Legacy of the Marauders

Almost

Sapphire questioned, "If I'm wrong do you promise not to think my theory is stupid?"

"No. Suppose it really is stupid?" chuckled Joanna good-naturedly, knowing that naught Sapphire would say could be considered ignorant. His stomach began to ache. He decided it was probably from stress about Sapphire's guess. Later, he would discover that it was a warning about something else that was coming.

Sapphire smiled at Joanna's response and declared, "You're Remus' lesbian cousin! I know because you look a lot like Remmy, you know so much about him and his friends, and there's something...masculine about you. Besides, Remmy once mentioned having a lesbian cousin, though I always thought she'd be older."

She was older. Remus' cousin, Celine, was twenty-three, yet he wasn't about to tell Sapphire that. "All right, I admit it, but please don't tell anyone. You see, Dumbledore sent Remus somewhere and Remus was worried you'd be lonely, so he asked me to come here. Dumbledore swore him to secrecy; I don't know where he is." The headmaster had indeed strongly recommended secrecy; therefore he was glad Sapphire had not discerned the truth of the situation, though her speculation of the truth had been plausible and well thought out.

"I won't tell." Sapphire added, "I'm sorry."

"What for? You haven't been anything except nice to me."

"Since you're a lesbian you must have uncomfortable when I...Well, I'm sorry."

"Oh." Remus blushed deeply. "That's okay."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah."

"Good."

"You should've come to Hogsmeade with us," Sapphire remarked to her sister when the girls had returned to Gryffindor tower.

"I don't think I missed much." Jessie smirked and flipped her dark hair. "Sirius and I had plenty of fun here."

"Ooooh!" Alice leaned forward, eager to hear more.

"How can you talk about that, especially in public?" Sapphire queried, mildly irritated. "You're off your rockers."

"Are you saying we're acting slutty?" demanded Alice.

Remus knew that Sapphire hadn't meant it that way, and he agreed with what his beloved had said. Regardless, it seemed like a wise idea to lighten the mood. "You might be off your rockers, but I broke my rocker, so I took it and sold it to a Russian bloke; then I burned a hole in the floor where it used to be."

Lily laughed. "Seriously?"

"Yep."

"In Russian yep means sex," informed Sapphire placidly.

Alice chortled, "Now whenever someone says 'yep' in my mind they'll have said 'sex."

At that moment the Marauders minus Remus entered the common room while Peter was asking James, "Do you know something fun we could do 'cause I'm bored?"

"Yep." Sex, thought Alice.

Sirius commented, "That's great! I have so much energy that I need to do something, so whatever you have in mind for the three of us to do together and however long it takes is fine with me."

The girls broke into hysterical laughter, drawing the boys' attention.

"What is it?" inquired James.

Jessie shook her head. "Don't worry about it."

Sirius accused, "I'll bet you you've been a naughty girl; go to my room!"

Being near his friends caused Remus to act like himself. "Sirius, how can you say that? You've gone mad. Go to the infirmary and get some drugs."

"I tried, but Madame Pomfrey wouldn't give me any, nor would she let me leave until I put a hospital gown on and played doctor with her," replied the dog animagus, wringing his hands in uncharacteristic distress.

"Is that why you were so quiet yesterday?" James wondered.

"I don't wanna talk about it."

Remus put his hand on Sirius' shoulder. "Sorry, Pa-" Abruptly, he realised how he was behaving, thus he ran from the room before he blew his cover. He went to the first place that popped into his head: the girls' lavatory. While he was there he chose to take care of Joanna's business. More than urine came out. There was something thicker. And redder.

"Dammit!" Remus swore softly, which was a rare phenomenon. "I almost made it the entire week without this happening." It took him about ten minutes to determine how to put the pad in Joanna's knickers. It's not as easy as it seems, he consoled himself.

To take his mind off of his new problem and the agony in his nether regions that came with it in addition to his stomach pains he summoned a quill, ink, and parchment and began compiling his list of things he learned while being a lass.

It took hours for Lily to find him. "Hey, Joanna, James and I just came back from our Head Boy and Head Girl meeting with Dumbledore; he asked me to find you and send you to the headmaster's office. Any idea why he wants to see you?"

Joanna did not answer. She simply bolted rapidly out of the door.