Lies, Lost, and Realizations

Remus came back to the Gryffindor dorm late on the 24th, exhausted and hopeful that he can come in with out anyone noticing the state he is in. as he entered the common room, it was nearly empty. Nearly. Unluckily for Remus, Regulus had been waiting for him.

"Where were you?" Regulus exclaimed shockingly. He had been expecting Remus to pop up at some point in the day, but there he was, 9:30 at night, barely walking through the door.

Remus jumped in surprise. "What the fuck?" Regulus looked at him disapprovingly. "Fuck off, I'm tired and just need sleep, not a bloody interrogation." Remus bit. He felt bad for being rude to the newcomer, but he was not in the mood to explain anything, nor think up another lie.

Regulus held his hands up in surrender. "Sorry, I just was concerned."

Remus sighed. "I understand. I'm going to bed."

"So, what? I don't get an answer?"

"You're not my mother, so, no. You don't"

Regulus huffed." Look, I'm just trying to be a good friend. Honestly."

Remus rolled his eyes and finished walking to the stairs. As he was starting to go up the stair, he stopped, turned around and went back down.

"Why aren't you in your dorm?" Remus asked.

"We have Astronomy tonight," Reg answered.

Remus raised his eyebrows in understanding and went back upstairs to finally get ore rest.

"All right class, take a seat and I would like to have all eyes on me. Thank you. Tonight, we have a beautiful sky and something I love very much. Does anyone know what last night was?"

The Girl Regulus had met at the beginning of the year raised her hand. "Yes, miss?"

"A full moon."

"Precisely, what makes full moon so special in the magical world?"

"certain potion ingredients only come out during the full moon" one student called out.

"Yeah, and werewolves!" one kid joked.

"Werewolves," Regulus mumbled under his breath, but a Slytherin he was sitting close to caught it.

"What? Is the great "Gryffindor Lion" afraid of a wolf?" the boy asked mockingly.

"What? What are you talking about?" Regulus asked, not understanding the mock.

"I bet mother dearest probably told you horror stories as a child, she probably threatens to let her traitor son be bitten by one!" Another Slytherin, who Regulus recognized from pureblood parties, joked.

"which one?" The Slytherin's friend added. The three Slytherins laughed. Regulus just rolled his eyes and ignored them.

"Fuck you!" Regulus had decided to use his new word and tell them off. The teacher, who hadn't been paying any attention, was now wide-eyed and alert.

"Mr. Black, detention and five points from Gryffindor." She announced. She had remembered Sirius from last year and knew if she didn't play rough, she would never have a handle on the second Black. Their cousins were always so proper and prim, what had happened to these boys?

Regulus huffed. He decidedly ignored the trio and listen to the teacher.

The next day went smoothly, Regulus went to his detention, Sirius had purposefully gotten detention to make sure his brother wasn't lonely, and then James got detention because he didn't want to be with out Sirius.

"You bloody fucking wankers. It's like you're a bunch of uphill gardeners!" Remus exclaimed.

"Fuck you" Sirius yelled back.

"That's exactly what you want to do isn't it?" Remus joked with a smirk. (BTW's uphill garner is a British insult for a homosexual according to a website. Continue)

Remus got a pillow thrown at his head.

The next week went by quickly. James was hardly there because he had started practice for Quidditch. Regulus and Remus had decided their time was better spent in a library and Sirius was bored out of his mind.

"Remmy!" Sirius whined. "Come out and play! It's a beautiful day, oh Remmy just come out and play!" He sang. "hey! I should write a song!"

"If that will get you out of our hair, then yes. Write a symphony while you're at it." Regulus told him with out looking up from his text book.

"You two are absolutely no fun!" he whined.

'I'm okay with that. What about you Reg?" Remus asked.

"Couldn't care less" he replied, again, eyes not leaving his book.

Sirius had decided he was going to find someone to bother. He went throughout the entire castle but all he found was an empty classroom with a lonely little Severus Snape sitting in it.

"Perfect" Sirius thought.

Sirius crept in and snuck up behind the boy. Snape had his head in his hands. Sirius was now standing directly behind Severus. Sirius counted to three inside his head and grabbed Snape's shoulders and yelled. "BOO!"

Snape's eyes went completely wide as he screamed. His heart was racing so fast he felt as if he was going to have a heart attack. Severus turned around just in time to see his assailant run from the room.

"BLACK!"

Sirius ran through the halls. He ran as fast as he could, but it didn't matter though. Severus Snape was prideful in the fact that he felt no need for exercise, expect for the occasional broom ride. Snape did nothing to keep himself in shape and therefore had no intention of trying to run after Sirius Black. Sirius was no James when it came to sports, but the young boy had quite a set of lungs.

When Sirius had made it to a part of the castle he didn't recognize, he thought he must have run far enough.

Sirius smiled and looked around. "Blimey, where am I?" he thought the best way to solve his problem was to walk down a random corridor. Surely eventually he would recognize something. He walked down the corridor he thought he had come from and then made a left through the next hallway he had found. Sirius started to make random twists and turns, because to him, this was the only way to figure out where he was.

After about an hour of following one hallway that led him back directly to where he had started, he decided that the best thing to do was call for help. The only problem was, he didn't know how. Sirius decided to sit down and think something up.

Fifteen minutes passed, nothing came to mind. He decided to lay down. Thirty minutes passed, still nothing came to mind. No spell or magical remedy he knew would help him. He sat up suddenly. That was it. No magical remedy would help him. He felt his person looking for something.

"Aha!" he yelled. He pulled out the walky-talky he had gotten for his birthday last year. "How did I forget about this? James, come on James?" He waited two minutes more waiting for an answer.

"James Fleamont Potter! You better fucking answer me!" Sirius yelled into the walky-talky

More time passed. He had almost been lost for 2 hours. He was very hungry and he didn't know what to do. Sirius was also fuming because he knew James' Quidditch practice would be over.

"Alright then, have it your way. I'll just keep talking until you answer. You bloody fucking idiot. Maybe I should ask Evans to go out with me as payment for this mistreation of a best friend. Yes Remus, that is totally a word." Sirius had decided if he was alone, he might as well pretend he wasn't.

"Sirius stop being so ignorant towards the English language," Sirius imitated Remus.

"Shut up, Remus. That is a brilliant word." Sirius imitated James.

"Shut up James I'm still mad," Sirius said all while talking into the walky.

On the other side of things, Regulus had just finished studying and went up to presumably find Sirius. When faced with an empty dorm, he began to wonder where else his brother would have. He decided to find to go find James at e quidditch pitch, also another place Regulus thought his brother would be. He was about to walk out of the dorm when he heard what he thought was the muffled voice of his brother.

"Sirius?" Regulus called out to the empty room. When there was still talking but no answer Regulus decided to follow the voice. He wondered all around the room. The only time he heard the voice louder was near Remus' bed. He looked under the bed, expecting to see Sirius but instead found a empty floor. Regulus was even more complexed. He opened the nightstand drawer and heard Sirius even louder. Regulus perplexed trying to figure how his brother could be trapped in a bedside table.

"Sirius?" Regulus called out again. When there was no reply he started looking for the origin of the voice. He rummaged through the drawer and finally found the strangest looking device that seemed to hold Sirius.

"Maybe it's like a wireless?" Regulus thought aloud.

"FUCK YOU, IDIOTS, I'M BORED OUT OF MY MIND AND YOU ALL HATE ME! IT'S OBVIOUS! THAT'S WHY YOU WANKERS AREN'T ANSWERING! FUCK YOU! I HATE YOU ALL TOO!" the device screamed.

Regulus thought for a moment. "Answer you?" he wondered. He looked at the device. There seemed to be a button on the side that could either hush Sirius or make him louder. On the other side turned Sirius' voice off and on. Finally there was a button in the middle, but Regulus couldn't figure out what it did. He kept pressing it and finally held t down.

"Interesting, this button also turns his voice off, but momentarily. How peculiar." Regulus thought aloud as he pressed the button.

"Reg?" Sirius said. Regulus jumped.

"You can hear me?" he asked.

"Oh, my fucking merlin! I thought I was going to starve before someone ever answered! Of course, I can hear you, don't you know what this is?" Sirius asked.

"But… But how?" Regulus queried.

"Look, I'll explain it later but right now I need you to find someone. In fact anyone who knows the castle, like Minnie, or Dumbles. Please. Oh and get James to come with because I'm going to kick his ripe arse!" Sirius fumed.

Regulus was still quite confused but did as he was told.

Regulus found Professor McGonagall and explained what had happened.

"And Mr. Black is talking through this?" McGonagall asked.

"Yes, here I'll show you." Regulus took the walky and pressed the button. "Sirius, I'm with Pro. McGonagall."

"Thank Merlin. Minnie, you have to come find me. My friends have abandoned me because they hate me, and I don't know where I am!" Sirius told her.

"Sirius," Reg sighed. "That is not what you told me five minutes ago."

"Fine but it sounds better."

Minerva tried not to smile at the brother's bicker.

"Stay where you are at, Mr. Black. I will find you momentarily." McGonagall said into the strange device.

Sirius had been found at the east side of the castle in a lonely hallway. If Sirius hadn't taken so many turns when he went searching for a way out, he would have found a way out.

As Sirius was reiterating his tale to Remus and James, the three boys listening were falling on the ground laughing.

"I can't believe you, Siri!" James laughed.

"When we said get lost, we didn't mean literally!" Remus told him with a smirk.

Regulus got up from the couch. "While this is all entertaining, I believe I' going to go back to the library." He told the group.

"Here I'll go with you," Remus replied while getting up from the couch as well.

"No!" Regulus said abruptly. "I mean, I would rather study alone right now. it's been a relatively exciting day and I'm just going there to get away from everyone." He explained.

"Oh, I understand. I'll go up to the dorm then, see you all at dinner." Remus declared.

Sirius sighed, "I'll go with you." He turned and followed Remus. Remus rolled his eyes but went upstairs anyhow. James grabbed his quidditch book of plays and started reading by the fire. Regulus went over to the portrait, open it, and then passed Lily as he was going out. Before the portrait closed he could here James jump up, topple over himself, and say hello to Lily.

Regulus had decided that he needed to search more into werewolves.

Regulus spent the rest of the afternoon and evening studying in the library. Before he jumped to assumptions about Remus, he had to be positive.

After three hours of studying, he was sure.

Remus John Lupin was a werewolf.

Before Regulus would tell anyone, he wanted to give Remus one more full-moon, to double check himself.

Sure enough, October 22 came around, and Remus "went home to a sick mother" not for the last time in his Hogwarts career.

"How many times is Remmy's mum going to get sick?" Sirius asked as he watched the retreating boy.

"Until she gets better?" James replied questioningly.

Regulus swallowed. He felt sick. How could he tell them that their best friend was a werewolf? Regulus didn't even know where Remus transformed. How did he know if the campus was safe? Regulus mentally smacked himself. Of course, it was safe. Dumbledore wouldn't bring him here if it wasn't. Besides, Remus had already done this for an entire year.

Reg took a deep breath.

"Have you ever thought something was suspicious about Remus' trips back home?" he asked.

The two boys looked thoughtful.

"Well, we decided we would wait for him to say something because he will when he wants to. other than that, we've let it go." James replied.

"So, you've never looked into it?" Reg countered.

"Well, I tried, after you pointed out it happened a LOT. Nothing ever came of it though." Sirius told him.

"That's because you didn't count all the times you had forgotten about. Think about it. It happens at least once a month. What else occurs once a month?"

James clenched his jaw. Sirius bit his lip. They both just stared at Regulus.

"Well?" Regulus queried.

"Well, What?" They replied together.

"Do I have to think for all of us?"

"Oh! You want us to answer. I thought it was rhetorical." Sirius explained.

"Quidditch games happen once a month," James answered.

"And, um….. New moon?" Sirius adds.

"So close yet so far away…" Regulus mumbled. "Try again."

"Ooh! Ooh! Full moon! Is that the answer?" James questioned.

"What happens on a full moon, except werewolves?" Sirius inquired.

Sorry for the sort of cliff hanger… I know I don't post for three months and then I give you a cliff hanger, what sort of writer am I? well, my friend thought I needed to give it more spice, so. Anyway, I'm really frustrated with myself for not finishing and getting this out sooner. SORRY! I watched 12 seasons of Supernatural in a month, so I was kind of busy with that. And I am going on a trip to Colombia that I'm raising money for, and I have a play this weekend that I am in. ugh! I am really busy and I lost a lot of motivation for,… everything so it took a while. I can't promise you anything for the next chapter, but here's this for now. Ttfn!