(A/N): hey Guys! So, this is the fifty-second chapter. It took me six hours to write- not really, it was more on and off from 12 to six. I hope you enjoy it, even though it's mostly random crap.

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

Leo

We had been researching Animagi ever since Maloney's trance was removed, and a week and a half later, we had a break-through.

"It has the third part of the transformation method here! It's been right under our noses the whole time!" Elaine and I jolted upright at Remus's exclamation before rolling our eyes at each other.

"Only Remus could be that excited over a book." He frowned, crossing his arms over his chest.

"You two are the ones who wanted to do this so badly, why aren't you doing it?" I pouted slightly.

"Well, Moony, it's because we have you. See, if we didn't have you to do all the work, we'd actually have to do something!" I said like I was horrified by the thought, but then I shrugged and grinned at him. "Either that or we're just really lazy." Elaine grinned also, pointing a finger at me.

"Yeah, it's definitely the second option." Remus rolled his eyes again, placing the book he had found on the table, before clearing all the other books without the information important to the transformation, leaving us with only five books on the table.

"So, these two are theory, and preparation, while these three are the parts of Method?" I asked, gesturing to each in turn, and Remus nodded, looking somewhat surprised that I had actually been paying attention.

"We should all read all of these books. Elaine and I because we have to, and Remus, you should read them to make sure we're doing it right." He nodded, and Elaine smirked at me before ruffling my hair with her hand.

"Look at you, acting all grown up. Give it up Lee, we all know you're actually a six year old in a twelve year olds' body." I grinned at her, one eyebrow raised.

"Is that a new nickname? It's getting pretty hard to keep track." She started to reply, but I froze before reaching over the table, grabbing all five of the books and stuffing them into my half-empty book bag.

"What-?" Remus was cut off as the door opened, revealing Lily, James, Sirius and Peter.

"Oh, hey guys." Elaine said awkwardly, trying to cover up the fact that she was both shocked and attempting to cover up our past doings.

"Hey." James greeted quietly, Peter and Sirius nodded while Lily simply stared.

"Are you guys okay?" She asked quietly, and the others glanced at her before also staring at us.

"Of course we are Lils, why wouldn't we be? Were you expecting to walk in us painting each other's nails? Because that's not happening, ever again." I told them jokingly, and Lily smiled slightly.

"We were just coming to check on your battle wounds." James explained, gesturing to my shoulder, where the bite mark still resided. I may heal faster than humans, but not that fast, and especially not when it came to injuries caused by werewolves.

"Speaking of which, we've been meaning to ask you something." Sirius said, making us look at him, before he nudged Lily forward, and she stumbled, looking both outraged and embarrassed that Sirius was throwing her under the bus.

"What we wanted to ask was...well...are you going to become a werewolf because of these?" I saw Remus flinch out of the corner of my eye, but ignored it, also seeing as Peter rested a hand on his shoulder comfortingly.

"No, not according to Madam Pomfrey anyway. Apparently there's only a specific way you can be turned into a-" I was cut off by Remus, who rolled his eyes exasperatedly.

"Oh, just tell them already Leo!" Elaine and I stared at him in disbelief, and the others glanced at him before turning back to stare at me. I kicked him in the leg, hard, and he yelped from the pain.

"Remember Remus, I can kick you harder, and in worse places." I raised an eyebrow at him warningly, and he gulped, obviously knowing what I was insinuating.

"What did you want him to tell us?" Sirius asked, looking to Remus, who glanced at me and shook his head.

"It's nothing, now drop it." He told him, deathly quiet, and the other stared at him for a second.

"Leo?" James asked, and I glanced at the table, stalling, before looking back up, only to feel Elaine's hand curl around mine in an effort to comfort me, whatever my decision.

"It's nothing, believe me." I almost winced at this statement, because it really wasn't nothing. It was dangerous, and unpredictable, and could get them all killed. Shouldn't I at least give them a fair chance to prepare themselves? It wouldn't make the fight any fairer either way, and I was genuinely afraid of how they would react, so I didn't tell them.

"Elaine?" Lily asked, and Elaine's head snapped up, her lips curled in anger.

"If Leo doesn't want to tell you, then I most certainly won't." Elaine growled, and I squeezed her hand lightly, smiling at her gently before looking back to Lily, who had winced at the harshness of our friends tone.

"You three are way too secretive for your own good." James muttered, and I grinned at him.

"Probably, but loyalty is important to us." I glanced to Elaine, then to Remus, and back to James. "Damn, we should have been Hufflepuffs." Elaine raised her head again.

"If we weren't so hot-headed." Remus smiled at us fondly, rolling his eyes.

"And stubborn." We beamed at him before returning to the others, who were looking on with amusement.

"Yeah, you three are definitely stubborn. More stubborn than anyone else I've ever met. And reckless, too." I grinned at Lily, before raising an eyebrow at Remus.

"Speaking of which, Remus, you do realise it was me who got the ingredients for the potion right?" He stared at me, wide-eyed and shocked.

"But...you seemed so innocent!" I chuckled, and he frowned. "How the hell did you get out? McGonagall locked the door!" I smirked at him, leaning back in my chair.

"I told you both, when McGonagall asked." He thought about it for a second, before his eyes widened further than I thought possible.

"You climbed out the window?!" The others stared at us in shock.

"Yep." I said proudly, and he glared at me before sighing like it was his dying breath- or like he wanted to make mine happen.

"That's seven stories up!" I grinned at him.

"Well technically, I only had to go down two stories and then climb through a window." The others stared at me, and Remus shook his head.

"You're a bloody idiot, Blue."

(A/N): So, what did you think?

This chapter was mainly to introduce the fact that Leo might have a big secret like Remus's to Lily and the others, and to tell Remus that Leo was actually the one who stole the ingredients in one of the earlier chapters.

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This chapter has had minor edits made to it on 29/12/22