The Halloween feast had begun and the Great hall was alight with the sound of eating and laughter. Peter was eating as if no one would ever feed him again and James was doing the same, even Remus, whose appetite was normally quite easily sated, had eaten a considerable amount of sweets and cakes. Sirius, however, was looking back and forth nervously.

"Wha wrong wif 'oo?" asked Peter, spraying cake on himself

"Marianne. I think she's looking for me" he sunk lower under the table

"How bad could that be? She's fit" said James nodding

"She's insane"

"She's fit"

"She's deluded"

"She's really fit"

"She thinks I'm her boyfriend! I've barely spoken to her since the night I fucked her"

"You left that out when you told me about her" said Remus dropping his fork "That's scary. Maybe you should tell a teacher"

"That'll go down well, excuse me Proffessor McGonagall some crazy girl I screwed is stalking me. Help me! Help me! She'll probably tell me it serves me right for being such a whore" Sirius slumped as low don as he possibly could "Can you see her any where?"

"No, you're safe for the moment" said Remus as he scanned the hall for her "Maybe this'll teach you a lesson about sleeping around so much"

I'm sleeping aroud because it's the only thing that get's my mind off of you, you ungrateful tit! Was Sirius's immeadeate reaction. "I suppose" Sirius replied "Shit! is that her?" he said, sinking fruther beneath the table

"No, it's just a girl with the same colour hair" said James "You could avoid having to hide under the table if my dad would just give me his damn invisability cloak"

"Is he still not giving it to you?" said Peter swallowing, his mouth empty for the first time in half an hour

"Nope, he says I'm not responsible enough yet. Bollocks" he huffed

"Sirius get down, she's coming!" hissed Remus. Sirius went completely under the table, Remus shuffled along so he obscured Sirius from veiw. Sirius watched Marianne's feet arrive behind Remus at the table

"Hey, is my Siri here?"

"No" said Remus irritably "You just missed him"

"Where did he go?" she whined

"Back to Gryffindor tower. He's sick"

"Oh no" she raised her hands. Sirius guessed she'd clapped them over her mouth "What's wrong with him, can I do anything to help?"

"No. He has..." Remus paused

"ecoli?" James continued for him

"mmhmm, ecoli" agreed Remus

"But I wanted to speak to him! He is my boyfriend... I want to see him" she whinged

"Well you can't. Now shoo" snapped Remus

"Well that's rude" said Marianne as she stomped off out of the hall, the feet of her friends followed her feet, they tutted at Remus and called after her. Sirius waited until she was well out of sight before sliding back up from under the table.

" "Now shoo?" That was pretty bitchy Remus" he giggled

"She was being whiny, I can't stand whiny people"

"I don't know about that Remus, Sirius is very whiny when he wants to be" said James

"I'm not whiny!"

"You are" said James "isn't he Pete?"

"Yep" he said, Sirius wondered whether Peter acctually thought he was whiny or whether he was just agreeing with James, for the sake of agreeing with James

"Well, Sirius is a special exception to my no whiny people rule" said Remus, wry smile on his face. Sirius felt a buttefly rise in his stomach, he was special, he smiled

"Is it because I'm so damn handsome?" he said with his please humour me smile

"yes Sirius – it's because you are so damn handsome" he said, probably insincerely

"I knew it" he ruffled Remus's hair

"Why do people always do that to me?" he asked as he flattened his hair

"Becuase you're so damn handsome. The same reason Evans ignores James and the same reason people take the piss out of Peter" Sirius laughed and messed Remus's hair up again

*

"Class dismissed" called McGonagall "except you, Mr. Lupin, I need to speak to you" Remus waved his friends goodbye and walked up to McGonagall's desk

"What is it Professor?"

"You are achieving the highest grades in your year"

"really?"

"Yes, a lot of students are stuggling in transfiguration and defense against the dark arts. Two subjects that, if you took a NEWT in right now, with your talent and excess of knowledge, you would probably pass. I would like you to do some tutoring in these subjects. For both OWL and NEWT students"

"Wow... this is amazing" he smiled "You think I'd make a good tutor?"

"Yes Mr. Lupin, an excellent one. You are pleasant, well behaved and very gifted"

"Wow" He beamed, he'd been wanting to go into teaching for a while now, if he could prove himself as an able tutor, maybe he'd be allowed to return as a teacher after seventh year "So, have you got times for me?"

"It would be from Monday to Thursday from 5 till 8. Two hour and a half sessions a night"

"wow, how many people need-" she cut him off mid-scentence, as if she knew already what he was going to ask

"8 people. Gabriel Fisher, Annabell Roth and Katrina Lestat need help with DADA, The transfiguartion students in need of help are Michael Weller" Remus sighed, he was on the Slytherin quidditch team "yes a Slytherin Mr Lupin. Michael Weller, Jane Parker, Martin Green, Layla Leon and Narcissa Black-" Remus muttered a swear word under his breath "well I'm sorry Mr Lupin, but the girl isn't going to pass her NEWT if she doesn' have extra help"

"It's not that I don't want to help her, I do. But she's a Black, I'm a half blood. She won't let me tutor her"

"I have spoken with Miss Black about her prejudices" She curled her lip "she is willing to forgoe them in order to pass her NEWT, providing her family or one Mr Malfoy doesn't find out. As you know Mr Malfoy is on the Slytherin Quidditch team Her lessons are scheduled to clash with their practices, and I must request that Michael Weller does not hear you are tutoring her"

"That's fine, I understand" he nodded

"Here's your timetable, you are permitted to use this classroom and your homework load will be quite considerably lightened for doing this" she handed the time table to him

"Thank you for the oppourtunity Professor" he said smiling down at his timetable "You won't regret this"

*

"Okay, just try it once more" Remus paused and waited for Gabriel Fisher to uncross his arms "Come on Fisher! I'm going to use a simple Perificus Totalus on you and all you have to do is shout Protego as you raise your wand and this time I swear to God you'll do it"

"M'kay" he mumbled disheartened

"You ready?" Fisher nodded "okay. One, two, three Perificus Totalus!"

"Uh.. Pr-" he began, but it was too late, Fisher had paused for too long and the spell had hit him, he now lay stiff on the floor. Remus walked over and reversed the spell, for the thirtheenth time that evening

"Sorry mate" Remus said as he helped Fisher up

"It's fine... it was my fault" he tugged at his hair and growled "I am shit at this! I'll never pass my OWL, I won't be able to do my NEWT and I'll never get to be in the accidental magic reversal squad" He groaned

"You'll get it! Okay, I promise"

"No I won't! This is our third lesson and I still can't do any of the shit you've tried to get me to do. Why the fuck they stuck me in Ravenclaw, I'll never know"

"Calm down Fisher... it's okay... it's only this lesson you're struggling with! You're getting O's in everything else!"

"I know... I just... ugh I just hate being shit at something. I've never been shit at anything before" he kicked at a desk "It's so... what's the word"

"Frustrating?"

"Exactly, that's it. What time is it?"

"'bout half seven. Do you want to try it again or do you want to go onto some Q&A stuff from the text book"

"Text book work. If I hit the floor again tonight I might crack my skull or something" The floor in the transfiguration classroom was stone

"Sorry about that. I'll bring pillows next time" In all honesty, Remus wasn't expecting Fisher to fall down so many times

"Thanks" he said rubbing the back of his head. Fisher was in fifth year, he had short ash blonde hair, twinkly green eyes, he was classicly good looking, he was slim and wore glasses which he pushed up his long straight nose every few minutes. Even if they hadn't slipped down.

"Do you want me to have a look at that?" asked Remus

"I suppose... d'you know healing charms?"

"Simple ones" he walked behind Fisher "can you sit down so I can see it properly?" Fisher was a little taller than Remus. He pulled a chair out from behin one of the rows of desks "There's a bump, no blood, I don't have to do anything to this. Do you feel faint or dizzy? I'll have to take you to the Hospital wing if you do"

"No I'm alright. I'm not dizzy. I'm fucking shit at DADA but I'm not dizzy"

"You aren't shit, you're just... a slow learner"

"I'm not a slow learner. I'm bad at DADA"

"Okay. So you're bad at DADA, it's fine, all you have to do is practice"

"Right, I am going to practice this shit, I'll be able to do a sheild charm by next week. I swear" They sat down at a desk

"Right, we still have 25 minutes left, Q&A time. If you wanted to stun me, which spell would you use?"

"Expulso?"

"Only if you wanted to blow me up aswell"

"Shit" Fisher slammed his head down on the desk

*

"Come on Peter! Concentrate!" Called James as Peter scrunched up his face, rat's ears grew from his head, his nose became long an pointy and his teeth and whiskers grew.

"You can do it Peter! Come on!" Sirius bounced up and down with excitement. Peter had come on in leaps and bounds. Since Remus had started tutoring, they'd had time to practice almost every week night. Peter bagan to shrink and his hands became paws. His eyes became black and beady, he grew dark brown fur all over his now tiny body. He had done it

"PETE YOU'VE DONE IT! THIS IS AMAZING!" Screamed Sirius, bouncing up and down even higher

"I can't fucking believe it" said James shaking his head "I can't fucking BELIEVE THIS!" said James joining in the bouncing, scooping up Peter, there was a knock and creak of the door

"Why are you two jumping up and down with a rat?"

"IT'S NOT A RAT! IT'S PETER!" Called Sirius running up to Remus and planting a silly wet kiss on Remus's cheek

"What?" he said, wiping his face and blushing slightly

"THIS IS NOT A RAT! THIS IS PETE! HE CAN TURN INTO A RAT!!!"

"My ears Sirius, you're right next to me. Are you telling me that Peter. Peter Pettigrew... our Peter Pettigrew, has turned himself into a rat and is, therefore, an animagus"

"YES! And, guess what!"

"What?" asked Remus, Sirius cackled, he put Peter down and turned into a dog, James followed suit and turned into a stag. Watching the look of fascination and horror on Remus's face, they all changed back "When?.. how?.. why? WHAT?"

"We're animagi Rem!" said James excitedly

"Evidently!" He said, his voice had jumped up an octave with shock

"And we've done this for you" said Sirius lovingly

"Excuse me"

"Well" continued James "I read about werewolves, about how must of the cuts and breaks they get are self inflicted during thier transformations. And we thought"

"You thought, it was all James's idea" said Sirius placing a proud arm around James's shoulders

"okay" he smiled "I thought, this was all the way back in second year, we could become animagi, which We've all managed now because animals aren't affected by werewolf bites, and we could help you by coming with you during your transformations, stop you from hurting yourself!" Remus stood shaking his head, mouth wide open "So, what do you think?"

"Absaloutely not"

"What" said Sirius in utter disbelief

"Absaloutely not! What if I hurt one of you? What if I kill one of you? What the fuck is wrong with you people!?"

"Remus – you're being..."

"What? What am I being? Concerned for my friends well being? I might fucking murder one of you! Not only would you be DEAD but my life would be over too! And it would be even worse than being dead, because I'd have to live with the guilt of killing one of, two of or all of my best friends. I'd be expelled from Hogwarts and the rest of society. I just... I can't..." he said frantically, pacing up and down the room, jittering and twitching with thoughts of what could go wrong

"Remus... just relax"

"NO! How am I supposed to fucking relax? I'm like obliged to have you come with me now, aren't I? I just... it's so fucking... loyal of you it makes me fucking sick, you noble bunch of arseholes! Putting me in this position! I can't..."

"What do you want Remus?" asked James "You don't have to use our help if you don't want us to"

"I don't know... I just don't know. No. Yes. I don't know... "

*

Sirius slid a note over to Remus in potions the next day

Mr Padfoot is wondering if a certain Mr Moony wants to have Mr Padfoot, Mr Prongs and Mr Wormtail join him on his next full moon.

What the hell are those names?

I'm trying to use code stupid. I'm Padfoot because the first time we tried to transform the first thing I could manage were the pads on my feet and my hands, James is Prongs because of the same reason, but with horns and Pete is Wormtail because we couldn't think of anything better. You're Moony for obvious reasons

Those are the single stupidest code names I have ever seen, heard of or been subjected to

Sorry, I was just trying to make it subtle incase the teacher caught us passing notes again. I like the names, so does James and if James does then so does Peter, you're out numbered

These better not stick. I'm not having the three of you calling me Moony for the rest of our lives.

Know you nothing of reverse psycology Moony! Now all I'm going to call you for the rest of our lives is Moony! Moony Moony Moooooooony!

I hate you so much.

A/N sorry this chapter's a bit on the short side, this just felt like a good place to end it. Secial thanks to reviewing and faving people for reading and taking the time to show your appreciation! And thanks to everyone who reads this and has been patient with my heel dragging!

Another chapter on it's way x