The Marauders

Dungeon time, Chapter 7

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James sat back against a wall and stared into space while Sirius laid back in his cot and Peter looked around aimlessly. It was Remus, again, who decided on a subject to talk about.

"Erm… I just realised something guys." He said, looking up out of the window.
"What?" James said, almost absent-mindedly.

"It's a full moon… I'm gonna change…"

All three of them were immediately alert, looking up at the window, the clouds were obscuring their view of the moon, but as they drifted past they readied themselves for the transformation.

The clouds past and, it was a crescent moon.

"You guys shoulda seen your faces." Remus said, laughing, spitting milk through his nose, or he would have if he had milk.

"That wasn't funny Mooney… but I'm impressed, I didn't know you had it in you." Sirius said, sitting back down.

"Thanks." Mooney said, calming down, "but seriously, what would you have done if I had been about to change?"

"Same thing as we always do, go animal ourselves and calm you down." James said, shrugging and re-pocketing his wand.

"Fair enough," Remus said, laying back and closing his eyes.

"So, how longs it been now?" Peter asked, scurrying over and sitting next to Remus. Though he pretended to like everyone equally Remus did move over a little bit so that Peter wasn't touching him. "Erm… we've been here for 4 hours now. I'd say it's about 3am."

"Maybe we should just get some shut eye." James said reasonably, staring at the window.

"Sounds fair… I mean if we're asleep we can't be attacking each other."

"That's true" Remus said, "but how do I know that you wont take us down in our weakened state?"

"Well, one because we actually like you Mooney, and two because we'll be asleep as well." James said. "And I suppose I can leave rat features alone if it really means that much to you."

"I just think that with Voldermort out there… well we shouldn't have any quarrels, there are bigger fish to fry." Remus said. "if you cant be nice to your friends, who can you count on?"

"Ok, from now on I will only pick on Snivellius, deal?" James asked, stretching out his arm to shake on it.

Remus considered for a moment and then conceded, "deal." He smiled, shaking on it.

"Ok, so how do we decide who gets the cots and who sleeps on the floor?" Sirius asked, immediately getting onto his cot again.

"Erm…" Remus said, looking around. Peter was already asleep on the hay in a corner.

"Ok, well I don't mind sleeping on the floor." James said. "You can have my cot Mooney."

"Thank you Prongs" Remus said, pulling himself up and walking over.

"No problem, I can't sleep on things like that anyway." James said crossing the room and sitting on the hay in the opposite corner. He laid his head back and closed his eyes.