Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any other of J.K Rowling's creations. I don't own, you don't sue! I do however own Annabel as she is a character I have created as well as Vixen Rogue.

My first Harry Potter fanfic so please review, I need help with ideas! Excuse my crappy spelling and grammar for it really is not my strong point.

Note: It's now a 20+ chapter fic but I'm considering making it longer. Sorry for adding more again. Upcoming chapter is 'Midnights Man' chap 24.

Couldn't fit everything in 12 chapters so it's going to be 25 chapters long.

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Chapter 23: Heading for a Fall

'This is stupid,' Lupin muttered, glancing at Sirius who was again snivelling on the sofa.

'I'm not stupid,' he grumbled, fresh tears streaming down his cheeks as he watched Lupin, try to cheer him up.

'I didn't say you. Ok how 'bout this. Knock knock…'

'Who's there?' Sirius burbled.

'Doctor…'

'Doctor who?'

'You just said it,' concluded Lupin, looking at Sirius expectantly. His friend blinked away his tears for a second then spoke.

'I don't get it,' Sirius whimpered, breaking out in full baby sobs.

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'How about this?' Lily said, showing James a picture of himself with his Head Boy badge pinned to his chest.

'Nope. Doesn't ring a bell,' he chirped, lying out on his bed watching Lily snuffle through his stuff, looking for things to jog his memory.

'This?' she asked holding up a picture of him and Sirius water skiing over the summer. Well James was skiing, Sirius was falling off.

'What was the question?' he asked confused about what was going on. Lily sighed.

'Read your notes,' she breathed, turned her back to him and continuing to rummage through his trunk.

'So you're my girlfriend right?' he asked suddenly, scanning quickly over his notes and raising his eyebrows.

'Yes.'

'When did that happen?'

'About two weeks ago after you saved me from being raped,' Lily answered, turning to him.

'Have we- you know?' James questioned, looking at her intently. She blushed.

'Yes,' she mumbled, quickly busying herself with the mess on the floor.

'Interesting,' muttered James.

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'Any luck with James?' Lupin asked as James and Lily descended the staircase.

'What do you think?' Lily answered, approaching Sirius who sitting on the floor with his legs crossed. Surprisingly he wasn't crying.

'That's a no then. Well I managed to stop Sirius from crying for now, but as you can see, he's not going to hold out for long,' Lupin said, nodding towards a sniffing Sirius.

'Where's Vixen?' Lily asked, looking around for her.

'She's gone to get something to eat,' Lupin said, plopping himself down on a chair in exhaustion.

'Who's Vixen?' James muttered, confused.

'Read your damn notes James,' Lupin snapped, causing Sirius to wail in despair once again.

'No need to be horrible to him,' Sirius spluttered, his shoulders shaking slightly with sobs.

'Horrible to who?' James asked.

'Read your notes!'

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'What do you want me to do?' Vixen asked, looking at her new ally with narrowed eyes. She hadn't been at the school for long, but she knew a mudblood when she seen one. Lily Evans was a ugly tart and didn't deserve the love of a pureblood. Yet she had it.

James Potter was undeniably cute, but Vixen was more concerned with Lily. Her father had always told her that the best way to watch the enemy, was to hide in plain sight. And that is what Vixen had done.

She had become a Gryffindor and had befriended them, enabling her to get easy access to mudblood's such as James's little whore. Lily Evans was going to pay and the easiest way to do that, was through James.

'I want you to report to me how they're getting on with the spells? Tell me if they have made any progress for tonight I challenge them,' Snape replied…

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'I really think you should go and have some dinner,' simpered Vixen, twenty minutes later. She needed them to see Snape, so he could confront them. If they didn't, another plan would fail.

'Hmm. Maybe your right,' Lupin said tiredly, putting down the puppets he was using to try and make Sirius laugh.

'Hey! I want to see Gapy and Grumpy. I like them,' Sirius protested, pointing to the hand made puppets in Lupin's hands. They were basically two socks with holes in as eyes that Remus had created.

'No come on. We are going to dinner. Just try not to cry,' Lupin said, extracting the socks from his hands and throwing them down onto the table. Sirius shrieked.

'Your hurting them!' he wept.

'I really need to get out of here,' Lupin stated, pulling Sirius by the arm and heaving him off the chair, despite his whimpering protests. Normally if Lupin would of done this he would of got a smack in the face, but Sirius was now to soft to bother.

'No!' he moaned, trying to pull back.

'This is going to be worth it,' Lupin said mildly, smacking Sirius upside the head and causing him to howl in pain.

'You hurt me!' he yelled, causing Lupin to see a spark of anger in Sirius's eyes that he hadn't seen since the spell had been cast. Lupin backed off in shock.

'Hey! I think we've had a break through!' Lupin called. James, Lily and Vixen all turned round, looking at him in surprise.

'What? What is it?' Vixen prodded eagerly.

'Anger. I saw anger. If you get Sirius really angry he's not as useless,' Lupin explained, looking at Sirius whose eyes were damp, but not watering. He was rubbing his head distractedly.

'Well that's good news. Lets go down to dinner and talk about it,' Vixen said hurriedly, before James or Lily could respond. But surprisingly they nodded…

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'I'm still thinking of ways to cheer Sirius up but nothing seems to be working. I shut him up for a bit with those puppets but he's still not cured,' Lupin said, looking over at Sirius who was shovelling food down his mouth as tears poured silently down his cheeks.

'Obviously,' replied Lily, glancing at him too.

'Whys he crying?' James asked, shuffling through his papers. 'It says here that Sirius was devastated by the cruel treatment of some people called Grumpy and Gapy but nothing else.'

'Its on the back, the bits about Annabel and Snape,' Lily pointed out as a shadow crossed their table.

Looking up they seen Snape leering at them cruelly.

'Talking about me, are we?' Snape laughed coldly, his icy gaze sliding across James, Sirius and Lily.

'Yes and about how you cursed them,' Lupin replied stonily, turning around to face him. With that James looked through his notes, trying to grasp what was going on. However at the top it said Don't ask questions, just do as Lily and Moony say. Reading this he chose to remain silent.

'You mustn't jump to conclusions Mr Lupin,' Snape sneered.

'Did you want anything besides a punch in the face?' James said suddenly. He had no idea what was going on but knew that Snape's reasons for talking to them can't be good.

'Reclaimed your memory yet Potter?' he replied coolly.

'Huh?' was James's reply. He thought nothing was wrong with his memory.

'Read your notes,' hissed Lily.

'Does it say in those notes of yours Potter, about Lily cheating on you in the last week? Twice?' Snape sniggered, casting a wink at a disgusted Lily. James looked around. There was no point in explaining it to him, because he would forget it all anyway.

'Ok do you wanna punch him, or shall I?' Lupin growled, his werewolf half coming through. Snape raised an eyebrow.

'All I wanted to do was challenge you to a little duel tonight, James and Sirius,' Snape muttered quietly.

'How's that going to work? You can't have two on one,' Lupin said.

'Don't worry. I've got that covered,' he replied.

'We will do it!' declared James, with no clue in what he was signing up for. All he knew was that Snape had a sneer on his face that he wanted to wipe off.

'You will?' cried Lupin, looking at James.

'Brilliant. At twelve then in the Room of Requirement,' Snape said, turning on a heel and exiting before they could change their minds.

'James what did you do that for?' Lupin yelped, glaring at a blanked face James.

'What for?' he replied.

'Oh god help us,' Lupin groaned…

To be continued…

A/N The next chapter is when everything kicks off. The whole story has been leading up to it.

Upcoming chapter: Midnights Man

I hope you enjoyed it. If so please review! More soon xxxxx