tw #1: violence
tw #2: metions of rape

September 30, 1977
6:57 am
Hogwarts Corridors

Anneliese and Lily were both having an incredibly vivid dream.

In this dream, they had run out of the dormitories for some reason that wasn't clear, but they ended up looking for the Marauders out of nervousness, because they were missing. They had found them, and Sirius was bleeding while the rest were filthy.

But then the dream ended, and that was all that either of them could quite grasp.

The whole thing had been far too vivid, as vivid as a dream as Lily had ever experienced while it came in a close second for Anneliese with the nightmares she had about the orphanage and foster home.

James and Peter's Sleeping Charm had been so hastily performed and under such desperation that it was far more powerful than it should have been.

It only should have knocked them out for an hour at most, but nearly three later, Lily and Anneliese were still slumped against each other in a random corridor, heads heavy.

Needless to say, the other three girls were starting to panic under the terms of Rule Eleven, because neither of their friends were where they said they would be, just in the boy's dorms.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY THEN?!" Marlene screamed, and James shrunk away. "ANSWER ME RIGHT NOW, POTTER, OR I WILL SHOVE THIS WAND SO FAR DOWN YOUR THROAT IT COMES OUT OF YOUR ASS!"

"I LITERALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!" Potter lied, defending the Marauders. "WHAT DID THEY SAY BEFORE THEY LEFT?"

Leo and Frank were watching completely clueless, both of them snoring and asleep while all this was apparently happening in the castle around them.

"Anneliese said something that Lily wanted to tell Sirius, and then they left, and we all assumed that A had ended up falling asleep with Sirius and Lily with James or something," Alice said, barely more calm than Marlene. "But then we come here and you claim you didn't even see them last night?"

"Something about that just doesn't add up," Dorcas said, staring each of them down individually. "Remus, you would tell us if something happened, wouldn't you?"

All heads turned to Lupin, who swallowed heavily and the pressure from both the boys and girls each staring at him with very forceful wills behind their eyes.

"I-I don't know what you guys are talking about," he said finally. "Anneliese and Lily didn't come in here at all last night, or at least that we saw."

That was at least partly true, but didn't keep him from feeling incredibly guilty.

Remus genuinely trusted Anneliese and Lily, and he knew that they wouldn't say anything about what happened to him every full moon.

It had been a weak moment for all of the Marauders.

Sirius was silent as he listened to the argument continue to erupt around him, and he was sure that he was the only person who had noticed something that made a very large pit sink in his stomach.

The Sleeping Charm should have worn off by now.

When they had left them in that corridor with altered memories and assuming they would just think that they slept walk, the boys had thought they would have woken up thirty minutes later or so and gone back to their beds to finish the night.

Apparently, that wasn't at all the case.

"Look on the Map," he said in a sudden, urgent tone, unintentionally interrupting Alice for his lack of listening to the argument. "Find them on the Map, who has it?"

Peter nervously fumbled around his bedside table before handing Sirius the Map, who became a magnet for everyone else in the room as it unfolded, each person grabbing a bit of and searching frantically for the names of the girls.

The Marauders had to pretend to look, it would be suspicious if they found them too quickly.

"There," Leo said, pointing to the ribbons Anneliese Callaway and Lily Evans nearly on top of each other in a corridor near the hospital wing. "Let's go, come on."

And just as always, the students of Hogwarts who were already up at this hour saw the Gryffindor Class of '78 doing something stupid together.

In this case, it was nine of its members sprinting down the corridors wearing their pajamas, which happened to be shirtless for both James and Leo.

Sirius nearly passed out from relief when he saw that Anneliese was unharmed and right where he had left her with Lily, but that relief quickly dissolved when he was reminded that they were still asleep.

"Yo, what the fuck?" Leo muttered, highly confused just like the rest of them. "Why are they asleep in a random corridor?"

"Crazy idea, let's ask them," Marlene snapped, kneeling with the other three girls down by Lily and Anneliese. "I swear to god if you were lying and had something to do with this, I'll kill all of you."

The Marauders were all starting to become more and more filled with dread for two reasons.

One, of being so dishonest towards the girls, Leo, and Frank who were very worried about their friends and where they had gone, although were more confused than anything.

Even though it had just been a few minutes, the repeated action of lying over and over again for that length of time was starting to set guilt deep into their stomachs, and not the kind they could just shake off.

What if they had really hurt Lily and Anneliese?

Everything had been so quickly done and hardly thought through, and it would be morbidly unsurprising if they had severely messed up.

The second feeling of dread was a much more selfish one, a kind that filled them with shame.

It was the dread that Lily and Anneliese would realize the second they woke up that their shared 'dream' wasn't a dream. James and Peter's 'plan' had so many holes that it wouldn't be much of a surprise.

"LILY!" Alice shouted, slapping the redhead directly across the face after a solid minute of being unable to wake either of the girls. "WAKE UP!"

Sirius was starting to wish that he hadn't let them obliviate the girls.

Anneliese looked peaceful enough with her cheek resting on Lily's shoulder and Lily in turn with an arm on Anneliese's leg, but he knew that didn't mean anything for when they were going to wake up.

People looked peaceful when they were in coffins and comas as well.

"Move," Sirius said, his tone firm and leaving absolutely no room for question as he pushed between Dorcas and Alice. "It's pretty obvious that they're not going to wake up naturally."

Because they didn't fall asleep naturally, the voice in his head reminded him, but Black pushed it away with a frown. That's not your fault. You had no control over what James and Peter did, none at all.

"Rennervate," he muttered, waving his hand behind him for someone to do the same to Lily.

There were a few moments of nerve wracking silence when it didn't look like anything was happening. During this time, however, invisible to the eye, the two girls were waking from their sleep.

Anneliese was slowly becoming more aware of the throbbing, dull ache in her back from being slumped against stone for so long, and then the pressure of part of Lily's weight on her body.

There was a painful crick in her neck, but all of this discomfort became muted when she realized the weight of what she was feeling. She was on stone, with Lily.

And that was the exact place that her dream had cut off, the exact way she had been left.

From the tensing of the shoulder of the girl she was resting on, it occurred to Anneliese that Lily might be feeling the exact same thing.

All of the nine who had been awake in the first place let out a synchronous exhale of relief when they opened their eyes, but the two girls didn't say a word, trying to process everything and figure out what was real and what had been a dream.

And for Anneliese, there was a very simple way.

"How the hell did you get out here-" Leo started, asking for all of them, but Anneliese was already standing up, along with Lily, identical expressions of anger on their faces.

Without saying a word, Callaway walked up to Sirius and yanked up the left sleeve of his shirt before he could stop her.

And wrapped around his skin was a white cloth bandage, one that would only be necessary if a cut needed to stop healing.

A cut exactly like the one she had seen in her suspiciously realistic dream.

All of the Marauders realized in unison that Anneliese had figured out that she had been obliviated in about three seconds flat, and then they realized that they were absolutely done for when they saw Lily gain the same understanding.

But then when Callaway and Evans exchanged a glance that was too heavy for any other person in that corridor to understand, they didn't get angry.

All they did was play dumb.

The Marauders didn't know if their initial anger had been really there or not, if the two girls really remembered anything, or if they were just confused.

"What happened to your arm?" Anneliese asked with wide eyes and a little bit too much of a soft tone. "Are you okay?"

"Just a scratch," Sirius said slowly, pulling his sleeve back up with suspicion. "I think a better question is how you two got out here."

"Oh, we must have just sleepwalked," Lily said with an easy shrug. "I don't understand why everyone is so worked up. People do it all the time."

James, Peter, Remus, and Sirius didn't know if they were imagining the daring expression on these two girl's features, daring the boys to say a word against the 'truth' that the Marauders wanted them to believe.

"Now, if you'll excuse us, we're going to go get changed," Lily said with a smile as she grabbed Anneliese's arm a little too firmly. "We'll meet you at breakfast."

Everyone else watched, bewildered and frozen in place, as the two girls walked away.

"Did that seem a little.. off to anyone else?" Leo asked slowly while the others nodded in support around him. "Yea, that's what I thought."

"I think it's fine," James said quickly. "I mean, they said they sleepwalked, and that makes sense with everything that everyone's said. So we should just believe them, right?"

"Yea, I guess," Alice said after a few seconds. "C'mon, I'm hungry."

There were a few mutters of agreement, everyone shaking off the crazy morning and leaving the remains behind them where they hoped they would stay.

Even though the Marauders had wanted this exact scenario to happen, there was still an uneasy feeling in their stomachs. Getting the girls to not say anything had been easy, far too easy.

But meanwhile in their dorms, Lily and Anneliese were stopping the act.

"How dare they just lie to our faces," Lily spat, aggressively sliding on her socks. "Do they really think we're that dumb? That we'll just wake up and disregard that dream that we both instantly knew we shared as just a dream? It's disrespectful."

"I think they hoped for us being stupid, but I don't think they believe it," Anneliese replied. "I want to know what they're hiding, and I want to know what hurt Sirius."

"Well what do we know?" Lily asked. "They were dirty, Sirius had a cut on his shoulder, and it was a full moon. That's like nothing to go on at all."

"We also know that James and Peter were the ones who knocked us out, which means that we probably shouldn't be frustrated with Sirius and Remus," Anneliese added, and Lily nodded in agreement. "Those two are so dumb, I swear."

"And we know they used a modified memory charm to turn whatever they wanted us to forget into a dream," Lily said. "Which you figured out in a second when you looked for his cut. That was smart, by the way."

"Thank you," Anneliese replied with a smile. "Do you think Sirius would just straight up lie to me if I asked him how he got the cut?"

"I think it would be best if we make them think we don't know anything," Lily countered. "That way next full moon we can figure things out properly."

"Next full moon?" Anneliese questioned, her surprise showing on her face. "You really think it has that much significance? I think it was just a coincidence."

"I dunno, it's just like we hear a werewolf howl, then those four are missing, and then Sirius has a cut and the rest of them are filthy," Lily shrugged. "It just seems like those are linked somehow to me."

"What, you think that a werewolf attacked Sirius?" Anneliese asked with a raised eyebrow. "That's ridiculous. I think we would know if there were werewolf attacks going on every full moon."

"Not if people go to the lengths of obliviating their friends to keep them from knowing," Lily said, frowning. "Really, A, think about it. People who have had their memories wiped don't usually know they've had their memories wiped."

Anneliese considered this, but quickly got a chill down her spine that she didn't enjoy.

"We'll just wait until the next full moon," she said definitively. "Then we can figure it out."

Lily nodded in agreement, making a small marking on the calendar on her bedside table.

October 6, 1977
7:01 pm
Quidditch Pitch

"It's because you're a little bitch, try that," James snapped, and Anneliese's eyebrows shot up in shock from a few feet away. "Your ego is so god damn fragile if this is all it takes to break you. Really, get a life."

One of the other potential Seekers glared at James before flipping Potter off behind his back as he walked away back to the castle.

"That was a little bit harsh," Anneliese said, walking over fully to him once the sixth year was gone. "You could have just told him to leave the pitch, not insult him."

"He kept going on about how he was better than you and that if you were going to be the only girl on the team then you should just leave so that the balance wouldn't be off," James spat, still looking in the direction he had stalked off to. "Dick."

"Well, in that case, I wish you would have let me talk to him myself," Anneliese said, glaring at his retreating back as well. "Actually."

James snorted in amusement as Callaway pulled out her wand and muttered something with a casual flick of her wrist, sending the boy slipping through the mud and landing flat on his face.

"And you just told me I was harsh?" James teased, grabbing a Beater's bat off the ground.

"Oh, like you're one to talk," Anneliese retorted, picking up a muddy bat to put up as well. "I saw you hex Snape yesterday. You might want to be careful with that, by the way."

"What do you mean?" James asked, wiping the condensation from the chilly humidity from his glasses. "He didn't get sent to the hospital wing or anything."

"That's not what I'm sayin," Anneliese sighed with an exasperated roll of her eyes. "I'm saying that I know like ten guys that have asked Lily to the ball already, so you might want to get a move on or at least get your act together."

James visibly paled as she walked away, Callaway casually tossing the Beater's bat into the supply bin on her way out so that it lined up perfectly with the others.

"And how is my favorite Seeker?" came a sudden voice from behind her, and Anneliese yelped as two arms wrapped around her waist and a pair of soft lips planted a kiss on her cheek. "You startle very easily, darling."

"You're very quiet, and I can hear most people," Anneliese countered. "Really, you walk way too softly, especially in those shoes."

"There is nothing wrong with my shoes," Sirius said, kicking a leg out so they could both properly examine the black lace up boots. "Or perhaps I enchanted them to be more stealthy, you'll never really know."

"Ah, yes, like Padfoot," Anneliese said, eyebrows furrowing. "Where do your nicknames come from, really?"

"Oh, uhm, they just kinda.. came to us," Sirius tried, and Callaway gave him a look that said that is the most pathetic excuse I have ever heard of. "I dunno, okay? Ask James or something, he's the one who came up with all of them."

"Prongs.. I just think of a fork, not gonna lie," Anneliese said, and Sirius snorted. "Wormtail, that one's just cruel. Like, a worm? Who wants that in their nickname? Literally no one. And Moony.. Moony.."

Sirius watched her nervously, suddenly afraid she was about to find out something.

Luckily, a loud shout interrupted her thought process, making Callaway and Black instinctually broke apart in case it was someone in the hallway who didn't already know about their relationship.

When they saw the two boys rounding the corner screaming at each other, though, they suddenly wished that it was two strangers instead.

Leo and Remus didn't argue.

"WELL I'M SORRY I WANT TO KEEP ONE THING FROM YOU!" Remus yelled, stopping in his steps so quickly that Leo almost fell into him. "IT'S NOT THAT FUCKING BIG OF A DEAL, LEO!"

"IT IS A BIG DEAL!" Leo shouted back. "YOU GET NEW SCARS ALL OVER YOU CONSTANTLY AND I DON'T FUCKING KNOW HOW AT ALL! THAT'S WEIRD, REMUS! IT'S FUCKING WEIRD!"

"LISTEN TO ME, LEO!" Remus exclaimed, pointing his finger in Anderson's face. "YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU THINK YOU DO, AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW EITHER!"

"I don't think you understand that you keeping something this big from me is making me start to think that you don't trust me," Leo snapped. "There is nothing that could make me not like you, Remus, nothing that could make me not care for you."

Lupin shook his head and put his finger back down from Leo with defeat, lips tight and expression hopeless.

Anderson noticed, and did his best to try and keep down his temper that was boiling up more with every second. He didn't enjoy fighting with Remus anymore than Lupin himself did, but this was starting to get suspicious.

"Please, Remus, get out of your own head and tell me how you get your scars," Leo pleaded, eyeliner smudged so that his eyes looked like they were glowing hazel among the inky black. "Please."

"I think this is our cue to go," Sirius whispered into Anneliese's hair, who was completely transfixed by the argument. "Really, I feel like we're watching something we shouldn't be watching."

"Yea, you're right," Anneliese muttered back, and the two of them walked as quietly as they could back around the corner, hands clasped together to help balance the action of jogging on their tiptoes.

Callaway felt like she was missing something. Sirius's cut on the full moon, Moony, where all of Remus's scars came from, why these boys were keeping things so secretive.

It was all just off.

I'm starting to regret suggesting that we wait until the full moon, Anneliese thought, reminding herself of her and Lily's agreement. But that's the only way to know for sure what they're hiding, or so we think. And we don't want to jump to any conclusions.

"You alright?" Sirius asked Anneliese, watching her brows furrow and a crease form in her forehead with concern. "What's on your mind?"

"I just hope they end up fine," Callaway said, partially telling the truth even though that wasn't the main thing on her mind. "I've never seen either of them yell at each other like that, or really fight at all. And I was with them like all summer."

"They will be," Sirius said as confidently as he could, trying to believe it himself. "I really hope they