I am so so so so so sorry that I haven't update in so long. Life just got so hectic and I had writers block. Thankfully things have calmed down and I also got past my writer's block. The next chapter should be posted with four to five days. I can assure you that I will try never to do the whole disappearing off the face of the face of the Earth thing again. While this is a little bit of a shorter chapter compared to the others, I hope you enjoy.

"Are we ready to do this? We all know the consequences; we could be thrown in Azkaban for fifteen years if we were ever caught. Does anyone want to back out?" Ursula asked, eying the group around her. She met her brother's eyes first. He looked oddly serious, no pun intended. Sirius nodded once, taking the offered bottle from her hand.

She looked over to James and he nodded with a roguish smiled,

"Stop being such a worry wart! What could go wrong?" He asked as he took his own bottle.

"Besides teh possibility of dyin' becurse te potion wasn't made te perfection? Or what 'bout 'he fact ye might not completely change. Or-"

"We get the point Lysie." James said, grimacing.

The red head chuckled and grabbed a bottle of whatever was on the table while Peter grabbed on.

Elyse sat up with a gasp in the middle of night. The dorm was dark and Ursula started mumbling something about evil, purple potion masters. She quickly reached into her nightstand and grabbed the magical journal that Dumbledore gave her to record her visions. Whatever she wrote down would only show up once it had happened or if she decided the person needed to see it. Otherwise, it would look like a plain book.

One by one, she started to sketch her future friends down to the last strand of hair of hair sticking up from James's head. Once she was done with the outline, she grabbed her colored paints and colored in all the people and left the outline left in black and white.

Once she was done, she fell asleep.

"Did you notice anything wrong with Remus today?" Ben asked Peter, Ursula, and Elyse as they were waiting outside the Transfiguration room. Sirius and James were supposed to be changing a match to a needle. They had been extremely successful and decided to use their plethora of needles to pin Severus Snape to the wall. Neither McGonagall nor Lily was pleased and now the boys were being lectured and more than likely receiving detention from the professor.

"He's always been quiet," Peter pointed out.

Ben made a face of confused acceptance, "I know that but he looks like if you hit with a tickling hex he would fall over and die. It's odd."

"He missed Charms; he never misses class. Something has to be wrong." Ursula said, now just as worried as Ben.

Before Ben could comment, James and Sirius emerged from the classroom; both of them had smirks plastered over their faces. Sirius threw his arm around his sister's shoulder,

"We got detention this Friday and we both lost ten house points, but seeing Snape's face was bloody brilliant!"

"Did you see him crying?" James asked excitedly as he led them back towards the common room. He spun on his heals to face them, "His big nose caused his sniffles to be ten times worse!"

"Severus Sniffles Snape," Peter joked.

"Snivellus!" Sirius exclaimed before falling into a fit of laughter. James nearly fell backwards he was laughing so hard. Ursula thought that Peter was going to wet his pants. Ursula just shared a look with Elyse clearly saying, 'boys; can live with them, can't live without them' and Elyse just smiled.

Ben didn't seem to be paying any attention at all to the rest of them. He had a thoughtful look on his face before he finally looked like he made up his mind. He adjusted the strap of his shoulder bag and quickly took off, shouting behind him, "I'm going back to the dorms. Do whatever you want just don't get expelled!"

"YES DAD!" Peter shouted back at him.

"NEVER!" James and Sirius shouted at the same time before they ran off in the opposite direction. After a moment, Ursula, Elyse, and Peter were chasing after them which led to one of the largest game tag that Hogwarts had ever seen.

The boys' first year dormitory was dead silent. Beds were left unmade as the boys that lived there woke up late that morning and scrambled to get to class on time. There were clothes scattered across the room and books looked like they were caught in a middle of a game of hide and seek. The drapes were pulled close, blocking out the shimmering sun that picked up on the magic in the air and amplified it.

Disturbing his perfectly made bed, Remus laid on top of it and had his wand next to him while reading a book. The dull light that mimicked one of a candle licked his scarred face. His skin looked especially pale and he looked like he would break if you touched him.

"Remus?" Ben asked softly from the doorway.

The reaction was instantaneous. Remus jumped a foot in the air, knocking his book and wand to the ground. The wand rolled under the bed as the light went out.

"He- hello Ben." Remus said while he tried to grab his wand in a frantic manner. "What are you doing here?"

Ben eyed his friend warily as he walked over to the other side of the bed and easily bent down and picked up the offending piece of wood.

"You didn't look good in transfiguration and then you went missing in charms. Ursula and I were worried about you."

Remus shook his head in a jerky manner as he stood back up, "I haven't been feeling well, that's all." Remus wouldn't look at Ben.'

"Do you want to go to Madame Pomfrey?" Ben asked.

Remus shook his head and said, "I'll go later tonight if I don't feel better, I promise," he added when he couldn't sight of Ben's disbelieving look.

Ben sighed, knowing defeat when he saw it, "Alright mate. Do you want to know what we went over in Charms? I could give you my notes."

Remus looked at him oddly for a moment before nodding slowly. Ben went digging into his bag for the notes when Remus asked him something that he wouldn't forget.

"Why are you doing this for me?"

Ben looked him straight in the eye and said, "You're my friend and friends don't leave friends behind."

They spent the next three hours working on all their homework.