EDIT 12/27/17: Had to edit this a bit, but not much.

There we go! A bit of a history lesson in this one, be warned.

Disclaimer: not mine.

The full moon came, and Remus wasn't feeling as awful as he usually would. Earlier than he would have liked, he decided it was time to go get Evie. Tonks kissed him goodbye, told him to stay safe, and made him leave.

He apparated to the Jameson cottage, and knocked on the door. Tim answered.

"Remus! Hello! You don't look so good."

The werewolf shrugged. "The moon affects me as well."

"Come in, come in. Evie isn't faring too well either. If I may ask, how are you going to be getting there?"

"The same way I got here. Apparition."

"Magic transport I suppose?"

Remus smiled. "Yes."

Evie came up behind her father. "Hello, Professor Lupin."

"Hello, Evie!"

"Are we going now?"

"If you want to."

"Yeah. Please."

"No problem! Tim, I promise I will keep your daughter safe. I'll get her back to you in one piece."

He nodded, grateful. "Thank you Remus."

Evie and Remus walked out, and Remus told Evie to take his arm. Then, he spun on his heel and they disapparated to Hogsmeade. "There. That wasn't so bad was it? I've heard people describe it as uncomfortable, but I think as werewolves, our bodies are more used to change. I find it easy. So does my wife, as a metamorphmagus, she is used to change too."

"Professor, what's a metamorpha whatever?"

"A metamorphmagus is a shapeshifter. She can change her appearance at will, though, with the baby, she has been having harder a time."

"She's pregnant?"

"Yes." Remus blushed. "She is. With our second child, in fact."

Evie's only comment was, "Cool."

"Yes indeed. Thank you."

They continued walking towards the shack, and Remus led her inside, locking the doors behind them. "Here we are."

"It's ugly, and rather dirty."

"Yes… that's true. But it's practical."

Evie ran her finger over a particularity nasty scratch in the wall. "You made these?"

Remus nodded. "I've been coming to this shack since I was your age. This shack has been through a lot."

They walked up the rickety staircase and Evie finally noticed his cane. "Will I have to use a cane?"

"No. Don't worry about that. I only have to use one because I bruised my ribs and broke a bone in my leg that didn't heal properly during the second wizarding war. During the moon, they act up again."

"You've had wars?"

"Yeah. A couple decades ago, there was the rise of a wizard named Voldemort. He was pure evil. He reigned for a while, and everyone feared he would reign forever. Then, a baby defeated him on the night that…" Remus choked and turned away for a second. "That both my best friends died. Now, that night was a moon, so I knew nothing of it until the next day. By that time, my two remaining friends had gone after the other and one more was dead, and the other was in the wizard prison, Azkaban."

"A baby defeated the most evil wizard of all time. A baby?"

Remus chuckled at the incredulous look on her face. "Yes. His name is Harry Potter. When Voldemort entered the home where he was living on Halloween night, he immediately killed my best friend James Potter, his father. Voldemort then moved upstairs to the nursery where his mother, Lily Potter gave her life trying to dissuade Voldemort from harming Harry. He killed her, then moved onto Harry. When he tried to kill him, his mother's love protected the baby Harry. Harry lived, went to Hogwarts, beat Voldemort at every turn, until his fourth year. Then, there was a competition called the Triwizard Tournament. Harry was chosen, poor boy, things always seem to happen to him, and managed to stay alive until the third task. There, at the end of the task, he was ambushed by the reincarnation of Voldemort. He was brought back to life by the man I thought was my friend until that dreadful night when I finally learned what had really happened on Halloween night that year. Peter Pettigrew was a follower of Voldemort, otherwise known as a Death Eater. Voldemort was brought back that year, and Dumbledore recreated the Order of the Phoenix, a group devoted to defending the world from Voldemort. It was there that I met Tonks, if you were wondering. We succeeded for an entire year, before Harry saw a vision of his godfather being tortured by Voldemort. He believed the vision, and Voldemort lured him into the Department of mysteries at the ministry. There, we fought the death eaters and Sirius was killed. He was the last of my real friends and Harry's godfather."

Remus stopped to take a deep breath and check for the moon. It was still sunset. Evie was listening with rapt attention. "Then what?"

"I shattered, to be honest. I pushed away everyone, including Tonks and went through life and it's paces. It wasn't until the end of Harry's sixth year when Dumbledore died and Tonks confessed her feelings to me in front of everyone, that I realized it was useless to hide. Tonks and I got married after his funeral, and we were fine. We fetched Harry from his horrible guardians and he lived with his best friend for a while. Molly Weasley makes the best food, for your information. I'll be sure to bring you to her after one of these moons to let her nurture you to death. There was a wedding for one of her sons, and it was joyful. Then we received a patronus. This is a patronus."

He cast his wolf and Evie gasped with delight at the flowing silver wolf.

"The patronus was from Kingsley, another member of the Order. He said that the ministry had fallen under Voldemort's control. Everyone panicked and fled. Harry and his two friends left for the old headquarters. I found them there a couple days later, and offered to join them. Harry yelled at me, called me a coward for leaving my wife when she was pregnant and made me leave. I stewed, shouted, tried my hardest to reason that I was right, but I couldn't. I left back to my wife, and she punched me in the face."

Evie giggled.

"Then she accepted me back and I tried to make up for it. My son was born, and we named him after her father who perished at the hands of Voldemort's Death Eaters. Then a few weeks later, we got a call that Voldemort had arrived at Hogwarts, and we were being called in to fight. I instantly grabbed my wand and told Tonks to stay home. I kind of knew she wouldn't, and as I was fighting, I saw her. I instantly got mad, but she saved my butt more than once that day. We were separated, and I fought and killed Greyback. He was a werewolf that used his transformations as a chance to infect others on purpose. I believe it was him that bit you. At the end of the fighting, I was reunited with Tonks. Unfortunately, during the battle, one of Molly's sons was killed, and his twin is still not quite recovered."

Remus stopped to take a deep breath. "I just covered an entire unit in one history of magic class I believe. And just in time too," he added as he saw the moonlight. "Brace yourself."

He winced as the wolf inside him shifted in anticipation. "Alright, Moony, alright. Patience."

"Who's Moony?"

"My werewolf form. I find it is easier to talk about them if you give them a name. It is also the nickname my friends gave me in school"

"I'm going to call mine Snow. I have a really pale wolf thanks to my hair color so I think it suits her."

"Well," he winced again. "Moony, meet Snow eh?"

Then the moon was upon them.

They both howled in tandem, and when Moony awoke, there was another wolf with him that night. That was hardly surprising, he had been around others before in the pack, but this one was different. It was a pup. He sniffed the other wolf cautiously, but his human seemed to have other ideas. Caution to the wind, Remus stepped towards Evie, looking her over for injuries.

Evie laughed inside at the look Remus was giving her. His eyes looked so worried. She gave him a relaxed smile, well as well as she could, and he relaxed too. Suddenly, she gave a playful yip and started jumping around. She nipped his tail, and Remus was startled. He realized what she wanted to do though, and started playing along.

Gradually, they tired out, and the moon fell below the horizon. Evie was the first to transform back thanks to her small size, followed by Remus shortly.
They sunk back onto the wall to rest up for a bit before Remus took her hand and pulled her up. "I would bring you to Molly's today, but I feel that your parents would worry more than they are already, and that wouldn't be good. I'll take you home now."

Remus took her hand again and they disapparated back to her home.

Tim opened the door, and immediately engulfed Evie in a hug. There were tears in his eyes as he pulled back. "Thank you, Remus. Thank you for bringing my daughter back."

"Was there ever any doubt?" He asked, smiling. In both men's mind though, they knew that yes, there was doubt, just as Dora was doubting if Remus was coming back home now.

"See you next week Professor!" Evie called as he walked away. He smiled and waved.

He returned to his home and when he opened the door and was engulfed in a hug and kissed, he realized that sometimes doubt was a good thing, for it kept people hoping for your safe return.

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