After a little while, or so it seemed, of light chatter between the two, Ebony seemed satisfied with her new friend. Remus and Ebony were sitting on the floor with their backs against the wall.
"I still don't see why the Sorting Hat placed you in Gryffindor, you seem like a Ravenclaw to me," said Ebony.
Remus just shrugged and said, "I guess it knows something we don't know." Ebony took a moment to think about it, as did Remusd, each in their separate thoughts. Suddenly Remus stood up.
"What time is it?" he asked. Ebony looked around and shrugged her shoulders. While Ebony got up, Remus ran down the hall to the window. It was dark out. "It's past curfew!"
Ebony and Remus gave quick goodbyes and they each ran off to their house towers. However, they ran into someone they were dreading to run across. Argus Filch, the caretaker of the castle, was patrolling the halls to catch students out of bed. Luckily, Ebony and Remus saw Filch before Filch saw Ebony and Remus. They hid behind a few statues as the lurking old man passed them.
"That was close." Whispered Ebony and Remus' smile was lit up by the moonlight.
"I've seen closer." He said, no doubt meaning his friends. "Well, goodnight."
"See you tomorrow." Said Ebony. They went their separate ways until the morning.
Remus bolted to the staircase and up to the seventh floor corridor, to the hall where he would find the portrait of the Fat Lady. "Hinkypunks." He said and she swung open, letting him inside. There he found basically no one was awake except for his friends who were sitting around the fire, still laughing about today's prank.
Sirius happened to stop laughing long enough to see that Remus had just walked in. "Where have you been Moony! Did you take another side trip to the Library? Come on! Pull up a chair!" He was pointing to a vacant chair beside them. Remus wandered over to it.
"So…where have you been? We were all worried because it isn't like you to not be in the common room past curfew. The Remus Lupin we know doesn't disobey the rules that much…except the pranking o course.' James said, inquiring Remus to tell the truth.
"Nothing…really…just taking a leisurely walk down the halls. Just doing some thinking." Replied Remus, a bit too quickly.
The other bought this and they continued their conversation about the prank. The whole time Remus said nothing, just staring out the window, but the others were too busy wrapped up in their glory to notice.
When Remus had enough, he went to bed.