Hi! I hope you all liked the last chap. And I know I'm horrible leaving such a bad cliffy… Hee-hee!

Also, I TURNED 15! ON SUNDAY! Yes I know my profile says 16 but I'm sneaky that way hee-hee…

Disclaimer: I don't own Lily or James or anyone else from the original Harry Potter series. It all belongs to J.K Rowling/ I do own Dawn and Alec though…

Last Time in Dark Friends…

And for the second time in her life, she cried. Tears of blood came rolling down her cheek, leaving red marks on her cheeks and on Alec's uniform.

Alec just held her closer. "It's okay Dawn. It's okay."

…

Remus hurried to where the crying was coming from. And saw Dawn Delarosa crying into Alec Totero's shoulder.

With blood coming down her cheeks.

"Oh my god…"

Alec and Dawn released each other and spun towards the intruder, a look of fear passing onto both their faces.

"Remus…"

Dawn's eyes widened in horror and fear. No. He had discovered what she was. All those years of her and Lily hiding. And she had ruined it all by showing her emotions just once! Lily would never forgive her. She had always been such a good friend and this was how she repaid it. By revealing it.

She couldn't handle it. Dawn got up off the ground shakily and quickly ran off into shadows of the nearby Forest.

"Dawn!" Alec shouted after her, but she continued running ignoring his cries for her to return. He turned to Remus.

Remus stood there in shock still trying to comprehend what he had just seen and all was silent for a few minutes before Remus dared to speak. "W-What was that?"

Alec rushed towards him with lightening speed and pushed him up against the tree before Remus could even blink. Remus' eyes widened as Alec showed his fangs, eyes turning a deep sapphire color, almost black. "You tell anyone about this, and I swear to God, I WILL kill you."

"ALEC! Let go of him!" Both boys turned to see Lily in black shorts and a tank top barefoot (A/N: That was her sleepwear) with an angry look on her face. She had been getting ready for bed when Dawn called for her saying everything was ruined and it was all her fault. Whatever the hell that meant… None the less, she had come just in time to see no sign of Dawn but Alec pinning the Marauder Remus Lupin to a tree.

Alec, upon hearing her command came to his sense and released Remus sharply making him stumble.

"Lily. What are you doing here?" Remus asked, slightly out of breath from shock.

Lily looked at him hard. Without taking her eyes off Remus, she said, "Alec. Go and find Dawn. I'm bringing him to the headmaster."

Without waiting, Lily turned and went towards the castle as Alec ran into the woods, leaving Remus standing there awkwardly looking between the two for a few seconds before he hurried to catch up behind Lily. She was walking pretty fast and he was out of breath by the time he caught up to her.

The two made their way into the castle, up some stairs, turning through a bunch of halls, and ended up at a large statue of a Griffin. The entrance to Dumbledore's office. Remus was quite familiar with it (as he got in so much trouble as a Marauder).

"Pixie Sticks." The Griffin statue moved aside to reveal a staircase. Lily went up it with Remus following her up to a door at which both teenagers stopped. Lily turned to Remus and said in a menacing voice making chills go through Remus' spine, "Do NOT mention anything about Alec. Got it?"

Remus nodded, slightly scared of what she would do to him with the look she was giving him.

"Good." Lily turned, opened the door, and walked in to see Dumbledore sitting at his desk with two empty chairs waiting, as if he knew they were coming.

"Professor. We have a problem."

"Indeed, we do Miss Evans. Come. Sit and we'll sort this all out." The two sat down and Dumbledore sat back. "Now then. Let's start by telling Mr. Lupin the truth."

Lily looked ready to interject when Dumbledore continued. "No, we will not perform a memory charm on him Miss Evans. It's best to simply tell the truth."

Lily sighed defeated. She couldn't believe she was about to say her and Dawn's secret. AND TO A MARAUDER! But Dumbledore obviously thought it was the right thing and Dumbledore was a smart man.

"Dawn and I. We're different if you haven't figured that out already. We ignore others, don't have any other friends. You'd have to be totally blind to not notice." Remus nodded wondering where this was going.

Lily took a deep breath. "Well, Dawn and I. We…we're vampires."

Remus' eyes widened in disbelief. He knew he shouldn't be so surprised. I mean, Dumbledore had let him, a WEREWOLf attend school. But still, the fact that vampires were amongst them… It was kind of hard to believe. And they'd hidden it quite well too. Remus had always known something was up with the two girls and now that he looked back, he found all the signs of them being vampires. The lone behavior. The paleness. Their scarce appetite. And their scent when he was a werewolf. He had always wondered why it was there but had figured it was nothing.

"I first found out when I was five. I was raised muggleborn but really, I was adopted from an orphanage when I was a baby. Dawn was born into a coven of vampires known as the Delarosa coven." Remus remembered that he heard of the clan a few times while looking up books for History of Magic and DADA. Lily continued. "She changed her name to avoid Voldemort finding her."

Lily continued on, with a glint in her emerald eyes. "Also, we both know about your condition every month." 'And some other stuff with those animagi friends of yours…'

Remus' eyes widened more. How did they know that?! And how did she just talk to him in his mind? Lily saw the expression on his face and smiled slightly. "Part of being a vampire. We can read minds and also communicate through them. We've known about your condition ever since first year."

Dumbledore interjected. "I'm sure you realize you must keep all this secret Mr. Lupin as you yourself are in a way in the same condition as Miss Evans and Miss Delarosa." Remus nodded, not saying anything as he took everything in. "Good. Well that's all now so I'll let you go off now."

Lily and Remus both stood and started towards the door when Dumbledore spoke up. "Oh yes. Where is Miss Kortz anyways?"

Lily turned towards the old headmaster and tried making up an excuse as soon as she could but it was Remus that beat her to it.

"She wasn't feeling well after she found out I knew and went out for a walk. She wanted to be alone."

Dumbledore nodded. "Very well. That's understandable. You and Mr. Lupin may go now."

They nodded and exited. Once out and down the stairs, Lily looked over at him. "Thanks. I didn't really know what to say."

Remus shrugged. "It was the truth. I just left out the part with Alec."

Lily nodded and the two walked quietly, stopping when they reached the stairs. "Well, I have to go check on Dawn." Lily ran off down the stairs but not before shouting over her shoulder, "And this doesn't mean we're friends!"

Remus smiled when he heard this. It was obvious that they were now more than just acquaintances but Lily was just too stubborn to admit she was the friend to a Marauder. Laughing lightly, Remus put his hands in his pockets and slowly made his way up back to the Gryffindor dorms. After this night, he wanted nothing more to just get into bed and get to sleep.

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Dawn had finally stopped running and had ended up in a clearing. Falling to her knees, she looked up at the moon. How could she be so STUPID! She had wrecked everything. For her and Lily. Some friend she was…

Hearing a rustling, she quickly turned around to see Alec coming out from the bushes.

"Dawn. It's okay. Lily came and took care of Remus." He continued towards her.

"B-but…" Dawn looked down.

'Dawn' came Lily's gentle voice. 'Listen to Alec. I talked with Remus and Dumbledore. Remus knows everything and swears he won't tell anyone. He's kind of obligated to, now that he knows we know his secret.'

'Lily. Can…can you forgive me? I almost ruined everything. Revealed our secret.'

"Dawn. I'm your friend. Of course I forgive you." Dawn turned again to see Alec but this time, Lily was next to him walking towards her. When Lily reached her, she bent down and wiped away the last tears of blood, smiling gently. "Now, why don't you and Alec tell me what happened."

Dawn looked up at Alec who was looking down at the ground. "Lily. This may seem strange but…"

"Alec is my brother." Lily's eyes widened and looked from Dawn to Alec and to Dawn again. No way. They couldn't… No. Now that she looked carefully, she could see a resemblance there… the faces structure, eye shape, hair. She suddenly remembered when they had first met, she had thought Alec looked familiar. This was why. He looked alot like Dawn.

"But… Dawn, I- I thought… they all…" Dawn looked down. "So did I."

By this time, Alec had come forwards and sat on the ground and held Dawn.

"The night our family was murdered," he began, "I was offered a chance to live. I was going to say no but, I saw Dawn's body move and I knew she was alive. I knew I couldn't leave her all by herself. So… so I took up Voldemort's offer to live." Lily gasped slightly, but Alec continued. "To this day, I still regret it. I always think, what would've happened if I had said no. Maybe, I would've lived and maybe Dawn wouldn't have had to live her life alone."

"Wait, Alec. Voldemort?"

"Yes." Alec nodded. "I-I'm his servant…" Seeing Lily's look on her face, he quickly continued. "But, I refuse to help him. I won't help an evil man like him try to kill so many innocent people. He's asked me dozens of times to participate in an attack and I say no, I might lose control with all the blood so he usually sends me on spy missions. He sent me here to spy on Dumbledore and he'll be sending a messenger in two or three weeks to see what information I've gathered."

"You have to tell Dumbledore Alec. Everything." Alec looked down at Dawn and then at the ground and nodded.

Dawn stood to her feet, out of Alec's arms while Lily shook her head. "No, we'll do it later. Right now, lets just go back and get some rest."

The two nodded and stood on either side of Dawn and held her hands. Walking back to the castle, it was quite a site to see. One girl in shorts and a tank top in mid-December, one boy with a blood soaked shirt, and one girl in between the two, smiling with red blood stained cheeks.

Boy, I feel bad for anyone that ran into that trio of vampires.

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"Hey Remus!" Sirius was now sitting on his bed flipping his wand around lazily as Remus entered. "Where'd you go off to?"

"Oh just for a walk." He suddenly felt a bit guilty for keeping a secret from his friends. BUT, he had promised Lily and Dumbledore and Remus Lupin never broke a promise. Especially one as big as this one.

"Okay then." He put his wand down and sat up on the bed. "I have the perfect prank! Thought of it while I was down in the kitchens." Remus sat down on his bed and took of his shoes and jacket. "We should totally lock the Slytherins in their dorm with a food supply of the worst tasting Bertie and Bott's beans!"

Remus stared at Sirius with a blank look on his face and blinked. And blinked. And blinked.

This went on for about a minute before finally Sirius sighed with a defeated look. "It wasn't that bad was it? I thought it would've been quite funny."

Before Remus could respond, James came in, wiping up lip stick marks from his cheeks. "Hey. What's going on?" He noticed Remus' face. "On no. Remus has 'the look'. What did you do Sirius?"

"Nothing. I just suggested a prank on the Slytherins." He cringed slightly under Remus' watch. "Prongs!" He whined going to James huddling into him. "Make him stop. He's scaring me!"

James patted his back lightly in comfort, watching Remus. "It's okay Sirius. Just don't look him in the eye."

Remus then blinked and shook his head. "Huh? When you get in here James?"

This happened whenever Sirius said whenever anyone would say a completely dumb and retarded idea. Remus would blank out in everything. Nobody, not even him, knew why. Remus didn't even know he did it.

"I just got in Moony. And I'm going to take a shower now."

Remus just nodded and changed. Sirius glanced at the empty bed next to Remus'. "Hey. Where's Alec gone too?"

Over a week, Sirius had finally decided to call him simply Alec as he often couldn't pronounce the name "Totero" for some odd reason. Always ended up calling him Tomato, Totor, and once even Tudor.

Remus stiffened for a moment before continuing into bed, not looking at his friend. "I think he went out to talk to Lily and Dawn."

Sirius rolled his eyes. "Why is he close to them? You'd think they were all like one big, happy goth family." Remus' eyes widened but Sirius went on. "Though now that I think about it, he does look a lot like Kortz…"

It was at that moment that Wormtail conveniently rolled out of bed, emitting a crashing sound yet staying completely asleep, continuing making loud snoring noises, distracting Sirius from what he was about to say.

"I swear, that boy has problems." Sirius shook his head.

"Look who's talking." Sirius gave Remus a confused look then it finally dawned on him.

"HEY! I DON'T HAVE PROBLEMS! I just have special needs."

Remus just rolled his eyes and got under his blanket. "Sure Sirius. What ever you say."

Lying in bed that night, Remus thought over what had happened but only a few hours ago. He was going to have to help protect the girl's and Alec's secret. It was only right. Lily and Dawn had not only kept him being a werewolf a secret but also his friends being illegal animagi. They were supposed to only care about themselves and hate others. But this proved that that idea was wrong. They did care despite their cold exteriors. And this event had made them all closer. He had gained their trust.

KK. I hope it was okay. And sorry for the whole Dumbledore conversation thing being so short. I was stuck on it. heh-heh