Authors Note: SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG!!!! I was on vacation, but I'm back for a little right now, it was worth the wait...believe me. Hold on to your hats, it's gonna be a bumby ride...

Chapter 33

Warewolves

"I think that we have done quite enough for tonight. Tomarrow I will teach you how to

control when you have your dreams, that is a little more complicated, a matter of going inside

your own mind." Lily left the room, thinking of what she had seen. Dumbledore had not denied

the truthfullness of this vision, so it must be true. Lily had trouble believing it of Remus, they had

been schoolmates and housemates for the past five years after all. She had even kissed him, and

he had written her a love letter, and she had considered dating him! Lily made her way, deep in

thought, to her common room. Perhaps it was because she was so lost in thought that she ran

into the object of her thought before she even saw him standing in front of her.

"Hey Lily, had a good break?" He asked, looking slightly akward, this must be due to the

letter he had written to her.

"Hi Reums, yeah, it was fun, how was yours? Did you stay here, or did you go home?"

"I went home part way through, my grandmother had a heart attack so my parents wanted

me to be there." He said, perfectly casually, meeting her eyes. I know that he is lying, but

what if something like that really had happened while he was a warewolf? What if his

grandmother had really had a heart attack? How could she ever know when he was lying

to her and when he was being honest?

"Oh, I'm so sorry Remus. I did actually have something I wanted to talk to you about." She

said looking around to see if anyone was listening to them. "I recieved your letter over the break,

and I was very flattered of course, but I just don't see us as ever being more than friends. I am

dreadfully sorry." She told him.

"I understand completly Lily, it is a shame, but it is your decision to make of course. If you

ever reconsider, the offer will stand I'm sure." He looked sad, but at least he wasn't taking it the

way Severus had. He was calm, rather than having a fit in which he confessed that she was the

only woman he would ever love.

Lily excused herself, glad that she had discovered that he was a warewolf before starting a

relationship with him. She had solved the imediate problem of him wanting to be more than

friends, but what should she do about him being a warewolf? Should she tell James? What about

her friends? Was it safe to have a warewolf running loose? But Remus had never hurt anyone so

far, and was it really fare to him to destroy his social life just for being different, he couldn't

control it after all.

Lily decided that she needed to talk to someone about all th questions rattling in her mind,

so she went to James. Her friends would probabally over reacted and refused to come into

contact with him if she told them. She found James sitting on one of the red leather couches,

reading through his transfiguration notes.

"James, I need to talk to you." She said from behind him, placing her had on his shoulder.

Lily came up behind him and put her hand on his shoulder.

"James, I need to talk to you, alone." James turned around and looked at her puzzled. He

closed his notes and followed her out of the common room. They made their escape into an

empty classroom. "James, I just found something out about one of your friends that I think you

should know, but I don't know if I want to tell you."

"What do you mean?" He asked, why had she made him come if she didn't want to tell him?

"Well, if I tell you, you have to promise not to over react, okay? You have to not metion it

to anyone, including him, and you did not hear it from me. Understand?" She asked, speaking

quicly and quietly.

"Yes, so what is it? I promise not to over react or tell anyone, and I didn't hear it from you."

He said, sighing and rolling his eyes at her. Either this was seious or she was over dramatising it.

"Remus, he's a warewolf." She said with the air of declaring he was a mad axe murderer.

"Who told you that? How did you find out?" James asked, not upset at all at the news she

had told him, only the fact that she knew.

"You already knew? And you didn't tell anyone? He's dangerous james!" She said, growing

angry that he hadn't told her, especially after she had told him she had kissed Reums!

"Of course I knew." He said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "I live with

him afterall, you didn't think I noticed that he of his grandmother was sick every month like

clockwork? It took me a few years to suspect anything, but I talked to Sirius and he had noticed

it too. We checked the star charts, he's always 'sick' on the full moon. That was enough

evidence for us, but he doesn't know we know." James told her, looking discusted that she had

even thought (a). he didn't know and (b). that he would care that his friend was a warewolf.

James walked out of the room, leaving a hurt and disgruntled Lily standing alone.

Lily reached up, feeling shocked and betrayed that he had not confided this in her, it was

after all her right to know this sort of thing! She reached under robes, again tracing the outline of

the snowflake on her necklace. In a suddenflash of anger she tore the dainty chain in half,

ripping it off her neck and leaving it on the hallway floor behind her as she walked back to the

common room after James.

Authors Note: I realize that some of you, like me, have huge crushes on James and would like nothin more to either be written into the story, knocking Lily out of the picture, or to have him and Lily at least get together. I just want to tell you, we all know that this will happen eventually, but I have an uber romantic idea for how it will happen, so just bear with me. And just in case you didn't get it, the necklace was supposed to be symbolic.