Author's note: Please be aware that I own ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, everything, except my character(s) I place in here, belongs to the wonderful Lady J.K. Rowling. This is a Sirius Black/OC Fanfiction, or at least it will get to that point. I do have terrible spelling sometimes, but I do my best. However, if I misspell something that I have not caught I do appreciate having a correction mentioned. But I love reading Fanfiction's from here, and I hope I can bring others the same joys they have brought me, I figured it was time I give it a shot.

This WAS, my FIRST Fanfiction that I had the courage enough to put up for all to read. I started small and did my best to update as soon, and as much, as I could. I know tend to forget things so try to have some patience, even though I sometimes fail at having some myself. *cough, cough*Please Enjoy the story, for the pages have yet to turn for new, or returning, readers of journeys untold. Also, please be aware that this story is 100% mine. This is a work of mine that I did under a different account of fanfiction under the username Nattie8516 and now shares the same username under this Fanfiction site as well. So rest assured, I am the same person and same owner of this work and other's I shall be posting on this new site as well.

Chapter 9

Emma sat in an abandoned courtyard. Her head bowed low in self-disappointment. They hadn't had any classes that day, and she had wished they had, otherwise this wouldn't be happening. At least Gabby was lucky, she had gone home for a family emergency, her grandmother's health was failing, otherwise she would be sitting here with her. Though Emma felt Gabby may rather be with her getting scolded than having to deal with her grandmother's failing health, which Emma had to say, she completely understood.

"What were you thinking!" Remus had never shouted at her before, it seemed that last year and this year would be filled with learning about each other a lot more than they had thought, "Animagus, Rose! Illegally! Is it not enough the boys have put enough on the line for me! Now you! And- and you involved Gabrielle! Gabby, of all people! Rose, she could have been infected, I could have killed you both!"

"I'm so-"

"I AM NOT FINISHED, ROSE!," He shouted with a heated glare. There was the famous glare of Remus John Lupin, they had come to use her middle name when she was in trouble. Both were only used together when she was in deep trouble. Like now, for example. "What made you even think it was remotely alright to follow them? What in your brightest ideas made this alright! I cannot even express how upset I am at you girls right now!" Remus huffed with anger at her. He truly was dumbfounded at what the two girls had done.

Emma had wanted to tell him that bringing Gabby along was not her idea, let alone in her plans, but Gabby wasn't there to say anything, and Emma was not going to throw her to the wolves.

… No pun intended.

It was silent for a short while, no one seemed to know if he was done yet and he hadn't brought up him nearly killing her, and for a moment she wondered if they had told him that part or left it out. And for both of their sakes, she prayed they had left it out.

"So, a fox then, huh? The irony." This caught Emma off guard. She shook her head looking completely dumbfounded and not having a clue what to say anymore. "Well,"

"Uh... W-well, I-" Emma stammered over her words. Truthfully, she didn't know what to say.

"Cute tail by the way, Foxy." At hearing this comment, she turned her attention to Sirius.

Shocked, he even commented about her tail, which was personal to her, it was like commenting on her butt! Glaring a bit heatedly at him she nipped back to try putting him in place, "You have a girlfriend, please keep the tail compliments to yourself, Sirius Orion." Emma sounded bitter, jealous even if the others really thought about it.

'Wow! Where did that come from!' Sirius thought, though the other three Marauder's seemed to be biting back grins of amusement, 'Round three goes to Emma, round four may just belong to-'

Deciding to egg her on to see if he was right about his assumption, Sirius set the bait, "Na, Julia wasn't cutting it. Plus, my eyes keep going to someone else entirely." Sirius grinned his charming grin at her.

James silently snickered to himself, 'Never mind, Sirius won that round,'. He had to admit, they were cute and very, very entertaining when they were like this.

Annoyed at him saying such things about the Ravenclaw girl, Emma stood from her set, "Well, then why don't you go on ahead and flaunt this one around? I'm sure all the little girls would be so envious now that you're giving them all so much attention since you're back to being the wonderful ladies' man you've been claiming to be all these years. Now I think I'm beginning to see why so many girls were complaining the last two years when you stopped paying them attention." Her voice was laced with annoyance, yet it held a double meaning. She hated him giving all the girls attention the way he was. He'd date them, snog them, then almost a month later he'd dump them and moved on to the next girl! Emma had lost count as to how many different girls he'd gone through since he had started ignoring her, his attitude hadn't improved much since then either, besides him attempting to speak with her. "And just so you know, Sirius, girls are not here to be your playthings, nor are we here for your entertainment when you want to be a player. We have feelings, try taking them into consideration." She finally scolded him, he had deserved it either way, always walking around with a new girl of the week like she was a new toy. He never seemed to care when he'd break up with them and they'd be left in tears wondering what they did to make him grow tired of them and just leave. 'What a playboy!'

'Ouch, low blow Rosie,' Peter winced.

Even being scolded by her, Sirius couldn't keep the grin from his charming lips as he ran his fingers through his longish hair, tying part of it up in a top knot leaving the rest to hang with the length that wouldn't have fit in the hair tie. Emma had taken the bait. "I only care about a few girls in particular. So, I'm afraid I can't... and I can't just parade around with this one particular lady. You see, because this girl seems to be beyond my reach." His smile wasn't full of his ego, it was more... Dream like wishing? He was sincere and full of far off longing.

Annoyed, Emma took a deep breath.

James had instantly taken a step or two off to the side of the group, he did not want to be near this one. He'd nearly laughed when Peter hid behind him to avoid the backlash from Emma. They all knew far too well that she could be mean.

"Well, then I'm sorry to say that this girl doesn't seem to exist." She grumbled, turned to Remus and sighed again, this time sadly, "I'm sorry, I was a fool. I just wanted to see for myself and hoped I'd been wrong, but to be safe I figured to not get infected, why not try becoming an Animagus and if I was right, I didn't want you to be alone. I had no idea they were with you. I thought you were on your own. Thankfully, that part I was wrong about and I'm sorry I made last night worse for you than it already was. Now, if we're done, I have homework I need to get done for Monday Potions and Herbology class."

A bit drawn back by her now irritated and aggravated attitude, knowing it wasn't directed at them, but Sirius, Remus nodded, "Uh, yeah. For now. Don't think Gabby is getting off the hook either. When she gets back, she's in for her own scolding." Remus stating clearly. He didn't need them doing it again.

"No need Remus, Gabby didn't see anything. All she saw was a big wolf knocking me out."

"She's still getting spoken too." James jumped in, "Why don't I help you with your homework Foxy, come on."

A month had gone by since then and Emma had kept to herself from the boys near the end of the month. She had gone as far as leaving Remus be and barely spoken to Sirius even when he tried speaking to her, though they all had the idea it was because of his groupies, or the current girl of the week, would be nearby and gushing over him, which drove them all up the walls.

They boys were leaving the Common room when they had walked past the sofa and happened to find Emma fast asleep in front of the still roaring fireplace. She hadn't been out on her nightly runs in almost two weeks. No doubt she was slowly being driven mad by that. She had grown far too accustomed to her runs.

With a sigh and a knowing thought that Remus and the others were probably not going to like, James walked over to her and gently smiled at her sleeping form, "Prongs, what in the bloody name of Merlin are you doing?" Sirius asked in a hissing whisper. 'Oh yeah, Sirius is really going to hate this,' because James had this planned from the beginning, "She's coming with us tonight, Padfoot," He clarified as he proceeded to shake her awake.

Being woken up, Emma jolted half up-right looking around curious as to why she was woken up, "What- Jamie? What are you doing?"

"Wake up Foxy and follow us..." With that he walked back to the boys and waited for her.

His heart raced at the thought of involving Emma in this already dangerous group secession they'd have for Remus, there was no way she'd be alright. The last event was forever burned into his mind. The paleness of her from the wound, the blood and the nasty claw marks he knew would forever mar her body. "Prongs, she is not-"

"Yes, she is Sirius, and that is final. I love you like my brother, and as a brother I am clarifying that she is coming with us. She turned herself into an illegal Animagus to help Remus if he was alone. If we exclude her, her risk was for absolutely nothing. She loves him just as much as we do. It's the least any of us can do for her. Anyways, she took on Remus better than you did last time." James laughed a little at him.

Glaring at his friend like brother, Sirius huffed at him with irritation, "Hey, I'm always the one that ends up pinning him in the first place anyways! And I track him down Prongs, and she got hurt lastly time, mind you. And it was nasty." Sirius spoke up defensively.

James grinned and shot back, "Then having her should give us a second advantage and extra help for when you're not only tracking him but to get a few legs up in getting him down. My skinny little legs can only do so much, and I don't fancy the idea of having Moony impaled on my antlers like what nearly happened last time."

"If you two are going to argue like this then I'm going to bed. I'm not in the mood for the drama, sorry." Emma pipped up, she really looked miserable and James had an idea why... She loved her nightly runs that she clearly hadn't had one for a while and it was beginning to show.

"Hush, tonight's your lucky night Foxy, you get to run tonight." For a split second, he saw the excitement clear as day only for it to be lost quickly.

Sighing, she shook her head, "No, it's still the full moon cycle, I'm going to bed."

Sirius and Peter had both seen what James had seen, and it not only confused them, it nearly shattered them. She looked more miserable than when Gabby hadn't spoken to her for four months. Emma was on the third step when she was tossed over Sirius's shoulder and all heard an inhuman growl leave her. This had only made Sirius grin, only to lose it himself shortly, "Put me down your psychotic git, I want my bed." Her words struck him hard.

'Now that hurt,' This had made it final, she may not have needed them, but she needed the run. Hiding his stinging hurt behind irritated eyes, Sirius dropped her to her feet as they walked out the door and gave her a stern glare, "Hush up and follow us,"

"It's still the end of the month. Why should I follow you? I'm not in the mood to disappoint anyone else like I already have, I think I've done plenty of that as it is." She panted, trying to contain herself, turning back to the portrait of the Fat Lady she rushed back towards her with pleading eyes for sanctuary, "Ginger Snap," But to Emma's dropping heart, the Fat Lady refused, she wouldn't open the passageway. "Ginger Snap..." She repeated with a huff as Emma confronted her with as much politeness as she could muster up for the dear Lady, "My Lady, please open the passageway." Emma pleaded.

The Fat Lady held her composer with pride, a gentle smile gracing her face as she shook her head slowly, "I'm sorry dear, but you need a breath of fresh air. My Dormitory will not provide that but an opened window... Now, head off Miss. Evans."

Emma's jaw was hanging open, 'Traitor.'

Peter spoke up, finally finding his voice, but his confusion and curiosity at what she meant really got to him, it got to them all. "Is that what you thought we meant, Emma?"

Sighing, Emma shook her head at him and waved it off, hoping he'd just drop the conversation, because yes, she did feel she had failed them, "I'll change on our way there and hide my clothes." Her irritation was clear. Not being able to help in any way with Remus's condition, failing to simply confront him, then locking herself up for about a week or two and leaving Remus and the boys their time during the full moon. Honestly, she really didn't want a recap of being slammed against the rock wall like last time, which was why she had the idea to leave them be during the week of and after the cycle. And she hated it, but she had caused enough damage.

"Uh, actually... Emma, we have to change with him, that way he knows who we are." Knowing her clothes still refused to change with her or just decided to randomly vanish and not come back, Emma blushed at the possibility of being completely vulnerable to them and their judgment. They'd been doing this longer than her and she was already in a bad mood as it was. "I am not changing in front of you lot."

"Going to have too, otherwise we'll have a recap of last time, really don't want that. Moony cracked a rib or two of mine and scratched Padfoot along the neck." Peter clarified, he really didn't want that recap, because he knew his ribs may not be able to handle it again. "He bit me, he didn't scratch me," Sirius corrected.

They watched her huff in defeat, "Fine, but if I lose my clothes, I'm stealing someone's shirt." Emma stated and walked off. They were already late as it was, and Remus was probably in a lot of pain right now with being by himself. That just may make it worse.

James grinned, "I already have that covered Foxy, don't worry."

Emma really didn't like that grin, it was the James she knew when he had something up his sleeves, a tricky trick already set and ready to be put into play.

James and Lily had given up trying to set Emma and Remus up with one another, they had known it was a waste of time, but how to get Sirius and Emma back to being themselves and talking, or Emma talking to Sirius, was going to be a bit hard only because she was proving to be difficult. End of term was approaching and the two of them had been on the outs all year. James and Lily were beginning to get tired of this, so tired that they were about to lock the two in a room and leave them there until they made up! They had lost every game that year and it was because Emma wasn't at the top of her game, none of them on the team had been.

Getting to the Shrieking Shack they walked into the room and found Remus sweating, he didn't look so good. "W-Emma? What is she doing here! Prongs, wh-what i-is sh-she doing... 'ere." Remus panted out.

Emma could clearly see the pain he was in and she hated it. Her irritation had left the moment she walked in and saw the pain Remus was going through.

James smiled to his dear friend, "She's going to be attending the nightly transformations with us from now on Remus. She risked a lot in her intentions to not only see for herself but to also attempt to help you. I think she should be included. However, we can have this conversation later, I think we need to go ahead and get ready to change ourselves. Oh-Wait," With that thought, James rushed to a small chest they stashed their clothes and medical supplies in and pulled out a robe-like dress and tossed it at Emma.

"What is this?" Emma asked with slight confusion. Even though he was in pain, Remus looked at James with equal confusion as he took in the robe like dress's appearance. A Ruby red, Greek styled robe, laced with Goldish yellow strings at each side that tightly held the fabric together, the front doing a bit of a dip, "You just slip it over your head." James said.

Completely shocked, Emma held the robe-dress up in her hands and took in the features herself, it was simple but pretty, but she was a modest person, something thst the rob-dress was not much of. She felt it was a bit out of her style to wear for her personally, "You expect me to wear this," She said accusingly.

James tried not to laugh at her, "No, no. Emma, it's only in case you lose your clothes, if they don't transform back with you or if they happen to get torn up in the process. It was the only thing I could think of, its cheap fabric and to be honest, but I thought it might be comfortable. It's soft and is not see-through." He wasn't lying, he hadn't a clue what to do if something did happen to her cloths and he wasn't going to let her walk back to the castle naked, she was practically his sister but the boys themselves only had so many clothes that they could afford to ruin, otherwise he'd have just lent her his. In truth, the thought had occurred to him a while ago, that if Emma hadn't been born and Evans, he was pretty sure she'd had been born a Potter. "Emma, it's only just in case, we'd let you use one of our shirts, but we too only have so many clothes we can afford to have ruined, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of this. Just try it out tonight, please." He said, kissed her atop her head and turned his attention back to Remus, "How are you holding up, Moony?"

"Not too go-ood, Pron-AURGH!" Remus's bones began cracking, his body shifting, changing. His skin grew gray and fur began to grow. His clothes tearing at the seams. The shift this moon was so painful tears rolled down his face, not like it hadn't happened before, but it was so much more painful tonight for some reason.

James rubbed his arm in comfort and placed a gentle hand on his head, "Okay, time to change, Emma get ready... You can put the robe on the bed." He stated, turning his attention back to Remus he smiled sadly, "Probably a good thing we have no classes tomorrow." The four boys took their spots in a circle around Remus, who he was in mid-transformation.

"Emma, between James and me, come on Love, hurry. We need to change fast." With a nod they all began their own transformation, Emma had waited until they had made their changes and had begun her own, each one raised a curious brow as her body took a small glowing blue, and began to shrink and morphed in the light, something that had never happened before.

Her clothes, sadly, had vanished, but a white snow fox with Cinnamon red color speckling her fur down her back and at the tip of her tail and a small ring of light silver wrapped around her throat, something that always appeared in place of her necklace she had yet to remove. Her tall ears stood up in an alert manner while her eyes looked around to each one of them, still her usual human like deep green. As her eyes landed on Sirius she raised a brow up at him confused at seeing his tail wagging, and for some reason, she had an itch to just chase it, which she sadly allowed herself to do.

Sirius had also allowed it to continue, too amused to even stop it.

James grunted as Remus had finished his change, signaling to Emma and Sirius for their attention, which sadly only worked for Sirius, considering Emma was still chasing and playing with his tail, "What is she doing?"

A yip was heard and Emma jumped in fright and small shock. Turning her attention to her tail, which she found to have been captured in Sirius's dog jaws, a wicked, yet playful, glint and grin was clear in his eyes.

The entire room was filled with either the animal's squeaking for light laughter, shaking his antlered head, or putting a paw over his nose and shaking his head, as they all watched the two. Yet, with Remus's curiosity he had walked up to the two and nosed Emma between her shoulders after lightly swatting Sirius upside the head with his own tail forcing him to release her own fluffy tail.

They had played around out in the forest like that for a few hours, thinking nothing of the dangers.

Howls soared through the trees and they sounded like a pack of wolves. Or worse. Their answer came soon as Remus took off towards the howling. The howls turned out to belong to a pack of were-wolves.

The four looked at one another, their concern was obvious as they took off after Remus, but the scene they came upon was terrifying, four were-wolves were all attacking one another. However, they had turned on Remus the moment he came through the clearing. They had charged the pack instantly, separating them from a very wounded Remus.

A claw came down across the front of Emma's chest, slicing through her fur and skin drawing blood, it had eventually gotten her on her back and bit into her stomach, thankfully her bite was worse than it had thought and was forced to release her the second she bit into its nose, her own claws dug deep along its eye then latched onto its throat.

Sirius and the others weren't far off either, James had bucked a were-wolf off his back and was sporting a bit to a wounded shoulder, claw marks across his chest and a cut under an eye. Peter was limping but had managed to bite one wolf on its nose and crawled its eyes, he would have succeeded in blinding it had he not been tossed off against a tree. Sirius had been clawed along his neck and back but had done enough damage to the were-wolf. They stood on shaking legs as the pack of Were-wolves rushed off.

Turning their attention to Remus they noted he was far worse than any of them, the pack had gotten him good. James laid next to him while Sirius tried moving him onto his back.

Emma, seeing him struggle a bit, had moved in to help. It took them three minutes to get his wolfish self onto James back and proceeded to head back to the Shrieking Shack.

The boys gently dropped Remus onto the floor so they could turn back and shuffled to get some pants on while Emma dashed to the bed, grabbed the robe-dress into her mouth and pulled it behind a still intact changing screen to shield herself from their view and downed the fabric. She truly thought she'd hate it, but the moment it slipped on she had fallen in love. Emma had to give it to James, he had nice taste in clothes, unless someone else did this on his behalf. Shaking the thought from her mind, Emma rushed out from around the screen and closed both doors.

Even with Remus passed out, his body had shifted painfully back into a human body, naked as the day he was born. Though this should have bothered Emma, it didn't faze her one bit. Seeing the damage done, she grabbed a nearby blanket and draped it around him. "We need to move him to the bed, sofa, anything. But he needs these injuries cleaned up fast."

The boy jumped into action, lifting him up and over to the bed while Emma rummaged through the drawers and trunk for the medical supplies. Sitting next to him she started cleaning up his wounds. He'd slept through the cleaning, but the moment she started placing the ointments on the first deepest wound on his chest, his eyes flashed open wide, the screaming and thrashing began.

"Remus! It's alright-"

"Forget it Fox, he can't hear you. His mind still hasn't cleared up. Wormtail, Prong, help me hold him down! Emma, keep up what you're doing, if you have too, sit on him." Sirius said jumping up onto the bed holding Remus's arms back against him, Peter and James claiming a leg.

Remus continued fighting them and Emma was finding it difficult to do anything, she really didn't want to sit on Remus, because then, she'd technically be straddling the were-wolf. And that was just 100% inappropriate between the two of them. However, Emma found she really didn't have a choice in the long run, if they couldn't keep him remotely still in the middle, she couldn't help him, his thrashing was making the injuries much worse.

Emma glared at Sirius wanting to smack him for even suggesting she sit on her friend, who was still naked, aside from the blanket that was currently draped over his lower half, "I really don't want to sit on him Sirius." But her comment had earned herself a heated glare from the owner of the grey eyes, "Fox! Sit. On. Him... Now!" He wasn't trying to make it any worse than it already was, but they needed to stop the bleeding and the ointment Emma was trying to apply was the only thing that could do the trick, if he would just stop moving. None of them had their wands within reach of them and leaving to rush for them was not helping in any manner of way for Remus or the others.

Sucking up her pride, Emma moved and sat herself over Remus, the added weight seemed to help stop him from thrashing about like he had been, but he was trying. Though it was now minimized by Emma sitting on him, allowing her to apply the ointment over his chest, arms, neck and the few cuts on his face. "Okay, these are done, time to look at his legs." As she went on his movements had come close to stopping and they were all grateful, even more so when he fell right back asleep.

With a tired sigh, she turned to the remaining boys and asked, "Who's next."