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Lily and Sirius went back to the waiting room and settled down for a long wait. Sirius was tired, he wanted to sleep but worrying about James kept him awake.

Lily kept glancing at Sirius, she had so many questions. She knew the Marauders kept their secrets to themselves and that they had a lot of them but were some of them illegal. They never worried about school rules but would they go far enough to go against Ministry laws? After they had been sitting there for about an hour she decided to ask him, "Would you like to tell me why James can't stay here for a few days?"

Sirius looked like this was killing him, he took a deep breath and spoke quietly, "He got shot with a silver bullet."

She looked confused. She knew what Remus was but not that they were Animagi. "How could you be with Remus?"

Sirius made a face, he was going against all the rules set down by the Marauders. The first one of course was "Do not reveal to anyone about being Animgi." Sirius spoke to her, "We are Animigi."

"What?" she looked at him.

"We can turn into animals," said Sirius.

"I know what it means but how? When?" she gaped at him.

"When we were in our 5th year we did it, for Remus," explained Sirius.

"So this is why you can't go anywhere else," Lily figured it out, "they would know."

"Exactly, we never registered," Sirius nodded.

"Sirius!" Lily said astonished.

"We did it when we were 5th years, we did illegally," Sirius shrugged.

"Alright so you are animals, walking around with Remus and James gets shot," Lily was thinking out oud.

"Dangerous," Sirius interrpted. "We know, no lecture please."

"You two are amazing," Lily sighed. "You could transform into animals when you were 15. What are you?"

"James is a stag, Peter is a rat and I am a dog," Sirius told her.

"Peter?"

"We did most of the work," Sirius shrugged.

Lily thought about all this for a moment. Sirius played with his hands.

"It makes sense, you three were always tired after the full moon, you stayed with Remus during the night," she said coming to her conclusion.

"We caused havoc during the full moon," Sirius grinned.

They were silent again. Sirius put his head back against the wall and even though he was worried about his friend sleep over came him. Lily smiled and looked at Sirius. He had fallen asleep. She was sure he had not slept all night. She had been woken up early but at least she had gotten a few hours of sleep.

They sat there for another two hours. Lily started to fall asleep too and she didn't try and stop it.

**

"Mr. Black... Mr. Black," Sirius opened his eyes. It took him a minute to realize where he was. He looked around, Lily was waking up next to him. Doctor Warren was in front of him with a bed next to him.

"James!"

"He will be all right, tell his doctor that it was a clean operation and I gave him one pain medication incase he wakes up before he gets home," he told Sirius.

"Thank you," Sirius stood and shook the doctor's hand.

"I'll get the car," Lily smiled and stood up.

"If I didn't know better I would say there is something not good in all of this," Doctor Warren looked seriously at Sirius.

"If there is, don't let it bother you," Sirius clapped him on the shoulder. "Thanks for everything."

Lily came up in the car and carefully James was put in the car. He got in the front seat and Lily drove off. Back at Lily's house she putt he car away and Sirius brought James inside.

"Sirius why don't you apparate?" Lily asked.

"There is a one mile non Apparate ward at the Potter Mansion. I don't want to carry him another mile. Its also dangerous incase I mess up or something," Sirius explained. "Potter Mansion!" Sirius walked into the fire with James in his arms.

Back in the Mansion house elves came up to him and followed him up to James' room. He put James in the bed and stood back as the house gave him potions to help him heal.

"Rosy," He called. She came over. "Where is Remus?"

"Master Lupin went up to his room 2 hours ago," Rosy reported.

"Thank you," Sirius stood up. He got a chair and sat down next to James.

**

"Sirius!" Sirius opened his eyes and looked around. He looked out the window the sun was high in the sky. He wondered what time it was. He looked at James but he was still out of it. He swore he had heard his name though. "Sirius." There it was again.

He looked behind him to see Lily standing in the doorway. "What are you doing here?" Sirius asked yawning.

"I came to see how James was," Lily got a chair and sat down next to him.

"Do you know what time it is?" he asked.

"About noon," she replied.

They sat there for a few hours waiting for James to wake. Sirius kept falling asleep but woke constantly thinking he had heard James stir.

About 3 hours after Lily had arrived Remus came in. He took one looked around and left as though embarrassed. Sirius tried to call for him but he never came back. It was about a half an hour later and Sirius had just fallen asleep again when he thought he heard someone move. James woke but without his glasses on he couldn't see a thing. He tried to move his arm to look for his glasses but it was stiff. "Sir." He said his throat was dry making it hard to talk.

Sirius woke slowly thinking he had heard James' voice but then thinking it was another false alarm. He blinked a few times and saw James stir.

He knew what James was looking for his glasses. He picked them up and put them on. He then offered him some water.

"Thanks," James said after taking a drink. "What's she doing here?" he looked at Lily who had fell asleep.

"Lets just say next time a man is in my bedroom at 4:00am it better be you and not him," Lily had woken up and heard James.

"What?" James asked confused.

"I woke up Lily because I have no idea about Muggles. I took you to a Muggle hospital to get the bullet removed," Sirius shrugged.

James laughed weakly. He could just imagine Sirius waking up Lily and her reaction. He smiled for a moment and smiled at Lily in thanks. He then looked around, "How's Remus?"

"He came in, looked around and left. I think he blames himself," Sirius told him grimly.

James sighed, "Can you tell him I'd like to talk to him?"

"Sure," Sirius got the hint and left.

"Thank you," James took Lily's hand. "I imagine you haven't slept all night."

"How are you feeling?" she asked.

"I'm good," James nodded. "Arm's a little stiff but I expect to be up and walking tonight."

"Sirius was really worried about you," Lily told him.

"I know," James looked at the door. "Remus."

Lily got up and kissed him. She left closing the door behind her. Remus stayed by the door and didn't look at James.

"I'm not mad at you," James said looking at Remus.

"You should be" said Remus not meeting his eye.

"Remus, Sirius and I know the danger," James motioned for him to come and sit in one of the chairs. Slowly Remus came over and sat down and looked down. They were quiet for a few minutes and then Remus looked up and James continued. "We knew it back when we became Animagi and it didn't stop us."

"You could have been killed," Remus shook his head. "If Sirius waited any longer to get you to the Muggle hospital... Those men were out to kill me, not you, not Sirius! ME!"

"Only because they are blind," said James. "Remus don't worry I'm fine."

"Never again," Remus shook his head resolved.

"Yes again," James nodded his head. "We will remain with you always. We will do anything to make the full moon less of a burden for you. I know you like having us there, it eases your mind."

"It's too dangerous," argued Remus.

"Who cares? Being around me is dangerous. Voldemort would love to kill me but you two hang around here." James laughed.

"That's different."

"Its not different," James argued. "We are all dangers to each other but we all keep living. Next full moon as always I will be on your left and Sirius on your right."

Remus took James' hand and held it tightly. "How will I ever thank you for everything you've done?"

James smiled, "Let me get some rest and always let us be there for you... brother."

"Deal brother," Remus smiled weakly.

Remus then left and James settled in for another sleep. He smiled as he took off his glasses and fell asleep.

**

As James lay asleep in his bedroom recovering Dumbledore and Alastor Moody stood in front of a man magically bound to a chair. Alastor had an evil grin on his face and Dumbledore looked anxious.

"I say we give him the Truth Potion," Moody said looking at the man, "he hasn't spoken in 3 days."

"I don't want to use it unless I have no other choice," Dumbledore sighed. He stood in front of the man, "Where is Voldemort now."

"Go to hell," Waters spat.

Moody was losing his patience. Albus he knew wanted to treat everyone equally but he just wanted answers. Anyone taken captive by the Death Eaters were tortured for information and left to die and here was Albus treating prisoners civilly.

"Come on Albus," Moody pulled out the potion. "He's not talking."

Dumbledore sighed, he hated to do this. He didn't like the control you could have with potions, "Fine."

"Time to have some fun," Moody grinned evilly as Dumbledore turned his back and pretended not to notice.

**

The next day James got out of bed with Sirius next to him.

"I'm not dying Sirius," James laughed. "It was my shoulder that got hit, it doesn't hinder my walking."

"You could be weak or something, I'm not sure about those Muggle doctors and their medicines," Sirius told him.

"I'm fine," James laughed and went downstairs with Sirius.

Downstairs Remus was eating breakfast. He smiled as the two entered. "Morning."

"Morning Remus," James sat down in his seat. "Now Sirius relax."

The mail came in and James recognized Lily's owl. He took it eagerly and opened it. He read it and his mouth dropped.

Sirius saw it and asked, "What?"

"Vernon asked Petunia to marry him!" James said disgusted.

"Did she say yes?" Sirius asked.

"She said yes," James looked at his friends. "Mrs. Evans wants us to come over to celebrate."

Sirius went pale, "A Muggle house?"

"Yep," James sighed.

"With Muggles?"

"Yes," James shook his head. "Oh Merlin."

"Doomed," Sirius sighed. "Doomed."