One Of Us
JPOV
As I lay in bed I recounted what happened. I'm with Lily! I dating Lily! I kissed Lily Evans! I laid there in my bed with a big smile on my face. Then realization hit me.
"Hey guys," I called them.
"What's up Prongs?" said Remus.
"Lily wants to meet the Marauders," I told them.
"Ahh James Lily already knows us," said Sirius speaking as if I have forgotten that she already met my best friends.
"She over heard one of the conversations we had when we called ourselves Prongs, Padfoot, Moony, and Wormtail and she didn't know who we were so I told her I'd introduce them to her," I told them nervously. We have never told anyone we animagus. I will show her my form but I'm not sure about my friends.
"I have no problem showing Lily my animagus form," said Sirius.
"Nor I," said Wormtail.
"I don't think I'll tell her I'm a werewolf," Remus said.
"Lily is a great person. If we didn't abandon you than neither will she," said Wormtail.
Remus still didn't look convinced.
"Remus trust me. She won't abandon you, she'll still be your friends just like us. Trust me," I told him.
"Yea Moony, if she can go out with James she'll have no problem with your furry little problem," said Sirius.
"Hey!" I said Levicorpus! I thought. Sirius was hanging from the ceiling from his ankle.
"Hey! Prongs, get me down," he yelled.
"Silencio," I said pointing my wand at him. His mouth would open and close but we couldn't hear anything. We were too busy laughing to notice him going for his wand but luckily I snatched at pocketed it.
"Anyway Moony. I won't force you to tell Lily but I'm telling you as a friend she will not think any less of you," I told him putting a hand on his shoulder. He hesitated for a moment before nodding.
I smiled at my friends and said, "Brilliant now I got a perfect way to introduce Moony, Padfoot, Prongs and Wormtail to Lily Evans."
"Really? How?" said Peter.
"Have you stopped being a prat Sirius?" I asked him looking up. He glared at me but nodded his head. Liberacorpus I thought.
He fell to the grounded and extended his hand. I handed back his wand. He pointed it at himself and took the charm.
"Git!" he said.
"Yes you are. Now Remus take out parchment and ink. You have the nicest writing so write what I'm going to say. After that this is what we're going to do. We'll. . ."
LPOV
I woke up on Sunday late (well late for me), and laid in bed with a giddy smile on my face. I'm with James! I'm dating James! I kissed James Potter! I was still in amazement at what happened yesterday. I slept with a smile on my face and woke up with a smile on my face.
"Lily, James is downstairs," Annabeth said.
As soon as I heard her say it I jumped out o bed and started getting ready.
"Whoa there. Just because your boyfriend is downstairs doesn't mean you have to turn our dormitory into a tornado-stricken city," said Bella as she dodged the clothing that was going her way.
I stood up and looked around the room. She was right, there was piles of my clothes all over the room.
"Ops. Sorry," I took out my wand and put the clothes back in their place. As soon as I was done putting my clothes back I finished getting dressed and went down the stairs to the common room. As I stepped on the last step and I saw him holding a piece of parchment in is hand and talking in whispers to the Marauders. When he turned and saw me he hastily his the parchment behind his back and straightened up.
I went over to him and said, "What's behind your back James?"
He looked feign confused and said, "I have no idea what your talking about Lily?" He brought his hands foreword showing me he had nothing. I looked at him suspiciously but didn't pursue the subject. I'd find out sooner or later.
"Are you ready to go?" he asked.
I looked at him confused, "Go where?"
He smiled, "I have a surprise for you. Come on."
He grabbed my hand and kissed me before leading me out the portrait hole. We didn't stop until we came to a big tree near the lake. There he sat me down between his legs and wrapped his arms around me. I leaned back against his chest closing my eyes.
"Comfy?" he asked.
"Very," I answered. I started drifting asleep but his voice interrupted me.
"Lily I have a secret to tell you. Well I'm going to show you really but I still want you to know," he said nervously. I looked behind me to see him biting his lip and his eyes darting to me and the forest.
"James you don't have to tell me if you don't want to," I told him caressing his cheek. That seemed to make him relax.
"I want to tell you."
"Alright, I'm all ears."
"Ok let me go get it," he said standing up. "I'll be right back ok?"
I nodded and he turned and walked back to the castle.
As the time elapsed I kept thinking what he wanted to tell me. I was looking at the forest but not really seeing it. Something at the corner of my eye made me look at the edge of the forest where it meets the lake. Something was coming out of the forest. It looked big. I took out my wand just in case. As it got closer I saw that it was a stag. It shrunk back as he saw my wand, I put it away and he came foreword. He lay his head on my lap and closed his eyes. I pet his fur, it was black, thick, and messy. It reminded me of James.
I felt something behind me. I turned my head and saw a dog. A big dog. A big black dog. It came near me, I extended my hand and he came foreword. I thought he was going to bow his head so I can pet him but at the last minute he licked my hand.
"Eww," I said but laughed anyways. He came around my other side and laid down next to me. I ran my fingers through his fur. It was black and messy too but it was a casual disarray, it reminded me of Sirius. As I petted both their manes I felt something scurrying near my feet, as I looked down I saw a rat. I wasn't squeamish around rats so I picked it up and put it on my stomach. As my hand grazed his sand colored fur I felt a piece of parchment. I looked down and took the parchment and started to read it;
This is the secret I wanted to tell you. You said you wanted to know who Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs are well here they are. They rat is Wormtail, the dog is Padfoot, and the stag id Prongs.
As soon as I finished the letter I looked up. As soon as I looked up the animals scurried to line up in front of me; Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. But there was a space between Wormtail and Padfoot.
"So your Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. But what about Moony?" I asked looking down at the parchment in my hands looking for who Moony is. When I didn't see any I looked up.
From the space between Wormtail and Padfoot the air shimmered and suddenly there stood. . . Remus.
"Remus?" I asked stunned by his sudden appearance.
He smiled and said, "Hi Lily, yes I'm Remus or as my friends call me Moony." He gestured to the animals beside him.
"What do you mean your friends? These are animals Remus, they can't call you Moony. They don't speak," I told him.
He chuckled and said, "Well actually they can. Let me show you."
He went to stand behind the rat and said, "This is my friend Wormtail or as you might know him as Peter Pettigrew."
As soon as he said the name the rat before me started changing. Instead of the rat in front of me, there was Peter Pettigrew.
"Hi Lily," he said waving.
I sat there in shock while Remus continued.
He walked behind the black and said, "And my friend Padfoot who you may know as Sirius Black."
Again the big black dog in front of me changed and now Sirius Black stood in front of me.
"Hey Lily," he said.
Remus went behind the stag and said, "Last but not least is my good friend Prongs or you might know as James Potter."
The stag walked foreword and sat next to me and changed into, my boyfriend, love of my life, James Potter.
"Surprise," he said. I was still in shock. It took a while for me to get my conscious back.
"I didn't know you were animagus?" I told them.
"Well we weren't, until two years ago," said Sirius.
I gawked, "Two years ago? You learned to be animagi?"
"Yep sure did. It was fun too, huh Moony?" said James.
"For you maybe but it was fun to watch you struggle," he said.
"Hey!" said James Sirius and Peter.
"But why?" I asked.
They didn't answer but turned to Remus.
"Up to you Moony," said James. I saw Remus take a breath and stepped toward me.
"They did it for me. When we became friends I left out one important factor when they found out they became animagi to help me," he said. He paused not sure if wanting to continue.
I already knew what his secret was. I discovered it long ago and it didn't matter to me. I got up and walked over to him.
"Its ok Remus. The fact that your friends turned into animagus just so your transformation can be bearable says something about their loyalty," I told him as I hugged him. I felt him hug me back.
"Since when have you known?" he asked.
"Third year, when studying magical creatures," I told him as I let him go and went to stand next to James.
"Thank you for keeping my secret."
"What are friends for?" I told him smiling.
"Wait so you knew Moony was a werewolf?" said Sirius. I nodded and he said, "Why didn't you tell us you knew?"
"It was your secret not mine. You would've told me if you wanted to," I answered.
"Just one more thing then. We have an invisibility cloak. that's how we never get caught, well almost never. And how Moony here just appeared out of no where scaring the living day lights out of you," said Wormtail holding up a cloak was shining and silver.
I extended my hand to reach it. The touch was odd, like water woven into material to wear.
"No wonder no one could catch you pulling the pranks," I said letting go of the cloak.
"Yes all thank you to Prongs' father," said Sirius smiling.
"Did we mention we have a map of the school that shows us where everyone is of every minute of everyday," Moony said casually.
"Really? How did you do that?" I said astounded.
"With magic of course," said James waving his hand in the air.
"Can I see it?" I asked.
"All with do time Miss Evans," said Remus like a professor. He would make a good professor some day.
"Anything I should know about?" I asked them
"Nope that's it, you know everything. You are one of us now Mrs. Evans. Welcome to the Marauders," said James. Looking down at me. I smiled up at him and reached up and kissed him.
It wasn't long before Padfoot interrupted us, "So that means you have to pull pranks with us."
"Oh no. I don't pull pranks," I told him shaking my head.
"Oh yes you do. You're a Marauder now, you have to pull pranks especially since its our last year at Hogwarts," he argued.
"How about this? You tell me what your going to pull and I'll tell you what your going to do wrong," I said quirking an eyebrow, daring him to say no.
"Hey! No your n--" but he didn't finish his sentence as James covered his mouth and said, "Deal."
"Ow!" James yelled pulling his hand back and trying to get the sting out.
"Did you have to bite me Padfoot?" he told him.
"Not my fault you wouldn't let go," he said.
As we walked back to the castle James said, "You better not have rabies."
While Sirius glared and scowled we laughed. Life as a Marauder is going to be fun.
