Disclaimer: I do not own the characters except for the ones you don;t recognize such as Josette, Joey, and Mina. The other Characters all belong to the fabulous J.K Rowling.
"Can you believe it man?" Sirius asked James as the two of them and Peter walk down to the Whomping Willow.
"Yeah, Josette will have to marry that slime ball Malfoy." James sighed and shook his head, "That's just horrible, How could someone do that to someone else?"
Sirius nodded and pulled out his wand as they neared the tree.
"Everybody ready?"
Peter and James nodded, then with a wave of their wands the three boys were gone and in their places were a rat, a big black dog, and a stag.
The rat scurried to the trunk of the Whomping Willow, and pressed a knot at the base of the trunk, the branches immediately stopped all movement, freezing as though frozen in time.
The dog and stag quickly followed the rat down a hole at the base of the tree.
They slid down a slope and fell onto a pile of leaves, and followed a dark corridor to a room where Remus was laying on the ground, his face contorted into a mask of pain.
"It's worse then before." He said in between deep breaths.
With a cry he began to transform, his fingers turning into long claw-like fingers, fur replacing his skin, his eyes grew large, colder, turned yellow. He gave a howl and his face turned into a muzzle.
The stag pawed the ground nervously as he watched this.
Finally the transformation was done and in Remus's place was a large grey wolf. His yellow eyes turned on the three animals, Remus was gone, there was no trace of him left to be found anywhere.
The dog gave the stag a look that said 'this is going to be a long night'.
Lily took a sip of her water as she turned the page in her Ancient Ruines book.
"Do either of you know when the full moon is?" Joey asked Josette and Lily.
Masie was with her boyfriend somewhere.
"Tonight I think." Lily said not really paying attention.
Josette on the other hand was giving Joey and odd look, "What's wrong Joey?"
Joey put on a fake smile, "Oh nothing just wondering."
Josette raised an eyebrow but nodded, all right."
A few hours passed by and Joey began acting nervous, she fidgeted with her pencil, got up and walked around, sat back down, straightened her skirt. She twisted her hair around her finger and kept glancing at the porthole as though expecting someone to walk through it at an moment.
"Why don't you guys go to bed?" Joey suggested.
Lily shook her head, "No, I still have some stuff to do and I can't go back to the heads tower until Sirius, Peter, and Remus come back. James made me promise."
"And I think I want to talk to Remus when he gets back."
Joey sighed and began fidgeting again.
Joey had gone to get a glass of water for the third time when the porthole suddenly burst open and James and Sirius came in half dragging half carrying An unconscious Remus.
"Oh my god, what happened?" Josette cried running over as Sirius and James laid Remus on one of the couches.
"Joey! You were supposed to make sure they'd cleared out by now!" Sirius said angrily ignoring Josette's question.
"Well I tried but Potter told Lily not to leave until you, Remus and Peter came back, and Josette knew something was up." Joey glanced around, "Where is Peter anyway?"
"He dropped us off here then took the map and the cloak around to lose Filch, he was right on our trail." James said bending over to check on Remus.
"What happened to him?" Josette asked touching Remus to make sure nothing was broken.
"Uhh…."
James and Sirius were saved when Peter came in, panting.
"I finally lost him." He said setting a silvery cloak and a piece of parchment down on a nearby table. "What are they doing down here."
Everybody remained quiet, glancing around. The silence was broken when Josette squealed.
She had tugged Remus's shirt down and revealed a large scratch on his chest.
"Oh thank Merlin." Joey said when she saw it.
Josette turned her angry gaze on Joey, what do you mean thank Merlin, you're happy he is hurt? What kind of Cousin are you?"
"No I'm not happy he's hurt, but it's not as bad as last time! You don't know what's happened to him Josette, you haven't seen some of the scars he's gotten thanks to those damn transformations! You haven't seen half the scars he has because of them, I have! I've been there for him since this started so don't you dare say I'm not a good cousin Josette Martine! Don't you dare say that." there where tears streaming down Joey's cheeks as she yelled, it was the first time Sirius, Peter and James had seen her cry.
Josette's eyes immediately filled with remorse for her words. "Joey…"
"Uhhhhh." Remus moved, opening his eyes slightly. "What the bloody hell are you three doing here?" He asked when he saw Josette, Joey and Lily.
Joey laughed and threw her arms around Remus as he sat up, "Oh Remus, you're such an idiot." She laughed tears still streaming down her cheeks.
"Why are you crying kid?" Remus asked Joey.
"Because you're an idiot! What did you do this time? How'd you get that scratch, what the hell is wrong with you?"
Remus raised an eyebrow, "Uh, I don't know what you're talking about."
Joey stood up, "Don't you give me that crap Remus Joseph Lupin! I know about it so why don't you just come out with it?"
"Because Josette and Lily don't know."
"Oh yes I do." Lily said mater o factly. "You're a werewolf."
The room was quiet, Josette sank onto the edge of the couch.
"I knew you'd find out." Remus grinned and leaned back "How?"
"Because When Josette made her little comment Joey started yelling and some of the words jumped out at me, transformation, you're hurt a lot, you have a lot of scars. Then I remembered that Joey had asked when the full moon and when she found it was tonight she flipped, then, of course, I put two and two together and came up with my conclusion."
James laughed and kissed Lily, "You're a genius Lils."
Josette stared openmouthed at Remus, "You're a werewolf?"
Remus looked sadly at Josette, "Yes." He answered simply.
"Got a problem?" Joey asked narrowing her eyes at Josette.
Josette simply shook her head, jumped up and ran up the stairs to the girls dormitory.
Remus sighed sadly and stared into the fire.
"Don't worry Remus, she's just shocked that's all, she'll get over it and apologize." Joey patted Remus on the back.
"Yeah well, whatever."
Peter inched to the stairs that led to the boys dormitory, "I think I'm going to bed." He said nervously before running up the stairs at full speed.
"Yeah I think we should head out too." James put a hand on Remus's shoulder, "If she can't except it, she's no worth it. Don't worry over it." He said it but knew Remus would worry anyway.
"Goodnight." Lily and James aid then they were gone.
"Well I guess I'll head up too." Remus said standing up, he rubbed his hand over Joey's hair, and punched Sirius as he walked by with surprising strength.
"What was that for?" Sirius asked when he got his breath back.
"For kissing my cousin." Remus answered simply before heading up the stairs.
Sirius rubbed his stomach and looked over at Joey to see her staring into the fire. With a sigh he went over and sat next to her.
"She broke his heart." Joey finally said. "Josette didn't care about his feelings, all she could think about was how she felt, and how she could handle it. She crushed his feelings into a little ball and didn't care."
Sirius put his arm awkwardly around her shoulders, "don't worry about it, if Josette really cares for Remus she'll get over it and realize what a fool of herself she made."
Joey nodded and leaned into Sirius, "I just hate seeing him hurt"
"He's a big boy Joey, he can take care of himself." Without noticing it Sirius began to play with a strand of Joey's hair.
Joey sniffed and wiped the back of her nose across her sleeve, "Yeah but still, I just can't help it and Remus really likes Josette."
Sirius nodded and for a few moments they sat in silence until Joey stood up wiping the tears away.
"Well I guess we should get to bed."
Sirius stood up, "Yeah." Then without warning he grabbed Joey pulled her closer and kissed her.
Joey froze then began kissing hi back. She managed to get her arms around his neck and pressed her body closer.
Suddenly Sirius pulled back, they were both breathing heavily.
"Well….uh….goodnight." Sirius turned and barely managed to stop himself from running up the stairs to the boys.
"So you just took off?" James asked the next morning as he and Sirius walked to breakfast.
Sirius sighed and shoved his hands in his pockets, "Yep, I freaked and took off."
James laughed, "wow Joey's not gonna let you forget that very easily is she?"
Sirius narrowed his eyes at his best friend "Gee thanks Prongs, I appreciate the support."
James just smiled,
The duo was just about to step into the great hall when they heard yelling and saw a big group of people off to the left.
"Your such a bitch!"
"Hey that's Joey's voice."
"How dare you!"
"And that's Josette, we better see what's going on."
James and Sirius managed to push to the front of the group to see Josette and Joey glaring at each other. They also looked like they'd been in a fight.
Joey's pony tail was sagging and it looked like someone had tried to pull the rubbed band out and had only accomplished half of their mission. There was a scratch on her neck and it was beginning to bleed.
Josette looked worse though, her hair was messed up quite a bit, the left side of her face was red as though someone had slapped her, she had black eye, her lip was busted and there was dried blood below her nose.
"I didn't think you could sink this low Josette Joey screamed angrily.
"It wasn't my fault how do you think I felt about it?"
Joey opened her mouth but wisely closed it when she saw James and Sirius.
Josette saw them too, "We'll finish this later, in private." She snapped before pushing her way through the crowd.
Joey raised her chin and followed, pushing people away from her.
James and Sirius followed her.
"Joey what the hell happened?" Sirius asked as they walked into the great hall.
"Josette and I got into a fight." She said simply as she sat down at the table.
"About what?"
Joey grabbed a piece of bacon, "I asked her why she ran away so fast after she found out about Remus, she said she didn't want to be that close to a Werewolf. I asked what the hell she meant by that she said that she was worried he would attack her and she didn't know how I could stand to be that close to him when I knew he was a freak, so I hit her." Joey piled more food onto her plate, "the bitch had it coming, she shouldn't have talked about my cousin like that."
James's jaw dropped, "She actually said that?"
Joey stabbed a waffle and nodded, "Yeah, something's changed about her ever since she told us about her having to marry Malfoy. Something's up, but that's no excuse for her saying that stuff."
"Who saying what?"
The three spun around in their seats to see Remus standing behind them.
"Oh, uh hey Remus, feeling any better?" Sirius asked as Remus sat across from the three of them.
"Yeah, still a little tired but a lot better." Remus began piling food onto his plate as Lily came over and sat next to James.
"Hello love." She said kissing him, she looked over at Joey and cried out, "What in the world happened to you Joey?"
Remus looked up, "What the hell? Who did that? Was it that Thomas ravenclaw? I'll kick his bloody ass."
"No, it was Josette."
"What?" Lily and Remus asked.
"Josette and I got into a fight I bloodied her up pretty well though."
Remus's mouth hung open "What happened."
Joey hesitated, "She, uh, well said some, uh, rude things to me."
"What did she say about you?"
"It wasn't actually about me, it was about, uh, well you Remus."
"Me?" Remus asked incredulously.
"Yeah." and Joey proceeded to tell Lily and Remus what she had told Sirius and James.
"She said that?" Lily asked quietly.
"Yep, so I hit her and she got a busted lip and we got into a fight and the only thing she managed to do was scratch my neck and pull my hair." Joey grinned, "But she's got a busted lip, a black eye, and a bloody nose."
Remus was staring down with an odd look on his face, "oh well, she wasn't all that great anyway." and started eating his food.
Joey bit her lip as she watched her cousin, he looked so sad, but Sirius was right, he was a big boy.
A/N: Well, i know i'm mean but just keep reading, you'll understand more when I post the next the next which is really kinda sad.
malfoy's fair maiden: Yeah the chapter was a bit gloomy, and this chapter is just so much worse it's crazy. I feel really bad for Josette, her life is going down the tube, and now she's acting like a bitch! what is wrong with that girl?
thehiddenauthor:I know slaps hand bad alyssa, bad Alyssa! (I'm alyssa just so everyone knows.) I promise Josette's life will get better...maybe. grins evily no seriously this is all just part of my sick and twisted plot, my mind is full of dark gloomy shit so bare with me and i'm sure everything will end up good, at least for Lily and James it will. I hope Josette wont be to scarred after experience.