Goldhawk- the praise is very gratifying, as always. Thanks for reviewing!
(Very obvious point to all that read and DON'T review)
Devann- (over MSN im) Thanks for the help with chapter six. Most appreciated!
Also thanks to Devann... Some clear ups... 1. Severus Snape is so nice to Krista because he is in love with her. I thought this was obvious, but some people might not have gotten it or want to be sure they understand. 2. Severus also is nice to Krista because she is the only currently living in the Black Mansion that was in Slytherin house... I'll get deeper into that in a later chapter. 3. Krista and Sirius are together, despite the different rival houses, because of Remus. Remus is Sirius' best friend. Krista is Remus' twin sister. Remus hooked them up. They married through Remus. Yay! 4. Also for all wondering there is something else, very different than love, between Severus and Krista, but that is for later. Hahaha!
Also one last note... I don't know how to make things stay in Italics on here so " " will be physically spoken and ' ' will be mentally spoken or a thought, ok?
I own only Krista... Also thanks to the comic 'Kabuki: Circle of Blood' for the sent... I am drifting in the dark halfway between the sun and the moon... a twisted reflection of my former self. Aka I don't own that sentence!
Lets get this show on the road!
A Change of Fate
The Pregnant Moon
'I can't change outside of the cage...' Thought Remus desperately as his body shimmered and started to sprout fine gray and tan hairs. Fighting the transformation only made it more painful though. "Remus, you have to stop fighting! We'll watch over you. Sirius and I won't let you hurt anyone." Krista reassured. Sirius nodded so that his best friend could see him and then began to shift as well.
He did not take the form of a wolf, which was becoming increasingly clearer in Remus, but instead he had the form of a huge, bear-sized black dog. Krista changed as well, into a lithe mountain lioness. 'Remus,' She reached out to her twin mentally. 'You have to stop fighting it.' When it appeared that Remus wouldn't stop fighting the wolf inside him, Sirius ran straight at his half-human, half-wolf body.
The sudden impact caused by the huge dog hitting him squarely on the chest and pinning him to the ground caused Remus to stop trying to fight the wolf mentally and instead try to fight the dog physically. This was exactly what Sirius had wanted. As soon as he saw Remus start to lash out at him with teeth and claws that were almost instantly wolfen, Sirius leapt aside and stood near his wife. Together they watched Remus finish changing into a werewolf.
The wolf lay panting on the floor, his human clothing draped foolishly over himself. Shaking the clothing to the floor, the wolf Remus looked up at his animal friends. 'Thank you, you two. I don't know why I fight. It hurts so much to.' Sirius gave a foolish doggy grin. 'It is because you hate the wolf and what it does. You also hate what it stands for and makes you go through during the time of the month that the moon isn't full. It is as simple as that, my brother.' Krista told him softly, her words brought to his mind because none of them had voice boxes to speak with. 'She has a point, buddy. You fight so hard because you hate the wolf. No other reason than that.' Sirius added.
Remus looked out the window at the full moon. 'Pregnant again... now you are giving birth to monsters like me all across this world. Do you enjoy the fruits of your pregnancy? Do you fancy us keeping our forms as your werewolf children on moon just for your delight? Curse you! I hate you, you Pregnant Moon. Always without fail, you change me! Curse you to the darkest depths of hell!' Remus left the kitchen and wandered into the library with Sirius and Krista in tow.
'I am drifting in the dark... halfway between the sun and the moon... a twisted reflection of my former self.' He thought as he looked into a small mirror hanging over one of the soft green chairs. Krista heard and came close to her twin. 'I love for the sun, but the moon eternally rules my life. I am caught between them. If I give in to the moon, I could never live with myself, but I can't be free of it to go to the sun. I am caught in a net, halfway between good and evil. I am always good until this one night every month. This one horrible night when I'm viciousness and evil and cruelty embodied!' Remus let out a long, mournful howl.
Krista looked at her twin and saw something in his eyes; a glint that told the wolf had taken over the body. She stepped back from him, fear in her eyes. 'Remus,' she whispered to him, but it was too late. With a vicious snarl and a flash of pearl white teeth Remus was on her. Sirius couldn't comprehend what had happened at first. Remus hadn't attacked either of them for many years... but now this? Sirius decided to work it out later and leapt, almost joyfully, into the fray of fur, teeth, and claws.
Remus' teeth slashed across Krista's face, ripping a huge chunk of flesh from her that only just barely missed taking out her left eye. Krista roared and lashed out with her large claws. She left a huge bloody rip in Remus' chest. Just then Sirius leapt into the fight and fought leg to leg, teeth to teeth with the wolf, trying to pin it down. Krista threw herself at the wolf's side and managed to pin it beneath her weight.
'Remus, you bastard, get a grip on yourself!' Her mind screamed at her twin and somehow through the mists of the wolf conscious, the human Remus heard her. The wolf suddenly went limp beneath the mountain lion and tears flowed from its eye. 'Krista... Krista, Krista, Krista.' Was all Remus could manage for several minutes. 'Hey Rem, come on. Snap out of it man. It will all be fine in the morning.' Sirius' mind whispered.
'No,' Remus told them, still pinned under his twin sister. 'It will all be fine until the next time the moon is pregnant. Then I'll go through this again, and it will all be wrong again. I'm sick of everything going from fine to all wrong in one night because the bitch moon decides to become pregnant. I don't want to go on. Please just kill me. I don't deserve you, either of you...' 'Now shut up, you selfish, self-pitying bastard!' Krista roared at him mentally and physically. 'You have no right you think that! Sirius and I risk our lives to be with you and all you can think of is "Poor me!"... Well I'm sick of it. You want to die? Fine, but you can do it on your own terms. Sirius and I won't help you!'
The dog slowly followed the mountain lion out of the room. Before it left Sirius whispered to his friend. 'She really loves you Remus. We both do. I don't know what we would do without you now that James and Lily are gone. Please don't leave us." Then the wolf was alone. Remus wept openly in shame and bitter grief.
Krista lay in the kitchen, her head on her paws. Sirius was in a similar position, nose to nose with her. They waited. Neither said a thing. Neither moved. They simply waited. After a long time had passed, they heard the clinking of nails on the floor approaching. Remus was coming. Sirius picked up his head and turned to look at the door, but Krista turned away to hide the tears shimmering in her eyes. She hated yelling at Remus like she had, but it was the only way to make him see any sense when he was like this. It was the only thing he understood.
Remus paused in the doorway. Sirius grinned foolishly at him, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, but Krista had her back turned to him. Remus lowered his head in shame. He knew of the tears hidden in her eyes. He had seen them so often after fights like this during the full moon. He walked past Sirius, pausing only to nuzzle him a moment before laying down, nose in paws, before his twin.
'Krista...' Remus whispered very softly. 'Bloody selfish bastard.' He heard returned to him from her, but knew he wasn't meant to hear it. No one was meant to hear that. He only heard it because of the close connection they had which only twins can have. 'I'm sorry, Krista.' The mountain lion sighed deeply and rubbed its face against it paw. Remus knew this gesture for what it was, she was wiping away her tears. 'I know, Remus. I know.'
The three lay like that until moonset. Then Remus began to shimmer slightly. Quickly the human body reclaimed its right. Remus dressed as his best friend and twin sister changed back to themselves.
Sirius went up to get the others from the Dursley's room since it was almost sunrise. Meanwhile, Remus and Krista started making breakfast. The signs of the destruction of the storm and the battle were quite clear in the bright, clear, and thankfully very un-red sunrise that slanted through the window. Remus looked out the window and sighed at the slight reflection of himself in it. His chest had nearly healed already, and Krista was working to heal her face.
"That will most likely leave a scar..." He commented sadly. "You nearly always do leaves scars." Krista replied. "But I love you anyway." Remus smiled and looked at his reflection in the glass again. It was like seeing something or someone superimposed over what you were really seeing. The ripple effect of the glass made his face distorted. He sighed, before turning to the eggs.
"I am drifting in the dark... halfway between the sun and the moon... a twisted reflection of my former self."
AN: Typed all in one night! Hell Yeah! You know you all love me! Just like we all love dear Remmie, even if he can be a bastard sometimes... yay!
Big thanks to Devann, my 'Death is Not the End' KaZaA playlist, Thea and the "We need to have sex now" and the "Ooh Something Shiny" story. Note, I didn't use things from those, just read them while typing this up... Also thanks to... um... actually I think that is it... Please review?
Devann- (over MSN im) Thanks for the help with chapter six. Most appreciated!
Also thanks to Devann... Some clear ups... 1. Severus Snape is so nice to Krista because he is in love with her. I thought this was obvious, but some people might not have gotten it or want to be sure they understand. 2. Severus also is nice to Krista because she is the only currently living in the Black Mansion that was in Slytherin house... I'll get deeper into that in a later chapter. 3. Krista and Sirius are together, despite the different rival houses, because of Remus. Remus is Sirius' best friend. Krista is Remus' twin sister. Remus hooked them up. They married through Remus. Yay! 4. Also for all wondering there is something else, very different than love, between Severus and Krista, but that is for later. Hahaha!
Also one last note... I don't know how to make things stay in Italics on here so " " will be physically spoken and ' ' will be mentally spoken or a thought, ok?
I own only Krista... Also thanks to the comic 'Kabuki: Circle of Blood' for the sent... I am drifting in the dark halfway between the sun and the moon... a twisted reflection of my former self. Aka I don't own that sentence!
Lets get this show on the road!
A Change of Fate
The Pregnant Moon
'I can't change outside of the cage...' Thought Remus desperately as his body shimmered and started to sprout fine gray and tan hairs. Fighting the transformation only made it more painful though. "Remus, you have to stop fighting! We'll watch over you. Sirius and I won't let you hurt anyone." Krista reassured. Sirius nodded so that his best friend could see him and then began to shift as well.
He did not take the form of a wolf, which was becoming increasingly clearer in Remus, but instead he had the form of a huge, bear-sized black dog. Krista changed as well, into a lithe mountain lioness. 'Remus,' She reached out to her twin mentally. 'You have to stop fighting it.' When it appeared that Remus wouldn't stop fighting the wolf inside him, Sirius ran straight at his half-human, half-wolf body.
The sudden impact caused by the huge dog hitting him squarely on the chest and pinning him to the ground caused Remus to stop trying to fight the wolf mentally and instead try to fight the dog physically. This was exactly what Sirius had wanted. As soon as he saw Remus start to lash out at him with teeth and claws that were almost instantly wolfen, Sirius leapt aside and stood near his wife. Together they watched Remus finish changing into a werewolf.
The wolf lay panting on the floor, his human clothing draped foolishly over himself. Shaking the clothing to the floor, the wolf Remus looked up at his animal friends. 'Thank you, you two. I don't know why I fight. It hurts so much to.' Sirius gave a foolish doggy grin. 'It is because you hate the wolf and what it does. You also hate what it stands for and makes you go through during the time of the month that the moon isn't full. It is as simple as that, my brother.' Krista told him softly, her words brought to his mind because none of them had voice boxes to speak with. 'She has a point, buddy. You fight so hard because you hate the wolf. No other reason than that.' Sirius added.
Remus looked out the window at the full moon. 'Pregnant again... now you are giving birth to monsters like me all across this world. Do you enjoy the fruits of your pregnancy? Do you fancy us keeping our forms as your werewolf children on moon just for your delight? Curse you! I hate you, you Pregnant Moon. Always without fail, you change me! Curse you to the darkest depths of hell!' Remus left the kitchen and wandered into the library with Sirius and Krista in tow.
'I am drifting in the dark... halfway between the sun and the moon... a twisted reflection of my former self.' He thought as he looked into a small mirror hanging over one of the soft green chairs. Krista heard and came close to her twin. 'I love for the sun, but the moon eternally rules my life. I am caught between them. If I give in to the moon, I could never live with myself, but I can't be free of it to go to the sun. I am caught in a net, halfway between good and evil. I am always good until this one night every month. This one horrible night when I'm viciousness and evil and cruelty embodied!' Remus let out a long, mournful howl.
Krista looked at her twin and saw something in his eyes; a glint that told the wolf had taken over the body. She stepped back from him, fear in her eyes. 'Remus,' she whispered to him, but it was too late. With a vicious snarl and a flash of pearl white teeth Remus was on her. Sirius couldn't comprehend what had happened at first. Remus hadn't attacked either of them for many years... but now this? Sirius decided to work it out later and leapt, almost joyfully, into the fray of fur, teeth, and claws.
Remus' teeth slashed across Krista's face, ripping a huge chunk of flesh from her that only just barely missed taking out her left eye. Krista roared and lashed out with her large claws. She left a huge bloody rip in Remus' chest. Just then Sirius leapt into the fight and fought leg to leg, teeth to teeth with the wolf, trying to pin it down. Krista threw herself at the wolf's side and managed to pin it beneath her weight.
'Remus, you bastard, get a grip on yourself!' Her mind screamed at her twin and somehow through the mists of the wolf conscious, the human Remus heard her. The wolf suddenly went limp beneath the mountain lion and tears flowed from its eye. 'Krista... Krista, Krista, Krista.' Was all Remus could manage for several minutes. 'Hey Rem, come on. Snap out of it man. It will all be fine in the morning.' Sirius' mind whispered.
'No,' Remus told them, still pinned under his twin sister. 'It will all be fine until the next time the moon is pregnant. Then I'll go through this again, and it will all be wrong again. I'm sick of everything going from fine to all wrong in one night because the bitch moon decides to become pregnant. I don't want to go on. Please just kill me. I don't deserve you, either of you...' 'Now shut up, you selfish, self-pitying bastard!' Krista roared at him mentally and physically. 'You have no right you think that! Sirius and I risk our lives to be with you and all you can think of is "Poor me!"... Well I'm sick of it. You want to die? Fine, but you can do it on your own terms. Sirius and I won't help you!'
The dog slowly followed the mountain lion out of the room. Before it left Sirius whispered to his friend. 'She really loves you Remus. We both do. I don't know what we would do without you now that James and Lily are gone. Please don't leave us." Then the wolf was alone. Remus wept openly in shame and bitter grief.
Krista lay in the kitchen, her head on her paws. Sirius was in a similar position, nose to nose with her. They waited. Neither said a thing. Neither moved. They simply waited. After a long time had passed, they heard the clinking of nails on the floor approaching. Remus was coming. Sirius picked up his head and turned to look at the door, but Krista turned away to hide the tears shimmering in her eyes. She hated yelling at Remus like she had, but it was the only way to make him see any sense when he was like this. It was the only thing he understood.
Remus paused in the doorway. Sirius grinned foolishly at him, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, but Krista had her back turned to him. Remus lowered his head in shame. He knew of the tears hidden in her eyes. He had seen them so often after fights like this during the full moon. He walked past Sirius, pausing only to nuzzle him a moment before laying down, nose in paws, before his twin.
'Krista...' Remus whispered very softly. 'Bloody selfish bastard.' He heard returned to him from her, but knew he wasn't meant to hear it. No one was meant to hear that. He only heard it because of the close connection they had which only twins can have. 'I'm sorry, Krista.' The mountain lion sighed deeply and rubbed its face against it paw. Remus knew this gesture for what it was, she was wiping away her tears. 'I know, Remus. I know.'
The three lay like that until moonset. Then Remus began to shimmer slightly. Quickly the human body reclaimed its right. Remus dressed as his best friend and twin sister changed back to themselves.
Sirius went up to get the others from the Dursley's room since it was almost sunrise. Meanwhile, Remus and Krista started making breakfast. The signs of the destruction of the storm and the battle were quite clear in the bright, clear, and thankfully very un-red sunrise that slanted through the window. Remus looked out the window and sighed at the slight reflection of himself in it. His chest had nearly healed already, and Krista was working to heal her face.
"That will most likely leave a scar..." He commented sadly. "You nearly always do leaves scars." Krista replied. "But I love you anyway." Remus smiled and looked at his reflection in the glass again. It was like seeing something or someone superimposed over what you were really seeing. The ripple effect of the glass made his face distorted. He sighed, before turning to the eggs.
"I am drifting in the dark... halfway between the sun and the moon... a twisted reflection of my former self."
AN: Typed all in one night! Hell Yeah! You know you all love me! Just like we all love dear Remmie, even if he can be a bastard sometimes... yay!
Big thanks to Devann, my 'Death is Not the End' KaZaA playlist, Thea and the "We need to have sex now" and the "Ooh Something Shiny" story. Note, I didn't use things from those, just read them while typing this up... Also thanks to... um... actually I think that is it... Please review?