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"Psst!"

Remus rolled over and snuggled deeper in to his pillow. He had been having the strangest dream involving a Sirius that looked like the Mad Hatter from the Muggle book he had borrowed from his mother.

"Psst. Reeeemusss." Now James was there as the March Hare and they were trying to force tea on him.

"Oi! Lupin!" Remus felt himself being wrenched from his bed and only just stuck an arm out as he landed on the floor in a tangle of blankets.

"What in the name of Merlin's sagy Y fronts are you doing?" he asked hotly as he tried to stand and detangle himself from the blankets.

"Peter, go help Remus," Sirius ordered as he sat on the edge of Remus's bed.

Peter complied right away, grabbing an end of the blanket and pulling. Sometimes Remus thought that Peter would jump off the astronomy tower if James or Sirius told him to.

"They just came for Mary," James said quietly as he too came to sit on Remus's four-poster. "We heard McGonagall in the common room. She didn't even tell us off for being out of bed."

"What happened?" Remus had finally managed to work his way out of the blanket, and now all four of the Marauders were sitting on the bed.

"Death eaters, I reckon. I heard McGonagall say something about the Dark Mark," Sirius said bitterly, thinking of his cousin Bellatrix and her husband Rudolphas.

"They got her family?" Peter asked shivering. He had not been in the common room at that moment.

"Her mum," James said sadly.

"Is this why you woke me up?"

Sirius actually smiled. "No. But we figured we better get the bad news out of the way first." Now he was grinning and James and Peter also looked pleased.

"You three look like the cat that swallowed the canary. What is it?"

"We've done it mate," James said clapping him on the shoulder. "We've become animagi."

Remus didn't know what to say. After three years he hardly believed it was true. "Can I see? I mean is there room enough for you to show me?" he didn't realize it but he sounded dazed.

"There should be. You go first James."

James stood up and moved away from the bed so he had more space. Then with one last smile at Remus, he closed his eyes, and began to change. Remus stared. Before him, where his friend used to be, stood a great white stag.

"My turn." Peter hopped off the bed and then closed his eyes like James had. In less then minute a rat sat where he had stood, it's long skinny tale twitching like a pink worm.

"Bloody hell," Remus ran a hand through his hair.

Sirius laughed and clapped him on the back. "Just wait mate, there's more." He then proceeded to close his eyes as well. Soon a large black dog was sitting beside Remus. The dog barked and then licked Remus face.

"Oh, Sirius did you really have to?" James asked, having just turned back.

Instead of changing back Sirius leaped off the bed and at Peter who squeaked and ran across the room.

"So," James sat beside Remus. "what do you think?"

"I think I have the most amazing friends anyone could ask for," Remus said now coming out of his daze. He still couldn't believe it. They had actually done it. To help him. Never did he think he would have friends like them, it just wasn't fathomable being what he was. And yet here they were breaking the law for him.

"Your more then just our friend Remus," James said seriously, a rare thing for him. "Your our brother. We would do anything for you, just like we knew you would do anything for us."

"Oi, you two stop being so mushy over there. You know how I love a feel good moment," Sirius exclaimed as he dropped on to his own bed. Peter had now also returned to his normal self.

'Well if you weren't so busy padding around the room after Peter, you could have participated."

"Padding? I do not pad," he scoffed.

"You do. In fact if I didn't know you were there I wouldn't have ever heard you," Remus said smirking at the affronted look on his friends face.

"Are you calling me light of foot? Just because I'm good looking does not mean I'm a poof. Padfoot indeed," he grumbled rolling over.

"Padfoot. Hmm it does have a certain ring to it eh Remus?" James asked biting back a smile.

"Absolutely."

"Right. So from now on Sirius will be known as Padfoot."

Sirius sat up, an evil twinkle in his eye. " Fine. But If I have to be Padfoot then you all have one too."

"Nicknames?" Peter asked dropping on to his bed. It was three in the morning.

"Right. James can be Prongs."

"Prongs? What for?"

"Because of your antlers," Remus supplied catching on.

"Exactly." Sirius grinned. "No need to think of what to call Peter. That tail of his is so long and pink you'd think it was a real worm."

"Wormtail." James grinned too, getting into the spirit of the conversation.

"So that only leaves Remus," Peter yawned. "What'd we call him?"

"I've always been partial to loopy," Sirius chuckled, grinning.

"Please don't. It's bad enough when Peeves calls me that," Remus said making a face. In truth he didn't mind when Peeves called him that but he wasn't about to let his friends pick it up.

"Has to be something to do with his furry problem," James said thinking.

"What about something to do with the moon?"

Sirius thought too. "What about Moony?"

"Yeah, I like it. What do you think Peter? Moony a good name for Remus?" James asked.

"Peter?" There was a loud snore from the corner bed.

Sirius shook his head. "Useless. He's gone to sleep.'

James shrugged. "Doesn't matter. From now on we're the four Marauders, Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs."

"Well when you say it like that I guess it does have a certain ring to it," Sirius conceded.

Remus just shook his head. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. He had to agree with Sirius it did indeed have a certain ring to it.