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Grace Potter sat on her bead crying. She had just woken up from another nightmare involving her recently deceased godfather, Sirius Black. She knew that she couldn't bring him back, no magic could. But she missed him so much, it was even worse because she was staying in his old house. The headmaster at Hogwarts had finally decided that it would be better for her to stay there with her adopted Uncle, Remus Lupin. He had heard enough of her tales of the Dursley's to let her leave. It took him a lot of convincing though. Destroying his office might have helped a little bit.
Suddenly, she heard a knock on her door. Pulling her long black hair into a pony tail, she tried to wipe the tears out of her eyes, "Come in!' She called out shakily.
The open door revealed her Uncle, Remus Lupin. "I heard crying, what's wrong pup?" He asked as he sat down on the bed next to her/
Grace shook her head, "I'm so sorry for waking you up Remus," She whispered, "I had another nightmare about Sirius falling through the veil".
Remus nodded in understanding, "I did too, and that's why I wasn't sleeping. You didn't wake me up honey".
There was silence for a couple minutes, during that time, Grace had found herself in Remus's embrace. Not that she minded. "This house is scary without anyone in it". She said softly.
Remus nodded, "Yes it is. What do you say we get some hot chocolate? It might make you feel better".
Grace laughed softly, chocolate was Remus's answer to everything apparently. "Sounds great".
A minute later, with the help of her new house elf Blinky (Kreacher had died of old age a couple days earlier), both were nursing a steaming cup of hot chocolate, and were sitting in the brightly lit kitchen (Blinky had transferred both of them there, insisting that they can't sit drinking hot chocolate in the dark. Grace supposed she had a point).
"What time is it anyway?" Grace asked curiously.
"It's currently 2:30 in the morning," Remus muttered as he checked his watch.
Before either of the two could say another word, a loud POP was heard. Remus stood up quickly and looked around. Grace looked around to, noticing that Remus didn't grab his wand. Come to think of it, she didn't either. A second later, her eye fell on a women that was standing near the doorway, she had long black hair and bright green eyes just like Grace did. In fact, she was the spitting image of Grace, just a couple years older. In fact, she look to be around Remus's age.
Remus had spotted her as well, and walked cautiously over to her. He stopped right in front of her and looked at her closely. After a few seconds, he grabbed her and pulled into a giant hug. Grace couldn't tell, but she thought she heard him sniffling a bit. Shaking her head, she stood up quietly and made to move past Remus and the mysterious women when the women distangled herself from Remus and stared at Grace as if she wanted to know all her secrets.
"You're so much younger then I thought you would be" She muttered to herself. Grace must have looked confused because the women smiled slightly at her, "My name is Catherine. I met Remus here our 5th year at Hogwarts. Though I regret to say that I haven't gotten to see him in two years". When she said this, Grace heard Remus growl slightly. She was amused when Caherine swatter him gently on the head, "Behave Rem, it was your bloody idea anyway".
Remus looked away hastily while Grace laughed along with the older women. Looking very put out, Remus lead Catherine to the table and sat down again. Putting his head in his hands, Remus groaned and looked that the two girls/womem again. He looked from one to the other a couple times, and then glared at Catherine, who tried to look as innocent as possible. "You lied to me." He bit out.
Catherine looked down and then nodded, "I know I did. If I didn't you wouldn't have left me. For what it was worth, I tried telling you a dozen times".
Remus looked at her, "You should have." He got up and then walked out of the kitchen, leaving Catherine and Grace looking after him.
Grace looked down at her hot chocolate, she didn't know what was going on, or why Remus hadn't told her he was dating someone.
Catherine looked at her and smiled, "He didn't tell you because he wanted to forget about me". She sighed then, "His condition is so tricky. He thinks that we can't have children.. So I let him believe it".
"Wait, you have children?" Grace whispered as softly as she could while being shocked.
"Two children actually," Catherine said just as softly. "If Remus knew, then he would probably would have me turned down the job as Defense against the Dark Arts professor that the old goat offered him".
"Darn right I would have" A voice came out darkly behind them. Both women turned around in their seats and looked to see Remus standing in the doorway. "You were my wife Cat! You shouldn't have given me a choice!"
At that, Grace looked between the two. They were married? She didn't fail to notice the hurt look on Catherine's face.
"Were?" Catherine said quietly, "I thought we still are". With that, Catherine got up and ran upstairs, where she was going, Grace didn't know, but she did know that both adults deserved their happiness.
Grace stood up and looked at her uncle, "Remus Lupin. She made a mistake by not telling you. I am not denying that. But So did you," Grace held up a hand as she saw that Remus was about to say something, "You did make a mistake. You left her, She let you, I understand that. But clearly you didn't care enough for her to bring her with you. I also thought you were a good man. I thought that you cared about people. Obviously not. You didn't even tell me that you were married! I thought you trusted me?"
Remus stood still and her little speech. She didn't yell at him, she spoke quietly. That was worse than yelling in his opinion. When she was down she went back to the table and sat down with her back to Remus. He sighed and sat next to her, "Grace, you remind me of her. When we first started dating something happened. I thought it was my fault, I blamed myself. Her best friend at the time yelled at me for a full 5 minutes because of it. But then she sat down with me a few days later and had a long talk with me. I have never been more ashamed of myself until then. Just as I am now".
Grace just looked at him with her eyebrows raised, "Why did you tell me that?"
Her uncle shrugged, "I don't know. She was my first friend at Hogwarts though".
"How so? I thought you were part of the marauders? Weren't you also friends with my mom?" Grace was really confused, he didn't make any sense.
"My first 5 years at Hogwarts were hell Grace. Your dad and his friends taunted me everyday because I was poor. Me and Serverus bonded over that for a bit actually. Then at the beginning of my fifth year, this girl just appears, and she changed everything. Halfway through the year I was invited to join the marauders. The nearing the end of fifth year, they decided to become animagus's to keep me company.." Remus trailed off after that.
Grace looked at him shock, she never knew that before. "So my dad really was a jerk," she said quietly.
"Quite. But like I said, Cat set them right at some point. I don't know what she said, she never told me. None of them did. But she said something. I'm forever grateful to her for that." By the time he had finished saying that, he had a calculating look on his face.
"Remus," Grace said quietly "You should go find her. You love her, I know'.
Remus nodded, stood up, and kissed her head, "what would I do without you Gracie?"
Grace grinned up at him, "Probably hide in a hole somewhere".
"You sure are cheeky, you know that?" Remus mused as he walked out of the room.
Grace smiled and followed him up the stairs until she got to her room, "I know. You love me anyway".
"For some reason I do". Remus said with a smile as she went into her room, "Have a good night".
Grace nodded and laid back down in her bed, she knew that the couple would figure it out one way or another.
She rolled to her side and smiled when she realized that all the Weasley's and Hermione would be coming to visit in a few days. She couldn't wait.