So I finally have a new chapter up! It would have been sooner but electricity and internet is a bit hard to come by here. Hope you all enjoy!

"Okay so I have an idea!"

"I still don't understand why we couldn't tell Remus where we were going?"

Hermione huffed loudly whirling around.

"I told you already, because it is a surprise for Remus. Well, I guess it is more for Moony than Remus."

"Moony?" James asked and Hermione froze and turned slowly.

"Uh yeah, you know, cause of his um- condition, with the ah- moon." She stated waving her hand around in the air.

"Moony! That is awesome…why didn't I think of that?" Sirius asked, speaking the last part to himself and Hermione nearly smacked herself in the head not having thought more carefully before sharing her friends old nickname with the group who once upon a time created it.

"Anyways…I have been thinking. So Remus is alone for his transformations, but what if he didn't have to be?" Hermione asked, chewing on her bottom lip, suddenly nervous for no reason.

"What do you mean, wouldn't Moony kill us?" Sirius asked, already catching on to the Marauders newest nickname.

"Well yes he would, that is if we were human, what I have planned we won't be." Hermione added with a sly smile, which was usually reserved for pranks and snarky barbs.

"Oh, this seems interesting enough, I'm in!" James declared swiftly.

Hermione rolled her eyes, of course James would readily agree to a plan without even knowing the details.

"James, you don't even know what I am referring to yet." Hermione said exasperated.

"Doesn't matter, you said it was for Moony, and you're my sister…my twin, I trust you." He gave his sister a boyish smile and she had to chuckle at just how adorable her was.

"Okay, okay, fair enough."

"Well despite how much I trust you Mione, I still want to know to what you are referring." Sirius gave her a wry smile, his shaggy black hair hanging down into his eyes and she had the strongest urge to lean forward and brush it away from his face, and for some reason she decided not to.

"What if we become Animagus? We turn into animals, then we can be with Moony!" A huge grin spread across her face imagining her brother, the proud stag, and Sirius the lovable bear-like dog.

"That would be wicked!" James and Sirius declared at the same time. The pair looked at each other in confusion before tackling the other to the ground, rolling around in a fury of fists.

"Well then its settled! We will all start our meditations immediately, I want us all to have visualized our forms in say 3 months, that good?" Hermione was pacing in circle completely ignoring the fighting duo currently grappling on the ground.

"3 months! Are you bloody mad, most wizards can't even become Animagus because it such advanced Transfiguration!" Sirius cried, his brain already hurting just thinking about it. Sirius pushed James away in favor of hunching over and holding his forehead, moaning.

"But we are not most wizards, and I know for a fact both of you are up to the challenge." Hermione said smugly, because both wizards knew that when Hermione said something would happen, it would happen.

They sighed before silently nodding and the three young Marauders all made their way into the house.

"Bloody hell, literally." Hermione thought to herself. "If I didn't love the witch so much I swear I would make sure she was never born for putting me through this a second time." Hermione groaned in frustration at having to get rid of one of her favorite undergarments.

One would think having gone through this before, that puberty would be easier the second time around…they would be wrong. Hermione slowly picked herself up from her sprawled position across her bed where she had been lying for the past hour trying to move but finding herself either unwilling or unable to do so. She glared at her stomach with distaste and snagged a chocolate frog from her own secret candy stash, and one for Remus, before making her way down to the common room.

The Marauders had returned from their Christmas Holiday and were now back at Hogwarts. The year had started off great, Hermione was enjoying being with all of her friends again and starting the last bit of her second year.

She was still grumbling under her breath about her current predicament as she descended the final steps to where her boys were waiting for her. Her forehead was creased in thought as she placed herself on the couch in between Remus and Sirius.

"Hey My, something wrong?" James asked in obvious concern after seeing the look on his twin's face.

"No I am fine…just girl stuff." Hermione said absent-mindedly while Sirius and James faces took on identical looks of horror. She shifted her legs underneath her body and turned to look at Remus, and the moment she did her eyebrows drew together in confusion.

Remus was looking at her not with his usual beautiful blue-green eyes, but with eyes that shone bright gold. His stare seemed to penetrate into her very soul and she shivered under his gaze. Something rumbled deep in his chest before he leaned forward and buried his face in her neck breathing in the scent of her skin. Hermione gave a small yelp at the sudden contact and was starting to get worried about her friend's mental state as he began to wrap his arms around her waist and pull her towards him. Hermione knew Remus was a werewolf but at that moment she could have sworn he was almost purring.

"Remus knock it off, what is up with you?" Hermione stated struggling in his arms, feeling a bit awkward at her friends display in front of her brother and Sirius.

She looked over making eye contact with her brother who looked about ready to tackle his friend and then Sirius who looked confused and almost a little angry.

"Oi what is this? Moony paws off my sister!" Hermione groaned thinking how at the moment her brother was attempting to stick up for her but still could not pass up the opportunity to make a werewolf joke.

Remus growled low sniffing her neck more thoroughly and nuzzling his nose into her hair. At that moment, a large bang echoed through the room as the portrait door slammed closed and in walked a grumbling Alice as she made her way up to the girl's dorm not even noticing the four friends sitting on the couches in varying degrees of distress.

Hermione looked up again making eye contact with her friend's familiar blue gaze.

"There you are." She said her hand reaching out to lightly trace his cheek. His eyes momentarily flashed gold again before he was swiftly removing Hermione from his lap and moving out of the room.

"I'm uh- going out. I mean, I am going for a walk. I um- yeah- I'll catch up with you guys later." Remus said before turning and moving out of the room as quickly as possible.

"What the bloody hell was that about?" Sirius asked and his choice of phrase made something dawn on Hermione and she equally hoped she was right and wrong.

For a week Remus managed to avoid Hermione. At random moments throughout the day she would find him watching her with golden-hued eyes and when she tried to confront him, he would make an excuse and find somewhere else to be. The young werewolf was becoming exceedingly good at lying these days and Hermione was not pleased by this change.

Finally, things slowly went back to normal and Hermione was too happy to have her friend back that she did not even question what had gone wrong in the first place. The Marauders were back to being as thick as thieves as the school year was drawing to a close.

The four friends had been sneaking back into the Gryffindor common rooms after another successful prank, this time involving Mrs. Norris, a sticking charm, and a classroom floor that just happened to be covered in failing essays from Slytherin house. The group was still laughing picturing Filch's beloved cat running wild through the corridors trying in vain to get the paper unstuck from her paws. James suddenly came to a halt and put his arms out in front of him barring his friend's passage.

"Oi, I have an idea, and it just might be my most brilliant yet!" He exclaimed throwing his arms out wide and almost smacking Sirius in the nose.

"Hey watch it you wanker!" He yelled after successfully ducking his friend's wildly gesticulating arms.

"Me we just finished a prank, can't it wait?" Hermione laughed wondering what her twin had already concocted.

"No, no, not a prank…what if we made a map, and it would should all of the corridors, maybe even secret passages and such if we can find them, and it showed where every person in the castle was! That way we could never be caught out after curfew again. No more detention!" He yelled the last part so loud his friends quickly shushed them and started swiftly walking back to the tower.

"Wow! That would be brilliant!" Sirius smiled wide thinking of the possibilities.

"Are you sure this isn't because you want to be able to keep tabs on Evans at all hours of the day?" Remus asked giving his friend a wry look.

"I am actually offended that you would even think that my dear Moony, and thank you Sirius, I myself think it would be brilliant as well." James declared pushing Remus as he strode toward the portrait hole.

"Me that is a brilliant, that ego of yours, however is not. Let's do it!" Hermione cried hugging her brother around the neck as she walked into the common room.

"How do we begin?" Sirius asked curiously following behind the twins.

"I am so glad you asked." James stated as he plopped himself down on the couches making himself comfortable before laying out his plans.