hey this is just a friendly authors not for ya. Sorry about not updating sooner but we have torn down our kitchen and i have had to work a lot. to top it off I cut myself on a plastic knife, yes plastic knives can cut you, and my cat has decided to help me type this my stepping on the keyboard. Just so you know it might take me a while to get the next chapter on here. have fun reading this next chapter.

"Is it just me or is Sirius stalking us?"

Remus looked behind to see if Sirius was behind them. He was. Somehow Sirius always managed to be where ever they were, except the library. Hero's explanation for his not being in the library was because he is allergic to books. It seemed to be logical to Remus.

"I wonder what's up with him." Remus mumbled.

"Why don't you go find out?"

"Are you sure you want me to?"

"Yes, he's seriously starting to creep me out. Now go!"Hero shoved him towards Sirius.

"I'm going, I'm going!" Remus said as he walked away. "Hey Sirius, What's going on?"

"What do you mean what's going on? I'm going to class." He shoved Remus out-of-the-way and stalked off to class.

Hero caught up to Remus, but he was deep in thought. She waved her hand in front of his face trying to get his attention. When he didn't respond she frowned. She tried several other methods but they didn't work. After a moment she smiled evilly and gave an ear-splitting whistle.

"Dang woman! That hurt." He said with his hands covering his ears.

"Well if you would have responded I wouldn't have had to do that. What did you learn from this?" Hero teased him.

"That you can whistle really loud?" his answer was more of a question. "My ears are still ringing."

"Not what I was looking for but it will work. What did Sirius say?"

"Not much. He wouldn't really answer me. When I asked he just asked me what I meant and stalked off to class."

"Interesting. Well I have to go to divination. See ya later."

She rushed off to class so she wouldn't be late. Remus stayed where he was since he had a free period. 15 minutes later Remus entered the common room and was shocked to see Hero who was sitting on a couch reading in shorts and a tee-shirt. When she saw him walk in she was shocked too.

"What are you doing here Remus?"

"I have a free period. Aren't you suppose to be in divination?" he asked as he sat down next to her.

"It's a funny story really. I'll put it this way, I got kicked out of class and I have this for an excuse to go where ever I want to." She said handing him a piece of paper.

Remus examined it briefly and handed it back to her. He then turned to face the window.

"It looks like it finally stopped raining. You want to go out on a walk outside with me?"

"What! In the mud!" she said in mock anger. "I would love to."

Remus smiled and they walked outside. They were walking on a garden path hand in hand until Remus stopped. Hero stopped right beside him.

"What do you want to do when you get out of Hogwarts?"

Hero put her hands together and put them under her chin. She thought about his question like this for a while. She finally smiled and answered him. "I have it narrowed down to 3 things."

"And these would be?" he started to walk again. Hero followed behind him.

"An old cat woman, a serial killer, or a therapist."

"A therapist? You would probably scare all of your patients. I can see it now. Hero the terrorist thera…"

Remus wasn't paying attention to where he was going and was cut off when he tripped over a tree root into a giant spot of mud. Hero couldn't help but laugh. She got closer and offered him a hand up. He took her hand and pulled himself up. He smiled and smeared mud on her face. She narrowed her eyes. Next thing Remus knew there was mud flying at him. They were throwing mud at each other when hero just shoved him back into the mud.

He held up his hands in surrender. "I relent. I won't throw any more mud at you."

She offered him a hand up again. He took her hand and pulled her down with him wearing an evil smile on his face. Hero laughed and shoved mud over him and began to get up. Remus pulled her back down and kissed her. She tried to get up several times but Remus pulled her back down every time.

"Not that this isn't cute but I have to take a shower before lunch because I am not going to lunch looking like this."

Remus got up and helped Hero up. They walked back to the common room. Luckily everyone was still in class so they didn't have to explain their current muddy state. As soon as they got in the common room Hero turned back and started walking out of the common room. She froze when James spoke.

"Don't go Hero. You must have an interesting excuse for you and Moony being covered in mud."

"James…" Remus started but Hero cut him off. She still had her back to everyone. "Before I explain to James I would like to have and explanation on my own. What are you doing here?"

"You see I knew Moony had a free period now and I was thinking of how lonely he must be so I decided to ditch class to keep him company. You can imagine my shock when I didn't find him here or in the library. Your turn."

"Well I was just sitting on the couch." She stated but James interrupted her.

"I thought you had class."

"I got kicked out. Anyway, Remus comes over here and we started talking about how the headmaster's office needed some redecorating. You seem smart so why don't you finger out the rest?"

James rushed past her as he said, "I got to see this!"

Hero turned around to face Remus with a smile on her face. He smiled back.

"I bought you some time. Good luck. I'm safe in the girls' dorm."

"You can't hide up there forever. You have to come down sometime. Oh and I'm gonna blame this whole thing on you since you came up with the explanation."

Hero stuck her tongue out at him. "We'll see about that." She said as she rushed off to the showers.

Somehow they managed to escape James questions. Lily had come to their rescue. They were sitting at the Gryffindor table and James had an evil glint in his eyes. He was just about to question them when Lily came up to them.

"Potter you are such an arrogant jerk! Would you care to explain this!" she held up a held up a note-book with James and Lily's names written inside of a heart.

"My Lily flower! I see you got my present."

"Oh my." Hero covered her mouth with her hand. "He wouldn't have?"

Remus chuckled. "He would."

"Quick let's make our escape before this turns ugly." Lily just hexed James as she finished saying that. "Let me amend that. Let's escape before this turns uglier."

"I would have to agree." Remus grabbed Hero's hand and they ran into the stream of people with their same goal. Get out before anyone else got hurt.

That night Hero and Remus were sitting in the library together. Hero was trying to write her essay for History of magic. She hated History of magic and was easily distracted by Remus who was inspecting her left hand.

"Will you stop that? It's really distracting." She tried to pull her hand away but Remus wouldn't let go of it.

"Not until you explain this."

He pointed to her ring finger. There was a scar running all the way around it. It looked like she was wearing a ring.

Hero raised her eyebrows. "It involves me and a knife. Do you really want to know?"

He shuttered. "That scares me. Tell me anyway."

"I was 6. I was a very obnoxious 6 year-old. My Parents banned me from the kitchen. They should have known that was like telling me to go in there. I'll just say that I ended up in the kitchen and found some knives. I was having fun playing with them when I heard a noise. My parents were coming into the kitchen. I panicked remembering that I wasn't supposed to be there. In my panic I ended up cutting my finger off."

"You're just messing with me. You didn't really cut off your finger did you?"

"Oh yes I did. I'm not kidding with you. I was sitting there staring at my finger and then my hand. My parents were freaking out. My dad finally came to his senses and apperated my finger and I to Saint Mongos. Of course no one thought it was funny then but looking back on it, it was really hilarious. Now every time I think about it I have to laugh."

Remus laughed with her. "You must have been quite the little rascal! How in the world did your parents manage to deal with you?"

"Let's just say it involved a wooden spoon."

Remus smiled and let her hand go. Hero stared at her scroll. She looked over at his and saw that he was almost done.

"You should help me." Hero begged him.

He smiled evilly. "And why would I do something like that?"

"Merlin's beard! Please just help me with this! I have no clue what to write."

He held up his hands in surrender. "I never said I wouldn't help you."

"Good because it's due tomorrow."

"I never said I would though."

"Remus!"