*Lupin's Loony Love*


This is becoming a tradition practically...I don't own anything that has to do with Harry Potter.


After getting the room properly furnished, Lupin sat down with a sigh in a chair that had been provided by the house elves, for the special occasion. Worry lines creased Lupin's face, and he had a slight twitching of his hands.

"Why am I so nervous?" Lupin said aloud hoping for a response from anyone. No answer, that must mean that all is well. Remus had put to meet him at seven-o-clock and it was on the dot right now. Being of the nervous nature, Lupin wondered if Olivia was going to show, and then he actually began to think about it. There in reality was no confirmation of her showing up, and for all he knew she could be sitting in her lodgings sipping wine. Small possibility, but anything was possible. Just before Lupin was going to go have himself a look at the Great Hall, a quiet knock sounded from the door. Jumping with anticipation, he ran over to the door and unlocked it, hoping to see the ordinary Olivia. But instead, there was a dressed up Ms. Wittleburg waiting patiently in the door way. Lupin's mouth dropped as he saw Olivia in her short black dress, and a frilly sweater. She smiled innocently and gave her perfectly straight hair a tug questionably.

"So, are you going to let me in?" Lupin's jaw hitched back into place, and he stepped out of the way motioning with his hand towards the table that sat squarely in the middle of the room.

"I'm so glad you came, Ms. Wittleburg. I was just beginning to think that you may have decided not to come." Lupin stuttered out, knowing it was going to be real hard to tell Olivia now.

"You never had to worry, I just got a little caught up. I also was trying to avoid human contact." she smiled politely and sat down in the chair Lupin pulled out for her.

"I thought it would be much quieter if we had dinner in here tonight. Besides there are a few things I need to discuss with you." Lupin blurted out wondering if she would run, here and now.

"You always are the thoughtful one, aren't you?" Olivia smiled and looked at the arrangement of the table, and finally she glanced around the room. "My! What beautiful decorations. Is it like this all the time, or is my coming a special occasion?" Apparently she had decided to warm up to him much quicker than she had stated, because of their conversation the other day.

"Oh, no. I just like to make the room spectacular for guests." Lupin stated grimacing at the burning candles.

"So...you um have visitors up here all the time?" Olivia said a quick smile on her face to hide the embarrassment of the question.

"Well, that's not what I meant. I guess you could say I don't get visitors often enough to know what to do." Olivia laughed at Lupin's explanation, while he smiled.

"So what exactly is it that brings us here tonight?" Olivia said slowly sipping on the wine that Remus had poured for her.

"Well, you see I have some things I wanted to tell you..." a loud pound from the door interrupted what he was going to say. Remus jumped up from his spot at the table with fury, wondering who would bother him at this time over the weekend. Keeping the chain on his double lock, Lupin peered out of the crack to see an enraged Madame Hooch.

"Remus! I KNOW that you are in there! And therefore if you don't get out here RIGHT NOW! I will come in there and DRAG YOU OUT!!!!" Lupin jumped at the violence hidden in her words, and gulped down his fear. Olivia was staring wide eyed at the table cloth, trying to hide her laughter, and also trying to ignore the harsh words.

"Um...what is it Madame Hooch?" Lupin called lightly out the door.

"You know damn well what it is!!" Madame Hooch yelled to Lupin's surprise. "You DON'T have enough RESPECT to just leave me alone, but you send me a letter saying that you're breaking up with me!!! I DON"T THINK SO!" there was some more furious pounding, and then some cursing that only quidditch could handle, followed by silence. Lupin stood waiting at the door for several minuets before turning back towards Olivia, with red cheeks full of embarrassment.

"Having a dispute with other teachers I see?" Olivia said not able to contain herself from the giggles that came out.

"There has been an extreme misunderstanding, and I imagine that there is another Remus Lupin somewhere out there in the wizardly world whom has decided to make my life difficult." Olivia chuckled at that one, which brought a smile back to Lupin's face. "Anyways, back to the reason I invited you to dinner. I have something to tell you."

"And I have something to tell you," Olivia said with unexpected suddenness that startled Lupin.

"You have something to tell me?" Lupin asked quietly as Olivia shook her head.

"Yes, I should have told everyone at first, but Dumbledore preferred to keep it quiet." Olivia said sparking Lupin's curiosity.

"Dumbledore is involved in your secret? Why didn't he tell the faculty?" Lupin asked gazing into her eyes.

"He was concerned for my safety." Olivia stated flatly. Lupin realized that Olivia wasn't just going to tell him something minimally important, but the big secret she had been hiding, and if Dumbledore was concerned for her safety, then it must have been something big. "I'd like to tell you my secret first, I've been wanting to get it off my chest for several weeks now. Since I've been here is more like it. But I of course didn't think that I could trust anybody, but after talking to you I knew that I could tell you. And that's exactly what I'll do." A louder than last time pounding boomed from the door. Olivia looked somewhat annoyed, and Lupin was downright pissed off.

"Who is it!" Lupin shouted waiting for the reply from Madame Hooch, instead there was a stifled sob from the other side. Throwing the door open, Lupin found a weeping Madame Pomfrey pointing her finger at Lupin.

"You!" she cried in the deepest voice she could muster. "I cannot I believe I trusted you! I actually thought you were being sincere in your actions! I guess I am once again standing corrected. I will never trust you again!" And with that, she was off bawling her red puffy eyes out all the way down the hall. Lupin shut the door, locking it, as he wondered what in the heck he did wrong. He looked at Olivia's eyes and saw doubt beginning to grow there.

"I suppose that was a big misunderstanding too?" she said with anger in her voice.

"Honestly, I don't even know what she was talking about. I don't," Apparently Olivia had seen the sincere look upon Lupin's face, because her face softened a bit and a fraction of a smile returned.

"Ok, I'll just try to forget about it, I mean you'll be sorting it out later anyways. Now, back to what I was saying," Olivia looked around nervously as if trying to find a hidden camera. "I told you the other day that I worked for the Ministry of Magic, right?"

"Of course, although it didn't look like you had meant to say it." Lupin said softly recollecting the moment.

"That is because I didn't mean to. I was sent here by Cornelius Fudge." she said slowly, Lupin banged his fist on the table in surprise. "Now before you go thinking that I'm an undercover teacher or something to do with that, let me explain. You see I came from two wizardly parents, meaning I'm a full blood I guess if that's what you want to call it. However, while my mom was carrying me, she was badly wounded while trying to protect some innocent muggles from some dark sorcerer. Apparently her plan backfired, and she was so badly hurt, she wasn't expected to live. All potions failed to stop the bleeding, but Apparently there had been a phoenix in the hospital, and it found it's way to my mom. Anyways, you know that when they spread their tears, that they heal, right?" Olivia asked taking a breath, Lupin slowly nodded waiting for her to continue. "So I guess my mom made a miraculous recovery, and the very next day I was born. I grew up through the days of Voldermort, and my parents decided that I would be better suited in the muggle world. So they took me out of my third year in Hogwarts, and took me to a muggle school. Apparently that had been the wrong thing to do, because," Olivia paused tears welled up in her eyes as she continued, "Voldermort Apparently attacked the house, where my parents were while I was away at school one day. Almost instantly, Dumbledore arrived, but he was too late to prevent me from seeing...seeing..." Olivia burst into tears, and brought a napkin up to her eyes. Lupin lightly patted her on the back, knowing the horrible things Voldermort had done. Lupin gently pulled her into a hug, as she cried some more, letting some of her emotion finally show. Finally after about ten minutes, Olivia, exhausted from crying, wiped the last of her tears away. Smiling somewhat, she said

"I apologize for that breakdown, it's been so long. But I can remember it as if it were yesterday."

"No need to apologize, everyone's lives were affected in different ways, some worse than others." Lupin said softly wondering how long, she had kept this pent up inside of herself.

"Ok, well, like I said, Dumbledore took me and brought me back here to Hogwarts. I had been feeling rather sick, and he just believed it to be a type of shock. But in reality it was a symptom, a symptom of something that would change my life forever. Lupin, what you don't know is that I'm a ...." Olivia began, but was interrupted by a knock upon the door.

"That's it. I'm leaving. I've seen enough of what you're really like." Olivia stated with anger flashing throughout her eyes. Lupin stood up and tore the door open. Standing in front of the door, was a beautiful woman, who was carrying books and a pair of reading glasses.

"Es tat choo? Raymoose?" the women said through a heavy accent. Olivia scowled and started to head towards the house elf exit.

"Wait! Olivia!" Olivia stormed off and didn't turn around to listen to him. He of course followed and grabbed her by the arm, which was the wrong thing to do. "I really needed to tell you something,"

"Tell me here and now! If it's so damn important, then why did you set up so many dates to interrupt us. I see how you are now!" she said poking her finger in his chest, "You're just a dirty man who likes to play with women's hearts."

"Es thees troo?" A voice echoed from the women out in the bedroom. Lupin enraged, shouted out,

"I'm a Werewolf, ok! I just wanted to tell you so that you wouldn't have to worry about finding out from someone else!" Olivia stared at Lupin mouth dropping in horror. She started wriggle out of his grasp, and when he didn't let go, she screamed at the top of her lungs. Startled, Lupin dropped his release on her arm, knowing that he had said it all wrong, and that now he may have lost the only person he liked in the world. He watched as Olivia ran sobbing towards the tiny door, and drove his fist to hit a nearby lamp.

"Wat a horryble man! Aund a wereewoelf tuu?" Lupin ran out into the living room, only to slam the door at the retreating woman, drop to the floor and weep.


Ok, that was a little weird, but I wanted to end it with the fact that Olivia knows the truth, but Lupin doesn't know totally about her yet! Hehe hold it over his head. I know this was a pretty short chapter, but it covered a lot of ground dealing with the whole Olivia, and Lupin issue. The next chapter should be delightful, because those poor women whom think that Lupin rejected them, will want some form of revenge. Ok, so I'm a mean person, but you just wait till later on, it will get pretty good for Lupin. Anyways, thanks for reading!