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At eight thirty, James decided it would be best to go with Lily. He gathered his map and his invisibility cloak and put them into his back pack. He still felt bad about letting the "pillow" fight go to far. But it would be a bad idea to let Lily be alone on the grounds with the possibility of Remus escaping as a were-wolf.

Fifteen minutes latter, James zipped his bag and ran out his dormitory to meet Lily. He was surprised to see that she was actually waiting impatiently for him.

"Well," she said stiffly, "I figured you would come anyway." She glanced at the bag. "What's that, Potter?"

James shrugged. "Just some things I'll need for later."

Lily sighed and turned on her heal toward the portrait hole. James followed her in silence all the way down the marble stair case and out the main doors of the castle.

Lily looked up at the big silver moon, and the bright cascade of stars that lit the deep September sky. She took a deep breath and said rather forcefully, "Lovely night. Isn't it?" She then took out her wand and muttered, "Lumos" causing a steady, bright stream of light to shoot out of the end of her wand.

They walked along in silence as the warm night air rushed over them. James was uneasy. His breath was coming fast. His adrenaline was rushing through his veins.

"CRACK"

James pulled Lily behind a bush, and put his hand over her mouth. His breath was coming quicker now; his heart was slamming against his chest. He was looking wildly around for whatever had made the noise.

"What are you doing, Potter?" Lily spat.

"Sh-Shh, quiet. I heard something."

"What? Oh, you mean the twig I stepped on?"

"No, it was coming from our right."

"What was it then?"

"I don't know." Said James peering through the leaves, "But I do have an idea ."

He pulled his bag off his shoulders. He rummaged around in it till finally he pulled out an old grubby bit of parchment.

"What's that?"

James ignored the question. He tapped his wand to the parchment and murmured, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." Then instantly, trails of ink began to form on the parchment, revealing a map of the Hogwarts School and grounds, including hundreds of little dots with names beside them. Most of the students' dots were stationed in the four corners of the castle, with the exception of James Potter and Lilly Evans, and to the right of them in close proximity, two dots marked Luscious Malfloy and Severus Snape.

Lily gave the map a double take. She pulled it out of James' hands and stared at it opened mouthed.

"Where did you get this, Potter?" Lily asked breathlessly.

"I made it with Remus and Sirius." Said James rummaging again through his pack.

"Is this accurate?"

"It never lies."

"Then we need to go over there and tell Snape and Malfoy to get back to the castle."

James grabbed her by the arm and pulled her down to the ground beside him.

"Or," James said slyly holding up his invisibility cloak. "Let's find out what they're up to. Shall we?"

Lily returned the sly grin. They stood up together. Lily carefully put her arm around James so he could pull the cloak around both of them. They walked carefully to the other side of the lake and crouched just on the outskirts of the forest so they could hear exactly what was being said, without being detected.

"Now Luscious, be reasonable. All I'm saying is this. I don't think it wise to start now."

"And why not Severus?"

"Because doing this under Dumbledore's nose will mean more consequence then a detention if we're caught."

"We have our orders. We must do it."

"Yes but we have to do it gently. Or others will become wise to it."

"The teachers will never suspect…"

"I'm not talking about the teachers, Luscious."

There was a short pause. Then Malfoly said, "You speak of Potter?"

"Potter lacks brains." Snape said with a sneer.

"Do not underestimate Potter, Severus. His hatred for the dark arts and for the Dark Lord has only grown over the summer. Potter will be a force to be reckoned with."

There was another short pause.

"If not Potter, then which student, Severus?"

"Evans."

There was a shrill ecstatic laughter.

"EVANS? Oh come now Severus you can't mean that disgusting mud blood. She's a disgrace to the arts of magic."

James felt a surge of hatred toward them both. Despite it, He grabbed hold of an enraged Lily who was fighting and wiggling trying to free herself. She was longing to blast them both into a million pieces.

"Let me go, James."

"Lily, quit."

"I'll show them who's disgusting."

"Be quiet, Lily they'll hear us."

She started to shriek something. But before she scarcely made and audible noise, James cupped his hand around her mouth and hissed in her ear.

"Stop it Lily, we both know that they are the disgrace not you. Relax. They can't know were here." James began to listen hard.

Malfloy and Snape had made there way closer to where they were.

"I think it was over here." Malfloy's voice was closer.

"Why would any body be over here, Luscious? It's too close to the forest. The moon is full and the forest is full of were-wolves."

"Yes, but…"

"Let's continue this upstairs in our dormitory."

"Yes," Malfoly said more slowly, "Let's do."

James and Lily waited until they knew the close was clear. When it was, Lily threw off the cloak and pushed James' hand away from her mouth. She stormed away from him.

"Come on Potter, We got to go to Dumbledore."

"With what?" James stood in his tracks, holding his cloak limply at his side.

Lily looked scandalized, "With WHAT? Potter, did you not hear them?"

"Yes, love, I did. But all we know is that…"

"That they're taking orders from Voldormort…"

"Wrong. All we know is that they are taking orders form someone. All we know it could be something their little Slytherin group has come up with, maybe a prank against one of the houses. Gryffindor is playing against them in two weeks."

"Oh great theory James, but may I point out one thing?"

"What's that?"

"Why would they be facing more than a detention if it were a prank?"

"It might be a serious prank, something that may merit suspension."

There was the distant sound of howling, and a barking dog.

Lily looked enraged. But she looked down at the ground accepting her defeat.

"Look," said James folding up his invisibility cloak and kneeling down to put it back in the bag, "Whatever they are up to, we'll find out. They will make the mistake of talking about it again. We just have to be there when they do."

"I can't believe that I'm supposed to be the 'disgrace to the magical arts'," Said Lily quietly running her hand through her hair but still looking at the ground.

James stood up watching her carefully. She turned her back to him. Then said, "I'm sorry I was so harsh with you today, James. I have been way out of line. It's just, now that you're head boy, I thought I could expect a lot more out of you. Then you tear your room apart with the Gryffindor Prefect, and Sirius, who every one looks up to, and it just ruined my expectations." Lily turned to face James again, "It's not your fault, James. You can't change who you are."

"And neither can you. You are a very talented and clever witch. Your parents love you, and you mean a great deal to your friends. Don't let something Severus Snape or Luscious Malfoy say make you feel like less of a person, because you're not."

"Thanks Potter." Lily said with a weak smile.

"No problem. Are you going to be all right?" James asked.

"Yeah I think I will be. But I still feel bad for being so hateful when you've been so kind."

"Me too," James agreed, "We have both been horrible to each other. Seeing as how we are Head Boy and Head Girl, let's just start all over and forget this nonsense." James stuck out his right hand. "Hi, I'm James Potter."

Lily looked at him skeptically. "Potter…"

"No, no, Please, Call me James, Miss?"

Lily giggled slightly. "How do you do, James? My name is Lily Evans."

"It is a pleasure, Miss Evans."

"Thank you, but please, call me Lily."

James gave an exaggerated sigh, "Wow, I'm glad that's over. I don't know why but, I've been so nervous about meeting you."

Lily laughed at James until a barking dog came bounding out of the forest and began to push the back of Lily's knees with his nose.

"Oh My!" Lily said startled by the big dogs attempts to push her toward the castle. There was a howl of a strange animal coming from just inside the forest. The dog began to bark more aggressively and pulled at the cuff of James' pants.

A sudden rush of understanding came over James. Remus had escaped the Shrieking Shack and now Lily was in a lot of trouble.

James grabbed Lily's hand. "Come on hurry."

They ran at full speed to the other side of the lake and up the hill toward the castle before James Pulled Lily behind a tree. He peeked out from behind it and saw the big black dog snarling and snapping at a large creature, it seemed like it was half a wolf, and half a man. Lily poked her head out too, screaming at what she saw. The wolf stopped in mid-swing looking into their direction. The dog ceased the moment by jumping up and grabbing him by the throat.

"Oh God James, that's a werewolf! We need to get out of here."

"Right," James said panicked, watching the dog run into the forest and the wolf following close behind. " Run back to the castle and don't look back." Lily nodded and did as she was told. She took four strides before stopping to turn back, "But James, what about…" but James had gone.

She peered around the tree to see a stag sprinting down the hill and into the forest.

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