A/N: thanx so much for all the reviews, and here is a normal sized chapter! And now to reply to my reviews!

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Chapter 9: The Tragic News

James concentrated so hard, trying to figure out what had happened he felt his brain might explode and suddenly he burst out, "How the hell am I supposed to find out!"

"Don't concentrate on it James, relax and it will come to you," Dumbledore said. "Have a lemon drop!"

Slightly annoyed at how Dumbledore wanted to relax and eat candy while something was obviously wrong, James trusted Dumbledore to know what he was doing and took the lemon drop from the little bowl sitting on his desk.

As James sucked on the sugary, sour treat he tried to just clear his mind and not think about what might have possibly happened…so of course he was thinking about Lily. He though about her smile, her laughter and what she would feel like sleeping in his arms, what it would feel like to kiss her… Suddenly whilst he was thinking about these things, it hit him, "It's something about Remus! I don't know who it was though, someone, but they have to do with him!"

"Ah, now just keep thinking about other things and I'm sure the rest will come," Dumbledore said patiently. "But you keep doing that, I will go get Remus and bring him here, I'm sure he'll want to know once you find out."

At that Dumbledore stood up and exited his office, leaving James with only the bowl of lemon drops, Fauks the phoenix and his thoughts.

Just as James had begun reminiscing about detention the previous night with Lily, he knew who it was… Nadia Lupin (Remus's mother).

James felt horrible; Remus's mother was one of the nicest ladies he had ever met. She had always treated James and the other Marauders as though they were her own children. She was so happy that they didn't treat her son any differently because he was a werewolf. James didn't know what may have possibly happened to her, but he just hoped to god that she was still alive.

When he realized that wondering and thinking about what had happened would get him nowhere, James popped another lemon drop in his mouth and started thinking about Lily once again. Her hair was so beautiful, silky and the color…so overwhelmingly red. He just wished she would just give him the chance and go out with him, but he knew he was getting closer. He thought back to his first day at Hogwarts, seeing Lily and thinking that she seemed annoying and touchy, and thought she would be a perfect main target for the majority of his pranks. Now he only wished that he saw her for what a wonderful girl she was and chose a different target…but no he chose Lily. Although when he though about it, it may have been a disguised blessing that he chose her as his target, for then he most likely wouldn't get to know her as well, or have any of the feelings that he had for her.

Just when he was finally feeling a little happy about the whole Lily situation, the final piece of the puzzle came to him. The worst had happened, she was dead. Voldemort killed her, or more one of his death eaters did. Although it was lucky Remus's father was at work or he would have surely been killed too. Voldemort's death eaters had been going around Remus's neighborhood and killing all of the witches and wizards who were "mudbloods" or "blood traitors" and Remus's mother happened to fit into that category.

James was devastated, she couldn't die...she was practically his mother, even though his grandmother also filled that role. As much as James hated crying, he always wanted to look strong but he couldn't stop the slow steady stream of tears running down his face.

When James was finally able to stop the tears from coming he wiped his eyes and hoped that they wouldn't be all red and puffy when Dumbledore came back with Remus.

Five minutes later Remus burst into the office followed by Dumbledore, "What happened!"

James explained to Remus and Dumbledore what had happened. Remus did not cry...he was too sad to cry. All he could do was sit there and stare.

I will contact your father and notify him of what has happened, as doubt he knows already if he is working, and I will send you home.

Remus nodded and Dumbledore disapparated to Remus's father's work.

James and Remus sat in Dumbledore's office, neither saying a word but just staring at the spot where Dumbledore had been sitting.

A few minutes later Dumbledore returned. "Your father has safely made it home and the dark mark has been removed from your house. You can use my fireplace to go home; you will be staying there for a month."

Dumbledore held a jar of floo powder, "Fauks's ashes, phoenix ashes are what we use for floo powder."

Remus forced a smile and grabbed a pinch and stepped into the fireplace. James and Dumbledore smiled at him as he left.

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Taylor Lupin picked up a picture of his beautiful wife Nadia and began to cry. Why did the death eaters have to come here? Why Nadia? Why did this have to happen to him?

Taylor started looking at a knife sitting on the kitchen counter like it was his friend. It was so pretty and shiny, and it could take away his misery, but then he suddenly heard a boom. He set down the knife and all thoughts of it left him, even though his wife may have died he had his sun, Remus.

Remus saw his dad walking into the living room to greet him and suddenly was locked in a tight embrace.

"Dumbledore will send your stuff over later today," Taylor told his son.

Remus saw that his father had tears in his eyes. He didn't know what to say or do, so he just sat down on the couch in extreme despair.

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James left Dumbledore's office feeling completely distraught. He couldn't even think of sleeping when he got back to his dormitory so of course he woke Sirius and Peter.

"What the hell do you want!" cried Sirius when James shook him. He looked over at the clock, "It's five in the morning!"

"Moony's mom died," James said, trying not to get too emotional. "Death eaters came to Moony's neighborhood and killed all the people that had anything to do with muggles.

It took a few seconds before the news really hit Sirius and he realized what had happened, and once he had it hit him hard, "No, you have to be kidding!" He knew James wasn't by the serious yet sad look on his face.

"I wish I was," James said, fighting back the tears that were trying to escape his eyes. "I've got to wake Peter."

James then walked over the Peters bed and shook him awake. His reaction to James's style of waking him was similar to Sirius's but his reaction to the news was a little different. When James told him that death eaters had killed her Peter had a guilty expression on his face.

"But why would they, she didn't really do anything to them, are you sure that's what happened?" Peter asked knowing perfectly well he was sure that that was what happened.

"Of course I'm sure, death eaters don't care if she did anything to them or not!" James said, a little surprised by Peter's question, but because he was so upset about Remus's mom's death he didn't take much thought about why Peter would possibly think death eaters innocent or why he looked more guilty than sad.

The three Marauders still at Hogwarts talked about Remus's mother's death until it came time to go down to breakfast. James and Sirius gloomily went down to the Great Hall, but Peter wasn't hungry so he stayed in the dormitory.

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Lily, Claire and Mariah chatted happily with the other girls who shared their dormitory as they walked down to breakfast.

Lily was upset when of course Claire just had to bring up the subject, "So how was detention with James last night?"

"Fine," Lily said, she really didn't like the way Claire said his name.

"What did you have to do?" asked Sadie, one of the girls' roommates.

"We had to clean this storage room," Lily said. "I'm starving!"

"Oh no you don't!" said Claire. "Don't go and change the subject! Are you going to give James a chance and go out with him or not?"

"I'm giving him a chance by letting him turn himself around, and if he proves to me he can be nice I'll go on a date with him, but so far I'm not to sure," Lily said, she hated how many times she had to repeat this to her friends.

"Admit Lil, you like him," Claire said, "I mean you broke Rachelle's nose because she asked him out!"

"I didn't punch her in the nose because she asked James out," Lily said. "I punched her because she was getting on my nerves and she wouldn't leave us alone."

"Sure," Claire rolled her eyes.

When the girls entered the great hall they all saw James and Sirius looking very sad, just barely picking at their food.

"I wonder what's wrong," Lily said.

"Oh do you want to cheer up your boyfriend?" Claire mocked.

"You know perfectly well that I don't like him, but that doesn't mean I can't feel bad for him," Lily said and walked over to the two Marauders and sat down.

"What's wrong?" Lily asked in a very sympathetic voice.

"Remus's mum died," James said gloomily.

"Oh no!" Lily felt horrible, even though she had only met Remus's mom a few times at platform 9 ¾.

James didn't say anything else; he just looked down at his plate and poked his scrambled eggs with his fork.

"I'm so sorry," Lily said. She couldn't stand seeing anyone so sad, she didn't know what to say or do so she just gave him a hug, not caring what any of her friends said to her about it.

Normally James would have been excited about Lily hugging him, but now he didn't care. At the moment he knew that someday he would have to get back at Voldemort, he killed his parents and now Remus's mum.

All the other girls from Gryffindor and many from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff began swarming around James and Sirius trying to comfort them although neither of them (especially James) appreciated all of the attention. Didn't they all know that when someone dies you tend to prefer not to have a huge crowd around you!

James decided that he would cut all the day's classes he knew there would be no point. If he did go to his classes he wouldn't learn anything he would just be thinking about what happened so he got up and went up to the Gryffindor Tower. He was surprised by how upset this made him, she wasn't even his mom or anything but it still hurt. It didn't hurt nearly as much as when his parents died, but it still did hurt a lot. He felt horrible for Remus, he probably wouldn't be back to his normal self for a while (James new he wasn't like his usual self for a while after his parents died).

When he reached the common room and saw other people sitting around he went up to his dormitory and laid down on his bed relieved that nobody was still in there to bother him.

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Meanwhile down in the Great Hall Sirius was trying not to act too affected, he was sad but he hated looking too distraught in front of that many people, so instead of James's decision to cut his classes he decided to go to them.

Lily was getting annoyed of the crowd surrounding them and Sirius constantly telling everyone that he was fine. He obviously wasn't fine but she didn't say anything. Didn't those girls realize he wanted them to leave him alone? She couldn't stand all of the girls simply fawning over him she decided to go back up to the common room until class started, she could see if James was okay.

When she got to the Gryffindor common room Lily couldn't see James anywhere so she assumed that he must be up in his dorm.

Lily entered the boy's dormitory and of course she found James laying on his bed staring at the ceiling, "Hi."

"Hi," James answered gloomily as Lily sat down on the side of his bed.

"James, I'm so sorry about what happened," Lily said. "You okay?"

"Yeah," James sighed. "I mean it's not as bad as when my mum and dad died, but I mean...I don't know…it's just so hard."

Lily then laid down next to James and he put his arm around her.

James was surprised by how much better he felt having lily lie in his arms, but he still was not exactly cheered up. He may have lost his mother, father and then Remus's mother but at least he still had Lily, even though she still wouldn't date him at least she was there for him. He just wished they could lie there like that forever but he knew they couldn't, he would eventually have to face the rest of the world but at least for now he could stay there.

Lily and James lied there on his bed for a long time, neither saying a word until suddenly Lily sat up, realizing how long it had been and that she had missed half of her classes, "Oh no! I hope we didn't miss anything important!"

"I don't care what I've missed," James said, hoping that Lily wouldn't leave him and go to the rest of the day's classes.

"Oh what the hell, I might as well miss the rest of my classes now that I've missed this much," Lily said and then laid back down next to James who put his arm back around her as she laid her head on his chest.

The two of the eventually fell asleep and neither woke up until Sirius came back into the dormitory. Lily was still asleep in James's arms but James had woken up.

Sirius smiled at James seeing that he had Lily in his bed, but didn't smile for long; he was tired of hiding his sadness (although he hadn't done a very good job at it).

"How was your day?" James asked.

"Shitty," Sirius answered. "Yours?"

"Better than I thought but still pretty damn shitty also," James said, running his hand through Lily's hair.

"You two going out yet?" Sirius asked.

"No," James frowned, "but she seems to be coming to…"

"Sorry mate," Sirius said, "I'm sure it won't be too long before she wants you as bad as you want her."

James forced a small laugh and looked up to the ceiling, "Hope old Moony's okay. I mean if we are this down about it just about how he's doing. His dad must be doing horrible too…"

Neither James nor Sirius had noticed that Lily had woken up at that point, "We should do something for him while he's gone...you know, try and cheer him up."

James nearly fell out of the bed; he hadn't expected Lily to join in the conversation.

"Oh James, Peter and I will surely pay him a visit, we don't want him to do anything to drastic. He's so upset and he already can get pretty bad if he isn't when he's alone," Sirius said.

"What are you talking about?" Lily was horribly confused. "Remus isn't destructive! Except when he's a werewolf of course but you would never hang around him while he's transformed."

"Well…" James said, wondering if he should tell her or not.

"You wouldn't!" Lily cried. "Oh don't you dare James! He could kill you!"

"No, we can keep him under control," James said hoping she wouldn't force him to explain further, although she knew he would.

"No you can't you idiot!" Lily was simply shocked at how stupid he was. "Grown adults can't even control a werewolf, like three mere sixteen-year-olds would be able to!"

"We've done it tons of times Lil, don't worry," James said.

"Well thank god you haven't died yet but don't you dare ever do it again, one of these times he's sure to at least bite you, if not kill you!" Lily was seriously worried about the trio.

"But you don't understand, we're more than capable," James said.

"James!" Sirius said. "Are going to tell her, what if she tells Dumbledore!"

"She won't will you Lils?" James asked hopefully.

"Well it depends on what you tell me, but I am surely going to tell Dumbledore that you've been hanging around Remus during his transformations!"

"Well I guess we have to tell her now," Sirius said.

"Sirius, Peter and I are animagi," James explained. "I'm a stag, Sirius is a dog and Peter is a mouse."

"You are not an animagus, James," Lily said simply. "You would have had to register, and year right like the ministry would let three teenagers become animagi."

"We did it illegally," James explained. "But can we please not talk about this now? I'm not exactly in a good mood."

"Fine I'll talk to you again when we all aren't so depressed, but don't you think I'll forget," Lily said. "And I assure you we will talk about this before the full moon!"

At that Lily got off of James's bed and went into her own dormitory.

"Damnit Sirius, you just had to say that whole thing about us keeping him company," James glared at his best friend.

"You're the one who told her, you could've at least covered for us," Sirius said.

"Whatever, I don't feel like fighting," James said. "Goodnight."

James put his head back down on his pillow and went to sleep, not caring that it was only 7:30 at night.

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