BLACK MOON ⍋ Remus Lupin

Chapter FiftySix- Dusty Handkerchief.

"I don't understand, the what?" I frowned at them all.

"No time to explain, let's go!" James grabbed my arm and guided me towards the hospital wing door. I could feel my confusion inside translate onto my face as I was almost shoved out of the room. Peter glanced at me and laughed quietly at my expression.

"Padfoot, Moony and Prongs-" Peter pointed at the boys individually. I instantly snapped my head over to Remus who denied ever having the nickname of Moony, he was smirking lightly at me and shrugged his shoulders as if to say 'yeah I lied, so what?'.

"-and I'm wormtail!" Peter smiled.

We were marching through the halls (me being dragged and guided) with obvious intention. I was being taken somewhere and in all honestly the boys were behaving in such a way that fear silently found its way to me.

"What do they all mean?" I asked. Peter was just about to explain quite happily when Sirius stopped him.

"Peter, all in good time. We don't want her to have an information overload to distract her do we?" Sirius warmed. Peter shut his mouth at once.

"What? Why, where are we going?" I asked, getting out of breath fast as the boys walked at an impressive speed.

"We're going to Sonny." Remus mumbled, lowering his voice a little as if he heard something in the distance.

"Sonny, why?" I asked. I felt out of it, a spike in adrenaline rushing through my body while wandering around the dark halls with the boys whilst they acted so suspiciously.

"If he's your friend, he's ours." Sirius said with one direct nod towards me.

I suddenly thought about Damien knowing about the fact Sirius is gay. I had only told Sonny and he's the only person I know who could have told him or spread the word. Pettiness made me not want to follow the boys to see him. He wasn't my friend if he betrayed my trust so easily and to someone as vile as Damien Goyle, to say the least.

I halted stubbornly. Peter and James stumbled a little in slow sloppy reaction.

"Don't you want to get him out?" James frowned at me. Again I emitted massive signs of confusion, the whole current affair being extremely odd and unexpected for me to even begin to comprehend what was happening or what was going to happen next.

Remus picked up and gently held my arm, guiding me to walk again.

"He's being detained because of the whole situation that went down between Damien and yourself," Remus said.

"Why is Sonny being the only one detained?" I asked.

"Wasn't just Sonny, so we're Peter and I...I have no idea why but all three of us were excused by someone." He explained. A pang of guilt hit me in the chest knowing that the three of them were being punished because of my reckless, dastardly behaviour.

"James and I temporarily rescued Remus and Peter, we'll lock them back up by morning so no one knows. We thought you'd probably want us to do the same with Sonny?" Sirius asked, though not in a way that suggested I could change their minds. They had all seemed pretty set on the plans they had made. I shrugged pathetically knowing I wasn't going to convince any of them not to go off and be 'heroic'.

We finally reached a small wooden door in the back of a secluded hallway. On either side you stood, you couldn't see very far to the other end due to the lack of lighting.

Suddenly Peter pulled out his wand and mumbled a spell, which James followed up by shoving the door with a force. Sirius and Remus aggressively shushed him.