Angel is the Centerfold
Sirius woke up first, and man was he a little too content with the way Suzie's head was draped on his shoulder and they were so close. He wanted to let the moment remain in his memory forever: the chocolaty smell of Suzie's hair, her porcelain complexion, her 3-D freckles, the cherry-red of her lips, and the wild forest of her hair was all concrete in his mind. No matter what happened, it'd still be there.
The sun was crawling up into the sky, but Suzie didn't seem to be stirred. She'd always been an out-cold sleeper. For the good of his 'friend' he gently tapped her shoulder. Suzie shuddered awake. "What time is?" she asked. Sirius shrugged. Suzie stretched, picked up her book, and snuck off.
"Thank God for awkwardness." Muttered Sirius, trying to gather the remains of their late night and too early morning.
The day was refreshingly normal: Suzie and Sirius bickered and caught Lily and James in another storage closet, and no one outside of the Marauders seemed to notice the absence of Remus Lupin.
It was at least an hour past curfew and Suzie was preparing to sneak out: all black clothes: black jeans, black heelless boots, a black sweatshirt, a black t-shirt, and her hair tied back. She would've gone for the black streaks under her eyes or a ski mask if not for the lack of people to entertain.
However, her plans did not go as she had expected them to when she ran into the four Marauders heading to the Whomping Willow.
It was Sirius who spoke up: "Suzie! What are you doing here?" he pulled her aside gently, away from his three colleagues.
"Visiting Simon, why?" she caught the petrified look on Remus' already frightened, glum features. "… Is something wrong?" All four Marauders looked towards the full moon. "One of you is a…" she didn't get to finish as Remus' limbs stretched, he was no longer a human, he was a werewolf.
Sirius tried to herd Suzie away when another interruption was made: Severus Snape. "I knew it! I knew Lupin was a werewolf!" he shouted, jumping out from the bushes. Peter and James transformed into their animangi forms and challenge the whimpering werewolf into the Whomping Willow.
Snape raced off into the black of night. "Go you fool! You'll be getting yourself murdered!" Sirius shouted, clenching his fists.
"I can help, I can get Snape away from Remus." She stammered.
"No, you can get away, you can go back to the castle. Now!" he ordered, shoving her a little, but she didn't budge.
"There's always been one thing about me you have not known, Sirius. I used to have a brother. He was a werewolf as well. My parents locked him up. Lucy and I used to visit him daily. Lucy knew how we could accompany him through his transformations. I'm a fox, Lucy's an owl." She grinned and turned into a blood red colored fox with fluorescent green eyes that challenged Sirius to change as well. And he did.
Sirius was a larger animal, but Suzie was faster and quicker on her feet. Yelping, Sirius tunneled down the hole that lead into the Shrieking Shack. James, or Prongs really, was holding off Snape. However, Prongs' horns got into the way and Snape snuck down into the tunnel, threatening to reveal every one of Moony's secrets. Prongs bounded downwards, stopping Snape from his most certain deadly fate. The werewolf was out of control so far as he wasn't used to the strange, red animal that was Suzie.
Snape ran right into Padfoot, knocking him down. Moony howled and charged, running right into Snape. He would have been bitten into shreds. If not for Prongs separating the two with his horns. Moony retreated. Snape ran for his life.
"Where's Red?" asked James in his human form.
"Who?" echoed Peter.
"Suzie you idiot!" snapped James.
"The fox was Suzie?" Peter asked in awe, his bulging eyes nearly popping out of his skull.
Sirius rubbed his temples. Suzie had a brother. He was a werewolf. None of this made any since.
Remus stirred, back into his human form. The door creaked open and Suzie was there, her eyes laced with purple black circles, she bore horrible welts, bruises, and scratches on her arms and wide smile on her face. "His name's Tommy. Tommy's my older brother. He was bitten by Greyback when Jacob got backed into a bad corner when Tommy was eight, Lucy was three, and I was two. He's my half-brother really, but we accepted him into our family. It was supposed to be me, I know that, since I saw Greyback lunge for me first, but Tommy intervened. Greyback bit him instead. He was in full wolf form. Once that happened, Jacob decided to lock him up, Felicity denounced it, but he did it anyway. He was eight! I didn't know I had a brother until Lucy told me when I was nine, we found out where he was hidden and we visited him. He'd been brought an old wand and could do magic pretty well. He loved to read." Suzie smiled and sniffled back her tears. "Two years ago, he bolted and now he's part of Greyback's pack. I see him every once and a while. Oh, yes, none of this explains the whole animagus thing. Tommy was lonely, and so, Lucy came up with the idea of becoming animals, she looked it up, she studied for three months before learning about animagi. It took us a year to learn we accompanied him every transformation until we were admitted to Hogwarts."
Remus was awake for the entire story. "I'm sorry, Suzie." He whispered, cloaking himself with the blanket and his cloak.
Suzie wiped her eyes with the back of her sleeve. "Don't be. Tommy would be proud." She smiled a watery smile and backed out of the Shrieking Shack.
"Whoa." Said James.
"Yah," replied Sirius.