A/N: AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Here's the next chapter guyyysss! :D

And thanks to those who have just started reading my story. I feel so loved.

RECAP: Fayre was threatened by Snape (that GIT) and she had a nightmare that had a werewolf in it. She told Lily about it and Lily told James where they had a lovely little conversation. Then James promised to have the Marauders protect Fayre. During their little protecting, Fayre and Sirius have a duel with each other. Revealing Peter Pettigrew's traitorism. But at the moment they think it's pretend but they won't think it's pretend anymore when Peter turns on James and Lily Potter! But…that's not in this story…

Oh and Fayre kisses Remus and Carley sees. And it is revealed that Carley is an EVIL HUFFLEPUFF! Gasp. I know.

Oh. And it's still Halloween.

So, here's chapter 10!

Chapter 10Carley's POV

"Sirius!" I called throwing my hands around his neck. He looked up at me with warmness.

"Mm?" he asked.

"You didn't tell me that your two best friends are dating," I said putting my lips on his. He pulled away from me.

"What?" he asked giving me a confused look. I tried to suppress my smile and feign confusion.

"Remus and Fayre? I saw them kissing on top of the Observation Tower…" I said pointing behind me. He looked in that direction as if he would see Remus and Fayre coming from there.

"Oh. I didn't know that they were dating…" he said slowly. I saw he looked a bit hurt. How could HER kissing HIM hurt MY Sirius? I worked for years to get him to notice me. And I'm not going to let a stupid "best friend" of his go and try to ruin everything for me.

"Are you sad because they didn't tell you?" I asked putting a hand on his cheek. He looked at me with his smoky grey eyes.

"Mm? No. I'm not sad," he said. Then he smiled. And he pressed his lips on mine. But his eyes still betrayed hurt and sadness. As I ran my fingers through his hair, I knew I was going to fix it. I was going to fix him. And make him think of only me. And not that brat.

"Tonight," I ordered.

"Tonight?" asked Fletcher.

"Did I stutter?" I asked.

"No…"

"Then YES TONIGHT YOU IMBECILE!" I yelled at him. He cowered away.

"Okay…" Fletcher said quietly.

"Good."

Remus' POV

She kissed me. I let her lead me up to the Observation Tower. Of course she was going to kiss me. Why didn't I stop her? Oh God, why didn't I stop her? And I kissed her BACK! Why did I kiss her back? Oh MERLIN why did I kiss her back?

James was now watching her.

And there was Sirius.

Oh God.

Does he know?

Does he know that I kissed his best friend that he may possibly love?

"Hey Remus," said Sirius.

Oh Merlin. He knows.

"Hey Padfoot," I said slowly. He smiled.

He definitely knows.

"So, been with any girls lately?" he asked.

"I-I…"

"Joking, Moony. Sheesh, lighten up," he joked. Okay, so maybe he doesn't know. Sirius looked really closely at me.

"You starting to look sick. The full moon is coming… We're going to have to watch Fayre even more then, I think," Sirius mused. I just nodded my head. I hope he didn't notice that I blushed when he said Fayre. My mouth felt dry.

"Yeah. Good-good idea," I finally said.

"I'mma go find Wormy. Care to join me?" asked Sirius cocking his head, his grey eyes looking at me curiously. I shook my head.

"I think I'm going to go lay down," I said slowly pointing in the direction of the Common Room. Sirius nodded his head understandably.

"Kay, see ya then," said Sirius. He turned a corner and that's when I realized that I had been holding my breath. So, I let it out.

While I was walking back to the Common Room I saw Carley yelling to Fletcher something about being an imbecile and something about tonight.

That's odd; I couldn't help thinking to myself as I took the long way around so as not to cross paths with her.

James' POV

When I found Fayre, she was crying.

"Fayre?"

"He just left. Like I had…poisoned him or something." She cried some more.

"You mean… Remus?" I asked pointing to the disappearing Remus. She nodded her head.

"What happened?"

"I-," she hiccupped, "I kissed him." I tried to not show my shock as she ducked her head embarrassed.

"It was my first kiss you know."

"It was?" She nodded her head.

"I was sort of saving it…for…someone special I guess," she said slowly.

"For Remus?" I asked.

"Well, no. I don't know for who exactly, but you know me. I haven't ever dated anyone. And now I just go kiss people who don't want to be kissed. Obviously," she said tearing up again.

"Oh Fayre! Remus has never dated anyone either. He has…issues. And he doesn't want to burden you with those issues. Please stop crying. I can't-I can't talk to crying girls…" I said not sure what to do. She sniffed and wiped her big violet eyes.

"So, your saying that he doesn't think I'm a colorful troll?" she asked. I laughed. And she laughed with me.

"Troll?"

"Well, I do have colorful hair," she said pointing to her head. We laughed again.

"You're much more prettier than a troll," I stated.

"Ya think?" she asked.

"Well, not to be weird or anything because you know I don't like you like that, but yeah. I think you're REAL pretty. And if that Lily and I weren't destined to be together," she smiled at the cheesy line, "then I would probably be happy that you kissed me if I were Remus. And trust me. He's happy. If not a little freaked out. He doesn't like dealing with his feelings. It complicates things."

She frowned.

"Complicates what?"

"His…simple nature is all," I responded. Jeez, I hint at Moony's furry little problem waaay too often. I'm surprised only five people know about it (other than Moony himself).

Then we saw Carley stalk by.

"Have any of you seen Sirius?" she asked rolling her eyes.

"Um, no," Fayre said.

"I didn't ask you," she spat at her.

"WHOA! Okay. Calm down Carley. I thought he was with you," I said trying to intervene.

"Well, he's obviously not."

"Okaaay. Well, maybe he's in the kitchen. You know him. He eats like a dog," I replied to her rude statement and her rolling of her eyes. Why was Sirius dating her? I mean besides the fact that's she's hot.

Then she stalked off.

"Well, she's mad," I stated.

"Isn't she always?" said Fayre rolling her eyes.

"And she's always stalking Sirius," I pointed out.

"It's a bit creepy. I'm surprised she's not in Slytherin," Fayre mused.

"I heard she was going to be. But she really wanted to be in Hufflepuff apparently."

"Who WANTS to be in Hufflepuff?"

"Her."

"Why?"

"To hide her inner evilness," I said trying to scare her. Fayre rolled her eyes.

"Right. Shouldn't we be finding Lily?"

"Why?"
"So you can harass her until she admits her undying love for you."

"Oh right. Let's do that. I really want to hear THAT admittance." Wait. Lily has undying love for me? I knew I was warming up to her! YES!

Remus' POV

Later, at lunch, I saw Sirius with Fayre. They were laughing and there were stars in Fayre's eyes. And affection in Sirius'. And you never see that in those stone grey eyes.

Yet, Fayre had kissed me.

And I had kissed her back.

I felt so sick to my stomach.

Fayre's POV

After lunch, where Remus didn't show up to, I went to Lily's Head Girl Office as Peter waited outside of it because it was his turn to watch me.

"I kissed Remus." I burst out before she even said hi and before the door closed so Peter was looking at me wide eyed before the door closed.

"What?" she asked in momentary shock.

"I kissed-."

"No, I heard you. Just sit down. Do you need water?" she asked conjuring up some water in a cup with her wand.

"Wow, the day isn't even finished yet…" I heard her murmur. I downed the water to every last drop.

"Why did you kiss him?" she asked.

"Because… He was there… And he understood why I go up to the Observation Tower… And then it just… Happened. And I'm pretty sure he kissed back but once James Potter came to switch places with him he shot out of there. So I couldn't help myself so I cried and James was beside himself because he had a crying girl on his hands and boys obviously don't know what to do with a crying girl because Sirius did the same thing earlier today. And oh God. Remus was my first kiss. For some reason I have always thought Sirius would be… Even when we were just friends. I mean, we're STILL friends but…I don't know. Why did I kiss him?" I finished. Lily just stared wide-eyed at me.

"Um… Because you like him?" she asked more than said.

"Yes. I do. I do like Remus. Oh it's good to say that out loud. I like Remus Lupin!" I cried smiling.

"But…" How Lily knew there was a 'but' was beyond me.

"But… I love Sirius…" I said into my hands. Lily patted my back.

"I'm sorry to hear that, Remus was a good man."

"He's not dead."

"I know. But he doesn't have a dead chance."

"Yes he does! I did say I LIKE him!"

"Yeah. But you LOVE Sirius. And you can't beat love, sweets."

"But-."

"No buts. That's how it goes. You can't FORCE yourself to love Remus."

"I'm not forcing myself. And besides. Remus doesn't like me like that…" I said looking at the ground. Lily laughed.

"He kissed you back didn't he?"

"Yeah… but…"

"I said no buts didn't I? Remus definitely likes you back."

"Really?"

"Oh yes. Trust me on this one." My heart beat really fast.

"My turn Petes," I heard Sirius say outside of my dorm room, which is where I was now. I quickly hid my drawings in a drawer in the desk that all my dorm mates shared and while I was locking the drawer Sirius strolled in.

"What's in the drawer?" he asked as he sat down on Grace's bed. (If she were here, she'd freak…)

"Nothing," I said quickly. He raised his eyebrows. Then he smiled.

"Your little sketchbook slash diary?"

"It's not a diary," I mumbled.

"Can I see it?" he asked.

"NO!" I said a little too loudly. Then I coughed and said no a little more quietly that time. He raised his eyebrows and stared at me like I was a crazy person.

"Okay, then. No peeking in the drawer…" he said.

"Good." I said.

"HEY! FAYRE! ARE YA IN HERE?" yelled James from the outside of my dorm room.

"Yes…?" I said slowly.

"Good." And then he came inside and threw me over his shoulder.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

"It's a little something called Sirius' revenge," said James.

Sirius' POV

"It's a little something called Sirius' revenge," said James winking at me as Fayre screamed "WHAT?" Then James took her out of the room. I stared at the little silver key that had dropped to the floor. I knew I shouldn't… But I was curious. So instead of following James out of the dorm room, I picked up the silver key and unlocked the drawer that Fayre really didn't want me to look into. I pulled out her worn out sketchbook. I've seen her draw in it so many times but I never got to see the drawings. I opened it up to the first page and there was a boy who looked to be ten or eleven looking mischievous. It was brilliant. And…It was me.

I flipped another page and it was James and I. And suddenly as I flipped each page, it was like looking at me growing up. Each picture was me. Me. Me. And, me. And the last finished sketch was me facing a werewolf with bright gold eyes. It was dated from a few days ago. But, she had her dream last night. She was already thinking about werewolves…

The sketch she was working on when I had walked in was of smoky gray eyes with black hair falling into them. In the eyes, it looked like a reflection of a girl smiling back at the person. I think it was Fayre…

Oh Merlin.

The whole sketchbook was sketches of me.

And I knew then, Fayre Monroe has always been in love with me.

And that she may know that I love her back…

Fayre's POV

Sirius didn't follow James right away, but he caught up by the time James threw me in the lake.

I wiped a stray of wet black hair out of my violet eyes. Everyone was laughing at me. I rolled my eyes and laughed. Carley had caught up with Sirius and locked arms with him.

"Wanna go in the lake?" I heard him ask excitedly.

"Ew. No," she said scrunching up her face. Sirius just shrugged and ran down to the lake and looked down at me.

"Cozy down there?" he asked, smirking.

"Oh yeah. You should come sit here too," I said patting the water next to me. He laughed.

"No thanks. I'm fine where I am actually."

"Noooo, I insist!" I said. Then I grabbed his leg and pulled him into the water. He gave out a yelp and landed in the lake with a splash.

"Cozy here, ain't it?" I smiled as he sputtered up water.

"You're dead, Monroe," he growled. I widened my eyes and laughed as I got out of the water but he grabbed my arm, pulling me back into the water on top of him. I pushed him and laughed. And then it turned into this huge splashing war, with the rest of the Marauders jumping in and Lily, Claudia, and Ariana. Grace sort of stayed out of it and Carley stalked off when Sirius came to me. Then suddenly someone swam under me and then stood up with me on his shoulders.

"Ready for this?" Sirius asked underneath me.

"What are you going to do?" I asked.

"This." Then he fell backwards and so did I, the water engulfed me and it was quiet. The screaming when someone got splashed with water was muffled. I opened my eyes and there in front of me was Sirius. He stared back at me, with so much longing in his grey eyes. He put a hand on my cheek and then he swam back to the surface. I stayed down there until my lungs were screaming out in protest, frozen. Then I hit the surface and Remus was staring at me curiously. I smiled at him and then made my way to shore.

Grace used her wand to dry us all off when we got out of the lake, because nobody knew the drying spell.

I laughed as I lay down in the cool grass and Sirius was sitting next to me staring at me. I stared back at him. I couldn't tell what was going through his head. He looked like he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything. And instead turned away. He ran a hand through his messy black hair and stared out into the distance. Everyone else was having some sort of conversation about hills. (Don't know how that was brought up…) But it was like Sirius and I were in a different world. Sitting down next to each other, silently. And it was a comfortable silence. I also had the sudden urge to lay my head on his shoulder, and without thinking about it, I did. And he laid his head on top of mine, and nothing was said, but so much was at the same time.

Remus' POV

I watched as Fayre pulled him down into the water with him. I laughed with the rest; his face was of pure shock. Then Fayre tried to get up but Sirius pulled her down on top of him. I watched them as they started a splash war. Everyone else jumped in and it was fun. It was truly fun. I wasn't jealous of what was going on with Fayre and Sirius at all. Fayre had kissed me. There was nothing to be jealous for. But then, Sirius went under her and suddenly she was on top of his shoulders.

"Ready for this?" he asked her. She looked down at him, her face showing she was scared.

"Ready for what?"

"This!" he cried as he fell backwards. She screamed and then she hit the water with a splash. We all laughed at her.

No, I wasn't jealous. I wasn't jealous when I noticed that they stayed down there longer than necessary. And then he came up and she didn't. I wasn't jealous; I was concerned for her welfare.

I wasn't jealous until I noticed them sitting in the grass, not participating in the conversation. (We were talking about hills. I have no idea how it went from man-eating unicorns and whether there was such a thing to hills. I think Lily brought it up…)

Then I watched them as Fayre laid her head down on his shoulder and then he laid his head down on top of her head. And they fit together perfectly.

And that's when I first felt the feeling jealousy. I mean, to anyone else in our group they may just think oh well they've been best friends forever. But to me, it was different. I saw the way they looked at each other. And it had recently changed from the last year. It was slightly different, but it was different in how they saw each other.

And I knew then, that no matter how much I would try, he would only have to do a little thing and he would win her heart fully. And I never will.

And that just made me fill up with envy. That Sirius will never have to try. Because they were supposed to be together.

Fayre Black.

I could see it.

And that's what made me the most jealous.

Carley's POV

I watched from the window. I watched Sirius and Fayre. I curled my hands into a fist as I watched her lay her head on his shoulder and him laying his head on hers. NO! My head was screaming. I DID NOT TRY THIS HARD JUST TO LET HIM GO TO HER! I TOLD THEM ALL THAT HE WOULD NEVER GO TO HER THAT HE WOULD GO TO ME! And he had gone to me, but he would leave me for her. I could feel it. I hit my fist against the windowsill. No. I had just gotten attention because I was dating one of the most popular boys in school.

If you asked me if I loved him, of course I didn't. Love doesn't exist. But success does. And Sirius Black is successful. So, if you asked, for society's sake I would say yes. Of course.

But that GIRL was ruining everything!

"Carley?" someone asked from behind me. I lifted my head, not facing the boy.

"What do you want Fletcher?" I snapped.

"They're always surrounding her…" I turned around.

"So?"

"So…how are we supposed to get her?" I walked closer to him. I watched him as he gulped. I loved how much I scared him with just one look.

"Do you want to join the Dark Lord or not?" I asked him.

"You're a Hufflepuff…" he said. I laughed darkly.

"Yeah, it's a better cover than a Slytherin don't you think? Crucio," I said pointing my wand at him. He fell over in excruciating pain.

"Do it tonight, or it'll be a lot worse than that. Because, you'll go to the Dark Lord himself," I whispered in his ear as I muffled his screams with a spell. And I left him there, gasping for air, and still screaming silently. Once I turned the corner, I knew that the curse had been lifted by then. I also knew that he wasn't going to tell anybody or then they would capture him too for being with the Dark Lord.

It had to be tonight.

And night was almost here.

Fayre's POV

It was finally the Halloween Feast. The ghosts put on a play like they usually did. And we all clapped like we usually did. Finally, we were able to eat.

James and I had a contest in who could eat the most. By the end of that, we felt sort of sick but it was worth it because, well, I won. Don't think differently if he tells you that he won. Because he didn't.

And then suddenly, I felt someone else controlling my mind. And I couldn't stop it. My screams in my head apparently annoyed the person, because suddenly, my mind went blank.

James' POV

So, Fayre and I had an eating contest. I won. She didn't. I did, honestly. We laughed and then suddenly she didn't look so good.

"Are you okay?" asked Remus.

"Um…yeah…no…yeah. I just, have to go to my dorm. I forgot something," she said. Her eyes were pleading for something and then went blank. That was…odd.

"Okay, you want me to come with?" asked Remus. She laughed…sort of… It wasn't her usual full laugh.

"I feel sick, Remus. Besides, you guys have been following me all day. I think I can go to my dorm without anything bad happening to me," she said. Remus looked at her and she just stared back.

"Okay…" he finally relented. And then she left. That was the oddest conversation ever.

"Remus… I don't think she's going to her dorm," I said. Lily stared at me. Remus looked confused.

"What do you mean?" he asked. Sirius caught my eye.

"The Imperius spell…? No one would do it during the Halloween feast…" he said slowly.

"Imperius spell?" asked Remus.

"Dark Magic?" asked Lily. Peter stared at us wide eyed.

"Did you see the way she was acting? It was odd. It wasn't like her at all," I said.

"Should we follow her?" asked Lily. I nodded.

We all got up to go and follow Fayre.

But we were too late, she was gone.

"Maybe she really IS in her dorm…" said Peter. I shook my head.

"No, she definitely disappeared here," I said.

Sirius looked like he was going to punch someone. Remus looked white. Lily looked frantic.

"We should tell Dumbledore!" she cried.

"No! We can't! The full moon is in a couple of days and the rest of us would like to be there for Remus when it comes. Dumbledore would just increase security which would just be harder for us to go out and be with Remus," I said.

"But what about Fayre!"

"It's just a Halloween prank…" I tried convincing myself.

"Using the Imperius spell is not just a Halloween prank, Potter," stated Lily.

"We can't tell Dumbledore…" I pleaded with her.

And finally she obliged. We wouldn't tell Dumbledore. But if she gets murdered, then I already knew, I would have three people out to murder me.

But I knew we were going to find her. And that nothing bad would happen to her.

I hoped.

Fayre's POV

I woke up slowly. My surroundings were of wood and boarded up windows. And…Carley? I tried to talk but found that there was duct-tape around my mouth. And I couldn't move.

"Don't even bother, I used a spell to make sure you can't move a muscle," she spat at me.

God, she's an evil Hufflepuff… She looked around as Fletcher and some other Slytherins whom I had never seen before came in.

"You know, this place is supposedly haunted with REALLY violent ghouls," she said smiling sweetly at me.

"I hope you don't come back. Ta-ta now! I hope you remember not to ever cross me again. Just remember, Sirius is MINE," she screamed in my face. Then she pointed her wand at me. She wiped a stray lock of gold hair out of her face.

"Crucio," she whispered. And suddenly pain surrounded me. My vision turned blurred and red. She said something but I couldn't hear it. I couldn't scream. I couldn't move. I couldn't cry. The pain was just in me. Boiling in me. It couldn't come out. The inside of me was screaming bloody murder. This was worse than my dream. It felt like my limbs were ripping off. And then thankfully, I blacked out, and couldn't feel anything.

When I woke up, I still couldn't move, and there was no one around me. And no one could hear my silent screams.

And I knew, I knew Carley was going to leave me here to die.

A/N: AAAAHHHHH I know. It's a bit much to sink in.

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