Hope and Sorrow Amongst the Stars

by pommedeplume

After sixteen long years Remus Lupin is reunited with his lover, Sirius Black who has been held by General Severus Snape under orders of Admiral Tom Riddle (also known as Voldemort.) Now with the promise of a possible cure for the disease that causes Remus to change on the full moon, Remus and Sirius travel across the stars. Warning: Graphic Violence.

11. Epilogue - Regrets

Kingsley Shacklebolt knocked on the door to Remus Lupin's cottage and received no answer. He knocked again. Still nothing.

"Mr. Lupin!" he yelled. "It's Kingsley! I just wanted to see how you were doing?"

It'd been six months since he'd given Remus Lupin the cure and he'd heard nothing from him. He was certain that Remus hadn't left Fidelius or the palace grounds. But he was getting no answer at the cottage and looking inside through the windows he could tell no one had been inside for a time.

He then walked back up to the palace and looked around there. As far as he could tell it was empty though he did notice many new claw marks carved into the floors and walls and he felt a sense of dread. Lupin hadn't taken the cure he realized.

Kingsley decided to head to the nearby villages to enquire about any activity from a wolflike creature. Kingsley chided himself for not making sure that Lupin took the cure. He should've realized what the man had just been through and found some way of taking care to provide him some emotional support. He shouldn't have been left alone. Dumbledore wouldn't have made this mistake, he told himself.

As he arrived in the northern village he realized that he couldn't blame himself for Lupin's choices. But still. He couldn't help himself a little.

Kingsley spoke to villagers and it was as he feared. A wolflike monster had been attacking the village and other villages routinely. The people were doing their best to hide from the beast but some nights someone would pass out drunk in the forest and the next day would be found in pieces.

Kingsley asked if it was just once a month but every villager he spoke to said there was no pattern to the attacks. It was worse the Kingsley thought: Lupin had given into the wolf completely.

With pain in his heart Kingsley returned to the palace grounds and got on his shuttle and activated the communications panel. "Get me Mad-eye Moody," Kingsley said.

Within a few minutes Alastor Moody was on the screen looking serious. Moody was an expert at capturing Death Eaters but he also had another reputation among the Order of the Phoenix: werewolf hunter.

"Yes? Well what do you need, Shacklebolt?" Moody asked.

"Alastor, I need you to come to Fidelius immediately. I need you to kill a werewolf."