Remus Lupin sat in his backyard looking out to the long stretch of tree's. It was about dinner time, and his parents were fighting. The sunset illuminated the sky with a pale pink that reminded Remus of cotton candy from the festival his mother had brought him to the previous week. The young boy stood up, grabbing his teddy bear, which he fittingly named Teddy. The yelling from inside the house slowly faded as Remus walked toward the edge of the forest to get a closer look at the sun setting. Halfway through the forest, he found a particularly fascinating rock that was just the right size for him. He looked up as the sun soon turned to bright stars. Remus loved the night, it gave him a thrill of sorts, and his favorite part was the moon. Which tonight was full and bright the way Remus liked it.

"Look Teddy!" The boy exclaimed. "The moon has come out to see us! Like in the story mummy read us the other night."

"REMUS LUPIN!" The frantic screams of his mother cried. The boy stood, wiped his baby blue trousers, and grabbed the bear from the rock. He hugged the bear toward him, and started to exit the familiar forest. He never understood why his mother always fussed about the forest, it was perfectly safe, Remus knew exactly where he was, which, was a tremendous accomplishment for a five year old boy.

A crunching noise startled the boy. He hugged Teddy closer to his chest, and turned to face the source of the interruption in his peaceful walk toward his home. The wind blew and a great big figure ran toward Remus.

"My boy!" He heard a familiar voice cry. Then the figure was blasted off of him by a blazing jet of light. Remus' neck felt warm and sticky, as did his arms. He turned his head to see his Teddy face down in the pile of leaves near him, covered in blood. Then the felt himself being raised up off the ground by warm arms. He heard a women's voice screaming and then yelling "It's your fault Oliver!" Then the boy fell unconscious.

Remus woke up ten days later, to see his father in the corner of the hospital room reading the Daily Prophet. Remus searched the room for his mother and Teddy, but both were missing. The bandages that covered Remus' body limited his movement at the moment, so he could not sit up in his bed; instead he called his father over. "Daddy…"

Remus' fathers closed the newspaper with a snap and practically ran toward his son. "Yes son?" his father asked wearily, for he knew the questions his son would ask.

"Where's Mummy?" The once chocolate brown eyes that glistened with curiosity searched the room once more.

"Mummy left. I don't know where, but she will be back soon enough son." Mr. Lupin pushed his son's hair back, in a comforting gesture.

Remus nodded, he was growing tired again, but he was still a curious boy and had some more questions for his father. "Where are we?"

"The special hospital." Remus knew his mummy hated the special hospital; actually she hated everything that was special. That included daddy's job, family, and wand, his mother never learned that Oliver Lupin was a wizard until a year after their son was born. She wanted a normal life, and that didn't include a freaky husband who could do, as she said, magic tricks.

"Why are we here?" Remus inquired. This was the question Oliver Lupin had been dreading. How do you tell your five year old son, that because of your ignorance, he will be cursed for the rest of his life?

"Well, Remmy, there are events in this world that cannot be changed, events which are planned for an unknown reason. We are here because of these events, do you understand?" He waited for his son to nod in confirmation. "You were attacked by a werewolf. Therefore, you will be a um… a werewolf too." He looked at his frail son and saw a mixture of shock, terror, and intrigue in his sons, now amber eyes.