Remus and Sirius stood facing each other in the dorm. Remus was in the middle of the room after being shoved there by an angry Sirius. Sirius' breaths were short and shallow, he looked at Remus, standing there utterly bewildered.

Sirius had no idea why he was so mad, but something had built up inside of him and all he wanted to do was shout at Remus. He thought it might have stemmed from whatever Remus was keeping from him. Crazy ideas ha been forming in his mind all day. He had recently decided that Remus was secretly in love with Lily, and this was what had pushed him over the edge..

Pushed him so far over the edge that he had decided to confront Remus about it. But he was so annoyed that when he spoke, all of his words joined into one and it was all so fast, so it just left Remus looking even more confused.

"Sirius, what are you on about? And why are you so mad?" Remus questioned Sirius while he took a seat on the nearest bed (James').

"I'm mad because I know you love Lily!" Sirius knew it sounded stupid, but he decided even if it is stupid, it would get Remus talking about what he was keeping from him.

"Wait, what? Where on earth did that come fro- wait, is this about why I was talking to Lily the other night?"

"..maybe" Sirius murmured, he had calmed down now, Remus' horrified look at what he had said had done it. He'd known there and then that would never be true, it felt like a weight was lifted. But then he felt a pang in his chest as he remembered, there was still something he didn't know..

"For Merlin's sake Sirius, did you really think that? God, James would kill me."

"I just- it's just that- you didn't tell me what it was about. I don't like it when you keep things from me," Sirius refused to look Remus in the eye, his mood had completely changed in the space of a few minutes, this was a common occurrence for Sirius. He often had rapid mood swings, and poor Remus often had to deal with them.

"Sirius, I told you, she just found out about my furry little prob-"

"Remus that was such an obvious lie! I just thought you didn't want Wormtail to know, I thought you would tell me, because I would always tell you!" some of Sirius' confidence had come back now and he was staring at Remus. When Remus made no move to tell him he turned to leave.

Remus and Sirius barely spoke throughout the next two days. Remus spent a lot of his time in the library, whilst Sirius chose to sit in the common room and throw dirty looks at anyone who annoyed him. They had spoken three times, and none of the conversations were particularly intriguing or lengthy. And with the full moon the next day, Remus would have to make their total conversations up to four.

He found in sitting by the window in the common room. The snow was piling up on the ledge and Sirius watched as the small flakes splattered the window. James and Peter had been invited to join the sixth years' snowball fight, Sirius had declined his own invitation. Remus sat opposite him and waited for Sirius to turn his head.

"Sirius, look I'm sorry. I really do want to tell you, but right now I don't think I can. But I also can't go another minute having you not talk to me," he dropped his voice to a whisper and leaned closer to Sirius, "It's the full moon tomorrow, I want you to be there. Well actually I don't really want any of you there, but what I mean is, I want you to want to be there. Will you?"

Sirius looked Remus square in the face. He could already see the effects of the looming full moon etched on his face. His eyes were darkening, no longer their usually honey colour, but a dull brown. The rings around his eyes already turning purple. Sirius nodded stiffly and watched as Remus' eyes grew wide with pleasure. He stretched out and pulled Sirius into a hug. Sirius hadn't fully forgiven him yet, nor had he any intention to drop the subject, but he knew he could stress out Remus at this time if the month.

Madame Pomfrey led the weary Remus down the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack. The people of Hogsmeade had dubbed the shack with the name, referring to the screams they often heard coming from there. Rumours had sprouted of the place being haunted, rumours only encouraged by Professor Dumbledore.

He slipped out of his robes as the matron locked the door, his friends would be along in a minute and would simply use alohomora on it. Storing them behind the remains of the bed, he turned to face his friends, who also stored the invisibility cloak and Marauders' Map there. Suddenly, Remus was very aware he was naked, but now was not the time for blushing and embarrassment, they of course had been in that exact situation hundreds of times.

"You had better change now, my transformation will be starting soon."

They obliged, becoming Padfoot, Prongs and Wormtail, just in time as a few minutes later, Remus' own transformation began, and the shack was once again filled with screams.

Sirius couldn't stand watching his friend go through this pain. He hated watching Remus' body shake and convulse and the bones shattered and regrew as the wolf's. Sirius remembered back in third year when he had found Remus' diary and had read only one entry about his transformation before putting it down. The way Remus described it, made it ten times worse to watch.

Finally, the wolf stood before them. It looked at them with nearly black eyes. It took a few moments for the wolf the grow comfortable around them and for his eyes to lighten to a dull brown, which signalled the wolf gaining control of its animal instincts. This happened every full moon, the three of them would wait for the eyes to lighten before moving, the eyes lightening meant Remus was there, the three of them in animal form made him more human.

Together, the four of them left the shack, Peter in the lead, James and Sirius on either side of Remus, to once again explore the Hogwarts grounds.

A/N sorry about the long wait, not sure when I'll be able to write again, but reviews would encourage me to write faster