James tried to get into the house the next morning as quietly as possible, so he didn't wake up Lily who had fallen asleep at the kitchen table, but he was un- successful.
She woke up when she heard the door close and she bolted upright and looked straight at James, who was trying to run away as quickly as possible.
"Oh no you don't!" Lily said sleepily, but it still had the same effect.
"Good luck mate." Sirius said yawning as he walked out of the room after Peter and an extremely sick looking Remus.
James hung his head and fumbled around until he got to a chair.
"What the hell was going on last night?" Lily asked, she seem so awake even though it was six in the morning.
"Well," James said, he was in a bad position, he didn't want to betray his friends, but he didn't want to lie to Lily the woman he loved. He had tried to talk to Sirius and Peter about it last night but Peter had been asleep, and Sirius had just said do what ever you think is right.
"Well?" Lily asked impatiently.
James took a deep breath. "I'm going to tell you……. But you have to promise not to tell anyone, not a soul."
"…… OK…." Lily said slowly.
James took another deep breath, "well, the reason I can turn into a stag is because, me Sirius and Peter are all……… illegal animangi………. I'm the stag, Sirius the dog, and Peter is a Rat."
"But what about Remus?"
"I'm getting to that." James said, "well the reason we are animangi is because we wanted to keep Remus company during his transformations……."
"What…… you mean……… Remus is a werewolf?" Lily asked shocked.
James just nodded, "that's the reason Dumbledore put the whomping willow on the grounds, to guard the entrance to a secret tunnel we use to get to the shrieking stack."
"But the shrieking stack is haunted." Lily said confused.
"No, the noises people hear are Remus, I think Dumbledore just encouraged those rumours." James said, he rubbed his eyes tiredly.
They sat in silence, Lily just taking in the information she was being told, and James just trying to get his eyes open.
"You know you should never have been out there last night, you could have been killed." James said looking at Lily seriously, he seem different, older, more mature.
"I know I shouldn't have, but how was I to know there was a werewolf out there." Lily said, she knew she should be mad at James, but she couldn't be.
"I'm sorry I lied to you…… I should have told you, it's just that well I promised my friends and I am in Gryffindor." James said proudly.
Lily smiled slightly and sat close to James, "you do know that being an illegal animangi is a serious offence, and so is sneaking out of school." Lily said.
James just nodded and hung his head.
"And I am going to have to tell Emma about this, I tell her everything…And Jess and Laura. " Lily said.
James just nodded his head again. "I understand, and don't worry, I won't tell anyone that we kissed of anything. I'll just pretend it didn't happen."
"Why?" Lily asked.
"Because I know you won't want to go out with me anymore, not after I kept something like this from you, " he said to the floor.
Lily smiled and lifted James head up, "I'm not going to dump you, we have only been going out for a day!"
James looked up smiling, "really?"
"Yes." Lily said and she kissed him.
Wow James thought, most people would flip if they found out that they went to the same school as a werewolf.
"Aren't you scared about Remus?" He asked.
"No," Lily said, "I know he would never hurt a fly as a human, it's just a shame that he has this……… curse….." Lily said.
James grinned, "your amazing."
"I know." Lily said jokingly, "and so are you!"
The rest of the holidays zoomed by, Lily had of course told Emma, Jess and Laura all about the marauders secret the first chance she got.
Laura, being Remus official girlfriend, took it worst of all. But then again if you had found out your boyfriend was a werewolf what how would you take it.
"Well," She said when Lily told her, "he was too good to be true, there had to be a floor."
They returned to school and were immersed in work for their upcoming NEWTS. Lily had already started revising, much to the disbelief to her friends.
"How can you start revising now, I'd forget it all by the time the exams came around!" She said.
January passed and February arrived bringing with it more snow, and of course more work!
"How the hell are you going to pass your NEWTS if your out on the Quiddich pitch all hours of the day?" Remus asked Sirius and James after they came in from a training session early in the morning.
"I can't neglect my duties as captain Moony, Gryffindor will win the house cup again for the fourth year in a row!" James said.
"Here Here!" Sirius said banging his fist down on the table.
Remus just rolled his eyes, "the girls are in the Great Hall." He said as he left with Peter for breakfast.
He walked into the Great Hall and sat next to Laura.
"Morning beautiful." He whispered in her ear.
Laura smiled and kissed him on the cheek, she had been quiet since she found out that he was a werewolf.
"Where's James?" Lily asked.
"He's getting changed after Quiddich training." Remus said.
"God! how can he get up so early and play quiddich?" Emma asked.
Remus just shrugged.
"So Peter how are you today?" Lily asked Peter, he didn't seem to talk much, Lily thought he might feel a bit left out.
"Huh?" Peter asked, he seemed surprised at being talked to directly.
"I said, how are you." Lily repeated as if she were talking to a child.
"Oh……. Um…….. Fine." Peter said, he had never really liked Lily, sure she was good looking but she was muggleborn, enough said in his opinion!
An owl fluttered down to Lily with a newspaper, the Daily Prophet, Lily put some money in its pouch and it flew off.
She unfolded the paper and looked at the first page, on it was a picture of a village with the dark mark floating over every house.
"That's terrible." Laura said looking over Lily's shoulder at the paper.
"I know."! Lily agreed, "but I don't get why he is doing this, at the rate he's going there will be no witches or wizards left!"
"He's doing it," Peter said in sheepish voice, "because he believes all muggle born are scum, and don't have the right to study magic!" Then he added in a whisper so no one could hear him, "and I think he's got the right idea!"
"But that's rubbish!" Remus said, "muggle bourns have just as much right to study magic as the rest of us."
"And not forgetting you know who is actually half blood himself." Jess added.
Peter then got up and left the table.
"Where's he going?" Emma asked.
Remus just shrugged, "probably forgot some homework."
Peter went out into the castle grounds and sat in the snow.
"How dare they talk about the Dark Lord about that!" he said fuming. The last few months he had been playing with the idea of joining the Dark side and becoming a death eater.
He had been approached by Severus Snape, who Peter actually thought was quite a nice person, well he had the right idea at least. Snape had offered him protection, he had offered him a chance to become a Death Eater, to get rid off all the scum that shouldn't be taught magic, those not worthy.
Peter had first refused, but he was coming around to the idea now. You know what they say, if you can't beat them join them, and it was becoming apparent that the Dark side was unstoppable.
"I wonder if the offer is still open?" Peter said to himself, he decided to find Snape later and have a little chat.
Later that night Peter had arranged a meeting with Snape at midnight in the libary, when no one would be around. He had made up his mind, he was going to be a Death Eater, he was going to do the work of the noble dark lord.
Lily and James were doing the late night patrol of the corridors, it was their job being head students, and it was one of the only opportunities they to be with each other properly.
They walked the seventh floor corridor hand in hand, they came to the entrance of the library.
"Shall we check it?" James asked.
Lily yawned and nodded.
James opened the door and walked in, Lily followed and closed the door.
"Do you hear that?" James asked.
Lily strained her ears and listened, she heard the low grumble of voices.
"Who is it?" She whispered to James.
"Don't know." He replied.
They followed the sound, being careful to hide behind the book shelves so not to be seen. They stopped behind a shelf and listened.
"So you have finally come around, I knew you would." Came one voice, it was a mans voice, but it was so quiet that they couldn't distinguish it.
"Well, it would be stupid to resist." Came another voice, it as also a mans, and it sounded vaguely familiar.
"The Dark Lord will be pleased. I will inform him immediately." Came the first mans voice.
Lily looked at James worriedly.
James put a comforting arm on her shoulder and moved some books apart, trying to see who was there.
One of the books fell, and the people went silent.
James forced Lily under a nearby table, quickly following her as a dark figure looked around seeing who had dropped the book.
When he saw no one he turned to the other man and said, "tell no one of this meeting, if you do I will kill you!"
Then the first man left, followed a few seconds by the second one.
Lily and James remained under the table until they were sure that they were gone, and immediately went to the head masters office.
A/N: I HATE PETER PETTIGREW!
Sorry I just wanted to get that out of my system, but I do hate him, I think I might kill him just for the fun of it, what do you think? Or will it ruin the plot too much?
She woke up when she heard the door close and she bolted upright and looked straight at James, who was trying to run away as quickly as possible.
"Oh no you don't!" Lily said sleepily, but it still had the same effect.
"Good luck mate." Sirius said yawning as he walked out of the room after Peter and an extremely sick looking Remus.
James hung his head and fumbled around until he got to a chair.
"What the hell was going on last night?" Lily asked, she seem so awake even though it was six in the morning.
"Well," James said, he was in a bad position, he didn't want to betray his friends, but he didn't want to lie to Lily the woman he loved. He had tried to talk to Sirius and Peter about it last night but Peter had been asleep, and Sirius had just said do what ever you think is right.
"Well?" Lily asked impatiently.
James took a deep breath. "I'm going to tell you……. But you have to promise not to tell anyone, not a soul."
"…… OK…." Lily said slowly.
James took another deep breath, "well, the reason I can turn into a stag is because, me Sirius and Peter are all……… illegal animangi………. I'm the stag, Sirius the dog, and Peter is a Rat."
"But what about Remus?"
"I'm getting to that." James said, "well the reason we are animangi is because we wanted to keep Remus company during his transformations……."
"What…… you mean……… Remus is a werewolf?" Lily asked shocked.
James just nodded, "that's the reason Dumbledore put the whomping willow on the grounds, to guard the entrance to a secret tunnel we use to get to the shrieking stack."
"But the shrieking stack is haunted." Lily said confused.
"No, the noises people hear are Remus, I think Dumbledore just encouraged those rumours." James said, he rubbed his eyes tiredly.
They sat in silence, Lily just taking in the information she was being told, and James just trying to get his eyes open.
"You know you should never have been out there last night, you could have been killed." James said looking at Lily seriously, he seem different, older, more mature.
"I know I shouldn't have, but how was I to know there was a werewolf out there." Lily said, she knew she should be mad at James, but she couldn't be.
"I'm sorry I lied to you…… I should have told you, it's just that well I promised my friends and I am in Gryffindor." James said proudly.
Lily smiled slightly and sat close to James, "you do know that being an illegal animangi is a serious offence, and so is sneaking out of school." Lily said.
James just nodded and hung his head.
"And I am going to have to tell Emma about this, I tell her everything…And Jess and Laura. " Lily said.
James just nodded his head again. "I understand, and don't worry, I won't tell anyone that we kissed of anything. I'll just pretend it didn't happen."
"Why?" Lily asked.
"Because I know you won't want to go out with me anymore, not after I kept something like this from you, " he said to the floor.
Lily smiled and lifted James head up, "I'm not going to dump you, we have only been going out for a day!"
James looked up smiling, "really?"
"Yes." Lily said and she kissed him.
Wow James thought, most people would flip if they found out that they went to the same school as a werewolf.
"Aren't you scared about Remus?" He asked.
"No," Lily said, "I know he would never hurt a fly as a human, it's just a shame that he has this……… curse….." Lily said.
James grinned, "your amazing."
"I know." Lily said jokingly, "and so are you!"
The rest of the holidays zoomed by, Lily had of course told Emma, Jess and Laura all about the marauders secret the first chance she got.
Laura, being Remus official girlfriend, took it worst of all. But then again if you had found out your boyfriend was a werewolf what how would you take it.
"Well," She said when Lily told her, "he was too good to be true, there had to be a floor."
They returned to school and were immersed in work for their upcoming NEWTS. Lily had already started revising, much to the disbelief to her friends.
"How can you start revising now, I'd forget it all by the time the exams came around!" She said.
January passed and February arrived bringing with it more snow, and of course more work!
"How the hell are you going to pass your NEWTS if your out on the Quiddich pitch all hours of the day?" Remus asked Sirius and James after they came in from a training session early in the morning.
"I can't neglect my duties as captain Moony, Gryffindor will win the house cup again for the fourth year in a row!" James said.
"Here Here!" Sirius said banging his fist down on the table.
Remus just rolled his eyes, "the girls are in the Great Hall." He said as he left with Peter for breakfast.
He walked into the Great Hall and sat next to Laura.
"Morning beautiful." He whispered in her ear.
Laura smiled and kissed him on the cheek, she had been quiet since she found out that he was a werewolf.
"Where's James?" Lily asked.
"He's getting changed after Quiddich training." Remus said.
"God! how can he get up so early and play quiddich?" Emma asked.
Remus just shrugged.
"So Peter how are you today?" Lily asked Peter, he didn't seem to talk much, Lily thought he might feel a bit left out.
"Huh?" Peter asked, he seemed surprised at being talked to directly.
"I said, how are you." Lily repeated as if she were talking to a child.
"Oh……. Um…….. Fine." Peter said, he had never really liked Lily, sure she was good looking but she was muggleborn, enough said in his opinion!
An owl fluttered down to Lily with a newspaper, the Daily Prophet, Lily put some money in its pouch and it flew off.
She unfolded the paper and looked at the first page, on it was a picture of a village with the dark mark floating over every house.
"That's terrible." Laura said looking over Lily's shoulder at the paper.
"I know."! Lily agreed, "but I don't get why he is doing this, at the rate he's going there will be no witches or wizards left!"
"He's doing it," Peter said in sheepish voice, "because he believes all muggle born are scum, and don't have the right to study magic!" Then he added in a whisper so no one could hear him, "and I think he's got the right idea!"
"But that's rubbish!" Remus said, "muggle bourns have just as much right to study magic as the rest of us."
"And not forgetting you know who is actually half blood himself." Jess added.
Peter then got up and left the table.
"Where's he going?" Emma asked.
Remus just shrugged, "probably forgot some homework."
Peter went out into the castle grounds and sat in the snow.
"How dare they talk about the Dark Lord about that!" he said fuming. The last few months he had been playing with the idea of joining the Dark side and becoming a death eater.
He had been approached by Severus Snape, who Peter actually thought was quite a nice person, well he had the right idea at least. Snape had offered him protection, he had offered him a chance to become a Death Eater, to get rid off all the scum that shouldn't be taught magic, those not worthy.
Peter had first refused, but he was coming around to the idea now. You know what they say, if you can't beat them join them, and it was becoming apparent that the Dark side was unstoppable.
"I wonder if the offer is still open?" Peter said to himself, he decided to find Snape later and have a little chat.
Later that night Peter had arranged a meeting with Snape at midnight in the libary, when no one would be around. He had made up his mind, he was going to be a Death Eater, he was going to do the work of the noble dark lord.
Lily and James were doing the late night patrol of the corridors, it was their job being head students, and it was one of the only opportunities they to be with each other properly.
They walked the seventh floor corridor hand in hand, they came to the entrance of the library.
"Shall we check it?" James asked.
Lily yawned and nodded.
James opened the door and walked in, Lily followed and closed the door.
"Do you hear that?" James asked.
Lily strained her ears and listened, she heard the low grumble of voices.
"Who is it?" She whispered to James.
"Don't know." He replied.
They followed the sound, being careful to hide behind the book shelves so not to be seen. They stopped behind a shelf and listened.
"So you have finally come around, I knew you would." Came one voice, it was a mans voice, but it was so quiet that they couldn't distinguish it.
"Well, it would be stupid to resist." Came another voice, it as also a mans, and it sounded vaguely familiar.
"The Dark Lord will be pleased. I will inform him immediately." Came the first mans voice.
Lily looked at James worriedly.
James put a comforting arm on her shoulder and moved some books apart, trying to see who was there.
One of the books fell, and the people went silent.
James forced Lily under a nearby table, quickly following her as a dark figure looked around seeing who had dropped the book.
When he saw no one he turned to the other man and said, "tell no one of this meeting, if you do I will kill you!"
Then the first man left, followed a few seconds by the second one.
Lily and James remained under the table until they were sure that they were gone, and immediately went to the head masters office.
A/N: I HATE PETER PETTIGREW!
Sorry I just wanted to get that out of my system, but I do hate him, I think I might kill him just for the fun of it, what do you think? Or will it ruin the plot too much?