A/N: This story was inspired by, but not based off of, skjaere's "A conspiracy of cartographers: year one" Go read it- it's awesome! :D Alright, SO I wrote this a little while ago- It is a one shot for now. I have more- but I want to see if you guys like the idea. Okay? Thanks!
Disclaimer: Unfortuantely, I do not own Harry Potter, or his world, or his parents... I just get to imagine my own version of things... oh well. We can't all be JKR.
Chapter 1: In which it all falls apart
Lily and Remus lived in a town where wizard, witches, and muggles all mixed and knew about each other. Their Father was a wizard, and their mother was a muggle. The town was a half blood town. Lily and Remus also had an older sister, Petunia, who was very excited to get her hogwarts letter when she turned 11 next year. Lily and Remus were 7. they had just started 2nd grade and were having fun.
One November afternoon, as Lily and Remus were playing outside as they so often did, their Dad, John, came home from work.
"Hi Daddy!" exclaimed Lily
"Hello Lily! How was your day?" asked John
"Oh, it was fine. how was yours?"
"Well, my department decided to go ahead with the werewolf bill the head of department has been against. So he quit." John worked at the ministry of magic.
"Oh, daddy. That doesn't sound like a fun day."
"It wasn't. but do you know something? It's still daytime and I'm home now with my wonderful kids!" and with that, he promptly started tickling Lily
"Ahhhhh! Daddyyyy!" Lily screamed
"Da-ad! Stop tickling her!" Remus commanded. But it didn't help. He got tickled as well. "Dad!" he laughed.
"Enough." commanded Kathy, their mother, emerging from the kitchen.
"Why hello there, Kathy. How was your day?"
"Petunia still can't wait to get her letter. She checks the mail every day."
"But she doesn't turn eleven for another 3 months!" commented John
"Try telling her that. She can't wait. How was your day?" complained Kathy.
"Well, my head of department finally quit. We've been pushing the werewolf bill too much."
"Oh, John... That's terrible."
"Mother, could we have dinner now that father is home?" inquired another voice emerging from the kitchen.
"If your father is hungry, then I will start dinner." responded her mother.
"Do I even get a 'Hello'?" sulked her father
"Hello, father."
"Tunie! Give Daddy a hug!" repremanded Lily
"I'm too old for hugs, Lils." defended her sister.
"You're only ten!"
"So? That's three years older than you are."
Two weeks later, John came home ecstatic and exclaimed to his wife "Kathy! I got a promotion! I'm head of department!" and the whole family knew what that meant.
"Oh, John! That's wonderful!"
"Yes, dear. And I believe that we should go on a camping trip over Christmas holidays to celebrate!" he suggested.
"YAYYYYY!!!!!" exclaimed both Lily and Remus at the same time.
"But father, it will be COLD!" complained Petunia
"But Tunie, we'll be CAMPING!" Lily responded.
They did go camping. And they were having fun. Lily and Remus had gone off to gather firewood. The sun had just set, so they knew to be back as soon as they could. Petunia and her mother were both wrapped in blankets sitting around the fire John had just made, and was attempting to make bigger. The muggle way, since this was a muggle campsite.
Suddenly, they heard a high pitched scream coming from the nearby woods. John, Kathy, and Petunia all ran towards it, fearing that Lily had gotten hurt, because it definitely sounded like her scream. However, when they arrived, Lily was staring after a large shadow which was retreating into the forest, and Remus was on the ground bleeding from the neck.
"Lily, what happened?" her father asked her.
"It...It... but Remus. Is he okay?" she asked, obviously trying not to cry.
"I don't know. What bit him?"
"It looked sort of like a deformed wolf, but I'm not sure, i didn't get a good look at it,
Remus was in front of me and he... oh, daddy, will he be okay?"
"oh god. I need to get him to . NOW."
"John- what?" Kathy questioned her husband.
"Kathy, I think it might've been a werewolf, but i don't know. I need to get him to st. mungos. Lily too."
"Why me, Daddy?"
"Because you saw it happen. Come here, hold my hand tightly and help me carry Remus."
"Okay daddy," obeyed a frightened little girl on the verge of tears.
John grabbed his son in his arms and gripped his daughter's hand tightly, then apparated to st. mungos.
They arrived in the waiting room, and the witch at the desk immediately called a healer
upon seeing the blood on Remus' neck. The healer rushed out and as he brought them to a
room, asked what had happened.
Since only Lily had been there, she told. "Remus and I saw the thing coming towards us, and he dived in front of me and said 'd-don't hurt Lily!' and then it bit him."
"What did it look like?" asked the concerned healer.
"Kind of like a deformed wolf, but Remus was in front of me, so i couldn't really see."
The healer's face went white. John noticed this, and his face went white too.
"Do you think-" John began asking, but was interrupted.
"We won't be able to know for sure until the next full moon." the healer sharply responded
It had been almost a month, and Remus was still in the hospital. Lily had had to return to school, and was being asked a lot of where Remus was. Since her parents had warned her against telling anyone just yet, she just told them that he was sick and in the hospital.
Then one night, just before sunset, her parents took her and Petunia to the hospital to see Remus. She was excited to see him, but he was asleep when she got there.
"It's so early! Why is Remus asleep?" asked a curious Lily
"Because we might find out exactly what bit him tonight, but we're not sure." responded a nearby healer, surprised at the question. He thought she knew.
"I just hope the guess is wrong," Kathy expressed her concern, "even though all the signs seem to point to it."
All six healers that were in the room, along with John, nodded in agreement to this concern. The two girls (Petunia and Lily) were more confused than ever. What was so special about tonight?
Soon, the six healers were transferring Remus onto a stretcher, and moving him to a new room. The family followed. They arrived in a dark room with a few windows, and a locked cage in the middle of the room. The cage was large, and made of silver. One healer went to a lock on the cage and opened a huge door, and the other five carried the stretcher into the cage and set it down. Then they all ran out of the cage and quickly locked the door. The sun had begun to set.
Kathy and John were clinging to each other, worried about something, while the two little girls were confused as to why everyone was panicking and their brother was in a cage. A beam of moonlight entered the room and landed on the cage. Remus immediately woke up and began to scream.
"REMUS!" screamed Lily, afraid that her twin had awoken from a nightmare, "Remus, are you okay?" she called. But Remus didn't hear her and continued to scream. It was becoming evident that these were screams of pain, and Kathy was crying into John's chest, while John's eyes were threatening tears. "REMUS!" Lily called again, "Somebody help him! Why isn't anybody helping him?" she screamed to the room in general, tears in her eyes too, afraid of the pain her brother was going through.
Everyone in the room was staring at the form of the little boy in the cage transforming into a larger creature. Some of the healer's looked scared. Petunia was just confused, and wondering why her mother was crying, while Lily was scared, confused, crying, and wondering why nobody was telling her what was going on. He was her brother, for melrin's sake!
Remus' body stopped changing and he howled at the full moon through the window, then tried to get out of the cage, but howled again when he touched the silver. Kathy fell against a wall and sat down on the floor, her head in her hands. Petunia walked over to her to try and comfort her, and two healers and John took Lily into another room, hopefully to explain, she thought.
Petunia asked her mother what Remus was, and her mother responded with one word, "Werewolf." Petunia didn't ask anymore questions, knowing that whatever a werewolf was, she would learn more about it soon.
In the other room, John was sitting with Lily talking to her, with the healers by the door.
"Lily, do you know what a werewolf is?"
"No, daddy. What's a werewolf?"
"A Werewolf is a creature that is human most of the time, but on the full moon transforms into a wolf-like creature. And if a werewolf bites a human, then the human becomes a werewolf."
"So the deformed wolf that bit Remus was a werewolf?"
"It must have been."
"Will he have to live in the hospital forever?"
"No. He will have more acute senses now, and we will need a secure place for him to transform on full moons, but he can come home."
"Daddy... what does 'acute' mean?"
"Sharper."
At that point, the healers decided that John had said enough, and began explaining the extensive list of side effects of being a werewolf to both Lily and John, neither of whom knew that much about them. "The formal name of Remus' condition is 'lycanthropy', and there are many books on it." they handed Lily three books, "These books explain most of the information you'll need." then they handed John another book, "and this explains the ministry's guidelines for a safe place to transform. You may take Remus home in the morning." and with that, they left.
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