April 23, 1978

Remus Lupin always knew when the full moon was going to happen. He always knew without even looking at a calendar. He always knew when the full moon was coming because he would always, without fail, received a healthy, or rather a painful, dose of powerful cramps in just about every bone and muscle in his body. Aside from that he also felt weaker, and had an inexplicable, only it was completely explicable, heightened senses.

It was always like this, an amount of pain bubbling just above unbearable, but Remus never complained, it wasn't in his nature to complain. But Lily noticed. Lily always noticed, and prepared a highly coveted and mystical muggle magic, Advil.

This month Remus looked particularly in pain, and Lily's magical Advil remedy seemed to do very little to help, though Remus would never mention it.

"Remus, I'm so sorry, I don't have anything else. The Advil should've worked!" Lily screwed up her nose in frustration.

Remus adjusted himself on the armchair, "It's alright, Lily, really, the Advil did help!"

"It's just you're always in such pain and I don't know how to make it better. Maybe a potion…?"

"It's alright Lily, I really am fine."

"That's what people say when they are anything but fine." Lily put her hands on her hips and gave Remus a stern look.

"Moony, you shouldn't be in pain." James said looking up from his homework.

Lily threw her arm out gesturing at James and giving Remus a look that said "I told you so!"

Remus just sighed, "What kind of potion would help anyway? It doesn't matter, it happens every month I'm used to it."

"Remus!" Lily called, "Just because it happens so often doesn't mean you should just give in to the pain!"

"Yeah Moony, let the witch make her potion." Sirius said lazily from the couch.

"Don't call my girlfriend a witch!" James called from the table.

"Remus, just.. I think if I tried I could make something. Course I wouldn't be able to test it before I gave it to you and it would be highly illegally to give experimental potions to other people without ministry approval…"

"Right, so don't do it." Remus stood up shakily. "Well, I'm going to go eat some chocolate, what time is sunset?"

"About 8 o'clock." Peter pipped up from another armchair.

"Excellent, I'm off." Remus limped slowly up the boy's dorms.

"Lily, you probably shouldn't make a potion. I mean I would trust you, but just in case it could be really bad…"

"Well I can't just do nothing!"

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Except nothing was exactly what Lily had ended up doing. The boys had left just before eight and Lily hadn't been able to focus on anything, so she had gone to bed. But now as she lay awake on her bed staring up at the ceiling, she wanted to do something. Remus shouldn't have this burden. It was nice that James, Sirius, and Peter had become animagus to help him, but that only made that night easier, what about all the pain that he felt between those nights?

Lily slipped out of bed, a potion had to be creatable. It just had to.

She sat down heavily at her desk and brought out paper. Alright Lily, what do we know? She thought. Well I know that Remus has got a disease. That didn't really help much, how do you cure a disease? What if I didn't cure it just made it better on him? Like an antidote? Brilliant! Lily knew all about how to make antidotes from potions class. This would be simple.

Not that simple, I'll need a hair from the wolf. Well that might complicate things a bit.

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What the hell am I doing?! Lily thought as she crept quietly out of the castle. Lily hesitated, she really shouldn't be out here.

But it was too late to turn back, for the great wolf had lifted its nose to the sky and was turning its head towards Lily.

Lily felt a silent scream rise from her throat. A chilling feeling washed over her as she saw, with horror, that the wolf's eyes were turning quickly from the green that was just like Remus' eyes to a yellow that looked like a thousand murders.

Lily shuddered and turned to run back. A pounding on the ground behind her made her want to turn, but she didn't dare, her eyes were locked on the door of the castle.

Suddenly she felt her feet leave the ground and several hard bumps press into her rear. Before she could blink in surprise she was dropped onto the floor of the entrance hall. Lily jumped up, her heart still beating a thousand times trying to beat right out of her ribcage.

James stood fuming above her.

"What the bloody hell are you doing out here, Evans, you know that we're out here! What were you thinking?!"

Lily opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

"No, you know what? Nevermind. I know you were trying to help, Lily, but you can't. Merlin you can be naive sometimes." He sighed.

Lily felt like his words had just slapped her. "I can be naive?" She whispered practically shaking with anger. "EXCUSE ME FOR TRYING TO HELP OUT A FRIEND! SORRY THAT CARING ABOUT PEOPLE IS SUDDENLY A BAD THING-"

A loud bang rocked the room and silenced Lily. She and James exchanged a look. "What was-"

Another bang sounded and Lily leapt closer to James.

"That's Remus, you gotta get out of her Lily." He looked panicked. Lily nodded. "I'm sorry I got so mad, just try to help from a safe distance, yeah?" Lily nodded again.

"Sorry for yelling at you, and thanks for saving me."

James smiled, "Anything f-"

Another bang cut him off and made Lily tuck tail and flee.

As she was running, Lily looked back and saw a magnificent stag push the door open and force the wolf back with its antlers.

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Lily apologized profusely the next day and explained that she thought she might be able to help Remus if she could get a piece of the wolf's hair. Upon hearing this Remus forgave her, and the other marauders followed suit. Remus was wary of them trying to get a hair from the wolf, but gave in eventually.

It was determined that Peter would get the hair and bring it to Lily, since rats had better digits for picking off hair than dogs or deer. Then it would be up to Lily to make a potion.

A/N: Sorry this is kinda like my other fic, but I just think that Lily would really want to help Remus, and she's good at potions maybe she made the first strides in creating the Wolfsbane potion? Let me know what you think. rEviEwS aRE liKe CoOkiEs!