The light was bright even against his closed eyelids so Teddy shifted to bring his right forearm over his face. Only, his whole shoulder burned the second he moved. He groaned.

"Awake?" Hasan asked from his right.

Teddy peeked an eye open. They were at the precinct again and Teddy was laid out on a sofa. Gritting his teeth, Teddy levered himself up to a sitting position. "Damn, Hasan, your Stupefy has got a bite to it. No wonder the suspects complain."

"Yet we have no complaining suspect because you" -Hasan made a stabbing motion with his finger in Teddy's direction- "decided to step into it." Hasan pulled himself to his full height, which wasn't quite as tall as Teddy's but it was made up with more muscle. "But will anybody believe me? No, because it's Teddy-bloody-prodigy-Lupin."

Teddy shrugged even though it bothered his shoulder. It hid his wince of guilt. "Maybe you just need to work on your aim," he said as blithely as he could.

"And you should stop doing blind apparitions," Hasan voiced their reoccurring argument with a little more heat than usual. He sighed and ran a hand over his closely shaven beard. "Did you at least see the suspect's face?"

Teddy's heart froze as he remembered Kamya again. Not looking at Hasan's face, Teddy shook his head. "Too dark. It was a woman, though."

Hasan quirked an eyebrow. "Yeah, I had already figured that bit out." When Teddy didn't add anything else, Hasan shook his head. "Come on, there's been a murder and they won't brief us until I get your conscious arse in there."

That explained Hasan's grumpiness. Someone had probably already chewed him out for jinxing his partner. It was an amateur move- unless the partner really had stepped into it on purpose.

Working his shoulder a little to get out the stiffness from the spell, Teddy followed his friend. Right before the door, Hasan stopped and looked back with an odd expression. "I thought you should know..." he trailed off and placed his hand on Teddy's arm. "The victim- it was a werewolf."

Teddy blinked rapidly as a roaring started in his ears. He only just resisted reaching out to grab the wall while everything settled.

"I know you are touchy about that," Hasan continued. He was, but Hasan thought it was because Teddy's father had been a werewolf. He hadn't corrected him.

"Thanks," Teddy managed to answer. Was it someone from his pack? Had there been a dominance fight? Nothing had seemed amiss that morning when he left for work. Well, apart from the usual post-full-moon chaos.

Hasan nodded. "You ready?"

Teddy wasn't, of course, but he didn't know any way to hold off the inevitable. He nodded as he tried to brace himself internally. Hasan gave him one last look and then led the way into the room.