Author's Note: This is a short chapter, and I really had no intention of the way this went, but it came out and I rather like it. So I hope you like this too, and I will get to the Remus/Christie romance part soon. I think it will be next chapter, but don't get your hopes up.

Disclaimer: Rachel and Christine are mine. Alas, if only Sirius was too......



Fate Necklaces

by: Alien Outcast




Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall looked pitiful at Rachel as they explained to her the changes in which she would develop on the night the full moon was out. They had tried to convince Sirius to leave the room so they can speak privately with Rachel, but Sirius had insisted he stay with her, and Rachel did not protest.


They had just finished explaining that the process was very painful, and Sirius felt Rachel tighten her grip on Sirius'.


"I need your word, Rachel, that you will not tell a soul of the information I am about to tell you." said Dumbledore, sitting on the edge of a desk. "Sirius, I believe you, James, Lily, and Peter already know this secret, and I must ask you the same."


The two nodded, one confused and the other knowingly.


Dumbledore took a deep breath as he seemed no wanting to tell them. "Remus Lupin is a werewolf also." He paused for Rachel to come over her shock and to analyze this.


He turned to McGonagall, whom was sitting in the chair at the desk, looking very forlorn. "I wonder if it is safe to keep them both in the shrieking shack?" he asked her.


McGonagall was shook out of her thinking, and said, "Well . . .uh . . .I assume it would be all right. Werewolves don't really fight with their own, do they?" She looked weary, as if she hadn't gotten a lot of sleep the night before last. Perhaps her guilt was keeping her up. The strict teacher closed her eyes, trying to gather herself up.


"Professor McGonagall?" Rachel asked tentatively. McGonagall looked up quickly at her student. "I never got to accept your apology."


Relief seemed to wash over the professor, and she smiled sadly at Rachel. She got up, walked across to where Rachel sat, and Rachel stood up and embraced the teacher as Dumbledore and Sirius looked on respectfully.


McGonagall broke the hug, gave a motherly kiss on the cheek, and as she went to walk out of the classroom, she looked back with the same sad smile plastered on her face and said softly, "I fear, Rachel, that I have ruined your life." and walked out the door with a swish of her gray cloak.