Yay, long chapter. Too long

Thanks to Ckarrine and angelkitty77. To Midday Moonlight, there is nothing corny about saying 'good job' it really means a lot to me, thank you.

Remus stepped out of the tent and into the clearing to find himself surrounded by nine werewolves in human form, but one was in his wolf form, standing apart from the rest. One man stepped forward. Remus bowed low to show respect to the Alpha of the pack. The man nodded, signaling for Remus to stand straight.

"Hello, my name is Gabriel and you are in my packs territory. Is there a reason for this?"

Gabriel was usually a nice guy except when he was fighting, but now he was the Alpha, the strong leader of the pack. Remus almost cowered under his angry look, but spoke strongly anyway.

"I'm truly sorry for intruding, but we are in need of assistance. Please if you have a healer can you help us. Then we can leave whenever you want, but he is dieing. Please."

He begged Gabriel for help and Gabriel's eyes softened. "Show me," he said. Remus nodded and led Gabriel into the tent, leaving the others to wonder.

Gabriel felt dizzy then gaped at the sight of the inside of the tent. "This way," Remus called and Gabriel followed him into the first room on the left. On a couch, near the center of the room, he saw the young boy, who was sweating and breathing heavily. He was human. Next to him was another man that he assumed was the man that the Five followed, for he was not completely human.

"I'm Remus Lupin, this is my mate Sirius Black and our cub, Harry Potter. A few days ago he got sick and we don't know how to help him. If your pack has a healer, please help us and we never have to come here again if you don't want."

"No," he said, "I will not force you to leave. My pack owns an inn not far from here. You can stay there. I will call for our healer."

Sirius and Remus were so relieved. "Thank you, thank you so much. We are in your debt."

Gabriel stepped out of the room and towards the tent flap. He was once again a bit disoriented, but recovered quickly. "Vivian, could you please go to get Aunt Persia. Tell her it is an emergency and to bring all of her supplies." He ordered. Vivian nodded and left at once.

Esmé asked Gabriel concerned, "What is going on. Is one of them really hurt?"

Gabriel announced to everyone that was left, "There is no threat to the pack, one of their own is sick and needs help. You will not injure them."

At that moment, Remus stepped out of the tent. "You can come inside if you wish, instead of standing outside." He asked shyly to the strangers that had agreed to help them.

Gabriel nodded, "Very well." He said.

Esmé chose to wait outside for her daughter but the rest entered. Rafe with a huff, transformed. All got the same feeling of disorientation from immediately going from outside to an expanded space inside. Remus led them back to the room. It now had extra couches and chairs for the guests. Sirius still sat next to Harry, holding his hand, but when the others sat, he got up. Remus took his place by Harry's side.

"Well, I'm Sirius Black and this is Remus Lupin and Harry Potter. I apologize for invading your territory, but this is where we were at the time."

Gabriel answered, "It's alright. You are in need. However, I am curious as to how you three came to be traveling together."

Sirius blushed, "Well, we went to school together as children. We had been friends for years by the time Remus got the courage to tell his secret. When he did, I didn't think any less of him. Our culture is pretty prejudiced against werewolves, but I never believed in all that monster stuff that my parents tried to tell me. Later on, we mated."

"So what exactly are you?" Ulf piped up from the background. "You do not smell human."

"I'm a wizard."

"A wizard like, a magic wand and flying broom, wizard?"

"Yes. The smell that makes me different from humans would be the smell of magic."

Rafe snorted and spoke aloud what he had been thinking. "You smell more like a wet dog to me."

At this, Sirius laughed but provided no information.

This time Remus initiated the question. "How is it that transformed when it wasn't the full moon, or even night time?"

The werewolves looked surprised at the question. It was Gabriel who spoke. "We can transform whenever we want. Why do you ask that?"

Remus looked gobsmacked. Whenever they wanted! "It is only possible for pureblooded werewolves to transform at will, but all of the pures died out years ago, in the wars."

"What wars?"

"In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there was a series of wars between the humans and werewolves. Unfortunately there were too many humans and not enough werewolves. So, the werewolves started to take multiple mates, but even that was not enough. It wasn't until a wolf named Alexander mated with a human that they found a solution. It seemed that a werewolf-human hybrid could pass on the Lycanthropy gene through their saliva. This way, the werewolf number would multiply and the human number would dwindle. Eventually, the werewolves won, but none of the pures survived to pass on the pure gene. All that are left are mixed."

Gabriel told as much of their story as he knew "In the 1600's our ancestors fled from werewolf hysteria in France to the New World and settled in Louisiana. After a while, we were forced to move to West Virginia where we joined with a German pack from Pennsylvania. Not too long ago, we had to move to Maryland and then here."

Rafe growled at Gabriel. "What do you mean 'our ancestors' and 'we', you joined the pack a few months ago. You have no right to say things like that."

He was close to attacking when Esmé, Vivian and Aunt Persia entered the tent. Remus went to greet them and bring them to the room. When she saw Harry she gasped and immediately started working.

"High fever, labored breathing. Has he been nauseous at all?"

"No, just fever and he was coughing up blood a few hours ago. We made some healing draughts put it wasn't enough to cure him. It did bring the fever down a bit."

"Is that why you were in the forest collecting frogs?" asked Finn.

"Yes, frog liver is an important ingredient in many healing potions."

"Well, it would be best that not so many people crowd around him, so if everyone could move to a different room please."

They left to go to the room next do, which was almost exactly the same as the one that they had just left. "I'll get some tea" Remus said and left to go to the kitchen. It was while Remus was out of the room that things went bad.

Too much is about to happen for me to fit into one chapter, sorry.