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Werewolves

"Prongs, Moony needs our help." Sirius shouted. He looked stressed and nervous.

"What's wrong?" James asked. All Sirius did was glance up. Lily was walking up behind James and there was no way that Sirius was going to tell him in front of her. Both Lily and James copied the gesture and they both got the reason behind it.

"Lily I have to go." James shouted. Lily tried to protest but they were already gone. She walked inside to wait for James until he got back hoping that he would be safe with a werewolf.

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"I can not believe that I forgot that it was a full moon." James said.

"Don't worry mate I forgot until about an hour ago."

"Are his parents here?"

"No," Sirius reassured. "They forgot to so it's just us. By the way why was Lily at your house?"

James waved the question off with another. "Is Peter here yet?"

Sirius squirmed. "I didn't think that we need him. Since, well, there is no Whomping Willow to freeze."

"Your call Padfoot. Where is Moony?"

"He is in the woods changing. Here he comes." James turned to look. Sure enough a werewolf came loping up the driveway. Sirius and James hastened to change forms. They took off down the driveway.

An hour later the three Marauders reached their destination. It was an abandoned woods about forty miles south of his house. They would have been they sooner but they had to keep out of sight of muggles and other wizards. Basically they could not be seen. The woods were dark and dreary at this time of night. They ran about another mile in to a big clearing. They had been here many times before over the summers since fifth year. Moony sat down and looked over at Prongs. Thanks for coming James heard inside his head.

No problem. Sorry I forgot. So what do we do now.

Padfoot Both of the animals turned to look at the dog. He had started chasing his tale. He stopped and turned to look at them.

We roam the town. He answered.

After that any person in town that was awake would have looked out their window and seen a strange sight. A wolf, a dog, and a stag loping up and down the streets. Occasionally the wolf bit on the stag's antlers or the dog stopped to chase his tale. But more often then not they were jumping off rooftops or playing a game of hide-and-seek animal style. If that wasn't strange enough they seemed to be in constant communication. Once or twice they stopped and just looked at each other and then all turned and ran in the same direction. A muggle might have contributed this to a strange dream and rubbed their eyes. They would've turned around and gone to bed. A particularly ignorant muggle would've forgotten the entire thing by morning. A witch or wizard might have done something. There was a chance that they would have been recognized as them as agnimas. Then again they might have done the same thing as a muggle. But wasn't it lucky that other then the marauders the closet wizard was currently 120 miles away and every single muggle slept through the night like they had just been subject to a particularly powerful sleeping charm.

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James returned to house at dawn. There was a smile on his face and he was overjoyed to have been a stag again. It had been exactly one lunar month since he had last taken that form. He had missed it. It was a part of him. His smiled faded as he looked at Lily. She had fallen asleep waiting for him. She looked so innocent just lying there on the couch. James leaned down to pick her up. She stirred slightly and James paused, afraid that she had woken up. He realized that she was still sleeping so he carried her up the steps. He carried her to her bed and set her down. He started to walk out when he heard a noise. He turned around and realized that Lily was talking in her sleep. Out of curiosity he leaned his head closer to hear what she was saying. Deep in rem sleep Lily reached out her hand, "James," she whispered. James stood up and smiled for the second time that night. He walked back to his to get a long overdue sleep.

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The next morning Lily woke up around eight. She walked to the kitchen and made some coffee. She grabbed a book and started to read while waiting for James to get out of bed. James rolled out of bed around noon with only five hours of sleep. He rumpled his hair and then checked Lily's room. When he saw that she wasn't in their he walked downstairs. He saw that Lily was in the kitchen.

"Do you ever stop reading?"

Lily wasn't in the mood. "Where were you last night."

"With Sirius and Remus." James answered truthfully.

"Doing what."

"Just hanging out." James didn't want to lie to Lily but it wasn't his secret to tell.

"With a werewolf." Lily couldn't take it anymore. She had known Remus's secret for years. It was time that James knew that she knew.

"You know." James's jaw was hanging open and his voice sounded aghast. "How long."

"Three years. So how were you hanging around with a werewolf." Lily would not be distracted.

"How did you find out." James was trying to subtly change the subject. Breaking the law was not a thing he wanted to admit to her.

"When his grandmother died twice and both times it was on a full moon. So how did you join him."

"I'll have to tell him to get new excuses." James replied.

"So how did you join him?" Lily repeated.

"You want some coffee?"

Lily held up her cup. "So how did you join him?" she said for the third time. "Are you a werewolf too."

"No!"

"Then how do you hang out with him?"

James caved. There was no way he could keep a secret from Lily any longer. And this was his secret to tell. "I'mananimagus." he blurted out real quickly.

"WHAT"

"I'm an animagus."

"I heard what you said the first time. But how and why?

"In fifth grade the other Marauders and I managed it. I changed into a stag, Padfoot dog, and Wormtail rat. We didn't want Moony to have to be alone. In case you can't guess we also got our nicknames that year. Werewolves are only harmful to humans. As animals we are okay. We can even communicate."

"How did you manage that?"

"Two years of hard work. Lily I really don't want to talk about it. Sometime later when all of the Marauders are present we'll explain it more fully. The most important thing right now is did you tell anyone?"

"Of course not. Otherwise Dumbledore would have kicked him out of school."

"Not true. Dumbledore knows." This time it was Lily's turn to be aghast. "Look Lily we'll talk about it some other time." Lily gave in. She nodded. "So did you know that you talk in your sleep?" James asked.

"What did I say."

"James."

"Your kidding."

"Nope, you must really love me to dream about me." Lily had to smile at that.

"Even if I was dreaming of your death."

"You weren't?"

"No I wasn't."

"So what were you dreaming about?"

"You'll never know."

A/N

Did I spell animagus right? I wasn't sure. I started another JamesxLily story, Love happens. Please read it if you get the chance