"Have you gone mad Moony! She's a bloody Slytherin, you can't trust the lot of them." Sirius's words practically echoed in through the Gryffindor common room.
"What's going on?" James asked, returning with Lily.
"Nothing much mate." Sirius shot back. "Just Remus here, going and losing his bloody mind!"
James looked from Sirius, to Remus, and back again. "Someone care to explain? Padfoot? Moony?"
Peter came down the dorm stairs. "What's with all the racket?" he was busy wiping sleep from his eyes.
"Moony has gone mental." Sirius replied to the assembled group, dropping down into a chair by the fireplace.
"I have not." Remus finaly spoke. "I didn't say I believed her." Frowning he looked around at the assembled group. The Marauders and Lily looked back at him expectantly. Sirius looked back, as if he really did believe Remus had lost it, James, Lily, and Peter, waiting for any sign they would. Remus looked back down at his one hand, opening and closing it repeatedly.
"You do believe her." Sirius had a serious tone in his voice.
Remus continued to frown. "Maybe I do after all."
Lily looked back and forth at the boys. "Does anyone care to explain. Or do we have to figure it out on our own?"
"Moony here solved our dinner time mystery for us Prongs." Sirius commented. "Seems Miss Vargus has her eyes on our..." he dropped his voice, just in case anyone else was lurking about. "werewolf."
Remus scowled at Sirius. "Lorelei told me something tonight."
"Lorelei is it?" James chimed in. "Sounds serious Moony."
This ellicted and eye rolling at James from Remus and Lily both. "It's nothing like that." He leaned up against the edge of the couch, hands in his pockets. "Seems...Miss Vargus and I share a...condition."
"Condition?" Peter looked up confused from his place, sitting by the hearth.
"She says she's a werewolf." Sirius cut in. "Tell them what else she said Moony, go on, tell them."
"I would, if you could be quite for more than five seconds." Remus spat back. Taking a deep breath, Remus looked at each of the assembled group each in turn, once more. "She has this amulet. A silver medallion."
"Well that right there proves she's lying." James broke in.
Remus shook his head. "I touched it Prongs. I held it in my hand." He opened and closed his hand once more. "It didn't burn. It was cold, and felt...It felt bloody amazing!" he exclamined. "It felt like...hope."
"Are you sure it was really silver?" Lily asked.
Remus shrugged. "I guess it could be faked, platinum, or white gold. But..." He let a sigh escape. "I think she was telling the truth."
"How do you purpose we find out Moony?" James asked.
Remus glanced at Sirius, then back at James. "She said she would prove to me what she is...And that the amulet works. At the full moon."
"He wants to bring her with us to the Shrieking Shack." Sirius announced.
The rest of the group looked at Remus shocked, he shrugged. "Worst possible case. She's lying, and someone has to drag her out of there before I rip her to shreds." It was a bad attempt at humour on Remus's part. "Best case. She's telling the truth. She is what I am. And she can offer me a cure." Hope hung on those last words. And after a bit, it was decided. The next full moon, the Marauders would take Belinda Lorelei Vargus to the Shrieking Shack.