The last chapter. Please enjoy it!

"Professor Lupin! Wake up, please wake up!" Lupin could feel somebody shaking his shoulder roughly to try and wake him. The young wizard slowly opened his eyes.

"Wha...Hermione? Harry?" He sat up and found that he was in the hospital wing at Hogwarts.

"You were having a nightmare." Ron offered helpfully. "You've been out for a while." Lupin stared and then grasped at his neck.

"I'm, I'm not..." He trailed off and dropped his hands to grip at the bed sheets. "It was a dream, all a dream." He turned to the befuddled (fun word for the week ^-^) kids next to him. "How, did I get here?" He asked slowly.

"Hagrid found you in the Forbidden Forest. You were injured pretty badly." Harry explained quietly. "Everyone was really worried about you, except of course, Slytherin."

"Are you all right?" Hermione asked anxiously, worry tingeing her voice.

"Yes Miss Granger, I'm fine. And Sirius?" His eyes widened in fear. "The dementors, they didn't..." Harry leaned in close.

"Hermione and I saved him. And Buckbeak too." Lupin grinned and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then he's safe. But what of Peter?" Eyes narrowed to slits and grim frown replacing the earlier smile.

"He got away." Ron said angrily remembering how he had cared for Scabbers only to find he was harboring a murderer. Leaning back in the soft pillows the young professor closed his eyes halfway and let his sore body rest.

"No apology can erase what I've done but I am truly sorry that I put all of you in so much danger. I could have..." He bit his lip. "I can't let anyone else be subject to this curse. I'm sorry." The group shrugged.

"It's alright Professor, no hard feelings. It was an accident." Lupin didn't looked convinced with Hermione's answer.

"It still should not have happened." He tried unsuccessfully to hold back a yawn.

"We'll go." Ron said. "You look like you could do with more sleep." The trio left as Lupin slipped to sleep.

Harry walked along the halls towards Professor Lupin's classroom. He would be leaving today and Harry wanted to say goodbye. With the door ajar the green-eyed boy could see Lupin packing odds and ends into his briefcase.

"I saw you coming." Lupin gave him a wry smile and held back the Marauders Map.

"I just saw Hagrid, he said you've resigned." Harry looked crestfallen. "It's not true, is it?" Lupin's smile disappeared.

"I'm afraid so Harry." He replied, handing him the map. "Any day now the owls will be arriving from the parents saying how they will not have a werewolf teaching their children." Sighing he smiled again. "And I completely agree, I could have bitten any of you. I can't risk that again."

"But you're the best Defense Against the Dark Arts professor we've ever had!" Lamented Harry. "You can't just go!" Lupin began packing again.

"Tell me about your Patronus." Harry talked for a few minutes about his adventures. "I'm not surprised, your father always did turn into a stag." He gave Harry the invisibility cloak. I believe you'll be needed this." Dumbledore looked in and told Lupin that a carriage was waiting for him. Other then looking a tad anxious Lupin nodded to Harry, smiled a wry smile and was gone.

I couldn't just kill him, I like him too much! ^_~ I hope you liked it and please review. My next Harry Potter story won't be mine, it will be my cousin's, she asked me to post it for her. Ja ne!