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A/N: As I wrote on the review page I am going away for a week so there won't be any updating for a while after this Chapter unless I manage to write two in one day!
Lupin's Secret
The next day Lily noticed that James and Sirius were acting…well a bit hostile towards each other,
"James, what's happened between you and Sirius?" she asked,
"Listen Sirius told me what he said to you," he shot an angry look in Sirius's direction, "he shouldn't have gotten involved."
"What do you mean 'shouldn't have gotten involved'?" Lily was confused, "he was just looking out for his mate! I'm sure you would have done the same in his situation!"
"Yeah, well maybe," he smiled, "so he said you liked me!" his smile turned into a smug grin, "I knew it!"
"YOU WHAT!" Lily was mad, she couldn't believe she had been so stupid, "You told him to talk to me didn't you!"
"Well we had to find out the truth didn't we!" it was Sirius.
"Yeah well…you could have just asked," Lily laughed; James put his arm around her and sighed,
"I don't know, I should have guessed this would happen,"
"WHAT!" yelled Sirius and Lily together,
"Well…you know…I am irresistible!" the three of them laughed and headed of towards their lessons.
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Lily was sat in the common room, a few days later, after dinner once again alone. She thought about that day, since their feelings were out in the open things had become much more relaxed between James and herself, although Lucius had become unbearable with his pure-blood half-blood thing, at least she she had the marauders (that was what the boys called themselves now) and Chloe to fall back on. She didn't really talk to Chloe during the day unless there was a class that they sat next to each other in, but in the dormitorys in the evening they would tell each other what had happened that day, so Chloe knew all about James and the talk and…well…everything!
Anyway that day Remus hadn't been feeling to good, it was the second time it had happened so far and lily had started to get worried for him. Lily heard a noise,
"Come along now Remus, we have to hurry," it was professor Dumbledore.
"I know, why do full moons have to come around so often," Remus said in a choked voice. Lily ran upstairs, grabbed her invisibility cloak and hurried after them, "I'll have to tell James about the cloak sometime, I bet he would love to use it!" Lily thought as she creeped out of the open portrait. She had never been out after hours before, the castle looked a lot darker and creepier in the moonlight. "The full moon!" Lily thought, "He's always ill on the FULL MOON, no, he can't be!"
She followed them down to the great hall and out of the giant front doors of the castle, into the night, and down to…the whomping willow??
The whomping willow had just been planted in the Hogwarts grounds and, as it thrashed anyone who went near it, everyone steared well clear of it's branches.
Professor Dumbledore pulled out his wand and sent a blast of light onto the knot of the tree. The tree froze. Dumbledore and Remus disappeared down a hole in the trunk.
A few minutes later there was a cry of pain and Dumbledore appeared out of the tree with a gash on his hand, it was quite deep and oozed blood as he hit the knot on the tree to get it moving again and ran to the hospital wing. There was no denying it, Remus was a werewolf!
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A day later it was the weekend, the boys had gone to visit Remus in the hospital wing but he was not there. Lily knew why, but until she had talked to Remus about it she wasn't telling anyone.
"Maybe he's already back at the common room!" Lily broke the silence.
"Yeah, he could be wondering where we are right now," Sirius suggested.
They returned to the common room and, sure enough, there sat Remus, "he looks knackered," thought Lily.
"Hi guys!" Remus smiled, "I'm feeling much better,"
"Yeah but you don't look it!" joked Sirius. Peter laughed.
"Umm guys can you leave us alone for a minute? I need to talk to Remus," Lily told the group.
"Yeah sure," James sqeezed her hand and the boys went up to their dormotories.
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"There's no hiding it Remus, I know!" Lily shouted.
"And I'll tell you once again Evans, I've no idea what you are on about!" Remus yelled back, they had been arguing like this for about ten minutes, then lily dealt her final blow.
"I saw you and Dumbledore go out to the whomping willow, I saw his hand cut up, it was a FULL MOON, I know!" Lily really didn't think it woud be this dificult. Remus's face was panic stricken.
"You can't tell anyone Lily, I'm begging you, they won't want to know me, noone, noone likes a…a werewolf!" he was crying.
"I'm not going to tell anyone, don't worry, I won't say anything." Lily grabbed him, Remus collapsed in her arms mumbling,
"noone knows, noone,".
They stayed like that for about half an hour Lily comforting Remus, and Remus mumbling secretly happy that his secret was a secret no longer.
A/N: This became a scarily serious chapter in the end, I'm sorry but I thought it would be easier to get the whole werewolf thing out quickly…I don't know why!! I guess I'm running out of ideas. Anyway, you know what to do!!
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