
Erin merely grinned; clearly proud of herself.
"And so, upon saying that, I welcome you, ahead of time, to the Potter and Moonshadow family!" Erin clapped Lily on the back gently. Lily growled, and Erin and Suzuki just laughed.
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James, Sirius and Peter again went on a hunt for Remus after dinner, but again couldn't find him, so, James decided, it was time to beg the trio of girls for help.
"Erin, Suzuki… Evans, please help us find Remus!" James begged.
"I know I'll help you," Erin said. "Remus is my friend as well as yours, and you know it."
"I don't know…" Suzuki said, crossing her arms over her chest, but Sirius fell to his knees in front of her, looking up at her, giving her the puppy dog eyes. Suzuki couldn't help but give in. "I'll help too…" Sirius grinned charmingly, and Suzuki seemed to blush.
"Lily? You going to help?" Erin asked, turning to face Lily. Lily seemed to consider it, and then nodded. "Excellent," Erin smiled.
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After several more hours of searching, well passed curfew, the gang was about ready to give up.
"Where haven't you checked?" Erin asked. All of them, including the young Slytherin, were curled up in the Gryffindor common room.
"Can't think of anywhere we haven't checked," Sirius confessed. Erin merely nodded.
"I'm going to head off to my own common room now; I'll see you guys all tomorrow, good night," Erin said and, stretching, she stood and left, to go to her own common room.
One by one the Gryffindor teens moved off to their respected dormitories to get a comfortable yet undeserved rest. They hadn't found Remus, so none of them felt they deserved to be sleeping, Remus could be in real trouble.