Dancing with a Werewolf
Disclaimer: imma just put this last one up & say it's for all the chapters: I'M NOT J.K. ROWLING - I OWN NOTHING, not even myself . . . fanfiction owns me
A/N: I would have had this up yesterday, but my Mom told me to give the computer a rest :-P
Chapter Four - Closer
-Remus P.O.V.-
"Don't worry, honey, no transformation tonight," the nurse said soothingly. "The full moon is tomorrow, but you're welcome to spend the night in the hospital wing."
That comforted Remus a little bit. Although he knew that it meant the pain was not over yet. With his luck, he wouldn't transform until two nights from now which would mean that he'd have to endure the pain for forty-eight more hours. He let out a tiny groan. He didn't want to think about it anymore.
He pulled the blanket up to his chin miserably. For the gazillionth time, he wished that he were normal, like everyone else.
-Rozlyn P.O.V.-
It was clear that they had wanted her to leave the common room, so she had. She followed Lily back up to their dorm, and collapsed on her own bed.
For a few minutes she did nothing, but stare out of the window next her bed, blankly. She flinched slightly when she felt a hand touch her shoulder.
"Rozlyn?" Lily was giving her a concerned look. "He's going to be fine, I'm sure."
Rozlyn blushed, then she shrugged. No need to ask whom Lily was speaking of. "I'm not worried," she said as convincingly as she could.
Lily frowned at her, but didn't reply.
After a short moment of silence, Rozlyn turned to face her . "Um," she began, hesitantly. "Do you think it would be alright if . . . ?" She left the question unasked.
The red-haired girl smiled. "I think he'd love it if you went to visit him."
Rozlyn turned bright red again. She wished she weren't so easy to read.
~_~
She was standing outside of the Hospital Wing, but she couldn't bring herself to go in. If her feelings about Remus were that obvious to Lily . . .
Rozlyn shook her head. She was being silly. There was no way Remus knew about her feelings. No one knew about her feelings. Lily didn't even know for sure - She was probably just going with her female intuition.
'And besides,' Rozlyn told herself, shifting her weight to her other foot, 'just because you go visit a boy in the Hospital Wing does not mean you have those kinds of feelings for him.'
'Ah, but you do,' a little voice said in the back of her mind.
Rozlyn shook her head. 'But no one knows that,' she thought.
Just then, a Ravenclaw prefect walked by and gave her an old look. Rozlyn fought down the urge to laugh. She supposed she did look kind of odd just standing in the middle of the hallway. She was being downright ridiculous.
Taking a deep breath, she opened the door to come face-to-face with none other than Severus Snape. She blinked in surprise as he sneered at her.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, smirking. "Come to visit your boyfriend?"
Rozlyn blanched. "Boyfriend?" she whispered. 'No! He can't have found out! It's not possible!' she thought, horrified.
"May I help you, sweetheart?" the nurse said, appearing from nowhere.
Rozlyn shook her head, turned, and fled from the Hospital Wing, a smirking image of Snape burned fresh into her memory.
-Remus P.O.V.-
The nurse said that if Remus was feeling "up to it" then he could attend his classes the following day. Remus figured he would have been feeling up to it if two certain so called friends hadn't talked him out of it. He smiled sadly as he recalled the conversation they had had that morning.
"No fair, mate! You get to take a day off from classes!" Sirius had exclaimed.
James had grinned and nodded in agreement. "Just think, no potions, no D.A.D.A. . . . and weren't we supposed to have a quiz today?"
Sirius had nodded enviously. "Yeah, I think so."
Remus had shaken his head in amusement. "You know, I'd much rather be in class. It'll be a bother to make all those things up."
They had stared at him. "You're not serious," James had finally said. "You'll be excused from everything. You won't have to make anything up. And you'd still rather go to class?"
Remus had sighed. "It's better than being a werewolf," he had mumbled.
They hadn't said anything for a short while after that, then Sirius had broken the uncomfortable silence with, "Yeah, I guess. But you still need to rest up, you know?"
And James had agreed. So Remus stayed. And now he was in the common room with a absolutely nothing to do except count down the hours until he'd become a bloody monster again.
-Rozlyn P.O.V.-
-_-
Rozlyn couldn't move. She was literally frozen in fear. It was something she'd only read about in books - she didn't think it could actually happen!
She couldn't breathe. The beast was going to get her. He was coming after her. He was right in front of her now. His gleaming brown eyes were mottled with specs of gray, and outlined in red. His hot, putrid breath was all over her face.
This was it. She was going to die. Rozlyn opened her mouth to scream . . .
*_*
Rozlyn opened her eyes. Her first thought was, 'Oh, great. I'm on the floor again.' She looked up and almost screamed for real. Her D.A.D.A. professor was staring down in her face with an expression of mixed concern and impatience. Rozlyn's face flushed. 'Sorry for ruining your day,' she wanted to say, but she didn't. Instead she sat up slowly to find that the whole potions class was staring at her. She turned even darker.
"Would someone please walk Miss Jenkins to the Hospital Wing?" the professor asked. He didn't even bother to ask if she was alright.
"I will," Lily volunteered, her hand high in the air.
The girls walked in silence down the corridor.
"What did I do?" Rozlyn finally asked, breaking the silence.
"You screamed," Lily answered without a moment's hesitation. "You screamed right after he said we were going to have a quiz today." Lily started giggling. "It was actually pretty funny. You screamed, 'Nooooo,' and everyone went dead silent."
Rozlyn didn't say anything. She was embarrassed beyond anything that had ever humiliated her before. This was a whole new level of humiliation. She was just glad Remus was out sick today. Or else it would have been ten times worse, seeing as she sat right next to him and all.
"You were dreaming, weren't you?" Lily asked. She stopped and stared at Rozlyn.
When they were first years, Rozlyn had started having really strange dreams about monsters. She had confided in Lily, but the dreams hadn't stopped. They'd gotten worse and worse, and she had started having terrible headaches when she woke up afterwards. Then, one day, she was on her way to tell Dumbledore, when her headache mysteriously disappeared. She fell asleep that night and didn't have any more dreams. They had stopped, just like that.
Rozlyn nodded. "I'd rather not talk about it," she said softly. Looking in front of her, she saw that they had reached the hospital wing. She grimaced, and her thoughts flashed back on yesterday.
"Actually, Lily, I think I'll go rest in the common room," Rozlyn said. "I'm not particularly fond of this place."
Lily smiled and nodded. "Alright. I hope you feel better."
"Thank you," Rozlyn replied. She felt bad about lying, but there was no way she was going in there. What if Remus was in there? She set off in the direction of the common room, shivering. Or worse, what if Snape was in there?
'That would be bloody nice,' she thought, sarcastically. She could just picture herself standing in front of the nurse while Snape and/or Remus listened in the back: "Um, I had a bad dream about monsters in D.A.D.A. . . ." They'd have to hold a funeral because all three of them (Remus included) would die laughing.
"Fruits Basket," she said to the Fat Lady. The Fat Lady swung her portrait open and let her through.
Rozlyn took a few steps into the room and stopped, short of breath. She wasn't alone.
-Remus P.O.V.-
Gods! She was so pretty! Remus wished he just had one picture of her. Just one picture and he could die happy.
She stopped short, obviously surprised to see him there.
"What are you doing here?" Remus blurted out. 'Oh, real smooth, Remus. Way to go.'
For a second she just looked at him. Then, she blushed a little. "Headache," he heard her say softly.
"Oh," he replied. 'Oh?' he thought. 'That's it? That's all you can say, Remus?'
There was an awkward silence while Remus struggled to think of something to say. He was beginning to wish he had taken Sirius and James's advice after all, and let them help him. 'How did James and Sirius talk to pretty girls?'
"So are you going to bed now?" Remus asked. Wrong question. Now he was imagining her in bed . . . his bed. "I-I mean, uh, nap?" he said, slightly louder to cover his embarrassment. 'If she only knew . . .'
She nodded shortly, and started to leave.
Remus tried not to stare as she walked away. Gods, he was such a pervert! What was the matter with him? And yet, he really didn't want her to go. "So didn't you get a remedy for your headache from the Hospital Wing?"
She stopped on the stairs and turned to look back at him. She was blushing a little and she looked slightly guilty. "I, uh, didn't go to the Hospital Wing."
"Oh," Remus said. Again. 'Where does this "oh" keep coming from?' he thought. He cleared his throat. "You're welcome to stay down here if you want. That is - um, you don't have to. If you want to, I'm not being noisy. I'm just reading." Remus held his breath. He couldn't believe he'd just said that.
She didn't move for a second. Then she turned around and her smile almost made him fall out of his chair in surprise. "I'd like that," she replied.
-Rozlyn P.O.V.-
Just being in the same room was enough for her. She could sit here forever with her eyes closed and just listen to him breath. Or was that her breathing?
He suddenly started to read aloud, and the sound of his voice slipping over the pool of quietness that surrounded them made her open her eyes in surprise.
"Did I wake you? I'm sorry," he said, apologetically.
Rozlyn smiled. "No, it's alright. I wasn't asleep."
"I can be quiet if you want. It's just that reading aloud helps me understand it better," he explained. "But I'll quit if the sound my voice bothers you." 'Was he kidding?' she thought.
"It doesn't bother me," she said quickly. "I like the sound of your voice." 'Oh, no! I did not just say that! Tell me I didn't just say that!' she thought frantically.
There was absolute silence. Then Remus looked up at her. "You do?" he asked.
Rozlyn felt like banging her head on the nearest table, headache or not. But there was nothing she could do now. Why lie? She nodded, keeping her eyes on the floor. "It's gentle," she whispered, "like the calm of an ocean after a storm."
She didn't want to look up at him. She was afraid, but she felt his gaze on her, so she looked up anyway. He wore an expression of amazement that surprised her.
Then he did something amazing. He smiled. Sure, it was a slight smile - only the corners of his mouth turned up - but hardly mattered. This was Remus Lupin. Remus Lupin smiled at her. She had made Remus Lupin smile.
^_~
Sweet! You people better be happy about this extra long chapter! It's 2:36 AM, but I was inspired to write because of you! Aren't I a peach? NO! I'M NOT! AND IF YOU CALL ME ONE, I 'LL ANNIHILATE YOU! Plus, I won't write anymore! Haha!
Ok, enough of my babbling and get to REVIEWING!
Ariana S.
Disclaimer: imma just put this last one up & say it's for all the chapters: I'M NOT J.K. ROWLING - I OWN NOTHING, not even myself . . . fanfiction owns me
A/N: I would have had this up yesterday, but my Mom told me to give the computer a rest :-P
Chapter Four - Closer
-Remus P.O.V.-
"Don't worry, honey, no transformation tonight," the nurse said soothingly. "The full moon is tomorrow, but you're welcome to spend the night in the hospital wing."
That comforted Remus a little bit. Although he knew that it meant the pain was not over yet. With his luck, he wouldn't transform until two nights from now which would mean that he'd have to endure the pain for forty-eight more hours. He let out a tiny groan. He didn't want to think about it anymore.
He pulled the blanket up to his chin miserably. For the gazillionth time, he wished that he were normal, like everyone else.
-Rozlyn P.O.V.-
It was clear that they had wanted her to leave the common room, so she had. She followed Lily back up to their dorm, and collapsed on her own bed.
For a few minutes she did nothing, but stare out of the window next her bed, blankly. She flinched slightly when she felt a hand touch her shoulder.
"Rozlyn?" Lily was giving her a concerned look. "He's going to be fine, I'm sure."
Rozlyn blushed, then she shrugged. No need to ask whom Lily was speaking of. "I'm not worried," she said as convincingly as she could.
Lily frowned at her, but didn't reply.
After a short moment of silence, Rozlyn turned to face her . "Um," she began, hesitantly. "Do you think it would be alright if . . . ?" She left the question unasked.
The red-haired girl smiled. "I think he'd love it if you went to visit him."
Rozlyn turned bright red again. She wished she weren't so easy to read.
~_~
She was standing outside of the Hospital Wing, but she couldn't bring herself to go in. If her feelings about Remus were that obvious to Lily . . .
Rozlyn shook her head. She was being silly. There was no way Remus knew about her feelings. No one knew about her feelings. Lily didn't even know for sure - She was probably just going with her female intuition.
'And besides,' Rozlyn told herself, shifting her weight to her other foot, 'just because you go visit a boy in the Hospital Wing does not mean you have those kinds of feelings for him.'
'Ah, but you do,' a little voice said in the back of her mind.
Rozlyn shook her head. 'But no one knows that,' she thought.
Just then, a Ravenclaw prefect walked by and gave her an old look. Rozlyn fought down the urge to laugh. She supposed she did look kind of odd just standing in the middle of the hallway. She was being downright ridiculous.
Taking a deep breath, she opened the door to come face-to-face with none other than Severus Snape. She blinked in surprise as he sneered at her.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, smirking. "Come to visit your boyfriend?"
Rozlyn blanched. "Boyfriend?" she whispered. 'No! He can't have found out! It's not possible!' she thought, horrified.
"May I help you, sweetheart?" the nurse said, appearing from nowhere.
Rozlyn shook her head, turned, and fled from the Hospital Wing, a smirking image of Snape burned fresh into her memory.
-Remus P.O.V.-
The nurse said that if Remus was feeling "up to it" then he could attend his classes the following day. Remus figured he would have been feeling up to it if two certain so called friends hadn't talked him out of it. He smiled sadly as he recalled the conversation they had had that morning.
"No fair, mate! You get to take a day off from classes!" Sirius had exclaimed.
James had grinned and nodded in agreement. "Just think, no potions, no D.A.D.A. . . . and weren't we supposed to have a quiz today?"
Sirius had nodded enviously. "Yeah, I think so."
Remus had shaken his head in amusement. "You know, I'd much rather be in class. It'll be a bother to make all those things up."
They had stared at him. "You're not serious," James had finally said. "You'll be excused from everything. You won't have to make anything up. And you'd still rather go to class?"
Remus had sighed. "It's better than being a werewolf," he had mumbled.
They hadn't said anything for a short while after that, then Sirius had broken the uncomfortable silence with, "Yeah, I guess. But you still need to rest up, you know?"
And James had agreed. So Remus stayed. And now he was in the common room with a absolutely nothing to do except count down the hours until he'd become a bloody monster again.
-Rozlyn P.O.V.-
-_-
Rozlyn couldn't move. She was literally frozen in fear. It was something she'd only read about in books - she didn't think it could actually happen!
She couldn't breathe. The beast was going to get her. He was coming after her. He was right in front of her now. His gleaming brown eyes were mottled with specs of gray, and outlined in red. His hot, putrid breath was all over her face.
This was it. She was going to die. Rozlyn opened her mouth to scream . . .
*_*
Rozlyn opened her eyes. Her first thought was, 'Oh, great. I'm on the floor again.' She looked up and almost screamed for real. Her D.A.D.A. professor was staring down in her face with an expression of mixed concern and impatience. Rozlyn's face flushed. 'Sorry for ruining your day,' she wanted to say, but she didn't. Instead she sat up slowly to find that the whole potions class was staring at her. She turned even darker.
"Would someone please walk Miss Jenkins to the Hospital Wing?" the professor asked. He didn't even bother to ask if she was alright.
"I will," Lily volunteered, her hand high in the air.
The girls walked in silence down the corridor.
"What did I do?" Rozlyn finally asked, breaking the silence.
"You screamed," Lily answered without a moment's hesitation. "You screamed right after he said we were going to have a quiz today." Lily started giggling. "It was actually pretty funny. You screamed, 'Nooooo,' and everyone went dead silent."
Rozlyn didn't say anything. She was embarrassed beyond anything that had ever humiliated her before. This was a whole new level of humiliation. She was just glad Remus was out sick today. Or else it would have been ten times worse, seeing as she sat right next to him and all.
"You were dreaming, weren't you?" Lily asked. She stopped and stared at Rozlyn.
When they were first years, Rozlyn had started having really strange dreams about monsters. She had confided in Lily, but the dreams hadn't stopped. They'd gotten worse and worse, and she had started having terrible headaches when she woke up afterwards. Then, one day, she was on her way to tell Dumbledore, when her headache mysteriously disappeared. She fell asleep that night and didn't have any more dreams. They had stopped, just like that.
Rozlyn nodded. "I'd rather not talk about it," she said softly. Looking in front of her, she saw that they had reached the hospital wing. She grimaced, and her thoughts flashed back on yesterday.
"Actually, Lily, I think I'll go rest in the common room," Rozlyn said. "I'm not particularly fond of this place."
Lily smiled and nodded. "Alright. I hope you feel better."
"Thank you," Rozlyn replied. She felt bad about lying, but there was no way she was going in there. What if Remus was in there? She set off in the direction of the common room, shivering. Or worse, what if Snape was in there?
'That would be bloody nice,' she thought, sarcastically. She could just picture herself standing in front of the nurse while Snape and/or Remus listened in the back: "Um, I had a bad dream about monsters in D.A.D.A. . . ." They'd have to hold a funeral because all three of them (Remus included) would die laughing.
"Fruits Basket," she said to the Fat Lady. The Fat Lady swung her portrait open and let her through.
Rozlyn took a few steps into the room and stopped, short of breath. She wasn't alone.
-Remus P.O.V.-
Gods! She was so pretty! Remus wished he just had one picture of her. Just one picture and he could die happy.
She stopped short, obviously surprised to see him there.
"What are you doing here?" Remus blurted out. 'Oh, real smooth, Remus. Way to go.'
For a second she just looked at him. Then, she blushed a little. "Headache," he heard her say softly.
"Oh," he replied. 'Oh?' he thought. 'That's it? That's all you can say, Remus?'
There was an awkward silence while Remus struggled to think of something to say. He was beginning to wish he had taken Sirius and James's advice after all, and let them help him. 'How did James and Sirius talk to pretty girls?'
"So are you going to bed now?" Remus asked. Wrong question. Now he was imagining her in bed . . . his bed. "I-I mean, uh, nap?" he said, slightly louder to cover his embarrassment. 'If she only knew . . .'
She nodded shortly, and started to leave.
Remus tried not to stare as she walked away. Gods, he was such a pervert! What was the matter with him? And yet, he really didn't want her to go. "So didn't you get a remedy for your headache from the Hospital Wing?"
She stopped on the stairs and turned to look back at him. She was blushing a little and she looked slightly guilty. "I, uh, didn't go to the Hospital Wing."
"Oh," Remus said. Again. 'Where does this "oh" keep coming from?' he thought. He cleared his throat. "You're welcome to stay down here if you want. That is - um, you don't have to. If you want to, I'm not being noisy. I'm just reading." Remus held his breath. He couldn't believe he'd just said that.
She didn't move for a second. Then she turned around and her smile almost made him fall out of his chair in surprise. "I'd like that," she replied.
-Rozlyn P.O.V.-
Just being in the same room was enough for her. She could sit here forever with her eyes closed and just listen to him breath. Or was that her breathing?
He suddenly started to read aloud, and the sound of his voice slipping over the pool of quietness that surrounded them made her open her eyes in surprise.
"Did I wake you? I'm sorry," he said, apologetically.
Rozlyn smiled. "No, it's alright. I wasn't asleep."
"I can be quiet if you want. It's just that reading aloud helps me understand it better," he explained. "But I'll quit if the sound my voice bothers you." 'Was he kidding?' she thought.
"It doesn't bother me," she said quickly. "I like the sound of your voice." 'Oh, no! I did not just say that! Tell me I didn't just say that!' she thought frantically.
There was absolute silence. Then Remus looked up at her. "You do?" he asked.
Rozlyn felt like banging her head on the nearest table, headache or not. But there was nothing she could do now. Why lie? She nodded, keeping her eyes on the floor. "It's gentle," she whispered, "like the calm of an ocean after a storm."
She didn't want to look up at him. She was afraid, but she felt his gaze on her, so she looked up anyway. He wore an expression of amazement that surprised her.
Then he did something amazing. He smiled. Sure, it was a slight smile - only the corners of his mouth turned up - but hardly mattered. This was Remus Lupin. Remus Lupin smiled at her. She had made Remus Lupin smile.
^_~
Sweet! You people better be happy about this extra long chapter! It's 2:36 AM, but I was inspired to write because of you! Aren't I a peach? NO! I'M NOT! AND IF YOU CALL ME ONE, I 'LL ANNIHILATE YOU! Plus, I won't write anymore! Haha!
Ok, enough of my babbling and get to REVIEWING!
Ariana S.