"Don't even talk to me." Lily yelled as she walked in to the common room and rushed up the stairs. Remus and Rebecca looked up from talking on the couch and Peter on the floor with his study guide trying to do some last minute cramming as James walked in with an exasperated look on his face. He stood at the bottom of the stairs and sighed as he rubbed the back of his neck and sat down on the couch with his face in his hands.

"Uh Prongs, a sickle for your thoughts?" Remus said and James looked up and leaned back on the couch.

"Well I told her about you know how I poisoned Diggory so I could go to the dance with her and she got all mad and started yelling at me, telling me to stay away from her and that we were over."

"I'm on it." Rebecca said with a sigh before James could look over at her and she walked up to the dorm and heard Lily talking with Jenny and Tessa and Rebecca walked in and shut the door behind her.

"What's going on Lily?" Rebecca asked as she walked over to Lily who was crying on her bed.

"Potter, he set up the whole thing, I can't believe him, poisoning Amos like that."

"Well you have to admit, it was kind of clever." Rebecca said and Lily paused and wiped her eyes.

"Please tell me you had nothing to do with this." She said and Rebecca bit her lip and took a breath.

"Maybe a little."

"Oh Becky how could you?" Lily sighed as she got up and started to pace.

"Lily the guy practically got on his knees asking me what he could do to win you over. I mean he stopped asking you out all the time, stopped his hexing and pranking just to show you that he really liked you."

"So you mean that's the only reason he stopped? So I could go out with him?" She asked.

"No I mean he obviously matured above that but I think you helped to motivate him. The hellebore didn't really hurt Amos if that's what you're worried about; I mean it was just a very minor thing-."

"Becky I thought you were my friend, how could you be apart of something like this?" She asked as a tear fell down her cheek.

"Lily I-." Rebecca said and Lily turned away from her and Rebecca sighed and turned to the door.

"Well I'll be downstairs." Rebecca said and walked out and headed back downstairs and James got up quickly with a hopeful look on his face.

"Well she is mad at me too. Sorry James." Rebecca said and sat down next to Remus and leaned her head against his shoulder.

"I shouldn't have said anything. What am I going to do without her? I have been waiting years for a chance and now it's blown and she hates me."

"Prongs she doesn't hate you. She is just upset and I am sure the stress of NEWTs isn't helping, wait until after NEWTs and try talking to her again." Remus said calmly as he flipped through his study guide.

"I can't wait that long, what if she goes back to Pretty boy Diggory?" He said with disgust.

"Prongs she isn't going back to Diggory, just give her some space right now." Remus said and James sat down and buried his face in his hands.

"How could I let this happen?" He moaned and sprawled out across the couch.

"Hey Prongs." Sirius said as he rolled over the back of the couch and on to James and sat on him while James groaned and buried his face in to the pillows.

"What up with him?" Sirius asked looking at Remus and Rebecca and raised an eyebrow at her leaning against Remus' shoulder before he looked at James.

"Lily broke up with him after she found out he poisoned Diggory to go to the dance with her and she won't talk to Rebecca because she was in on it."

"How was she in on it?" Sirius asked as he looked at her.

"I told him to use the hellebore." She said with a sigh.

"Well sucks to you. Mate I'm sorry, there are plenty of birds out there any ways." Sirius said and James groaned in to the pillow and said something incomprehensible.

"I didn't quite catch that mate."

"I don't want any other girl except Lily. She is perfect."

"Well obviously not if she broke up with you. I know plenty of birds that would kill to be with you."

"Sirius you're not really that helpful you know that? With the relationship business." Rebecca said and took Remus' study guide and started to flip through it.

"Oh yeah and you're an expert huh?"

"I never said that-."

"Well then shut your trap."

"Pads come on no need to be mean." Remus said and Sirius rolled his eyes.

"You are always standing up for her you know that?" Sirius said bitterly as he got up.

"Padfoot come on."

"Moony ever since she came here you haven't been yourself, this is bollocks. I can't believe you're choosing her over your best mate."

"I am not choosing anyone Padfoot-."

"Save it I don't need to hear it." Sirius said and turned and walked back up to the room and Rebecca looked at Peter who stared in awe before quickly going back to his study guide and Remus got up and started to pace.

"Wow end of the year exams certainly bring out the best in everyone don't they?" She asked casually as she got up.

"Where are you going?" He asked and she grabbed her jacket from the back of the couch.

"For a walk." She said as she pulled her jacket on.

"Want me to come?"

"No I'd like to just clear my head." She said as she pat his chest lightly and turned and walked out of the tower and Remus watched her go before sitting down and he looked at James who still had his face buried in the pillows.

"You don't suppose she is mad at me do you?" He asked and James lifted his head.

"I can't believe she is gone." He said sadly and buried his face in the pillows and Remus tried to figure out what he had possibly done wrong to upset Rebecca.

He waited an hour before she returned and he looked at the clock, it was nearly 11, already an hour past curfew.

"Is everything alright?" he asked as he stood up when she walked in.

"Oh, I didn't know you would still be up. Yeah everything is fine."

"Are you sure?" he asked as she walked over to him and gave him a concerned look.

"You're not mad about anything right?"

"No. I just wanted to go for a walk." She said and he gave a relieved sigh and took her hand and sat down.

"You thought I was mad at you?" She asked as she sat down next to him and threw her legs over his lap.

"Sort of, you just seemed to be in such a rush."

"Not mad about anything, sorry." She said with a smile and kissed his cheek.

"I'm glad, I was worried." He said and ran a hand through his hair. "I mean first Lily and Prongs, and you and Lily, and me and Padfoot, I don't know if I could handle you being mad at me, ever." He said and she sighed.

"Remus you can't keep me from getting mad, if I get mad I get mad, big deal."

"Well it is to me, I don't want you getting mad."

"Remus it's inevitable." She said with a smile and took his hand and kissed it. "Trust me." She said and leaned against him with a sigh.

"I didn't see that one coming." A girl gossiped to her friends as Rebecca walked in to the bathroom to wash her hands.

"Sirius Black wearing a thong." One of them giggled.

"And he declared to her it was sexy. I would give anything to see Sirius Black in nothing but a thong." The other said as she started to laugh and Rebecca smiled to herself, nearly choking as she tried to hold back laughter, rushing to get out as quick as she could.

"But you have to admit, Sirius Black in anything, even a thong is still pretty damn sexy." The other said with a smile and Rebecca hurried out of the bathroom and headed down to the Great Hall.

"Walcott." She heard down the hall and she smiled as she recognized the voice and turned around trying to look at him seriously.

"I have a bone to pick with you." He said as he grabbed her arm and she pried it off and pushed him.

"Don't touch me." She sneered and he glared at her. She felt a smile tug on her lips and she started to laugh.

"I fail to find what is so funny Walcott." He snapped.

"Hey don't get your panties in a bunch, oh wait, I mean your thong." She said and he pushed her in to a classroom and closed the door behind him and turned to her as she continued to laugh.

"I wonder what they will say next. That you're some sort of cross dresser? That might drive away the girls. But then again maybe not."

"I am so glad you think that my humiliation is so funny, go ahead laugh it up." He snapped as he started to pace.

"Well…it is, you're the talk of the school, but then again when aren't you? You know I didn't actually think you would wear it, it was more of a gag gift."

"You said it was sexy." He said his voice straining.

"I wasn't being serious, and I didn't think you would actually wear it." She said and paused and started to laugh. "Was it comfortable?" She asked mockingly and he scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"I can't believe I actually listened to you." He muttered and she laughed.

"Neither can I."

"I hate you." He spat.

"Well I feel the same way, should we continue talking about our feelings over some tea?"

"I don't know what Moony sees in you honestly."

"I could say the same about you."

"You know nothing about me." He snapped and she raised an eyebrow.

"I know your type. You think you are the hottest shit around, rules don't apply to you, spoiled rich pureblood brat, thinking everything is beneath you, just like all pureblood families-."

"You better stop right there." He growled as he stepped towards her and she smirked.

"Oh have we touched a nerve Black? Family is a touchy subject." She taunted. "Mommy and Daddy not love you enough?"

"Stop it." He yelled as he pulled out his wand, pinning her against the wall with his wand at her throat.

"Do not talk about my family; you have no idea what the hell I have been through, you couldn't even imagine. Don't you ever speak of my family again." He hissed in her face and walked out of the classroom leaving Rebecca stunned. She had never seen Sirius that angry before, it was almost something scary.

The first week of NEWTs was all theory, most which Rebecca had a more difficult time with. She had always been better at practical magic than theoretical. She was sure that she had failed the History of Magic NEWT which had been on her favorite topic, the Goblin Rebellions and how they were handled and how they could have been handled, what was accomplished and what could have been accomplished as well as the most influential wizards and witches of the 18th century. Transfiguration was on animaguses, Charms had been on the uses of several different charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts tested their knowledge of defensive techniques against particularly nasty spells and hexes such as the Unforgivables and knowledge of the Patronus. In Ancient Ruins they had to decipher a chart, one thing Rebecca found difficult with out Remus to help her.

"Aren't you glad that all that is over, now the easy stuff?" Rebecca said with a smile as she walked out of Ancient Ruins with Remus.

"Well I wouldn't say easy stuff-."

"I would take practical magic over theoretical magic any day. Lets get some grub, I am starving, I didn't even eat breakfast, I swear all I could hear was my stomach growling all during class."

"Yeah, I could hear it." He said and she frowned.

"Really?"

"Yeah, I think the entire class heard it actually. They were whispering about it the entire time, you were so absorbed in the exam to notice though." He said and she nudged him as she rolled her eyes.

"Liar." She said and he chuckled lightly and shoved his hands in his pockets.

"Want to go down to the lake after lunch?"

"I would love to." She said as they walked in to the Great Hall. Even after a week Lily refused to talk to James despite his many attempts of forgiveness. Lily wasn't happy with Rebecca but at least she acknowledged her existence, it was hard not to considering they dormed together, Lily seemed pretty keen on ignoring James which seemed to plunge him in to a depression. Sirius still had a grudged against Remus, all was splendid.

Rebecca sat down by the lake with Remus, she laid her head on his lap as he played with her hair and she stared out to the lake watching the giant squid stick its tentacles out of the water and crashing them down causing small waves to roll up on to the shore.

"Remus." She said with a sigh and sat up and looked at him. "Do you know why Sirius hates me so much?"

"Well to be honest, I really don't. Prongs says its because you wouldn't snog him or something."

"Oh so its an ego thing or something?"

"That's what Prong seems to think." He said and played with some grass.

"What do you think?"

"I don't know." He said sounding uncomfortable. "I think you're great." He said quietly as he looked up at her nervously and she smiled.

"I think you're pretty great too." She said and kissed his cheek before laying back down and she heard him give a sigh of relief before he started to play with her hair again.

"Uh why do you ask? If you don't mind?"

"I don't know I was just thinking about something that happened the other day." She said and turned and looked up at him. "I uh brought up his family and he didn't like that too much." She said and he frowned.

"What?"

"Becky you need to understand, Padfoot, he comes from a long line of purebloods, like crazy pureblood mania. They have always been sorted in to Slytherin, maybe an odd Ravenclaw but almost always Slytherin, the ones that were sorted any where, like Gryffindor, they are considered blood traitors. His home life wasn't that great, he didn't get along with his family and they." He said and paused. "They aren't good people, they are in to dark magic and You- know- who. They abused him too. Once his mum locked him in the basement with a boggart for 3 days without a wand, food or water." He said and looked out to the lake. "Padfoot got disowned last summer when he ran away, he finally had enough of them and he just left, that's why he lives with Prongs, he can't go home. Can you see why family is sort of a touchy subject?"

"Yeah I suppose." She said with a sigh and turned back to the lake. Well she still thought that Sirius was an asshole, but now she sort of understood why he was an asshole, she almost felt a little bad, and she had thought that her mother was a bitch, she couldn't imagine being locked away by her mother, perhaps her family wasn't that bad.

"Top marks Miss Walcott." McGonagall said as Rebecca successfully transformed the desk in to a piano. She played a few notes and McGonagall gave a satisfied nod before Rebecca gathered her things and walked out of the classroom.

"Glad that is over." She said with a sigh as she walked over to Remus who had stayed behind and waited for her. Since the practical exams were taken alphabetically, Rebecca was usually one of the last to go, in which Remus waited behind for her every time.

"Just two more to go." He said and they walked down the hall together.

"Well Potions is going to be a breeze and so should Defense."

"You're going to do great." He said with a smile and quickly kissed the top of her head.

"Any progress on James and Lily?"

"Well she asked him to pass the salt to him this morning. He was over the moon." He said and she chuckled and sighed.

"Once this is over they are going to get back together, just watch."

"It's inevitable."

"After tomorrow we have a week and a half of nothing, what the hell are we supposed to do with that time? We no longer have to learn anything right?"

"Well I hear some teachers like to give an exam on the last day of school, but that's only if they feel we deserve it."

"Let's hope they are as sick of teaching as we are of going to class. Where are we going?" She asked as they walked the opposite way of the Great Hall.

"I don't know, want to walk around?"

"Where did you have in mind?"

"I don't know, just around." He said and shoved his hands in his pockets.

"There is a question I have wanted to ask." She said and he glanced at her.

"Where do James, Sirius and Peter go on full moons?" She asked and he nodded his head and took a deep breath and exhaled.

"Uh I would prefer to go somewhere a little more private to tell you that."

"You don't have to-."

"I'll tell you, just not here." He said and motioned down one of the halls.

"I want to show you something." He said and pulled her down the hall.

They went up a few floors and he stopped in front of a wall and turned to her.

"Remus that's a wall." She said obviously and he motioned her to come over.

"What are we doing?" She asked as she looked at him and stood where he told her to.

"Alright I want you to think of a room, any kind of room. Think of nothing else but that room and I want you to walk past the wall three times while thinking of the room." He said and she sighed and looked at the wall and closed her eyes as she thought of a room.

"Remus what am I-."

"Shhhh, just think of the room." He said and she walked back and forth and stopped and looked at Remus.

"What am I-." She said and stopped when she saw a large oak door appear in the wall and she looked at him as he smiled.

"Go ahead, open it." He said and she walked over and examined the door and glanced back at him before grabbing the large brass knob and opening the door. She peered inside and saw a large fireplace roaring with a large plush couch in front of it, a bay window looked out to the mountains and there was a large assortment of candy and a few bottles of butter beer sitting on the table in front of the couch.

"Remus what is this place?" She asked as she walked in and Remus followed after her.

"It's called the Room of Requirement." He said and closed the door.

"Wow, this is exactly what I pictured." She said and sat down on the couch and motioned for Remus to sit down next to her as she picked up the basket filled with candy and picked out a chocolate bar and offered some to him.

"Thank you." He said and took a piece of chocolate.

"How did you find this room?"

"We actually found it on accident. It turns in to what ever you need. We were running from Filch and needed a broom closet and there it was. Needed a place to relax, here it was. It has everything you need."

"This is amazing." She said and laid back on the couch and saw a blanket appear on the table and she looked at him surprised and pulled the blanket over her.

"So this place is a private place right?"

"Yes." He said and picked up a butter beer and popped it open.

"James, Sirius and Peter are all animagi. They accompany me on the nights of the full moon. Werewolves don't attack animals."

"You're kidding right?"

"No."

"How- I mean- are they really?"

"Yes. James is a stag, Sirius is a dog, and Peter is a rat. He is the only one that can press the knot in the tree so that the Whomping Willow doesn't kill us."

"Oh wow." She said bit off some chocolate. "So the nicknames-."

"Prongs, Padfoot, Wormtail and Moony."

"Oh." She said nodding and grabbed a butterbeer.

"Yeah they did it so they could be with me on full moons."

"Wow that's really…amazing that they do that for you."

"I know, I couldn't ask for better friends." He said staring at his butter beer.

"Does it hurt?"

"What?"

"When you transform?"

"Yes…you can't even imagine the pain. You can ear your bones breaking and your skin feels like it's on fire and there is nothing you can do but try not to scream." He said as he stared at the fire and Rebecca put her butterbeer down and touched his hand and he flinched from her and looked at her and she scooted over closer to him and he looked at her wearily and she put his arm around her shoulders as she curled up to him and held his other hand in her own and kissed it and they sat together in silence staring at the fire just enjoying each other's company as the fire crackled before them.