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A/n: Hello my avid readers, I am extremely apologetic for this chapter being so slow to update, well I cant really blame It on the chapter so I probably should reword that, here goes; I'm sorry it took so long for ME to update, but I have been so busy, such school work I have! And it has been my birthday bows and smiles and I have also moved houses, and only just convinced my mum to get the computer up and working. But now it is and everything is fine. My dear readers who also enjoy my story '30,000 feet high' do not panic, I have not abandoned you yet, I have just hit a tricky spot, you see I do not know a thing about horses and yet I have to write a whole chapter on them! Anyways on with the story….

"Lily?" came the voice of Remus. And there they sat. All four of The Marauders on the couch staring at her, the girl that was standing there her hair sticking in all sorts of directions, wearing 'Winnie the Pooh' pyjamas and holding a transfiguration book upside down.

James gave a snort as he eyed her appearance. "Off to the ballet Evans, I dare say you might want to change first." Sirius nodded in agreement and laughed into his hand.

"Aren't you meant to be drunk? You just came back from Hogsmede didn't you?" Lily said, trying to keep the subject away from her.

"Nah, Rosmerta won't give us fire whiskey, we only drink butter beer down there. It kind of sucks really; we have to make our own fun." said Sirius.

Lily was crestfallen, that meant that they wouldn't forget this all by morning. It would be imprinted in their minds forever, and no doubt she would get teased for it. She looked at Remus as if to ask "can't you just put a memory charm on them?" but he didn't seem to get it. So she sighed, bid the boys goodnight and headed towards her favourite armchair.

That had always happened to Lily; she would always run into the wrong people at the wrong time. She had once bumped into a muggle guy called Josh, who she was crushing on at the time. She was wearing her old track pants, a casual t-shirt, she hadn't brushed her hair, she had simply shoved it into a pony tail and she just bumped into him at the shopping centre. What are the odds? That when I'm looking my worst I see him! She had thought at the time.

But for now Lily had no time to be thinking of her appearance, she had an assignment to finish. And the due date was the very next day. She had started but had gotten stuck about halfway to the end. It was a particularly nasty essay on the elements of how human transformation occurs and the magical strength behind it. Lily had put it at the bottom of her things to do list, which was quite silly really as she knew it would take her a great deal more effort than any of her others, as Transfiguration was her worst subject.

She was concentrating so hard that she didn't notice that not all The Marauders had left the room. Sirius was standing over her shoulder looking at what she had written so far. He was a great transfiguration student, not the best though. That was James. But as she and James had had a fight, Sirius thought he might take the time to see if she wanted a bit of help. She was after all, one of his best mates' girlfriends.

"You could add something in about the draining of magical strength that can sometimes happen after exceedingly long transformations" He said.

Lily jumped out of her skin, not knowing that he was there behind her. She turned around with her cheeks flushed and her heart pulsing considerably. "How long have you been there?" she demanded.

"Quite a while, long enough to read the whole essay, its really quite good you know, but it would help if you added in about magical draining." He repeated.

She read over the paper then started jotting down some information about exhaustion of magic. When she had done so she merely had a few centimetres left to write. She beamed up at Sirius and thanked him genuinely. Then gave him a hug.

"Don't get used to this" said Sirius referring to the hug "next time there will be a fee" he said with a playful grin.

"Who said there would be a next time?" rebutted Lily, laughing.

Sirius drew himself back and put on a mock sad expression. And began to wail "I do everything for her and repays me with insults, my heart is broken." As he did so he began to walk to the boy's staircase. Lily laughed heartily and played the part.

"Well you see Mr Black, your just not good enough for me. My love lies with Sir Remus of Camelot!"

Sirius faked crying. "Well if that's how you feel!" he then stormed up the stairway.

"Goodnight Sirius!" called Lily.

"Night Lilikens" he hollered in reply. At this Lily let out a giggle and concluded her essay. She then rolled it up and stuffed it into her bag that she had coincidently left downstairs before hand.

"So, did you finish it?" inquired Jade inquired as she and Marie sat down at the great hall for breakfast. It was still quite early and Madison was sleeping in. Lily had been up since 5.30. Down by the lake. Her usual spot.

"Yeah, with some help from an unexpected source" Replied Lily in a mysterious voice.

Marie and Jade looked utterly confused. "Um, care to clarify?" said Marie.

Lily chortled, "Sirius Black"

Jade raised her eyebrows and Marie had an unreadable expression on her face. Lily made a mental note to investigate that further at a later time, but for now she wanted nothing more than to finish her bacon and have light fluffy conversations with her friends. And maybe catch up with Remus a bit as they hadn't been able to last night.

Madison and Sirius both entered the great hall at the same time, as they always did, both with tired looks on their faces and wishing they could be back up in bed, still catching a few moments of sleep. When they reached the table, Madison plonked herself into a seat beside Marie and Sirius sat down on the opposite side of the table waiting for the Marauders.

Madison let her head fall to the table and rasped out quietly "need coffee". Lily laughed and handed her the pitcher that was sitting on the table, but Madison did not put out her hand to take it, she merely pointed her wand at it and said "pour". The pitcher levitated out of Lily's hands and began to pour itself into a mug that was tightly clutched in Madison's hands.

Sirius then beckoned for the coffee pitcher over to him and it then poured him a cup as well. They both sipped silently for a few moments, Lily thought she could see then both become visible wakening and after a few more gulps they were both back to their normal selves. This was the morning ritual of the day after Lily and Remus have patrol. Because just like the girls, The Marauders always stayed up until Remus returned. Most probably because they hated to be outdone, so if one Marauder did something they generally all did. I know a bunch of sheep they are.

"Something isn't right" said Sirius at once. He looked accusingly at the girls as if they had something to do with it, when he was happy that they were all innocent her began staring at his food, taking tiny bites of everything, checking for poison most likely. But then when he was happy that the food was sufficient for him to eat, he stuffed a rasher of bacon in his mouth and scanned the room.

"AHA!" he exclaimed after a while. "The boys! They aren't here!"

Jade rolled her eyes and sighed. "They haven't been here this whole time and you didn't notice?" she said, finding it quite hard to believe that anyone could be that oblivious.

"Yeah, well I hadn't had my morning caffeine hit yet, plus…. well that's about my only excuse" he finished lamely.

Jade rolled her eyes again and then continued to eat her toast.

Marie sat looking thoughtful for a moment then commented "maybe they're dead." At this Sirius choked on the coffee he was sipping and started coming up with a load of ways to save them from a very painful death, of which he was sure they were experiencing.

"If I fly in on my broom…"

"Maybe they are conspiring against you." Said Madison between her slurps of coffee, the more she consumed the more awake she began to sound.

"…and smash through the window with my beaters club…."

"Maybe they are eating your secret stock of chocolate frogs" said Lily.

"…and then I will stun the evil villain that took them…."

"Or, maybe they're eating breakfast with McGonagall like the chums they are" Said Marie, idly stirring in two sugars to the pumpkin juice in front of her because it never was sweet enough for her liking.

"…and they will all whoop and cheer and I will be their saviour!" concluded Sirius who had not been paying attention to all the remarks after the word 'dead' was said. He then jumped up shouted "that's exactly what I will do!" then ran out the great hall bumping into James, Remus and Peter as he went.

"Sorry" he shouted without looking back "my time has come to be SUPER SIRIUS" and he ran off down the hall, conjuring his broom, beaters bat and red cape out of thin air.

The boys just walked over to the girls sat down casually. Remus poured himself a cup of tea whilst James started to butter some toast.

"Pass the marmalade please Madison" said James.

Madison nonchalantly slid the marmalade over to James.

From then on the week went in a blur, Sirius, who had put two first years in the hospital wing by hitting them in the face with his cape of which he had taken to wearing everyday, had been up to his usual crazy antics. James and Lily were still a bit sour, but were putting up with each other for the sake of their friend's sanity. So when Lily woke up to the sound of Madison creeping out the door she was thoroughly confused. Madison was someone who slept in until the very last minute that she could, and she defiantly did not get up at 6.00 am on a Saturday.

Lily peaked through her half closed eyelids at her, hoping Madison wouldn't notice she was awake. Madison was pulling on her shoes, jumper and scarf. She defiantly was heading outside, but what for? Lily not really minding the early morning decided it would be interesting to follow her, so as soon as Madison had left the room, Lily jumped up summoned her clothes hurriedly pulled them on and left the room. She rant to the portrait hole then stopped, she carefully opened it a crack and peaked through. She could see Madison walking along about a metre up the hall.

Lily followed her all the way to the entrance hall, where Madison then exited the large ok doors and walked off towards the lake. Lily squinted; she could see someone there waiting for her. They greeted each other then Madison sat down. Lily couldn't clearly see who it was so she decided on carefully creeping up towards where they were, which was extremely hard to do without them noticing, she managed but it took her about 15 minutes and by then Madison and the other persons conversation was well underway.

When Lily approached nearer she saw that the person whom Madison was talking to was in fact James. Just as Lily was about to hear what they were saying she was tackled to the floor by a large black dog.

"I just don't really know what to do, she is making it so hard for me to apologise.…"

"I know, but maybe if Matthew was to talk to her about it she might have more sympathy"

"Yeah, but it wont be coming from me it wont be the same thing. Don't you think she would find it a bit weird that Matthew would be talking about me?"

Lily had been tackled a distances of one metre, so was conveniently far enough to be out of hearing range of the conversation. The dog just stood there panting, its tongue hanging sloppily out the side of its mouth. It then pawed the ground as if asking her to play with him. Lily stepped forward scratched the dogs head, but then walked straight past it. She was determined to find out what was happening between Madison and James.

But once Lily was back to a spot were she was able to hear their conversation and out of sight the pair were saying there goodbyes. The pair went in to separate ways, Madison stood up and retreated back into the castle, were as James walked over to the Quidditch pitch, presumably to practise Quidditch. 'He's obsessed' thought Lily 'a complete nut', before she followed in Madison's footsteps back into the castle. The black shaggy dog had transformed into Sirius Black by now, and was writing in a notebook.

"Lily!" came a shout as Lily wandered into the great hall. It was Remus and someone she couldn't quite make out. Remus was waving frantically. It turned out that sitting next to Remus was a first year boy sitting in a cape and mask; he has blonde hair and freakishly round blue eyes. Lily didn't really know what to think, so she just sat down and waited for Remus to explain. But before Remus could say a thing the boy started jabbering away;

"You're Lily Evans! Remus and I were just discussing the proposal that I would become the newest addition to the marauders. You know for moral support and stuff when they're pranking and such." Said the little boy. "I'm Mickey by the way."

But just as Lily was about to open her mouth with a witty comment that would save her boyfriend from an enthusiastic fan an owl swooped in and dropped a letter in front of her. Lily looked extremely apologetic but got up and took the letter with her. No matter where she was, she had to read the letter as soon as she got it, so she had no time to save Remus at the current moment.

Dearest Hannah,

I couldn't believe it when I didn't receive a letter back from you last Saturday. I'm hoping that was because you were busy and not because I had offended you with the lousiness of my last letter. But I am writing to you as we I always do on a Saturday anyway, hoping for one in return. My week has been, well quite average really, my friends are good.

Have you heard of Lily Evans? Well as you can't reply right away I will just assume you do seeing as most people do. Well anyway, I wish her and that James Potter would stop fighting. I mean I was sitting at breakfast the other day, and he blew up her book!! Well to me that was quite funny, but I know that to her that would be quite annoying so I do feel sorry for her, but I think he only does it to get her attention, and doesn't really mean any harm. The rumour is he acts like he doesn't like her but actually he does. Anyways sorry that was my rant, which has been annoying me for a while now.

So, how has your week been like? Has anything interesting happened in your world? Because I would love some excitement in my dreary life!

Anyway better fly,

Matthew.

Lily ran to the owlery so she could write a reply right away, not wanting to waste a minute and make 'Matthew' think that she was angry with him, more so than he already thought. She couldn't believe that she had forgotten last week, but things had been so hectic and she had had so much homework to do.

My beloved Matthew,

I am so sorry I did not reply to your letter last week, I was just incredibly busy, and though I hate to admit it, I plain forgot about it, I have no excuse. But I'm writing now, so I hope that makes up for it.

I find it funny you should discuss James Potter and Lily Evans, as I too find there fights annoying, though I must say, I'm on Lily's side all the way. And the thought that James should like her is quite hilarious, seeing as the way he acts towards her is horrific. Im probably being biased as I strongly dislike James Potter myself, but, well he deserves the criticism she gives him. If James really liked Lily, he would act with a bit more benevolence towards her.

My week has been the usual, hanging out with friends, who I may add have been acting as little suspiciously, talking with people they don't normally talk with, and acting as if they know things I do not. But no worries I'm looking forward to April 8th, Easter Sunday!!!! Chocolate for everyone!!!! Actually no let me rephrase that; chocolate for me!!!

Instead of going home this Easter for holidays, I'm staying at school; my friends and I are going to make our own special Easter week, with activities and such. And I can tell you this because I know tonnes of people are doing it, so as you won't be able to guess who I am.

On that topic, are we ever going to meet? Or are we going to keep our identities secret forever? Ha! It sounds like we are secret agents or something! Well anyway personally I think we should meet before we leave Hogwarts, but not to soon, because that will take the fun away from this. Im just afraid that after we have been such close friends for so long, when you finally meet me, you will hate me!

Wow this letter has turned out to be longer than I thought it would! And it doesn't really talk about much, but I guess it makes up for me missing last weeks. Hope your week goes well.

Got to go save my friend from certain doom,

Hannah. xo

P.s. how come you always get to write the first letter and I get left with having to wait a whole week for my reply?

Lily folded up her letter and stuck it into an envelope and sent it off right away, before running down to the great hall to see if Remus was ok. She hoped he was, seeing as she and him had patrol that night.

Lily walked down to the common room that evening to meet Remus, when she got there she found him pacing back and forth with an aggravated look on his face, very strange as he was usually the calm one out of the two of them, out of the whole school even, accept professor Dumbledore. But boy was Remus in a rage now. When he turned to see Lily he threw his hands up in despair and beckoned for her to follow him as he strode out of the portrait hole nearly power walking.

Needless to say this wasn't going to be a fun evening.

Lily paused for a second watching him strut down the hallway, then came to her senses and scurried off after him. When she finally caught up she walked next to him and softly took his hand. Causing him to jump at the sudden contact, he looked down into Lily's eyes with a certain hesitation, as if he was about to say something, but wasn't sure how she would take it.

"What is it Remus? I haven't seen you this angry in all my time at Hogwarts" she said softly, but with a deeply curious air.

Remus sighed, removed his hand from Lily's and started to walk off towards a cupboard; he reached it, pulled it open, but didn't yell at some people for being in it, but got into it himself and closed the door. Now Lily was extremely confused, but thought it was best not to disturb him, because knowing Remus, she knew that when he was thinking things over he liked to be alone, and that cupboard was probably his way of getting away from her for a while. So she wandered off down the hallway and slumped against the wall at the end, waiting for her boyfriend to come to his senses.

I wonder what could be wrong she thought and does it concern me? But before she could think anymore there was a crash and Remus was once again out of the broom closet and striding towards her. He grabbed her hand looked into her eyes and opened his mouth as to say something, Closed it again, then turned on his foot and got back into the broom closet gently closing the door behind him.

This is going to be a long night Thought Lily reaching into her bag and pulling out a thin, worn book named "So your friends are going crazy"

As soon as Lily had left the room that night Marie had pulled out a notebook and began writing into it, like a log book. Something was suspicious about this pen pal of Lily's and Marie would be damned if it wasn't her who found out what. Marie took out her list of possible candidates, made from what Lily had told her about this "Matthew" which wasn't very much.

He liked Quidditch (so did most every boy in the school), He was able to see her at his house table in the great hall (which narrowed it down quite a lot…NOT). And well that pretty much ends the list, because kind and friendly couldn't really go on there, as they were biased opinions of Lily, not facts.

So the list was so far: Remus Lupin, James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Angus McNally (another 6th year Gryffindor), Luke Maguire, Mackenzie Langdon, Bernard Chikita, Michael Mandy (all of which are the 6th year Ravenclaw boys), then there was the 7th year boys in Ravenclaw and Gryffindor the only ones Marie could remember off the top of her head were Don Stilton (her prefect partner when Remus is ill), Lennon Parks and Isaac March, and if they really stretched their heads the Hufflepuff boys would be able to see them as well. Oh gosh, this was a long list.

Out of them all Marie picked out who she hoped it was…Remus of course because she was Lily's boyfriend. But if it wasn't him, then she thought that Isaac March would be nice for Lily, he was like the Ravenclaw version of Remus, nice, polite, funny, and all that jazz.

Marie eventually gave in that she wouldn't be able to work out who it was until she had more information and time to look over her suspect's behaviour. So she closed the notebook and curled up in bed, waiting for Lily to come back from her patrol, as always.

Ok, let me apologise again, this is quite a short chapter compared to the others. And also though I hate to admit it, it's a pretty lousy chapter too. But I hope to make it up to you with the next one, which will explain Remus' absolutely strange behaviour, is he a closet monster or is it something far more serious……..you'll have to wait, till after the break. LOL!

Thank you to all my reviewers and especially to midnight Filly who has FINALLY updated after I have been badgering her about it non stop for about 500 years, well maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but only a slight one.

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