It was happening again. It came too soon, so unexpectedly.

It had been a week after the break up, Mercy had avoided any contact with him as much as possible. She seemed tired and she kept to her friends, she was never alone.

They were all in the common room, it was about 7 o'clock. The sun was almost completely set, Remus didn't realize that's why he was feeling bad the whole day. He thought it was due to the break up.

He felt the first stages coming on while they were doing homework; it became hard to breath and he started gasping. He was starting to perspire and his vision was becoming unfocused, fading from a dull gray to intense blinding white. He could hardly keep himself upright and he fell to the floor, the marauders, realizing what was happening, were quick to react. Sirius pulled a dung bomb out of his pocket.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" he let out a Tarzan-like yell, and threw the stink bomb in the center of the room. There was pandemonium and everyone was scrambling out of the portrait hole or running up the stairs to their dormitories.

"Run!" and he pushed James and Remus towards the portrait hole. Siruis was acting like he was a maniac, he started running around, screaming, throwing bombs at people who hadn't moved, smoke was everywhere.

Remus was writhing with pain, and James was half carrying a beginning to form werewolf out of the common room.


But through the smoke, a girl saw the struggling James and the deformed Remus. She followed them.

***

They were on the grounds and Remus was almost fully changed, James had turned into a stag and was now butting the werewolf towards the forest and into the cover. Sirius was no where to be seen. Behind them, a little rat followed. And behind that, unseen, a girl followed.

In the middle of the grounds, it happened. Remus changed completely, unable to hold it back any longer, and let out a terrifying howl. A big dog came running toward them and was barking. The stag was trying with all it's might to get him into the forest, the dog also helped, while the rat ran ahead into the forest.

The girl sat there behind a bush in silence. There was a lump in the back of her throat. Was she really seeing what she thought she saw? Millions of things ran through her head as she tried to piece things together.

The werewolf stopped struggling against the stag. His ears perked and his nose started twitching.

The stag and the dog were suddenly aware that there was a person out on the grounds. They watched, unable to do anything as a figure started to run toward the castle, and the werewolf bounded after her.