~~September 1st~~
Lily, Maggie, and Jess sat in a compartment in silence. The night before they had gone to Mrs. Stone's funeral. It was the hardest thing Lily ever had to do. They all had tried to comfort Jack as much as they could but she never said a word to them except that she would be at Hogwarts the second week of school.
Remus stopped in to the compartment.
"Lily, could I talk to you for a minute?"
Lily nodded and went with Remus to a separate compartment.
"Lily, my transformation is tonight."
Lily snapped her head from the window to Remus. He continued, "I need an excuse to miss the feast and to be gone all night."
Lily thought for a moment and got a simple plan, "Okay. When we get out of the carriages say you aren't feeling well and are feeling kind of…dizzy or like you are going to be sick or something. I'll come over, play dumb, and bring you to the hospital wing. All I have to say is Madame Pomfrey wanted you to stay the night."
Remus smiled, "That's perfect. Thanks Lily."
Lily nodded and turned to leave but Remus grabbed her wrist.
"Lily you never told me your plan."
Lily stared at Remus, "Not here."
"Why not?"
"Because our best friends are outside the door trying to listen to our conversation."
Remus got an angry expression that gave Lily the creeps. He was never angry. He slammed open the door. Sure enough, everyone was standing there. He stared down James and Sirius then walked out of the room. Lily followed him but someone had her arm and pulled her into a compartment.
"James! Let me go!" Lily tried pulling free but he was surprisingly strong for a twelve year old.
"James, let her go. Lily sit." Sirius pushed Lily down onto a seat.
"What's going on with you and Remus?" Sirius asked calmly.
"Nothing is going on." Lily said plainly causing Sirius to sigh.
"Fine then. You give us no choice. James, the potion please."
James slowly walked over to Sirius and pulled a bottle out from his robes.
"What is that?" Lily asked shakily.
"That would be a truth potion." James said.
"You can't give me that!" Lily yelled.
"Yes we can and we are going to. We need to know what is going on. It's something big but he refuses to tell us." Sirius said.
"You guys, this isn't my secret to tell." Lily pleaded.
"I'm sorry Lily we need to know."
James held her down and before Sirius was able to force the potion down, Lily yelled at the top of her lungs, "REMUS!"
Lily choked on the potion. She sat there until Sirius started asking questions.
"What are you doing with Remus?"
"I'm helping him."
"Why does he need help?"
"Because he's a-"
"LILY!" Everyone snapped their heads to the door. Remus was standing there panting.
"What did you do to her?" Remus asked very angrily.
"Lily-why are you helping Remus?" Sirius asked again ignoring Remus.
"Because he's a w-"
"Lily! Come here!" Remus went over and snatched the bottle out of Sirius's head.
"I cannot believe you two." Remus said disappointed.
"Woah. What is going on?" Lily asked grabbing her head. No one said anything. Lily sat there for a couple minutes trying to think when it dawned on her.
"Oh my god…I am going to kill you guys!"
Lily lunged onto Sirius and slapped him hard on his cheek. She hit him again hard on the other cheek and got off of him. She moved onto James doing the same thing.
"You two deserve worse bit I don't want to be in your presence as you are both selfish and obviously no friend of mine." Lily said this in a scary calm voice and then walked out of the compartment. Remus shook his head at them and walked out.
"Maybe there was a better way to go about this." Sirius said.
"You're a quick one Sirius." James said with a bit of annoyance.
"Shut up." Nothing else was said.
~~In the Common Room later that Night~~
Lily looked out the window and watched Remus being escorted to the Whomping willow. Her plan worked perfectly and everyone thought Remus was in the hospital wing. Lily had been waiting at the window to see him go. Once Remus was out of site Lily went up to her dorm and pulled out her books. She wanted to be an animagus by the end of the year.
