Chapter 2

Tonight was Teddy's first full moon and everyone was on edge, especially Remus. He woke up too early in the morning and made himself tea. In a daze, he added too much sugar till Dora pointed it out to him. After breakfast, he let Dora eat her breakfast while he fed Teddy by bottle. Later, he sat in Teddy's nursery, watching their son sleep away the rest of the morning.

Dora took the day off, knowing her husband would be on edge and she wanted to be there to comfort him. She stood outside the nursery, watching Remus.

He shifted and she knew he could hear her breathing and smell her scent with his heightened senses, "He's unusually quiet today," He muttered.

"Remus," She touched his shoulder. Remus was hunched over Teddy's cot, standing there the whole morning, "don't worry, our son will be fine,"

"How can I not worry? I'm his father…What if Teddy is a…" Remus couldn't bring himself to say it.

Dora sighed, "Look at him, Remus," She gestured to the cherub sleeping in his cot, "does he look like a werewolf to you?"

Remus sucked in a breath before sighing, "I haven't seen an infant werewolf, Dora. I can't say for sure,"

Dora's heart ached for him. Apart from today, the only time she had seen him so broken was the night she spent in labour. He had hunched over her for hours as she hurt from the contractions. She could see the pain in his eyes. With a little tugging and some resistance from him, Remus eventually allowed her to hold him.

"How could you ever forgive me if I did that to our boy?" Remus muttered, "I'll lose you both,"

Dora kissed his neck, fisting his hair, "No, you would never lose us. If anything, I'll rely and need you more than ever if Teddy is one. Don't give up on us, Remus,"

She felt him nod, his arms around her waist, holding her tighter.

Dora left him to sit in the nursery. Remus claimed he was reading but she knew he was not for she was pretty sure he doesn't read the book upside down. She mused but decided not to wreck his nerves anymore.

The evening came too soon. Remus drank the Wolfsbane that she brewed for him while she chatted with Andromeda over the floo.

Andromeda had offered to drop by to help but both Tonks and Remus rejected it, assuring Andromeda they'll use her house for refuge if anything went wrong.

Dora accompanied Remus down to the basement, bringing extra duvet in case it got too cold at night.

When she was assured he would be comfortable, she made to leave but Remus held her sleeve and she sat.

"Dora, promise me something," He looked her sternly in the eyes, "No matter what happens, your safety is of utmost importance,"

She smiled, "Yes, Professor Lupin, you've said that the last twenty times over dinner. I'm surprised that hadn't been Teddy's first ever sentence,"

Remus didn't smile, "if Teddy were to…" He choked and skipped over it entirely, "promise me, don't go near him. The wards around the cot should hold. If they don't, the wards on the entire room should keep him inside," Remus looked torn at the thought of their sweet son going berserk in the warded room.

"Remus," She stopped him, holding his face in her hands firmly, "everything will be fine,"

He nodded stiffly, forcing a smile at her as she walked out and shut the heavily warded door. Sighing, Remus fisted his hair in his hands, feeling the tug of the rising moon in his bones. He stood in the middle of the room as he shed his robe and folded it, placing it in the corner. Looking around the basement, he smiled.

The basement looked cold and had bars when he first built it. Now, the bars were taken down. In the corner of the room, there was a huge mattress wrapped in tough sheets which Tonks weaved with magic to prevent the werewolf's claws or teeth from tearing them. There were also thick duvets that were protected likewise in which the werewolf could curl up and sleep under. Recently, there were additions of pillows. Remus thought the idea ridiculous but Dora was insistent.

On the walls, Dora put up a magical mural of the night sky blanketing a green field with tall grasses. The pictures moved. The grasses swayed in the wind and the stars twinkled. The full moon was also painted on and it moved across the mural as the night went by. Remus smiled, trust his wife to brighten up a basement used for his transformations.

He felt the beginning sharp ache in his bones that told it was time. Remus felt his bones shifting and couldn't stifle a cry of pain.

Dora…Teddy…

He fell to his knees and felt his hands and feet become paws. Fur sprouted from his skin and he felt his face changed. Everything seemed to quiet and yet loud at the same time. He could hear his own heart and his own rasped breathing.

Opening his amber eyes, he took in the moon, the stars, the grass. Feeling the pull of the wolf, he obliged, howling.

Feeling a chill, he padded quietly across the cold floor and sniffed the mattress. It carried his own scent. Assured, he leaped quietly onto the soft mattress and shuffled under the thick duvet.

Eyeing the pillow, he clamped it with his teeth. He didn't feel the pull of hunger but his jaws ached for something to chew. Grasping the pillow in between his paws, the man allowed the wolf to chew it up. Eventually, the wolf got tired. Both the man and the wolf relented to lay down to sleep.

Tonks stood outside Teddy's nursery. She left the door open, reinforcing the wards in the doorway. She wanted to be able to see her baby.

The moon rose; Tonks could see it though the window in Teddy's nursery.

She gazed at Teddy's sleeping form in the cot, her breath caught in her throat when Teddy stirred and open his eyes. His entire being seemed to be luminous in the moonlight.

He looked around curiously before spotting Tonks standing at the door. Teddy held the bars of the cot with one hand, his strong little legs kicking the blanket off. Tonks wanted so badly to walk into the room and tuck his blanket around him but restraint herself; remembering Remus' warning. Teddy opened his mouth and called to her, his half learnt words in a jumbled mess but Tonks knew he was calling her.

Tonks glanced out the window to see the full moon still rising and stopped herself. Teddy's cry for her began to reach a frantic pitch and Tonks' heart broke as he began crying.

"Teddy, shh," She hushed him and Teddy paused for a moment, hearing her voice, "Mama's here,"

When he saw his mother wasn't going to come closer, Teddy cried. His face turning red, tears streaming down his face. Tonks knew he wasn't hungry for he just ate and his diapers were just changed. She understood from his posture that he just wanted love and attention.

Another glance out the window and Tonks saw that the moon has fully risen. Remus mentioned over dinner that she should wait a minute till after the full moon has fully risen to be safe. Gazing at her crying baby, Tonks thought, sod it. She stepped into the room and picked Teddy up from the cot and into her arms. The wards broke upon her invasion.

She cooed and hushed him, bouncing him reassuringly in her arms, "Oh Teddy, mama's so sorry. You're perfect, you are," She kissed his head and Teddy's cry dissolved into hiccups as Teddy quiet down. He smiled as Tonks morphed her nose into a duck's then a wolf's. He laughed, patting her snout happily before patting his stuffed wolf which he held in his arms.

Dora sat down in the rocking chair which Remus had weaved with his own two hands during the time she was pregnant with Teddy. She rocked Teddy to sleep but couldn't bear to put him down.

The sun rose and Remus woke to pain as his bones shifted back. He felt warm and comfortable, soothing the dull ache in his bones. Closing his eyes in relief that another full moon had passed, Remus sank down and sighed. Then it struck him, Teddy, Dora! He threw aside the duvet and grabbed the bathrobe he had folded from the corner. Remus hurriedly wore it as he left the basement. The kitchen and the sitting room looked fine, not that Remus was expecting a baby werewolf to be able to break the wards and rampage downstairs.

He ran up the stairs, stumbling twice, bruising his shin but he ignored it. He saw sunlight flood the hallway from Teddy's nursery with Dora no where to be seen. Remus approached slowly, fear creeping into his chest. What if Dora didn't listen to him? What if she charged in even if Teddy did transform? What if he peered into the nursery to see his wife's bloodied body that he has seen in his dreams a million times? And Teddy…Remus couldn't stand the thought.

Squeezing his eyes shut, Remus stood in the doorway of the nursery. When he opened his eyes, he saw the most beautiful sight he had ever beheld.

Dora had dozed off in the rocking chair he had made for her if she had to nurse Teddy in the middle of the night. In her arms, Teddy slept, his face buried in his mother's chest and he clutched his stuffed wolf.

Remus smiled. This was his family and it's perfect.

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