Everyone soon learned that if you were looking for Lily, Hermione would be within feet of her and vice versa. Neither girl had ever had many girl friends, but they clicked with each other. Hermione didn't even have a friendship like this with Ginny and she had known her for 6 years while she had only known Lily two weeks.

Classes were going very well and both Lily and Hermione were in the top of each of their classes. James was still constantly asking Lily out. Hermione noticed that quite a few boys were giving the redhead look-overs. Everyone had only seen Hermione in her loose, oversize robes; everyone but Lily. Lily was very pretty, but Hermione was drop dead gorgeous and Lily kept insisting that Hermione wear her muggle clothes more, instead of her robes to classes. Hermione, being a stickler for the rules, told her new friend that in the school rule book, it states that robes must be worn to all classes, unless the teacher of a class says otherwise. Lily just sighed and said, "Not everyone else wears robes!"

Hermione laughed and asked if everyone else was jumping off a cliff, would Lily join them? Her response was, only if it looked like they were having fun.

Hermione promised Lily that she would wear muggle clothes to the first Hogsmeade weekend. Lily jumped up and down, then informed Hermione to get ready because there was one the upcoming weekend.

"We are going to shock their socks off." Hermione would have never guessed Lily for a girly girl. She reminded her of Ginny. The wave of emotions that swept over Hermione almost overwhelmed her. They were gone. Not ever coming back, but then something struck Hermione like a bolt of lightening. She was currently in the past, which meant that none of her friends had even been born yet, which meant they hadn't been killed yet. Hermione instantly felt better. She still missed her friends, but there were people here that she knew in the future. And one person in particular that she wouldn't mind getting to know a lot better. Remus was even more handsome as a youth, although he was pretty hot as an adult. Hermione also observed that Lily had been giving James some pretty long looks. This could be interesting. She would have to get more information.

The perfect piece of information came a few nights later, in the form of a letter that Lily was writting. She had left it on her desk when she went to the loo. Hermione had needed to borrow one of Lily's books and when she went to grab it off the desk, noticed the letter. What caught her attention was who it was addressed to. There at the top of the page was the name James! This was definitely interesting. Hermione felt slightly guilty, but Lily would thank her later; she needed to get together with James. She scanned the letter and found Lily really did like James, but she didn't want to let him know because that would just make him more arrogant. Lily walked back into the room and saw Hermione standing by her desk, holding her letter. Lily screamed and told Hermione to give it back. Hermione, being the genius that she was, decided this was the perfect time to set a plan in motion. She raced past Lily and out the door, bounded down the steps and flew into the common room, with Lily hot on her tail.

The common room was nearly empty, except for a few 7th years. Hermione hurdled over the couch and over the occupants on it. Lily grabbed her friends ankle and followed her over the couch. Both girls landed with a crash on the ground. Hermione jumped up again and hopped up on the coffee table, letter still in hand. Lily, not wasting any time, tackled Hermione around her waist and brought both of them down onto the love seat by the fire. She then proceeded to tickle her brown haired friend. Hermione was one of the most ticklish people Lily had ever met. She finally relented and gave Lily back the letter. When both girls stopped laughing and looked aroud the room, they noticed some very astonished looks on the Marauders faces.

Lily blushed and whispered, "Hi!" Standing up, she composed herself and turned to Hermione. Hermione was on her hands and knees getting ready to stand up when a shout came from Lily.

"Oh my gods! You have a tattoo. Hermione Jean Granger, why do you have a tattoo? What is it?"

All of the boys were very curious now as well as very turned on. Sirius was of course the first one to comment.

"Well boys, here we are with two very gorgeous females, wearing nothing but their pj's, and one of them we know has a tattoo and we are all alone. My question to you is, what should we do in this situation?"

"I think we at least deserve to have some questions answered from our two contestants here," was James' reply.

"We are not contestants and we are not answering any of your lame questions!" Lily huffed out.

"That was an interesting statement coming from someone wearing such interesting night attire," Remus chuckled.

"But not as interesting as her friends attire here!" James observed. Lily was wearing a pair of bicycle shorts and a small night shirt with the words "Can I have a go on your broom?" Hermione was wearing a pair of flannel lounge pants and a sleeveless cotton top. Her outfit wasn't out of the ordinary, other than it hugged her luscious, well endowed body and for the simple fact of what was on her pj's. All over her pants were tiny pictures of wolves and on her top was a wolf howling at the moon. Remus raised his eyebrows and grinned.

"So our first question is of course to Hermione. What does your tattoo look like?"

"Which one?"

"You have more than one?"

"Of course, I have two!"

"Let's see the other one first, not the one on your back."

Hermione lifted up her pants and stuck her leg out, ankle pointing towards the group. Wrapped around her leg was a phoenix, flying around her ankle and going from hatchling to youngster to adult to elder to burning and back to a hatchling. The group watched in amazement.

"Why did you get that?"

"It was a symbol of a very secretive group I once belonged to."

The took the information in and asked what group.

"If I told you, then it wouldn't be a secret, would it?"

"You're not a Death Eater, are you?" This stupid question came from Peter, who had been sitting on a chair by himself.

"If you're going to ask stupid questions, Peter, you can leave right now! Hermione is muggleborn, just like I am. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named would never accept us into his group, even if we were the most evil people on the planet. You know how he feels about our kind. Now quit being stupid and shut up!" This statement came from Lily; she couldn't believe the other three would knowingly hang around with Peter. He gave her a really bad vibe.

"Now a question for our dear Lily." Lily just rolled her eyes at Sirius.

"So Lils, will you go out with me?" Hermione looked at Lily and could see her fighting an internal battle. Lily looked straight into James eyes and answered, "Yes!"

James hung his head and gave a dejected look. Suddenly it dawned on him what Lily had just said and he jumped up from the couch and started twirling around the common room, taking Lily with him. "SHE SAID YES, SHE SAID YES!"

Shouts of "shut up" and "go to bed" floated down to the common room from the dorms.

James sat back down on the couch and snuggled into Lily, who had an amused expression on her face.

Hermione was relieved that she wouldn't have to do any match making; it just wasn't her thing.

"Let's see your other tattoo!"

Hermione stood up and turned around and pulled the strap of her top down to expose her shoulder and shoulder blade. There, sitting on her back, was a silvery wolf howling at the moon.

"Come closer and you can hear it."

Everyone got up and stood close to her back; very softly they could hear it's cries. It was amazing and Remus was drawn to it. He gently ran his finger over the tattoo and felt a jolt. Hermione looked over her shoulder and smiled at him. Her smile sent fire straight to his stomach. He had been attracted to girls before, but this was different. Her whole presence attracted him and pulled him to her. She smelled so good. It wasn't the perfume she wore, or the soap, it was purely female and all Hermione. Remus could feel himself getting hard and he quickly sat down. Sirius was tired of his friend always being alone and pushing everyone away because he didn't think he deserved anyone. He was going to find Remus John Lupin a woman, if it was the last thing he did and he thought it may very well be the last thing he did by the rate Remus was dating. This new little development was a good jump in the right direction. He looked over and caught James' eye; both had caught the little exchange between Remus and Hermione.

"So, Hermione. You know, that name is too long, can I just call you Mione or Mi?"

"Sure, Mi's fine!"

"Ok Mi, you've got quite a theme going on there. It would seem to one observing you that you have a thing for wolves. Does that tattoo have any meaning?"

"First, yes I do have a recurring theme, don't I! I actually do have a very big thing for wolves. The tattoo has a very special meaning, but if I tell you, I'll have to kill you." Hermione beamed at the boys.

Hoping to start a spark between the two, James asked, "Have you ever met a wolf before?"

"Yes, I have." Hermione raised her eyebrows and gave a smirk that would rival any Malfoy's.

This was getting better by the minute. "Being a witch, you know there are such things as werewolves. What is your opinion on the evil beasts?" Sirius was good; very good.

Remus' head shot towards Sirius and gave him a glare. Sirius brushed his friends look away.

"I think they are misunderstood. Sure, there are ones that are evil, but there also ones with big hearts and think of others and their safety ahead of themselves."

"Sounds like you know them pretty well. Been doing a lot of reading on them?"

"No, let's just say I've had personal experience with them."

"Woah, you mean, you've gotten dirty with a werewolf?"

"No, but I did know one, as a very good friend." Hermione's heart hitched in her throat thinking of how the future Remus was killed.

"How can you be friends with a werewolf?"

"Not everything is as it seems. Sometimes you have to look past things to see what's really there." Everyone thought about what Hermione had just said.

Remus was feeling a tad uncomfortable and wanted to leave. He was also feeling very aroused, so much so that he had never been this aroused before.

"Well it's getting late and we want to be up early for the Hogsmeade trip tomorrow, I say we hit the hay." Remus stood and soon the others got off the couch and made their way to their dorms.

Upstairs, the boys climbed into bed and James turned to Remus. "Moony, I think we have finally found you a girl."

"Yeah, right up until she finds out what I really am and then you guys will have to perform a memory charm on yet another girl. Just leave it alone. I've accepted that I will never find anyone, why can't you guys?" Remus rolled over and pulled his covers over his head. James looked to Sirius and shook his head. Sirius shrugged his shoulders and both laid down and soon joined Peter and Remus in sleep.

Back in Lily and Hermione's room, Lily was too excited to sleep and wanted to talk to Hermione. After a few moments,she realised that Hermione wasn't in the mood to talk and gave up and went to sleep. Hermione laid there for a while thinking about the last battle and all she had seen and what had just happened tonight. She felt a strange pull towards Remus, something she couldn't explain. He looked so good tonight and his smell, there was no description for it. It aroused Hermione to no end, her underwear were still wet. She snuggled down and fell asleep thinking of his smell.