Chapter Seven

Nerve-racking was the only way to describe how I felt after breakfast the next day. I wasn't trained to teach kids. What was the curriculum? What had they already learnt?

I took a deep breath and stopped pacing for a moment before starting to pace even more when the bell that signaled for classes to start. My door opened and I stopped my pacing to smile brightly at the young red-headed boy I met yesterday, Ron was his name I think.

"Take a seat anywhere you like, we'll be moving the desks around when everyone gets here so it won't matter where", I gestured to the room and he nodded before scuffling to the first chair with a yawn.

"Good morning", he said through another yawn as he began to pull out some parchment, a quill and inkpot.

"Top o' the mornin' to ya", I smiled at his shocked face.

"You're Irish? I thought you were American?" He seemed more awake now.

"I am American, I just have a lot of other nationalities in my blood", I smiled at him as other students started to flow in.

After every student had a seat I stood in the front of the room with my hands clasped in front of me.

"Well, now that we're all ready to start, I want you to get up and move your desks with me into squares so we can have group tables", I said, ignoring the groans from the students. "Come on now, at least it isn't homework or a pop-quiz. Get up, make a table with your friends, I don't mind note passing in my class."

It took five minutes to get all the tables set up and the students arranged to sit with friends.

"Well then, what do we want to learn about today?" I asked, trying to stay completely calm. Hands shot up into the air immediately and I almost laughed. "Um, you in the back."

"Is it true that muggles pictures don't move? The old twit before didn't talk about them much", the boy replied with curiosity all over his face.

"Yes actually, muggle photos don't move, and neither their paintings. They do however, have things called movies, which are photos taken in rapid succession and with noise recorded according to the pictures. They do move, but it's always the same. Anything else"

"What's playboy?" A girl from the back piped up.

I laughed.

"I-I'm sorry, what year are you guys?" I had to ask, to make sure that I wasn't going to corrupt a first year or something.

"Third years Professor Broom", she replied.

"Professor Broom is my father. I'm going to ask that you all call me Connor. And playboy is...." I had to pause, trying to remember what Sirius read that was similar. "It's like Sultry Sorceresses, but with muggle pictures."

Giggles filled the class.

"How do you know about Sultry Sorceresses? Are you gay?" A crude boy off to the side asked.

"An old friend of mine happened to read it a lot in class", I replied, glaring at the Slytherin. "And what's your name?"

"Draco Malfoy", he smirked and twirled his quill with one hand.

"Your father is lucky that my brother was stopped in fifth year little brat", I snarled. 'Ohhhh's' filled the class. "Anything else you want me to remark?"

A hand rose.

"What years were you at Hogwarts?"

"I was here for my fifth year fifteen years ago, I came in the winter and left England after that", I replied. "Now, back to the topic of muggles. Their schools start at very young ages. Kindergarten starts when you are five, and you could have been in pre-school before that."

The next class came and went before it was time for lunch, which I was happy for; these kids are really not quite as innocent as you would think they should be.

"Remus, these kids are going to drive me insane", I groaned as I sat next to him at lunch.

"Mm? And why is that?" He asked, beginning to pile food onto my plate.

"Remus, I'm not pregnant anymore for one thing", I stopped him and giggled at his embarrassment, kissing his cheek lightly. "And they wanted to know about playboy."

He flushed, remembering when I had told him about catching our son with one of the magazines in the bathroom, an awkward situation for all in the base for two weeks.

"W-well... I-I-I", he blushed and looked at his plate dutifully.

"Then they questioned my sexual orientation. But I got them off that topic thanks to my amazing elephant like memory. I made fun of some Draco Prat Malfoy kid and his father." I laughed at Remus as he choked on his sandwich, me patting his back harshly to help him. "After dinner I'm going to contact Alrik, do you want to be there?"

"Yes, absolutely yes", He smiled at me and gripped my hand tightly.

"Have I ever told you how much of a woman you are?" I joked lightly, squeezing his hand as well.

He smirked and leaned in to whisper in my ear.

"Have I told you how much I want to jump your bones before?"

"Oh really... and when do you plan on following through?" I husked back, my hand slipping to the inside of his thigh.

I smirked at his intake of breath, standing up when the bell rang. I turned and made sure to add just a little bit more sway to my hips, looking over my shoulder shortly before exiting to a staff room to go through a short-cut to class.

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"Okay class, tonight's homework is half a foot or more of parchment on the differences of schooling in the wizarding and muggle worlds. Which means five sentences actually, I really don't care how long it is", I called out over the racket of students getting ready to leave for dinner.

I groaned as the door closed behind the last student and fell into a chair. I rolled my head forward, looking at the stack of un-graded papers I had to grade. Seriously, who does homework anymore?

My eyes lazed over to the clock, an hour before dinner started. I fell forward onto the desk and opened my red inkpot, ready to grade some papers.

My hand was cramping by the time it was time for dinner, and I would have skipped it had Remus not come in with two plates of food for us both.

"Remus, what's the occasion?" I asked, noticing it was a plate with pink salad (it's a salad that I'm not sure is exclusive to my family, but it's very sweet), meatloaf, and corn on it.

"I thought, we should have dinner alone tonight, just a get together for the both of us", He replied as he dragged a chair over to the other side of my desk. He transfigured one of my extra quills into a candle and lit it before flicking his wand to dim the other lights.

"Ah, true romance, the act of wanting to do it just because", I giggled.

"Now lets eat so we can get to the important bits", he smirked at me before picking up his utensils and beginning to eat.

We flirted during dinner and kissed lightly before I decided it was time to call Alrik.

I grabbed the link out of my drawer and stood, motioning for Remus to take my seat, he raised an eyebrow before complying. I smiled at him and slid onto his lap sideways, curling on his chest.

I pressed the button and giggled when I heard Hellboy snoring heavily on the other end and the look on Remus' face. They most likely had someone monitoring for the next time I came on online.

"Hellboy, wake up you great lout! I'm gonna fall off a cliff!" I shouted, sighing when there was no response. "Oh no! The giant squid thing from the abyss is attacking me!"

There was a snort and a rustling of papers before the snoring started up again. I looked at Remus.

"What should I say?" He smirked before kissing me heavily, his hand gripping my breast while the other held my neck gently. I pulled back to allow Remus to kiss my neck, moaning loudly when he began to suck on an artery.

"What the hell is going on!?" Hellboy's angry shout shook us out of our revere. "Hello! Connor! What the fuck is that!"

I laughed before sucking in deep breathes to talk normally.

"Red, is Connor doing his homework right now?" I asked, massaging the juncture of Remus' neck and shoulder.

"No, why?" Hellboy's voice was still angry, but he was longer shouting his head off.

"I want to talk to him, go get him", I replied with my 'no-shit' voice.

I could hear his groan of displeasure as he stood up. There was a great amount of rustling before I heard a creak.

"Abe, is the little shit in here?"

"Hey!" I barked, glowering at the communicator.

"Is that mom?" I could hear hi shout and watched Remus' face of wonder.

"Yea it is, you little turd", there was another rustling, creaking, more rustling , creaking and the sound of a spring filled bed groaning in protest as someone sat on it.

"Mom, are you okay?" was the first thing from my son's mouth.

I laughed.

"I'm fine you worry wart, what have you been up to? Snogging Alicia Cummings again?" I giggled even more, just imagining the look on his embarrassed face.

"It was one time. One time! Why won't you drop it?" I smiled at Remus now, nodding at him to intervene.

"She's got the memory of an elephant, trust me", he was smiling as he tightened his grip on me.

"Who's that?"

I looked at Remus, unsure, before replying.

"Do remember when I told you about your father?" I bit my lip.

"Yea, you said that you were forced apart and probably would never be able see again."

"That was him. I found him, and he's gonna finally be in our lives", I took a deep breath and buried my head into his shoulder.

"I, I don't think that's the best way to put it Connie... I still have to do my other wok for Dumbledore and..." I furrowed my brow, looking up at Remus.

"What do you mean?" I almost hissed, looking up at him angrily. "I just got you back, I'm not letting you go, not now, not ever."

"Mom, as cherry as that sounds", I heard my son drawl on the other side. "I don't really need a dad, I'm almost out of the house, I've already hit puberty, I have uncle Red and uncle Abe, why need another man I don't really know that well in my life? It's getting late, and I have school tomorrow, I'm giving you back to Red."

I turned off the link and slid off of Remus' lap, wrapping my arms around myself.

"I'm sorry. I should have thought more about it Remus. I should have gone at it slowly... maybe, we still can make it work out, we can..." I sighed heavily and began to sob.

I turned into his arms as he wrapped himself around me protectively.

I'm not sure what happened after that. There was this rush of heat and lips. Then I was in my bedroom with Remus kissing me and clothes disappearing and then, pain. Indescribable, excruciating pain radiated through my thighs and the vertex between them. I bit my lip and tried to ignore it as Remus moved inside of me slowly. He was peppering light kisses on my face, whispering apologies over and over.

The pain began to give way to another feeling, pleasure. I wrapped my legs around his back tightly and tried to encourage him to move faster. My encouraging worked and soon we were rocking together in a fast pace, breathing heavily and heartily.

I threw my head back as my body tensed up and finally relaxed, noticing Remus' grunt and the warmth filling me as he collapsed on top of me.

He rolled over and pulled me so that my torso lay on his before we both slipped into a peaceful sleep.