Authors Note:
I'm sorry if I don't talk about Peter much, I have just never forgiven him for turning James and Lily into Voldemort, but I'll try and pretend that never happened when writing this.
Thank you to Arkell26 for my first review :-) wasn't sure if anyone would read this at all, but just me being insecure. Hope you enjoy this chapter., and don't forget to review!
"Settle down now class!" Flitwick's shrill voice echoed through the classroom, stopping everyone apart from the Marauders who were deep in conversation in the corner of the room.
"And then the cherries just exploded!" Sirius cackled and the Marauders quickly joined in.
"Ech emm" Lily glared over at them from her adjacent table.
"Ohh sorry Professor Evans" Sirius laughed, pouting and miming hitting himself on the arm.
"Shut up Black and listen" Lily scorned as she flicked her hair and turned away from his childish grin.
"Yes, ur, thank you Miss Evans. Today we'll be learning the stunning spell, otherwise known as the stupefy charm" Flitwick continued "Some people mistake it for a jinx but it is in fact a charm. It renders a person unconscious and can halt moving objects"
"Cooolll" Sirius gasped, earning himself another death glare from Lily.
"The execution of the charm is simple, but extremely effective, simply flick your wand up and down and in a clear, loud voice say 'stupefy"
Flitwick was wary of the Marauders so had removed delicate objects from around their table. Just as he was thinking about what a great idea it was a loud bang came from the back of the classroom. Peter sat in the broken remains of his chair "Mr Pettigrew it helps if you wait for me to tell you when to do it" he sighed before ushering the class into the practice room full of dummies.
"Ok, Lily, prepare to see something amazing" Sasha grinned, preparing to flick her wand "Stupify!" flames shot out around her, singing her robed and doing nothing to the dummy stood opposite her.
"Wow Sasha, you're really terrible at this aren't you?" Kara laughed.
"It runs in the family" She sighed. Before Kara could tease Sasha anymore Peter went flying past them and hit the wall, the Marauders fell about laughing behind them.
"I can tell this is going to be a long lesson" Lily sighed before doing the charm perfectly on a nearby dummy.
"I'm hungry!" Sirius wailed as the Marauders went up to the Gryfindoor common room after dinner.
"You've just eaten, how on earth can you be hungry?" Remus was always amazed at the fact that given the opportunity (and three buckets) Sirius could down half his body weight in food and still be hungry afterwards.
"He's always hungry, Moony, it's what makes him Sirius. Without it he'd just be a self-obsessed moron with no good qualities or knowledge of anything useful" James laughed, saying the password to the fat lady so the portrait swung forwards.
"Hey! What about my charming good looks and witty banter?" Sirius said.
"Did you seriously just say banter?" James stared at him.
"Yeah, I was hoping you wouldn't notice that" Sirius murmured. "Anyway, enough insulting Sirius, why don't we go down to the kitchens?"
"You can, I've got an Ancient Runes essay to do," James yawned at the thought of it.
"And I need to practise turning rats into goblets" Peter muttered, he had always been the shyest of the Marauders.
"Seriously, Wormtail? I spent three hours trying to teach you that last night!" Sirius groaned at how slow he was.
"Yeah, well I never understood it" He blushed.
"So you can turn yourself into a rat every full moon, but you can't even turn a rat into a goblet, sometime I worry about you wormy" Sirius patted Peter on the head patronisingly.
"Sirius, keep it down!" Remus whispered "We don't need the whole of Gryffindor knowing that you're all illegal animagus', let alone my, uh.."
"Furry little secret?" Sirius chuckled, he had come up with the name as soon as he found out Remus was a werewolf in first year.
"I wish you wouldn't call it that," Remus muttered.
"Speaking of your furry little secret..." Sirius took a moment to enjoy the annoyed look on Remus' face "...isn't it the full moon tomorrow"
"Yeah, I'm going to Poppy the new nurse tomorrow, then she'll take me down to the Womping Willow." Remus shivered at the thought of his transformation.
"Don't forget us, we'll meet you there" James chimed it.
"Yeah, but, I might hurt you, and..." Remus tried to argue but James wouldn't let him finish.
"We promised we wouldn't let you go through it on your own, and we have done ever since first year, so I'm afraid you're stuck with us now."
"Fine, but I'll never forgive myself if anything happens to you"
"And it won't, promise" James patted him on the shoulder for reassurance.
"So it's settled, we'll meet at the Shrieking shack tomorrow night, agreed?"
"Agreed," James didn't even hesitate.
"I guess so," Remus gave in.
"Wormtail? Anyone in or are you in worm land?" Sirius joked, slapping his arm.
"Ow! Of course I'm coming" he said in a quiet voice.
"OK, so there's only one more thing for me to do," Sirius stated happilly.
"What?" The others asked.
"Go get some chocolate!" He grinned, striding off.
Lily was on her way to prefect duty; she'd been looking forward to this the whole day, just as long as it was completely Marauder free.
Just as she passed the kitchens she bumped into none other than Sirius Black with his hands full of chocolate attempting to chat up a seventh year mid bite.
"Hey Evans!" He grinned, completely forgetting about the girl and running after her.
"Go away Black" She snarled.
"Come on, can't we just be mates?" He asked, giving her puppy eyes.
"Oh, I'm sorry, but the carrot peelings say otherwise," She cringed thinking back to how embarrassing that was with the whole school laughing at her.
"Yeah, but that was just a joke, you can take a joke right?" She glared back at him "Ouch, I take that one back" He chuckled.
"Just run back to your little friends, torture an innocent first year, or pull pranks on Slytherins" All the typical things Sirius would do even before breakfast.
"Nah, I'd rather hang out with you," he said nudging her.
"Well I'd rather hang out with an Acromantuala then talk to you, Black," She scowled and stormed off, but Sirius just persisted on following her, dropping chocolate as he went.
"Come on, you love me really" He smirked. "I'll give you a chocolate bar?" But that wasn't getting him anywhere.
"How could I love a bully?" Lilly growled at him trying to avoid eye contact.
"Because of my charm and great looks? He grinned, dramatically flicking his hair whilst trying to ignore her accusation.
"Don't you mean ignorance and vanity?" Lily said sarcastically "Now if you don't mind I have to go and to work, you should try it one of these days"
"I like to focus on the more important things, like my hair, I mean it takes a long time getting it to look this good!" Lily just ignored him and stormed off, and it was clear Sirius wasn't going to get anywhere so he just wandered off whilst stuffing a chocolate bar in his mouth trying to find the seventh year again.
"Ready?" James asked as he lead Remus into the infirmary.
"Ready" Remus sighed "Just don't let me hurt you"
"You hurt me every time you try to reject my undying love for you" James fake cried, clutching his heart with the pain to make Remus laugh.
"Ok, Ok" Remus laughed through chuckles "I'll see you at the Shrieking Shack, yeah?"
"Of course, just don't forget she needs to be out of there as quickly as possible, last time that extra bar of chocolate could have rumbled the whole thing"
"Hey come on, it's me, my special skill is making women run away" Remus laughed with James.
"We'll discuss how wrong that is later my beautiful buttercup, anyway got to go, see you" James babbled, then ran off to meet up with Peter and Sirius.
James never liked the feeling of turning into an animegus, but once it was over it was pretty fun being a stag, unless Sirius liked playing a game of chase the Stag in his dog form, which unfortunately was one of those times. Peter in his rat form was scampering about squeaking wildly trying not to get trodden on until Sirius' dog ears heard voices coming from the corridor and motioned the others to shut up.
"OK, Remus, you've had your medicine and try to keep calm, I'll go now, good luck" They could hear Madam Pomfrey telling Remus.
When the coast was clear they emerged from the room and stood around Remus, James nudging him with his head encouragingly. Remus was to busy concentrating on his transformation to acknowledge it and the others went to their usual waiting room to leave him in peace.
Suddenly an ear piercing howl came from next door and they knew it was time to go. With Sirius catching Remus' attention, they ran out of the shack and into the woods by Hogsmeade. They tried a game of 'don't tread on the rat' (Sirius' doing) but James ended up headbutting a tree after spinning around one two many times.
"Thanks so called friends" Peter thought to himself as he narrowly avoided the claw of the Werewolf. Deciding he was bored Sirius howled, nudged James, and they went hurtling off into the distance leaving Peter and Remus on their trail.
Remus caught up by the lake where James and Sirius were having a break with Peter finally arriving five minutes later. Just when they thought they were fine Remus let out a howl and lunged for Sirius, taking a gouge out of his arm. Whimpering, the shaggy black dog limped off round the lake to wash it whilst James distracted him.
Occasionally during his transformation Remus was calm and able to follow the rest of the Marauders through the woods and onto discovering more in the land surrounding the castle. Sadly this wasn't one of those nights.
After stopping so that Peter could jump onto his back James managed to lure Remus deep into the Forbidden Forest where he spent the night running in circles to keep the werewolf distracted.
Just as the sky started to brighten they brought Remus back to the shrieking shack and slammed the door shut on him, waiting for the screams and sounds of shattering wood ended. Turning back into their human forms James and Peter crept into the house, slowly pushing open the door at the end of the corridor to reveal a passed out, shivering Remus surrounded in the tattered remains of his clothes, newly formed pink skin scratched raw from the itching. They heaved him up between the two of them, James' arms wrapped around his chest and Peter stumbling along with his feet.
They left him just in the entrance to the secret passage where he could wake up and take himself to the infirmary, then ran to the common room under the invisibility cloak where they both passed out instantly on the sofas by the long dead fire.
Remus was woken up the next morning by the harsh sunlight pouring into the hopsital wing. He furiously rubbed his eyes as they burned in the light and reached for the glass of water on his night stand in the hopes that it would calm his pounding headache. The few days after his transformation were spent in immense pain and having to cope with new fragile skin.
"Moony? Moony are you awake?" Remus heard Sirius calling to him over the ringing in his ears.
"Kind of, I've got a massive headache and... wait what are you doing here? Oh God I hurt you didn't I?" Remus started getting worked up, moaning in pain as he stretched his skin trying to reach for the curtain dividing their beds.
"What are the chances that you'll believe me if I said no?" Sirius tentatively pulled back the curtain revealing his bandaged arm.
Wincing at the site of it Remus shook his head at himself "Is it bad?"
"No, just a little cut on my arm" Sirius argued "Now eat your chocolate before I do" he nodded to the stack of chocolate bars on Remus' table
"I don't care about the stupid chocolate Padfoot, now it wouldn't be nothing to worry about if you're in a hospital wing wearing a bandage, would it?"
"Just showing off my battle scars" He grinned.
"Battle scars? Oh god I didn't fight you did I?"
"No, it's just a saying, stop worrying! I'm only here because Evans caught me on my way upstairs and sent me straight here. I had to say I caught it on a door"
"Real good excuse there" Remus said in a sarcastic voice.
"Well it fooled Evans, I think, now shut up and eat your chocolate it'll make you feel better." And luckily he did.