Marauders' Tales (One-Shots)

Lily discovers Remus' furry little secret

"Mooony."

"What."

"What are you doing."

"If you took the trouble of opening your eyes, you'd have seen quite clearly that I'm reading."

"I couldn't take the trouble."

"I know, Sirius." Remus' words were accompanied with a great sigh.

"What?" Sirius demanded.

"We have our OWLs in exactly..." Remus glanced at the calendar hanging above his bed. "...16 days."

"So?"

"You haven't opened a book yet. Neither has Prongs."

"Speaking of Prongs, where is he?" said Sirius, eager to change the topic.

Obviously, Remus knew at once that he was deviating the topic, but he sighed again and allowed it.

"Dunno. Went off somewhere."

"Maybe chasing after Evans AGAIN?" suggested Sirius.

"I wouldn't be surprised at all, Padfoot."

"But he's stupid, isn't he? He'll never have her convinced on his own, he needs our help."

Remus hid a smile at that.

"I assure you whatever he may manage on his own, it'll be ten times worse if you interfered, Sirius."

It was Sirius' turn to sigh.

"Where's Wormtail then?" he said, clearly in a mood to whine.

"I don't know, Sirius, go and look for them yourself if you're so bothered! And please lemme read in peace," ordered Remus.

Sirius rolled off his four poster bed and went to sit beside Remus, pushing him so hard that Remus almost toppled over the other side of the bed.

"What's your problem?" he said crossly, righting himself.

"I'm bored," said Sirius.

"When are you not bored?" said Remus severely.

"Plenty of times," said Sirius brightly, casually attempting to snatch Remus' book away. Remus, who had far too much experience in the field, caught his book just in time. Sirius continued speaking as if nothing had happened. "When we're hexing Slytherins, particularly Snivellus. When we're Marauding around the grounds as Animagi. When we're stealing food from the kitchen..."

"Everyone is inside their houses for the OWLs, so you won't get any Slytherin right now. It's not full moon, and you've just had dinner."

All three of Remus' counter arguments were uncounterable, so Sirius whined, "Let's go for a walk, Remmie."

"My name is not Remmie, and can't you see I'm trying to study?" said Remus, seriously exasperated by now (no pun intended).

"You already know everything, half an hour can't hurt," begged Sirius.

Remus slammed down his book and stood up. Sirius stared at him warily.

"Get up quick, and not a second more than 30 minutes!"

"Thank you, Moony!" cried Sirius.

So they set off for a walk. It seemed totally pointless to Remus, but when his insane best friend had decided to take him for a walk, he knew it was well beyond capacities to steadily refuse.

They'd almost reached the entrance of the Gryffindor common room when Sirius said, "Wait, we haven't taken the Invisibility Cloak!"

"Do we really need it for a walk?" asked Remus cautiously.