11. The Return – part two

I ran up to my room, banging the door close behind me and sitting down in a corner of my room, pulling my knees up to my chest and burrowing my face in them. How could he! How could Michael bring back the person, who was the main cause for my pain, back into this house? Pictures flow back in my mind and I can feel my body starting to tremble of fear.

I can hear footsteps of two people running up the stairs and I think quickly of a way I could escape this time. But I have got no chance this time to get away. I can only hide. Wolf instincts come through again and I quickly go and hide in my closet. The place where I had also hidden when I was small, in front of Jonathan. But I knew that he had always found me and this time wouldn't be any different.

Hidden in the dark closet and with my knees pulled up to my chest. I hear the door to my room open and I whimper wolfishly secluding more and more against the wall.

"Remus?" That was Michaels concerned voice and I could hear him search frantically through the room.

"Look in the closet." That was his voice. But wait no, that sounded much younger then Jonathan's voice and much more gentle. My bewildered mind went even more confused and I whimpered even more too scared then to even move an inch now.

"Why should he hide in the closet it is much to dark in there." I tried to move to show them where I was, but my body seemed in to big shock then to be able to move.

"He always hid there when he was small." Footsteps came closer and I sunk my head in my knees as bright light came inside.

"Remus… you don't have to be scared. Trust me… come on son." I slowly crawled towards Michaels kneeling form and when I was in front of him, he lifted me up in his arms holding me tight. I looked around the room spotting the person I had accused to wrongly earlier on. And I took a closer look I saw the so known features of Romulus. He was sitting on my bed, his bowed and the air in the room was covered in concern and fear.

As Romulus looked at us smiling Michael let me down again saying, "Dinner only will be ready in half an hour so there is no hurry." He left afterwards and Romulus got up approaching me hugging me tightly.

"Sorry I didn't mean to frighten you earlier on. Have I changed that much?" he asks and I nod sobbing furiously in his robes now.

"Everything is ok now Rem… I am not going to leave you again… never." He whispers comfortingly in my ear.

But I can I trust him? I don't know, he once left me and the second won't be far away for sure.