Chapter 3
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AN: Well here is the update, for those who have been waiting. I'm really sorry this is in very late. I had exams to study for, chores to do, and my beta reader as busy as I am!
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Once more, thanx to my beta reader, Madman! (Who is actually smart, 2nd in class!)
Chapter 3
Remus opened his eyes and looked around the room. The sun was shining through the broken roof. Looking down at the floor he could see Padfoot and Prongs sleeping beside the bed where Remus was currently on. Werewolves aren't known to share very well, and this caused his friends to get frequent backaches.
Remus got out of bed and walked to a closet in the shack. Inside it were a couple of sets of robes. Remus quickly picked one and put it over his naked body. Thank goodness the windows had grime on them…
Pocketing his wand, which he took from the table beside the closet, Remus walked over the still figures of his friends, who were still in their animal forms on the floor. Something looked different about them…besides the fact they were animals.
Remus kneeled down next to the massive dog and prodded the dog's body. Sirius shifted his head slightly in discomfort. Only when Sirius moved his head did Remus see the three scratches below the dogs jaw.
Remus suddenly remembered the night before. Images started flooding his head, like a broken movie with scenes split up. He could remember fighting with Padfoot and himself racing with Prongs after a girl that he vaguely recognized…
After the flashes stopped, it took Remus a few seconds to recognize the girl that he was chasing. Realizing it was Lily; Remus went into a state of panic. He needed answers NOW, and the only way to get them was to shake Padfoot frantically. The big dog woke up with a start and transformed into his regular self.
"Remus, What's going on? You bloody well almost shook me to death!"
Sirius paused for a second remembering what happened with Lily. Just the thought of Lily made his hand move to his cheek where Lily had slapped him, but he accidentally touched the cuts under his jaw line, making him wince. He then noticed that Remus was glaring at him, and gave a very sheepish grin.
"Bramble bushes grow everywhere these days…"
"Sirius, something happened last night, which made those cuts! Did Lily get out alright?" asked Remus nervously, waving aside the feeble cover-up. This was one of the nightmares come true scenarios which he dreaded since he entered Hogwarts; hurting a student. He could only hope that Lily didn't know who bit her. If he did bite her in the first place, it was a whole other matter of living with a guilty mind.
"Well if you know about Lily, you should know if you bit her." said Sirius simply; he was now sitting on the bed warily.
"I'm serious! Did or did I not bite Lily!" Remus shouted angrily.
"Remus, I'm Sirius. Do you have an identity crisi…"
"What's going on here?" James interrupted Sirius' lame joke.
"Remus was just asking about what happened last night. So sit down and shut up while I explain!" snapped Sirius.
Remus was at the boundary of bursting out in annoyance, nervousness and anger. Remus glared murderously at Sirius, which got his friends attention.
"Before I start, Lily is fine and you surely didn't bite her. At my expense…" Sirius traced his fingers down the three cuts below his jaw.
"Then what happened?" said Remus impatiently.
"Hold on, don't get you knickers in a twist! When we were leaving the shack you kind of got distracted by Lily, who was walking on the grounds, for god knows why. I and James put up a fight and James managed to get Lily to safety while I pushed you back into the shack".
"Oh god, did she find out!" Remus started to hyperventilate as realization struck him: what if the whole school found out about him! The life at Hogwarts he new would be over, but Lily would never let out his secret, or would she? 'Curse all the miserable goody-goody inhabitants of this world!' screamed Remus' mind in overdrive.
James saw this reaction and moved closer to Sirius and Remus.
"Don't worry, we kind of covered it up, but still I don't think Lily bought our excuse that well. All you have to say is that your cousin Harold died." said James in an overly cheery voice.
"But I thought Harold died last month," said Remus with a hint of amusement. Sirius sighed in relief as Remus started to cool down.
James stood up from the bed and cringed while holding his back. Apparently, carrying Lily was harder that he thought it would be.
Sirius looked at James and let out a laugh, James glared at him as he straightened his back.
"Still like Lily, now that you know her weight?" said Sirius sniggering.
"Haha, she is still wonderful, and I'm only sore because this thing has never happened before." said James with dignity.
Sirius added, "You'll be singing a different tune when you find out that you've become a hunchback!"
Sirius and Remus burst into laughter.
James scowled at them and walked away mumbling to himself, which sounded like, "At least I have a girl!"
Unfortunately Sirius heard him: "Sure, those slap marks are proof of her undying affection…"
Sirius and Remus tumbled down with another bout of laughter.
They reached the Professor's McGonagall's class ten minutes late after healing all the visual wounds that they had sustained. James and Sirius stood outside the transfiguration classroom bent over and catching their breath after running through the whole castle trying to avoid teachers and still get their books.
Sirius checked his watch and looked at James, grinning awkwardly.
"We broke our record!"
"Yeah, I felt like collapsing somewhere between here and the common room." said James, still panting.
"Ok, lets go in, or else McGonagall will have our heads. And James, try to look normal".
James looked at Sirius with mock offence as Sirius opened the room, revealing the classroom. McGonagall was looking at them with a stern look on her face, one that would send first years crying…..but neither of them minded it much.
"Mr. Black, Mr. Potter, where have you been? Class started ten minutes ago, that will be twenty points each, now sit down and open your books."
James and Sirius sat down at the back of the class. James tried his best to look normal as he passed by Lily's desk. All he got from Lily was a glare. 'This is not good' he thought to himself as he sat down, Lily was very well known for her temper.
The rest of the class went as normal, during their practical. Lily didn't even glance at James. He slowly started to get worried, 'Lily was angry at something, and it was probably him. Genius, he was to figure it out'…….James quickly shut the mocking voice in his head, but knew it was true.
When the bell rang at the end of the class Lily was the first one to leave the classroom and down the hall. James quickly dumped his stuff in his bag and ran after Lily.
"Lily, come on. What's wrong? Was is about last night?" James asked her as he carefully grabbed her shoulder.
"James, I don't want to talk about it. I know your keeping secrets from me; you didn't think I would believe that excuse you gave me! I thought you changed!" With that Lily turned around and walked down the hall, leaving a stunned James behind
After a few minutes James sighed deeply and turned around, how could he have though that Lily was that dumb, she was always the smart one.
He adjusted his bag on his shoulder and walked towards the Gryffindor tower not bothering to wait for Sirius.
Around the corner Remus walked away from the hall outside the transfiguration classroom. But he didn't miss overhearing what Lily had said to James. He was about to meet James and Sirius, sneaking out of the hospital wing.
There was one thing that Lily said that kept on his mind as he walked down a deserted corridor. 'I thought you changed'. Guilt slowly started to build up in his mind. It was because of him, James had to lie to Lily. Remus knew that Lily couldn't be easily fooled by a lie. She would think it through, go through all the facts. For all they knew she could have already figured out that he was a werewolf.
Remus sighed as he walked further away from the classroom. What was he supposed to do to fix this mess up with out getting himself kicked out of school by angry parents of children, who have prejudices against the likes of him?(and rightly so after yesterday, he thought) Lily wouldn't tell, would she?
Remus couldn't face James now, so he decided to go back to the hospital wing so to keep Madam Pomfrey happy.
TBL: Poor Sirius!
Madman: Remus is in a state of psychological torment and James is dumped by a girlfriend he never had….poor Sirius indeed…..
TBL: Yeah…..Sirius is unfortunate…..
Madman:….If you haven't heard of sarcasm, that was it, right up there….
TBL: I wish somebody would help Sirius…
Madman: twitching left eye …Don't make me wanna hurt you
TBL: Hurt? Yeah, Sirius is hurt….poor guy
Madman: whole body twitching ….Kill the Sirius fanatic…..murder them…..die….die
TBL:…..Sirius will die! Poor fellow! We gotta help him!
Odd bystander outside a room: Sees a person called madman running out saying 'DIE!' and tearing up his hair…….bystander bewildered
TBL: Phew! Our reviewers were getting scared of him………
