A/N: Sorry for the long wait but I've had a lot to do. I wasn't going to end this chapter here but decided that you have all waited for long enough. I'm simply amazed at the response I've gotten for this story, 21 reviews for the last chapter help convince me to get this out now not to mention helped me make time to write it! So thanks guy's!

Dedicated to Anna.

Chapter 3: Payback

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"Hurry up guys we're going to be late!" Remus yelled as he watched the mayhem that is his roommates.

"What do we have first?" James asked as he shoved his head into his shirt.

"Charms," Remus said as he watched Peter crawl out from under the bed holding a sock.

"Where's my charms book?" James called out.

"In you're trunk still," Remus told him.

"Has anyone seen my tie?" Sirius yelled.

"It's in your shoe," Remus answered not even trying to figure out how it got there.

"Do you know where my shoe is Remus?" Peter asked.

"In the common room Peter, next to the fire," Remus said.

"We're ready!" James and Sirius exclaimed as one.

"Come on Remus hurry up where going to be late!" Sirius said as he grabbed one of Remus' arms while James grabbed the other and they ran from the room.

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Charms passed fairly well with Lily and Emrys competing for the top place in class, Lily beating him in theory and him beating her by a whole two minutes on the practical. After charms was DADA and it was here that thing got interesting.

"Okay quiet down!" the DADA professor said as they took there seats "Today we will be going over a few advance dark creatures. Who can tell me what a Chimaera is?" Remus and Lily raised their hand "Miss. Evens?"

"A Chimaera is a creature with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a dragon's tail." Lily recited

"Very good how about an Acromantula, Mr. Black?"

"A giant spider,"

"Miss. Rain could you expend on that?"

"Of course professor, an Acromantula is a giant black spider whose leg span may reach up to 15 feet and is very poisonous. While the Acromantula is capable of human speech, it is classified as a beast rather than a being due to its violent tendencies. It is native to Borneo, where it is believed to have been a wizard-bred species. Also it, like all other spiders fear the basilisk above all other living things."(1) She said in a textbook voice

"Correct, now what a dementors?"

When no one raised their hand the Professor nodded as if he expected this and was about to explain when Emrys raised his hand slightly reluctant.

"Mr. d'Lyes?" the Professor asked slowly and the whole class turned to look at him

"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair; they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can't see them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling; every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself...soul-less and evil. You will be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life. They feed on positive human emotions; a large crowd is like a feast to them. They drain a wizard of his powers if left with them too long. They are the guards at Azkaban and make that place horrible indeed. There are certain defences one can use against Dementors, specifically the Patronus Charm. A Dementor's breathe sounds rattling and like it's trying to suck more than air out of a room. Its hands are "glistening, greyish, slimy-looking, and scabbed". It seems to exude cold. A Dementor's last and worst weapon is called the Dementor's Kiss. The Dementor puts back its hood and clamps its jaws on the mouth of the victim and sucks out his soul, leaving him an empty shell, alive but completely, irretrievably 'gone'."(2) Emrys said watching as many of his fellow students shudder at the thought of them

"Very well said Mr d'Lyes, twenty points to Hufflepuff!" the professor said still slightly shocked at the description his student had given him, it was better then anything he could have given and he was sure that most of that wasn't in any textbook made for schools. "As Mr d'Lyes has just said the Patronus charm is the only real way to hold back one of those soul suckers, and no we will not be learning the charm as it is highly advanced and most Aurors don't even know it, let alone could preform it."

The class passed quickly after that Emrys keeping quiet allowing Remus to answer most of the questions. After DADA he followed Lily to their Ancient Runes class. Ancient Runes passed without anything exiting happening save for strengthening the friendship that had been growing between him and Lily.

Dinner that night went fairly well though there was a slight incident when the entire Slytherin table had their hair colour changed to bright fluoro colours. Other then that it was fairly peaceful and Emrys enjoyed his time with his new friends Golden, Naomi, and Natasha. After dinner Emrys made his way back up to their common room, he had Astronomy that night but it didn't start till midnight so he decided to get a start on his homework.

At 11:40pm he finished his last essay and packed his things away, before leaving the common room for the Astronomy tower. On the way he had the dubious honour of running into Filch, but after showing his timetable he was able to continue on his way with out too much of a hassle, though he did receive a rather nasty glare but after dealing with Snape and Voldemort he found it just didn't match up.

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"Good evening class!" the astronomy Professor said happily, she was fairly young probably in her late twenties early thirties, with long black hair, silver eyes, and porcelain white skin, "I'm Professor Cameo Night, if you don't know or have forgotten. You may call me either Professor Cameo or Professor Night which ever you wish. Now tonight you will be paired up and these will be your pairs for the rest of the year unless there is a very good reason to swap. Once paired you will take a sheet of paper of my desk and you, as pairs, will answer the questions on the sheet. Each sheet is different so there will be no cheating, some question you will need the telescopes for, these I have already set up. Understood? Good, now pike a partner and come up here and I will write it down and you may began."

Everyone quickly began to pair off and Emrys looked around for someone to pair up with, unfortunately none of his friends took the class.

"Hey Emrys do you want to be my partner?" a voice asked from behind him, Emrys turned to find Sirius grinning at him, "looks like you're going to have to as everyone else has paired off."

Emrys looked around and found that Sirius was right, "Sure come on." Emrys said smiling at Sirius before turning and walking over to the teacher to get their names down and collect their work. He didn't notice Sirius staring after him for a moment before he grinning and followed his angel.

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The assignment was fairly easy it was mostly revising what they had already done. To get it done quicker they divided the questions so they each did their own, though if they had any queries they could ask the other for help and at the end they would read through the others. One of the questions Emrys had was:

'Chose a star (your favourite) and write about it, include: a myth, how it is used (for a potion, divitionations, etc.), where it is located, and anything else of interest.'

For this question Emrys chose the star Sirius, it was his favourite as it reminded him that he was never really alone his godfather was always looking over him protecting him as best as possible, it also reminded him he was loved.

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Astronomy was over and Sirius had just made it to his dorm.

"Prongs! Hey! Prongs!" he cried as he jumped onto his sleeping friends' bed and bouncing excitedly on it, "Guess what! Prongs are you listening to me? Wake up! Come on Prongs!"

James groaned, "Padfoot it's like two in the morning what are you doing?"

"I just got back from astronomy," Sirius said still bouncing, "Guess what! Go on Prongs guess! Come on guess!"

"I might guess if you'd shut up and let me! And if it wasn't two in the morning!" James growled at his friend, who stilled for a moment eyeing James, before he resumed hi bouncing.

"Hey! Prongs what was that for?" Sirius cried as James whacked Sirius in the head with a pillow.

"For waking me up!" James growled before lying down again and closing his eyes "Now leave me alone I'm trying to sleep."

Sirius huffed before grinning wickedly and drawing his wand.

"PADFOOT!" James bellowed as he was suddenly bombarded with pillows which where attempting to whack him.

Sirius gave him a wide-eyed innocent look, which was ruined by the grin that spread across his face.

"You are so gonna' pay!" James yelled and Sirius took that moment to run away and hide.

As it turned out Sirius' hiding place was Remus' bed. Remus, who was remarkably still asleep, though that might be due to the rather extensive silencing spells around his bed, was rudely awakened as Sirius jumped on him.

"Padfoot there had better be a good explanation for this." Remus said his voice even but with a warning note to it, this was after he got over the shock of being awoken at two in the morning by an extremely hyped Sirius.

"He's trying to kill me! Save me Moony! Save me!" Sirius cried trying to hide behind Remus who was now sitting up.

"Who…" He never got to finish the question as the curtains around his bed where ripped open by a fuming James 'Prongs' Potter, "Oh."

"Hand over the Mutt and nobody gets hurt…well except the Mutt." James growled and Sirius whimpered.

Remus looked between them then jumped up and ran to Peter's bed, and safety, he hoped. Peter was still asleep, no he didn't have any silencing spells on his bed he was just a very heavy sleeper, it always took forever to wake him up in the morning until they learnt that mentioning words like food, and breakfast would wake him up instantly.

Remus watched the fight between Sirius and James often having to duck and dodge stray spells, pillows and shoes, it was only when he noticed that his books where in danger of being thrown and/or damage that he decided to intervene.

"Alright STOP IT!" Remus yelled and Sirius and James immediately stilled, they had learnt long ago that though Remus was hard to get really angry when he did it was not good for the health to oppose him, not good at all. "That's enough! Now it is three in the morning and I would like to get some sleep, I suggest you do the same." He said eyeing them both, before making his way over to his bed and, after fixing it up with a few handy spells, got into it pulling the curtains closed.

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The next morning found a furious Remus, who had just found out that the essay he had finished the night before had been destroyed by one of the morons spells; a confused Peter, a grumpy James, and a sheepish Sirius make there way down to the great hall five minutes before class started.

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The rest of the day passed quickly as did the next and the next eventually a couple of months had passed and the Christmas holidays where approaching.

Emrys, Golden, Naomi, Natasha and Lily all sat around a large fire in a long forgotten room high in an unused tower. It seemed that James and Sirius had finally annoyed Lily and Emrys to the point of them deciding to take pay back.

"So…run that by me again," Naomi asked.

"Well it's quite simple," Emrys said, "All we're going to do is make Sirius and James believe that Lily and I are going out."

"Yes I got that but it was the how that I was worrying about."

"Well there are a couple of stages," Emrys explained, "Stage one is the rumours, Stage two is Lily and I spending a lot of time together, not alone or anything but we'll sit next to each other all the time walk beside each other stuff like that."

"Okay what about the rest?"

"Well that should probably do it but if not…….

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"Did you hear?"…

"Oh my God!"…

"I wonder what will happen when they find out?"…

"Can you believe it!"…

It was whispers like these that had followed the Marauders around all day but they had yet to find out what it was all about. Every time they got close to one of these groups the group would become silent.

"Ah! What the hell is going on!" Sirius exclaimed as he collapsed on the couch in the common room.

"I have no idea, but whatever it is it has something to do with us." James said dropping onto the couch next to Sirius.

"Yeah every time we get close to finding out they all stop talking! It's driving me nuts!" Sirius said.

"Sirius you've always been nuts," Remus said attempting to cheer them up though he to was curious.

"I know!" James cried sitting up quickly.

"What?" Remus asked hesitantly not sure he really wanted to know.

"Remus can find out!" James exclaimed apparently not having heard Remus.

"Huh?" Was Peters and Remus' reply.

"You're a genius Prongs!" Sirius yelled, it seems that he understood where James was headed.

"I'm sorry but I still don't understand," Remus said when they turned to look at him.

"Well you see, Remus ol' buddy," James said walking over to where Remus sat in his armchair and taking a seat on one of the arms, slinging an arm over Remus' shoulder.

"It is quite simple," Sirius said repeating the action on Remus' other side.

"All you have to do is go out and listen in on one of the conversations, hear what it's all about then come back and tell us." James said.

"That's it?" Remus asked.

"Yep that's it. Plain and simple." Sirius said.

"Then why don't you do it!" Remus exclaimed pushing them off him.

"Because, you can blend in better," James said

"If we do it, they will notice us straight away and not say anything," Sirius continued.

"Please Remmy!" James begged.

"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease!" Sirius begged joining James on the floor at Remus' feet.

"You two are pathetic! Fine!" Remus said standing and walking out of the common room.

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When Remus returned to the dorm room just after curfew he was immediately set upon by his best friends.

"So Moony? What was it?" James demanded.

"Would you believe me if I said I didn't know?" Remus asked tiredly.

"NO!" Sirius, James and Peter all said at the same time.

"Fine but don't kill the messenger…It was a rumour about Emrys and Lily," Remus said wincing at the end.

James and Sirius glared, "And what was it about?" Sirius ground out.

"Uh…well…" Remus said nervously.

"Remus just tell us already!" James yelled.

"That EmrysandLilyaregoingout." Remus said quickly, then turned and started walking towards his bed hoping to reach what little safety it provided before they figured out what he had just said.

"WHAT!" James and Sirius bellowed.

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(1) Not mine! Found on the HP Lexicon and edited slightly.

(2) Also not mine! This speech is a variation of the one Remus Lupin makes to Harry's class in J.K Rowling's third book Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed now don't forget to review it makes me write more! It does I sware! Anyway you all needn't worry I don't intend to abandon any of my stories and if I do I'll let you all know!