Disclaimer: Not mine, I'm just playing around with them for a bit.

A/N: Sorry it's up later than normal ^^;

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"Remus?"

The boy pulled his blanket over his head to block out the voice that was calling his name and the sun that was now shining through his now open curtains. "Five more minutes," he mumbled into his pillow but then it was quickly taken away.

"No!" Sirius said with a laugh then he, James, and Peter all climbed onto his bed and started to jump around him. "It's present time!"

"Present time!" James and Peter sang while laughing and jumping.

Remus growled from under his blanket and tried to pull it closer, hoping that they'd get the hint and go away for a little longer. "Why are you three up now? What time is it?"

"It's Present Time!" all three boys sang again which made him just a little more irritated. He grabbed one of their legs to still them and tried to push another off. Instead, Sirius (whom he tried to push off) moved to the head off his bed and James (who's leg he had grabbed) fell over backwards onto the ground. Peter sat down at the end of Remus' bed and tried to muffle his laugh as James groaned over dramatically.

"I thought you loved me, Remus!" he cried freeing his ankle and sitting up on the ground. "I thought we shared something special."

The young werewolf finally poked his head out and looked at James. "You know you're the only one for me, James," he joked back reaching over and messing up the already messy hair. "And of course I love you. Now give me a kiss."

James smiled at Remus then leaned forward with his lips puckered, "Kisses fow Wemus!"

"But he's mine!" Sirius said pulling Remus away from James just before they 'kissed' and held him close.

"Fine, be that way," James said crossing his arms and Remus and Peter just laughed at the two of them.

Remus covered his mouth as he yawned then turned around to use Sirius as a pillow. He felt the other boy's arms tighten around him for a second then started to rub his back. "Still sleepy?"

He nodded and closed his eyes. "Busy doing homework last night," he mumbled as he started to fall asleep but then he felt both his feet grabbed by Peter and James from under the blankets. "Cold hands!"

"Then maybe you should have gotten up," James said with a laugh as they pulled him off of Sirius and almost to the floor. "Present time?"

"If you let go," Remus said then chuckled at how quick he was released. "Here or downstairs?" he asked as he suppressed another yawn then glanced at the clock by his bed. It was just a little past 10 in the morning and he vaguely wondered why he had slept so late.

"Neither," Sirius said moving to sit next to him and smiled.

Remus looked from him to the other two boys confused. "Then where do you want to open presents?"

James and Sirius were about to answer when there was a knock at the door. Without waiting for an answer, it swung open to reveal Lily with her Prefect badge pinned to her pink sweater. "Did you just get up, Remus?" she asked walking into the room and looked right at him and his bedhead.

He nodded then blinked when Sirius leaned on his side heavily. "What do you want, Evans?" he asked sounding irritated.

"Be nice to my Lily," James said then tried to grab the other boy's leg but failed as he brought it up and swung both over Remus' lap. James glared at him lightly then turned back to the red head. "You really like that pin, huh? I don't think I've seen that thing off of you."

"Unlike, Remus," Peter said quietly making Sirius chuckle lightly then smiled at Lily when she glared at the two of them. "It's true."

"That doesn't matter," she said now looking at Remus. "Can we talk about something really quick? I need to ask you a favor about the schedule."

He nodded and carefully pushed Sirius' legs off his lap and stood up. "I'll be right back," he said then followed after Lily down to the common room.

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Lily and Remus were always paired together for their Prefect rounds as were the other houses. They ended up switching nights with a pair of Prefects from Hufflepuff who made the request. And as soon as everything was sorted out, Remus quickly headed back to the dorm room, not knowing what the three of them could be doing in revenge for his leaving.

The room looked exactly the way it had when he left except two of the three Marauders were missing. "Where's Sirius and Peter?" he asked James who had his head inside his trunk.

He pulled it out along with three boxes that were wrapped neatly. "Sirius is helping Peter with…uh…something."

"How very vague of you," Remus said then walked over to his bed and crawled back under the covers. "Wake me when they're done."

James made a noise that sounded like a confirmation but he wasn't sure he'd heard him. Just as he was about to doze off, he heard the door to the bathroom open up and the one leading to the stairs close. Or that's what he assumed.

"They're done!" James called as Remus sat up in his bed and looked at everyone again. Peter was trying to hide a smile but it wasn't really working and Sirius was whispering something to him. James was watching them then looked at Remus. He pushed a box into each boy's chest. "Present time!"

Remus sighed lightly at hearing those words again then climbed to his own trunk. He grabbed their gifts then climbed off his bed and walked over to them. "Don't you have gifts for each other?" he asked them when he noticed that the three boxes all had his name written on the top.

"We didn't exactly have enough time to get real gifts," Peter confessed with a sheepish smile. He didn't get a chance to ask him what he meant before James handed over his box. Remus looked at it then handed over his gift to James.

"Thanks," he said then opened the box. Inside was another stuffed animal, this time it was a stag with large antlers. He smiled at the animal then to his friend, "Now my wolf has a friend."

"He always has," James said smiling back then ripped the paper off of his gift. "The Greatest Plays in Quidditch History! Thanks M-erm…Remus!"

The boy blinked at what James said but before he could contemplate it, another box was shoved into his arms. "Open mine next," Peter said smiling at him and he heard Sirius whisper something to James.

"Alright," he said setting down the box with the stag on the ground then exchanged gifts with Peter. Inside his box was yet another stuffed animal, this one was a rat. "Thank you, Peter," he said smiling at the blonde boy.

"Welcome," he said back then unwrapped his own gift and smiled big as he looked down at it. "You got me a Muggle chess set!"

"I thought you might like it," Remus said as he set the second box down on the ground knowing that Sirius was going to shove his gift at him from the way he was bouncing from excitement. "Your turn?"

"My turn!" he said and handed the box to Remus carefully, almost like it was a baby or something. "Look for the chocolate."

Remus chuckled and opened the box. "It's a dog," he said picking the stuffed animal up to look at it better. Inside its mouth was a chocolate bone which made Remus laugh lightly. "Thanks, Sirius."

"Welcome!" Sirius said then tore open his gift and let out a barking laugh. "It's like the hat I got you." He let the paper drop to the ground as he pulled the hat on, being careful not to squish the wolf ears on top. "This is brilliant! Thanks!"

"You're welcome," he said to him then the others when they said the same thing. He picked up his gifts and turned around as he walked over to his bed where the wolf was. "Now what do you want to do?"

He set them all down and laughed at the odd 'pack' they made. As he adjusted them all he realized that he hadn't gotten an answer. "Did you hear m-" he started to say as he turned around but stopped when he saw what was now in the room instead of his friends.

Standing right where they had been just a few seconds ago was now a large stag with a rat on its head and a large, black dog with its tongue hanging out of its mouth. "What the…"

The large dog barked happily then ran over and jumped right on Remus, knocking them both to the ground. It started to lick his face as its tail wagged wildly. "Padfoot, get off of him," James said with a laugh.

Remus eventually pushed the dog off to the side and glared at James. "Where did you go? And what's with the…animals..."

James had the rat on his head and the stag was missing. "Say 'hi' to Sirius," he said pointing to the dog that now had its head laying in Remus' lap and was trying to look cute and innocent.

"S-sirius?" he asked looking down at him and watched as the dog changed into his friend who was giving him a large smile.

"Yup!"

He looked from him to James and saw him holding the rat. He pointed to them both, "I-is that Peter? And you were the deer from before?"

"I'm a stag, thank you very much," James said setting the rat on the ground and changed into the animal just as Peter changed back into a human.

"Do you like your other gift?" Sirius asked sitting up right next to Remus and leaned on him again. "Cause we worked really hard on it."

"Y-you three became animagi for me?" he asked ignoring Sirius' question for now. "How long?"

"Since second year," Peter said smiling at Remus and was nudged by James' nose. "Right. After we knew you were a werewolf. James and Sirius had to help me get it right the first few times. We did it after we found out that that werewolves don't hurt other animals."

"That's what we were doing in the bathroom," Sirius said side-hugging him as James changed into himself and he and Peter walked over to the two of them. "We even gave ourselves nicknames! I'm Padfoot, James is Prongs, Peter is Wormtail, and you're Moony. Great, huh?"

Remus looked between his three friends and tried to hold back his tears of gratitude. "Yeah, it's great," he said hugging Sirius properly but then pulled back. "But I can't let you guys go out with the wolf."

"But Moony won't hurt us," James said sitting down on the ground near him and Sirius and Peter nodded his head adamantly. "And we don't want you to get another chewed up hand or anymore scars."

"Plus we wanna see Moony," Sirius said trying to hold Remus again. "Even if we have to sneak out there, we'll be there. No one can stop us!"

"Not even Lily?" Remus asked looking at James while he was hugged again.

The black haired boy blinked then sighed as he thought. "Not even Lily."

The three boys laughed lightly at James' sad look but then everyone's attention was back on Remus. "So…will you let us come along or do we have to sneak into the Shrieking Shake?"

He looked at their hopeful faces and sighed. "It's not like I can stop you…" he said knowing it was true.

The three of them cheered and Sirius hugged Remus again for a third time and he hugged back with a smile. "Thanks, guys," he whispered, he was so happy to have friends like them.

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