What problems with me and remy's future?
What do you mean she's troubled and confussed? She neither!
We have a wonderful relationship damn it! What do you mean you can see
all sides of whats going on in her life, ? Please do enlighten me!
-severus
Are we playing owl tag? Great I love that! Anyways, here you go, for
your personal enjoyment:
the top ten things that are fucked up in your relationship:
1) (and most important) remy will get involved in your spy stuff. Which
is her one way ticket to jaded hell. And horrible happenings.
2) you have some serious issues you need to work out, hello , misery
loves company, sorry but your depression will rub off on her, mr. Gloom.
3) your ideal futures would clash. Remy, no matter what she finally does,
we can safely say she probably wont be a proffesor , that's you gone half
the year, remy's not the type to handle being alone for that long well.
4) even if you did work through the career problems, you hate all the
people remy associates with. that's bound to cause problems.
5)remy wants a family, and marriage. We know these things . You have
affection problems. Your not exactly a family guy.
6) if you did have kids, how would they grow up? Theyd inherit your ties
to dark arts. And you wouldn't be sensitive enough to raise a kid that's
a werewolf.
7) your still holding grudges against her brother, who I can damn well
guarentee is gonna be around a lot. Remy, Remus their a package deal, she
loves her brother more than anyother living or non-living being in
existence. Or even her imagination.
8) are you sure this is love? Because were not. I definetly think that
you and remy only have sexual atraction.
9) if were right, and you do only have sexual atraction, what happens
when fate (and she will) throws your true loves into your lives? Broken,
hearts, homes.bad news all around.
10) voldemort could kill remy if she gets involved in your spy stuff and
something go's wrong. We don't want that!!!!!!!!!!!
And now, the grand finally..take it away tonks:
Well of course she's troubled and confussed! How could she not be? With
her "love" for you, and the fact that she see's everything lupe listed
above, but still feels that she should be with you, and dammit, if you
havent realized, remy's codependent, she thinks she has to protect you
from your own inner demons, and teach you to live. Remys always been like
that , why do you think I've always said you two had an unhealthy
relationship?! Take a look severus, I'm sorry, but just a quick overview
of your relationship please, even in hogwarts. Codependency.
She was just so damn drawn to you, so troubled and mysterious, "so dark,
and deep, intellectual.troubled." she said, we knew nothing good could
come of it. We like you, severus, we just don't think you and remy are
right for each other!
-lupe, tonks
How can you say it's just sexual attraction? I love remy, and I don't
love a lot of people. And I 'd never say it unless I meant it, you should
know that.
don't you think I know the dangers of remy getting involved in this ??
Could you possibly think I havent cursed myself a thousand times for
bringing her into this? don't you think I tried to keep her out of it?
But she was going to work for the order anyway, she was going to risk her
life some how, it's just unfortunate that her risk is so high ! What are
you talking about fate for? A waste of ink. As far as her brothers
concerned , I can swallow any grudge for remy, as long as she's not
asking me to let Sirius live with us or anything, I can handle remus, you
know that. What are you talking about kids for? Remy and I havent even
discussed that, and anyways, what do you mean a child that's a werewolf?
I don't have affection problems, you might see it that way, because I'm
not merry sunshine doesn't mean that I have problems, infact if I where
merry sunshine, then you would have cause to say I had problems. What
do you mean? of course remys going to be a full time proffessor, don't
you think she'll pick up the dark arts job as soon as they've gotten rid
of umbridge? Besides, we can work through problems like that. I'm not
depressed. I'm distant, yes, from most, but not from remy. Not like
it's your business anyways. Remy would never allow her self to become
jaded, she's too free of a spirit. I refuse to believe that remy only
loves me because of her so called "codependency" that's just crazy.
-severus
Well of course remy's a free spirit! But what happens to her free spirit
once you burn a dark mark onto her skin? I'll tell you. It breaks. And a
broken spirit is the hardest thing to mend. Go ahead and deny everything
all you want, I'd expected better of you when confronted with the truth.
I never thought you one to go into denial. As for the werewolf thing,
yeah, remy's first child will be a werewolf. Family curse. I cant believe
she hasn't told you then again when I asked her where your relationship
was going she said, "well I guess we'll just stay the way we are ,
until, um until." see? If you love remy, prove it damn it. She may live
in ignorant bliss but, we see the problems even if she doesn't.
- L& T
Could you possibly know what your little kidnapping interrupted ? No ,
you couldn't, and I'll tell you, on the conditions that not a word is
said to remy, I do at least, know you well enough to assume you wouldn't
say anything.
The "personal business" I left on without telling remy, was to ask for
her hand in marriage from her father, and buy a ring, I was going to
propose to remy, when you so conveniently kidnapped her. And tried to
convince her that Sirius was her true love, wonderful, isn't it? Ironic,
a bit.? And now, you've got her spending a day with a piranha fish in
tight black jeans. And I havent cursed you, what more do you want?
-severus
"oh my god, lupe, read this!!!"
Tonks thrust severus's letter into lupes hands.
They had been watching the muggle tv on remys bed, and munching away,
when the reply came.
"I suddenly feel really, really guilty." lupe muttered sitting the letter
down.
"screw guilty! Remy's getting married!" tonks jumped up and down on the
bed.
"unless our brilliant plan to hook her up with Sirius works."
Tonks suddenly sat down. "we have to find them! "
"no way jose , settle down, look, does this really change anything? He's
still bad news and she's codependent."
"of course this changes everything! He must really love her! And that
means the opposite of everything bad we said will happen, because love
conqures all!"
"well atleast your not ranting about karma this time."
"haha."
"well look, just because he wants to marry her doesn't mean it's
suddenly the real deal."
"I beg to differ! "
"you can beg all you want, but I'm still right."
"shut up, lupe."
Tonks laughed.
A *pop*
They turned to see remus standing at the foot of the bed.
"you cant do this! Sirius is no better than severus, as a match for remy,
he's far from over ebony, he's not ready to move on, another heartbreak
might kill him!"
"what the hell are you talking about??" lupe demanded.
--------
Remy emerged from the girl's loo's ,
She smiled at Sirius, they had just broken the record for riding "the
demon" roller coaster over 50 times in a row.
With 51 , they'd made it, remy hadn't puked, until just now.
Sirius handed her her t-shirt , which read, " I rode the demon 51
times! " in flaming letters, with a picture of the roller coaster on it.
" arent muggles sweet?" Sirius asked. "there rewarding us for our pain
with t-shirts."
Remy smiled, Sirius had yelled some where between the plunge and the
twist, that the skin on his face was being ripped off by cannibals.
Remy took the shirt and laughed, "wow, my first white t-shirt, wonderful
souvenir."
Sirius smiled at her. " wanna get a drink to clear our heads?" she
nodded, "definetly."
They found a table and sat down with two cokes.
Jack the monkey had watched them on the roller coaster, and was now back
on Sirius's shoulder sticking his little monkey finger in the coke
bottle.
Remy laughed and patted jack.
"you and that monkey are a perfect match, your both playful and silly."
she said.
"if that's the way of pets your best match would be with a fox, smart
and beautiful."
Remy blushed, " you shouldn't flatter me so much. I do have a boyfriend."
"I'm only telling the truth. " Sirius said.
Remy downed the rest of her coke, "since we're still recovering, why not
go on the sky ride thing, get a view of the park, and that's a ride jack
can come on as well."
Sirius nodded. "that'd be great."
They buckled in on the sky ride, it was getting late, even though the sky
was still baby blue and the sun up , you could see the moon.
The muggle working the machine shook his head and said, " well I'll be, a
monkey."
As they glided over the park, remy realized she was sitting too close to
Sirius, and scooted a little over. Jack leeped into her hair.
"you see, " Sirius said, "he only hangs out with me for the chicks. "
Remy laughed out loud, " I don't know jack, you should stick to your own
species."
Sirius plucked him out of her hair.
"this remindes me of the hogwarts days," remy said , sighing. "used to
have fun like this all the time."
"well, obviously you still do I mean, you where just kidnapped to new
Zealand, how many people has that happened too?"
"well I know, it's just , different now."
"I know, theres 5 where 8 should be."
There was a silence, jack as if senseing the akwardness, leeped into
Sirius hair , and tossed the hair tie to the ground far below them, and
preceded to making a nest of Sirius's hair.
"not the hair!" Sirius cried , reminding remy of other times he had said
just that,
She helped him remove the howling monkey from it's new found "nest"
"you remember the time I chased you around the common room with
scissors?"
Remy asked.
"scariest moment of my life." Sirius said seriously.
"no, no, the scariest time was when I got the razor."
Sirius clapped his hands to his hair.
"nooo I don't want to be bald!!!"
"skin head." remy teased punching him in the arm.
_--------
"Remus what are you talking about? Sirius is perfect for remy." lupe
said.
"not until he's over ebony he's not perfect for anyone." remus declared
"sorry about this , remus, but were kind of busy, you can tell us all
about Sirius's problems later." the bound and gagged him in a matter of
30 seconds. "new record!" lupe cried, they slapped hands.
"okay we definetly arent going to crash the date-thing, because it's not
really an issue, we do need to reply to severus though." tonks said.
Oh man! So sorry! Your getting married? First congrats!
We are so on the same side now, unless remy decides she wants Sirius.
Then were on different sides. Ok, tell us everything.
-L&T
Theres not much to say, I have to discuss wedding plans with remy,
asuming she says yes, don't I? Say, now that your all for helping me
out, what would be the best way to propose to remy? I want to sweep her
off her feet you know, do this right.
-severus
Oh my god! Oh my god! This is so cool! You have to go somewhere with.a
waterfall.remy's a total aqua nut, she loves water, with a cavern behind
it.full of mine crystal fearies . and you have to stand where the water
that's over the entrace is behind you, that creates a perfect image, so
you'll have to be done up all nice, do the traditional on one knee, tell
her why you love her, and that you want to spend the rest of your life
with her, (trust me, remy's a total romantic headcase) slip the ring on
her finger, (it is silver isn't it? Rem loves silver) and kiss her,
passionately, you know, like in the fairy-tale books, where you pull her
into a dip, that kiss. By the way a single red rose has mega impact on
remy, she's a sucker for things like that, she likes being picked up to,
you know? She adores that. Of course you know theres no way she'll say
no, no matter how you ask her, she's stuck on you. Like with glue.
-l&T
doesn't that seem, a bit extreme, on the romance front? Of course I
bought her a silver ring, I know her feelings for gold jewelry. Besides
where do you suggest I find such a place as this? And what um, should I
do about this.her father wants us to have a gypsy wedding.
-severus
A gypsy wedding? Well, do you want one? *shrug* anyway, go to, crystal
caverns, located conveniently near a mine , hence the fairies. Remy's
never been there, you should do it by moonlight, another force that
sways remys mood to love. Think about it, you, running water, in her
favorite form, moonlight, crystal , fairies and silver. Never
underestimate the power of influence.
So what are you planing to do on your engagement night? You've got to
seduce her properly you know.
-L&T
God. Now there are rules as to how I seduce my own fiancé? Very well, I
did ask for romance tips from the queen of rant.
-severus
Well, take her to your house, normally I'd say to take her somewhere
she hasn't been, some place with class, but since your leaving back in
that pure-blood manor place again, it'll work, besides, things like that
turn remy on, if you hadn't noticed, she's into the whole
dominance/submission sex game. And really enjoys the latter, get it? Your
house, your bed, your fiancé, I'd do the whole candles and black sheets
routine, rosé wine is best with remy, in crystal, (the power of
influence) and foreplay, start it early in the evening, (because you will
of course take her out to eat, set the mood) with the comments, the
teasing , the gentle touching, working up, you know, you play your cards
right, and she's all yours.
We have some very powerfull aphrodisiacs, enhances the mood you know,
only 17 sicles a bottle.
-L (T wants no part in this)
Well I wasn't expecting sex tips, lupe, which thank you I don't need, I
know very well what remy likes. However, the comment about how things
break down, ("your house your bed your fiancé) did enlighten me quite a
bit as to the inner workings of remy's brain. But I'm not buying anything
from you.
-severus
Okay, but you must tell us everything that goes on, I mean everything
when you propose I mean, (nothing of that night thanks) .
-l&t
Wont remy tell you later , anyways?
-severus
Yeah, but we want both sides.
-lt
------
Jack, Sirius and remy walked from the park it was 6 o'clock and getting
quite dark.
They where laughing and dizzy, Sirius was wearing a tall blue top hat,
remy was holding cotton candy and a stuffed animal black cat, that jack
the monkey was terrified of. Sirius had one her it. She'd won him the top
hat, and jack the monkey had jumped into it, and also liked riding on
top.
Remy yawned. "man that was someday!"
"24 hours isn't over yet," Sirius said turning to face her. "would you
care to go dancing?" remy knew she shouldn't, but it had been so long
since she'd been dancing, and she loved it so much. It was the fact that
she was itching to reach for Sirius's hand, that bothered her. She forced
this aside "I'd love to go dancing! It's been so long!" she moved her
hand to reach his, she realized this, and stopped, then pretended to have
meant to pet jack. He saw right through this of course, and reached for
both her hand s turning to face her.
"remy, we could go dancing more than just tonight you know." Sirius said.
"we could have days like this all the time."
Remy shook her head, "I have a boyfriend Sirius"
Sirius's eyes looked a little sad, " I know remy, you're a good, loyal
girl, just do me the pleasure of this one night dancing?"
She sighed. "just dancing Sirius."
He nodded. She forced herself to let go of his hands, she thought, her
toughest temptation was over, but it was only beginning .
------
It's 6:30, remy should be back from her "day" with Sirius, have you
removed the block? Can I come see remy now?
-severus
Sorry trooper. Remy's not back yet. I wouldn't think too much of it
though I mean it is only 6:30, he probably took her dancing. She'll be
home soon, relax. Cool your jets. You know the kind of girl remy is.
Loyalty, all the way. Till death . So r- e- l -a- x
-lupe.
What she's not back yet? Taken her dancing has he? Of course I know the
kind of girl remy is, if I thought she was cheating on me or that there
was a chance she ever would, would I marry her? But I also know what kind
of "man" Sirius is.
Please remove your block. I will find a way around it anyways.
-severus
Yeah, about that, no can do, it'll automatically disapear as soon as remy
comes home, and you'll be instantly transported here. So sit tight. I
reckon she'll be home around 7:30-8:00.
We'd let remus say something, we have him here, but he's "all tied-up"
haha!
-l and t
----
They found a classy place for dancing, they chose swing dancing, remy had
never done this before, but Sirius taught her and she learned quickly.
To be honest it was one of the funnest nights of her life, twisting in
and out of his arms, and dancing the night away. Which literally, they
did. Everyone in the club adored jack the monkey, they even gave remy and
Sirius a free round of drinks for being the first people, ( theyd
actually said couple, which kind of disturbed remy, making her feel kind
of guilty.) to ever bring in a monkey.
They danced one last song, then remy glanced at her watch, "Sirius it's
10:30!!! We have to get back!" Sirius looked at her "okay, but why the
rush?"
"if we come waltzing in at midnight it's not going to look good,
especially to severus!"
'it's always going to be severus isn't it?' Sirius thought. "okay dokey,
Cinderella, you've had your ball, time to rush you home to your
prince.wait that's not how the story goes." he grabbed her , his hands on
her back, he pressed her body to hers , and their lips locked, 'this is
wrong!' remy cried in her mind, but her arms had already wrapped around
Sirius 's neck, shocked, she moved them to his shoulders , and pushed him
away, breaking their kiss, she looked away and said, "I'm sorry Sirius,
really, but as much as I want this.as much as I feel this is right.I cant
be sure.and I cant risk it.I cant leave severus for you." Sirius nodded,
he could handle this. "look, I'm the one who should be sorry, but if I
didn't do that I would have hated myself forever, " he grabbed hold of
her arm "c'mon, lets get you home ." they rushed from the club, a group
of dancers said something about soap operas as they passed. They rushed
down the street, and made it to the hotel ( by taxi) at 11:15.
As they skidded to a halt outside the door of the hotel room, remy turned
to Sirius and said "thanks Sirius, I'd a lot of fun." Sirius nodded,
"yeah, look, my offer, the one I made as we left the park, it's still
open, and probable always will be." remy smiled, "you're a great guy
Sirius, and if circumstances where different.."
"I know." remy opened the door. And stoped mortified.
Remus had been ungagged, and bound, but was still staring at her as
though she'd committed a felony. Tonks and lupe where looking at her,
shocked, and severus was leaning against the balcony door, arms folded,
staring coldly at them.
It suddenly occurred to remy that it was 11:20.
She was walking in with Sirius, at 11:20 at night, when they'd all
expected her, even her herself, had expected her to be gone 2, 3 hours
tops. Not 12.
'I didn't do anything wrong.' she thought , stepping into the room,
followed by Sirius.
"s-severus? When did you get here?" she asked, forcing out a smile.
"9 o'clock." he said, cold, distant.
3 hours. She crossed over to him, meeting his eyes, she didn't know
what to say,
"I think you have the wrong idea about." remy began.
"oh no, I have a pretty good idea." severus said.
"I don't think you do! We went dancing! You know how I get! Lost track of
time!" she said desperately. "why are you mad at me? I didn't do anything
wrong I swear!"
She glanced at tonks and lupe, why was she the only one talking? Why
weren't they sticking up for her? What did they think she'd done? .Surely
not!
"what?" she asked turning to remus "what do you think I did??"
"we went to lunch, an amusment park then dancing that's all! " she cried.
"but you where gone all day." lupe muttered.
"so? I didn't do anything wrong!" she said defiantly "I spent the day
with Sirius, most of it riding the speed demon roller coaster! I have
shirts to prove it! No fooling around, nothing, it was the two of yous
idea in the 1st place!" she turned back to severus, "why, dammit, why?
Why do you guys get so suspicious?! All the time?!"
Severus wasn't looking ar her he was staring coldly at Sirius.
"yes, remy." he finally said, cooly, "and I suppose Sirius put that
lipstick on himself."
"but.but." she turned, it was true some of her lipstick had come off on
Sirius when he had kissed her. "but .I didn't..you cant blame." how could
she explain that?? She'd pushed Sirius back! But she didn't want it to
sound like Sirius had done anything to like, advance on her either,
because that wasn't right.
"I kissed her, okay?" Sirius said angrily. "and you know what? She pushed
me back, reminded me she had a boyfriend, which trust me, she reminded me
constantly of all day, and now your accusing her of things, like she
cheated on you, which dammit, if she had do you think I'd be here talking
to you right now? At 11:20? Ha! But she didn't, she didn't even let me
hold her hand."
Severus seemed to be contemplating this, then he punched Sirius in the
face. Remy looked up and closed her eyes, she'd been close to tears
earlier . DAmn, could they not fight once in a while? She was too tired
tonight, out of energy, to argue with them. "stop it, just stop it." she
muttered, this was insane! The whole idea was bogus from the start, she
should have know something like this would have happened! she just
didn't feel like it was worth it tonight, she walked out onto the
balcony, curled up in a corner, and cried.
"get off him dammit!" lupe was pulling severus off Sirius, "get off him!"
"you kissed my .girlfriend!"
Sirius was fighting back of course, all his pent up anger at severus
suddenly coming out , he took the opportunity of lupe pulling severus up,
to puch him in the stomache twice, quickly, before remus stunned both of
them. Setting their stunned body's in chairs, he countered the curse,
tonks and lupe where restraining them when they revived. "my sister.."
remus growled, dangerously, remus didn't growl often, " is crying out
there, for no good reason at all, but the fact that two men she cares
about are fucking fools! you.." he pointed at severus, "go apologize,
and make her feel better." severus went. That was probably the only time
he ever did anything remus told him to. " and you.just sit there." remus
finished to Sirius, regaining his usual calm. And sliding down on the
bed. Exhausted.
----
"how could you think." remy began, wiping her eyes, when she saw severus
coming out. " that I would ever.. You.you are a real bastard sometimes!"
Severus sat beside her, it hurt him the way she flinched. She didn't want
to be touched. It's not like they'd never had disagreements, but this
time he could tell that by judging her so quickly he'd really upset her.
He wrapped his arm around her. " I was wrong." he said simply. "I was
wrong remy, I was." it wasn't too hard too admit he'd been wrong, but to
admit he'd been scared, even just scared of losing her, was something
else. Fortunately for him, remy understood words left unspoken. She
curled up to him.
"I've been confussed lately," remy confessed. "but now I think I should
just go home. And try to forget all this"
She caught Sirius's eye through the glass, and a tear trickled down her
cheek, she thought, 'I may never know if the decision I have just made is
right, or if it is wrong. But I will always love you, Sirius, in a way
that I don't fully understand. ' he had known she would choose severus,
he had been expecting it, but somehow, in the look she gave him, it was
almost as though she was trying to tell him something, not goodbye, nor I
love you, not even I'm sorry, it was just a look that pierced his soul,
and he felt, he didn't have to know.
-----
Back in grimmauld place the next day, Sirius sat with remus in silence.
Sirius was no longer irritable, he seemed to have chosen to just deal
with his feelings in his head , instead of taking them out on others, yet
this instilled a kind of gloom, over the whole house.
----
Remy had thought everything would magically straighten out when she got
back.
Wrong. Prof. Umbridge had decided to fire her, and the Christmas break
was almost over.
And then.it got more complicated.
He had taken her to the most beautiful place, It was just like a
fairytale. 'lupe must have had something to do with this' remy had
thought smiling, she held the magical ball of light illuminating the
caverns. "this is so beautiful severus!" she said "shall we go explore?"
"remy." she turned arounf, and her heart stopped beating.
He was down on one knee. 'this isn't happening.' remy thought 'theres no
way this is happening.'
It was happening,
He held a small black box in his hand, which flipped open to reveal a
beautiful silver ring.
Her mouth dropped open, he smiled at that, he'd been expecting it.
"remy, I love you, as I could love no other, I to spend the rest of my
life with you, remy, will you marry me?"
Her voice caught in her throat. Oh my god! She'd never dreamed he would
ask her this! A smile spread across her face.
"oh god severus, of course I will!" he stood up, and slipped the ring on
her finger.
And then he kissed her, in that way that makes you feel like you've never
been kissed before, and if you could, you'd make that kiss last forever.
He dipped her, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, her tounge
slipping into his mouth.
When their kiss broke remy, stood there, dazed for a moment,
"I - I never expected this ." remy said.
Severus smiled at her, for once not his usual seductive half smile, but
a smile she'd never seen before, a genuine smile.
-------
He carried her up the stairs. 'this is so, made for tv movie' remy
thought happily.
And into his bedroom, the resident house elf ferri, had been so shocked
to see not only severus, but remy with him. That he had run in circles
from the excitement and had passed out on the living room floor.
Just as well.
-----
"for my fathers sake, you should come and meet the family," remy said the
next day. "but I don't think a gypsy wedding is a good idea. We do that ,
and dad will get the idea that we are going to quite our jobs and travel
with him and his kumpania"
Severus nodded, he assumed kumpania was the word for her fathers
traveling companions. "perhaps something, say, traditional..handfasting?"
Remy smiled, "of course."
_-----
Tonks and lupe:
I know you guys are still enjoying your time in timaru, but you have to
come home now! Meet me in kimikos at lunch tomorrow, NEWS, NEWS, NEWS!!
Lots of it! So much to talk about!!!!!!! Be there!!!
-remy (the beyond ecstatic)
We'll be there, rem, wouldn't dream of missing your news for the world,
kimikos huh? Wow, must be big.
-l&t
"marta! Get the table ready, you wont believe who it is! It's the girls!"
Ling, the head waitress called to another server.
"wow, you all still remember us." remy said, flattered.
"of course! Your our best costumers, " ling said, leading the three of
the to their usual table. In the corner, lit by a candle. "tell me where
was your latest trip?"
"a kidnapping , " tonks smiled. "it was remy's turn this time, new
Zealand, of course."
"of course." ling said smiling, and handing them their menus
"no wait, first you want a bottle of our finest white wine, to toast your
news, before you order!" ling said,
"yep" lupe answered and ling left to get the wine.
When the wine was brought out and poured, remy stood up, clicking her
fork to her glass, a face mustache in place.
She spoke in her most important manly voice "I call this meeting of the
twisted freaks to order.the esteemed alpha femme remy lupin speaking."
"drop the act." tonks laughed.
The moustache vanished, "okay okay, I've brought you all to kimikos , to
announce, I'm getting married!!!"
Tonks and lupe lept up hugging her, (okay, they knew she was going to say
this, but if they didn't hop around like idiots, she'd know theyd known.)
"to who?" lupe asked snickering, "did you and Sirius hit it off that
well?"
"oh shut up, you know she's marrying severus!" tonks poked lupe with a
fork. "hey do you think instead of twisted freaks, we should be the
twisted forks?"
"no , " lupe said, "lets talk bachlorette party!"
"yeah! " tonks cried, the three of them slapped hands.
"bring on the dancers!" they poured theyre wine on remy, drenching her
robes in white wine, it was tradition.
Ling came back, "did I hear someone say married? Who is it this time?"
"remy!" lupe said, hugging ling happily,
"and you guys are so invited to the wedding!" remy said, "we'll send an
invite to kimikos, once we've got it set up!"
"wines on the house!" said ling.
-----
----
"remy!!! Remy!!! Party time!!!"
Tonks, lupe, ling, and about 15 old school friends remy hadn't seen in
years, Katie, britania, Georgia, fiona , Melanie and melody (the twins),
angel , Cecilia, ella , Virginia, morgana, violet , tori, sarah and
laura.
Britania , morgana, Cecilia, and Virginia , where slytherin friends who
remy had met when she started hanging out in the slytherin dorms. (hehe)
Melanie, melody, angel, Katie and georgia, where Gryffindor friends who
she had met when the twisted freaks (her old band) got together.
Violet, sarah, laura and tori where all remus's x-girlfriends,
Ella and fiona where special, they had both been drummers in the twisted
freaks until tonks came along.
Severus , who had been off in his study was stirred by the noise of 18,
hyper girls barging into his home around midnight, and came out into the
living room, where tonks and lupe where waiting for him with duct tape.
"what the hell---" was all severus got out , before they ambushed him,
Remy laughed wildly, "what are you guys doing to my fiancé?"
Tonks patted severus on the head, he looked like had he not been gagged ,
he would have bitten her arm off.
"sorry sev boy, but this is a bachlorette party, we cant have rem's going-
to-be husband hanging around and getting mad at the "entertainment" as we
know you would.tsk tsk."
Britania, flicked her wand and several cases of liquor of all sorts
appeared,
Remy gasped with pleasure as fiona presented her with the green fairy,
fine absinthe.
"oh my god! You guys remembered!" remy faked wiping tears away. "this is
so sweet!"
Severus tried to speek through the gag , remy leaned over, and kissed him
on the cheek, then said to tonks,
"so, where are you sending him?"
"we where thinking,."
The door opened again, and remus and gyorgy walked in glaring daggers at
each other, they looked around at the girls, who where bouncing off the
walls, and chucking pillows and beers at each other.
"oh! " violet said standing up , "the dancers are here that was quick
shouldn't there be 7 of you though?"
Remus just stared at her, gyorgy said, ".dancers?"
"violet, don't you recognize remus? that's my dad whos with him, I really
doubt that theyre the strippers." violet smiled at remus, "oh, it's
remus, that explains why I thought he was sexy enough to be a man
whore.you grew up well.of course you where always the sexiest teen boy
alive in hogwarts "
Remus looked at her, his face in a wacked out smirk as though trying not
to snort.
"um.I think that's a complement."
"anyways what are you guys doing here? We where just about to decide
where to send severus.."
Tonks started,
"well we came to see remy," gyorgy said, but crossing to the fair fiona,
he said , "I think I would much rather stay here, (he turned to severus)
are theyre always so many beautiful women in your house severus snape?"
"no usually theres only one." the newly un-gagged, severus said, with a
twisted smile.
"hate to interupt, but whats going on here?" remus asked, glancing at
violet,, sarah, laura and tori . "your not having another remus's ex-
girlfriends reunion are you??" he asked, suspiciously. She had done that,
in 7th year, it had been a huge hit! Girls who didn't even know remus
showed up just for the hell of it.
"nope," remy laughed, "from what I gather this is my bachelorette party.
"
"well, we just dropped by because dad wanted to rant about your decision
not to have a gypsy wedding but we'll just go." he grabbed gyorgy away
from fiona, and dragged him out the door.
"you too!" lupe pushed the now untied severus after them, "you can come
back in the morning."
Severus looked as though if he stayed around the hyper, ecstatic girls
any longer, he would puke, so he left without complaint.
----
The party wound down, after the "dancers" left, surprisingly only about
5 of the girls where drunk off their ass, the others where varying
degrees of tipsy.
Somehow the topic of descussion had turned to remy and severus.
"the only thing I can say is (hic) your crazy!" Britannia laughed,
"c'mon I think it's romantic." fiona replied, petting brittania's head
absent mindedly.
It was about 4 in the morning, and the magical radio, was playing a non-
stop magical metal marathon.
"how the hell is it romantic??? I mean, marriage Is hell, I know, twice."
"yeah, but brit, that's you, this is *coughastronomytowercough* remy, for
god sake."
"oh, will you guys ever let that drop?" remy asked, taking a swig of
absinthe,
"nope, I mean, think about it, totally random, out of the blue, class is
letting out, and you two are all over each other, it's like, woah!"
"we'd been dating for like , 2 years before that."
"yeah, but this was, you two, the scandal couple! Everyone knew about
his parents freaking out, and your dad going all wacko on his dad, and I
mean, slytherin/Gryffindor, theres hardly ever been slytherin/Gryffindor
friends, let alone lovers, and then theres the fact that he's severus
snape, and your remy lupin, both well known, but opposites in everything!
Well, except that you where both genius's , I mean, he was this muggle
born hating slytherin pureblood, who didn't really make a lot of friends
until 6th year when he got all hardcore dark arts, and you where well
liked remy lupin, with the freaky happy disposition, the girl who threw
inter-house partys , and co-ed sleep overs, pulled jokes on the practical
jokers, you even won over some of the slytherin, like moi, and that's
saying something."
"still, I'd think y'all would have grown out of going , "oh my god look
what remy's doing.!" by now, I mean I'm thirty fucking 6."
"still"
"Yeah," violet stirred "tell me the story again, it's so sweet, makes me
think of all the things I should have done to remus."
Violet had really been pissing remy off by going , all remus is so sexy!
All night.
"if you promise to stop talking about how damn horny my brother makes
you, I don't wanna hear that!"
"I promise."
"wait." ella said, clearing her throat, "let me tell the story, I am the
chronicle keeper afterall."
That was right, remy and her friends had done a lot of crazy things in
hogwarts and appointing a chronicle keeper to write down all the most
important memorys in story form, was one of them.
"well okay." remy shrugged, this was always interesting.
"it was a warm april night, the astronomy proffessor had taken the night
off, so the class was dismissed, remy lupin, a beautiful (remy rolled
her eyes) 15 year old witch, due to turn sixteen next month, was a
little disappointed because she had wanted to map her lucky star on her
star chart, so she stayed behind, unnoticed by the rest of the class,
her boyfriend, the controversial young mr. Severus snape,( remy
snorted, she'd have to remember to call him the controversial young
mr.severus, sometime) a dark, mysterious slytherin boy, stayed behind as
well, remy didn't notice this, as she walked over to the telescopes, the
wind blowed, her hair moved beautifully in it, as did her robes."
"oh stop making this sound like some kind of magic moment!" remy snapped,
"your exaggerating everything!"
"that's the chronicle keepers job! Now, where was I? Oh yes, the wind.and
the stars twinkled brightly, severus stepped forward, out of the shadows,
remy turned, as though fate had made it so, her lucky star shown in the
reflection of his eyes. (remy groaned, "god ella..") she smiled at him,
they where alone in the astronomy tower, and the energy between them was
different, stronger."
"that's about as much as you need to say!" remy said, warningly,
"look, I don't know the details, you didn't tell me, but if you'll stop
interrupting.
She stepped over to him, "why did you come here?" she asked him, ever
since the incident in the greenhouses they hadn't been on speaking terms.
"I couldn't keep away from you!" he replied, grabbing her in his arms."
"what the hell are you talking? What incident? Severus certaintly didn't
say anything corny like that! Stop twisting the truth!"
"okay, okay, you party pooper, they where in the astronomy tower right,
and severus comes over and, starts to kiss remy, and gets way beyond 3rd
base, okay?" ella said grumpily, "that's the way it happened, no romantic
license added."
Remy nodded. "there, that'll do."
"I wonderz whhhere s-severus wentt afterz we'z kicked 'im out?" tonks
asked, slurring her words
Remy laughed, "are you kidding? He went back to his study, then off to
bed around 2 in the morning, right as the dancers where leaving."
"what?!" tonks demanded, standing up, "you mean he didn't leave?"
"of course not."
"wonderfulz!" wicked grin.
Tonks ran down the hall.
The only ones still awake, Fiona, Ella, violet, Britannia Lupe and remy,
followed her.
She turned into remy and severus's bedroom,
"tonks get back here!" remy hissed, "get the fuck back here!"
Tonks wasn't listening, she was giggling to herself, remy knew it had
been a stretch for him to put up with the party, but he had, but remy
knew if tonks went messing with him, he'd probably get really pissed off,
he'd been under a lot of stress lately.
Remy turned into the room. "oh god! Tonks! Fix his hair!"
Tonks had put severus's hair into a non magic made, elmer's glue Mohawk.
And was coloring into bright pink with her wand.
"no wayz." tonks said. Completing the process, "help me wrap him in tp."
Remy shook her head, " I mean it tonks.don't ! you'll wake him up.."
She undid tonks's elmer's glue hairdo, which was a good thing, because
tonks was wrapping severus in toilet paper like a mummy. remy stepped
over to tonks and grabbed her shoulders."c'mon!" she hissed, pulling
tonks back, tonks took out her wand and died severus's hair bright blue,
before remy grabbed the wand, "gimme that!" they struggled over the wand,
the others snickering, and watching the progress, tonks stepped around
to where remy's back was too the bed, and let go. Remy fell back onto
severus, hitting him mostly in the chest, "shit!" she muttered, severus
instinctively snapped awake and grabbed his wand, he glanced at remy, the
girls, the tp covered bed, and then saw his hair in the mirror behind
tonks,
"okay, what the hell is going on here?!"
Tonks giggled. "your hair iz blue!" she said drunkenly.
"sorry.sev." remy muttered, getting up. "I'll fix it."
"no.no! just leave it to me!" he sighed, annoyed, he didn't want anymore
intoxicated girls near his hair. "just get all your drunk little friends
into the guest bedroom's on the 1st floor, ok? I'm drawing the line. It's
4 in the bloody morning. And I'm going to have 16 girls with hangovers to
deal with in the morning, so just.get them to go to sleep."
"party pooper. " tonks said, as remy led her away.
------
That morning was not pretty.
Remy didn't really know how severus was handling things , or how the
others where, she was laying with her head over the toilet, puking up.
Her hair was a mess, and she felt like shit, not to mention the roaring
headache.
Severus entered the bathroom and shook his head at her, "I'm glad to see
you've recaptured your youth, maybe now your ready to grow up?" he
smiled, bending down beside her, and patting her back. Remy mustered a
laugh. "ha! I don't know about that. the girls and I are going out for
tattoos."
Severus sighed. "again? You already have two."
That was right, remy had the 'twisted freaks' written circling around
her right ankle in shocking black and blue, and a tattoo of a medium
sized nightshade flower on her left hip, (lily, ebony, tonks , lupe and
remy had all gotten there favorite flowers tattooed in the same spot.
Lily's had obviously been a lily, ebony's was a blood red rose, tonk's
had a snapdragon, and lupe's was a vanilla orchid.)
Remy nodded. And puked into the toilet. Severus ran a hand through his
hair as if to ask, "why does she always do this?!" infact one of the
moments that stood out most in his memory was the first time he'd met
remy.he'd held her hair back out of her face as she puked up in a muggle
parking lot, he'd been surprised to see her at hogwarts later that year.
"we're all getting them, everyone here, they're all going to be the same,
the tragedy and comedy faces on our left ankles."
"well atleast your not piercing anything."
"do you mind terribly?"
"no. I'm used to you by now. Although you do still surprise me sometimes,
for one, I never knew you could name all of the absinthe making
companys."
Remy laughed. "yeah.it's a gift"
-----
"my dad.he's in romania." remy commented, later to severus after her
friends had gone.
"how did he get from Syria to romania in a matter of weeks?" severus
asked raising an eyebrow.
"he knew I would only come if he was in romania, so a little magical aid
never hurt anyone."
"oh.I see, so you want to take me to meet your family?"
"well, yeah, for dads sake, and I miss them."
"speaking of your father, heres a question for you.what does Ka jav te
xenav tut mean?"
Remy laughed.
"he said that to you?! Haha! He said, literally, "I will shit on you!"
it's an insult."
"well, I figured as much as that."
"you might want to know a few things before I take you," remy said.
"about gypsies."
"I think so.." severus muttered, "other than one of my great aunts ,
sidi, was one, I don't know a damn thing about them."
Remy laughed, "okay, first of all, I'll warn you, I have 7 half brothers,
6 half sisters, 4 uncles on my fathers side, 3 step uncles on my
stepmothers side, 5 aunts on my fathers side, 4 step aunts on my
stepmothers side, 7 sisters-in-law, 5 brothers-in-law, and 8 nephews,
and 6 nieces."
"god." severus said incredulously.
"and theres about 20 other gypsies, only about 7 of them will I formally
introduce you to, as there my friends. "
Severus slid back on the couch, he'd never figured he'd have to do so
much socializing. Fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck.
"and tonks wants to come with us."
"why?" severus asked.
"Stefan." remy said, with a laughing smile. "he's waiting on the day,
that, "lina" comes back to stay, and weds him."
"what?!..oh."
"yeah, she's "lina" a friend of mine with gypsy heritage. You should
see the face tonks has for lina, she's beautiful."
Severus shook his head. "catty," he muttered. "poor boy."
"okay so , I'll stick by you while were there, so you don't offend anyone
on accident."
"no pressure." severus laughed.
-------
" I cannot believe he's going to put flowers in his hair and jump over a
broom."
"oh shut up tonks that's only part of it."
"I know.but still.he's going to have flowers in his hair, and jump over a
broom."
"yeah! So am I!"
"still, he's severus..and he going to say vows, and kiss you.right in
front of us!"
Remy rolled her eyes. "whats your point?"
"he's going to have flowers in his hair!!!"
"uh huh"
"think about it.he must really love you to put flowers in his hair!"
"yeah, it's weird isn't it? I was pretty surprised when he proposed."
Tonks smiled. "no shit! We all where, I mean dude, dude doesn't seem like
the marrying type does he?"
"oh , severus isn't the marrying type. He's definetly not. I guess this
is just one of those weird times when he does something not the norm for
him."
"like the time he was the first to extend his hand to Sirius when
dumbledore told him too?"
"really? when did he do that?"
"oh, last year. Word travels."
"I see."
"so um.Sirius wants to come meet the gypsies with us.and remus feels it's
his dutie to go and watch over Sirius (okay, watch over the gypsy girls,
and keep Sirius in check but anyways.,) and you of course. And you
know.lupe just has to come! She wants to be a gypsy you know, I wouldn't
be surprised if she just stays there when we leave."
Remy laughed. "are you so serious? Well yeah, I could see her doing that.
Remus wants to come? Really? Man alive, I just know him and dad are gonna
go all loco on each other!"
"well you know.I got a secret to tell you."
----
"no way! Holy fucking shit!!! You lot kept this from me all these
years??? Why??" remy demanded. Tonks sighed.
" well, lupe just sort of felt you had enough stress dealing with remus
and severus that you really didn't need it added. I mean, she was gonna
tell you.but she thought you'd be pissed that she never told you before,
so I figured it'd be cool, if you pretended you'd just worked it out, and
she could say she hadn't told any of us."
Remy shrugged.
"well okay then, but if you guys are going to come clean about lupe being
a werewolf, I guess I owe you the same truth.."
Tonks raised an eyebrow."are we about to have "moment"?"
"yes .we are ."
"ok then, go on , best to get the drama over with."
"""do you remember when Sirius and ebony decided to have an abortion in
7th year when eb got pregnant?"
"yeah, who could forget? "
"well.she didn't have an abortion."
"what do you mean? wait..then what happened to the kid?"
"well, ebony, lily and I , found a elderly witch friend of lilys, who
just happened to live in timaru, to let the boy, Sirius, live with her,
we pulled a huge cover up operation to keep it from everyone, we went
there as often as we could, so Sirius would grow up knowing us, that's
why we always went to timaru."
"oh my god! Oh my god! Your not bullshitting are you?? We have to tell
Sirius!"
"you see, that's why we didn't tell you, because you'd have to tell
Sirius we know you and your loco morals., and well ebony didn't want him
to know, she thought it would just be easier this way, you know how
Sirius is, he would have dropped out of school and gotten a job that
wasn't as good as he should have had, to try and support her and the
baby, and ebony wanted to go threw school and all, you know."
"but remy, baby, we arent in hogwarts anymore! He has a right to know!"
"alright.alright I'll tell him.just when the opportunity is right , ok?"
----
"that was my brother in st.mungos , I bit him. You're the only person I
knew to turn to remus, I couldn't tell anyone else what I had done.tonks
is the only one who knows now, besides you."
Lupe was crying on remus's shoulder. She had showed up, a few hours ago,
sobbing on his doorstep, he had made her tea, and gotten her a warm
towel. He was used to this, people coming to him with their problems, but
you cant imagine how shocked he been when lupe spilled that she was a
werewolf, and had bitten her brother. He'd nearly fallen off the couch.
He put his hand on her back, "I know lupe, it's hard, but whats done is
done, the best you can do is be there for your brother, help him out as
much as possible, theres a potion you know, I'm sure you use it, that can
control the madness, severus makes it for me, I'm sure he wouldn't mind
making some for you or your brother."
Lupe sniffed. "it's okay, I can do it myself, I am a healer it's just."
"yes?"
"I feel so guilty, I mean what hell have I condemned him to? I've gone
through so much to hide what I am, to keep my job as a healer, but he .he
didn't have that chance."
Remus understood, the prejudice against werewolves made it very hard for
him to support himself.
"theres always a way to find work, maybe not a steady job, but when
theres people like dumbledore out there, things are bound to change soon
for the better."
Lupe wiped her tears away. "my parents have shunned me."
Remus sighed. "I know what you mean, have a look at the way my father and
I relate. And mother, god rest her soul, was a damn cold bitch during her
life time. Very pleasant on her deathbed though."
Lupe forced a smile. "your sweet remus"
----
Remy was pacing the living room, severus watched her , interested.
"why so troubled?" he asked.
"no reason.no reason." severus raised an eyebrow. "your pacing."
Remy sighed and sunk down in to the couch. A slight anxiety fillled
severus, what was up?
"it's just say, you had a friend.who had hooked up with a friend.and say
this friend, that hooked up with this friend had kept a secret from the
friend they hooked up with and you where the only one left who knew what
this secret was, would you tell the friend your friend hooked up with?"
"remy.your not making a lot of sense."
"I know..ok, friend a, got with friend b, and friend a had kept a
secret from friend b, that was really important, and you where the only
one who knew what this secret was, would you tell friend b?"
"it depends on what the secret was, and why friend a wanted friend b ,
not to know."
"so say, friend a and friend b, had a kid.or where going to have a kid to
the best of friend b's knowledge.and they both agreed that the kid was a
bad idea..but friend a changed there mind at the last minute..and you're
the last living person who knew originally that friend a had had the kid
anyways ..would you tell friend b, even though friend b, whom you really
care about, would probably never forgive you.?"
Severus stared at her.
"are we talking about "friends" here or.."
Remy rolled her eyes, "were talking about Sirius and ebony! Not you and
me!"
"well one has to wonder.black and your friend , hmmm? What do you mean
you really care about friend b?"
"oh for god sakes severus, of course I care about Sirius, like a
brother!"
Again with the bloody eyebrow.
"are you always going to raise your eyebrow like that?! I swear, why not
talk? That just keeps everything guarded..I never know what your
thinking.well that's not exactly true..if anyone even says Sirius you see
red! But honestly.."
Severus laughed.
"go on, tell Sirius, and if he stops talking to you, all the better!"
Remy hit him in the back of the head , playingly. He smirked.
"shut up." she said, giving him a look.
----
the news that remy had pulled some massive cover up operation with her
freaky little friends, didn't come as a big surprise to severus. And he
didn't feel the slightest bit guilty in his resolve not to tell Sirius,
infact it kindof pleased him. I mean, Sirius would definetly want to know
this. But he didn't. severus really didn't give a shit if Sirius died
without knowing he had a son..alright..that would make him really
happy..but we'll pretend that it wouldn't.
Severus did think that if remy didn't stop pacing, he'd tatoo the damn
story on his forehead and knock it against Sirius's eyes.
______
Lupe's eyes blinked open. Last night had been the full moon...
She looked around..she was in a forest clearing...and she was naked..
Holy shit. She thought glancing next to her. It was remus.
"we where either drunk or he didn't take his potion, I know I
didn't.wait..of course..last night had been the full moon.well the muggle
news should tell..if there where anyway wolves rampaging threw the
streets, it's sure to be on there." she grabbed up her robes, which where
rather ripped and torn, but would work, covered remus, and hurried away.
-------
Two hours later remus woke up, his shock was slightly different then
lupe's since she wasn't there.
"damn! The moon! How could I have forgotten..oh yes.lupe came over..slept
on my couch..I must have left the apartment..I hope I didn't hurt her!
She probably took her potion..and tried to stop me leaving..or god..what
if she didn't take her potion.and she's somewhere in the city...I have to
find her!!!"
But first he had to pee. Really bad. "shit," remus thought, "what did I
do last night??"
-----
"next month???" tonks asked , bewildered.
"yep"
"doesn't he have to teach I've been wondering about all this time he's
had off."
"he hasn't had all this time off,notice he's not here now? He commutes,
he goes and teaches every day, and comes home at night. And when term
starts next year, after umbridge gets booted, I mean, there has to be a
way to get her out isn't there? I'll take up a full time professorship."
"you a teacher? I mean, I know you're a jack of all trades remy, but as a
serious job? What about the bar? And I thought you wanted children."
"well of course that's what I wanted, but you have to make sacrifices in
relationships."
"those arent simple sacrifices remy, those are things you've always
wanted! To be a bartender and have a couple sons."
"so what? This is the life I want now."
"uh-huh, and what sacrifices, pray tell is your fiance making for this
"relationship", anyways ?"
"what? are you trying to wreck my love life? Your not on another
Sirius/me kick are you?"
"no , I'm on a remy/remy kick."
"you know, you shouldn't be thinking about that tonks, besides, you know
I prefer sex to masturbation."
"you know what I mean, but you cant answer my question can you? What
sacrifices is he making?"
"well for one thing, he's comuting, he comes home every night to see me,
and disaperation takes energy you know."
"that's not a sacrifice, that's called male sex drive! He's not doing
that for you, he's doing it for him! Of course he comes home every night,
he' s a horny guy! And he wants some action!"
"you're a real bitch sometimes tonks, why are you talking all this shit
about severus again?"
"I'm worried about you."
Before remy could reply, lupe burst in..
"remy , out! Tonks stay!"
"what???" said remy, already a little ticked off. "I'm not going
anywhere! Why cant you say this in front of me??"
"just get out!"
"no!"
"let her stay, lupe. She figured out you where a werewolf so if this
concerns."
Lupe looked stricken.
"okay, okay..but she still has to get out!"
"no, fuck you, I will not leave, I live here, notice you don't!"
"fine..fine..hows this sound to you? I unknowingly, had sexual relations
with your twin brother."
Remy's mouth fell open, in the way it did so often these days.
"you.you.no..what? No.but..but ..my little virgin brother.no.."
Lupe snorted. "please.he was so not a virgin..every girl wanted a piece
of him in hogwarts.."
Remybrought her hand up to her face and shook violently.
"no..no..no...what do you mean?.no..unknowingly ..? What? No!"
Tonks patted remy on the back."it's ok sweet, think what was last
night?"
"the full moon?"
"fit the pieces together."
Remy's eyes went round .
"oh!"
"yeah!" lupe sighed slipping down on the couch, "I left before he woke
up, he's smart, he probly knows , but I don't think it's anything that
needs to be taken further."
Remy slapped her forehead with her hand and cried, "what if you have
puppies??? I mean you where in wolf form at the time so if your pregnant
would they be puppies? Would you only be preg when you where in wolf
form? Or would they be human?"
"I seriously doubt I'm pregnant. In fact, I know almost for sure I'm not"
"then why are you freaking out?"
"BECAUSE I FUCKED REMUS!"
"don't say it! Nooooo."
"alright remy, you just calm down..I'm gonna go home.take a shower.and
think of a nice little story to tell remus.."
--------
Lupe stepped out of the shower, and into her powder blue bathrobe,
She was quite shaken, and very upset about the events of the night
before.
She was angry at herself for forgetting to take her potion.
And very upset because lupe, just like remus had been a virgin, waiting
until they found the right person, after all, wolves do mate for life.
And lupe just didn't think remus was the right person for her, sure it
would seem like the perfect match, but lupe regarded remus as a friend,
possibly a companion to live with her, but not a lover.
How could she tell this to anyone? Remy was too busy acting like a
lunatic over remus to realize that it affected lupe in just the same way.
And tonks? Lupe just .didn't want to tell her, she knew tonks would
listen and probably have some good advice , but lupe just didn't want to
hear it right now.
She couldn't explain it as she brushed her hair, she decided ,
subconsciously, just to act like it was nothing and tell no one more than
she already had, especially not remus, he didn't need to know. She
wouldn't tell him, because she felt an over powering urge to protect him
from the empty dead feeling in her right now.
------
Remy yawned. Severus wouldn't be home for five more hours and tonks had
work, so remy figured she'd go exploring.
The house had 3 floors, and remy had only been in a few rooms, so why
not check the place out? I mean, she could just ask ferri or nari where
things where, but why? Remy was in many ways like a cat, curious about
everything . Remy left the living room on the second floor, (where she
spent most of her time) , and walked down the hallway, past severus's
study, there where 5 doors off this hallway, one of them went into remy
and severus's bedroom, she ignored this one, and went to the one right
next to it, it was a simple , plain, chesnut door, and looked awfully out
of place, remy turned the handle, the room insid was circular, and the
ceiling and walls where glass, the wall that held the door, being the
only one made of stone , held many shelves lined with books on all sorts
of astronomy and star related divanation, ect, a silver telescope was
located right across the room. A bench sat next to it, holding
lunascopes, and all sorts of instruments.
Remy thought , 'I'll come back here at night!' the bright light of day
was hurting her eyes after being inside the dark house all day.
She left , closing the door behind her and went to the one across from
it, this door was just like all the rest, made of a light silvery type of
metal, that opened with a touch if it recognized you.
Remy went back to the bedroom, which recognized her already , and pulled
on one of severus's black dragonhide gloves, hey, how smart could a door
be?
Sure enough the glove trick worked.
This room, was set up for no other purpose then necromancy. Remy was so
deeply intrigued by the books, bottles, bells and shadow creatures in
cages, she almost rung one of the bells! She left the windowless room
quickly after that, and moved onto the next.
"wow!" remy thought , "this room must have belonged to severus's aunt
sidora! "
Severus's gypsy aunt, this room was lined with many books on gypsy magic
that would only open if you had romany blood in you, curious to see if
these where indeed the same kind of books she had learned from, remy
place her gloveless palm on the book, sure enough it sprang open. Remy
placed the book back on the shelf. And examined the magical dancing
scarves. Scarves such as these could get gypsy women out of any
situation, depending on the dance done, different enchantments would be
cast. These scarves where very well made, and hardly used. Remy marveled
at them, but decided it would be rude to use them, or any of sidora's
thingsm even though she was long past, the room had remained untouched,
and there was probably a reason.
The last door, opened to reveal a staircase leading upward toward the
third floor.
What do you mean she's troubled and confussed? She neither!
We have a wonderful relationship damn it! What do you mean you can see
all sides of whats going on in her life, ? Please do enlighten me!
-severus
Are we playing owl tag? Great I love that! Anyways, here you go, for
your personal enjoyment:
the top ten things that are fucked up in your relationship:
1) (and most important) remy will get involved in your spy stuff. Which
is her one way ticket to jaded hell. And horrible happenings.
2) you have some serious issues you need to work out, hello , misery
loves company, sorry but your depression will rub off on her, mr. Gloom.
3) your ideal futures would clash. Remy, no matter what she finally does,
we can safely say she probably wont be a proffesor , that's you gone half
the year, remy's not the type to handle being alone for that long well.
4) even if you did work through the career problems, you hate all the
people remy associates with. that's bound to cause problems.
5)remy wants a family, and marriage. We know these things . You have
affection problems. Your not exactly a family guy.
6) if you did have kids, how would they grow up? Theyd inherit your ties
to dark arts. And you wouldn't be sensitive enough to raise a kid that's
a werewolf.
7) your still holding grudges against her brother, who I can damn well
guarentee is gonna be around a lot. Remy, Remus their a package deal, she
loves her brother more than anyother living or non-living being in
existence. Or even her imagination.
8) are you sure this is love? Because were not. I definetly think that
you and remy only have sexual atraction.
9) if were right, and you do only have sexual atraction, what happens
when fate (and she will) throws your true loves into your lives? Broken,
hearts, homes.bad news all around.
10) voldemort could kill remy if she gets involved in your spy stuff and
something go's wrong. We don't want that!!!!!!!!!!!
And now, the grand finally..take it away tonks:
Well of course she's troubled and confussed! How could she not be? With
her "love" for you, and the fact that she see's everything lupe listed
above, but still feels that she should be with you, and dammit, if you
havent realized, remy's codependent, she thinks she has to protect you
from your own inner demons, and teach you to live. Remys always been like
that , why do you think I've always said you two had an unhealthy
relationship?! Take a look severus, I'm sorry, but just a quick overview
of your relationship please, even in hogwarts. Codependency.
She was just so damn drawn to you, so troubled and mysterious, "so dark,
and deep, intellectual.troubled." she said, we knew nothing good could
come of it. We like you, severus, we just don't think you and remy are
right for each other!
-lupe, tonks
How can you say it's just sexual attraction? I love remy, and I don't
love a lot of people. And I 'd never say it unless I meant it, you should
know that.
don't you think I know the dangers of remy getting involved in this ??
Could you possibly think I havent cursed myself a thousand times for
bringing her into this? don't you think I tried to keep her out of it?
But she was going to work for the order anyway, she was going to risk her
life some how, it's just unfortunate that her risk is so high ! What are
you talking about fate for? A waste of ink. As far as her brothers
concerned , I can swallow any grudge for remy, as long as she's not
asking me to let Sirius live with us or anything, I can handle remus, you
know that. What are you talking about kids for? Remy and I havent even
discussed that, and anyways, what do you mean a child that's a werewolf?
I don't have affection problems, you might see it that way, because I'm
not merry sunshine doesn't mean that I have problems, infact if I where
merry sunshine, then you would have cause to say I had problems. What
do you mean? of course remys going to be a full time proffessor, don't
you think she'll pick up the dark arts job as soon as they've gotten rid
of umbridge? Besides, we can work through problems like that. I'm not
depressed. I'm distant, yes, from most, but not from remy. Not like
it's your business anyways. Remy would never allow her self to become
jaded, she's too free of a spirit. I refuse to believe that remy only
loves me because of her so called "codependency" that's just crazy.
-severus
Well of course remy's a free spirit! But what happens to her free spirit
once you burn a dark mark onto her skin? I'll tell you. It breaks. And a
broken spirit is the hardest thing to mend. Go ahead and deny everything
all you want, I'd expected better of you when confronted with the truth.
I never thought you one to go into denial. As for the werewolf thing,
yeah, remy's first child will be a werewolf. Family curse. I cant believe
she hasn't told you then again when I asked her where your relationship
was going she said, "well I guess we'll just stay the way we are ,
until, um until." see? If you love remy, prove it damn it. She may live
in ignorant bliss but, we see the problems even if she doesn't.
- L& T
Could you possibly know what your little kidnapping interrupted ? No ,
you couldn't, and I'll tell you, on the conditions that not a word is
said to remy, I do at least, know you well enough to assume you wouldn't
say anything.
The "personal business" I left on without telling remy, was to ask for
her hand in marriage from her father, and buy a ring, I was going to
propose to remy, when you so conveniently kidnapped her. And tried to
convince her that Sirius was her true love, wonderful, isn't it? Ironic,
a bit.? And now, you've got her spending a day with a piranha fish in
tight black jeans. And I havent cursed you, what more do you want?
-severus
"oh my god, lupe, read this!!!"
Tonks thrust severus's letter into lupes hands.
They had been watching the muggle tv on remys bed, and munching away,
when the reply came.
"I suddenly feel really, really guilty." lupe muttered sitting the letter
down.
"screw guilty! Remy's getting married!" tonks jumped up and down on the
bed.
"unless our brilliant plan to hook her up with Sirius works."
Tonks suddenly sat down. "we have to find them! "
"no way jose , settle down, look, does this really change anything? He's
still bad news and she's codependent."
"of course this changes everything! He must really love her! And that
means the opposite of everything bad we said will happen, because love
conqures all!"
"well atleast your not ranting about karma this time."
"haha."
"well look, just because he wants to marry her doesn't mean it's
suddenly the real deal."
"I beg to differ! "
"you can beg all you want, but I'm still right."
"shut up, lupe."
Tonks laughed.
A *pop*
They turned to see remus standing at the foot of the bed.
"you cant do this! Sirius is no better than severus, as a match for remy,
he's far from over ebony, he's not ready to move on, another heartbreak
might kill him!"
"what the hell are you talking about??" lupe demanded.
--------
Remy emerged from the girl's loo's ,
She smiled at Sirius, they had just broken the record for riding "the
demon" roller coaster over 50 times in a row.
With 51 , they'd made it, remy hadn't puked, until just now.
Sirius handed her her t-shirt , which read, " I rode the demon 51
times! " in flaming letters, with a picture of the roller coaster on it.
" arent muggles sweet?" Sirius asked. "there rewarding us for our pain
with t-shirts."
Remy smiled, Sirius had yelled some where between the plunge and the
twist, that the skin on his face was being ripped off by cannibals.
Remy took the shirt and laughed, "wow, my first white t-shirt, wonderful
souvenir."
Sirius smiled at her. " wanna get a drink to clear our heads?" she
nodded, "definetly."
They found a table and sat down with two cokes.
Jack the monkey had watched them on the roller coaster, and was now back
on Sirius's shoulder sticking his little monkey finger in the coke
bottle.
Remy laughed and patted jack.
"you and that monkey are a perfect match, your both playful and silly."
she said.
"if that's the way of pets your best match would be with a fox, smart
and beautiful."
Remy blushed, " you shouldn't flatter me so much. I do have a boyfriend."
"I'm only telling the truth. " Sirius said.
Remy downed the rest of her coke, "since we're still recovering, why not
go on the sky ride thing, get a view of the park, and that's a ride jack
can come on as well."
Sirius nodded. "that'd be great."
They buckled in on the sky ride, it was getting late, even though the sky
was still baby blue and the sun up , you could see the moon.
The muggle working the machine shook his head and said, " well I'll be, a
monkey."
As they glided over the park, remy realized she was sitting too close to
Sirius, and scooted a little over. Jack leeped into her hair.
"you see, " Sirius said, "he only hangs out with me for the chicks. "
Remy laughed out loud, " I don't know jack, you should stick to your own
species."
Sirius plucked him out of her hair.
"this remindes me of the hogwarts days," remy said , sighing. "used to
have fun like this all the time."
"well, obviously you still do I mean, you where just kidnapped to new
Zealand, how many people has that happened too?"
"well I know, it's just , different now."
"I know, theres 5 where 8 should be."
There was a silence, jack as if senseing the akwardness, leeped into
Sirius hair , and tossed the hair tie to the ground far below them, and
preceded to making a nest of Sirius's hair.
"not the hair!" Sirius cried , reminding remy of other times he had said
just that,
She helped him remove the howling monkey from it's new found "nest"
"you remember the time I chased you around the common room with
scissors?"
Remy asked.
"scariest moment of my life." Sirius said seriously.
"no, no, the scariest time was when I got the razor."
Sirius clapped his hands to his hair.
"nooo I don't want to be bald!!!"
"skin head." remy teased punching him in the arm.
_--------
"Remus what are you talking about? Sirius is perfect for remy." lupe
said.
"not until he's over ebony he's not perfect for anyone." remus declared
"sorry about this , remus, but were kind of busy, you can tell us all
about Sirius's problems later." the bound and gagged him in a matter of
30 seconds. "new record!" lupe cried, they slapped hands.
"okay we definetly arent going to crash the date-thing, because it's not
really an issue, we do need to reply to severus though." tonks said.
Oh man! So sorry! Your getting married? First congrats!
We are so on the same side now, unless remy decides she wants Sirius.
Then were on different sides. Ok, tell us everything.
-L&T
Theres not much to say, I have to discuss wedding plans with remy,
asuming she says yes, don't I? Say, now that your all for helping me
out, what would be the best way to propose to remy? I want to sweep her
off her feet you know, do this right.
-severus
Oh my god! Oh my god! This is so cool! You have to go somewhere with.a
waterfall.remy's a total aqua nut, she loves water, with a cavern behind
it.full of mine crystal fearies . and you have to stand where the water
that's over the entrace is behind you, that creates a perfect image, so
you'll have to be done up all nice, do the traditional on one knee, tell
her why you love her, and that you want to spend the rest of your life
with her, (trust me, remy's a total romantic headcase) slip the ring on
her finger, (it is silver isn't it? Rem loves silver) and kiss her,
passionately, you know, like in the fairy-tale books, where you pull her
into a dip, that kiss. By the way a single red rose has mega impact on
remy, she's a sucker for things like that, she likes being picked up to,
you know? She adores that. Of course you know theres no way she'll say
no, no matter how you ask her, she's stuck on you. Like with glue.
-l&T
doesn't that seem, a bit extreme, on the romance front? Of course I
bought her a silver ring, I know her feelings for gold jewelry. Besides
where do you suggest I find such a place as this? And what um, should I
do about this.her father wants us to have a gypsy wedding.
-severus
A gypsy wedding? Well, do you want one? *shrug* anyway, go to, crystal
caverns, located conveniently near a mine , hence the fairies. Remy's
never been there, you should do it by moonlight, another force that
sways remys mood to love. Think about it, you, running water, in her
favorite form, moonlight, crystal , fairies and silver. Never
underestimate the power of influence.
So what are you planing to do on your engagement night? You've got to
seduce her properly you know.
-L&T
God. Now there are rules as to how I seduce my own fiancé? Very well, I
did ask for romance tips from the queen of rant.
-severus
Well, take her to your house, normally I'd say to take her somewhere
she hasn't been, some place with class, but since your leaving back in
that pure-blood manor place again, it'll work, besides, things like that
turn remy on, if you hadn't noticed, she's into the whole
dominance/submission sex game. And really enjoys the latter, get it? Your
house, your bed, your fiancé, I'd do the whole candles and black sheets
routine, rosé wine is best with remy, in crystal, (the power of
influence) and foreplay, start it early in the evening, (because you will
of course take her out to eat, set the mood) with the comments, the
teasing , the gentle touching, working up, you know, you play your cards
right, and she's all yours.
We have some very powerfull aphrodisiacs, enhances the mood you know,
only 17 sicles a bottle.
-L (T wants no part in this)
Well I wasn't expecting sex tips, lupe, which thank you I don't need, I
know very well what remy likes. However, the comment about how things
break down, ("your house your bed your fiancé) did enlighten me quite a
bit as to the inner workings of remy's brain. But I'm not buying anything
from you.
-severus
Okay, but you must tell us everything that goes on, I mean everything
when you propose I mean, (nothing of that night thanks) .
-l&t
Wont remy tell you later , anyways?
-severus
Yeah, but we want both sides.
-lt
------
Jack, Sirius and remy walked from the park it was 6 o'clock and getting
quite dark.
They where laughing and dizzy, Sirius was wearing a tall blue top hat,
remy was holding cotton candy and a stuffed animal black cat, that jack
the monkey was terrified of. Sirius had one her it. She'd won him the top
hat, and jack the monkey had jumped into it, and also liked riding on
top.
Remy yawned. "man that was someday!"
"24 hours isn't over yet," Sirius said turning to face her. "would you
care to go dancing?" remy knew she shouldn't, but it had been so long
since she'd been dancing, and she loved it so much. It was the fact that
she was itching to reach for Sirius's hand, that bothered her. She forced
this aside "I'd love to go dancing! It's been so long!" she moved her
hand to reach his, she realized this, and stopped, then pretended to have
meant to pet jack. He saw right through this of course, and reached for
both her hand s turning to face her.
"remy, we could go dancing more than just tonight you know." Sirius said.
"we could have days like this all the time."
Remy shook her head, "I have a boyfriend Sirius"
Sirius's eyes looked a little sad, " I know remy, you're a good, loyal
girl, just do me the pleasure of this one night dancing?"
She sighed. "just dancing Sirius."
He nodded. She forced herself to let go of his hands, she thought, her
toughest temptation was over, but it was only beginning .
------
It's 6:30, remy should be back from her "day" with Sirius, have you
removed the block? Can I come see remy now?
-severus
Sorry trooper. Remy's not back yet. I wouldn't think too much of it
though I mean it is only 6:30, he probably took her dancing. She'll be
home soon, relax. Cool your jets. You know the kind of girl remy is.
Loyalty, all the way. Till death . So r- e- l -a- x
-lupe.
What she's not back yet? Taken her dancing has he? Of course I know the
kind of girl remy is, if I thought she was cheating on me or that there
was a chance she ever would, would I marry her? But I also know what kind
of "man" Sirius is.
Please remove your block. I will find a way around it anyways.
-severus
Yeah, about that, no can do, it'll automatically disapear as soon as remy
comes home, and you'll be instantly transported here. So sit tight. I
reckon she'll be home around 7:30-8:00.
We'd let remus say something, we have him here, but he's "all tied-up"
haha!
-l and t
----
They found a classy place for dancing, they chose swing dancing, remy had
never done this before, but Sirius taught her and she learned quickly.
To be honest it was one of the funnest nights of her life, twisting in
and out of his arms, and dancing the night away. Which literally, they
did. Everyone in the club adored jack the monkey, they even gave remy and
Sirius a free round of drinks for being the first people, ( theyd
actually said couple, which kind of disturbed remy, making her feel kind
of guilty.) to ever bring in a monkey.
They danced one last song, then remy glanced at her watch, "Sirius it's
10:30!!! We have to get back!" Sirius looked at her "okay, but why the
rush?"
"if we come waltzing in at midnight it's not going to look good,
especially to severus!"
'it's always going to be severus isn't it?' Sirius thought. "okay dokey,
Cinderella, you've had your ball, time to rush you home to your
prince.wait that's not how the story goes." he grabbed her , his hands on
her back, he pressed her body to hers , and their lips locked, 'this is
wrong!' remy cried in her mind, but her arms had already wrapped around
Sirius 's neck, shocked, she moved them to his shoulders , and pushed him
away, breaking their kiss, she looked away and said, "I'm sorry Sirius,
really, but as much as I want this.as much as I feel this is right.I cant
be sure.and I cant risk it.I cant leave severus for you." Sirius nodded,
he could handle this. "look, I'm the one who should be sorry, but if I
didn't do that I would have hated myself forever, " he grabbed hold of
her arm "c'mon, lets get you home ." they rushed from the club, a group
of dancers said something about soap operas as they passed. They rushed
down the street, and made it to the hotel ( by taxi) at 11:15.
As they skidded to a halt outside the door of the hotel room, remy turned
to Sirius and said "thanks Sirius, I'd a lot of fun." Sirius nodded,
"yeah, look, my offer, the one I made as we left the park, it's still
open, and probable always will be." remy smiled, "you're a great guy
Sirius, and if circumstances where different.."
"I know." remy opened the door. And stoped mortified.
Remus had been ungagged, and bound, but was still staring at her as
though she'd committed a felony. Tonks and lupe where looking at her,
shocked, and severus was leaning against the balcony door, arms folded,
staring coldly at them.
It suddenly occurred to remy that it was 11:20.
She was walking in with Sirius, at 11:20 at night, when they'd all
expected her, even her herself, had expected her to be gone 2, 3 hours
tops. Not 12.
'I didn't do anything wrong.' she thought , stepping into the room,
followed by Sirius.
"s-severus? When did you get here?" she asked, forcing out a smile.
"9 o'clock." he said, cold, distant.
3 hours. She crossed over to him, meeting his eyes, she didn't know
what to say,
"I think you have the wrong idea about." remy began.
"oh no, I have a pretty good idea." severus said.
"I don't think you do! We went dancing! You know how I get! Lost track of
time!" she said desperately. "why are you mad at me? I didn't do anything
wrong I swear!"
She glanced at tonks and lupe, why was she the only one talking? Why
weren't they sticking up for her? What did they think she'd done? .Surely
not!
"what?" she asked turning to remus "what do you think I did??"
"we went to lunch, an amusment park then dancing that's all! " she cried.
"but you where gone all day." lupe muttered.
"so? I didn't do anything wrong!" she said defiantly "I spent the day
with Sirius, most of it riding the speed demon roller coaster! I have
shirts to prove it! No fooling around, nothing, it was the two of yous
idea in the 1st place!" she turned back to severus, "why, dammit, why?
Why do you guys get so suspicious?! All the time?!"
Severus wasn't looking ar her he was staring coldly at Sirius.
"yes, remy." he finally said, cooly, "and I suppose Sirius put that
lipstick on himself."
"but.but." she turned, it was true some of her lipstick had come off on
Sirius when he had kissed her. "but .I didn't..you cant blame." how could
she explain that?? She'd pushed Sirius back! But she didn't want it to
sound like Sirius had done anything to like, advance on her either,
because that wasn't right.
"I kissed her, okay?" Sirius said angrily. "and you know what? She pushed
me back, reminded me she had a boyfriend, which trust me, she reminded me
constantly of all day, and now your accusing her of things, like she
cheated on you, which dammit, if she had do you think I'd be here talking
to you right now? At 11:20? Ha! But she didn't, she didn't even let me
hold her hand."
Severus seemed to be contemplating this, then he punched Sirius in the
face. Remy looked up and closed her eyes, she'd been close to tears
earlier . DAmn, could they not fight once in a while? She was too tired
tonight, out of energy, to argue with them. "stop it, just stop it." she
muttered, this was insane! The whole idea was bogus from the start, she
should have know something like this would have happened! she just
didn't feel like it was worth it tonight, she walked out onto the
balcony, curled up in a corner, and cried.
"get off him dammit!" lupe was pulling severus off Sirius, "get off him!"
"you kissed my .girlfriend!"
Sirius was fighting back of course, all his pent up anger at severus
suddenly coming out , he took the opportunity of lupe pulling severus up,
to puch him in the stomache twice, quickly, before remus stunned both of
them. Setting their stunned body's in chairs, he countered the curse,
tonks and lupe where restraining them when they revived. "my sister.."
remus growled, dangerously, remus didn't growl often, " is crying out
there, for no good reason at all, but the fact that two men she cares
about are fucking fools! you.." he pointed at severus, "go apologize,
and make her feel better." severus went. That was probably the only time
he ever did anything remus told him to. " and you.just sit there." remus
finished to Sirius, regaining his usual calm. And sliding down on the
bed. Exhausted.
----
"how could you think." remy began, wiping her eyes, when she saw severus
coming out. " that I would ever.. You.you are a real bastard sometimes!"
Severus sat beside her, it hurt him the way she flinched. She didn't want
to be touched. It's not like they'd never had disagreements, but this
time he could tell that by judging her so quickly he'd really upset her.
He wrapped his arm around her. " I was wrong." he said simply. "I was
wrong remy, I was." it wasn't too hard too admit he'd been wrong, but to
admit he'd been scared, even just scared of losing her, was something
else. Fortunately for him, remy understood words left unspoken. She
curled up to him.
"I've been confussed lately," remy confessed. "but now I think I should
just go home. And try to forget all this"
She caught Sirius's eye through the glass, and a tear trickled down her
cheek, she thought, 'I may never know if the decision I have just made is
right, or if it is wrong. But I will always love you, Sirius, in a way
that I don't fully understand. ' he had known she would choose severus,
he had been expecting it, but somehow, in the look she gave him, it was
almost as though she was trying to tell him something, not goodbye, nor I
love you, not even I'm sorry, it was just a look that pierced his soul,
and he felt, he didn't have to know.
-----
Back in grimmauld place the next day, Sirius sat with remus in silence.
Sirius was no longer irritable, he seemed to have chosen to just deal
with his feelings in his head , instead of taking them out on others, yet
this instilled a kind of gloom, over the whole house.
----
Remy had thought everything would magically straighten out when she got
back.
Wrong. Prof. Umbridge had decided to fire her, and the Christmas break
was almost over.
And then.it got more complicated.
He had taken her to the most beautiful place, It was just like a
fairytale. 'lupe must have had something to do with this' remy had
thought smiling, she held the magical ball of light illuminating the
caverns. "this is so beautiful severus!" she said "shall we go explore?"
"remy." she turned arounf, and her heart stopped beating.
He was down on one knee. 'this isn't happening.' remy thought 'theres no
way this is happening.'
It was happening,
He held a small black box in his hand, which flipped open to reveal a
beautiful silver ring.
Her mouth dropped open, he smiled at that, he'd been expecting it.
"remy, I love you, as I could love no other, I to spend the rest of my
life with you, remy, will you marry me?"
Her voice caught in her throat. Oh my god! She'd never dreamed he would
ask her this! A smile spread across her face.
"oh god severus, of course I will!" he stood up, and slipped the ring on
her finger.
And then he kissed her, in that way that makes you feel like you've never
been kissed before, and if you could, you'd make that kiss last forever.
He dipped her, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, her tounge
slipping into his mouth.
When their kiss broke remy, stood there, dazed for a moment,
"I - I never expected this ." remy said.
Severus smiled at her, for once not his usual seductive half smile, but
a smile she'd never seen before, a genuine smile.
-------
He carried her up the stairs. 'this is so, made for tv movie' remy
thought happily.
And into his bedroom, the resident house elf ferri, had been so shocked
to see not only severus, but remy with him. That he had run in circles
from the excitement and had passed out on the living room floor.
Just as well.
-----
"for my fathers sake, you should come and meet the family," remy said the
next day. "but I don't think a gypsy wedding is a good idea. We do that ,
and dad will get the idea that we are going to quite our jobs and travel
with him and his kumpania"
Severus nodded, he assumed kumpania was the word for her fathers
traveling companions. "perhaps something, say, traditional..handfasting?"
Remy smiled, "of course."
_-----
Tonks and lupe:
I know you guys are still enjoying your time in timaru, but you have to
come home now! Meet me in kimikos at lunch tomorrow, NEWS, NEWS, NEWS!!
Lots of it! So much to talk about!!!!!!! Be there!!!
-remy (the beyond ecstatic)
We'll be there, rem, wouldn't dream of missing your news for the world,
kimikos huh? Wow, must be big.
-l&t
"marta! Get the table ready, you wont believe who it is! It's the girls!"
Ling, the head waitress called to another server.
"wow, you all still remember us." remy said, flattered.
"of course! Your our best costumers, " ling said, leading the three of
the to their usual table. In the corner, lit by a candle. "tell me where
was your latest trip?"
"a kidnapping , " tonks smiled. "it was remy's turn this time, new
Zealand, of course."
"of course." ling said smiling, and handing them their menus
"no wait, first you want a bottle of our finest white wine, to toast your
news, before you order!" ling said,
"yep" lupe answered and ling left to get the wine.
When the wine was brought out and poured, remy stood up, clicking her
fork to her glass, a face mustache in place.
She spoke in her most important manly voice "I call this meeting of the
twisted freaks to order.the esteemed alpha femme remy lupin speaking."
"drop the act." tonks laughed.
The moustache vanished, "okay okay, I've brought you all to kimikos , to
announce, I'm getting married!!!"
Tonks and lupe lept up hugging her, (okay, they knew she was going to say
this, but if they didn't hop around like idiots, she'd know theyd known.)
"to who?" lupe asked snickering, "did you and Sirius hit it off that
well?"
"oh shut up, you know she's marrying severus!" tonks poked lupe with a
fork. "hey do you think instead of twisted freaks, we should be the
twisted forks?"
"no , " lupe said, "lets talk bachlorette party!"
"yeah! " tonks cried, the three of them slapped hands.
"bring on the dancers!" they poured theyre wine on remy, drenching her
robes in white wine, it was tradition.
Ling came back, "did I hear someone say married? Who is it this time?"
"remy!" lupe said, hugging ling happily,
"and you guys are so invited to the wedding!" remy said, "we'll send an
invite to kimikos, once we've got it set up!"
"wines on the house!" said ling.
-----
----
"remy!!! Remy!!! Party time!!!"
Tonks, lupe, ling, and about 15 old school friends remy hadn't seen in
years, Katie, britania, Georgia, fiona , Melanie and melody (the twins),
angel , Cecilia, ella , Virginia, morgana, violet , tori, sarah and
laura.
Britania , morgana, Cecilia, and Virginia , where slytherin friends who
remy had met when she started hanging out in the slytherin dorms. (hehe)
Melanie, melody, angel, Katie and georgia, where Gryffindor friends who
she had met when the twisted freaks (her old band) got together.
Violet, sarah, laura and tori where all remus's x-girlfriends,
Ella and fiona where special, they had both been drummers in the twisted
freaks until tonks came along.
Severus , who had been off in his study was stirred by the noise of 18,
hyper girls barging into his home around midnight, and came out into the
living room, where tonks and lupe where waiting for him with duct tape.
"what the hell---" was all severus got out , before they ambushed him,
Remy laughed wildly, "what are you guys doing to my fiancé?"
Tonks patted severus on the head, he looked like had he not been gagged ,
he would have bitten her arm off.
"sorry sev boy, but this is a bachlorette party, we cant have rem's going-
to-be husband hanging around and getting mad at the "entertainment" as we
know you would.tsk tsk."
Britania, flicked her wand and several cases of liquor of all sorts
appeared,
Remy gasped with pleasure as fiona presented her with the green fairy,
fine absinthe.
"oh my god! You guys remembered!" remy faked wiping tears away. "this is
so sweet!"
Severus tried to speek through the gag , remy leaned over, and kissed him
on the cheek, then said to tonks,
"so, where are you sending him?"
"we where thinking,."
The door opened again, and remus and gyorgy walked in glaring daggers at
each other, they looked around at the girls, who where bouncing off the
walls, and chucking pillows and beers at each other.
"oh! " violet said standing up , "the dancers are here that was quick
shouldn't there be 7 of you though?"
Remus just stared at her, gyorgy said, ".dancers?"
"violet, don't you recognize remus? that's my dad whos with him, I really
doubt that theyre the strippers." violet smiled at remus, "oh, it's
remus, that explains why I thought he was sexy enough to be a man
whore.you grew up well.of course you where always the sexiest teen boy
alive in hogwarts "
Remus looked at her, his face in a wacked out smirk as though trying not
to snort.
"um.I think that's a complement."
"anyways what are you guys doing here? We where just about to decide
where to send severus.."
Tonks started,
"well we came to see remy," gyorgy said, but crossing to the fair fiona,
he said , "I think I would much rather stay here, (he turned to severus)
are theyre always so many beautiful women in your house severus snape?"
"no usually theres only one." the newly un-gagged, severus said, with a
twisted smile.
"hate to interupt, but whats going on here?" remus asked, glancing at
violet,, sarah, laura and tori . "your not having another remus's ex-
girlfriends reunion are you??" he asked, suspiciously. She had done that,
in 7th year, it had been a huge hit! Girls who didn't even know remus
showed up just for the hell of it.
"nope," remy laughed, "from what I gather this is my bachelorette party.
"
"well, we just dropped by because dad wanted to rant about your decision
not to have a gypsy wedding but we'll just go." he grabbed gyorgy away
from fiona, and dragged him out the door.
"you too!" lupe pushed the now untied severus after them, "you can come
back in the morning."
Severus looked as though if he stayed around the hyper, ecstatic girls
any longer, he would puke, so he left without complaint.
----
The party wound down, after the "dancers" left, surprisingly only about
5 of the girls where drunk off their ass, the others where varying
degrees of tipsy.
Somehow the topic of descussion had turned to remy and severus.
"the only thing I can say is (hic) your crazy!" Britannia laughed,
"c'mon I think it's romantic." fiona replied, petting brittania's head
absent mindedly.
It was about 4 in the morning, and the magical radio, was playing a non-
stop magical metal marathon.
"how the hell is it romantic??? I mean, marriage Is hell, I know, twice."
"yeah, but brit, that's you, this is *coughastronomytowercough* remy, for
god sake."
"oh, will you guys ever let that drop?" remy asked, taking a swig of
absinthe,
"nope, I mean, think about it, totally random, out of the blue, class is
letting out, and you two are all over each other, it's like, woah!"
"we'd been dating for like , 2 years before that."
"yeah, but this was, you two, the scandal couple! Everyone knew about
his parents freaking out, and your dad going all wacko on his dad, and I
mean, slytherin/Gryffindor, theres hardly ever been slytherin/Gryffindor
friends, let alone lovers, and then theres the fact that he's severus
snape, and your remy lupin, both well known, but opposites in everything!
Well, except that you where both genius's , I mean, he was this muggle
born hating slytherin pureblood, who didn't really make a lot of friends
until 6th year when he got all hardcore dark arts, and you where well
liked remy lupin, with the freaky happy disposition, the girl who threw
inter-house partys , and co-ed sleep overs, pulled jokes on the practical
jokers, you even won over some of the slytherin, like moi, and that's
saying something."
"still, I'd think y'all would have grown out of going , "oh my god look
what remy's doing.!" by now, I mean I'm thirty fucking 6."
"still"
"Yeah," violet stirred "tell me the story again, it's so sweet, makes me
think of all the things I should have done to remus."
Violet had really been pissing remy off by going , all remus is so sexy!
All night.
"if you promise to stop talking about how damn horny my brother makes
you, I don't wanna hear that!"
"I promise."
"wait." ella said, clearing her throat, "let me tell the story, I am the
chronicle keeper afterall."
That was right, remy and her friends had done a lot of crazy things in
hogwarts and appointing a chronicle keeper to write down all the most
important memorys in story form, was one of them.
"well okay." remy shrugged, this was always interesting.
"it was a warm april night, the astronomy proffessor had taken the night
off, so the class was dismissed, remy lupin, a beautiful (remy rolled
her eyes) 15 year old witch, due to turn sixteen next month, was a
little disappointed because she had wanted to map her lucky star on her
star chart, so she stayed behind, unnoticed by the rest of the class,
her boyfriend, the controversial young mr. Severus snape,( remy
snorted, she'd have to remember to call him the controversial young
mr.severus, sometime) a dark, mysterious slytherin boy, stayed behind as
well, remy didn't notice this, as she walked over to the telescopes, the
wind blowed, her hair moved beautifully in it, as did her robes."
"oh stop making this sound like some kind of magic moment!" remy snapped,
"your exaggerating everything!"
"that's the chronicle keepers job! Now, where was I? Oh yes, the wind.and
the stars twinkled brightly, severus stepped forward, out of the shadows,
remy turned, as though fate had made it so, her lucky star shown in the
reflection of his eyes. (remy groaned, "god ella..") she smiled at him,
they where alone in the astronomy tower, and the energy between them was
different, stronger."
"that's about as much as you need to say!" remy said, warningly,
"look, I don't know the details, you didn't tell me, but if you'll stop
interrupting.
She stepped over to him, "why did you come here?" she asked him, ever
since the incident in the greenhouses they hadn't been on speaking terms.
"I couldn't keep away from you!" he replied, grabbing her in his arms."
"what the hell are you talking? What incident? Severus certaintly didn't
say anything corny like that! Stop twisting the truth!"
"okay, okay, you party pooper, they where in the astronomy tower right,
and severus comes over and, starts to kiss remy, and gets way beyond 3rd
base, okay?" ella said grumpily, "that's the way it happened, no romantic
license added."
Remy nodded. "there, that'll do."
"I wonderz whhhere s-severus wentt afterz we'z kicked 'im out?" tonks
asked, slurring her words
Remy laughed, "are you kidding? He went back to his study, then off to
bed around 2 in the morning, right as the dancers where leaving."
"what?!" tonks demanded, standing up, "you mean he didn't leave?"
"of course not."
"wonderfulz!" wicked grin.
Tonks ran down the hall.
The only ones still awake, Fiona, Ella, violet, Britannia Lupe and remy,
followed her.
She turned into remy and severus's bedroom,
"tonks get back here!" remy hissed, "get the fuck back here!"
Tonks wasn't listening, she was giggling to herself, remy knew it had
been a stretch for him to put up with the party, but he had, but remy
knew if tonks went messing with him, he'd probably get really pissed off,
he'd been under a lot of stress lately.
Remy turned into the room. "oh god! Tonks! Fix his hair!"
Tonks had put severus's hair into a non magic made, elmer's glue Mohawk.
And was coloring into bright pink with her wand.
"no wayz." tonks said. Completing the process, "help me wrap him in tp."
Remy shook her head, " I mean it tonks.don't ! you'll wake him up.."
She undid tonks's elmer's glue hairdo, which was a good thing, because
tonks was wrapping severus in toilet paper like a mummy. remy stepped
over to tonks and grabbed her shoulders."c'mon!" she hissed, pulling
tonks back, tonks took out her wand and died severus's hair bright blue,
before remy grabbed the wand, "gimme that!" they struggled over the wand,
the others snickering, and watching the progress, tonks stepped around
to where remy's back was too the bed, and let go. Remy fell back onto
severus, hitting him mostly in the chest, "shit!" she muttered, severus
instinctively snapped awake and grabbed his wand, he glanced at remy, the
girls, the tp covered bed, and then saw his hair in the mirror behind
tonks,
"okay, what the hell is going on here?!"
Tonks giggled. "your hair iz blue!" she said drunkenly.
"sorry.sev." remy muttered, getting up. "I'll fix it."
"no.no! just leave it to me!" he sighed, annoyed, he didn't want anymore
intoxicated girls near his hair. "just get all your drunk little friends
into the guest bedroom's on the 1st floor, ok? I'm drawing the line. It's
4 in the bloody morning. And I'm going to have 16 girls with hangovers to
deal with in the morning, so just.get them to go to sleep."
"party pooper. " tonks said, as remy led her away.
------
That morning was not pretty.
Remy didn't really know how severus was handling things , or how the
others where, she was laying with her head over the toilet, puking up.
Her hair was a mess, and she felt like shit, not to mention the roaring
headache.
Severus entered the bathroom and shook his head at her, "I'm glad to see
you've recaptured your youth, maybe now your ready to grow up?" he
smiled, bending down beside her, and patting her back. Remy mustered a
laugh. "ha! I don't know about that. the girls and I are going out for
tattoos."
Severus sighed. "again? You already have two."
That was right, remy had the 'twisted freaks' written circling around
her right ankle in shocking black and blue, and a tattoo of a medium
sized nightshade flower on her left hip, (lily, ebony, tonks , lupe and
remy had all gotten there favorite flowers tattooed in the same spot.
Lily's had obviously been a lily, ebony's was a blood red rose, tonk's
had a snapdragon, and lupe's was a vanilla orchid.)
Remy nodded. And puked into the toilet. Severus ran a hand through his
hair as if to ask, "why does she always do this?!" infact one of the
moments that stood out most in his memory was the first time he'd met
remy.he'd held her hair back out of her face as she puked up in a muggle
parking lot, he'd been surprised to see her at hogwarts later that year.
"we're all getting them, everyone here, they're all going to be the same,
the tragedy and comedy faces on our left ankles."
"well atleast your not piercing anything."
"do you mind terribly?"
"no. I'm used to you by now. Although you do still surprise me sometimes,
for one, I never knew you could name all of the absinthe making
companys."
Remy laughed. "yeah.it's a gift"
-----
"my dad.he's in romania." remy commented, later to severus after her
friends had gone.
"how did he get from Syria to romania in a matter of weeks?" severus
asked raising an eyebrow.
"he knew I would only come if he was in romania, so a little magical aid
never hurt anyone."
"oh.I see, so you want to take me to meet your family?"
"well, yeah, for dads sake, and I miss them."
"speaking of your father, heres a question for you.what does Ka jav te
xenav tut mean?"
Remy laughed.
"he said that to you?! Haha! He said, literally, "I will shit on you!"
it's an insult."
"well, I figured as much as that."
"you might want to know a few things before I take you," remy said.
"about gypsies."
"I think so.." severus muttered, "other than one of my great aunts ,
sidi, was one, I don't know a damn thing about them."
Remy laughed, "okay, first of all, I'll warn you, I have 7 half brothers,
6 half sisters, 4 uncles on my fathers side, 3 step uncles on my
stepmothers side, 5 aunts on my fathers side, 4 step aunts on my
stepmothers side, 7 sisters-in-law, 5 brothers-in-law, and 8 nephews,
and 6 nieces."
"god." severus said incredulously.
"and theres about 20 other gypsies, only about 7 of them will I formally
introduce you to, as there my friends. "
Severus slid back on the couch, he'd never figured he'd have to do so
much socializing. Fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck.
"and tonks wants to come with us."
"why?" severus asked.
"Stefan." remy said, with a laughing smile. "he's waiting on the day,
that, "lina" comes back to stay, and weds him."
"what?!..oh."
"yeah, she's "lina" a friend of mine with gypsy heritage. You should
see the face tonks has for lina, she's beautiful."
Severus shook his head. "catty," he muttered. "poor boy."
"okay so , I'll stick by you while were there, so you don't offend anyone
on accident."
"no pressure." severus laughed.
-------
" I cannot believe he's going to put flowers in his hair and jump over a
broom."
"oh shut up tonks that's only part of it."
"I know.but still.he's going to have flowers in his hair, and jump over a
broom."
"yeah! So am I!"
"still, he's severus..and he going to say vows, and kiss you.right in
front of us!"
Remy rolled her eyes. "whats your point?"
"he's going to have flowers in his hair!!!"
"uh huh"
"think about it.he must really love you to put flowers in his hair!"
"yeah, it's weird isn't it? I was pretty surprised when he proposed."
Tonks smiled. "no shit! We all where, I mean dude, dude doesn't seem like
the marrying type does he?"
"oh , severus isn't the marrying type. He's definetly not. I guess this
is just one of those weird times when he does something not the norm for
him."
"like the time he was the first to extend his hand to Sirius when
dumbledore told him too?"
"really? when did he do that?"
"oh, last year. Word travels."
"I see."
"so um.Sirius wants to come meet the gypsies with us.and remus feels it's
his dutie to go and watch over Sirius (okay, watch over the gypsy girls,
and keep Sirius in check but anyways.,) and you of course. And you
know.lupe just has to come! She wants to be a gypsy you know, I wouldn't
be surprised if she just stays there when we leave."
Remy laughed. "are you so serious? Well yeah, I could see her doing that.
Remus wants to come? Really? Man alive, I just know him and dad are gonna
go all loco on each other!"
"well you know.I got a secret to tell you."
----
"no way! Holy fucking shit!!! You lot kept this from me all these
years??? Why??" remy demanded. Tonks sighed.
" well, lupe just sort of felt you had enough stress dealing with remus
and severus that you really didn't need it added. I mean, she was gonna
tell you.but she thought you'd be pissed that she never told you before,
so I figured it'd be cool, if you pretended you'd just worked it out, and
she could say she hadn't told any of us."
Remy shrugged.
"well okay then, but if you guys are going to come clean about lupe being
a werewolf, I guess I owe you the same truth.."
Tonks raised an eyebrow."are we about to have "moment"?"
"yes .we are ."
"ok then, go on , best to get the drama over with."
"""do you remember when Sirius and ebony decided to have an abortion in
7th year when eb got pregnant?"
"yeah, who could forget? "
"well.she didn't have an abortion."
"what do you mean? wait..then what happened to the kid?"
"well, ebony, lily and I , found a elderly witch friend of lilys, who
just happened to live in timaru, to let the boy, Sirius, live with her,
we pulled a huge cover up operation to keep it from everyone, we went
there as often as we could, so Sirius would grow up knowing us, that's
why we always went to timaru."
"oh my god! Oh my god! Your not bullshitting are you?? We have to tell
Sirius!"
"you see, that's why we didn't tell you, because you'd have to tell
Sirius we know you and your loco morals., and well ebony didn't want him
to know, she thought it would just be easier this way, you know how
Sirius is, he would have dropped out of school and gotten a job that
wasn't as good as he should have had, to try and support her and the
baby, and ebony wanted to go threw school and all, you know."
"but remy, baby, we arent in hogwarts anymore! He has a right to know!"
"alright.alright I'll tell him.just when the opportunity is right , ok?"
----
"that was my brother in st.mungos , I bit him. You're the only person I
knew to turn to remus, I couldn't tell anyone else what I had done.tonks
is the only one who knows now, besides you."
Lupe was crying on remus's shoulder. She had showed up, a few hours ago,
sobbing on his doorstep, he had made her tea, and gotten her a warm
towel. He was used to this, people coming to him with their problems, but
you cant imagine how shocked he been when lupe spilled that she was a
werewolf, and had bitten her brother. He'd nearly fallen off the couch.
He put his hand on her back, "I know lupe, it's hard, but whats done is
done, the best you can do is be there for your brother, help him out as
much as possible, theres a potion you know, I'm sure you use it, that can
control the madness, severus makes it for me, I'm sure he wouldn't mind
making some for you or your brother."
Lupe sniffed. "it's okay, I can do it myself, I am a healer it's just."
"yes?"
"I feel so guilty, I mean what hell have I condemned him to? I've gone
through so much to hide what I am, to keep my job as a healer, but he .he
didn't have that chance."
Remus understood, the prejudice against werewolves made it very hard for
him to support himself.
"theres always a way to find work, maybe not a steady job, but when
theres people like dumbledore out there, things are bound to change soon
for the better."
Lupe wiped her tears away. "my parents have shunned me."
Remus sighed. "I know what you mean, have a look at the way my father and
I relate. And mother, god rest her soul, was a damn cold bitch during her
life time. Very pleasant on her deathbed though."
Lupe forced a smile. "your sweet remus"
----
Remy was pacing the living room, severus watched her , interested.
"why so troubled?" he asked.
"no reason.no reason." severus raised an eyebrow. "your pacing."
Remy sighed and sunk down in to the couch. A slight anxiety fillled
severus, what was up?
"it's just say, you had a friend.who had hooked up with a friend.and say
this friend, that hooked up with this friend had kept a secret from the
friend they hooked up with and you where the only one left who knew what
this secret was, would you tell the friend your friend hooked up with?"
"remy.your not making a lot of sense."
"I know..ok, friend a, got with friend b, and friend a had kept a
secret from friend b, that was really important, and you where the only
one who knew what this secret was, would you tell friend b?"
"it depends on what the secret was, and why friend a wanted friend b ,
not to know."
"so say, friend a and friend b, had a kid.or where going to have a kid to
the best of friend b's knowledge.and they both agreed that the kid was a
bad idea..but friend a changed there mind at the last minute..and you're
the last living person who knew originally that friend a had had the kid
anyways ..would you tell friend b, even though friend b, whom you really
care about, would probably never forgive you.?"
Severus stared at her.
"are we talking about "friends" here or.."
Remy rolled her eyes, "were talking about Sirius and ebony! Not you and
me!"
"well one has to wonder.black and your friend , hmmm? What do you mean
you really care about friend b?"
"oh for god sakes severus, of course I care about Sirius, like a
brother!"
Again with the bloody eyebrow.
"are you always going to raise your eyebrow like that?! I swear, why not
talk? That just keeps everything guarded..I never know what your
thinking.well that's not exactly true..if anyone even says Sirius you see
red! But honestly.."
Severus laughed.
"go on, tell Sirius, and if he stops talking to you, all the better!"
Remy hit him in the back of the head , playingly. He smirked.
"shut up." she said, giving him a look.
----
the news that remy had pulled some massive cover up operation with her
freaky little friends, didn't come as a big surprise to severus. And he
didn't feel the slightest bit guilty in his resolve not to tell Sirius,
infact it kindof pleased him. I mean, Sirius would definetly want to know
this. But he didn't. severus really didn't give a shit if Sirius died
without knowing he had a son..alright..that would make him really
happy..but we'll pretend that it wouldn't.
Severus did think that if remy didn't stop pacing, he'd tatoo the damn
story on his forehead and knock it against Sirius's eyes.
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Lupe's eyes blinked open. Last night had been the full moon...
She looked around..she was in a forest clearing...and she was naked..
Holy shit. She thought glancing next to her. It was remus.
"we where either drunk or he didn't take his potion, I know I
didn't.wait..of course..last night had been the full moon.well the muggle
news should tell..if there where anyway wolves rampaging threw the
streets, it's sure to be on there." she grabbed up her robes, which where
rather ripped and torn, but would work, covered remus, and hurried away.
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Two hours later remus woke up, his shock was slightly different then
lupe's since she wasn't there.
"damn! The moon! How could I have forgotten..oh yes.lupe came over..slept
on my couch..I must have left the apartment..I hope I didn't hurt her!
She probably took her potion..and tried to stop me leaving..or god..what
if she didn't take her potion.and she's somewhere in the city...I have to
find her!!!"
But first he had to pee. Really bad. "shit," remus thought, "what did I
do last night??"
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"next month???" tonks asked , bewildered.
"yep"
"doesn't he have to teach I've been wondering about all this time he's
had off."
"he hasn't had all this time off,notice he's not here now? He commutes,
he goes and teaches every day, and comes home at night. And when term
starts next year, after umbridge gets booted, I mean, there has to be a
way to get her out isn't there? I'll take up a full time professorship."
"you a teacher? I mean, I know you're a jack of all trades remy, but as a
serious job? What about the bar? And I thought you wanted children."
"well of course that's what I wanted, but you have to make sacrifices in
relationships."
"those arent simple sacrifices remy, those are things you've always
wanted! To be a bartender and have a couple sons."
"so what? This is the life I want now."
"uh-huh, and what sacrifices, pray tell is your fiance making for this
"relationship", anyways ?"
"what? are you trying to wreck my love life? Your not on another
Sirius/me kick are you?"
"no , I'm on a remy/remy kick."
"you know, you shouldn't be thinking about that tonks, besides, you know
I prefer sex to masturbation."
"you know what I mean, but you cant answer my question can you? What
sacrifices is he making?"
"well for one thing, he's comuting, he comes home every night to see me,
and disaperation takes energy you know."
"that's not a sacrifice, that's called male sex drive! He's not doing
that for you, he's doing it for him! Of course he comes home every night,
he' s a horny guy! And he wants some action!"
"you're a real bitch sometimes tonks, why are you talking all this shit
about severus again?"
"I'm worried about you."
Before remy could reply, lupe burst in..
"remy , out! Tonks stay!"
"what???" said remy, already a little ticked off. "I'm not going
anywhere! Why cant you say this in front of me??"
"just get out!"
"no!"
"let her stay, lupe. She figured out you where a werewolf so if this
concerns."
Lupe looked stricken.
"okay, okay..but she still has to get out!"
"no, fuck you, I will not leave, I live here, notice you don't!"
"fine..fine..hows this sound to you? I unknowingly, had sexual relations
with your twin brother."
Remy's mouth fell open, in the way it did so often these days.
"you.you.no..what? No.but..but ..my little virgin brother.no.."
Lupe snorted. "please.he was so not a virgin..every girl wanted a piece
of him in hogwarts.."
Remybrought her hand up to her face and shook violently.
"no..no..no...what do you mean?.no..unknowingly ..? What? No!"
Tonks patted remy on the back."it's ok sweet, think what was last
night?"
"the full moon?"
"fit the pieces together."
Remy's eyes went round .
"oh!"
"yeah!" lupe sighed slipping down on the couch, "I left before he woke
up, he's smart, he probly knows , but I don't think it's anything that
needs to be taken further."
Remy slapped her forehead with her hand and cried, "what if you have
puppies??? I mean you where in wolf form at the time so if your pregnant
would they be puppies? Would you only be preg when you where in wolf
form? Or would they be human?"
"I seriously doubt I'm pregnant. In fact, I know almost for sure I'm not"
"then why are you freaking out?"
"BECAUSE I FUCKED REMUS!"
"don't say it! Nooooo."
"alright remy, you just calm down..I'm gonna go home.take a shower.and
think of a nice little story to tell remus.."
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Lupe stepped out of the shower, and into her powder blue bathrobe,
She was quite shaken, and very upset about the events of the night
before.
She was angry at herself for forgetting to take her potion.
And very upset because lupe, just like remus had been a virgin, waiting
until they found the right person, after all, wolves do mate for life.
And lupe just didn't think remus was the right person for her, sure it
would seem like the perfect match, but lupe regarded remus as a friend,
possibly a companion to live with her, but not a lover.
How could she tell this to anyone? Remy was too busy acting like a
lunatic over remus to realize that it affected lupe in just the same way.
And tonks? Lupe just .didn't want to tell her, she knew tonks would
listen and probably have some good advice , but lupe just didn't want to
hear it right now.
She couldn't explain it as she brushed her hair, she decided ,
subconsciously, just to act like it was nothing and tell no one more than
she already had, especially not remus, he didn't need to know. She
wouldn't tell him, because she felt an over powering urge to protect him
from the empty dead feeling in her right now.
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Remy yawned. Severus wouldn't be home for five more hours and tonks had
work, so remy figured she'd go exploring.
The house had 3 floors, and remy had only been in a few rooms, so why
not check the place out? I mean, she could just ask ferri or nari where
things where, but why? Remy was in many ways like a cat, curious about
everything . Remy left the living room on the second floor, (where she
spent most of her time) , and walked down the hallway, past severus's
study, there where 5 doors off this hallway, one of them went into remy
and severus's bedroom, she ignored this one, and went to the one right
next to it, it was a simple , plain, chesnut door, and looked awfully out
of place, remy turned the handle, the room insid was circular, and the
ceiling and walls where glass, the wall that held the door, being the
only one made of stone , held many shelves lined with books on all sorts
of astronomy and star related divanation, ect, a silver telescope was
located right across the room. A bench sat next to it, holding
lunascopes, and all sorts of instruments.
Remy thought , 'I'll come back here at night!' the bright light of day
was hurting her eyes after being inside the dark house all day.
She left , closing the door behind her and went to the one across from
it, this door was just like all the rest, made of a light silvery type of
metal, that opened with a touch if it recognized you.
Remy went back to the bedroom, which recognized her already , and pulled
on one of severus's black dragonhide gloves, hey, how smart could a door
be?
Sure enough the glove trick worked.
This room, was set up for no other purpose then necromancy. Remy was so
deeply intrigued by the books, bottles, bells and shadow creatures in
cages, she almost rung one of the bells! She left the windowless room
quickly after that, and moved onto the next.
"wow!" remy thought , "this room must have belonged to severus's aunt
sidora! "
Severus's gypsy aunt, this room was lined with many books on gypsy magic
that would only open if you had romany blood in you, curious to see if
these where indeed the same kind of books she had learned from, remy
place her gloveless palm on the book, sure enough it sprang open. Remy
placed the book back on the shelf. And examined the magical dancing
scarves. Scarves such as these could get gypsy women out of any
situation, depending on the dance done, different enchantments would be
cast. These scarves where very well made, and hardly used. Remy marveled
at them, but decided it would be rude to use them, or any of sidora's
thingsm even though she was long past, the room had remained untouched,
and there was probably a reason.
The last door, opened to reveal a staircase leading upward toward the
third floor.