For weeks Remus anxiously waited for his secret to get out. Before Callie woke up he was too guilty and miserable to care but now that they were together and he was happy he felt like it was only a matter of time before what had happened spread around the school.
It didn't though, and he was starting to relax. He still got depressed about his condition, or his family, and he still felt guilty for what he had done but Callie was always there to make him feel better, and it didn't take much from her.
Callie was now completely healed, though she did start to feel a little off when the next full moon came around, she tried to downplay it for Remus's sake.
She was oddly comforted when James, Sirius, and Peter told her about how her sister had helped them rescue her. She was still hurt, and she would never forgive her for what she had become but it was nice to know she was still human and she still cared about her. Maybe she had been trying to get her to come home out of genuine concern.
She was wondering if maybe she should write to her family when Professor McGonagall approached Callie and Remus on their way to breakfast one morning and told her that Sarah and Jet's baby had been born just a few hours earlier at their house.
"If you'll come with me, they've made arraignments for you to visit for the day."
Callie grinned and nodded excitedly.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Remus said, hugging her goodbye.
"You don't want to go with her?" McGonagall asked, a small smile on her face.
"Well, I didn't think-"
"They wanted you both to come. And I wouldn't suggest upsetting a new mother with your absence."
Remus was stunned. Callie took his hand and excitedly followed McGonagall down the halls to Dumbledore's office, where the headmaster was waiting for them by the fireplace. He greeted them and held out a bag of floo powder.
"Please congratulate the new parents for me." He smiled.
Within seconds the Remus and Callie were standing in her brothers living room, dusting themselves off.
"Come on!"
Callie grabbed his hand and tried to drag him up the stairs but Remus pulled his hand away.
"Maybe I should wait here." He said anxiously.
"Why?" Callie asked impatiently.
"I just…they might not want someone like me around the baby…"
Callie rolled her eyes and continued dragging him upstairs.
"Then why would they have invited you?"
"Maybe it was a misunderstanding?"
Callie shook her head at how ridiculous he was. As they neared the door to Jet and Sarah's bedroom Jet came out grinning from ear to ear, and scooped his sister up into a hug, picking her up of the floor and nearly throwing her over his shoulder.
"It's a girl!" He shouted, as he put her down, turning to Remus and hugging him the same way. "We named her Evelyn after our grandmother and your middle name. She's perfect! She has our eyes and Sarah's nose!"
Jet pushed both of them into the bedroom where Sarah was lying on the bed, looking exhausted and disheveled but holding a tiny baby wrapped in a purple blanket.
Callie immediately went to her side and hugged her sister in law.
"She's so beautiful!" Callie gushed as Sarah pushed the baby into her arms.
Callie held her carefully, smiling down at her little niece while Remus watched from the doorway, until Jet pushed him into the room. He took the baby from his sister and kissed her forehead.
"Do you want to hold her?" Sarah asked.
Jet was handing the baby to Remus before he could finish protesting and he smiled nervously down at her.
Jet and Sarah had invited him in an effort to make it as clear as possible that he was more than welcome with them. They knew he still felt like they should hate him because of what had happened and they knew that it wouldn't be easy for him to move past it. They wanted him to feel nothing short of comfortable and accepted with them.
Remus held the sleeping baby carefully, half expecting her to start crying but she hardly even stirred as she was passed to him.
"She's beautiful. Congratulations." He said.
Sarah reached out, eager to hold her new baby again, and Remus gingerly handed her over.
"Come with me."
Jet led him out of the room and down the hall to the guest room beside Callie's bedroom. The room was painted red, with dark wooden furniture and a large bed which now had new grey and red blankets and pillows.
"What do you think? Sarah said she wanted to make it look a little nicer before you finish school, you know? Less like a guest room."
It took him a second to register what he was saying and when he did he wasn't sure how to respond.
"Its great! I- I mean, you don't have to – to…" He stammered.
"We know. But we want to." Jet interrupted .
"But why would you help me?"
"Why not? You didn't deserve any of what happened last month. And you don't deserve to be left out on your own because of it either. Sarah and I are able to help you. What kind of people would we be if we didn't?"
Remus cleared his throat, looking around the room instead of at him. He didn't feel like he deserved their help at all but how could he turn it down?
"Thank you." He said quietly.
The school year seemed to breeze by faster than they imagined and soon it was spring.
Everyone was surprised when Sirius and a Ravenclaw girl in their year became fast friends and then "friends with benefits" after a few tutoring sessions from her. While he insisted they were only friends and that he'd never actually "settle into a relationship, ugh!" He was only involved with her and no one had the heart to tell him that even if they weren't dating, only sleeping with one girl for once was, in a sense, sort of settling down, at least for him.
And the girl, Vivian, fit into their group nicely. Everyone agreed that she and Sirius were perfect for each other, a little too perfect, since neither of them were "into relationships right now."
Lily and James were making plans to get a place together when school was over. She'd told her parents over Christmas break, explaining that it would be easier for her to pursue a career that way (of course she couldn't worry them with the war she was about to become a part of) and while they said they'd miss her they understood.
James turned out to be a surprisingly responsible head boy, considering his mischievous streak. He still couldn't hide his delight at revealing his new title to Snape one afternoon a few days after school began. They'd both agreed to pretend they'd never helped each other the night of the full moon and Snape decided to hex him between classes. Sirius, Remus, and Peter nearly lost it laughing at the look on his face when James handed him a detention slip and pointed at the badge on his robes.
Still, a part of him did feel bad for the Slytherin, he was thankful for his help rescuing Callie.
Of course this feeling always went away when he remembered what he had called Lily and how hurt she had been, as well as his obvious intentions to become a Death Eater after school and he usually didn't go easy on him.
Remus and Callie were steadily moving forward. So far Callie had all the grades to train to become an Auror after school was over and she felt confident that she could maintain those grades for the next few months without going too crazy, and Remus was warming up to the idea that the ground wasn't about to fall out from under him.
One night late in spring he snuck Callie up to his dorm after everyone else was asleep. They were originally intending to just fall asleep together, innocently enough, since the full moon was in a few days and he was already starting to feel it.
However this quickly turned to Remus closing the curtains and Callie putting a silencing charm on the bed.
Remus leaned over her and kissed down her neck, unbuttoning her uniform shirt and pulling it off, along with her skirt. Callie did the same with his shirt, pulling him up to kiss her as she threw it off to the side.
"This isn't even." She muttered between kisses.
Remus was puzzled for a second but Callie pushed him back and started removing his pants as well, trailing kisses down his chest. She stopped at his stomach though, and looked up at him.
"I want you." She breathed.
He pushed her back down on the bed and removed what was left of both their clothes before getting back on top of her and between her legs. He kissed her again, hesitating for a moment, he'd never done this before, though of course he'd wanted to for a while now.
Callie kissed down his neck, biting him gently and he pushed himself inside of her. Callie gasped, wrapping her legs around him and digging her nails into his back. They went slowly at first, which seemed to be driving her crazy. He started to go faster and somewhere in the back of his mind he thanked whoever invented silencing charms.
After a while he felt her body tense, her eyes shut, and she moaned his name as she finished, pushing him over the edge as well.
Remus wrapped his arms around her and rolled to the side so that she was lying on his chest, both trying to catch their breath.
"Was that...alright?" He asked.
Callie giggled and nodded.
"It was better than alright, babe. I love you."
She snuggled closer to him and he pulled the blankets up around them.
"I love you too."
The two of them fell asleep, only to be woken up several hours later by Sirius throwing the curtains open, momentarily blinding them with the sudden light and smirking at the two of them.
"Well looks like you two had a good night together."
Remus pulled the blankets up over Callie, who was still in his arms, and groaned tiredly at him.
"Looking good-"
"Padfoot, I will murder you." Remus said, sitting up and glaring at him.
Sirius held up his hands defensively and turned away, tossing the discarded girls uniform he'd found on the floor towards the bed.
Remus shut the curtains so Callie could get dressed, watching her happily.
"What?" She asked, giggling at the grin on his face.
He shrugged.
"You're just perfect."
Callie laughed and shook her head, finishing up the buttons on her shirt.
"No hun, that's you."
She leaned over and kissed him before the two of them climbed out of bed so he could get dressed as well.
"Come on lovebirds, we're going to miss breakfast!" Sirius urged, pushing them towards the door.
Remus couldn't help smiling. As terrified as he was of the future right now it didn't look so bad. He had amazing friends, an incredible girlfriend who loved him, and maybe when the war was over he'd actually be able to find a real, decent job.
James, Lily and Peter met them in the common room, James smirking at them as he threw his arm around Lily.
"Just a little hint – certain silencing charms wear off after a while." He winked.
Callie rolled her eyes and blushed into her boyfriends chest and Remus winced, but the smile never left his face.
Two Years Later
A very pregnant Lily Potter sat on her living room couch, watching James as he ran around fussing over baby furniture so she wouldn't have to. It would have been sort of funny to watch if she hadn't been going crazy with boredom.
Towards the end of their first summer out of school Sirius and Vivian announced that they were expecting a baby of their own, and after several months of Sirius panicking they had a baby girl and named her Rhiannon, after a muggle song they both liked and Sirius settled down just enough to be a very loving father.
He was supposed to be stopping by with his now two year old daughter soon for lunch, along with Peter, Remus, and Callie to help finish the nursery.
Lily watched with amusement as her husband somehow forgot that he was a pureblood wizard and tried to put Harry's crib together by hand.
Of course what resulted wasn't anything Lily would ever put a baby in but it was still funny to watch.
"Oh yeah?" James said as she broke out laughing at his perplexed look toward the pile of wood and screws. "Let's see you do better."
With a few waves of her wand Lily had the crib put together perfectly and was laughing even harder at the look on James's face.
She got to her feet and helped him off the floor, James kissing her stomach as he got up, then kissing her and wrapping his arms around her.
Not long after there was a knock on the door and Lily answered to find Remus and Callie, along with a large black dog who carried a giggling toddler on his back. Lily reached down and picked up her goddaughter to give her a kiss on the cheek before greeting each of her friends.
Sirius changed back to himself and took his daughter into his arms as Lily lead them all into the house.
"Peter's running a little late." Sirius said.
"How's it going?" Remus asked, nodding to the flustered James sitting at the center of a pile of baby things that needed to be put together.
"It'll be better when he either realizes that he's a wizard, or finds a screw driver." She shrugged.
"A what?" Sirius asked, raising an eyebrow.
Lily shook her head and she and Remus laughed. Sirius put Rhiannon down on the floor and he and Remus dragged James out of the cluttered and unorganized nursery.
"Maybe we should paint it first." Remus teased.
"Paint! I knew I should have waited to bring everything in there." He groaned, earning another, much louder laugh from his wife and friends.
He left the room, bending down to scoop up Sirius's dark haired little girl before she could get into any trouble and they all went to the dining room.
Another knock on the door told them Peter was finally there and they all sat down for lunch together.
James looked around the table at his wife and friends. Remus had his arm around Callie, who was leaning into him and smiling, Lily was rubbing her large stomach as she piled food on her plate, and Peter was laughing as Sirius tried in vain to stop his daughter from covering them both in food.
Everyone looked so happy and carefree, though he knew it would only last until the Order meeting that night reminded them of the reality of the world they were living in, he was thankful they still had days like this reminded them that it would all be worth it in the end.
That's the end! I really dont want it to be over but here it is! Thank you all so much for reading my story, and for the wonderful reviews, follows, favorites and whatnot! I hope you all enjoyed it. I'm working on a sequel about the babies (Evelyn and Rhiannon) with Harry, Hermione, and the Weaselys that will include Sirius, Remus, and Callie and I hope a few of you might enjoy that too.
Xoxo xoxo thanks again for reading!
P.s. I feel like I suck with writing sex scenes because I dont write them often but I wanted to try and I'very been planning this chapter for a while anyway, so I hope it's not too bad!
