Chapter 17 – When the wolf's away, the mice will play

The pale moon was shining through the window in the dorm.

Remus was standing by the window, bathed in the moonlight.

He always had a hard time falling asleep when the moon approached its full phase. He didn't really know why, but he suspected that the moon affected him. He was always more restless around full moon and he easier got annoyed.

It could also be the effect of the constant fear for hurting anyone while he was a werewolf, this fear got multiplied when the time for the transformation approached.

Remus felt a hand on his shoulder, but didn't turn, he knew who it was.

"Go to bed, Remus" Sirius softly whispered, to avoid waking up the others, "You'll feel even worse Wednesday if you don't sleep tonight" Sirius wrapped his arms around Remus, bent down and gently kissed Remus' neck.

Remus turned around and looked Sirius in the eyes "Not here," he whispered and removed Sirius' arms, "Goodnight, Padfoot".

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He was running.

Over his head was the black sky.

A black sky with a huge white orb.

Underneath his paws was nothing but grass.

Grass that stretched into the eternity.

He was with his friends.

They were not like him.

They smelt different.

This made him want to rip them.

Tear them.

But he couldn't.

Wouldn't.

They were his friends.

His playmates.

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When Remus woke up it was early in the afternoon and The Hospital Wing was buzzing with life.

"Hey Moony" James was grinning broadly at him.

Remus felt a tiny hint of disappointment that it wasn't Sirius. Then he started wondering what James was doing there.

Remus always spent a day in The Hospital Wing after a transformation, to get patched up and relax. But his friends seldom stayed with him.

"Hey Prongs" Remus smiled back, "What are you doing here?"

James' grin grew wider "I had to go check to our dear Padfoot" he leaned in, in an attempt to look confidential "I think he's crazy".

"He always has been, didn't you know?" Remus grinned back. Then he suddenly realised what James had just told him and grew worried, "Is he here?" Remus asked concerned.

"Yup, over there" James said, indicating the bed beside Remus'. As James tilted his head to the left, Remus noticed that he had a black eye.

"What happened to your eye?" Remus asked.

"Sirius Black" James said seriously.

"I think you need to tell me that story," Remus said with raised eyebrows.

James grinned at him, he loved telling stories. James started:

"It was around lunch and Padfoot, Wormtail and the centre of the universe, that's me, were walking down the corridor.

Suddenly that little slime, Mulcriber, came strolling down the corridor as if he owned the place. I don't know why he wasn't with his shitty little friends.

Anyway, he bumped into Padfoot, who was just walking there, hadn't done anything to him. I actually don't know what happened, but it looked like Mulcriber whispered something to Padfoot. The next thing I knew was that Padfoot forced his bag into my arms and flung himself on Mulcriber. I don't think the little shit expected it, because he fell to the floor with Padfoot on top of him, dropping his wand and everything. Padfoot started beating the cra…"

An evil look from Madam Pomfrey made James stop his swearing.

"Padfoot started hitting him. Mulcriber didin't stand a chance, but then Avery came along. Not that it was much of a surprise, he's always sticking to Mulcriber, like they were dating or something. But Avery cast some spell at Padfoot. I don't know which; the little pureblood-shits are always using non-verbal spells, you know, like they think that their curses are so great that everyone would want to steal them or something like that.

I knew that Padfoot didn't stand a chance against two of the little cowards. He'd left his wand with me. Wormtail offered to hold the bags and I launched myself on Avery."

Remus shot James a quizzical look.

"It was a non-wand fight. Just because that cowardly little creep uses unfair tricks, that doesn't mean that I'll do so as well. That's the difference between us and them.

The grit hit me," this was said in an offended tone as James indicated the black eye.

"Just as I had gotten a hold of the slimy guy, McGonagall came strolling down the corridor. You'd think she'd be on our team, but no. She stopped the fighting, sent Mulcriber and Avery to Dumbledore's office, gave Padfoot and me detention for about a month and sent Padfoot to The Hospital Wing."

James ended his story.

"What happened to Padfoot?" Remus asked more worried than he'd been before James' story.

"I actually don't know," James suddenly started to sound worried, "He got all cut up, I don't think Madam Pomfrey has stopped the bleeding yet".

Remus threw the blanket off and ran to Sirius' bed.

Sirius looked pale and his face had a greyish colour. Remus carefully removed one of the bandages and looked at the cut. He'd seen that kind of cut before.

"Get Snape," He said, turning to James, the fear making his mouth turn dry.

"Snivellus? Why..." James started.

"Just get him!" Remus shouted at James.

James looked taken aback and then, probably because of the shock, that kind Remus could shout at anyone, he went looking for "The greasy git" as he displeased mumbled.

"Are you insane?" Madam Pomfrey asked and forced Remus back to bed.

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After a while James returned with a very displeased Snape and a furious Lily.

Snape went over to Remus' bed and drawled: "You wanted to see me" in a voice that was almost dripping from sarcasm.

"It's your spell" Remus simply said, "I trust you are capable of stopping it."

"I have no idea what you're…" Snape started, but was cut off by a cold look from Lily.

"Just do it," Remus coolly said "Nobody's going to tell on you," he almost spat the last line out.

Lily glared at Snape. He sighed, made sure that there wasn't any teachers nearby and went over to Sirius' bed.

Snape started moving his wand over Sirius. Muttering something inaudible. He did it three times. Then he turned to Lily "Happy?" and marched from the room.

That's it for this time I hope you liked it ^^

The title is a danish saying that I've translated into english (and substituted "Cat" with "Wolf", I'm such a creative person :3), I don't know if it's a saying in english o.o

Please review, it means a lot to me ^^ and if you have any good insults I can use on the slytherins I'd love to hear them o.o I kind of ran out...