My eyes flickered open once again and I saw a sandy haired boy smiling down at me, a pink scar taking up most of his pale face.

'Hey your awake, thought id come check how you were, Sirius sends his love and so does Lily, James and Peter' Remus smiled and squeezed my hand while I squinted to see what was going on.

'Hey, where are the others?' I muttered groggily, attempting to sit up and look around.

'They're all busy with homework. Sirius wanted to come but he hasn't done his work in nearly a week so we made him stay with the others' Remus' eyes scanned my face, and I groaned in exhaustion.

'Why the hell am I still in the hospital wing? It was only a bump on the head!' I groaned some more and Remus bit his lip, but then coughed and said:

'Well, Madame Pomfrey tried to heal your head but every time she got near you would morph into Lily or Izzie, who didn't have injuries, so she would have to wait till you morphed back. Whenever she got near you would morph, making it near impossible to heal you. She had to call Sirius and ask if he would stay next to you while she healed you, but it still didn't work. In the end she had to tell Sirius what to do while she watched, Sirius was the one that healed you really, and that was yesterday' He explained, whilst again scanning my face for any sort of emotion. Instead, I groaned again and attempted to swing my legs out of the completely uncomfortable hospital bed, but Remus was prepared and shoved me back gently while he muttered something about me being 'intolerable' and incredibly 'stubborn' and 'grumpy'

'I bet ive been a right pain!' Remus opened his mouth to say something before I shot him a look and said: 'Don't answer that'

'You were alright actually; it took a while for Sirius to heal you though. Poppy said you can go back to school tomorrow, if you sleep today that is, and im not even allowed to be here, I snuck in while Poppy was in the back room' The thought of going back to school made my heart drop, but it was better than being stuck here day and night. As my thoughts went to all the schoolwork and homework I had missed, I noticed Remus looked incredibly nervous as he asked: 'Av's, can I ask you something?' I nodded without even looking at him, he took a deep breath and said quietly: 'do you love Sirius? Was everything Lily said true?' I opened my eyes and sighed, I better explain myself.

'Honestly? I don't know, I… I think I do Remus, but that scares me, it's not like me to love someone like that. I mean I love you, James, Peter and Lily, but like in a different way to how I like Sirius you know?' Remus nodded and I continued: 'But im not sure he honestly likes me, or whether im just another girl he can snog. I dunno, it feels like he doesn't trust me, like he's never explained to me where he goes once a month, and why he sneaks around at night with you guys, I mean I just want him to trust me. I think he just thinks of me as a friend, like a friend he can flirt with, and not anymore than that. I honestly don't know what to do Remmy' Remus smiled at his name, and he stood up from the plastic chair he had been sat on a held out his hand (which are huge!)

'I think its about time I said, and showed you something, so I can explain on behalf of Padfoot' I took his hand and climbed out of bed, suddenly aware that my hospital gown had a massive gaping hole in the back. Grabbing my jeans and t-shirt, I chucked them on and followed Remus outside, while shoving my hair into a scruffy ponytail. 'Stay with me okay? Its about time I explained' We walked in silence out of the building and towards Hagrids hut, where next to it, was the whomping willow, a huge willow tree (obviously) that basically tried to kill anyone that got near it. Confused, I looked at Remus, wondering why on earth I had been brought out here. 'Av's, this is where I come once a month for my 'transformations'' He looked away and gazed at the forbidden forest while I stood there confused. Transformations? What does Remus transform into once a month? Once a month, as in, a full moon? A tree that no one can get to, private, secret. Lily and I always hear howls once a month. Werewolves. But not plural. Werewolf. Remus, the kindest, most decent person I had ever met, was a werewolf? Gaping, I turned to Remus in shock and his eyes were watering, knowing that I caught on. Expecting me to run, he turned away, but I followed him round and wrapped my arms round his incredibly skinny waist. He was rigid with shock, but then realising I didn't care, he wrapped his arms round me and I buried my head into his baggy jacket. Remus pulled away and looked at me, with shock, and almost disbelief. 'You don't care?' He muttered and I laughed at him, playfully punching him on the shoulder.

'Of course I don't care! This just makes you extra special!' He smiled and I grinned at him.

Remus took me through past the Whomping Willow and done into a secret passageway, that lead to a door. Opening it, I saw that inside was the Shrieking Shack. It was known for being haunted by ghost and I felt an eerie sensation as we walked quietly through the door. We went up some stairs to a room, where a ripped sofa was in the middle, and a wrecked rug piled up against the wall. There were claw marks and scrapes in the wall, there seemed to have been lots of fights in here. The place wasn't haunted, Remus explained and this was where Remus now had his transformations, and he made it sound like it was a ghost wailing, when really, it was him screaming from the pain. I grimaced at the marks in the sofa, and I could almost imagine the pain Remus experience every month, and I could picture Sirius, James and Peter stood in there Animagi form. To me, I imagined Sirius as a dog type thing, Peter as a rodent, and I wasn't particularly sure what James was, Prongs… Something to do with antlers? I didn't know. Before long we turned away and exited the creepy building, making our way back to the Hospital Wing and on the way Remus explained everything to me.

'The rest of The Marauders come out every full moon and help me, but not in human form or I probably would have eaten them by now, or worse' He looked grim but carried on: 'They learnt how to become Animagi and transform with me each month, because werewolves are less dangerous around animals. It took them two years, and they finally completed it in fifth year. I told them everything in third year, a year after I met them and they befriended me, because I just knew I could trust them, and Id never had friends like them before.' He smiled at the memory and soon we were back at The Hospital Wing, where I told Remus I was going to learn how to become an Animagus so I could help him on his full moons. He looked chuffed at this, and said he was now going to tell Lily as well, as she had just the right as me to know.

Remus left soon after, but gave me a book on Patronuses and Animagi, so I could learn for my lesson next week, as well as Lily's first lesson. I was incredibly excited at the news, and couldn't wait to find out what my Patronus was; so then I knew what my Animagus would be.

I wasn't very good at keeping in my excitement, and decided since I was extremely bored, to practise early. I had read in my book that to create a Patronus you had to concentrate on your happiest memory. Having thought for a minute, I decided on the memory of me seeing The Marauders, and Lily and I graduating from Hogwarts, and seeing James propose to Lily. I didn't particularly know if that counted as a memory, since I hadn't experienced it yet, but I pacifically remember how I felt then and what it was like, so it must be good enough.

Grabbing my wand from the beside table, I concentrated so hard on the memory I could almost see it happening. I screwed my eyes up and shouted (a bit too loudly if im honest)

'Expecto Patronum!' I felt something burst from my wand and I quickly opened my eyes to see a shadowy grey wolf erupt from the wand and prowl round the room, baring its teeth and swishing its misty tail out behind it. I grinned at the sight of the gorgeous wolf, and decided to get some sleep before I was allowed out of the Hospital tomorrow. The wolf seemed to curl up at the bottom of my bed and fall asleep with me, but when I opened my eyes again, I saw it had disappeared like the wind, and I couldn't see the shadowy protector anymore. The animal was majestic and regal, for a wolf. You imagined wolves being scruffy and muddy, but this wolf was glimmering, and seemed to almost be there next to me.

I smiled at my new companion and fell into a deep sleep, imagining the Animagus lesson in a week's time.

A/N Hey guys! So ive prewritten the final two chapters of this story, and i have figured its going to have 16 chapters! Hopefully. Might be fifteen actually...
Anyway, huge shout out to DZAuthor AKA DZMom, you made my day by reviewing all of the chapters! Thanks so much.
So, this is chapter nine, i think, or is it ten?... Oh well, Enjoy!
Up to now, which is your favourite part of the story?
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Do you think i portrayed Sirius well, if not, how would you change him?
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