Hello and welcome~! I'm so glad you're taking the time to read this story, or at least give it a try! I don't think my summary gave the best view of what this story is going to be about, but its the closest I can really get without giving away to much. I try my hardest to stick to cannon story just inserting a character into it without, hopefully, creating much of a issue. Though she is originally J.'s character (Aurora Sinstra) we know nothing about her...so I have her a personality and a history

So please, have fun, review (it makes me smile and laugh to see reviews!) and suggest ideas if you have some!

Oh, I own NOTHING besides Aurora's personality/her back story/the romance between her and whomever.

She couldn't see him, it was only an outline. Her hand reached out to touch him but he seemed to be floating away from her. Tears swelled in her eyes and her hands trembled. She wanted him back. The stress of him being away was overwhelming the small girl. The light around him seemed to vanish and be replaced by a black and green glow. Her hand withdrew rapidly, but as her hand fell back to her side another hand shot out of the eerie glow and wrapped thin, wiry, hand around her neck. Her face become cooler as the blood drained, her eyes started to haze over, a ring of black appearing she drifted off into unconsciousness.

Her eyes snapped open to see the red glow of her sheets. With a groan she closed her eyes and pulled the sheets tighter over her head. It was the third time she had had that dream, and it had never felt so real before.

Hogwarts. The place she couldn't wait to return to. It's was summer, a week before Hogwarts was to start up again. The sunlight burst through the floor-to-ceiling windows and rushed around the house. Aurora groaned angrily. Her slim pale fingers gripped the sheets and she shoved them off of her. Slowly she sat up, eyes closed and yawned. Her silver pajama dress was now wrinkled and curled up around her stomach. Her eyes fluttered open then narrowed as the morning light rushed around her. She glanced to a window, an owl sat on the windowsill, a letter in its beak. Raising an eyebrow she slipped off her bed.
The owl tapped its beak on the glass a few times as she made her way over. She popped the window open and the owl let out a screech. It flew up and over her head, and landed softly on her bed with a happy hoot. She rolled her eyes angrily and walked over to the bird. Aurora took the letter from the bird and smiled. It hooted at her as she pet it and made her way over to a dark redwood desk where a packet of treats sat.

"Thank you Rela" She said, her voice was soft, cold almost, as she tossed the happy owl a treat. After devouring the treat he flew off. Aurora glanced down to the letter in her hand, she flipped it over to see the "H" symbol. A smile crossed her lips and she slid her finger underneath the flap and then pulled the parchment out.

"Dear Miss. Sinstra,

I write to tell you that we are excited to see you return to your position as Astronomy teacher for another year. Please report to the school in five days.

Sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore."

She smiled leaning against the cold glass window, a giggle escaped her lips and she almost started to dance. She had missed Hogwarts; it was the perfect place for her to be, with her students and her friends and away from the loneliness of her 'house'. She scampered over to her closet and started to dig around.

A cat pawed at the bedroom door meowing loudly. She flicked her wrist and the door opened up. A lean tortoiseshell cat wondered in hopping on the bed and laying down right where she was about to set her suitcase. Moving the bag over the small cat, she started folding clothes and tossing books into the bag.

She stopped as she stumbled upon pictures from her past. There were pictures of James, Lilly and little Harry, a family picture she had always said. But they disagreed. The one of James sitting in a big black overstuffed leather couch, Lilly sitting on the arm rest next to him with little Harry on her lap, Sirius laying on the floor in front of everyone (trying to be 'sexy' as a joke no doubt), she sat on the floor behind Sirius and next to Remus who had a large smile on his face and Peter was laughing sitting at Lily' feet. Lily and James considered that the family picture.

As it moved, Harry grabbed Peter's hair and he grinned turning to mess with Harry, Sirius sat up and tapped Lupin, the two then leaned in and kissed Aurora on either cheek causing her to laugh. James, at the same time Lupin and Sirius kissed Aurora's cheek, leaned up and kissed Lilly.
Aurora would have to agree…if Peter hadn't been in there. The rat annoyed her to a point where almost every time they were together, they were at odds wands pointed to one another ready to attack. Why they hated each other so much not many people knew and it was not something she would chose to talk about. There were many other pictures, of times during school and times after. A smile crossed her lips and she giggled. She collected the pictures in a little box and put it neatly, and snuggly, in her bag.

Five days later she was fully packed and ready to go. Once she dragged her luggage to the fireplace she looked around. Her wand slipped in her hand slightly but she smiled raising the English Oak wand above her head and casting a few protecting charms over her little home. Her cat was curled up in a cage; she, her cat, and bags disappeared with a loud "POP!" She reappeared with the same "POP!" but in Dumbledore's office. He smiled looking up from his study and stood up quickly.

"Ahh, Miss. Sinstra" He said, "So nice to see you" A huge smile crossed her lips and she dropped her stuff and hugged the man.

"Dumbledore!" she smiled letting go of the old wizard. "It's so good to see you" The wizard laughed and nodded in agreement.

"It's good to see you too" he said slowly, "Looks like you are one of the first to arrive; the others should be here within an hour or so. I think you will be happy to see some of the new teachers…." He laughed and Aurora titled her head.

"What's so funny Professor?" she asked.

"You will see Professor Sinstra. Ah, Professor McGonagal will escort you to your room." He said waving her off.

"Escort me? Did my room change or something?" Dumbledore just smiled as she cocked her head but then slowly nodded taking her things and walking to the giant eagle sculpture. The limestone scrapped across the other limestone. She could have sworn it used to be a lot louder…. As the figure stopped moving she saw her old Professor.

"Professor," McGonagal turned to look at her as she spoke.

"Ah, Professor Sinstra."

"Aurora" She corrected for the umpteenth time but she smiled.

"Aurora, yes, how are you? How was your summer?" She asked.

"I'm doing very well, and it was very pleasant. You?" The professor nodded.

"All is good, but we must get you to your room." She said quickly and started off. Aurora nodded and took her stuff, they made their way to the Astronomy tower. Expecting to stop halfway up, like she had every year since she got here McGonagall shook her head.

"We moved you to a room we thought you might enjoy a bit more." The two continued up the tower almost to the lookout point where she taught her midnight classes, then turned right.

"When was there a turn?"

"There has always been a room here, hidden but here, but for the longest time we had stored random things, Dumbledore decided to clean it out and we figured you would like it better considering it had a balcony and was closer to your main room." She opened a door to reveal a decent size room. There was a door directly across from them it was open and led out to a beautiful little balcony that had a wonderful view, two large windows that overlooked the grounds with a bed directly under them, a desk sat in one area a closet next to it; the roof was like the Great Hall, enchanted to reflect the outside sky. She smiled in awe, it was so much better than she could have ever imagined.

"This is amazing…..Thank you…." She finally spat out.

"No no. There is no need for thanks. Please be downstairs in an hour. Enjoy." Professor McGonagall walked out closing Aurora into her room. With a flick of her wand, the clothing flew out of her bags and into the closet. Her papers, quills and other writing things flew to the desk. Her cat's cage opened up and the cat wondered out sharp golden eyes locking onto the bed and rushing to it. Once on it the cat fell asleep. She let out a yawn; walked over to the bed and fell on top of it. With a smile she watched the enchanted ceiling, it was a bright sunny day, fell asleep.

Knock! Knock!

Aurora stirred to the sound of knocking on the heavy wooden door. She pushed herself off the bed, the cat letting out a whine for the sudden movement. She slowly made her way over to the door, stretching as she did so. As she opened the door her eyes widened and a smile ripped across her face. There was a smile on his slightly scared face, bright green eyes shimmering, his tattered clothing looking almost no different than they used to.

"Lupin!" she squealed and threw her arms around him in a huge hug him. He laughed hugging her tightly. When she let go he wondered into the room and she closed the door. She stared at him for a moment in amazement.

"Moony! What are you doing here?" she asked practically jumping up and down once she realized she really wasn't dreaming.

"I'm the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher now." he smirked as her smile grew wider.

"How lucky!" she laughed, she had once considered going for that position, but felt Astronomy suited her better."But what about your condition?" she inquired putting emphasis on the last word.

"Oh, well…" he let out a sigh and rubbed his face. His dirty blond hair slid into his eyes as he lowered his head a bit."Dumbledore knows, yet he is still letting me teach. Snape is making me potions for when it is the full moon…so I can just stay in my office and sit and not want to run around and attack."

"Ah, well that works" she was unsure of if she should be happy or not, mostly because Lupin himself seemed sort of confused on how he should feel.

"Yea…Potions good for him…" he said. Aurora clenched her eyes shut.

"Eh, I don't want to see him…" she said. Lupin had picked up her cat and was playing with it.

"Oh?" Aurora nodded opening her eyes.

"Yea…I didn't really want to see him considering…" Lupin looked up at her curiously.

"Oh that…" he said then changed the subject. "How long…has it been?"

"Been since what?"

"We last saw each other," he asked quickly.

"About…7 years…" She said biting her lip. "To long if you ask me."

"Really? That long?" There was a moment of awkward silence as the two realized how out of touch they had become.

"Yea…Since…after all that mayhem… 12 years ago…" He nodded solemnly. There was more rapping at the door.

"Yes?" Aurora responded with a squeak.

"Professors," The door opened to reveal Dumbledore. "It's time for us to go down to the great hall," They nodded as he turned, "I'll see you down there" He said walking off. The two got up and started out.

"So…What have you been up to for the past 7 years Lupin?" she asked.

"Eh?" he started "Oh, studying DADA" He smiled "Trying to get work." he added Aurora nodded. "And you?"

"Studying Astronomy...but you knew that, I was studying that…the three years before we lost contact…I started working here about 5 years ago…Wondering what…actually happened that night." Lupin nodded understanding he put his arm on her shoulders and smiled a soft curious smile.

"You heard about Sirius escape didn't you?" He asked. Aurora nodded looking at him.

"Yes…I did..." She whispered.

"Are you worried?" He asked. Aurora shook her head quickly.

"No…Sirius…He wouldn't hurt a soul…" She said looking to him. Lupin bit his lip and sighed.

"You can't… still believe that…" he muttered.

"Oh? But I do believe it" she snapped. "He wouldn't kill them." He nodded a bit not wanting to rehash an old fight, and the whole reason they lost contact for so long.

They were at the Great hall by this time; she looked in and smiled at her old teachers, old friends. She walked up to the table and took her seat with Lupin. After a few moments, Dumbledore stood up and smiled. She spotted Snape sitting not too far away from her, he smiled a bit and they both looked to Dumbledore as he started to speak.

"Welcome teachers" He started. "It's good to have you back, and it's nice to see some new faces here" He glanced to Lupin, along with a few others. "I hope you all have had a good summer, students will be arriving in about a week and I hope you all have your first lesson planed out!" he laughed. "We may need some help making sure the place is ready for our students." She bit her lip and nodded. "I won't keep you any longer; I'll let you get to talking to your friends. Eat up!" With a wave of his hands the food appeared and everyone started to eat.

Aurora and Lupin sat laughing and talking amongst the others, until Dumbledore walked up to Lupin and smiled.

"Professor" he started "I just got an owl from your neighbor, it seems as if their son has gone missing, again, and they need your help finding him. They are requesting that you come, and they will pay for your ticket back to the school since you will not be able to appereate." Lupin nodded.

"Ah okay. Thank you Sir." Dumbledore smiled and walked off taking his seat at the middle of the table. Lupin hugged Aurora and biding her farewell.
He disappeared with a POP and her eyes wondered over to Snape who stared back. Aurora's eyes narrowed and she looked away. After another good thirty minutes of talking and eating and chatting with Sybill, she left to go back to her room. Letting out a sigh she stopped walking there was that feeling that she felt oh so long ago.

The feeling that someone was following her again.