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Cold, that was all Kaira could feel. She could feel goosebumps rising as she moved around in the bed looking for Remus' warmth that she was sure had been there not long ago. Finding both edges of the bed a whimper escaped her mouth as she buried her head into his pillow.
The conscious part of her mind took notice the sound of someone eating something rather loudly and the sound of paper pages being turned. She lifter her head, the room was dark with the exception of light coming from the bed on the far side of the room. Once her eyes focused she noted it was Sirius, his head was bent over a book or something like that.
Kaira sat at the edge of the bed, wrapping Remus' blankets around her. She stumbled over to the bed standing beside it. Sirius cast her a look before moving one of his finished assessment from the end of the bed. Kaira crawled into the spot, bring her legs up to her chest wrapping her arms around her legs letting her head rest atop her knee's.
"Where's Remus?" She yawned bring the blankets tightly around her.
"He wasn't feeling well, so he went to the hospital wing" Sirius dismissed her picking up a chocolate frog he had obviously immobilised braking it in half and offering her some. Giving an appreciative smile and taking it Kaira all but moaned when she bit into it, not realising how hungry she was.
"What time is it?"
"It's about 3 in the morning, you slept like the dead you know. Just a but freaky" Sirius commented as he looked towards her.
Kaira hummed at him, "So I've been told" she took another bit of the chocolate frog.
Sirius looked at her closely, it was the first time he'd see her look so well rested. He had been amazed by her, when she easily kept Carrow at bay until the others of the Slytherin group stepped in.
"How'd you get so good?" Sirius inquired.
"At what?" Kaira picked up one of Sirius magazines, a muggle magazine about motorbikes.
"You against Alecto, you were doing non-verbal spells and everything. It was like a natural reaction for you" Sirius told her. "Is it because of how you grew up?"
"I guess, I really didn't learn it until a few years ago but last year was really bad. The war hit much closer to home" Kaira answered as she flicked through the magazine. There was a lot of women in provocative positions she rolled her eyes, having to remind herself that he was only 16.
"I never read anything about it in the Daily Prophet"
"You wouldn't have, mum had connections everywhere. I guess the moment they figured out who was being attacked it was hushed. My mother was quiet the fighter".
"Did she teach you how to fight?"
Kaira looked at Sirius, "No, she didn't want me to get involved really, a friend of Hermione's and mine taught us. He kind of had this knack for getting into dangerous situations so he offered to teach us and a group of others how to defend ourselves"
Sirius looked at her in awe, having to sit through many dinners with his cousin Bellatrix, he had on more then one occasion over heard her talking about how she had tortured one person or another for defying He Who Must Not Be Named. And he'd seen countless accounts of the murder of muggle borns families in the Daily Prophet.
He wasn't blind, he knew just how dangerous the world was out there. There were occasions when he did actually think about what would happen after school. Would he be brave enough to join the fight, become an Auror like he always wanted.
"If she didn't want you to get involved why did you?" Sirius questioned, as he quickly snatched a magazine from his more personal collection from her hands.
"It was going to become our war and where we were, we weren't being taught how to defend ourselves because our teacher was a pink toad" Kaira told him.
"Pink toad?" He questioned with a lopsided smile.
"Yeh, she was this nasty plump lady who thought she was so much better then everyone" Kaira explained.
Sirius gave a nod at her explanation. There was silence for a while both of them looking through magazines, it was comfortable for the most part. Sirius up a box of Bertie Bots Every Flavour Bean in between them, each watching when one picked a bean to see their reaction.
Kaira soon had her legs stretched out alone the bed, she looked around the room. James and Peters bed were emptied.
"Where are the others?"
"They stayed with Remus to make sure he was okay" Sirius told her with a shrug, it was the best excuse really she didn't need to know. "Hey is it true that you knew a werewolf?"
Kaira arched an eyebrow, so they had been under the Invisibility Cloak in the dungeons. "Yeh, he was a friend of my mothers".
"She didn't care you were around him".
"No, she knew he would never hurt me. Though he tended to over think himself a lot. Believed he was too dangerous and all that crap" Kaira shrugged.
She had a very clear memory of when she was about 7 and she had had a nightmare about wolves. Andromeda in her motherliness believe it was because of Remus' influence, had demanded him not to come around anymore. Which when getting close to the full moon caused issues, in the end after much talking from Ted, Andromeda lifted her ban on the werewolf.
Ted had always been in Remus' corner, when Kaira had turned 17, he had sat her down. He talked with her about Remus and werewolf mates. Explaining to her why he'd always come visit her and why he'd always be protective over her.
To Kaira it was something she had always accepted. Him always being there but she had quickly found out that he tried to deny that part of himself. Thinking it disgusting for him to have feelings for someone so much younger them him, for him to think of her as anything more then his best mates daughter.
"A lot of them would be like that" Sirius stated, knowing from experience with Remus.
When in their 2nd year when they had transformed into Animagus for the first time in front of him. He had become rather hysterical about the thought of them following him every full moon. Though Remus soon came to accept that they weren't leaving him to deal with it alone anymore he felt ecstatic.
"Will Remus be alright?" Kaira questioned after a few moments of them both being lost in their thoughts.
"He will, Poppy is the best of the best" he gave her a tired grin.
After a while Kaira left Sirius to get rest, heading for her dorm, after putting Remus blankets back. She walked into the girls dorm to find Hermione sitting up in her bed, she was covered in a layer of sweat and looked like she just woke from a nightmare.
She gave Hermione a nod of understand she knew the pain of those nightmares and she knew Hermione was one person who didn't want to talk about it until she was ready. Kaira set for her bed and laid down. Waiting for school to start.
The day moved slowly, much to slowly for Kaira and Draco's liking Hermione though seemed to be thriving in it. Early in the day an owl had delivered a letter for Kaira from Alphard stating that they had been invited to a Christmas Eve party at the Malfoy Manner. While Hermione and Kaira have had a chance to discuss it, Draco didn't know about it.
The trio currently sat in D.A.D.A which was their last lesson before lunch. The class was going over a subject that trio remembered studying at great length durning their 5th year even if it was with the toad faced professor.
Kaira was twirling her quill in her hand as she pretended to pay attention to the lesson, behind her she could hear Sirius and James talking.
"You should have seen him last night mate" James said, "I've never seen Moony so restless, he kept trying to get out of the shack".
"Why would he be like that?" Sirius questioned.
"I don't know it was weird, I mean last month he was hyper but this month it was a lot worse" James answered.
Kaira knew why, it was because of her. The wolf was reacting to having been so close to her so close before the rise of the moon. Knowing that she was somewhere within the castle not being protected by him.
Kaira let out a sigh as Professor Anderson dismissed the class. She packed her bag slowly, waiting for Draco to make his way over to her. As they left instead of heading for the Great Hall for lunch they headed up to the Astronomy Tower. Kaira and Hermione leaned against the railing as Draco read the letter.
"I don't want to go" Hermione stated as he finished, "I can't go back to all those memories".
Kaira nodded in understanding, she was still having trouble going near the fourth floor because that was where she watched Remus die.
"I'm in but really you wouldn't be able to find that Diary let alone the Library that its in" Draco told her.
"You know where it is?" Hermione looked shocked.
"Well yeh, it was one of the books my father demanded I never touch" Draco explained to her.
"You touched it didn't you" Kaira teased. Draco merely rolled his eyes at her.
"Will it be easy for you to get from were this is being held to the library that the book is in?" Hermione questioned Draco.
"Easy, yes but the being able to get into the library will be a lot harder, it's in my fathers private Library" Draco explained but Hermione looked confused. Kaira nodded in understanding.
"Private Library's in the magic world are different from the muggle ones. They take a magical signature to open them" Kaira explained to Hermione.
"So we either need to get my father to open it himself or we're going to have to steal his wand" Draco ran his hand through his hair.
"Stealing the wand is really the only option we have. I very much doubt Lucius would open the door for us if we asked nicely" Kaira voice dripped with sarcasm, Draco shot her a dirty look. His parent were still a very sore subject for him.
"But even if we steal his wand, we have the problem of he will notice it's no longer with him" Hermione reasoned, the others nodded.
"We could duplicate it" Draco suggested, "I mean I remember what it looks like and if we gave Ollivander enough money I'm sure he would keep his mouth shut"
"Blackmailing innocent people is not something I would enjoy doing Draco" Kaira muttered as she eye'd him.
"You might not be but I'm completely fine doing it" Draco told her, she gave him a nod. They then agreed that they would head to Diagon Alley the coming weekend during the Hogsmeade visit where Draco could deal with Ollivander and Kaira could find a dress for the party.
Hermione and Draco headed off to History of Magic, Kaira headed up to the common room more then willing to skip the last few classes for the day. After dropping her things off to her bed and changing out of school clothes. She planted herself in front of the fire place with a few of her assignments.
The week proceeded slowly, Remus had since coming back to classes and avoided Kaira. In true Remus fashion though Kaira didn't put much thought into it. This was classic Remus, the one she knew. She could never fault him, it freaked him out how close he allowed her before the moon and how intense the change was after having her so close.
Once the weekend finally came the trio were more then anxious to get themselves out of the school. Heading into the Forbidden Forest not long after everyone was allowed to head to Hogsmead, once they where far enough Hermione apparited them too a small lane just near the Leaky Cauldron. Kaira reached into her small bag pulling out a small coin purse, she gave it Draco.
"Use as much as you have too Draco" Kaira told him as she and Hermione headed out into the streets, they headed in the direction of the muggle clothe shop. Draco gave a Hervey sigh as he headed towards the Leaky Cauldron knowing that he had a very likely hood of not succeeding.
He walked through the not so crowded pub, it was still fairly early on a Saturday morning and while the pub had some good food its breakfast menu was not one of it best. He moved quickly to the entrance of Diagon Alley pulling out his wand he tapped the stones and waited for the bricking to move.
Most of the shops where just opening their doors and many of the shop owners gave him curious glances as he walked by. As he got to Ollivander's he found the man just opening up the shop.
"Mr Ollivander" Draco greeted the man with a nod. Garrick Ollivander gave a startled look toward the new comer.
"Yes can I help you?" He questioned Draco as he gesture for him to follow into the shop.
Draco closed the shop door quietly behind him as he followed, he looked around the shop at all the wands that lined the walls and gave a small smile as he realised that the shop was the same as when he first enter all the years in the future.
"Mr Ollivander I have a request to ask of you and with this request you will be handsomely compensated for" Draco started.
"Very well, young man. I'm listening"
"I would like you to make me an exact replica of Lucius Malfoy's wand" Draco stated as he watched Ollivander reaction.
"Lucius Malfoy is an extremely dangerous man to be wanting to be making a replica of his wand" Ollivander said thoughtfully.
"I am aware of this" Draco told him simply.
"This is not something that I want to get involved in boy. People who mess with that Family end up dead and I don't wish to end up dead" Ollivander looked genuinely frightened.
Draco thought about what would make Mr Ollivander more willing to help him, then it was as if his wand was burning a hole inside his pocket. He could remember exactly where Ollivander had got his wand from.
Draco pulled out his was and laid it out on the counter in front of Mr Ollivander, who froze he moved closer to the counter and looked at the wand. Ollivander's eyes widened before he moved away from the wand and headed into the back.
Draco watched him go and counted back the selves before Ollivander came to a stop at the last on, he watched the older wizard used a step to reach at the very top of the shelf and grab a long grey box. Ollivander hurried back to the front counter pulling the top off the box and pulling the wand out of the box.
"This is impossible" Ollivander mumbled out as he stared at the wands.
"In 20 so years I will be walking in here before my first year of Hogwarts" Draco told him Ollivander looked at him in disbelief. "That is all I can say to you but please, if your trust Dumbledore please trust me"
Ollivander looked at Draco studying him, he could see traits from the Black family in his facial features. But other features on the boys face where more familiar features of another family but Ollivander wasn't too sure.
"I am also willing to pay you when its finished and offer you protection" Draco told him quickly as he watched Ollivander deliberate.
"This is incredibly dangerous, you realised what you asking and that this could get you killed" Ollivander told Draco.
"There are things that are a lot worse then death" Draco sounded ominous.
"When do you need it by?"
"Before Christmas eve" Draco answered simply, Ollivander's head snapped up at this.
"Should I not be going to that party?"
"There wont be any fighting is we can help it" Draco was getting uncomfortable with this conversation.
"I will have it for you before Christmas then" Ollivander told him finally after a few minutes of silence. Draco nodded at the man, he grabbed his wand of the counter and placed the pouch of gallons on it.
"Send a message to Dumbledore when you have it ready" Draco informed Ollivander as he left the store. He headed back up the alley and headed back into the Leaky Cauldron taking a seat in one of the back tables.
It was nearly an hour as Draco sat there before the girls arrived back they had several bags which Hermione quickly shrunk them down and hide them into their jackets. Once they got back to Hogwarts it was still fairly early in the day. Everything not having gone as long as they thought it would.
Kaira handed off her bags to Hermione as she decided she would head down to Hogsmead for a Butter-beer or something a lot stronger, as she walked down the path she found a lot of younger students heading. May of them where laughing and chatting about what they brought or babbling excitedly about the Halloween feast coming up in the next couple of days.
Kaira pulled her coat around her tightly realising with every passing Halloween they get closer to their reality but they knew that they were doing everything they could at the moment. She knew once they had the diary they would feel a lot better about this but they still had to find and kill the Basilisk for its poison.
Regardless of that she felt hopefully and that was enough for her.
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