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A Different Moon
Chapter 21
Remus and Sirius
It had been two days since they had seen Damon; he had yet to get in touch with them. They were beginning to fear the worst actually, but they refused to give into hope. Not after all those long lonely years of searching for him. Sirius had been annoying him for twenty four hours, constantly worried that Damon hadn't been in touch. He kept asking stupid questions, staring at the phone as if willing it to ring. He had of course topped up his mobile, or rather what the American's call Cell Phones. It was now the weekend, just as two owls swooped in, the phone went.
They ignored the letters in favour of answering the phone.
"Hello?" said Remus.
"Which one are you?" asked a very amused sounding Damon Gibbs.
"Remus" smiled the amber eyed man kindly.
"Can we meet up?" asked Damon softly.
"Of course!" said Remus far too eagerly.
"How about a restaurant?" asked Damon.
"There's a café five minutes from us if that's ok?" asked Remus hopefully, he didn't like crowded places and a restaurant was going to be.
"Fine no problem just tell me the name?" replied Damon.
"Paddy's café" said Remus.
"No problem we will meet you there in five" said Damon knowing very well he and Edward would be there before five minutes.
"Brilliant, we shall see you there!" exclaimed Remus happily.
"Bye" said Damon clicking the phone closed before even Remus could say goodbye back.
"Let's go" said Remus, who was wearing a white t-shirt and black jeans today. Sirius had a black t-shirt on, blue jumper and stone washed jeans. They both might have been in the wizarding world their entire life, but they were so used to Muggle attires now they constantly wore them. In fact they preferred them to the winter cloaks most wizards wore.
Sirius smirked before grabbing the two letters, letting the owls go before practically apparating to the car. He godson had finally gotten in touch and he was so excited to meet him again. Before long they were pulling into paddy's café, they found the Volvo was already parked outside it. Walking into the café they looked around and found Harry…Damon and his mate in the corner booth. He nodded in satisfaction that would give them privacy seeing as no one else was around.
"Can I get you gentlemen anything?" asked an assistant named Derek softly.
"Pick something" said Damon curtly opening his own menu.
"I'll have the hamburger and chips, diet coke and a cappuccino in a take away cup" said Damon.
"I'll have the same" said Sirius.
"Me as well but can you make that coca cola instead?" asked Remus.
"No problem" said Derek looking curiously at Edward.
"Nothing for me thanks" said Edward smoothly.
Nodding curtly he walked away to the service bit and handed over the piece of paper.
"So tell me more about yourselves" said Damon curiously.
"My name is Sirius Black; I'm your godfather as you know. I was your biological father's best friend until you went…missing. When they didn't even attempt to look for you we left. I'm a pureblood, which means I've got a long line of Wizards and Witches for family. I got disowned when I was sixteen years old, and ran away to your grandparent's house. I lived there until I passed my Auror training, which is a bit like a police academy" explained Sirius softly. Stopping briefly when the food was placed in front of them, Damon took the receipt and paid the man upfront.
"How much was ours?" asked Sirius intending on paying his share.
"I paid for lunch…not a holiday to the Caribbean" said Damon bluntly. He had used the same tone with his friends. He always had more than them, it was inevitable. He had always paid for his friends to get into the cinema; go bowling hell even took them go-karting. That was the excuse he used, that he was just paying for whatever they were doing not paid for a holiday in the Caribbean.
"Thank you, it's very kind of you considering you don't even know us" said Remus kindly, nudging Sirius stopping him from alienating Damon.
"It's hardly going to make me penniless" explained Damon before taking a bite of his burger and digging into his lunch.
"So why were you disowned?" asked Edward curiously.
"I did not believe in my family's values and belief's" said Sirius honestly.
"I see" said Edward wondering about the dynamics of the Black family to disown their own flesh and blood for being different. It was a new concept to him; he still had a hard time accepting what had been done to his mate by his family.
"I'm Remus Lupin, your father and godfather's best friend; I was bitten when I was five years old. Ever since then I've turned into a wolf every full moon. It's pretty much the same for me, I thought of both of you as my cubs. When you were kidnapped I had a furious row with your biological mother and father about it. Not long later, me and Sirius began searching everywhere we could think for you. In magical and Muggle world's, hoping for any lead"
"What made you think I was even still alive?" asked Damon curiously.
"We couldn't think like that" said Remus grimly. The thought alone had nearly sent him reeling for months afterwards.
"It was someone magical who had adopted him so why did you look in the Muggle world?" asked Edward bluntly.
"We wanted to do a thorough search" said Sirius. "We didn't know why he had been kidnapped or how. We wanted to believe they had taken him to raise as their own. We thought perhaps they had gotten the twins mixed up"
"That's not possible we look nothing alike" said Damon scoffing at the very thought.
"The only difference between you both back then was the hair colours. There hadn't been a picture of Alec in the papers I don't think not until you were kidnapped" said Sirius thoughtfully.
"What is he like?" asked Damon curious about his twin.
"Here" said Remus handing over the now un-Glamoured picture over to Damon.
"He looks like the runt of the litter" said Edward looking at the chubby sixteen year old in shock. He looked nothing like Damon; he was a little overweight, pudgy looking if you like. He was moving in the picture giving a wave, and Edward could tell from the picture alone he was a cocky little bugger.
Sirius coughed to hide his laugh at Damon's mate's words.
"My name is Edward Cullen actually" said Edward getting sick of hearing himself called 'Damon's mate' in their thoughts. Not that he minded it but it was the other way around. Damon was his mate, he was the vampire. It was probably the first time he had called himself a vampire without the 'monster' next to it.
"Well it's nice to be officially introduced to you" said Remus softly.
Sirius just nodded.
"I guess he knows a lot of magic" said Damon feeling rather envious.
"He's ok, he didn't make the grades for Auror training that he wanted" said Sirius.
"What grades do you need for that?" asked Damon curiously.
"Outstanding in Potions, Exceeded Expectations in Herbology, Transfiguration and Defence Against the Dark Arts" said Remus.
"He didn't get outstanding in Potions?" asked Damon looking delighted with that information.
"No. No exception was made either…the professor doesn't like Potters" said Sirius in his way of explanation.
Damon smirked he liked the sound of the potions teacher.
"He's the one that made the Wolfsbane potion for me, his name is…" before Remus could finish Damon did.
"Severus Snape" said Damon nodding his head eagerly. "I've read his work, even if it's under a different name. S. Prince I think isn't it?"
"His written books are yes, but his…" again he was interrupted.
"Potions are under his own names yeah I know" nodded Damon grinning widely. "He's my favourite Author he's just fantastic at his potions. He helped me a lot when I first began, Edmund always did say he was the best"
"The Half Blood Prince Journal right?" asked Remus smiling. He liked Damon he seemed to have a passion for learning all kinds of things.
"Yeah that's it," nodded Damon.
"Do not get overly excited about it, he truly doesn't like Potter's" said Sirius cautiously. "We have to admit it was our own fault"
"What does that mean?" frowned Damon.
"We bullied him; very badly James saved him from a prank gone wrong. Very wrong, he also liked Lily, hem…your biological mother more than proper" said Sirius.
"That doesn't make him a bad guy you know, can you imagine loving someone who doesn't love you back?" asked Damon sadly.
"True" said Sirius reluctantly he hadn't truly thought about it from that point of view before. He supposed you couldn't help who you loved at the end of the day.
Remus just smiled that smug satisfied smile once more.
"So what else do you know about Damon's brother?" asked Edward curiously. He knew Damon was curious too and was asking to stop Damon looking desperate. He knew he had hit the nail on the head when Damon gave him a small smile. Sometimes it paid to be able to read others, even if he couldn't read Damon's mind.
"Hm like what? We haven't him since he was one years old" said Remus looking contemplating.
"Favourite subject? What's his magic like? Did he ever attend normal school?" asked Damon curiously.
"No he didn't attend normal school, he was home schooled in basic education. Reading, writing, mathematics and Latin" said Sirius "It's the same with most pureblood's even if he wasn't one himself his father is"
"And if he wants to do something in the Muggle world?" asked Edward incuriously. Picking up the name from Sirius and Remus as he read their thoughts.
"He cannot obviously" said Remus shrugging "Unless he attends night classes and gains qualifications or of course makes a fake"
"That's just ridiculous" said Edward blinking sharply unable to believe what he had heard.
"That is what's done" said Remus.
"So he has no normal qualifications? Bloody hell what else?" asked Damon.
"Well James is disappointed he never took to our ways, he doesn't prank much. He doesn't have many detentions, prefers sitting in his common room reading books that aren't of academic nature such as books about Quidditch a sport in the Wizarding world" explained Sirius.
"I see" mused Damon so they weren't that alike but not totally different.
"His favourite subject is Transfiguration and even at that he only scored an Acceptable in his exam although they couldn't figure out why" said Sirius "Apparently the examiner had something against him"
"But you don't believe that" said Edward straight away.
"No I don't" said Sirius shaking his head.
"He's supposed to be powerful or that's all we have heard. However, his scores indicate otherwise. Magic doesn't mean everything, everyone has different quantities of magic inside them" said Remus.
"How about you? How are you doing?" asked Sirius leaning forward wanting to hear about Damon not talk about Alec.
"Fine, um completing my normal education and magical one too" said Damon stopping noticing the man coming to clean away the plates. Once he was done the opened their cans of juice so not to have a reason to leave. Once he was out of earshot he continued as he meant to.
"I'm being mentored by Edmund himself, as I was too late to join my year. He was worried I wouldn't be able to do their magic as mine had just come unbound" smirked Damon slyly. "However, he found out he was wrong quite quickly, I'm learning Ancient Runes, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology, Potions, history of magic, and wandless class instead of Muggle studies as I have no need for it"
"What are your favourite classes?" asked Remus eagerly. He couldn't believe Damon was good enough to actually attend wandless class. Nobody he knew had ever qualified for that class, hell; they had stopped doing it at Hogwarts because no one was good enough to do it.
"Potions is my favourite, defence is next and I like charms too" said Damon honestly.
"I liked defence when I was young, potions was also an easy subject for me. I could smell the ingredients but I was nowhere near good as Severus or Lily" said Remus.
"My…Biological mothers a potions Mistress?" asked Damon frowning in confusion.
"Oh no, no not at all. She's a stay at home mum she never perused a career" said Remus clearing up Damon's confusion.
"How unusual, most people do both these days" said Edward surprised.
"They do," agreed Remus.
Sirius remembering the letters took them out and began reading them as Remus and Damon continued to talk. Mostly now about defence and what he had learned so far and Remus was indeed surprised.
"Look Remy!" said Sirius looking amused. He handed the letter over to Remus - the one by Dumbledore.
Dear Remus and Sirius,
James Potter fears something must have happened to you, but I know that's not the case. You surely cannot be still looking for Harry Potter after all those years. You must face facts if you are still looking that it's a lost cause. Come back to your friends they are worried for you both.
While you are away, would you mind terribly at gathering a few people to join the Order? We can never have too many Order members. With Voldemort being back and after your godson Alec Potter we will need all the help we can get. Voldemort is getting more active as the day goes on. So please do what you can and I shall see you both soon.
Albus Dumbledore
"He has got some bloody cheek!" snapped Remus furiously.
"Look at the next one, it's actually only for you" said Sirius darkly.
Edward had of course heard the letter read allowed in Sirius' Black's thoughts and already knew the contents of both letters. He didn't like whoever this Albus Dumbledore was. The phrase that got to him the most was probably you surely cannot be still looking for Harry Potter after all those years. You must face facts if you are still looking that it's a lost cause. It made him grind his teeth furiously; he knew Damon wished for his parents to regret their actions. It wasn't their love he wanted; it was the satisfaction of seeing them regretful. Carlisle wasn't the only one that had taken a course on psychology. He hoped for Damon's sake that he did get the Potter's feeling at least a little regret.
Remus
I want you to come back and teach Alec Potions, Slughorn doesn't want to teach him. Simply because his standards aren't high enough for the slug club he loves so much. He can't expect everyone to be as good as me and Snape. Personally I think Snape has gotten to Slughorn. We will pay you a thousand galleons a month, if you can get Alec to pass his Potions exam so he can become an Auror.
He misses his Uncle Moony terribly, and this is a way for you to bond again. He asks after you all the time did you know that? For years after you left it was always where's uncle Mooy and pafoo as he couldn't pronounce them right. Please come back James misses you as well he constantly broods when a Quidditch match is on or when its Sunday the day you all used to head to the pub after a hard weeks work.
Please get back in touch within a fortnight if you cannot do it I'm afraid I will have to do it myself. Me and James are trying to have another baby so we would rather I wasn't near Potions so much. After what happened to Harry we were afraid to have another, but we feel the time is right we cannot any longer wait in hope that he appears. If he hadn't appeared by now I fear he never will, as much as it pains me to say it I think he's dead.
P.S - Alec really hopes you accept enclosed another picture of him.
Lily Potter
"How dare she" snarled Edward furiously.
"Stupid bitch" snarled Remus more or less at the same time as Edward spoke.
"My thoughts exactly" grimaced Sirius.
"Well at least we know she's wrong" said Remus coolly.
"Using emotional blackmail to get what she wants well she's not stupid" mused Damon out loud.
"Oh no she's anything but that got top grades in school, made all the purebloods furious with her too. A half blood and Muggle born getting the best grades at Hogwarts those years. Snape and Lily" agreed Remus.
"You were third" teased Sirius good naturally nudging him.
"I wonder if there's a way to find out who bound his magic" mused Remus.
"It will have to wait for another time, me and Edward are going on a date - ice skating" said Damon, he had enjoyed his first date even if it was unnerving having Edward watch him eat without him eating or even moving his eyes from him.
"Oh well I've got your number we can arrange to meet up again!" said Remus "I've got letters to reply to anyway"
"No problem, see you later" said Damon getting up Edward following him before they both got into a silver Volvo. His blue Volvo was coming this afternoon, Rosalie was going to change the plates and get the pin in. For all intents and purposes it was the same car and his parents wouldn't suspect a thing. He hadn't been able to believe they were buying him a new car, he had told Edward repeatedly he wasn't having it that he would pay for it. Edward had just insisted that it would just raise questions on how he had spent so much. In the end he had reluctantly agreed after days of arguing. Edward felt it was partly his fault, his fault or not Damon knew he wouldn't have been alive if it wasn't for Edward.
What did you think? will Damon decide to go to England and meet them? or go with Edmund to meet Severus Snape and make all hell break loose? meet his family and end up stuck at Hogwarts for some time...how will everyone realize alec isnt the boy who lived? Trelawney giving a prophecy about damon in front of the great hall of hogwarts? prompting them to check? how will they check? i've never mentioned marks so neither of them are marked. the poppy scanning thing has been done to death but the reason for it is different this time around the prophecy could make her have to do it or will damon be hurt and she do a full scan on him unaware of his history and needing it? if so who will have hurt damon from behind? alec? James? Lily? Dumbledore? or numerious hogwarts students? a male student that was jealous of his good looks :P did you like the conversation they had? what else would you like them to talk about? will remus and sirius go back to england? will the offer of money be too much temptation for remus? R&R please tell me what you think