Hey guys! I want to thank all of you who have been reviewing. It's been great! But I couldn't help but commenting on a certain review I got. Terrorists/ Death Eaters? The Marauders? I'm sorry, but don't you feel you're using that term a little to the extreme? I think that's just taking it a little too seriously. If you don't think that the Marauders are good people as characters, can I ask why you even read my fan fiction?

Other than that, you guys have all been great! I'd like to see a little more constructive criticism on your part so I can improve on my creative writing!

Chapter 5: A Night to Remember Pt 1.

Four days passed in what seemed like the blink of an eye. It was now Friday night, and the three remaining Marauders seemed particularly apprehensive during classes.

Remus had been very apt to take his potion the previous days and was feeling the effects of the moon taking its toll on his body. He skipped today's classes on account to his ailing health.

Classes for the day had finally ended, and after dinner the three Marauders and Lily sat in the Gryffindor common room with the rest of their House. Lily sat by the fire, studying her Advanced Potions book and Peter laid in front of her with his Herbology homework spread out in front of him.

The last two, however, decided that homework was overrated at this time of night. Instead, they played in a game of wizard chess were James won magnificently with a bundle of vicious pawns and a particularly violent queen's side castle.

Slowly, the common room began to waiver thin as droopy eyed students made their way up to bed.

Finally, Lily closed her book shut and placed it back in her bag, "I'm going to bed. I guess I'll see you all tomorrow then." She walked over to James and kissed the top of his head.

He let out a distracted grunt of acknowledgement, keeping his eyes set on the game in front of him, "See you in the morning."

Suddenly, Sirius swiftly moved his pawn to the edge of the board and shouted, "King me!"

James glanced up at him and asked, "Did you just say 'King me'?"

Sirius nodded, looking smug.

James smiled and tried not to laugh, "Did you think that we've been playing checkers this entire time?"

Lily smiled as she walked up the spiral staircase, listening to Sirius's groans of disappointment. ("I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS GAME! YOU'VE BEEN CHEATING!")

Settled in bed and shutting off her bedside lamp, Lily nestled into her covers and listened to the silence of her dormitory. The full moon's rays shone through her window and onto the covers of her bed. Her thoughts drifted back and forth to her boyfriend and her internal conflict about telling him what she's been doing after classes.

But he had plenty more secrets of his own that she felt completely cancelled out hers.

Secrets were the biggest problem between their relationships with each other. Things not said between them seemed to push Lily and James further apart.

It hurt Lily with the fact that this could be a parting of ways between James and herself.

Eventually, Lily drifted off into an uneasy sleep.

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"Think she's asleep yet?" asked Sirius, after a good amount of time had passed since Lily had gone upstairs.

"Yeah. She should be," said James. "Let's go."

James scaled the stairs and retrieved his invisibility cloak as well as changed into Muggle clothing. Sirius and Peter came up behind as they changed into their Muggle clothing as well.

Ever so quietly, the three made their way down the stairs, out the portrait hole (concealed underneath the cloak), and descended the marble staircase.

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Remus was hunched in a corner of the Shrieking Shack, breathing heavily as the effects of his curse began to make him transform.

Gasps and growls escaped from his throat as the skin on his body turned into dark grey fur. He dug his quickly changing fingers into his face as his nose began to elongate into a pointed snout.

He ripped the clothes off of his body and screamed into the ceiling of the room. His eyes changed to a yellow color and finally the transformation was complete.

Where Remus once crouched, a large grey wolf now stood. His yellow eyes danced across the room and observed his surroundings, sniffing the air.

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"I think we can take the cloak off now," said Peter, once they had made down the stairs and across the grounds towards the Whomping Willow.

James pulled it off the three of them and wrapped it up and put it in his bag. They walked around the bend of trees and out of sight of the castle.

Close to the tree, the three stopped.

"Come on, Peter. It's cold. Hurry up," Sirius said, clutching himself and bouncing on the balls of his feet.

"Alright! Alright!" Peter said annoyed. "Be back in a few."

Peter soon changed into his Animagus form; a rat. He scampered in the grass towards the trunk of the enormous tree.

The Whomping Willow had a bad reputation at the school. The tree would literally whomp anyone who came within reach of the long branches. Dumbledore soon made going anywhere near the tree forbidden once a boy nearly lost an eye on account of a dare to get as close to it as possible.

The reason it was put there in the first place was so Remus could sneak out during the full moon and hide in his secret place away from any human contact. The Shrieking Shack, a formidable haunted house, was the perfect spot.

At the base of the tree was a knot in the trunk. Touching the twisted bark with is paw, Peter made the tree freeze; rigid in place. It wouldn't move again for a full 2 minutes.

" 'Atta boy," said Sirius, thankful to get out of the cold. He moved forward and squeezed in between the trunk to slide into the tunnel. James followed soon after, with Peter at his heels.

Peter transformed back into his human form, getting up from his sprawled position on the floor.

"Remus should be waiting for us. Let's go," James said, running down the tunnel and to their meeting place.

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Lily stirred from her bed. Sitting up, she had been chilled from the brisk night's breeze through the slightly open window.

She swung her legs over the side and crept to the glass to close it. But as she grasped onto the handles, her eye caught something in the moonlight that made her angry. From what she could see it was James, Sirius and Peter making their way quickly across the grass.

"You've got to be kidding me…" she mumbled, watching the figures run across the grounds and disappear from view.

So this is one thing that they've been keeping from her. She was sick of them always talking about some secret adventures but she'd never cared to find out how they'd been doing them. This was her time to confront James about how she disliked the secrets between them.

I'm such a hypocrite, she thought, I'm keeping secrets from him and getting upset about his own! Besides… they're out of bed after hours.

She clambered over to her bed and to her trunk to get clothes. She found a pair of jeans, a T-Shirt and her dark blue pea-coat. She pulled her straight red hair up into a ponytail and tugged on a pair of running shoes. She knew she'd need them.

Lily got up and crossed the dormitory quietly and down the spiral staircase.

"I'm going to kill you, James Potter," she said to herself as she jogged out of the portrait hole and down the hallway.

That's all for now. I've got to head off to my relative's place for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner. It's snowing too! The first snow of the year! Yay! I'm so happy. And a double bonus: a week long break from school starts tomorrow! (Squee!) This means I'll be writing a lot more. See you all soon.

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Happy Thanksgiving! (To everyone who celebrates it.)