A/n: Sorry its so late people. I've had a very busy holiday. But now, I'm here, and I'm writing once more! Here's your Christmas treat and new years apology.
Don't own Harry Potter, all rights reserved by J.K.Rowling and Warner Bros.
Chapter 14: A Werewolf of a disaster
We're going to do a time warp, and travel all the way to Christmas, fifth year. Welcome one and all, to the festive season.
Robyn sat in her pyjamas looking blankly at the book on Animagus that she had 'borrowed' from the restricted section earlier that year. One thing was for sure, she had read everything there was to know about being an Animagus, and she still couldn't transform. Chucking the book onto the table she sighed and ran an exhausted hand through her hair. It's Christmas Eve, don't stress yourself, just leave it, it'll come soon enough, she thought, smiling and staring longingly at the Christmas tree.
This year she wasn't going home for Christmas, but was staying at Hogwarts. The marauders herself, and the rest of the girls had made a pact to spend this holiday together. Lily, of course, was a bit dubious, as it meant spending more time with James, but they managed to swing her around to the idea in the end.
Robyn frowned as she thought of her friends, and what would be coming for them. She had read about three of their demises, and one treachery. Only one marauder would live through the ordeal and stay true to the side of good. Remus, he had more to cope with than anyone. The full moon as well as all this. Robyn let her head fall into her hands as she contemplated the future…
She awoke to the whispering of voices some time later. She must've fallen asleep by the fire. Ugh, Robyn thought, just five more minutes.
"So, do we wake her?" Remus whispered.
"Well, its Christmas morning, she wouldn't want to miss it," Sirius stated, walking over to Robyn. "Rise and shine sleeping beauty, its Christmas."
"Five more minutes mum," She groaned, rubbing her eyes.
Sirius pouted. "I'm to beautiful to be your mother," He grinned.
"Oh shut up you annoying wart," Robyn growled, picking up and cushion and throwing it at him.
Sirius laughed. "Come on, you have presents to open!" He cried out, ignoring her insult. "The other girls should be down any second now, Peter and James have gone to wake them."
As if on cue, several swear words and a lot of screaming came from the vicinity of the girl's dormitory. If their had been anyone else in Gryffindor, their would have been an uproar. But, as luck would have it, the marauders and the girls were the only ones staying.
"Told you," Sirius smirked triumphantly.
James and Peter came tumbling down the stairs and landed in a heap in front of the others grinning wildly.
"Oh, hey Rob," James saluted her and stood up, knocking Peter back over in the process.
Following them, were three very angry looking girls, and one cackling madly, all in their Pyjamas, and covered in…
"Jelly?" Robyn questioned.
"Yeah," Georgie laughed as she cleaned herself off with her wand.
"Those two decided it would be funny to cover us all in jelly to wake us up," Michaela said through clenched teeth.
"Raspberry jelly to be exact," Georgie smiled, smacking her lips together. "Which just so happens to be my favourite.
Robyn laughed. "Oh come on, its all in the Christmas spirit. Give them a break, for once. See this face, see this…" She pointed to Sirius but thought about it. "Okay, maybe not that one, but, yeah, see, look at Remus, how can you be angry at that face."
Sirius looked aghast at Robyn while James and Peter stifled their giggles and Remus looked quite shocked but went along with it and put on the puppy dog eyes.
Lily sighed. "Fine, but just because its Christmas." She grinned and cleaned herself off, Sue and Michaela doing the same.
"… Why not my face?" Sirius exclaimed.
"Because you can't not be angry when seeing your face," Sue grinned innocently.
Sirius thought about this and smirked, shrugging it off.
"So, presents, then breakfast," James proposed, taking one of his presents and ripping open the wrapping paper already.
"Then snow?" Georgie asked suspiciously.
"Most defiantly, because then we can have hot chocolate after," Remus grinned.
"Trust you to think of chocolate," Sirius joked and rolled his eyes.
"Not my fault I have an addiction," Remus pouted, taking one of his presents.
"Well, lets on with the presents," Lily laughed, the rest of the friends each grabbing a present of their own.
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"Take that you scurvy bilge rats!" Robyn cried out as she threw a snowball over her embankment and towards the enemy, namely Sue, Michaela, Lily, Peter and Sirius. What had started as a little battle had turned into an all out war.
Sirius spluttered as he received that snowball as a direct hit on his face. "Why, I'll get you Young!" He growled playfully, lobbing another over to his enemy, namely, Robyn, Georgie, James and Remus.
His snowball, however, was caught by none other than the Quidditch fanatic himself, and chucked back at him, earning Potters team another direct hit.
"Hah, that'll teach you," James laughed, but was cut short by a mouthful of snow from Lily.
"You'll never know how long I've been waiting to do that," Lily grinned.
Georgie, Robyn and Remus all stood up at that moment and fired a volley of snowballs at the opposition, each hitting Sirius squarely in the face.
"What is this? Gang up on Sirius day!" He cried out incredulously as he landed into their snow bank.
There was an outcry from his fellow teammates. "Sirius!"
"Sorry," he said sheepishly before he received another volley of snow, but from his team this time.
"I told you! This is outrageous!" Sirius yelled, waving his arms to maximise his point, all to a chorus of laughter from his friends.
"Funny though," James pointed out, grinning manically.
"Shut it Potter," Sirius growled, throwing and finally hitting his friend.
"Down doggy," Remus laughed, earning a snowball from Sirius as well.
"Ha! Never mess with the Black Miester! Yeah, woohoo, yuh huh," Sirius did a little triumph dance.
The others all started to back away extremely slowly and towards into a group, before all bursting out into laughter.
"Sirius, keep to your day job," James shook his head.
"Shut up, you walking coat hanger," hissed Sirius, smirking slightly.
"Your in for in now Black," James grinned, lunging at his friend and knocking them both to the ground.
"Do you think we should break them apart?" Sue wondered.
"In a second, let them wear themselves out first," Robyn chuckled.
The snow was flying and so were fists and legs. Several curses and a lot of 'ouches' came from the moving bundle before they decided it was time to stop it.
Remus and Robyn managed to haul Sirius back, while Georgie and Peter got James by the arms.
"Boys, calm down now, or you'll both go straight to bed," Lily smirked.
"Sorry mother," Sirius fluttered his eyebrows innocently.
"I'll go to bed if it's with you my darling Lily," James winked at her.
Georgie and Peter immediately let go, and James went head first into a pile of snow.
"What was that for?" James spluttered as he sat up.
"Sexual tension," Georgie grinned.
"Shut up," growled James to a background of sniggering.
"Sorry to ruin your moment, Potter, but it's starting to get dark, and I'm rather cold," Michaela pointed out, rubbing her hands together.
"Hot chocolate!" They all chorused, charging towards the school.
o0o
"That hits the spot nicely," Sue snuggled into one of he chairs in the common room.
They had gone to the kitchen, and each gotten a mug, and a flask of hot chocolate, all of which now lay empty on the table in front of them. The girls had successfully gotten their pyjamas un-jelly-fied, and were now wearing them as they all sat around the fire.
"You can say that again," Remus grinned. "But don't." He laughed, remembering that his friends usually took it literally.
Sue grinned and stuck her tongue out at Remus before taking another sip of her cocoa.
"This, is the life," Sirius sighed, finishing the last of his hot chocolate, placing the mug on the table.
"Too right mate," James smirked, finishing his as well.
Robyn laughed and took another sip of her own hot drink, warming her from the inside out as she watched her friends exchange friendly conversation. James was right, this was the life, her life, and it couldn't be better.
Lily yawned loudly, placing her own empty mug on the table. "Its late, and I'm off to bed," she smiled. "Night, guys."
"Wait up Lils, we'll join you," Sue stated, leaving her mug n the table and waving a goodbye to the boys, Georgie, Michaela and Robyn following suit.
The four boys sat in silence, each basking in their own thoughts and the warmth from the fire.
"Did you know Lily could throw so well?" James asked, breaking the silence.
Sirius grinned, and relied to his friend. "Well, no, not really, but your face was priceless."
Remus laughed, his mind half in the conversation, and half with the waxing moon. "Yeah, Prongs, you should really deflate your ego."
"Shut up moony," James glared at his friend.
"He has a point, you're never going to get a date with Evans acting like you do," Peter pointed out.
"Yeah, act more like moi, then you'll have the girls crawling all over you," Sirius grinned.
His three friends looked at him incredulously, each raising an eyebrow and shaking their heads.
"What?" Sirius exclaimed.
"Anyway," Remus shook his head, steering the conversation in another direction.
"Yeah, did you know, the full moons tomorrow," James stared pointedly at Remus.
Remus' face paled more than it had been. He had gotten through today pretty well considering.
"Yes, so, are we going to do what we usually do?" Peter asked.
"Most definitely. Grab the map, the cloak, then follow Remus to the shack before transforming," Sirius stated.
Over the summer, the boys had perfected their Animagus skills, and had already accompanied their friend on many a full moon. Yet Remus was still dubious about the idea, even though he was glad for their company and his transformations had been getting easier since they had started.
"Okay, if you must, but be careful okay, I don't want any of you getting hurt," Remus stated, running a hand through his already ruffled hair.
"Oh, we're fine, don't worry about us," James waved away his concern.
"We're more worried about you," Peter stated.
"Yeah, so am I," Remus muttered.
o0o
"Homework help," Lily said, dropping several books onto the library table the girls sat in front of.
The other four girls let out groans of dismay as they saw the think leather bound books, each with their own unique title depending on the subject. They had, as usual, left their homework to pile up, and seeing as they would be completing their OWL's this year, the teachers really did load it on them. It was almost dark, and instead of sitting in the warmth of the common room, they sat pouring over books trying to finish their homework, which they had also been doing for the past three hours. They only had the History of magic essay now to complete.
"Oh, come on Lily, its getting dark, we've only got History of magic to go, cant we just, stop," Georgie moaned, letting her head fall on the desk.
"I'm with Georgie on this one," Sue stated, stretching slightly.
"Please Lils," Robyn begged.
"Oh, fine, but we finish it tomorrow," Lily said sternly.
"Promise," Michaela yawned.
"So, we can get out of here now?" Georgie asked.
"Yes, fine," Lily sighed, picking up half the books and walking away.
"I'll help her, see you guys back in the dorm," Robyn said, waving goodbye to her other three friends and picking up the last of the books.
"You guys are so lazy," Lily grinned as she began walking out of the library, talking to Robyn after they had both deposited their books back.
"Not as lazy as the boys though," Robyn pointed out.
"Fair point," Lily laughed.
"Speaking of boys, would you ever go out with Potter?" Robyn grinned, not looking directly at Lily.
"Oh ha, ha," Lily blushed. "Okay, I admit, when he's not being a totally arrogant jerk, he can actually be quite nice. At the moment, though, never."
"Oooo, maybe I could be match maker," Robyn laughed.
"Don't you dare! Otherwise I'll put spiders and frogspawn in your bed," Lily glared.
"Okay, I won't play match maker," Robyn smirked. "Yet," She muttered inaudibly.
Lily looked at her friend suspiciously as they reach the portrait of the fat lady. "Cockroach clusters," she said clearly, the portrait swinging open to let them in.
Robyn yawned as she entered, noticing the marauders still sitting up by the fireplace and whispering to each other very conspiringly.
"They're up to something," Lily stared at them suspiciously.
"Lets hope it doesn't concern us then," Robyn chuckled, knowing full well what thy might be talking about as she glanced towards the window, and the full moon.
"Oh, come on then," stated Lily, dragging Robyn up the stairs by her arm.
"You do know my arm is still attached to my body, and I would like to keep it that way," Robyn groaned as she was hauled most unceremoniously into the girl's dormitory, where they found their fellow friends fast asleep already.
"Shh, before you wake them," Lily hushed, going over to her own bed and putting on her pyjamas.
"Like hell I could," Robyn muttered, also proceeding to amble slowly to her bed.
However, instead of proceeding to put her pyjamas on, she stopped, and thought. An idea popped into her head, guaranteed not a very safe one, but an idea at the least. She pretended to put on her pyjamas, but instead, pulled out a warm jacket, scarf, and hat, tucking them neatly under her pillow.
"Night Rob," Lily yawned, climbing into bed and pulling round the curtains.
"Night," Robyn smiled; giving an unseen wave and scrambled into bed herself, waiting for a safe time to climb out once more.
Meanwhile, down in the common room, three marauders had just bid their friend a brief farewell, before continuing on up to their own dormitory, where they lie in wait, all sat on James' bed staring at the marauders map. Tiny dot labelled Remus Lupin sat on the comfy armchair in the common room, nearest the fire, and another tiny dot labelled Madam Pomfrey was making her way towards the portrait.
"Well, we do as normal, wait for them to make it down to the second stairway, then start making our way down as well," James stated.
"Under the cloak, or course," Sirius smirked.
"All we need is mission impossible music to complete the ensemble," Peter rolled his eyes.
Sirius began humming the theme song, earning Peter a quick flick over the head from James.
"Now you've gone and set him off, we wont be able to get him to shut up all night," James groaned.
"I resent that, even though its true," Sirius pouted. "Do you want me to hum something different? Or even give you a little sing song?" He grinned.
A unanimous 'No' sounded from both Peter and James.
"Fine, its obvious you don't know good music when you hear it," Sirius huffed.
"At least we're not tone deaf," Peter hissed to James.
"What?" Sirius raised an eyebrow.
"Nothing," James said, trying to stifle his laughter.
Sirius glared at his friends before deciding to ignore them. Looking back to the map, he noticed the two dots labelled Madam Pomfrey, and Remus Lupin travelling down the stairs.
"Its time to get going," Sirius stated, picking up his jacket.
"Under we go," James said, after himself and his two friends had both adorned their jackets, he flung the invisibility cloak over them.
"Wow, it's more roomier then usual," peter grinned.
"Well, we are missing one person," James shrugged, getting elbowed by Sirius. "Personally, I still think it's a bit cramp."
"Yeah, well you're a lanky git," Sirius smirked.
"That's rich coming from you," James hissed as they opened the portrait hole and exited, not knowing that the most unlikely person was following them.
Robyn tiptoed behind them, making sure she was deathly quiet. All those times sneaking out of her room had made the world of difference. Some people would find it almost impossible to follow something invisible, but the amount of noise they were making, made it quite easy, plus she already knew where they were going. She was surprised Madam Pomfrey hadn't heard them though.
It took a while; especially trying to dodge the prefects, but she managed to keep up with the group, all of whom were heading in the same direction. How she got out of the castle without being caught was a miracle in itself.
There was a chill wind out on the grounds, but Robyn had prepared herself and worn warm clothing that blended in well with the dark landscape. Careful to stay behind the three marauders that were under the cloak
"I must be mad for doing this," she hissed nervously to herself as she paced herself.
It didn't take long to reach the whomping willow, and standing behind a tree near the willow, Robyn watched and waited. Madam Pomfrey froze the willow with a jet of magic from her wand, and herself and Remus travelled through, the medical witch coming out a minute later. Robyn made sure she was well hidden, and only began looking again when the healer had gone well away.
She noticed that the willow had once more been frozen, this time by a small scurrying rodent, who went back to an invisible path of air and disappeared.
Robyn waited until five minutes had passed before making her own way to, and through the tunnel under the whomping willow.
o0o
"Can we take the cloak off now?" Peter moaned.
"Fine," James gave in to his friends' constant whinging and pulled off the cloak, placing it in the tunnel where they usually lay it.
"Come on, the moon will be rising any time," Sirius hurried them, making his way already to the trap door.
"Heel doggy," James grinned, catching up with his friend.
Sirius rolled his eyes and opened the trap door they had come upon, sneaking his head through to take a quick peek and jumping up once he had checked the coast was clear.
The trap door slammed shut, the echo ringing out loudly through the empty halls.
"Peter," James groaned as he jumped at the sound.
"Sorry," Peter squeaked.
"Guys?" a faint call from the adjoining room said.
"We're here moony old pal, old buddy, old friend," Sirius grinned, stepping into the usual room.
Claw marks lined the walls, trashed furniture, and a musky smell, a few bloodstains dotted here and there.
"Took you guys long enough," Remus smirked weakly, his face had paled considerably since they had last seen each other, which wasn't that long ago. "Now, you lot sure about this?"
"Of course we're sure. We're more sure-er than a single celled amoeba thinking about pink elephants swimming in vibrant yellow water," Sirius grinned.
Remus looked at Sirius with raised eyebrows and turned to James and Peter, "You've spiked his food haven't you?"
"Hey, I promised we wouldn't do that again," James pouted.
Remus let out a halfhearted laugh as the first shot of pain flew through his body, making him gasp loudly. Looking out of the small crack in the boarded windows, he noticed the first rays of moonlight.
"You guys better change soon," Remus warned, getting himself into a comfortable position, not looking into the eyes of his closest friends.
"We won't change until we need to," James smiled comfortingly.
"Anyway, I think it might be a bit cramp in here with his coat hanger antlers sticking out," Sirius grinned.
"You can talk flea boy, we'll all start itching," James retorted.
"Shut up you moose."
"Make me lassie."
"Go dance in the daisies bambi."
"You promised you wouldn't tell," James pouted, mock crying.
"I'm sorry my love. Forgive me?" Sirius whimpered.
They're conversation was stopped short, however, by the short pained yelp coming from Remus. Looking over worriedly at their friend, they gave him pitying looks.
"Change guys, please," Remus let out, breathing heavily.
Thinking it best this time, they all one by one changed into their animal forms.
"Just remember, we're all here," Peter said, transforming into a rat.
"Including me and bambi," Sirius grinned, saluting his friend and turning into a shaggy black dog.
James rolled his eyes and grinned. "Don't worry, just keep your head and look forward to the morning. Sunrise will be good," he said comfortingly, before changing into a proud stag.
Remus smiled at his friends before giving a loud scream of pain, his body contorting in unimaginable ways. His world slowly turning black as the wolf took over. The last thing he saw was a girl standing at the doorway, staring at him in pitiful horror. He swore he knew her…
A/n: Wow, I didn't expect it to be that long, hehe. Well, I am alive, here's your update, sorry for the time it took me to write it, coursework and all that stuff been keeping me busy. Hope you liked it.
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