Disclaimer: I own nothing. I'm just grateful for the opportunity to play with these characters. I own Tessa and all other original characters.

Background: Playing with a couple from an RPG forum.

When They Met

Tessa Persephone Brown grabbed her backpack from her rather lavish room and headed down the main staircase.

"And where do you suppose you're going?" A shrill disapproving voice stopped her in her tracks. Tessa resisted the urge to roll her eyes.

"Mother, I told you, I'm going camping with a couple of my friends for a few days." Tessa reminded the thin tall crooked nosed woman with black eyes as she came into view.

Genevieve Antoinette Wilhelmina Ursula Travers Brown looked down at her disappointing offspring.

"Oh yes, the muggles." Genevieve sneered.

"I thought you didn't care what I did seeing as I'm a squib, Mother. That I should be with my own kind." Tessa retorted.

Just then, Achilles Brown came home from his quite pureblood worthy job in the ministry. "Don't talk to your mother that way." He said passingly not really paying attention.

"Get out!" Genevieve shouted pointing to the door. Tessa's older sister, and golden child, Diana Evangeline Helene Ophelia Brown, came to stand near her mother.

Tessa just sighed, "Gladly." She closed the front door behind her.

"Oh, Mother, Zacharias Nott has accepted our betrothal agreement." Diana grinned and Genevieve praised her perfect daughter.

Tessa sat on the curb as a green ford Angelia came up. She grinned as she opened the door.

"Hey Xan. Ready?" Tessa asked the dark haired boy driving the car.

"Of course, we're picking up Lynne and Marie on the way." He said as they drove off.

Three days later, they were in the thick of camping. Marie, Xander, and Lynne had gone swimming. Tessa had gone to collect more wood so they could cook and have a fresh fire that night.

Remus John Lupin was taking his usual afternoon walk in the woods that bordered his father's land and a muggle 's when he saw her. A brown haired beauty struggling with a large pile of branches. If he wasn't certain she'd come from the campground, he would have thought she was a wood nymph.

He walked over. "Want help?" Tessa stopped and peeked around the pile at the direction of the voice.

"Please." Tessa grinned thankfully at the kind faced, scholarly looking man in front of her.

Remus took some of the bundle and followed her to the campsite.

"Tessa Brown." She introduced herself. Remus smiled.

"Remus Lupin." He returned. Tessa looked curious.

"You wouldn't happen to know a Sirius Black would you?" She asked. Remus nodded.

"I do." He replied.

"One of my best friends Xander Black has a cousin named Sirius who has a friend named Remus." Tessa smiled.

"Wait, Sirius once mentioned he had a squib cousin." Remus said.

"That would be him. I'm a squib as well." Tessa smiled. Remus helped her to arrange the wood.

"That's great. Tell me more about you." Remus implored. Tessa obliged and the rest they say is history.