Agonies of the Past
Disclaimer: Rowlings are Rowlings mine are mine.
AN: This will be the first in a series of stories about a lot of werewolves. They will take place in The Chosen universe and there will be some overlapping.
~()~=flashback
Ch.1 the train ride of memories
~It was a nice clear summer evening. Everything was beautiful, except for the fact that they were lost. "Ari, are you sure we're going the right way?", Remus asked for the tenth time in five minutes. Arianrhood looked down at her little brother in exasperation. Normally they were as close as twins despite their difference of two years, but tonight he was starting to wear on her nerves.
"How can I be sure when you won't be quiet for more than five seconds flat?" she asked irritably and added, "If you'd just be quiet I'd find the stream and then we could follow it home. We're in enough trouble as it is by being late. No sense in us taking more time than necessary to get back." He looked away hurt by her tone, but at least he was quiet now. Arianrhood just shook her head and strained her ears for the sound of running water. She started to move deeper into the forest, not noticing that Remus was not with her. The stream had to be close, she knew it was—There! She had heard the sound of running water. She turned triumphantly to her little brother and said, "see Rem-" he wasn't there. "Oh for- Remus!" he didn't answer. "Remus!", no reply. Oy! ding-bat!" still no answer. She started to get panicky, "this isn't funny Remmy! Come on I've found the stream!" She started to back-track, this time marking the trail as she went. 'Be back before dark.' That's our only rule and tonight we get lost. Ah, well at least it's a full moon- A shrill scream broke into her thoughts.~ "Earth to Ria." Arianrhood Lupin jumped and looked guiltily at her friend.
"Sorry I was off in my own little world. What was the question?"
Andromeda Black sighed and said, "I asked you who you thought would be our next Potions teacher."
"I don't care so long as they're nicer than Rinne."
Andromeda looked at her curiously and asked, "Your own little world doesn't have anything to do with your brother does it?"
Ria shook her head and said, "Guilty as charged, I did tell you he got in?"
"MmmHmm. I imagine he was happy about that."
"More than you could guess, I thought he was going to frame that stupid letter." Andromeda laughed and silence descended on the pair of Ravenclaws. Andromeda thought back to that fateful night in their second year.
~ She closed the book with a certain sense of guilty satisfaction. She had finally figured out what Ria had been trying to hide from her all year. Her little brother was a werewolf. Ria had only told Andromeda that her little brother had some sort of illness that might keep him from attending Hogwarts. Andromeda had not been able to get anything else out of her friend. She had eventually noticed that her friend only grew worried on the full moon and had a tendency to get touchy about the subject of non-humans and the classifications thereof. Ria had chosen that moment to walk in.~ Andromeda had confronted her friend and then had joined in Ria's battle to get her brother admitted into Hogwarts. They had spent the better part of a year researching how to make such a thing possible. "I can't believe Dumbeldorr used our idea."
"Me either, I just hope Remmy never finds out. Let him think Dumbeldorr came up with it."
"He doesn't like for you to mama him?"
"Nope, not even when he needs it." Their talk turned to such innocuous things as what books they had read over the summer and which boys were cute and which weren't.
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Remus Lupin leaned his head against the window trying to dose off. ~Fear, pain where's Ari? He was confused, where was he? All he could remember was sitting down on a stump because he was mad at Ari and was tired of walking. The next thing he knew something had attacked him and now he didn't know where he was. White. He was surrounded by white. People were talking too loudly all around him. He was induated with smells. Some one was telling him to relax. He whimpered in pain and fear, he just wanted to go home. ~ But he hadn't gone home he had stayed at St. Mungos for two months alternately in a hospital room or in one of the "cells" in the basement of the hospital used for Lycanthropic experiments. After that he had had to return every month. The Healers said they were searching for a cure, the werewolves had their own theories, some of which would curl the most hardened criminals hair, never mind a child of ten. Remus was jarred out of his reverie by the entrance of a boy with short black hair blue eyes.
"Mind if I sit here?", the boy asked. Remus shook his head and motioned for the boy to take his seat. "Thanks, I'm Sirius Black by the way." He said as an introduction holding out his hand.
Remus had heard things about the Black family from his parents, but his sister had said something odd to him before they boarded the train; Don't reject somebody just because of their name, not all Blacks are bad. Giving Sirius the benefit of the doubt he shook his hand and replied, "I'm Remus Lupin."
"Pleased to meet you, do you play Quidditch at all?"
Remus shook his head and said, "I'm not a big fan of heights, besides I have no luck with brooms.
"You at least keep up with it?"
"Of course, I do go to games. I don't mind stable heights, it's the unstable ones that bother me."
Sirius laughed appreciatively and said, "So any idea what house you'll be in?"
"Ravenclaw, probably. My whole families been in there. What about you?"
"Ravenclaw or Slytherine," came the prompt reply, "although I'd rather it not be Slytherine."
Remus was prevented from delving into the subject further by the arrival of the food trolley. After that their conversation turned to Quidditch matches that they had seen and the dangers of eating Beartie Botts Every Flavor Beans.
RR please
