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James and Sirius exchanged a look that Remus wasn't sure how to interpret, he suddenly froze as he realized that he would have to come up with an excuse for why he looked this way…unless they thought it was semi-normal for him at this point. Remus absently rubbed his side and abdomen, feeling odd and not sure why, his friends were talking about their holiday and what pranks they wanted to pull next, he smiled as they talked, simply happy to have them back.
Sirius's point of view:
Sirius new that there was something different this time about Remus's bruises, they looked as though they had been made by a fist and if someone had hurt Remus, then Sirius would make them pay. He had noticed that Remus seemed more quiet than usual in fact he hadn't said a single word to either himself or James…something had happened to Remus over the holiday and Sirius was determined to find out what. Sirius had spent the Christmas holiday doing the usual bit of avoiding his family as much as he could until he was able to go over to James's house for the remainder of the time that they had before school started again. He knew James had noticed something about Remus as well, from the way that James was speaking distractedly and kept glancing over at Remus with a worried expression.
Normal point of view:
Everything was going relatively alright until they ran into two people that nether James or Sirius wanted to…a certain bossy red-head and her friend the grease ball Snivellus. They appeared to have been talking but had stopped at the approach of the Marauders, Lily glared at each of the boys before her face went pale and her eyes wide once she got a good look at Remus. She nudged Severus and he blinked in surprise when he noticed Remus's face as well; as much as he didn't like James and Sirius, Remus had always been friendly and Severus knew that Remus had often tried to get his friends to stop bothering him and he just couldn't quite bring himself to dislike the boy as much as he did the other two. Lily stared at Remus for what seemed forever, before rounding on the other two.
"WHAT did you two idiots do to Remus?" Shrieked Lily.
"We didn't do anything to him Evans; we only just got back from holiday and haven't even been to the common room, we are just as shocked as you are by his appearance. What on earth makes you think that we would hurt our friend?" James said rather indignantly, Evans really had no right to go around and accuse him and Sirius of hurting their friend. Though they would gladly go around and bother Snivellus as much as they wanted.
"How am I supposed to know what you would and wouldn't do to your "friend", you bother and are cruel to Sev and he hasn't done anything to you so why would I know what kind of friend you are to the only decent member in your dorm." Lily's words were cold and angry; she stormed off with Severus and only looked back once worriedly at Remus.
James, Remus and Sirius all stared after her, James and Sirius in irritation and Remus in worry; he knew that Lily was smart and she was bound to figure out what was going on…the only question was would she figure out what he was as well. There was an awkward silence as they continued walking towards the common room, Remus felt bad that he was the cause of it and so he thought he should be the one to say something, which he did as they climbed through the portrait hole.
"I really am glad that you both are back and had such wonderful holidays."
They both looked at him and turned to go up the staircase to their dorm. Remus's shoulders slumped and he regretted saying anything as they climbed the staircase and entered their room. Peter was there and he thrust a plate of food and a drink at Remus who took it carefully so as not to touch him.
"Here, you missed breakfast." Peter said rather more harshly than the others were used to but it was almost polite to Remus.
Remus nodded and took the food and drink to his bed where he ate it quickly while trying to not look like he was eating faster than normal as that would bring up more questions. Peter was speaking to the others and when all three of them turned to look at him…with varying degrees of anger and hostility, he knew that Peter had told them and everything was going to be forever different now. He was stuck with them and this was the price that he had to pay in order to continue going to school with his…condition, he no longer had friends yet he would treasure the stolen moments he'd had with them before they knew, back when they had fun and laughed together.
James glared at the thing, the monster who wore his friend's skin; how could Remus be something so evil…it didn't make sense and yet he was and there really was only one way to deal with it. He had to help Peter in keeping it in line, he had to forget that the creature had ever been his friend, even if Sirius refused to help them…it was important to keep the monster from hurting anyone and so it had to be controlled and hurt. The werewolf had to be dealt with, the secret kept and the friend forgotten.
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