The Beginning- A Love Story.
By: blackandlupin.
Disclaimer: we do not own any of the original characters, except for the ones we created; the original characters belong to the brilliant J.K Rowling.
Chapter 3: Surprising Revelations.
It has been a week since the incident between Rose and Lucius Malfoy. The three girls had never seen Rose as hurt before as they comforted their distorted friend.
As the three girls ran after Rose, they passed the library where Kira Hemsly, the Head Girl stood at the frame of the library doors with a few of her friends who had witnessed the incident up to the point where Malfoy had insulted Rose to the point where Rose had punched him.
She marched up to the crowd; a look of rage plastered on her tanned face as she pushed passed the crowd.
Never in her life has she ever seen such a reckless and shameful behavior towards a fellow student as her infamous temper relished itself.
She stood in front Malfoy as she made it perfectly clear that she was not pleased at his actions and was deeply a shame to be in a school with people like him. She had given him a months worth of detention as a result of his actions and fifty points of Slytherin and send him to the hospital wing to be cleaned up.
The four Marauders watched as Kira bellowed at him as satisfaction was evident on their faces, but that didn't stop them from getting their own revenge on Malfoy for their fellow Gryffindor and friend.
After finding out that Rose was no longer with her parents in their first year and that she now lives with her grandmother, the four boys had taken up on themselves in looking out for Rose, knowing that she wouldn't have it easy as she came from a non magical background. To them, she wasn't just a good friend, but sort of like a sister who they will protect from anyone who dares to hurt her, in this case Malfoy.
The eight members of the fourth year Gryffindor sat in the great hall at breakfast, enjoying the fantastic food that the house elves provided for them until they all heard the voice of Lucius Malfoy and his corny gang, making their way towards the Slytherin table.
Lily groan inwardly at the sight of Malfoy, disappointed that the punch he had received from Rose was not evident as his nose was up right to its normal size and shape thanks to the school nurse Madam Lastien, who worked her magic to restore Malfoy's nose to normal.
The four Marauders including Nicole cast death glares towards the Slytherin table as Malfoy took his seat next to Severus Snape.
Sasha looked at Rose closely as Rose didn't even bother to lift her head to look at the Slytherin's. Her face was rather pale than usual since the incident and all the girls knew that she hadn't been sleeping properly, thinking about the parents she lost and barely knew.
"Are you alright Rose?" Sasha asked.
"Yeah… I'm fine." She replied back, her eyes never leaving her food.
Sasha grabbed hold of her hand that was on the table and gave it a slight squeeze which made Rose to look at her giving her a small smile.
"I still can't believe he only got off with a month worth of detention and fifty points of,' Sirius said bitterly as he glared at Malfoy, 'Kira should have given him more than that."
"Yeah I agree, but at least he got punished for it." Remus commented.
"I still can't believe he had the nerve to say that to you." Lily said as she looked at Rose, who lifted her head slightly to look at Lily.
"Kira should off suspend him for it." Nicole gritted her teeth as she turned away from the Slytherin table and back to the people around her.
"Can she do that?' Peter asked, 'she's the head girl, not a teacher Nic."
"I don't know, but all the same… he should off gotten suspended for it."
"I still say that punch you threw at him Rose was spectacular,' James commented as he looked at her from across him, 'never knew you had it in you."
Rose couldn't help but to laugh a little; it was more than the girls had seen her do in the past week as they were all glad that she was still able to laugh, even if it was only a little.
"Yeah that was incredible…', Peter smiled at the memory, 'where did you learn how to do that?" he asked in awe.
Rose smiled as she looked at the four faces of the boys who were listening eagerly, but the girls were just casually continuing with their breakfast for they all knew the answer.
"Nicole taught me." She replied simply.
The heads of the four boys turned to Nicole who was eating away her breakfast.
She noticed their staring as she lifted her eyes away from the toast she was nibbling on.
"What?" she asked, staring back at them, confused.
"You taught her how to punch like that?" Remus asked with raised eyebrows.
"Umm… yes." She replied, still staring at them.
"Where did you learn how to punch?" peter asked.
"From my dad… he's a sansei." Nicole said.
"A what?" Sirius asked.
"A sansei…,' Nicole repeated as Sirius remains to hold the confused look on his face, 'it's a muggle word for master, he teaches defense fighting to people."
"And he thought you?" asked James.
Nicole nodded her head… "He thinks that every girl should know how to defend herself,' she said, 'I've been doing it since I was six years old." She replied nonchalantly.
Nicole watched the stun reactions on the four boys as she couldn't help but to laugh. They look like they've never heard of girls defending themselves.
She only told this much and left out the part that she had taught not only Rose but both Lily and Sasha, she thought she'll leave that for a surprise for the boys to find out if that is only if they are lucky enough to witness it or if it's necessary for the girls to use the defense. She can just imagine the shock expression on their faces as she tried to suppress the laughter.
"Remind me to never get into a fight with you." James said as he looked impressed.
Nicole laughed as she looked at the girls and noticed Sirius staring at her. She turns to him and smiled as he returned it.
The bell for class rang throughout the whole castle, signaling for the students to make their way to their first class.
Every student made their way to class except for one young pale boy who was laying in one of the beds in the hospital wing; the sun rays landing slightly on his soft pale skin.
Christopher Ungerrary lay unconscious since the beginning of the year. The nurse had tried time and time again to wake him, but no cusses.
Professor Dumbledore had frequently dropped by the hospital wing to check on the condition of his student, but every time he drop by, Christopher's condition was the same; but today however was different.
The sunlight reflected onto Christopher's delicate face as he felt the heat from it, causing him to stir in his sleep. He opened his eyes, finding his eyes being blinded by the brightness of the light.
He shifted slightly in his bed which brought attention to the nurse who was in her office with the head master.
Seeing the movements coming from her patient, Madam Lastien strode up to him, seeing his eyes flutter from the sunlight.
"His finally awake!" the nurse exclaimed as Professor Dumbledore walked behind her.
The nurse stood next to the bed as Dumbledore placed himself at the edge of the bed, observing his student with relief.
"How do feel Christopher?" the nurse asked, observing his pale appearance.
"A little dizzy." He replied quietly as he placed his hand to his forehead.
"That's understandable… you've been out for quite some time now." Madam Lastien commented.
"Do you remember anything Christopher?" the professor asked him.
Christopher looked up at his head master and slightly shook his head. He couldn't remember how he had gotten into the hospital wing; all he remembered was getting sorted into Slytherin and after that everything seems blank to him.
"How long have I been unconscious for?" he asked.
"About two weeks." Madam Lastien replied.
"Oh no… I've missed two weeks of school." The boy said in alarm.
"There's no need to worry about that,' Professor Dumbledore said, 'your professor's already knows of your condition, so they will take that into consideration."
"My, my condition… how do you know about my condition?" Christopher asked with wide eyes.
"Your parents have informed me about it when I contacted them of what had happened to you. They were most shock when I delivered them the news." Dumbledore replied.
"Why didn't you tell us about your condition?" Madam Lastien asked as she looked at her patient.
"I thought it wasn't necessary." Christopher spoke quietly.
"Not necessary?" the nurse asked surprised.
"I didn't want everyone to know I have a weak heart,' he blurted out, 'I don't need them to take pity on me." He confessed.
Madam Lastien looked at him sadly and turned to the head master.
"I am sure that they will not take pity on you if they know of your condition… but it is up to you to tell your fellow peers of this. It is your secret to tell, not mine or Madam Lastien's." Professor Dumbledore told him.
Christopher looked up at his head master and to Madam Lastien as she held a soft smile for him, gratefully.
"When can I get out of here?" he asked the nurse.
"Oh I say by tomorrow,' she told him, 'but you must promise me that you will take it easy and if there's any problem, you come straight to me. Do you promise?" she asked him, making him to seal the promise.
"Yes Madam Lastien." He replied back with a smile.
The four Marauders made their way towards Transfiguration the next day. As they made their way to their next class, they had started to talk about the up coming Quidditch match between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. This would be the second time for James to play seeker and Sirius to play chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
The first time the two best friends ever play Quidditch with the team was at the end of last year when they both got the position of seeker and chaser.
They saw the line of students standing in front of the class room, waiting for Professor McGonagall to arrive.
James' eyes followed the trail of students until his eyes landed on a gorgeous red head who was standing happily with her friends. How he wished he could be their, laughing away with her or more Lily laughing at the jokes he would make.
His eyes never left her as the four Marauders joined the back of the line. He had a slight blush as he continued to stare at her that he even forgot the conversation he was having with his friends.
"Oh I can't wait for this match. I've been looking forward about it since term started." Sirius was saying.
"Yeah, it's going to be great." Remus commented.
"Yeah, with you and James on the team, Gryffindor is sure to win." Peter piped in.
"Oh… this is gonna be a blast,' Sirius smiled with a glint in his eyes, 'don't you recon Prongs?" Sirius turned to James.
James was still transfixed on Lily that he hadn't heard Sirius. The other three Marauders looked at him in confusion.
"Oi Prongs… you listening?" Sirius asked again but was answered with nothing.
Peter followed James' gaze and his eyes landed on Lily. He smiled and nudged Remus. Remus turned to him with questioning eyes, than noticed he was staring at something ahead, so he decided to look as well.
"Ah… I think I've found the source of James' distraction." Remus said.
Sirius turned to him with confusion, then Remus nodded his head towards the head of the line… "look ahead of you."
Sirius turned away from him and did as he was told. He smiled as he caught sight of Lily.
"Oi Prongs… why don't you just asked her out." Sirius whispered in James' ear.
"Huh… what?" James stuttered.
"Just ask her out." Sirius repeated.
"Ask you out?" James asked.
Sirius eyed him, thinking how thick his friend was… "Lily!"
"What makes you think I was looking at her?" James asked again.
"James please… we've all been talking here and you weren't even listening and that could only come from a distraction and this case Lily." Peter said as though stating the obvious.
James blushed slightly at his friend's observation. He wanted so much to do what his friends had been suggesting, but apart of him was unsure what the out comes would be.
Before he could reply, the door of the class room open as Professor McGonagall stepped out; she had been in there the whole time they were waiting.
The students filed inn and took their seats as the Professor stood in front of the class.
"Good afternoon fourth years." The Professor greeted.
There were a few murmurs of 'Good afternoons' rang around the room.
The Marauders settled themselves at the back of the room as for the four Gryffindor girls settled themselves not that far in front of them.
Professor McGonagall delved into their new topic to study for the coming week. Rose and Sasha sat together, taking down notes that were written on the black board.
"Now, you must remember the spell to fully complete the transfiguration, if you don't, you will find that the object you are trying to transfigure with transform into something else." Professor McGonagall was saying.
As she continued with the lesson, Rose and Sasha were interrupted by chattering from a table in front of them.
Two girls from Hufflepuff were chattering away about something that was totally unrelated to the topic of the lesson, but the two Gryffindor couldn't help but to listen as a name caught their attention.
"Yeah I heard it from my cousin Joan that he likes her." One of the Hufflepuff named Holly said to her friend.
"Are you sure… I mean Lily Evans, I thought he liked Sandra from Ravenclaw." The other girl Nina spoke.
Sasha and Rose stopped writing and looked at each other. They listened in more closely, in trying to find out to whom it was that has fallen for their friend other than James Potter.
"He did for a while, but he now likes Lily." Holly replied.
"I still can't believe that Tom Raggan likes Lily." Nina commented as she scribbled away on the parchment.
Rose and Sasha looked at each other again, their eyes wide.
Tom Raggan was a sixth year Hufflepuff and very popular with his peers and house. He also happens to be the Quidditch captain for Hufflepuff and one of the cutest guys in sixth year.
The lesson progressed through with the students taking notes and instructions on the board. Professor McGonagall also assigned them a one length worth of parchment on the different variations of spells that can transform certain different objects.
The bell finally rang, signaling for lunch.
The four Gryffindor girls sat quietly at a table in the library later that night, finishing the homework that was assigned to them for Transfigurations.
Sasha and Rose once again sat next to each other as they scribbled away on their parchment. All through the night the two had been quite, only whispering quietly to each other. Both Nicole and Lily had notice their odd behavior.
"Alright you two… spill it." Nicole suddenly spoke as she eyed her two friends across from her.
Both Sasha and Rose were startled by her as they looked across, seeing both Lily and Nicole staring at them with questioning eyes.
"What are you talking about Nic?" Sasha asked, trying to sound casual.
"Something is going with the both of you." Lily said as she eyed them both.
"There's nothing going on." Rose replied.
"Oh please… all night you two have been whispering to each other back and forth; at dinner you were doing it, something is going on, we all no it." Nicole said.
Both Sasha and Rose looked at each other, surprise that their other two best friends had noticed their behavior.
"What's going on?" Lily asked.
"Ok,' Sasha heaved a sigh, 'do you know Tom Raggan?" she asked, looking directly at Lily.
"You mean the Hufflepuff's Quidditch captain?" asked Nicole.
Rose nodded… "Well it so happens that he… well, he has a sudden interest in you." Rose said as she looked at Lily.
"What do you mean he has a sudden interest in me?" Lily asked confused.
"We heard Holly Deam and Nina Stone talking in transfiguration and Holly said that Tom likes you,' Sasha replied, 'she heard it from her cousin Joan."
"And you know that Joan is in sixth year with him." Rose put in.
Lily looked at the both of them and turned to Nicole. Her mouth was slightly open from shock. She didn't know if her friends were telling the truth, then again, why would they lie to her about something like this.
"What… no, you guys probably heard it wrong." Lily said.
"Oh, I don't know about that Lils." Nicole said, looking away from the girls.
"What do you mean?" Lily asked.
"I think that Sasha and Rose heard it perfectly', she said turning her attention back to them, 'Tom is sitting at the table on the other end behind us and I just saw him staring at you."
"What!" Lily exclaimed and looked at where Tom was sitting and sure enough he was sitting there with a few of his friends looking at her, when he noticed her looking he smiled slightly and returned his focus to his book.
The other girls were watching him, as they returned to focus on Lily, Tom had brought his attention back on the red head.
"See." Rose smiled.
"N-no, he can't be… his older than me." Lily started, trying to make herself to believe it wasn't true.
"So,' Nicole asked, 'Lils… his one of the cutest guy in sixth year and his a Quidditch Captain." Nicole stated.
Lily looked at her for a moment then to Sasha and Rose. They all looked at her with curiosity, wondering if she likes him back.
"Do you like him though Lily?" Rose asked.
"I don't know… I mean I don't even know him." She replied.
"Hey Lils, if you don't want him, can I have him?" Nicole joked.
"What about Sirius?" Sasha asked, smirking.
"What about Sirius… he has Mayling to keep him company." Nicole said bitterly.
"Umm Nic… haven't you heard?' Sasha looked at her critically as Nicole's face became puzzle, 'Sirius and Mayling are over."
"What!" Nicole exclaimed.
"Yeah… they've broke up three days ago." Rose up in.
"How come I haven't heard about this?" Nicole asked.
As the three girls chatted away, Lily was still thinking about what her friends had told her. She couldn't believe that someone other than James Potter as her friends were constantly telling her that he likes her, but someone else also liked her.
She couldn't help but to look at the direction where Tom was sitting. As she turned to look at him, she found that he was already staring at her. As their gaze connected, Tom gave her a warm smile. Lily looked at him and returned the same smile.
As they continued to hold their gazes, Lily could feel a slight blush appearing on her soft cheeks. 'Maybe Nicole is right', she thought, 'he is pretty cute.'
She turned her attention back to her surroundings and suddenly getting up from her seat, gathering her things.
"Where are you going?" Nicole asked, having suddenly to notice Lily rising from her seat.
"Oh, umm… I've finished the homework, so umm,' Lily trailed off, glancing slightly to Tom feeling the blush reentering her cheeks, 'I'm going back to the common room, see you guys later." And with that, she made her way towards the doors.
The three girls remaining looked at each other in confusion. It's not like Lily to leave without one of her friends. Then suddenly as they could hear the legs of a chair scratching on the stone floor could be heard, Nicole, Sasha and Rose's eyes followed Tom Raggan making his way out of the library, walking into the direction of Lily.
The three girls watched on as Tom and Lily was out of view. They all turn to each other, smiling very widely as they all knew what was about to happen to their friend.
A minute later, Tom reentered the library with a big grin plastered on his face.
As he past the three girls, he nodded to their direction with a soft smile in greetings and made his way back to his friends. The three girls once again turn to each other, shrieking softly in delight for Lily.
The three Gryffindor girls made their way back to the common room, but on their way, they were greeted with the most unpleasant creature.
As they passed the Defense Against The Dark Arts classroom, they were greeted with something soaring towards them, as the image came closer, they saw a creature, a gargoyle, its red eyes staring right at them, bearing its yellow teeth as it headed straight for them.
The three shriek in fright as the gargoyle came closer to them; they had no choice but to run away from it, in fear that it would attack them. As they ran, one of them suddenly stopped as the gargoyle was only a few feet away.
"Nic, what are you doing,' Rose shouted to her, 'Nicole run!" she shouted again, but Nicole didn't move, instead her right hand suddenly rose in front of her as the black gargoyle suddenly stopped, hovering only inches away from her face.
Both Sasha and Rose stopped in the midst as they watch the black, red eye creature hovering in mid air. They both came closer to Nicole with hesitant.
"It's just a stuff toy gargoyle." Sasha said, observing the creature.
"What's going on?" Rose asked.
Her question wasn't answer as Nicole suddenly spoke to someone that both Rose and Sasha couldn't see or knew were there.
"Alright who ever you are… come out, I know your there."
There was silence as no one appeared. Both Sasha and Rose looked at each other, wondering about their friend's sanity.
"Alright fine, if you're not going to come out… I'll just take this to McGonagall,' Nicole warned, but yet again no one appeared, 'or I'll burn it right here right now." She said as she pulled out her wand out of her robes.
Then suddenly, two very young and sheepish faces appeared from a corner. It was Sirius and Peter, looking very pleased at themselves.
"You two?' Sasha exclaimed, 'I should have known."
"What do think you were doing?' Nicole asked looking slightly annoyed and amused at the same time, 'you nearly scared us half to death."
"We're sorry,' Peter said apologetically after he stopped laughing, 'we didn't mean to scare you."
"Well you did." Nicole snapped at them.
"Oh come on Nic,' said Sirius, giving her a smile which sent butterflies to her stomach, but she tried to ignore it as she still looked annoyed at him, but she couldn't resist his smile as she allow the feeling, 'we were just having some fun."
"By scaring us?" Rose demanded.
Sirius smiled guiltily, but Peter looked at Nicole and asked… "How did you know we were there?"
"I heard your laughter." She replied.
Sirius raised his eye brows at her.
"Where are the other two Marauders?" Rose inquired.
"Oh, umm… Remus and James are back in the dormitory." Peter replied.
"What… they didn't come with you?" Sasha asked.
"No… they… umm, we don't need their help, we got it under control." Sirius replied, glancing at Peter from the corner of his eyes as Peter slightly turned pale with his eyes wide with some sort of fear in them.
"We're really sorry girls, we were putting our next prank into practice and we needed to know that it works…" Peter informed, trying to distract the conversation.
"And it did." Sirius said as the two both double over in laughter.
The three girls looked at them, rolling their eyes.
"Ha ha, very funny… I wonder what McGonagall will say about this when she finds out." Nicole smirked at them. Rose was giggling behind her as she saw Sirius' face fall.
"Your not going to tell her are you?" Sirius asked with wide eyes.
"I don't know, maybe." She replied, holding her smirk.
"Oh come one Nicole, you wouldn't get us very charming Marauders into trouble would you,' Sirius flashed her another smile, but Nicole pretended to look like she didn't care, 'you know, that was pretty amazing how you stopped the gargoyle." He pointed to it as Peter took it back to its original place where the boys had placed it for the prank as Sirius was charming Nicole.
"Sirius, you've seen me use my magic before." She replied.
"Still… you've always seem to amaze me." He commented, giving her a wink.
Nicole could feel her cheeks heat up at the sight of the wink. From the moment she was born, Nicole was gifted with magic that has been passed down by blood through generations from her mother's side. The magic that she was gifted with, allow her to perform magic with the ability of her mind and body, to perform magic with out the use of a wand.
The name of this gift was one that many couldn't pronounce, but for the past three generations, the gift was given a new name which is simpler to pronounce, 'Magic of the mind'.
She had once displayed her powers in her first year in one of her Defense Against The Dark Arts classes. They were learning to disarm spells that was sent their way, when one of her fellow peers went flying across the room, almost hitting the wall directly ahead of him, but he was luckily saved by Nicole.
Peter returned from having putting the gargoyle back and stood next to Sirius.
"So… did you girls come from the library?" Sirius asked, eyeing the books in their hands.
Rose nodded… "Yeah, we just finished the Transfiguration homework." She answered.
Sirius' eyes almost bulged out of his head when he heard that that they have finished the homework, yet alone started it.
"You already finished it… it's not due until next week."
"Well unlike you and James, Sirius, we like to get it done and over with." Sasha replied.
"More like Lily wanting to get it done and over with." Rose commented with a slightly frown.
"Speaking of which… I can't wait to talk to her." Nicole smirks as she glanced at her to best friends.
"Why?" Peter asked.
But before any of the girls could answer him, they heard foot steps and soft MEOW coming from a corner behind them.
"It's Filch." Nicole whispered.
"Quick, run." Sirius hissed.
The five Gryffindor's ran as fast they can as they could, seeing the out lines of both Filch and his cat Mrs Norris on the stone walls. Curfew was nearing and they didn't want to be caught by the horrible care taker.
Turning to a corner, the five students could no longer see the out line of the care taker.
"Wow… that was close." Sasha panted.
"Yeah…" Rose replied, clutching her side.
After catching their breaths, the five slowly made their way towards the Gryffindor common room.
There was silence for a moment, before Sirius asked the girls why they were so anxious to talk to Lily.
"Oh, well… we just want to ask her something." Nicole replied nonchalantly.
"Hey, does James still like Lily?" Sasha suddenly asked.
"As far as we know,' Sirius replied, 'why?"
"Oh nothing… you guess mind have a bit of trouble coming your way." Rose informed them.
"What do you mean?" Peter asked confused.
"Well, umm,' Nicole hesitated for a moment, 'it's just that… someone has just asked Lily out and we all know that James really likes her and I know for a fact that he is not going to be happy when he hears about this." She said, looking slightly scared.
The five Gryffindor's all knew that James Potter has a very fierce temper other than Lily herself. They all knew that Nicole was right that the boys would not have it easy for the weeks coming.
"Are you serious?" Peter asked, fear written plainly on his round face.
The girls nodded.
"Did she say yes?" Sirius asked.
"Well by the smile he had when he came back in to the library after following Lily… yeah." Nicole informed.
"Oh bullocks,' Sirius cursed under his breath, 'who's the guy?" he asked.
The girls looked at each other, thinking whether it was such a good idea to tell them who it was.
"If we tell you, do you all promise not do anything rash?" Rose asked.
"Of course… we promise." Sirius replied, with a smile.
The girls looked at him skeptically.
"Alright… it's Tom Raggan." Sasha replied.
As Sasha informed the boys who it was, Nicole could have sworn that she saw Sirius' eyes darken, but she ignored it, thinking that he was mad for his best friend.
They finally made it to the common room, giving the pass word to a very annoyed fat lady who she claimed that they have rudely interrupted her conversation with her friend Violet.
The fat lady gave way and allow the students to enter the portrait whole.
The three girls made their way to the girls' stair case as Sirius and Peter made their way towards the boys' stair case.
Peter suddenly stopped in front of Sirius and turned to face him before landing on the first years landing.
"Should… should we tell James about Lily?" he asked as his eyes grew with fear.
"I think we should,' Sirius replied, 'before he finds out by some else and that would be even worse."
"You mean like the Slytherin's?" Peter asked.
"Yeah." Sirius nodded his head.
The two boys finally made it to their dorm and found both James and Remus sitting on Remus' bed as he was packing his bag for his long and painful journey for the night.
James had been with Remus, keeping him company before he made his journey to the Whooping Willow, for his transformation tonight, for it was a full moon.
Sirius, James and Peter had found out about Remus' secret in at the end of their first year when James accidentally walked in to the bath room, finding Remus' standing there in front of the mirror, observing the wounds on his back.
After telling his friend lies about visiting his sick grandmother every full moon, which non of the other boys had notice Remus was gone during those nights, he finally came clean and told them the truth of him being a werewolf; about how he was bitten when he was five outside his grandparents home and how his parents has help him through it when he was at home, keeping him calming during his transformation by staying outside the room where he transformed.
He was afraid as any other would be to reveal a deep and huaghting secret to people he barely knew, but to his surprise, his three friends though no less of him and remains to consider him as their good friend, which soon led to best friend.
"So is everything in place?" James asked as he saw Sirius and Peter at the door way.
"Yeah… everything is set." Sirius replied.
Peter remained quite for a while as his face grew paler as he glance at James.
"Are you ok Wormtail?" Remus asked after having noticed his silence and appearance.
"Umm yeah." He quickly replied and glanced at Sirius.
Both James and Remus eyed them suspiciously.
"Ok you two what's going on?" Remus asked, looking from Sirius to Peter and back.
Sirius sighed and looked at James, while Peter's face became paler as he ran to his bed, sitting down, grabbing his pillow as though to hide himself from what was about to happened.
"Ok Prongs, you have to promise that you're not going to go berserk and sit there while I tell you." Sirius said as he sat down on his bed beside Remus'.
"What, why…"
"Just promise me." Sirius interrupted him. James nodded.
"Well umm, when we were setting up the prank, we came across Nicole, Sasha and Rose and they told us something,' Sirius began, adverting his eyes away from his best friend, 'they told us… huh…" He pause for a moment, trying to figure out how to tell his friend the news, knowing that once it is said, James would go into rampage.
"They told you what?" James urged Sirius to go on.
Sirius looked at him in the eyes as Remus and Peter watched on… "They said that Lily is going out with Tom Raggan." He ended.
Peter quickly threw his pillow over his head, afraid of what was going to happen as Remus' eyes bulged out in surprise whilst Sirius looked at the livid expression on his best friends face.
He was waiting for James to irrupt and as if on cue, James Potter's infamous temper irrupted.
He grabbed the nearest thing that he could grab hold of and threw it to the wall behind him, sending broken glass all over the floor, leaving trails of water trickling down the wall.
He kicked and punched everything inside, almost hitting Sirius in the process of hitting the bath room door. His hand singed with pain, but he didn't care.
His heart broke as the news reached his ears, anger building inside of him as his friends tried in vain to come him down.
Both Sirius and Remus rushed over to James, grabbing his arm to prevent him to hurt himself any further.
"Prongs… come down,' Sirius shouted, trying to restrain his arms, but it was no use as Remus lost his grip on James arm as his energy grew weaker from the on coming full moon which was due soon, 'Wormtail… help us!"
Peter hesitated for a moment, but quickly rushed over to them seeing how weak Remus was looking and grabbed James hand.
After successfully pinning James down onto Remus' bed, James finally calmed down, but both Sirius and Peter still had tight grips on his arms.
Remus slowly walked across the room and retrieved his bag pack and stood in front of his three best friends.
"I should get going… Madam Lastien's probably waiting for me." He said softly and headed towards the door.
"Good luck Moony." Sirius called after him as Remus looked over his shoulder with a nod.
As he made his way to meet the school nurse who always accompanies him to the Whipping Willow, he felt a slight guilt forming inside of him for leaving his friends to deal with what was happening.
He felt that he should have stayed and help his broken hearted friend through his pain, but with the circumstances that was bestowed on him, he had no choice but to leave it to his other two best friends.
He met the nurse, who smiles warmly to him as she caught sight of him at the front doors of Hogwarts; they walked in silence until they saw the view of the tree ahead.
Madam Lastien retrieved a long branch from a near by rock and carefully, trying to avoid from getting hit by the deathly branches that was flying around, probe the knob on the bottom of the trunk.
The branches froze and Madam Lastien led Remus to the opening of the tree.
"Good luck,' she smiles as Remus looked at her serene face, which had started to gather tears in her light hazel eyes, 'see you in the morning."
Remus nodded and made his way into the Shrieking Shack; passing through a dark narrow path, leading up to a plights of stairs that leads to a house with three bedrooms, one bathroom in a far corner and one large family room.
Remus walked the plights of stairs and into one of the bedrooms. Looking around, the room was in a very poorly state, to frightful who anyone who doesn't know what the house and room is used for to witness, but for Remus it was all to familiar as he himself had caused the poorly state of the room.
He walked over to the window, looking at the sky where he couldn't yet see the full moon.
His thoughts went back to his friends, especially James. He wants to be there for him, but right now, he only hoped that his friend was alright as he felt his body starting to ach as the full moon finally appeared in the night's sky.
The full moon shone high above as he could feel his limns aching, his body ready for its transformation.
Falling to the stained wooden floor as he clutched his side, the light of the moon shone through the window into the room.
Remus let a sigh of pain escape from his mouth as he saw his left arm form a claw of a werewolf. The pain was too intense as an ear splitting scream escaped from his mouth and as sudden the pain came, it finally ended as a werewolf stood where Remus Lupin once kneeled in pain.
The werewolf stood on its legs, observing his surrounding, sensing the air for a trail of prays, but could sense non until a couple of wizards walked meters away from the Shack in the village of Hogsmead; the wolf sensing their presents, followed the scent as he was face with the wall that divided with the room next door.
Not being able to reach its pray, the wolf bang itself against the wall, hoping to break loose from the confined space but with no such luck. In frustration, the wolf let out an eerie howl which traveled out into the village.
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