Ramblings With Ranger: I'm experimenting with a new writing style, so this is the product of wanting to experiment and a challenge by my sister. This was inspired by the song 'Monster' by Skillet. This features an OC.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Skillet.
Monster
It was the secret side of him he never let anyone see. He kept it caged, but he couldn't control it. He avoided intimate relationships of any kind. He wanted to be alone.
It wanted out. It was scratching on the walls. In the closets and in the halls. It would come awake, and he just couldn't keep it in.
It would hide in his head. It would hide in his body, in plain sight. He wanted to be saved. He wanted this to end.
He could feel it deep inside himself. It was just beneath the skin. He hated what he'd become. He lived in a nightmare.
He was a monster. He knew it, the world knew it and made no qualms about telling him so.
He kept it hid under lock and key. He kept it caged, but he couldn't control it. He told me to stay away. He said the beast was ugly. He said if he let it out, it would tear him up. He said it could kill me. He wanted to be saved.
But he wouldn't let me.
He is a contradiction. He wants to be saved, but he doesn't want anyone near him.
I told him I didn't care he was a werewolf.
He said I would in ten years.
I told him I'd known him for seven.
He said it's not the same thing.
So I told him he was being an idiot.
He told me I was being unrealistic.
So I told him I'd lived with a werewolf since I was born.
He didn't say anything to that.
Because I was right, and he knew it.
I wondered if he'd stop staring at me if I kissed him.
But I didn't have to wonder.
He must have read my mind.
"You're not a monster, Remus Lupin." I whispered.
He sighed.
"You're persistent, Charity Williams." Remus quipped.
I smiled.
He didn't feel like a monster then.