On with chapter two!
Disclaimer: i do not own harry potter.
"REMUS NO!!" James Potter screamed at the top of his lungs as he and Sirius Black lunged forward and pulled me away form the window.
"What the hell?! Remus, what's wrong?" Sirius asked concern written all over his face mingled with shock.
"W- wh- what?" I stammered sounding foolish.
"What. Is. Wrong." He repeated.
"Nothing. Why would anything be wrong?" I said as I tried to fight out of there grasp.
"Nothing? Remus, how could nothing be wrong something obviously is." James replied still holding onto my arm his grip getting tighter.
"Well I'm sorry that I'm a werewolf! I was just saving the two of you the trouble of getting me kicked out of here!" I yelled at them yanking myself out of there grasps and moving to the other side of the room looking at the floor.
"What? Why would we want you to get kicked out of school?" Sirius asked looking confused.
"Because I'm a werewolf." I said quietly to the floor more than to them.
"And why would we want to kick you out of school just because you're a werewolf?" James said.
I looked up at them wondering where Peter was but at the moment that didn't matter. I stared at them waiting for them to laugh at me and tell me off. But they just stood there waiting for my answer. I had a million.
"Maybe because," I started, "because I'm dangerous. I could kill your or worse bite you, I'm a freak, a monster, a-a nobody. Why bother with me.
"Remus…" James started.
"Lets just please get this over with. Please." I started to walk towards the door then waited for them to follow me or jinx me, but they stayed where they were.
"Mate. We don't want you kicked out of school." Sirius said as he looked at me with his grey eyes that always held a spark of mischief but now seemed dull.
"You don't?" I swallowed were they playing a joke on me for there amusement?
"Of course not! I mean…just cause-" Sirius started but James interrupted soon after.
"Just because you're a werewolf doesn't make you any different Remus. You're still the same, you just…change once a month. Once Remus. Once."
"But I still change into a monster and could kill you."
"You wouldn't and it doesn't matter. You are who you are and its not your fault and besides you don't even act like a werewolf."
Sirius nodded in his agreement to what James had said and said, "Seriously mate, we would never have known that you were a werewolf but being the friends that we are, we looked into it."
"You're great." I whispered. I knew they couldn't hear me and I kinda didn't want them to but as always they asked 'what'
"You guys are great," I started to cry. I didn't mean to cry but I couldn't stop myself. "You two are the best friends anyone could ask for. I mean it with all my heart, I mean you saw what I was gonna do." I sobbed even harder and they came to comfort me, putting their hands on my shoulders and sitting close. "I really don't know what I could do without the two of you. You're the only friends I ever had and the thought of rejection just hurts like hell. I can't take it." I was still sobbing. Gosh I just couldn't stop.
"Its okay Remmy. Don't cry mate. We're not rejecting you, we never would." Sirius tried his best to calm me down. It helped somewhat I was starting to breath more.
"Yeah mate. We stick together. Always. No matter what. Friends forever." James added in.
"You guys really mean it?" I asked still teary eyed but no longer sobbing like a baby. God I really lost control.
"Defiantly."
"I solemnly swear!"
That made me laugh. Sirius always made me laugh. He was a great guy at heart. He and James. They were the best people in the world. "We stick together."
"Together, forever!!" James said in a sing song voice.
"Mate, how many times have I told you? You can't sing!" Sirius laughed at James and covered his ears. I laughed. James really could sing though, he was pretty good actually. Sirius was just playing with him.
"I can too sing. Your just jealous because you can't." James said back to him. They were back to their usual selves.
"C'mon Moony tell Jamesie that he can't sing!" Sirius turned his attention back to me.
"But he can. Wait. What did you call me?"
"Um…Moony…do ya like it? It just sort of came to me right now and it seemed like it just fitted you." He smiled his award winning smile and waited for my answer.
It was a pretty cool name, I suppose. But then it would always remind me of the moon and what I am. Yet it did seem to fit and it'd make Sirius happy. So I said, "I guess its alright."
"YES! Hahaha HA! Its awesome isn't it Jamie?"
"The best Siri."
"Woot-Woot! Moony, Moony, Moony, MOONY! Hahaha awoo!"
I stared at him. I had no idea what had happened to him, he just went on a hyper surge all of a sudden. I had officially stopped crying by now and just wanted to get out of that damn tower, but now James had joined in on Sirius's howling.
"AWOO! Come on Remus, join the fun. You must be pretty good at it, yeah?" James asked me.
"Yeah come on Moony lets see what you got!" Sirius went on to say and just as I was about to howl with joy we were interrupted.
"Yes Mr. Lupin what exactly is it that you have?" It was Professor McGonagall. The headmistress of the school and also head of Gryffindor house, the house that James, Sirius, and I were in.
I tried to reply but nothing seemed to come out. I had known form the very first day of school that students were not supposed to be out of bed after hours. And here we were and in the astronomy tower no less, the farthest tower away from our common room. I hope that students don't get expelled from being out of bed..
"Well…umm…you see professor, umm… well, uh—" I desperately tried for something to come out of my mouth instead of the rambles.
"He doesn't have anything professor. We were just howling at the moon and wanted to see if he could howl any good." James said.
"And can you Mr. Lupin?" She looked at me.
"Umm well I didn't—" I stopped mid sentence when I was interrupted by Sirius.
"He hadn't tried yet professor. You, in all your glory, seemed to have caught him just as he was going to try. So he really shouldn't get in any trouble…cause he didn't do anything.
"Thank you Mr. Black for your clearing up of the situation. But clearly you are unaware that it is out of bounds to be out of your dormitory at this time of night?"
The three of us lowered our heads in shame. Yes we were all very aware of the rules and she knew that.
"Well then, I expect you to return to your common room."
I looked up and saw that Sirius and James had looked to each other in shock. No detention. Not even house points taken away. Mental. We started to walk away, out through the door and of course she called out to us that we indeed would be serving a detention with her tomorrow night.
At the moment though we could care less. It was just a detention we had other things on our minds.
So that was chapter two... constructive criticism is welcome.