Finding Out the Truth

Lena was so anger with him that he would just throw her out like that, and she was annoyed with her daughter as well for writing to him after she told her not to.

"Mummy why? And why are you back so soon?" Antonia asked.

"It doesn't matter, I'm back and I'm not going back there; because I'm not wanted back there." Lena told her as she put her daughter to bed.

"Was it our dad that you were visiting?" Lupus asked her, she look over at the door surprised by his question and him standing there.

"I just put you to bed." Lena told him. "Now get back to bed."

"But the question?" Lupus said not moving. "All the other kids have dads, we don't we?"

"Because things didn't work out between us." Lena answered. "I'll tell you when your older promise, now bed both of you."

She kissed Antonia goodnight and then took lupus back through to his bedroom, and tucked him back into bed. She wasn't really looking forward to the day that she would have to tell them the truth.

***

Lena somehow managed to keep the truth about who their father was from them for a while, well until they started sleeping over at their friend's houses and they had fathers so of course they wanted to know; and she had promised them.

They were both nine years old, and it was time to sit them down and tell them. They all sat down at the kitchen table, Antonia and Lupus sat facing her on the other side of the table.

"So, who is he and where is he?" Lupus asked.

"Is he a werewolf as well?" Antonia asked excitedly.

"Don't be stupid then they would be together, the whole mate for life thing; don't you know anything?" Lupus told his sister.

"Lupus be nice, I don't know if he's a werewolf; probably not if he is he never told me." Lena said, she took a deep breath and then went on. "I'd liked him for years, but I was with someone else. And then the night before the full moon, things happened. I left a while later and came over here, and then I had you two. We wrote a few times and I visited, but the last visited when you were younger didn't go well and we haven't seen each other since or even sent owls."

"What about us doesn't he care about us?" Lupus asked.

"Did we do something wrong?" Antonia asked.

"Oh no, no it isn't you; he's anger with me." Lena told them. "I am sorry."

"Why can't we see him?" Lupus asked. "Can't we go over there and see him?"

"That isn't a good idea." Lena told them.

***

A couple of years later, four years later. The twins were going into their third year at school, and Lena had received a letter from her other brother in England along with their paper. She wasn't met with good news, Sirius Black had escaped somehow from Azkaban, she may never have thought that he was guilty but this didn't really look good for him.

"So this man..." Lupus started taking the paper off his mum.

"He's called Sirius, I went to school with him; I still can't believe that he would have done what they said he did." Lena told them.

"But they charged him and everything and now, well he escaped from Azkaban; I wonder how he did it?" Antonia said.

"Hey maybe he'll come round here, you just said that you went to school with him." Lupus said hopefully.

"Don't joke about these things, and don't tell your friends that I went to school with him." Lena told them firmly.

"Of course, you don't tell my friends anything if you want it kept a secret." Antonia told her.

"Don't worry we won't say anything." Lupus told her.

***

It was the end of their fifth year, and was coming home for their summer holiday; when they got home there was an owl waiting for them. One that they hadn't seen in years.

"Oh I remember him from when I was little, oh the poor thing he looks worn out." Antonia said walking over to him and picking him up softly, she handed the letter to her mum and went into the kitchen to get him something to drink and eat. "He's from England isn't he, I can't believe that he had to fly all this way; that's just mean."

"She isn't listening to you, she's reading the letter." Lupus told his sister.

Dear Lena,
I'm sorry that I haven't written in years and how we parted but as you know Voldermot as come back and is gaining power, and we need all the help we can get to fight him and his Deatheaters. This isn't a personally request of course, but we really could do with your help.

Sirius is with us, he was badly injured not sure though how he survived but he did because he's stronger and fighter. It would mean a lot to him if you came back and to me as well.

After everything that has happened I want to make up, I don't want to leave things how they were; please Lena come back.

Love from Remus

She just stared at the bottom of the letter, 'love from Remus'; it was a little late but there it was 'love from Remus'. Lupus took the letter off of her and read it himself.

"Is this him, our father?" Lupus asked waving the letter in front of her; Antonia came back through carrying the owl. "Is it?"

"Lupus, give that back." Lena told him.

"NO, not until you tell me, is this our dad?" Lupus said.

"Yes." Lena said.

"He didn't even mention us once, does he even know about us?" Lupus demanded.

Lena just stood there with both her children staring at her with demanding hurt looks; she didn't know what to say part from. "No."

"Why, why the hell not; things might have been different if he had known about us." Lupus shot at her.

"We could have had a dad." Antonia said trying not to cry.

"Come on Tonia." Lupus said grabbing holding of her wrist and pulling her out of the room, he slammed his bedroom door shut.

Lena knocked on his bedroom door but he didn't answer. "Please, let me explain." But they still didn't answer instead the music system was turn on to full power.

Antonia sat on Lupus bed petting the owl, while Lupus paced up and down the bedroom angrily grunting at points. After about ten minutes of pacing he stopped suddenly in front of her.

"I've got an idea." Lupus told her,

"Am I going to like, because some of your ideas; well you know..." Antonia said.

"We'll go to England to find him; mum will never take us; so we'll go ourselves." Lupus told her.

Antonia just stared at him unable to believe that he had toped his most stupid idea of all time finally.

"I don't think it's such a good idea." Antonia said carefully.

"I thought you wanted to meet him." Lupus shot at her.

"I do, but running away to England on our own and with everything that's going on over there." Antonia explained. "Do you really think it's such a good idea?"

"Of course it's a good idea, and it isn't as though we're not aloud to use magic like them; different rules over hear remember." Lupus said. "Get some money from the bank, get a flight over there we'll take the owl so he'll believe us."

"There's a couple of things though, one we're not old enough to fly on our own are we?" Antonia said. "Two, we don't even know where he'll be. And three, that old picture of mum and her friends I don't even know which ones this Remus guy she never did say."

"Probably encase we did anything like this." Lupus said. "But that doesn't matter because two of the guys in the picture are going to be together he said so in the letter. Come on Tonia."

"Fine I guest." Antonia said giving into him.

He smiled at her and took the owl off her as she stood up and walked over to his wall and pulled out his wand, she tapped it on the poster and a hole appeared larger enough so that she could walk through to her own bedroom. They both packed bags quickly and then just stood there looking at Lupus' bedroom door, finally they turned round and walked over to the window and opened it.

"You go first and I'll past the owl down to you." Lupus told her.

She nodded and then climbed it wasn't first time that they were climbing out his bedroom window; they just hadn't done it in a while. Once she was out on the ledge he handed her the owl.

"Just fly down to the ground, but don't go away please." Antonia said opening her hands to let him fly down; surprisingly he did as he was told.

Then they both climbed down the drain pipe, and picked up their backpacks and headed for the bank. They had accounts at both muggle and the magic bank, but they thought it best to get money from their magical account and change it over the counter there and leave the rest in their account so they can use their cards if they need too.

They couldn't believe how easy it had been as they sat in a taxi travelling through London. (Hope you don't mind that I missed out them travelling nothing happened, so I didn't really need to mention it.) Lupus had got them through being under age, and they had managed to get the owl through as well. All they needed to do now was find the Leaky Caldron so they could get a room, and then start their search.

They were dropped off in the centre of London, no idea where to go from there; Lupus looked round as Antonia sorted the money out she was always better at that then he was. Then they started to walk, passing shop after shop but nothing that looked as though it could connect them to the magical world.

"So what are we going to do?" Antonia asked Lupus after about ten minutes just walking around. "We can't just keep walking; I'm getting strange looks from people because of the owl."

"Well what else can we do, until we find it?" Lupus said. "Its not as though..." Lupus knocked into an over grown man sending him flying back and falling to the ground.

The man slowly turned round as if he wasn't sure if something had hit him, he looked down at Lupus and then at Antonia; and smiled underneath his bushy bread.

"Sorry bout that, you alright?" Hagrid asked them. (Of course they didn't know that it was Hagrid though.)

Hagrid pulled him to his feet as they just stared at him.

"Erm excuses me...but do you know where the Leaky Caldron is please?" Lupus asked him, he thought that he looked like a man who would know; because he didn't really look normal well for a muggle anyway.

"Of course, right behind me." Hagrid said beaming at the two. "Visit from a board are you?"

"Yeah, looking up family you could say." Lupus said, but Antonia elbowed him in the ribs.

Hagrid smiled at them and then took them inside and introduced then to the barkeep, who got them a room to stay in. Next morning they woke up in their new room, Lupus had created a screen for them so that they could get changed and then they went down for breakfast; before they went out back to go to Diagon Ally.

Lupus tapped the bricks like he had been told while Antonia stood behind him in a bad mood because she had wanted to bring the owl with them, she had wanted to get it checked out just to make sure he was alright; but Lupus had told her that they'll do that later.

The street opened out to them, Antonia smiled at all the people all the magical people there; she didn't mind being around muggles but she always liked it when she was back around magical people. They walked down the ally looking in the shop windows and the people hoping against hope that they might spot him here, but really what are the odds of that happened.

A black haired boy and a red haired bumped into Lupus as they were passing in a hurry, Lupus rubbed his arm and carried on walking not thinking much of it until he stopped dead.

Someone behind him had shouted. "Lupin, wait up!"

Lupus turned round in a flash at the name and looked up the ally, as Antonia looked to her side and realised that her brother wasn't there so she turned round and walked back up to him. She looked over at where he was staring...

(A/N:- I'll leave it there for now so it means that'll you have to read the next chapter to find out what happens next.)