Bad
By A.J Turner
Chapter One: Evans
This was bad. Not the accidentally-running-over-your-sisters-cat-then-telling-her-it-ran-away kind of bad, ok definitely in the top five though.
I'd killed my mums seeing eye-dog. So not only was she blind, which was partially my fault, she now had no way of getting around, also my fault.
I screamed as my bones slowly snapped back into place. I sat cold and naked shivering on the floor. I lay there and stared at the blood-smeared wall opposite me. I looked at myself, I was covered in scars slowly trickling blood onto the floor but something told me the bits on the wall wasn't from me. I slowly stood up, my body screamed in protest but I ignored it. I walked across the bloody basement floor and walked over to an old couch. Blood was pooled around this couch and whatever was leaving the blood was obviously behind it. I looked around the couch and stared.
Ginger, my mums Seeing Eye dog lay there, spilling blood freely from his little doggy stomach. I put a hand over my mouth trying to stop myself shaking. I tasted blood in my mouth and spat it out. My blood was much darker then the bit I'd just spat out of my mouth. It was the same colour as Gingers, which of course pointed to one thing.
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Mum sat opposite me staring directly at me with her plain white eyes. Dad sat beside her looking rather pale.
"Just report me," I begged them. Dad looked at mum who kept staring at me, though I don't think she knew she was doing it.
"Look Thaumus is cleaning it all up… and Romulus is digging in the backyard. It'll be ok… we can just tell the foundation Ginger was run over" dad said
"What if they want to see him? You'll have to show them and report me anyway"
"Any one sick enough to want to see a dead dog should not have a job anywhere" dad said.
"REPORT ME!" I shouted standing up knocking the chair over.
"Remus! It is my dog and you are my son. I will choose whether to report you. Excuse me" mum said standing up and used her cane to navigate a path out of the room.
"Remus… how long have you been a werewolf?" dad asked
"Twelve years, thirteen come August" I sighed; he knew this… we all knew this.
"Can you tell me the number of times you've attacked anyone on a full moon?"
"Once" I said looking up at him.
"Twice including Ginger… you've only got three goes with this. If we report you you'll only have one then you will go to prison"
"I deserve to! I attack… I'm not right! You have to lock me away"
"I don't know who is putting these ideas in your head but they'd better go soon"
"Lock me up before I hurt somebody else"
"You have never hurt any one before. You didn't even touch that boy"
"Yes but I was so close. I can still smell his fear. What if I don't just get a dog? What if I kill somebody?"
"You won't. The only reason that boy came down was because somebody told him how. The only reason Ginger came in was because somebody let him"
"You don't know what happens," I snapped
"No I don't. But even if you are a horrible monster on the outside you, Remus, are still in there somewhere… somewhere…" he said
"Dad!"
"Remus. You would never mean to hurt anyone! Whether you had no control or not! Do you really think you'd be here right now if you had meant to kill Ginger?"
I looked away from him and glared at the wall.
"Just let me pay the price"
"No. You heard your mother, it's up to her and she doesn't want to do anything. I'm going to get a new dog… you stay here and please don't go anywhere. I know you run off when your upset but don't" dad said and walked off.
I ran my hands through my hair and sat down glaring at the table.
I'm a wizard. I was about a month away from starting my final year are Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I was also a werewolf, yes as in the horrible man-eating beast. This was why I went to Hogwarts as opposed to The Delta Institute of Magic where all my brothers and sisters went.
I wasn't going to go to school at all, Delta was a boarding school and it'd be far too risky, I could bite one of the students. But Dumbledore, headmaster at Hogwarts, saw no reason for me not to attend a magical high school. He accepted me into Hogwarts and helped me work out precautions for the full moon. The headmaster at Delta would never even think of accepting me, so I owed a lot to Dumbledore.
My sister Lucina walked into the kitchen.
"Hey" she said. I just sighed and ran my fingers through my hair again. She sat down beside me.
"Are you ok?" she asked.
"No… what if you had come down last night?" I asked
"Remus I'm pregnant, not stupid," she said.
"No one seems to understand"
"Your more concerned about this then anyone else" she said. I stared at her; her bright hazel eyes stared back.
"We've all killed each others pets. It's Lupin family tradition Remus," she said smiling. I gave her a small smile.
My older brothers Thaumus and Romulus walked in, looking slightly sweaty and dirty.
"Ok Ginger's dead and buried. When do we get a new pet?" Thaumus asked.
"You're moving on just like that? Doesn't it bother anyone I ripped it to shreds?" I asked
"Not you Remus. You're a sissy, the werewolf did it" Romulus said sitting down opposite me.
Lucina pulled me into a hug patting my head soothingly.
"Aren't you worried I'm going to eat your baby?" I asked
"You're a human… I'd easily kick your arse" she replied making me smile.
I did appreciate the fact my siblings considered me and the werewolf two separate beings. But we weren't. Sure I couldn't remember any of what happened. I never can, but I know Moony is sitting back there, locked away, laughing at me, waiting patiently for the next full moon.
"I… uh… I'm going to see Michelle," I said standing up.
"No sir. Dad told us to make sure you stay point. They were looking two days when you ran off from Hogwarts. You live in this town you know exactly where we can't find you" Thaumus said and forced me to sit back down.
Mum came into the kitchen
"People are in here," she said,
"Well done" Romulus said mum just pushed some of her brown hair out of her sightless eyes rather then actually responding.
"Remus hasn't run off has he?" she asked
"No" I said
"Remus" mum said hugging Romulus.
"Over here" I said mum let go of Romulus and hugged me.
"You haven't run off"
"Yeah, dad has everyone on barricade patrol" I said she let me go.
"Where is Jarred?" mum asked
"Gone to get you a new… dog" Thaumus said awkwardly. We were left in an awkward silence.
"Oh… uh has anyone seen Suadela?" mum asked.
"How did you know she wasn't in here?" Lucina asked
"It was quiet" mum replied.
"What's going on?" Suadela asked walking into the kitchen. She was wearing the same outfit she'd been wearing yesterday; her make-up was smudged and her hair messy.
"Were you out all night by any chance?" Lucina asked
"No" Suadela replied giving Lucina the shut up look.
Sure having a blind mum had it's perks, like for instance if you were out all night she wouldn't know because she couldn't see you come in. Most of the time we were blamed for each other's wrongdoings because mum couldn't tell us apart when we didn't speak.
"Suadela you've been out all night. If you hadn't you'd know what's been going on" mum said.
Of course my mum was a blind super genius concert pianist. I don't know what a concert pianist has to do with being able to tell if your kids are lying but I thought you all should know.
"Ah" Suadela said nodding.
"So where were you?" mum asked.
"Down at Wes's" Suadela replied
"I don't like you hanging around him" mum muttered.
"Rather then watch this blow into a full blown war is it ok if I go see Michelle?" I asked.
"Oh… uh… sure thing sweetheart" mum said nodding.
"I think he needs someone outside us to talk to right now… it must be horrible for him" mum muttered.
"I'm still in the room," I said
"Well don't waste time pointing that out" mum said with a hint of embarrassment. I shook my head and left the house.
Michelle Burns. She was the sweetest girl I knew. With her positive can-do attitude and generally cheerful disposition.
She had been my best friend since I was little. I'd never been good at meeting new people and after I got my… uh… illness… well I withdrew completely. But Michelle spoke to me and didn't seem to think I was weird like the other kids did.
"Remmy!" she said patting the bed. I sat beside her
"Why are here? Not that I'm not happy to see you. I wouldn't have let you sit down. But don't you have better things to do then sit with the dying girl"
"Who is also my fiancé" I said kissing her.
Yes Michelle was dying and I agreed to marry her.
She has chronic lymphocytic leukaemia it's an incurable form of cancer. It's more commonly found in people over fifty-five though it can be found in younger adults. The hospital where Michelle was had never heard of it affecting a child so of course were even more stumped with what to do with her. They found it was incurable and have now tried to make her as comfortable as possible.
"Aw Remus" she said in her super-girly tone. "You big dork! Go out and find some friends then demand they go have fun with you!" she said in her normal voice.
Michelle is a muggle, a non-magical person; she's my only friend outside Hogwarts.
I just stared at her as she shook her head and began to read a magazine. I was going to marry this girl. This girl… and she was slowly dying… every breath she took was gradually winding the path to her death.
"Morbid much?" Michelle asked.
"Huh?" I asked looking at her
"You mutter out loud when you're thinking about something serious. I'd invest in some duct tape because you're always muttering," she said smiling. "But that means your always thinking about something serious"
"I'm not" I said she nodded and looked back at her magazine.
She'd asked if we could get married… assuring me it wouldn't be permanent because of the dying thing. She just didn't want to die without experiencing some of the things life has to offer. Marriage was a main thing and of course I said yes, I was her friend… I'd do anything to make this all easier for her.
She was my first crush, my first kiss and my first girlfriend. It was only natural she'd be my first wife.
"Are we going to sit in silence?" Michelle asked.
"Don't you like silence?" I asked
"Not really. When you've spent time in a hospital you'll understand" she said.
I smiled.
"When are we getting married?" she asked
"Next Tuesday" I said she smiled.
"Just making sure you know. Gives you the chance to back out. I won't mind"
"And I wont do it" I said she shook her head.
"I was talking to one of the lovely volunteers. Lily was her name and she is probably the only person in the entire hospital that doesn't frown upon our marriage. So I invited her to the wedding"
"You just met her and invited her to a wedding?" I asked
"No… we've talked a lot over the last month. She seemed so nice Remus and I don't have any one to be my brides maids apart from your sisters," she said.
"It's fine. I don't mind who you invite… it is your wedding. And I learnt a few good tips from my father and other married men. The wedding is all about what the bride wants"
"And the bride wants brides maids that aren't her fiancé's sisters" Michelle said.
"So… tell me more about this Lily"
"She's so nice… she likes nearly all the same movies and books that I do. She too spends most of her time in the hospital, as a volunteer, she isn't dying. She also only volunteers during the holidays breaks from her boarding school"
"Sounds like someone I know" I muttered
"Knock, knock"
Michelle and I looked at the door. A beautiful red head girl stood in the doorway with a little badge pinned to her shirt with the word volunteer on it.
"Ah Lily…" Michelle said, "Meet my fiancé Remus Lupin. Remus this is Lily-"
"Evans" I finished for her. This is just a bad, bad day.
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Hey readers,
Sorry, I just really had no ideas at all for this.
I'd also vowed not to update my other stories till this was done.
Now it is and I can finally update.
But I'll need a chapter two for this; I really want it out there.
I can't abandon it; it'll get better once I know where I'm going.
Anyway I hope you enjoy it,
It's kinda dodgy due to my un-inspirational mind.
Oh well… tell me what you thought.
Till next time guys, A.J
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