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Susan Harwicke made her way to Care of Magical Creatures, chatting animatedly with her best friend of 2 years, Holly Keton. She had just turned the corner when Holly stopped abruptly, gasping in shock. Susan turned around,

"Come on Holly, we're going to be late!" As Holly still didn't move, her brow furrowed in confusion. "Holly, what's wrong?" Holly lifted a hand and pointed in the direction of the castle wall.

"Is that a person?" She asked shakily. Susan followed her gaze and gasped sharply.

"Merlin! Holly come on!" And the two friends took off in a run towards the person. Reaching them quickly, and panting slightly, Susan proceeded to flip the person over, to check for a pulse, like she had seen people doing when she watched muggle TV once.

"It's the Head Girl!" Holly whispered, and indead it was. Deathly white and cold, and covered in bruises, Lily Evans lay stiff on the ground. "It's LILY EVANS! The Head Girl is DEAD!" Holly screamed. Spinning on her heel, she ran towards the castle, as Susan stayed behind cradling Lily's head in her lap.

James distractedly chewed the croissant in his hand. He looked up hopefully as the doors to the Great Hall opened before dropping his gaze down disappointed.

"Hey." Mary said, sitting down in front of him. "Who stuck the stick in there?"

"What?" James asked.

"The stick, up your arse, the one that's making you all gloomy..." She trailed off and reached forwards, placing to fingers at the corners of his mouth and trying to push a smile onto his face. Sirius and Peter who had also silently being eating started laughing. "And hello sexy..." Mary added winking at Sirius before nodding hello to Peter.

"Shut up," James replied. "Have you seen Lily though?" Mary frowned.

"Her bed's not made, but some of her clothes are gone. Why, do you know where she is?" Mary asked.

"No..." James trailed off and Sirius cut in.

"I doubt she'd talk to you anyway, after what happened yesterday, you know, that brilliant fight you had in front of everyone."

"Shut up," James said again, "But Mary, do you know where she is-" James was cut of as a third year ran screaming into the Great Hall.

"Help! HELP!" She cried, James jumped up and the girl ran into his stomach knocking them both backwards, yet she continued to scream.

"Hey, calm down!" James said, helping the girl up, she stopped screaming but silent tears were streaming down her cheeks. "What's wrong? What happened?" She took a deep breath before answering.

"Outside, Suzie, Me, Girl, Dead, Stiff Cold, Magical Creatures, Wall, Dead, Cold, Breathing, Not, Me, Screaming-" James cut her off again.

"Ok, calm down, who's hurt?" She lowered her voice to a whisper.

"It's the Head Girl, Lily Evans, she's dead!" James stumbled back in shock, his face pale and his breathing laboured.

"What?" He'd barely finished before he broke off in a run, with only one thought going through his head, find Lily.

"No!" James cried, leaping down the stairs and running towards where he could see a limp figure being help by a third year. "Lily? Lily! LILY!" He screamed, sprinting faster than he'd ever sprinted before in his life. Skidding to a stop he collapsed onto his knees beside her. One look at her pale face, and closed eyes, and he knew what to do. Scooping her into his arms, he took off jogging back towards the castle, the only thought whirling round his brain being: Lily.

The walk to the hospital wing took less than a minute, yet to James it felt like a lifetime.

"Will she be okay?"James half screamed at the new nurse: Madame Pomfrey.

"Yes, yes, she will be fine." she replied curtly, "Although I have no idea why on earthshe would have been lying on the middle of the gras with concussion - "

"I think she fell off the wall," James interrupted.

"I see," she replied, "And do you have any idea why she would have been on the wall in the middle of the night?"

"Um, no..." he looked away quickly.

Meanwhile, Remus was sobbing quietly in the corner of his dormitory. The guilt had been eating away at him ever since he'd realised what must of happened. Right at that moment, he didn't think anybody could have hated themselves more than he did. He wished he could just die. He knew that nothing except dying would ever stop him from being the monster he was, and always would be.

"Man, you can't beat yourself up like this! It wasn't your fault! She was the one who fell off the wall! If anything it was ours! We should have stopped you-" Sirius began.

"STOP IT!" Remus roared, "STOP TRYING TO MAKE THIS BETTER FOR ME! I DESERVE EVERYTHING!"

Peter stared at Remus timidly whilst Sirius shook his head silently.

After a long silence, Peter interjected, "Well, we could go and see her..."

The four marauders, plus Mary, were all crowded around Lily's silent bed. Tears streamed down Remus' face and although Mary was touched by the uncharacteristic emotion that Remus was showing, she was also surprised, and curious as to why he was looking so down now, even after they had been informed that Lily would be perfectly fine. However, she kept her thoughts to herself and didn't comment.

After about thirty minutes everybody but Remus and James left, and after another fifteen minutes of silence alone with Remus and Lily, James decided to go to dinner. Remus spent what seemed like forever staring at Lily, which, in other circumstances, would have been slightly creepy.

Eventually, she stirred, and Remus jumped.

"Remus? Is that you?" she whispered.

"Yes," he whispered back.

"Where's James?" she mumbled, before regaining full consciousness. "Why are you crying?"

"It's nothing... actually its everything, but don't worry."

"You can trust me with anything Remus..." Suddenly, the infirmary disappeared. She was being transported back into her memories, into what had happened the night before. The creatures, sneaking out, the Werewolf, jumping, attacking, her screaming, and then the stag and the dog, and after that, nothing. She gasped sharply as she was jolted back into reality. He'd been watching her face and seemed to answer a silent question.

"I know, I know what happened yesterday," he said slowly and quietly. Her expression was hard to believe, not pity, but Sympathy. "The werewolf," he spat through his teeth, "I know all about the werewolf."

"Oh, Remus!" Lily cried, throwing her arms around him in a friendly hug. The signs had been there all along, she was just too blind to see them. "This is the secret?" Remus half nodded. He turned his head away as another tear dripped down his cheek. "I don't blame you, you know. You'll always be one of my best guy friends. I'd never be able to think of you as anything other than my sweet and caring friend Remus." Remus smiled slightly, this confession had helped to soothe the aching weight of guilt that had been weighing him down and eating away at him. HE raised his arms around Lily and hugged her back, whispering

"Thanks."

Unknown to both of them a lone figure was watching them interact from a crack between the infirmary doors. He nodded his head slightly and turned away, walking away from the infirmary without his well known swaggering step.

A/N: Hi all, well another chapter in less than a week! Please Review! You guys really don't know how much I love reviews, they're like food for the soul! Anyway, the more reviews I get the more likely I am to update because if i don't get any reviews I think the story isn't interesting anyone anymore! Sorry about that ramble.... Anyway, if you didn't get the last bit, PM me and I'll explain it. And I'll most likely explain it in the next chapter as well, but that won't be up for a while... SORRY! Anyway, i hope you enjoyed the chaper... CYA!