This is the sequel to 'Waiting for you'.

So if you haven't read that one, go on then :)

So! Back to Selene, who was created by my wacky mind, and to Sirius and Remus. Both who I sadly don't own or anything else related to the HP world.

Let's dive into the madness, a more darker fic than the previous one Ergo this shall be rated M.

Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Chapter 1 Zero thoughts

The room was dark and the floor felt cold underneath my bare feet. My legs trembled as I walked along the walls of the room. "One, two, three, four,-" I counted until I reached the corner. I moved my hands towards the wall connected to the corner and continued counting. "One, two, three, four,-"

I stopped. If I counted correctly this dark room was smaller than I'd initially thought. I gulped and crouched down to the cold stone floor. A chill ran up my spine. I pulled my legs up to my chest and slowly started to rock back and forth. A shrill cackle echoed in my mind. I licked my dry chapped lips and tasted warm salty tears which had started descending down my cheeks. The cackling increased and I pressed my hands against my ears trying to keep his voice out of my head as my cries filled the small dark room.

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Location, Remus's house, 1994

"SEL! Wake up!" Remus shook her as hard as he could. She was sweating terrible but he was certain it was not because of the warm August weather. Selene jolted up and would have banged he head against Remus if he hadn't moved in time. It took her a while before she realized where she was, it seemed as if she looked straight through him. It gave him the chills. She blinked and parted her lips.

"Remus?"

"Are you alright?" He asked her feeling very worried. Ever since Sirius left her with him, she had been having these awful nightmares. Often Remus would stand outside her door and listen to her groaning and the occasional calling out for Sirius. The minute she screamed he would enter the room and quickly wake her up.

Selene moaned and leaned her back against the headboard. "It's that same dream again."

Remus winched. It had taken almost two weeks before she had told him about this particular nightmare. At first he thought it was a nightmare about something bad happening to Sirius, but it turned out it was nothing like that. The dream hadn't been about him at all. Remus moved the sheets aside and sat down on her bed.

"Maybe we should ask Dumbledore regarding this dream of yours. They can be a peculiar thing you know,-" He started. "Sometimes they symbolize current affairs in our lives and sometimes they can be a warning."

Selene shivered. "You aren't suggesting that I'll end up in a dark room, half-naked and with that horrible voice echoing in my head?" She pulled her legs up against her chest. Remus sighed and placed his arm around her shoulder pulling her against his chest.

"Let's contact Dumbledore." He suggested again. Selene shook her head.

"Don't be ridiculous, it's only a dream. Besides Dumbledore has enough problems to worry himself with." She gave a weak smile.

"Fine, but if this continues for a longer period I will contact him." He told her firmly.

Selene closed her eyes as she rested her head against him. She didn't know it, but Remus really worried a lot about her lately. More than he should. It had been one heck of a year.

First he was appointed as the DADA teacher at Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and wizardry. That's when he saw Selene, after more than twelve years she decided to show her face again. Remus had been angry, so incredibly angry. Even after she had explained her reasons for leaving him and basically everything and everyone that connected her to her old life, he still felt betrayed and it had taken a long time before he finally forgave her.

But that's when things really started to get complicated.

Sirius Black, the man who had betrayed his old friends to You-Know-Who, showed up and managed to wrap Selene around his finger. Remus had expected something like that to happen, after all Sirius and Selene had a romantic history together during and after Hogwarts. Remus had tried ever so hard to keep Selene away from Sirius, thinking his former friend to be mad and dangerous. Not for one moment had he believed in Sirius's innocence, not even when Selene had done her best to convince him otherwise.

The fiery arguments between Remus and Selene had sparked something inside of the werewolf, more than a simple reconnection between old friends. No, for him it had started something new and he still wasn't sure how to deal with it. Sure, back in Hogwarts Remus had felt something for the woman but she'd been Sirius's girlfriend. Now that had all faded away and his former feelings of crushing on her resurfaced. And then that fateful evening happened at the castle.

Never for one second did Remus regret the kiss he had placed on Selene's lips when they were both intoxicated with Fire whiskey. He had brushed it away at first as a moment of lust with a combination of alcohol, but oh how wrong he was about that. Remus would be lying if he said this would have never happened had he been sober. Even with that amount of Fire whiskey he still had been fully aware of his actions.

The softness of her lips, her flowery perfume tickling his senses. Even now whenever he caught but a whiff of her perfume his mind went back to that particular night. That one evening had changed everything, and soon after that another night followed which brought massive change into their lives.

It had been that day when the Marauder's map, which he had confiscated from Severus Snape, laid open on top of his desk. His eyes glanced over the paper and in that short moment did he read the name of Peter Pettigrew, followed soon by the name of Sirius Black. Those two names moved about on the map. There was one other name, which did not move, Selene's name.

Remus remembered seeing her there on the moist grass, her robe torn and her hair coloured red with her blood. He had carried her to the Shrieking Shack and left her in the tunnel just in case the situation inside the old building would escalate. Once he had set his feet inside the house, everything became clear. Selene had been right about Sirius being innocent and that real culprit was their former Marauder friend Peter Pettigrew. Harry Potter had learned the truth about what happened to his parents and regained his Godfather at the same time.

A good ending one would think. You couldn't have been more wrong. If only Remus had paid attention and had not kept his mind occupied with Selene than perhaps maybe he would have remembered to take his Wolfsbane potion that evening before he ran out of Hogwarts. Thinking back about that night made him cringe every time. Seeing the moon and then waking up in the forest. Not remembering a single thing about what happened in between that period.

First thing he'd done was gone back to the Shrieking Shack to see if anybody went back there and to see if any of his old clothes were still there. Back during his Hogwarts days, Albus Dumbledore made sure there would always be some clothes, or at the very least a cloak, placed in one of the cupboards. Animagus may be able to shift their clothes with them, but a werewolf didn't have that privilege. The clothes would always be ripped up too badly to ever be worn again. The only solutions were to have a clean pair of clothes nearby or to be naked before the process of changing. Now Remus realize it would have been simpler to 'accio' his clothes, which he did after not finding anything in the old cupboard inside the Shack. After that brilliant moment he headed straight back to Hogwarts.

Albus Dumbledore's office would have been his first stop, if it hadn't been for Severus Snape blocking his path immediately after he'd started ascending the stairs. Severus made sure Remus got to hear every detail about the events of that night. How it was him who had found Sirius Black close to death near the lake, along with Harry and Hermione. But he made sure to save the best story for last. With a snakelike smirk he told Remus how, before he had found Sirius, he had found Selene all alone in the woods.

There she was on her stomach with her face down against the muddy ground. A loud howl echoed through the forest as he looked upon Selene's bare back. Her robe was torn away from her body as well as the clothes underneath. She was completely covered in blood making it difficult to spot the location of the wound. Her light skin was torn as badly as her clothes had been. Severus had to apply medical spells immediately. It had been a matter of life and death…

"Remus?"

Remus blinked and looked at the woman beside him.

"Are you alright? You seemed lost in thought." She noted.

"I'm fine, Sel." He replied getting off the bed. "I'm going back to bed. Will you be alright?"

"Perfectly fine, thanks Remus." She smiled. Remus closed the bedroom door and walked back to his room which was right across Selene's room. The lock fell into place and he walked over to his own bed.

What a night…another night…if this keep going on like this, I'll go mental.

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The next morning Selene was already in the kitchen when Remus decided to head downstairs. He greeted her with a nod. "Morning, did you catch any more sleep?" He asked.

Selene bit off a piece of toast and responded as she chewed it.

"Yefs." Crumbs flew out of her mouth and landed on the table.

"That's really charming." He retorted pouring a cup of coffee.

"Did you get any more sleep?" She asked him.

No. "Yes." He smiled. Liar!

"You worry too much."

She was right about that. Remus leaned against the kitchen counter and crossed his arms over his chest. "I'm allowed to worry."

"To a certain degree you are," She replied and took another bite from her toast.

This is how it had been every day since Selene moved in with him. During breakfast, lunch, dinner, out shopping and even when they weren't in the same room together. All the time they seemed to be stuck in discussions about everything and nothing.

"Must you always,-" He started when a knock suddenly sounded against the kitchen window.

A barnyard owl sat there, knocking its beak against the glass. I had no idea who that bird belonged to, at first Remus thought it was an owl sent by Sirius but when Selene jumped up from her seat, knocking over the chair in the process, did he realize it must have been from someone else. Sirius used a different owl each time he would mail us with information on his well-being. This way it would be difficult for the Ministry to track him down.

Selene leaned over the sink and popped the window open, letting the barn owl fly into the kitchen and the bird settled down on the table. There was a letter attached to its talons.

"You know this bird, Sel?" Remus watched as she untied the letter from the owl.

"This is Eos," Selene replied as her eyes scanned the writings on the envelope. "She's the Merrythought house owl."

"Is the letter from your parents?"

Selene sighed and opened the envelope. "Unfortunately, yes." She tossed the envelope aside as she unfolded the letter and started reading. Remus took a seat and waited anxiously for her to finish. Please don't let them come here, please don't let them come here.

Remus frowned as Selene raised her hand to her mouth and started chewing the nail on her thumb. Whatever was written in that letter it made Selene very nervous. As soon as she was done reading the letter she refolded it and placed it back in the envelope. Her eyes shifted quickly to her firend and she exhaled deeply.

"Bad news?" He frowned at her.

"Terrible news, they want me to come back home. Apparently someone informed them of me being back in London."

"Informed by whom?" He questioned, there had been no contact between Selene and her parents as far as he was aware of. Anybody close to Selene knew the relationship she had with her parents had always been a distant one.

"Bartemius Crouch." She answered, Remus arched an eyebrow. "Don't you remember? The Crouches have been their neighbours for as long as I can remember."

She hadn't needed to remind him of that. Before Sirius and Selene had become an item, Bartemius Crouch Jr. always hung around Selene. Nobody, not even Remus, showed any understanding for their relationship, all except Lily who she herself had the same problem regarding her relationship with Severus Snape. Gryffindors and Slytherins are like a square peg in a round hole. They just do not fit.

"I'm not surprised they're aware of me being back." Selene said interrupting his thoughts. "I'm surprised they didn't contact me sooner." She pushed herself away from the table and took the letter with her. Remus moved his chair back to stand next to her.

"What are your plans, Moonpie? Are you moving out?"

At first Remus had been against the whole idea of having Selene move in with him. It had been Sirius who persuaded him into allowing her to live here, but now that she was here he felt reluctant to let her go.

"Of course not, don't be daft!" She started tearing up the letter and tossed it in the bin beneath the sink. "I will them pay a short visit. They are my parents after all."

A relief washed over Remus when she said that. He couldn't imagine how Sirius's reaction would have been if he had come back here to find his girlfriend gone. His eyes shifted quickly to the sparkling piece of jewellery on Selene's ring finger. On the day that Sirius left he had proposed to Selene. Something he had planned on doing the day he had graduated from Hogwarts even though she still had two more years to go before her own graduation. Padfoot's timing was terrible to say the least, but deep down even Remus knew there wouldn't be an opportunity like that any time soon. Though Selene had yet to give him an answer, she still wore the ring.

"I'll only be gone for a day, no need to linger there any longer than necessary." Selene continued.

"When are you going?" Remus asked her moving his eyes back to her face.

"Tomorrow morning."

I hope you liked the first chapter of this new fic. I'd love to hear your opinion about it, leave a review if you wish it :)