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"Now, all you do is listen to McGonagall, do the work, drink the potion and do not, speak, to, Evans." Dani said during dinner that night. After dinner Dani as James, would serve detention while the real James went with Remus.

"Yeah, yeah. I know, I know. Don't listen to a word McGonagall says, sit there and do nothing but burp the alphabet, don't drink the Polyjuice potion and tell Lily all about Remus' "furry little problem"." James said while clasping his hands together, blinking, and smiling innocently.

"I think she's got the plan down." Sirius said while grinning. Dani stepped on his foot.

"I'm serious, Dani." He was interrupted by Sirius.

"No, you're not. I'm Sirius!" Remus, Peter, and Dani rolled their eyes at the old as ever joke while James chuckled and rolled his eyes.

"Anyway," Dani continued. "Don't screw this up, because if you do, not only will we suffer, but you'll be letting out Remus' secret as well. And parents knowing that a werewolf is around their children is terrifying enough." Dani said while whispering the last part.

"Now why don't you ever let Lily see this side of you? The sweet, caring, and loyal side your friends see. Why must you always show off in front of her and be cocky?" James asked while sucking a Sugar Quill he pulled out of his pocket. Dani shrugged.

"I try, but force of habit, you know?" Just then Lily walked by on her way to detention. She didn't even glance at the 5. James got up.

"Well, I'm off to spend the next hour with the bitch from hell. Wish me luck."

"Good or bad?" Sirius said while grinning cheekily, not missing a beat. James smiled before departing, leaving the 4 boys alone. "James, maybe you wanna go to the bathroom now." Sirius said while pulling Dani up to a standing position, which he had taken seconds before, from where she had been leaning down to eat. Dani arched an eyebrow.

"Why, I'm not done eating, and I'm Dani." She said while trying to sit back down, but this time both Sirius and Remus yanked her back up.

"You really should go to the bathroom now, James." Remus said while steering her towards the door.

"Why?"

"Because no person's hair can shrink at that rapid of a pace, and Dani's legs are not hairy." Remus responded while pushing him out of the door, so no one could see how rapidly Dani was changing. Sure enough, once they were out of eyeshot of everyone in the Great Hall, Dani shot up, her hair stuck up in odd directions, her chest was toned again, arms more muscular, and her brown eyes turned Hazel. James pulled the Invisibility Cloak from his robes, got under it, and after a few minutes, he was dressed in his normal robes.

"Good to see you back to your old self, buddy. Watching you walk down the halls and getting aroused by it, was wrong on too many levels to count." Sirius said while clapping him on the back. James smiled weakly as the 4 got under the Invisibility Cloak, and snuck out into the night.

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"Evans, do we have to do this? Can't we take a break?" Dani, disguised as James, whined for about the 40th time in 10 minutes. They had to organize McGonagall's, Snape's, and Flitwork's homework, assignments, and staff forms, no magic. In simplest terms, boring. Lily rolled her eyes.

'If it wasn't for him deciding that every comment that comes out of his mouth has to be a dirty one, we wouldn't be in this mess in the 1st place.' Lily thought as she sorted a 3rd Year's paper in T for Troll. She heard a sigh and then some papers falling. She turned around to see that James had pushed all the papers that he had been sorting on a table on the floor. She also saw that the reason why he had forced everything onto the floor, was so he could lie on his backside on the table.

"99 bottles of Firewhiskey on the wall, 99 bottles of Firewhiskey, take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of Firewhiskey on the wall." He sang.

"Potter?" Lily said in a sweet voice that she hadn't used to talk to James since they were 12. James lifted his head slightly to look at her.

"Huh?" He asked.

"Shut the hell up." She said before turning back to her work earning a groan from James. There was silence for a good while, except for James' drumming fingers on the table. When Lily had finished her stack of papers, so turned around to look at James, who had just taken a flask out of his pocket, and was drinking from it, while making a face that clearly said that he wanted to hurl it back up. "Do you actually plan on sorting the papers you threw on the floor?" James sat up, looked at the ceiling for about 5 seconds as if he was thinking, and said,

"No. I didn't really plan on that." He then flashed her one of his award winning smiles that made about half of the female population swoon. She scoffed, rolled her eyes, and went over to pick up the papers, James rolling over on his stomach to watch her.

"She didn't mean it, you know." Startled, Lily dropped the papers she had been holding and looked at James.

"What?" she asked as she gathered the work again.

"She didn't mean it. Dani. You know the whole dream thing, besides pretty much everyone's forgotten it by now. I mean you only got like what, 20 stares at dinner out of the 1,010 stares you got this morning? It was a mistake. A careless one on her account, but still a mistake. She wasn't even telling Ashley, she was telling me." Lily rolled her eyes at that.

"Okay, so instead of revealing it to one of my enemies, she revealed it to a different one, and the other happened to hear and proclaim it to the school. For some reason, your little speech isn't making me feel any better." Lily stormed back over to her table, and began sorting, both grimacing at when the detention would end.

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"Now I hope that something like that will never happen again. Not only was I embarrassed for you, but you shamed the entire Gryffindor House." McGonagall was reading them the riot act now that all the work was done and the detention was over. Lily had her head down, and was looking at her shoes, while wave of guilt after guilt washed over her. James was also looking at the floor, but that was because he was half asleep and trying to stay awake was harder than it seemed. When McGonagall had let them go, and they were out the door, James let out a yawn.

"Well, I'm gonna go to bed. Care to join me?" James said while winking at her. Lily rolled her eyes and entered the loo across the hall. Lucky she did when she did, because at that moment, James began to change. His hair began to get longer and smoother, more manageable. He also began to get shorter, and grew curves. By the time she had reached the Gryffindor Tower, Dani was stumbling in James' large clothes. Opening her dorm door, she saw Ana, Molly, and Alice getting ready for bed. They took in her clothes, and opened their mouths to ask when Dani stopped them by holding out a hand. "Don't." she then grabbed her PJ's from on top of her bed and went into the bathroom.

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'Maybe I did overreact, I mean if it really was an accident.' Lily thought as she washed her hands. She rolled her eyes as her logic argued with her. 'Wow, I must be tired. I'm siding with Potter of all people.' She walked out in a huff and started up the stairs to the Gryffindor Tower. As she went she passed a window. It was a huge glass one, and she could see that the sky and the grounds looked just like it did during her dream last night. She shuddered at the thought of James' hands and lips on her skin. She was about to keep moving, when a shadow caught her eye. She squinted and tried to see it clearer, but she couldn't.

She knew that she should just ignore it and go before Flich or someone else caught her, but her curiosity got the better of her and she found herself rushing towards the entrance doors and outside, gripping her wand tightly. The cold night air hit her like a knife, and she silently cursed herself for not wearing a cloak, and only her robes. She looked around and listened tentatively, but only got the howling of the wind. She turned back around to enter the school, when behind her she heard a low growl. From the lights coming from the windows in the school, she could see the shadow of a massive creature standing behind her, breathing heavy. She turned to face it, realizing that it was a full-grown werewolf.

'Fuck, fuck, fuckitty, fuck, fuck.' She thought as she tried to think of a way to run without it eating her alive. When she couldn't find one, she just decided to run anyway. She had almost reached the door when it caught her. Lily cried out in pain as its nails sank into her sides, and its breath tickled her ear. 'Just like in my dream, but this time no James, I mean Potter, to save me.' She thought desperately as its teeth skimmed her neck and she felt blood slide down. She shut her eyes as tears slipped out. Just when she knew it was going to bite her, she heard that of hooves and felt the weight lift off her. She opened her eyes and saw that a giant stag had knocked it off of her. Beside the stag had appeared a bear-like dog, the size of the Tiger standing next to it.

The 4 animals all seemed to be having a staring contest, 3 against one. The side that breaks first, dies. Lily knew that she should be getting up and trying to get help for her loss of blood, but was having trouble doing so. She seemed mesmerized by the scene. Finally it seemed like the werewolf lost because all 3 animals charged at him. The stag held him back while the dog and tiger bit at his legs. While the tiger and dog distracted the werewolf, the stag walked over to Lily and got down on his legs. Lily understood that it wanted her to get on it's back. Slowly, and painfully, she climbed on its back.

It immediately sprang to life and rushed towards the castle. When it reached the door, it turned sideways, letting Lily reach out to open the door. When she did, it walked inside and got back down on its legs, letting Lily off. When he stood up straight again, Lily petted and thanked him before going towards the stairs. But because she had lost so much blood by the time she got to the 1st stair, she had begun to pass out. As her vision grew darker and darker, she heard voices that sounded familiar, but she was too tired to place names with them. Finally as if heavens angels had heard her silent pleas, she lost consciousness.

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"Is she awake now?"

"No more than she was the last time you asked, 5 minutes ago, Ms. Carlson."

"Are you sure she wasn't bitten and that she'll have no side affects whatsoever?"

"Yes Mr. Potter, now stop pacing, and get back into your bed. You yourself are still healing from saving her last night. In fact, all of you should be as sound asleep as Ms. Evans is." Madam Pomfrey said as she walked over to Sirius' bed. The night before, he, Dani, and James carrying Lily, came in the Hospital Wing, covered in bruises, sweat, dirt, and blood. When asked what happened, they claimed that they hadn't been able to sleep and had been looking out the Common Room Window when they saw Lily and a werewolf. Lily couldn't confirm her story, because she had yet to wake up from her unconscious state.

"You don't know how lucky and fortunate you 4 are. I mean really, 3 under age students taking on a full-grown werewolf. I wouldn't have been surprised if they had found bits of you scattered all over the grounds this morning." She said as she changed the bandages on Sirius' chest.

Sirius had scratches that were about 2 inches deep on his chest, he had black eye, and had also broken his arm. Dani, like Sirius had gotten 2-inch skin-deep scratches, except hers were on her back. She had also broken her ankle. James, had gotten more starches than both Sirius and Dani, on his chest, back, arms, and legs, but because they weren't that deep, or that huge like theirs, they weren't too serious.

Occupying another bed was Remus, who looked worse than all of them. He like Lily was still asleep, except he looked pale beyond medical attention. He was battered and bruised and had been bleeding worse than Lily had from her neck, and both sides. His breathing was ragged as if he was having problems making it stay steady. Just then they heard rather than saw movement from Lily's bed. Madam Pomfrey rushed over when she let out a cry of pain and so did Dani, now that Madam Pomfrey had fixed her ankle. Lily opened her eyes and slowly took in her surroundings. Madam Pomfrey standing over her with a bottle of some potion, Dani smiling weekly, James sitting up in the bed next to her, Sirius attempting to sit up in the bed on his other side, and on her other side she saw someone who she couldn't recognize. It was too much to handle at once, and she slipped back into darkness.

"You said she was fine!" Dani and James yelled at her, but when the older woman glared at them, they murmured their apologizes and sat back down on their beds.

"She is fine, now hush up!" Madam Pomfrey left to go to the back room, just as Peter entered through the doors.

"Is Lily awake yet?" Peter asked while licking what had probably been a doughnut off his fingers. Sirius, Lily and Dani shook their heads.

"Pete, come over here. We need to talk." James said. Peter swallowed and waddled over. When Peter was seated on the edge of his bed, and Dani and Sirius were looking at him, he sighed before saying, "I think we should tell Evans everything." There was a moment of silence, before there were complaints.

"Have you lost your mind?"

No way!"

"James, Lily hates your guts! Telling her you're an unregistered Animangi, is basically like giving up Dumbledore to the enemy!" James held up his hands telling them to stop.

"Hear me out. Don't you think she's gonna wonder who the animals and werewolf were? Lily's smart, okay, it won't take long for her to figure out who they were. And I'd rather have her hear it from us now, then from the Ministry of Magic, later." The 3 had to agree with his reasoning.

"Let me break it to her, and slowly." Dani said after about a moment of silence. "I mean, she doesn't really know you guys that well, and since at the moment, I'm the closet thing she has to a best friend, I'll be less of a victim." Just then there was more movement from Lily's bed. She woke up once more, but this time she forced herself to stay awake. She saw Dani shuffling her feet, and grinning sheepishly at her. Lily shyly smiled back.

"How ya been, Lils?" Dani asked while sitting in the chair next to her. Lily shrugged.

"Good I guess. You?" She asked while sitting up.

"Good, I guess." She replied. After a couple moments of silence, they both started talking.

"I'm sorry-"

"No, it was my fault-"

"I overreacted-"

"I shouldn't have been talking about you in the first place." The two girls hugged each other, before Dani hissed in pain. "Scratches. Still painful." Lily raised an eyebrow.

"Scratches? From what?" Dani sighed and looked down.

"Lily, I'm an illegal Animanigi. I can turn into a tiger."