Chapter Two: Animagi and Tears

AN: Halloween is almost upon us, an important and heartbreaking date for us jily shippers so I decided to post another chapter to my drabbles sorry it took so long, I've been extremely busy

24rd December 1972

"Okay whose turn is it to slap Peter now?" asks Sirius in a bored voice

"I did it last time" James mutters

"Well I can't do it!" Remus exclaimed

"Why not?"

"Be-because you three only stayed here for Christmas because of me."

"Well that's nonsense!"

"Sirius I-"

"Now listen here Remus" Sirius stands and begins to make eccentric hand gestures "The whole world doesn't actually revolve around you. I'm here because I don't want to see my parents" Sirius points to the black haired boy who refuses to open his eyes "James can't bear to spend a week without Evans"

"Oi!" James interrupts

"We all know the truth James it is okay, you can admit your budding love for Ms. Evans with us."

James opened his eyes briefly to glare at Sirius but quickly shut them again and snuggled back into his armchair.

"And Peter" Sirius casts a look at the twelve year old boy who is at this precise moment frolicking around the common room while singing Christmas carols…extremely out of tune.

"Well…Peter's parents would like to not go deaf this Christmas so they left him here with us"

Remus smiles a little but his eyes still portray wariness, "I-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah you love us we know" Sirius says smugly causing Remus to roll his eyes.

"I was not going to say that"

Sirius clasps a hand to his chest and his face turns ashen "So you-you don't love us?"

James lip turns upward as he hears the sound of parchment slapping against fabric soon followed by Sirius outraged yelp.

"Shut up Sirius" muttered Remus.

Of course the boys were also heavily influenced by Remus and his choice to stay here over the holidays but they weren't going to encourage Remus's insecurities.

Sirius glared at him but sat up straighter, "There is something we wished to talk to you about though Remus."

James groaned while Remus's eyes widened.

"Now?"

"Yes now James, I believe we've waited long enough. PETER! Stop defeaning us all and come over here."

"WHY SHOULD I?" Peter shouted back

"BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO TELL REMUS THE PLAN NOW!"

"OH okay"

Peter wandered over and sat beside Sirius while Remus grew more and more anxious by the minute.

"Is someone going to tell me what plan ye are talking about?" Remus asked while fidgeting with the end of his oversized jumper.

"Well the minions and I have been thinking-"

"You can't keep calling us your minions Sirius!" interrupted James

"Shush you! Now, we all know about your problem, your furry little problem as Jamesie here calls It, and we have come up with a plan to help you."

Swallowing and averting his eyes to the roaring fire Remus replied, "Sirius I…I appreciate the gesture but…you can't help me. My family and I have tried everything but nothing works."

"Ah but you haven't tried OUR plan yet"

Remus eyebrows narrow at Sirius intense grin, "What exactly is your plan?"

"We, that is James, Peter and I… become animagi."

Sirius, ever the dramatic pauses to savour the shocked expression on his friend's face.

"You wish to become animagi? Sirius that takes…years and years of work and you must be of age and have the skill and knowledge! Even then I don't see how it would help my… problem."

"Less of the negative tone Remus! Now James and I have done a lot of research on animagi. If we try really, REALLY hard we can do it. We have plenty of time to accomplish it! James and I sail through all our classes! We have plenty of time to study up on the subject! Think about it in animal form you wouldn't see us as a threat in werewolf form. Werewolves only fear humans! I've looked it up, they don't fear other animals. You'd be perfectly safe! We could keep you safe, stop you causing any sort of pain to anyone. Plus it gives us something to do to pass the time, a hobby."

Remus stared at him for several moments. His silence lasted so long that even James turned to see what the matter was.

Remus eyes darted between James and Sirius while glancing momentarily at Peter also.

"You…you three want to become animagi…just to give me company once a month?"

James smiled, "Its more than that Remus but yes, we want to help you. You're our friend"

"It's…it's incredibly dangerous…I can't ask you to-"

"You're not asking Remus" James stated "We are offering."

"Insisting really" Sirius countered

"We want to do this Remus, no matter the cost" James reassured.

"Yeah, plus it's not THAT dangerous" Peter smiled

"Oh it's dangerous alright" Sirius's smirk grew "Even more reason to go ahead and do it"

There was a ghost of a smile on Remus's face,

"You guys are serious about this aren't you?"

"Never been more serious in my life" Sirius says grinning

James leans forward, "You know it's serious because he didn't even make a Sirius-serious joke and those are his favourite kind."

Sirius points to James and nods, "Exactly!"

"Even if I…this could take…years to complete. I can't expect you to give up years for me"

"It won't all be for you Remus, we want to explore another side of magic. Magic far more advanced than we are allowed tamper with" James grins "Imagine the things we could do if we could turn into animals at will"

"Not to mention knowing us it will probably take us years to decide what animal we want to be" Sirius added

"But-"

"I believe the words you're looking for Remus are 'Thank you'"

The boy turned to James, the surprise still evident on his face, "Y-yes thank you."

"Right that's the last we'll hear of it for today then!" Sirius stood, "I'm exhausted and don't know about you but I need some rest. Peter is going to be awful tomorrow if today was anything to go by and my eardrums need time to recover."

"Hey!" Peter cried out

James patted Peter on the back and stood also "Yeah we better head, we've got years of intense study ahead of us, we might as well get our rest in now."

Clumsily standing Remus followed them "wait!"

The two boys nearing the staircase halted and turned

"I.." Remus stuttered "I just wanted to say that I really appreciate what you're doing. And if you want to back out at any time. Any of you," He looked at Peter who had stood now and was looking up at Remus eagerly "I will respect your decision of course."

Sirius rolled his eyes, "You're going soft Remy come on" Slinging an arm around the smaller boy's he muttered "Let's just call it your extra Christmas present"

The four boys had not been gone five minutes before a red haired girl came running into the Gryffindor common room with tears falling from her sparkling green eyes.

This was the last time, she swore, this was the last time she would spend time with those horrible older Slytherin boys just because Sev wanted her too. She only wanted to be friends with Sev. Not the rotten boys that claim to be his friends.

Lily wished she has listened to her mother, ignored her sister, ignored Sev and gone home for Christmas.

Against her better judgement she stayed at Hogwarts.

Sniffling she trudged up to her dormitory, hopefully tomorrow will be better.

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