(A/N): Hey Guys! So, since I cheated, and updated a chapter without finishing, or even starting, the next one, this one should have been out yesterday, but I still had to write another chapter. Hope you guys like this chapter, it's Leo's PoV to start, but then the rest is in Elaine's PoV.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but Elaine, Leo, Shari and Nicholai.

Leo

It had been two days since we had stopped Maloney, two days since Lily, Elaine, James, Sirius, Peter and the rest had been freed from the trance, and they still didn't remember anything. We had told them the basics, like how they were under the trance in the first place, and Maloney had been fired after Dumbledore had found out.

I was still slightly on edge around Elaine, but not enough to be too suspicious. After all, if she didn't remember, who was I to remind her?

"The others and I were considering going for a walk around the castle tonight, want to come?" Lily asked as we walked by ourselves to our History of Magic lesson, Elaine having had to go to the loo.

"Nah, just make sure you don't go outside." I was still feeling the counter effects of the blood I had ingested but only slightly, and being around too many people, closely, was practically killing me. The reason they couldn't go outside was because it was Remus's time of the month. No, not his period you numpties, it was a full-moon.

He had grown weaker over the past two days, and I was slightly worried, but as he had said, he could smell it on me seeing as it had been right before the full moon. His smell had grown stronger as well, the musky, woodsy smell mixed with grass and dog-breath overtook the almost constant smell of chocolate that exuded from him, and I could tell it was getting close.

So no, I didn't really want Lily and the others outside when that happened.

The school day was rather boring, and much later that night, I sat with a book in the armchair by the fire, the only one left up, the others still on their walk around the castle.

I folded the edge of my page down as the Common room portrait hole opened, but relaxed and tensed at the same time as I realised it was only Elaine. Not a teacher, but not all of them back.

Where were they?

"Man, that was exhausting. They decided to go outside! How stupid is that, it's practically freezing out." I turned to stone, my eyes slowly sliding to stare at her.

"Elaine, do you know what today is?" She looked at me blankly, shaking her head. "It's the full moon." She stared at me for a second before her eyes widened and her mouth fell open in horror.

"We have to stop them!" She turned to the portrait hole, but I quickly slid one arm under her knees, catching her with the other arm as she fell over, carrying her bridal style.

"This will be quicker." I explained quickly before racing out of the Common room, through the castle and out into the grounds, using vampire speed. It wasn't as fast as usual, what with the extra weight, but it was certainly much quicker than human speed. I set Elaine down, carefully but quickly, and scanned the area for our group of friends, hoping we weren't too late.

"There!" I exclaimed, pointing at the group who were almost directly in front of us, maybe twenty feet away. I inhaled slightly, before quickly exhaling. Remus was close, and there was blood.

Lily's. The burning in my throat told me, recognising the scent. A plan formed in my head as I saw the figures in my head, through the blood pumping in their veins, all five of them.

"You get Lily, I'll distract Remus." I said, before using vampire speed to get to the edge of the Forbidden forest, examining the scene before me with this new angle, before moving into action as I saw Elaine approach them at a run.

Elaine

"You get Lily, I'll distract Remus." Leo whispered, before disappearing. I shook my head slightly, before racing towards where Lily was on her back in the grass, Remus rapidly approaching as the others, the boys, tried to distract it away from Lily, or tried to pull her out of the way.

Just as I reached them, wrapping my arms around Lily's chest, under both of her arms, a rock flew past, hitting wolf-Remus in the face. He whipped his head around, to stare at something at the edge of the forest, and I could recognise Leo.

I pulled strongly on Lily, dragging her backwards and away from the hungry werewolf, James and Sirius now helping me while Peter, bless him, stood in front of us, shaking like a leaf, his wand pointed at Remus.

"Hey Wolf-boy! Why don't you hunt someone your own size?" I heard Leo yell, and smiled briefly. Even in the face of danger, he was making jokes. Trying to make us laugh, reassuring us.

Worry flashed through my brain as Remus turned, and loped towards where Leo stood, but that disappeared as Leo turned also, glancing over his shoulder to make sure Remus was definitely following him before taking off into the forest. I remembered the way he had carried me here, and I was almost confident that Leo would be able to escape unscathed.

"Is he crazy!?" Sirius Exclaimed, staring after Leo, looking like he wanted to go after him.

"He'll be fine! Now, can you give me a hand here?" I snapped, gesturing to the fact that lily was struggling to get away from me, also to go after Leo.

"We- we have to help him! I'm not- not letting him get hurt because-because of me!" Lily cried, sounding close to tears at this point. James went to reach a hand out to help me restrain her, but she growled at him.

"Touch me Potter and it's the last thing you'll ever do!" Sirius rolled his eyes, and for a second I marvelled at his bravery as he grabbed Lily's wrists, pulling her upright in a flash, wrapping one arm around her waist to keep her back pinned to his chest, holding her slightly off the ground so she couldn't stomp on his feet.

"He'll be fine!" I reiterated, before glancing down at Lily's leg, which had a rather large amount of blood on it for the reasonably small scratch I could make out. "You won't be if we don't get you to the Hospital wing, though." Lily looked defeated enough, so we managed to drag her, quickly but carefully, back into the castle.

Avoiding the teachers was easy enough. After all, we'd been doing it all night. When we reached the Hospital wing though, we had to wake up Madam Pomfrey.

I swallowed, slightly nervous, before knocking on the door, loudly enough to hear in case she was asleep.

"What the hell are you doing here so late?" Madam Pomfrey questioned, before catching sight of Lily's leg and rolling her eyes. "Just go put her in bed four." Sirius nodded, carrying Lily over to the supposed fourth bed, and I leaned against the one opposite hers.

"By the looks of this, I'd say Leo will be coming in soon, am I correct? He always seems to have something do with the somewhat dangerous shenanigans around the castle." She told us, glancing at the now open door before setting to work on Lily's leg.

"What happened?" Lily's eyes widened, and she shook her head, refusing to answer, and Madam Pomfrey turned to me. "Well?" I lowered my gaze.

"It was a werewolf, ma'am." I told her politely, and she nodded, not seeming all too surprised.

"Well, technically, this was a rock." We turned to stare at Lily, who gestured to her leg. "I slipped and cut it on a rock while trying to...you know, escape." We nodded understandingly, and madam Pomfrey pulled out her wand, pointing it at Lily's leg.

"This won't hurt a bit, dear." She told Lily comfortingly, before murmuring something, a warm light coming from the tip of her wand, and, in seconds, Lily's leg was healed. "There, all done.

"The werewolf..." James said, and we turned to stare at him again, as his gaze was plastered to the floor. "It was Remus, wasn't it?" My eyes went wide, and I saw madam Pomfrey's follow suit.

"How long have you known?" She asked quietly, and James shrugged.

"We had our suspicions." Sirius told her, and she looked to me.

"How long have you known Elaine? You didn't seem all that surprised by that." I felt the others staring at me, and I shrugged slightly, avoiding their eyes.

"Since early last year. Leo knew before I did, though." I glanced up, and I saw the shocked looks ont heir faces.

"Was that why you spent so much time away from us?" Lily asked, and I frowned.

"Pertaining to that, yes, but not that specifically." I said cryptically, and Pomfrey stared at me for a second longer.

"What about Leo?" Lily asked, her eyes wide, and scared. "What if he's hurt, or...or dead?" She whispered the last bit, and i snorted, trying to reassure her with the confidence I didn't really feel.

"It's Leo, Lily. I don't think he's dead." I told her, and another voice, a familiar one, spoke up from the doorway.

"I don't even know that I can die Lils." It was Leo. He was wearing a cloak he hadn't been before, and I assumed it was to hide his injuries to the others. They must be pretty severe then.

"Okay, everyone out. Let me work in peace." Madam Pomfrey commanded, and Lily beamed at Leo before James and Sirius led her from the room before she could complain. Peter shut the door behind them, but Pomfrey was still staring at me.

"That means you too, Miss Folley." I rolled my eyes at her.

"I don't care. I'm staying, and you can't stop me." I glanced at Leo for support but he only shrugged at Madam Pomfrey.

"If she wants to stay, I say we let her." I smiled at him, before pushing him lightly towards the closest bed. He smiled at me, almost indulgently, before turning to Pomfrey.

"Let's get this over with." At this familiar phrase, memories came flooding back. I stared at Leo in horror as I remembered insulting him, calling him a monster, all those weeks ago. Why was he still being friends with me, after that?

I slipped my hand into his, and he smiled a surprised sort of smile up at me before wincing as Pomfrey pulled off the cloak, revealing the deep scratches and the rather larger bit mark on his shoulder.

"Holy crap." I uttered, and Leo chuckled slightly.

"Bugger's fast when he wants to be."

(A/N): So, what do you think? Were you worried that I had killed Lily?

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