I WAS going to respond to my reviewers this chapter, for being so nice, but thanks to a certain rule. There is a petition going around about this, I will put down part of what it says.

Dear Writers and Readers on
I'm writing to inform you about a new rule the
Webmaster of has imposed: they've
forbidden us to anwer the reviews. Yep,
you're reading correctly.
At first, it was believed that this was just a rumor,
but some days ago a writer friend was punished
because she answered her reviews in the chapters
of the fic.
Many people think this is very unfair because
that's the only way we have to communicate
with our readers. It's the only way they can know we read their
reviews; we read new opinions and make friends.

This is so wrong. We should be able to answer reviewers! I want you all to know, I would answer you if I could.

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"Why, hello, boys."

James took a step forward, showing (or trying to, he was shaking visibly) Sirius that at least he wasn't afraid. "Who are you?" he said, voice trembling.

She stepped out of a shadow of a tree, coming into view, if only slightly. "I am Edante. But that is of no consequence, for you all shall die now."

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James stepped back, and forced a laugh. "Die? What do you mean? Oh, I get it. A joke, right?" his voice rose pitch rapidly.

She smirked, revealing an abnormally long canine tooth. "A joke? You wish." She stepped forward, and the group stepped back all at the same time.

She was fast approaching, but suddenly James stopped, followed by Sirius then Remus, finally. All stared straight at her eyes. Stepped up, she wove around the group, stopping at Remus, tracing his jaw line gently with soft hands. "You seem like a nice one. You must taste good…" she whispered in his ear. At once he relaxed, barely standing, head tilting to the left. Edante closed in and turned her head. A second later, she had sunk her fangs into his neck.

Before any of them realized what was happening, she jumped back in surprise, hissing. It was like waking up from a dream, as they jerked back from semi-consciousness. Before any of them could do anything, she had turned away and fled.

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The next day, it was spread all over the school. There was a vampire in the school! There was a minor panic within the school. Those who believed the story were glancing around every so often, and those who didn't believe received constant stares.

Classes were taught as usual, but with all the whispering going on it was a pretty safe bet that not many of the students were learning. Word spread fast at Hogwarts, and by lunchtime there wasn't a student or teacher that hadn't heard the rumour.

James, Sirius, and Remus were of course getting a lot of attention. Especially Sirius. He had specially remade the story a bit so that it seemed like he was the hero. Got a lot of sideways glances from his friends for that.

The common room was absolutely abuzz with whispers, just as the classrooms had been. When James, Sirius and Remus entered through the portrait hole, all eyes turned to them. James held up his hands tiredly and said. "Sorry, we can't really talk right now!" They made their way to the boy's dormitory.

En route, they met upon Lily. She had a mad glint in her eye, and was leering at them.

"What's up Lily? Something wrong?" James asked.

"Yea, I mean, what's with the death glare?" Sirius added, his common sense abandoning….oh, wait…he never had any common sense.

Lily walked up to Sirius, and stared him straight in the eye. He grinned and stepped dangerously close to her, stick his face down a bit to be eye-level with her.

THWAP

"OH-MY-GOD!" Sirius dropped to the ground once again, and rolled around in pain. "Is the world out to destroy my manhood or something?" he asked through clenched teeth.

Remus shook his head. "Looks like it."

Lily stormed past them and into the girl's dormitories.

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Lise was in bed, hidden beneath the blankets. Lily pulled the covers off her. "You might want to get up, Lise," she said. "People are going to get suspicious." Lise groaned, and twitched, but didn't move. Lily shook her by the shoulder. "Lise! Get up!" Silence. "Lise!"

Lily ran back down to the common room. The Marauders had yet to leave, for once she was glad. She stomped over to James. "I need to borrow your invisibility cloak!"

James looked taken aback. "What? How do you know about the --"

"Give it!"

He stepped back cautiously. "Alright, alright, I'll get it." He ran as fast as he could up to the boy's dormitories to fetch it.

As he emerged with it Lily immediately grabbed it and ran into the girls dormitory, leaving the boys standing in the common room looking terribly confused.

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I wrote the below note before I saw the petition, I wasn't as mad.

I just thought I might want to put this as an afterthought, but it's need-to-know information.

In this story, neither Lily or Lise are lesbian. This may seen like a bit of a pairing for Lily to be "rescuing" her, but that's just because the boy's are currently to in the dark to know what's going on. I'll just tell you this is a xLise and JamesxLily story. 'nuff said.

Just wanted to make sure you know. :3

Now review, darn you! …sorry it's kinda short.