It's the Marauders' first year at school, and it's going to be full of madness, mayhem, and above all, magic. (Sirius Black, Jamie Potter, Remus Lupin, and Petra Pettigrew.)
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Remus woke up to a terrible pounding in her head. It was normal for her to feel like a jet of fire from the anus of a Fire-Crab, but this was something else entirely.
Her brain throbbed when she moved, and her eyes burned when she closed them. It was impossible for her to see anything other than the blurred, rough stone walls of the cell she'd been placed in, lit by the hissing gas lamp in the corner.
It was too painful to keep her eyes open for long, so she simply shut them, and wondered when somebody would be along to check on her. Damocles had said it would be a rough moon; perhaps he was preoccupied with the other injured wolves. She thought guiltily of the special treatment she'd received, and hoped that Dahlia wasn't bashed up too badly.
Her muscles ached, but not as awfully as usual, and her post-moon consciousness was not accompanied by the normal stinging and burning of her magically inflicted wounds and bites from her Transformation.
If she concentrated hard enough, when the pain in her head ebbed, she could remember flashes of last night.
There had been a drink... And then everything had disappeared in flashes of red and pain and howl-like screams...
Remus shuddered at the memory. It was never pleasant for her to recall bits of her Transformation after it was over. As if it weren't enough that she had to go through it once.
No, Remus would take the scars and bite wounds over these memories and the fire in her brain any day...
'Help,' she croaked, knowing that it was highly unlikely that anyone would hear her. 'Please, help me.'
No one came. Flashes kept replaying in the poor werewolf's head, and she began to cry as nobody answered her pleas for help.
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Lillian stared at the open door that Sirius Black had just waltzed out of, seemingly headless, and cringed as he heard screaming and swearing erupting from the Common Room below.
Sirius Black, she had that effect on people. And it didn't go wasted on Mason either, thought Lillian pitiyingly, as he watched Mason prance towards the toilets, before glancing around and blushing as he realised what he was doing. Alex offered him a tight smile, before climbing into his own bed and pulling the drapes shut.
Lillian held the envelope tightly between his fingers, before deciding it would be better to read it somewhere he could be alone.
He considered the library briefly, before deciding against it: Severa might be there, and he wasn't quite ready to talk to her just yet. They hadn't been fighting, exactly, but he still felt slightly wronged by the events of the Quidditch match, although she was hardly to blame. He contemplated and dismissed several other locations before deciding on the Astronomy Tower. They had weekly lessons there on Wednesdays, but the tower was only in use after dark for obvious reasons, if he went now, he would be alone.
