Disclaimer: Potter series not mine, etc, etc. If you read fan fiction you should know the drill by now.

A/N: I wrote half of this at around three in the morning yesterday…And I only skimmed it over a little, so please inform me of any mistakes and improvements that could be made to this story, or if you think it's the best story in the world!


November
When Remus was four…

"Remy, honey,"

Mummy.

I slowly open my eyes, but they aren't being very nice. They don't want to open like I want them to. The room starts to go around and around, all spin-y. I flop back down onto my comfortable pillows.

"I feel… yucky," I pout at Mummy.

I can feel water coming down my forehead very slowly. Driiip, driiip, driiip. She gets that worried look on her face; I remember that look from when I fell down the stairs one time. She gives me that look a lot now. She walks out of my room very fast.

"Tony," I hear Mummy say, "Is it tonight—the full moon?"

I can't hear what Daddy tells her back, but Mummy comes back in the room still with the worried look. She puts on a crinkle-less smile again.

"Guess what Remy?" she asks me, "We're going on a special trip today!"

"Really?"

I want to jump up and down and hug Mummy, but my arms and legs are not being very nice either. My voice is the Bedtime Story Voice too. She picks me off on the bed, her face doesn't look very happy about the special trip. She dresses me while I hold her shoulders. My legs are still being meanies; I'm all spin-y like the room was.

Daddy walks into the room when we're almost done dressing.

"Morning, Daddy!" I say.

"Morning, Remy," he smiles.

Mummy picks me up and passes me over to Daddy. I lean my head against Daddy's shoulder.

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"Remy, we're here," Daddy says.

I look all around. We're in that place again; the place with lots of white walls and always looks sparkly. The place I woke up in when that big doggy made the sharp thing—fangs?—go into my arm. I remember how much it hurt and I feel water going into my eyes.

"That doggy wasn't nice!" I tell Daddy, looking him in the face.

"No, he wasn't very nice was he?" Daddy agrees with me.

He takes me over to the front desk, where the lady behind the desk is talking to the man that was there when I woke up here last time. Daddy told me he's a Healer and he makes people who are not feeling good better.

"Healer Finley," Daddy says that you can say hi to someone by just saying their names sometimes.

Daddy makes his head go down and back up again, nodding.

"You received our owl," Healer Finley says to Daddy, he sounds like he is telling Daddy that.

Daddy nods again.

"We thought we'd give you a bit of help, at least this first time," the man explains.

I decide he is nice, Mummy says it's nice to give help.

Mummy walks up behind us now. She takes my hand in her's. Healer Finley is finished talking to Daddy now, so we're walking somewhere. Healer Finley says it's a place they got especially for me and that I am special. I decide he is very nice.

"Here we are," he opens a door that has a drawing in a rectangle on it. Mummy tells me they're called 'Words' when I asked.

"It says 'Private Ward'" Mummy tells me.

"Ooh, Mummy! You can know what the pictures say?" I ask. I want to be able to know how to do that too.

"Yes, Remy, one day you will," Mummy smiles really big.

I can't wait for when that happens. Daddy puts me down on a bed and tucks the blanket in around me.

"Remy, you need to rest today, understand?" he asks me.

I nod like he does, my head going up and down.

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"…In a few more minutes. We need to leave, even if he is very young, he still poses a big threat to us," Healer Finley's voice is saying when I open my eyes again.

Mummy is crying again. She comes over to me and kisses my forehead. I notice there a thump, thump, thump in my head and it hurts a lot.

"Ow, Mummy, my head hurts!" I say almost crying too.

"Mummy and Daddy has to go now, you have to be very brave okay, Remy?" Mummy asks, she sounds like she is sick.

"No, Mummy!" I really start to cry now, "My head hurts!"

Mummy let go of me now, she gives me a wave. Everyone leaves the room except for me.

Everything starts to hurt now; my mouth starts to make a sound, I think it's called whimpering. Furry stuff start to come out everywhere, my mouth and ears gets longer. Everything hurts… hurts…

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Remy Lupin is gone. Now in his place is a wolf, small and vicious. His enhanced sense of smell turns his head this way and that. Behind the walls there is flesh; behind every wall there are throats to be torn, prey to be hunted.

Remy-wolf runs for the wall and slams into it. With a sickening crunch he falls back to the ground. He rams into the again and again and again. He whimpers. He can't get through to the prey. He couldn't…

He snarls and snarls, but…but he had flesh too. He bits down on his fur matted foreleg. He howled in pain as his sharp fang sank in. He shakes his head violently.

There is a chair; it looks so like one of the prey he cannot get at. He runs at it, and sinks his teeth into that too.

Riipp.

The fabric is torn with a loud satisfying sound. Like prey in pain? No, far from it. He bites it again and again…he can't tell now whether it's prey or not…it made no difference to a werewolf.

The pounding in his head is back. Like someone stabbing him over and over with a knife. Remy-wolf falls over, writhing on the floor.

Stab. Stab. Stab.

He howls for a last time, so loudly, but slowly it changes… he is screaming now.

The fur shoots back into his body, leaving behind only pale, sweat-covered skin. His snout shrinks, his face is human again. His paws, they are turned back into tiny hands with tiny fingers. His legs and spine – they are straight again.

The transformation is complete; Remy Lupin is left shivering and crying on the floor. Remy Lupin is back again.

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I still hurt. I think I fell asleep after everything hurt. I'm on the ground now, curled up. Everything is shaking now and I feel the wet drip down my forehead again.

"Daddy… Mummy…" I'm crying again, "Mummy…Daddy…"


A/N: I tried making it the wolf part into First Person, but it wasn't very good, so I had to go with Third Person. :(

I 4 2 write: Thank you so much for you review; it made my day.

Later edit: If you are wondering, or can't tell why I've replaced this chapter, it is because I've expanded the wolf part.