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CHAPTER 9

Lily smiled and walked over to the note on the table and saw surprisingly it was addressed to her. She picked it up and noticed it was written half in a neat feminine format and half was more of a messy scrawl.

Lily

Now to start off I don't know what James has told you but I just wanted to let you know he swore to never take a girl other than yourself in here, said it would be unfaithful. I know you are probably here as friends but I hope you see he loves you. Now enough of the awkward subjects. I hope you have a lovely time here, knowing these boys they are all here, if Sirius gets too annoying tell Remus he has chocolate in his room and if Peter stares at you blankly direct his attention to James, works every time. I hope you like your room and clothes, I have been working on it for a while. Have a wonderful life dear wether it contains Jamie or not.

Lots of Love

Emily Potter xoxo

P.S Only you two can get into this room as you are the ones who opened it.

Lily grabbed the desk chair and sat down. How could such a lovely sweet person be taken from the world before her time. With tears just starting to appear in her eyes she began to read the second half of the letter.

Lily

I don't really know what to say, you seem like a lovely young lady and with the descriptions we get from the boys (don't worry it's all good, unless you count Sirius' complaints that you aren't "fun enough" not that I would mind you.) you appear all but perfect. I would love to have met you as James' girlfriend but we can't always get what we want can we? Anyway we already loved you and Emily wasn't kidding Remus goes nuts if there is chocolate, it's pretty funny.

Joe Potter

James

I saw Lily get up and walk over to the desk that had the little note and I wasn't really paying attention until she sat down looking like she was about to cry. Just as she pocketed, the tears started flowing freely. I got up and walked over, kneeling down I looked into the beautiful green eyes I love so much. Without thinking I reached up and wiped the tears from her cheeks smiling at the look of surprise in her eyes.

"You ok?" I ask.

"Fine." Lily replied, but she didn't seem completely there, like her mind was wondering a place miles from here. Suddenly she focused on me, looking so deep into my eyes, it felt as though she could see into my soul and read my mind.

Realizing how close we are we both pull back. "Ah should we get going?" She asked looking…? Nervous? Anxious? I have no idea.

"Yeah you know how Sirius is when you keep him from food."

She laughed, it was a nice sound, kind of musical yet, kind of goofy too. "Well come on then, Pretty Boy will start whining."

Laughing, we walked back to the house to see a slightly flustered Remus looking around. "What's up Rem?" I ask looking curiously towards the young werewolf.

"Where on Earth have you two been? Padfoot nearly tore up the lounge waiting."

"Sorry Remus, we went out for a walk." Lily replied in a sweet tone that is actually impossible to stay mad at, the proof being Moony's face as his features softened.

"Yeah, yeah, don't you try to brainwash me Miss Evans."

"Why dear Remmy why would I do that?" Lily asked in a Falsely innocent tone. He just smiled and walked on towards the room they had been waiting in, the second we entered the room Sirius ran out and jumped on me, knocking me into Lily and sending the three of us to the ground.

"Remus stop laughing and help me up!" Lily growled at the boy who was almost in hysterics.

"Sirius get off me!" I yelled.

"What are you going to do? Hex me?" Sirius challenged.

I winked at Lily who was now watching our dispute from her spot on the ground a few feet away, then without any other warning I transformed into a stag. Sirius yelped and jumped as I poked him with my prongs. "Oi! Watch it!" I could hear Lily and Remus laughing as I chased Sirius who had now turned into a dog, around the room.

"Ok animal round up, stag boy on the couch, mutt, I meant puppy to the dining room, we'll be there soon, yes you can eat and wolf boy next to stag boy over there."

For some reason we followed Lily's orders, even Sirius who ran out of the room and Remus whom hated being reminded of his condition.

"James change back."

I was human again in an instant. "Yes Ma'am." I gave her a mock salute, to which she rolled her eyes.

"Right, now we have normality back, are any of you of age?"

"Sirius." Both Remus and I answered at the same time.

"Great. The dog can use magic."

"Yeah, it gets annoying." Remus answered

"Right, well, he will clean up later, but for now shall we go eat?"

"Mmm… Lily can I speak to you for a minute? Go ahead James we'll catch up."

"Sure, Cya soon, don't let Sirius eat all the food."

Lily

"There is a reason I chose this room, even though it's trashed now, it has a pensive."

"So you want to show something to me?" I asked, what could Remus show me? Why would he want to show me his memories?

"Ok, so you wanted to know the real James right? Not the idiot he used to be." Remus asked, I just nodded in response. "Right, so I will show you the James I know and please don't tell him about this." Once again I just nodded, he took this as a promise and pulled out the large metal basin.

Remus put him wand to his temple and wincing he pulled it away, taking with it a string of silvery , what looked a bit like webs. He deposited his memories in the basin and looked up at me expectantly.

"Have you ever use one of these before?" He asked me and I shook my head. "It's simple and painless, don't worry, just put your face close to the memories, close enough your nose touches them." He explained. I gave him a quizzical look, How did you learn to use these? And entered the memories.

It felt as though I was falling, too fast to stop, but suddenly I was on the ground safe and unharmed. I looked around and I saw two Remus', James and Sirius, the three boys from the memory were sitting on one of the four poster beds, judging by the amount of books on the table next to it, it was Remus' bed.

I walked up closer, to hear better. Sitting on the next bed over I listened to what they were saying.

"Hey Moony, got any ideas for a prank?" Sirius asked. "NO WAIT! I HAVE ONE! Why don't we change the hair and eye colour of every girl in our year?"

"No." James answered instantly.

Sirius rolled his eyes. "Wouldn't you want to see what Evans looked like with blonde hair and blue eyes Prongs?"

"No, I love her red hair and green eyes and just think how degraded they would feel if they thought the guys liked them better when they weren't like themselves." James answered. Memory Remus smiled and nodded.

The scene changed this time all four marauders were there, but they were in second year and James, Sirius and Peter were cornering Remus, with mixed emotions on their faces, Peter looked like he wanted to bolt, Sirius looked annoyed, but it was James' expression that caught her eye, he looked sympathetically towards the shaking boy.

"Remus it's ok, we know, we don't think any worse of you and frankly we are proud of you." James said in a calming voice.

"Why didn't you tell us?!" Sirius growled, causing Remus to whimper and shake harder.

"Sirius calm down." James said turning towards him. "You're not making this any easier." Sirius grumbled but went to sit on his bed.

"Remus, seriously it's ok, you have us , we aren't abandoning you." Memory Remus just looked up at James just as scared as before.

"I'm not particularly proud of this, but I hope you see why I'm showing it to you." Real Remus whispered in my ear, I nodded in reply not taking my eyes of the scene in front of me.

"I promise, we will stick together and look out for you and don't worry we won't tell." James said, putting a reassuring hand on the boys shoulder.

Once again the surroundings swirled around us, this time taking the shame of the Hogwarts grounds, James and Remus were sitting in a tree, next to the lake and appeared to be about the same age as they are now.

"Moony I don't know what to do, I'm in love with her and she hates me." James whispered looking at his hands. I could feel the butterflies awaken in my stomach at that sentence. Does he really love me?

"Prongs you're going to have to grow up, don't prank as much, don't hex randoms and stop harassing her."

"I haven't hexed a random in over a year! I don't play anywhere near as many pranks as I used to and they're only harmless ones now." He said sounding desperate.

"I know but she doesn't, because you still ask her out and annoy her, so the last thing she wants to notice is how you are changing for her."

"Lily, that is the day he got the letter, anyway we should get going before they come looking."

"Right." It felt as though the floor was disappearing beneath my feet, until I landed back in the lounge room, losing my balance and falling.

"You ok?" Remus asked as he helped me up off the floor.

"Yeah, uh, can you tell them sorry I won't be at breakfast please?"

"Sure, I'll tell them not to harass you."

"Thanks Rem." Remus smiled at the nickname and walked out of the room. I waited about a minute to make sure he was gone then left. I have no idea where I'm going, I just have to go.