Remus woke with a start. He looked out the dormitory window and saw that the sun was just beginning to rise. Tonight would be the full moon.

He had been having a nightmare again. These were a frequent occurrence in his life, but as the month went on they got progressively worse and worse. This was one of the thousands of downsides of Remus' condition.

He turned over in his bed and attempted to get back to sleep. But between James, Sirius and Peters snores, the growing sun rays entering through the window and his own thoughts, Remus knew his attempt to fall back asleep were futile.

After staring at a wall for ten minutes, Remus decided to get and make the most of the day, as the next couple of days would be particularly painfull. After getting dressed, Remus checked the time. 7 AM. The library would just be opening. Most of his peers would not be up for several more hours as it was Saturday, so Remus decided to use the time to study for his N.E.W.T.S.

As he made his way down to the library, Remus spotted a familiar face tripping up the staircase to the astronomy tower.

'Tonks?' He called.

Tonks looked up at him and smiled, her shoulder length hair changing to bubblegum pink.

'Remus!' She said as she walked over to him, still smiling. 'What are you doing up so early?'

'Couldn't sleep.' He said. For a moment he considered telling her about his nightmare, but stopped himself as he realised that this would result in him revealing his deepest secret to her. He didn't want to burden her with that. 'What about you? You don't strike me as a morning person.'

'I'm not usually.' She replied, still smiling. 'But today is too nice a day to spend in bed.'

Remus smiled at her, nodding in agreement, and then realised that he had absolutely no idea what to say to her. This was the first time they had been alone together since the library. Remus was usually surrounded by his fellow Maruanders whenever he had spoken to her. He was relieved when Tonks spoke again.

' I was actually going to go for a walk before breakfast.' She said. ' You could come, if you like.'

' I was going to go to the library.' Remus said bluntly, without thinking.

He regretted saying this immediately as he saw Tonks' face fall.

'Oh, OK then.' She said, disappointment heavy in voice. ' I guess I'll just, uh, see you around then?'

Before Remus could reply in anyway, Tonks had shot off in the opposite direction. Feeling particularly annoyed with himself, Remus continued his walk to the library.

Two hours later found Remus sitting at a table covered in books and parchment, attempting to memorize the method to creating a perfect Blood-Replenishing potion. He was about halfway through when-

BANG.

Remus' head shot up from his book and immediately found the source of the noise. James Potter and Sirius Black had bounded into the library, knocking over a small table as they attempted to beat each other to the door, closely followed by a panting Peter Petigrew.

James quickly bent over to fix the table up, while Sirius scanned the library. His face broke out into a grin as he spotted Remus in a corner, barely visible behind the large pile of books that had accumulated in the two hours he had spent in the library.

'Moony!' Sirius said as he, James and Peter walked over to his table. ' Have you been down here all morning?'

Remus gave a slight nod as he began to pack away his books. There was no hope in continuing his study while his friends were present.

'Sirius and I were thinking, Moony.' James seriously, lowering his voice. 'That tonight, after we have all transformed, we could all go into the forest and start to put some of it into the map and-'

' And while we're there, we could check out those giant spiders we heard Hagrid talking about the other day.' Sirius interrupted, while James and Peter nodded in agreement.

The four of them made their way down to the Great Hall together to get some breakfast. James and Sirius continued to plan that nights adventure, Peter nodding in excitement beside them. Remus, on the other hand, did his best not to contribute to the plan at all. He felt extremely guilty for what he and his friends did, for he was betraying the trust that Professor Dumbledore placed in him in allowing him to go to Hogwarts.

As they approached the Gryffindor table, Remus found himself searching the tables of students for a head of bubble-gum hair. He spotted her and smiled when he saw she was smiling at him.

'Oh look, here he goes again.' Sirius had caught Remus' moment with Tonks. 'Why don't you just ask her out already, Moony?'

'Leave him alone, Black.' A voice said. Lily Evans was walking behind them, apparently listening to their conversation. Remus glanced over at James, who suddenly found his shoes to be the most interesting things in existence. Remus knew that James and Lily had been fighting alot lately. James had been avoiding her for days. Lily looked at James for a moment, before storming off with a loud sigh.

'Anyway, as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted,' Sirius shot a glance a James, who was still staring at his feet. 'Why don't you just ask my sweet, young cousin out?'

The four of them sat down at the Gryffindor table, and Remus ignored Sirius' question by helping himself to a large portion OF porridge. When Sirius looked like he was going to ask the question again, Remus sent him a look that obviously made him think otherwise.

'What do you guys want to do today?' Peter asked, in an attempt o break the tension.

The three boys shrugged and continued eating in silence.

AN

Bit of a sudden ending, but I felt that i'd done enough on this chapter. I kinda just wanted to use this chapter to introduce Remus and the Marauders (I hope I did them justice?)

I've developed a couple of ideas in regards to the direction I want this fic to go, so hopefully i'll be able to use them and continue this story.

I find it easier ( I think) to write Tonks', so i'll probably be writing more of her then Remus.

Erm so this is the first authors notes I've ever done. So, uh, reviews would be greatly appreciated, and thanks very much for reading!