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Remus was worried.

He couldn't ever remember being this worried.

He hadn't seen Adelaide in… A while.

He couldn't remember when he had last seen her.

Surely it hadn't been long.

Ridiculous.

She was probably out with another student. Someone much better looking than Remus.

Of course she wasn't, she wouldn't do that!

Or would she?

Remus needed to see Adelaide.

The main reason he agreed to do James and Lily's shift was to search for her. She hadn't returned to her dormitory that night. None of the girls had seen her in a while.

None of the girls, Remus thought bitterly. He mentally slapped himself. She wasn't out with another boy!

"Alright, mate," Sirius said, clapping Remus's back. "I know you're looking, and we've looked everywhere!" Sirius yawned dramatically. "She's probably just doing some strange French mating ritual in preparation for you inevitable shagging."

Remus punched Sirius's arm. Hard.

"Ow!" Sirius exclaimed. "I was only joking."

Remus grabbed Sirius's collar and whirled him around.

"Yeah? I'm not joking. No one's seen her." Remus hissed into Sirius's face.

"Mate," Sirius said, slowly pulling away. "I think you might want to calm down."

Remus ran a hand through his hair. "I know, I know! Where in the name of Merlin is she?"

Peter, who, until then, had been forgotten, piped up. "You know, we haven't checked the hospital wing!" he squeaked.

Sirius and Remus exchanged a glance.

"Why on earth would she be in the hospital wing?" Remus muttered, scratching the back of his head. A thought, so preposterous and ridiculous that it shouldn't have even entered his mind, made a chill run down his spin.

"You don't think the recruiters got to her?" Remus whispered, turning to Sirius and Peter, his eyes growing bigger and slowly becoming more frenzied. "You don't think they did to her what – with Lily – and I didn't save her!"

Sirius clasped Remus's shoulder. "Calm. Down. You're jumping to horrible conclusions. Let's check the hospital wing, just to be safe."

Sirius started leading him away. "Yeah," Remus muttered, "To be safe."

Only a moment later, Remus was panting outside of the hospital wing. The Marauders had been there that late before. James had fallen off his broom and landed himself there, so the did the only thing friends would do, visit him at midnight and bring him candy.

Remus wasn't so lighthearted, despite the fact that it was completely ridiculous to assume anything.

Nevertheless, Remus entered the hospital with unusual haste.

The beds were empty, all folded pristine and proper.

All except for one.

Remus nearly had a heart attack.

Sirius whispered to Remus, "False alarm, mate."

In a bed, way down by the office, was a girl. A very young girl by the looks of her. Probably a first year. She huddled in the bed, and twirled her hair, obviously awake despite the hour.

She noticed the, and quirked her head. "Hey, are you allowed to be up here?"

Remus opened his mouth, but no sound came out as he was still recovering.

"I don't think that's any of your business," Sirius said back to her.

She narrowed her eyes. "I fell down some stairs, that's why I'm here."

"What a great story!" Sirius looked at Remus. "She's gifted!"

"No, I meant," She huffed. "I have a reason. You don't."

Sirius sighed. "Well, we'll be on our way." Sirius leaned to Remus and muttered, "Who is this girl?"

"My name is Tonks," she pipped from the bed. "Actually, it's Nymphadora, but I don't…"

"Would you look at the time?" Sirius interrupted sarcastically. "We best be off. Nice chatting Wonks."

"It's Tonks!" She yelled as they walked out.

James awoke the next morning tired, as he did not get much sleep. His back ached from the uncomfortable position he had been sitting in.

He picked up his glasses and looked around the dormitory. Remus, Sirius, and Peter were back. Lily, however, seemed to have left.

He rolled back onto the bed. Ridiculous, he thought. Ridiculous how much time he spent thinking. Not just thinking, but thinking about her.

They were quite young, in fact. Probably too young to be so serious about something. But he was serious. Some part of him knew that he had been serious about her for a very long time.

He thought about the Order of the Phoenix. Lily had sent her agreement to Dumbledore, along with his, Sirius', Remus', and Peter's. He would be working with the Order full time, like Lily, so an outside job would be dangerous.

Dangerous, He thought. The kind of people he would be battling would be dangerous. The situations would be dangerous. Voldemort would be dangerous. Lily would be in danger.

Danger. That's an odd word.

He thought of the trouble Lily could get herself into. She wouldn't agree to stay away from the fight, she was too headstrong for that. She would be on the front lines. She would want to fight with me.

It seemed a life time ago when Lily refused to even look at him. When people gave Lily and Severus couple names like "Silly" or "Leverus". James laughed with everyone else. Internally, he hated it.

The things he used to wish upon Snape! Not that any of those wishes were as bad as Snape got. Lily rebuking him. In public. It was brilliant, if James did say so himself.

His thoughts, now on a random train, were derailed by a piercing scream downstairs.

So hey there! I'm late, I know. I've been acting, writing plays, and doing AP work, and hanging with really cool people like TheHumanDreamcatcher. If you like pokemon, I think he's nerding out a nice fanfiction. He based his first character on yours truly *hair flip*.

Just preparing you all, this story is soon going to fast forward to when they are out of Hogwarts. CAN YOU DIG IT?

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