'How is it that I sleep at night when I am meant to sleep during the day?'

Gwendelyn asked herself, waking up at four in the morning instead of the average eight or nine at night, yawning slightly. 'As much as I like beds, I could really use my coffin right now.' she thought while getting out of bed, heading towards the bathroom. She showered quickly, grateful that the water wasn't holy water and got dressed. Besides wearing the girl's uniform with Gryffindor tie and crest, Gwendelyn wore black leggings with black socks, her method of hiding her pale skin, from sunlight. After that, she combed her hair, before putting on her robes.

She then place her contacts over her crimson orbs making them almost like the moon, then began powdering her face, neck, and hands, covering her skin. Once she finished, Gwen returned to the room, noticing that Lily, Alice and the other room mates were still asleep and left shortly, going right through the door and down the stairs to the common room. Gwendelyn went to a book shelf and found a book that she had yet to read. She picked up Creatures of the Night: Werewolves and Vampires before lying down on the red sofa and began reading. Hours pasted and soon most of the Gryffindors were either, waking up and getting ready or in the Great Hall eating breakfast.

All of this was happening while Gwendelyn was lying on the crimson sofa, asleep with the book just above her heart. The Marauders were exiting the boy's dormitory, walking down the stairs, almost leaving the common room until someone noticed Gwendelyn asleep on the sofa. "Hey Prongs look what we have here." Sirius announced, finding the sleeping girl. James, Remus and Peter turned and walked towards where Sirius was standing, over a peaceful Gwen. "Why would she sleep here Padfoot?" Peter asked out loud, standing next to Sirius, to get a closer look.

"Especially since Gweny went to sleep before we left the common room." James thought aloud, trying to think of what happened, as Remus stared at Gwen's face, earning a small blush before noticing the book on Gwen chest. "Why was she reading Creatures of the Night: Werewolves and Vampires?" Remus asked drawing his friends' attention to the thick book above Gwen's heart. James picked up the book, before flipping through the pages. Sirius got close to Remus and whispered "I think she would love you." before saying "Strange. Anyway, wake her up Moony." Sirius suggested, pointing at the ebony haired girl while grinning slyly at Remus, giving him the 'I know you want to wake her up' look.

Remus hesitated at first before he moved his hand towards Gwen's shoulder. Just as Remus's hand reached Gwen's shoulder, a hand grabbed his wrist, making James, and Sirius jump away from Remus, nearly scared to death, while Peter ran off. "What are you doing Remus?" Gwendelyn tiredly asked, keeping her eyes closed, holding a firm grip on Remus's wrist. Remus was nervous before calmly answering Gwen's question "I was going to wake you up." Remus replied, surprised from Gwen's grip, as well as her cold hand. Gwendelyn got up from the sofa, opening her 'grey' eyes, as Sirius stomped over to Remus and her, shouting "God Gweney! You almost gave us a heart attack!" he yelled, as Remus looked at his hand with notice small specks of white powder, while James walked back to the group, holding the werewolf and vampire book.

"Not my fault, Sirius. May I see that book James?" Gwendelyn replied to Sirius sarcastically, before asking James politely for the book she read earlier that morning. James handed the book to Gwen, before she placed it back in its rightful place on the book shelf in the common room. "Gwendelyn, why were you sleeping on the sofa?" Remus asked, worry reflected in his hazel orbs, for the girl that stood before him and his friends. Gwen thought for a moment, debating on whether or not she should tell them the truth that she was really a vampire, before actually saying "I might tell you someday. But for now, it's best that we leave." Gwen answered softly, before leaving the common room with the marauders slightly following behind, departing Gryffindor Tower.

'He would have felt my pulse, and known that I was not of the living, but the dead.'

Gwendelyn thought as she walked away from Gryffindor Tower, scaring some of the Slytherins on her way towards her first class of the day, History of Magic. Meanwhile, James, Sirius, and Peter, munched away at their breakfast, as Remus stared at the specks of powder substance on his hand, which he had acquired from Gwen this morning. "Moony I know you like Gweny and all but you shouldn't stare at your hand all day." Sirius suggested, making Remus blush slightly while James chuckled at Sirius's comment.

Remus's blush faded with a frown in place before saying "I am not staring at my hand Padfoot. I was just wondering why Gwendelyn had powder on her hands." Remus explained showing James and Sirius his wrist with the white powder, not knowing that Lily was eavesdropping on the conversation. "Well I highly doubt its make-up." James answered, stating the obvious to his friends. "Hey Evans, why would Fuchs wear make up on her hand?" Sirius asked drawing attention, noticing Lily within hearing range. Lily thought for a moment trying to make something up with out them figuring that what she said was going to be a lie. "I am sure it is nothing. Anyway I need to go to class." Lily answered before leaving the Great Hall, leaving the Marauders confused.

"That was odd." James commented before he and his friends heard the screams of the James Potter fan club as well as the Sirius Black fan club, giving the Marauders a sign to run away. Sirius thought of something as they ran out of the Great Hall "Not that I don't mind the attention from the ladies but Moony, you should recruit your girlfriend to be our body guard." he suggested making Remus blush, at the thought of Gwen being his girlfriend. "Gwendelyn isn't my girlfriend." Remus replied before the marauders split up, going their own separate ways, heading, to class to hide.

While the Marauders were on their separate ways to their classes, Lily met up with Gwendelyn in History of Magic, the class not even close to starting. "They're on to me, aren't they?" Gwen asked reading the look on Lily's face as well as her mind. Lily sighed before speaking "I'll scold you about your trick later. Yes they are catching on, but I doubt they will figure it out. Also, I think Remus likes you, Gwendelyn." Lily explained to the vampire before smiling, making crimson appear slightly on Gwen's covered face. Gwendelyn snapped out of her thoughts before saying "Lily, even if he likes me, he wouldn't feel the same about me when he found out about my secret." she explained, whispering in the event that someone heard her, before hearing Remus and Sirius enter the nearly empty classroom, noticing Gwendelyn and Lily at the front of the room.

More students started to come into the classroom, signifying that class would start soon. "Take your seats and we will start." Professor Binns announced after coming through a wall. Remus and Sirius decided to seat themselves behind Lily and Gwendelyn, preparing themselves for the boring lecture that was about to happen today. Half way during Binns's lecture, Sirius tapped Gwen's shoulder, drawing her attention "Hey Gweney, why were you wearing make up on your hands?" Sirius whispered as Binns continued the lecture, not noticing Sirius at the moment. Gwendelyn ignored him, pretending to not have heard a word that was said, while taking notes.

The vampire thought for a moment before answering "How do you know it is make up Sirius? For all you know it could be powdered candy." Gwendelyn replied seriously speaking softly, but loud enough for Lily and Remus to hear. Nothing happened after that, class continued with the tiring lecture, and before anyone knew it, class was over. Gwendelyn departed from the classroom, leaving Sirius, Remus, and Lily behind her, for she was using slight vampire speed in her foot steps.

'If this keeps up, they will expose my secret out into the open for all to see.'

Gwendelyn thought, through out her Divination's class, sitting with Lily, while James, and Remus, sat across the room. Today they were learning palm reading and the signs and meanings of the hand. "Gwendelyn, when are you going to tell him how you feel?" Lily asked while waiting for an answer from the vampire, staring at the two marauders. "I will tell him….when I meet a werewolf." Gwendelyn half joked, not really thinking about telling her feelings to the man that had caught her attention. "Besides Lily what about you, when are you going to agree to a date, then go out, and get married?" Gwen asked, making her witch friend blush slightly, before frowning.

"As I said before, when Hell freezes over." Lily responded only to have Gwen pull out her hand to take a look, practicing palm reading. "Lily, you are going to get married, and have a child." Gwen predicted, making Lily wonder more about what the vampire was saying. "Ok then, who is the father, when will my child be born, and what gender with it be?" Lily challenged thinking that Gwendelyn couldn't know the answer based off her palm. Gwen sighed before giving an answer "You will give birth in July to a healthy boy. As for who your husband will be, let's just say you wouldn't believe me if I told you." was all Gwen could say, before smiling, flashing her pearly fangs for a split second, while Lily frowned in response.

Meanwhile, James was talking to Remus about Lily and how he was going to ask her out again. "Moony, do you really think that Gweny will give me advice on how to get Evans." James asked, wanting reassurance from his good friend. Remus thought for a moment before giving him a decent answer "I don't know Prongs. Personally I don't know Gwendelyn that well." Remus answered not giving James the absolute answer. "Right, I am done talking about Evans. Now what about you Remus, when are you going to ask Gweney?" James replied laying of the asking out Lily, while giving Remus the 'I know you like Gwen' look. Remus sighed before giving James a look, saying 'You know why I won't ask her' thinking of something that might get James off the subject.

"I won't ask her out or confess my feelings to her until I am bitten by a vampire." Remus shot back, mostly joking about what it would take to get him to admit. James stared at Remus confused before getting up from his seat and walking towards Lily and Gwendelyn, leaving Remus at the table they sat at. 'What is he doing?' Remus asked himself as Lily walked towards his table while James stayed to talk with Gwen, making the werewolf frown slightly. "Hello Lily, how are you?" Remus greeted, still watching what James was doing, while seated next to Gwendelyn.

"I am good. Hey Remus, can I ask you something?" Lily asked as she sat across from Remus, while James asked Gwen a similar question. "Sure Mr. Potter, what is it that you would like to ask?" Gwen asked having an idea that James was going to ask her something about Lily. "Well I was wondering if you could tell me if you like Remus." James started, not saying a reason why he wanted to know this kind of information. Gwendelyn's eye twitched slightly before she asked a question. "What makes you think I like Remus?" she asked hiding her emotions for a moment, while on the other side of the room, Lily questioned Remus.

"Well I was wondering. Do you like Gwendelyn?" Lily asked with a curious emerald orbs and a smile saying 'I know you won't lie,' making Remus blush slightly. "What makes you think that I like Gwendelyn?" Remus shot back nervously, making Lily grin. "I don't know maybe by the way you are acting." Lily and James said at the same time, even though they were no where near each other, they were talking about the same thing. They both left, James returning to sit with Remus and Lily returning to sit with Gwendelyn. "What did you talk about?" Remus and Gwendelyn asked at the same time, though they were no where near each other. Lily and James grinned before saying "It's nothing." at the same time.

'Why is it that I have most of my classes with some or all of the Marauders?'

Gwendelyn asked herself, as she left her Transfiguration class, and walked towards her last class of the day, Care of Magical Creatures. Nothing much happened in Transfiguration, except taking notes, and turning goblets into animals, such as rats, mice, lizards, and toads. Gwendelyn continued to walk down the corridor until she stopped, knowing that someone was close by. "They're Blood Traitors that will get what's coming to them, especially the Mudblood girl." Gwen heard, walking near three Slytherins, Mulciber, Avery, and Regulus Black, forcing them to stop all of a sudden. "Be warned Slytherins. If I find out that you did something, I will not show mercy when it comes to revenge." Gwendelyn warned, knowing that they were talking about Lily and the Marauders, serious about what she had said to the Slytherins.

Regulus was scared of Gwendelyn and ran away, leaving Mulciber and Avery. "Ha! And what will you do Fuchs?" Avery asked coldly, daring the vampire to do something. Gwen gave a sadistic smile to the two Slytherins, showing her pearly white fangs to the purebloods, before snapping her fingers. Shortly, Mulciber and Avery floated in the air, slowly moving upward to the ceiling, whining "Put us down." repeatedly demanding Gwendelyn to comply. "No can do. Besides I don't know how to get you down. Plus who said that I did this?" Gwendelyn answered while asking a question, making their memory of Gwen levitating them to the ceiling vanish from their minds.

"What are you doing? Don't just stand their, get us down from here!" Mulciber yelled, drawing more attention from students on their way to class, giving Gwendelyn a sign to leaving the seen of the crime. Shortly after the vampire left, the Marauders walked towards the crowd of students, laughing at Mulciber and Avery. "Did you do this, Prongs?" Sirius asked amused, while Peter stared at the floating Slytherins. "Sadly Padfoot, I did not do this." James started saying how he was innocent before finishing "I wish I had thought of that." he thought out loud, while Remus walked away heading to his last class. James and Sirius eventually made it to their Care of Magical Creatures class and saw Gwendelyn leaning against a tree.

"Hey Gweny, guess what we saw?" James asked while he and his friend walked closer to Gwen, both unable to get over the floating jerks. "Let me guess, levitating Avery and Mulciber." Gwendelyn answered, already knowing what they were going to say without reading their minds. "Yes. How did you know that?" Sirius responded first before asking a question, suspiciously thinking that Gwen could read minds. "Can you keep a secret?" Gwendelyn asked with a soft whisper, bringing curiosity to Sirius and James, before admitting the truth "I did it."

James and Sirius laughed, before calming down a little bit. "That was brilliant! How did you do it?" James asked, amazed and excited. "I'll tell you later." Gwen said before students gathered, signifying that class will start soon. James and Sirius stood with Gwen through out the whole class, talking while Gwendelyn took notes on the Bicorn. After class ended and Gwen entered the school, she made her way towards Gryffindor Tower, only to collide with someone along the way.

"Excuse me." Gwen said politely and shortly, after the person collided, allowing her to take notice that it was Severus Snape. Snape stared at the vampire for a moment, reliving a memory, fear shown clearly within his eyes, before running away fast like he had seen a ghost. Gwen sighed before thinking 'I don't blame you for running away. Especially, since I almost sucked your blood.' Gwendelyn thought back to the memory from last year, when Lily found out her secret, gift and curse.

'Among all of the Children of Light, I am the only Child of Darkness.'

Gwendelyn thought as she soon made it back to the common room and began working on her homework for History of Magic, and Transfiguration. Six hours later, Gwendelyn was finish with her homework that wasn't due until next week, realizing that the sun had already set, and that most of the students and staff were in the Great Hall eating their dinner. She took this as a sign to go to the girl's dormitory and feed on a hip flask full of B blood. Once in her room, she pulled out her wand, casting a spell on the flask, making it cold, before waiting for a moment. Once the moment was over, Gwendelyn opened the flask and began to drink the contents, the crimson elixir pouring down her throat, giving Gwen energy.

After Gwendelyn consumed the blood, she washed off the powder from her exposed skin, due to the temporary absence of the sun. Gwendelyn heard the faint sounds of foot steps entering the common room through the portrait of the Fat Lady. She decided to make up a reason for not showing up to dinner, by returning to the common room, seating herself on a crimson sofa. Lily came in, walking towards her friend, before sitting down next to Gwendelyn. "What were you thinking Gwen?" Lily whispered, aware about the levitating Slytherins, not too happy about what the vampire did.

Gwendelyn smiled slightly, showing a little bit of her fangs "I was defending my friend, or is it friends? I don't know, you mortals confuse me so." she answered Lily, wondering slightly if she should consider the Marauders to be her friends. Lily sighed, just as the marauders entered the common room, making their presence known by others. They walked towards Lily and Gwen, making Lily enter 'stubborn mode.' James was the first to speak "Hey Evans, lets say we make a bet. If Gryffindor wins every Quidditch match this year, we go out on a date?" James suggested, grinning with delight for his so called 'attempt' for Lily. "What in your right mind makes you think I would out with you Potter?" Lily asked coldly, hiding herself as the other marauders watched this scene, Remus taking small glances at Gwen, noticing that her eyes were closed.

While a quarrel was started between Lily and James, Remus decided to ask a question. "Gwen, are you feeling alright?" he asked, worry shown through his manner of speaking, making Gwen open her 'grey' eyes to stare at Remus. "I am fine Remus. There is nothing to worry about." she answered truthfully, making Remus frown slightly. "I'll see you later Gwen, I need to get away from a certain idiot." Lily announced, leaving before anyone could say a thing. "Aw come on Evans, you know you like me." James shouted, before he and Sirius laughed it off.

"Hn, your attempts aren't working." Gwendelyn emotionlessly thought out loud, stating James problem. "Oh that reminds me. Gweny, how did you get those two Slytherins to stay levitated?" Sirius asked, drawing attention to the rest of his friends. "That's right; you said you would tell us later." James reinforced, thinking that Gwen would tell them. The vampire thought for a moment before getting up and saying "I will tell you another time." before leaving the marauders and going to the girl's dormitory. Once Gwen entered the room, she sat on her bed, before removing the grey contacts, revealing her crimson orbs.

"I understand why you put powder on your skin, but why would you hide your real eyes?" Lily asked, after noticing her friend entered the room. Gwen thought for a moment before saying "Because like my skin, my eyes are sensitive, and I highly doubt I am allowed to wear sun glasses." she explained, before laying down on her bed, looking at the ceiling. Gwendelyn thought of something before saying "Also, how many mortals do you know that have crimson eyes, Lily?" the vampire asked, knowing the answer to her own question.