Whew, sixth year already!

Remus didn't open any of her letters. She might have, if it had not been for James, Snape would be dead, but she was angry at Potter for being mean to Severus in the first place. The kid wouldn't look at her the last week of school! He wouldn't even walk by her in the halls. All he did was cry in the bathroom for the first day, and then he would run down the opposite hall if he saw her.

The letter kept coming though, and she knew they were all from them. They were all apologizes, she knew, but she didn't care. Not one bit. Nope.

She only worked on the map because she wanted to. Not because she wanted to see James's face when he said the incantation for the first time. And not because she thought Siri would give her a job well done and a pat on the back.

Totally not because she thought Peter would smile at her with his little mouse smile.

She just wanted to because she got the go ahead to use magic and wanted to try out those new spells.

She got it to work, and then, the rest of her boring summer began.

The letters kept coming, and coming, but she didn't read one of them. Not a single one. She was stronger than her appearance made her out to be. And trust her, she had the will power of a lion. Maybe that's why she was put into Gryffindor.

"Remus ever write back to you?" James asked Peter. The smaller boy shook his head no.

"Merlin, we're in some deep crap. If she didn't even write to him, she's not talking to any of us."

James gave his friend a small pat on the shoulder. It was kind of sweet at first how Sirius always was so protective over Remus and could never put his charm on her, but now it was just getting plain annoying. If those two didn't just snog and get over that tension, James was going to put a spell on them.

"What are we going to do?" Peter asked. He was finally getting out of his shell. It usually took three to four hours after the train stopped before the boy would start speaking.

"The only thing we can do. Man up and apologize."

"But we tried that." Sirius whined.

"Through letters. Girl's prefer it when we say we screwed up to their faces."

James led his friends along through the corridors and pulled out his invisibility cloak. Remus hated it when he used it to sneak into the girls' dormitories, but this was an emergency. They had to catch her before she went to the feast.

When they pulled the cloak off, which was rather hard to do since they had all crammed under it, Remus threw a pillow at them.

"Turn around!"

They did as they were told, knowing that they should have stopped to see if she was getting dressed in the first place.

"I can't you guys have the balls to come and see me. You never know when to stop, do you?"

"Remus, let me speak, please." James said.

"Make it quick. Lily said she'd be over in a minute. And you can turn back around now." They all swiveled around and had to catch their breaths as they saw Remus putting her other clothes up in their drawers. She was wearing a skirt with fitting leggings and a beige sweater. That girl had an unhealthy obsession with beige. Not that it didn't look good on her or anything.

"Remus, I wanted to apologize to you. I understand if our friendship is beyond repair, but you've been the best influence on all of us. You kept us together all these years, and I should have listened when you told us to stop picking on Severus. It was wrong of us to do that, and made us worse than any Slytherin." Okay, so this was a bit harder than when he practiced it, but it seemed to be having an affect on Lupin.

"I'm sorry, I truly am, and I am going to start being a better person, even if you don't accept this apology because that is the effect you've had on me. Again, I'm sorry."

Remus blinked and pretended to wipe tears out of her eyes dramatically before a huge smile erupted.

"If you think-"

"James!" Lily opened the door and threw her arms around Potter. "Okay."

"Okay what?"

"You've been asking me out since forever, and I said okay."

Now it was James's turn to smile and laugh as he picked up Lily and twirled her around. Remus made a gagging noise.

"Right. Love birds, can you please get out of my room. All of you." She ordered. James gave her one last look, confirming what he knew she was doing. She nodded her head and he walked out alongside Lily. Peter trailed behind, watching the feet in front of him, and Sirius lingered by her door.

"We're not the Marauders without you."

"Yeah, you are."

"No, we're not. We really do miss you Remus. You must miss us too."

"I do," and she gave out a small, nervous chuckle, because only Merlin knew how much she missed them, "But, I can't be the reason why someone dies."

"You won't. We understand what your illness means."

"Then why did you send Snape down there?"

"Because I just thought the Whomping Willow would get him! I know that was a stupid idea now, and I'm saying sorry for it. If you won't accept my apology then fine, maybe I don't even really want to be friends with you."

Remus wanted to turn his head into a huge balloon at that very moment, but since her will power was strong, she managed not to.

"Maybe I don't want to be friends with you."

"Oh, you already made that perfectly clear. You don't want to be friends with a chick magnet."

"I did not say that!"

"In a way, you did. You called us stupid, and you said you were done with us, and that's fine. I'm done with you."

"Done with me?" Remus asked. How could he be done with her? She wasn't the one-

"Because you're Remus J. Lupin, the girl that could do no wrong. Everyday you mope around about your poor pathetic self, instead of realizing that you have great friends who are helping you. You don't use your gifts that you have to make a difference. Come on, Moony, you can already do nonverbal spells! And you chose to whine to yourself about all your many woes. You think you are so much better than us because of your lycanthropy because you do have so many problems but are still so smart, yet you only tell us to lay off when we almost get someone killed."

Sirius stopped his rant and tried to catch his breath.

"I shouldn't have had to stop you before then."

"But you could have, and you never did, so this is still partly your fault."

"Look at you! Mr. Put the Blame on Someone Else!"

"And here's Mrs. Mopesalot!"

"I do not mope!"

"Yes you do! You act like the only one who has problems are you! You wouldn't have killed Snape that night."

"Yes! I would have! This is what I can't get through your thick skull! I'm a monster! I would have ripped his heart out and ate it like a chocolate frog!"

"And that's what you can't get through your thick skull! You are not a monster!"

"Yes I am!"

Sirius threw his hands up in the air like he was giving up, "Fine! You're a monster! You're a monster for changing into a beast at the full moon based on a blood sickness that you never asked for, that you never sought after. And all those people out there killing people they deem less 'pure' well, they're just normal people."

It was Remus's turn to run her fingers through her hair in annoyance.

"Those people are monsters."

"And you think you're in the same category as them?"

"No!"

"See?" He crossed his arms, "You're not a monster."

Remus stood there, crossing her own arms. They both starred at each other, neither one wavering or even blinking. The werewolf and the animagus. She wasn't going to break, but she wasn't going to let him have the last word either. Remus snatched up her robe and pushed past Sirius.

"I hate you." She said as she walked away, pointing up her longest finger his way.

"No you don't!"

"Yes I do!"

"You love me!"

"Shut up!"

There. She had the last word.

"Never!"

Damn that boy.