Harry Potter

Worst Nightmare A Reality

Chapter 1

The Last One Standing

By: Sirius **Padfoot

July 2, 2003

Dumbledore seemed very sad along with every one else in the Department of Mysteries. Sirius had just been killed by his cousin. She was running out of the room for safety being the only death eater still conscious.

"SIRIUS!!! NO SIRIUS!!!" Harry screamed as he ran toward him.

"No Harry he's…he's gone." Lupin said grabbing Harry to make him stop.

"Professor let go…let go I got to get to Sirius. SIRIUS WAKE UP please wake up. I'm sorry Sirius please get up." Harry begged now falling to his knees. (Yeah, yeah, yeah, I changed it a little.)

"Harry I'm sorry he won't get up. He's gone." Lupin said kneeling down beside Harry. He sounded hoarser for some reason but Harry ignored this as he tried to crawl over to Sirius' body.

"Harry I must insist that you return to Hogwarts with the rest of your friends." Dumbledore said in a sad but calm voice.

"But Professor he's…he's my godfather he is all I have I can't leave him. Make him wake up you can you're the most powerful wizard alive please." Harry said pleading with Dumbledore.

"Even for a wizard of my power bringing back the dead is impossible Harry I'm sorry. Now I must implore you to return to Hogwarts." Dumbledore said in a very calm but a slightly commanding tone.

"But…" Harry started.

"Come on Harry let's get you back to school." Tonks said sadly taking Harry by the shoulders and leading him out of the room. He looked back to see Lupin kneeling by Sirius' lifeless body. He looked so sad and miserable that Harry felt kind of sick that he hadn't even considered that Lupin hurt just as much if not more then he did.

"Ah Remus I'm sorry but we must have your statement for the Minister." Dumbledore said placing a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"Ironic isn't it?" Lupin said as he looked down at his dead friend. "I'm the one with a cursed life and I'm the only one left. The others Murdered or betrayed the others." Lupin said in a very sad tone.

"Alas Remus it is slightly ironic." Dumbledore said gazing down at Lupin with sympathy in his eyes.

"I wish some one would just kill me and get it over with. The only people who ever treated me like an equil have been murdered. Their murders run free too. Peter you damn bloody traitor." Lupin said and tears started to fall from his eyes.

"Remus go on home. We'll get your statement at a later date." Dumbledore said slightly squeezing Lupin's shoulder.

"What home? I can't go back there knowing it was his and now he's dead. I… I hate my life. Forced to live through the transformations to watch my only friends die. To see Harry orphaned and brought up by Muggle's who hate him for being a wizard. And to be betrayed by some one we all called a best friend." Lupin said then sat down on his butt. "I'm sorry Sirius, James, and Lilly for not being there when you needed me the most." He said sadly.

"Come on Lupin let's get you out of here." Kingsley said walking over and helping him up.

"I'll take him. Come on Remus." A woman said waking up to Lupin but he couldn't see who it was. The woman nodded to Dumbledore then started to leave with Remus.

"It's all right Kingsley. I'll be visiting to get Remus' statement for the Minister in a day or two." Dumbledore said and watched the young woman and Lupin walk with out of the room.

"Professor sir who is she?" Kingsley asked turning to Dumbledore after the woman and Remus had left.

"Marie Willis. Don't worry Remus Lupin is in the best hands any one could have wished for." Dumbledore said then looked down to Sirius' body and felt completely sad. "The first death in the war had to be some one of great importance to our young Harry I regret to say. First his parents then the only parental father figure he's ever had." Dumbledore said in a regretful tone.

Marie laid Lupin down on a couch in her house cause she didn't have the energy to carry him up a flight of stairs. She walked to a closet and grabbed two blankets and a pillow. She then turned and went back over to Lupin and placed a blanket over him as he slept then lifted his head and placed the pillow under his head. She walked over to a seat next to the couch and sat down.

'Oh Remus I'm so sorry that you had to live through the loss of your two best friends. But I'm still here and I'll stay as long as you let me.' Marie thought then covered her self with the other blanket and watched Lupin sleep for a while before she fell asleep too.

Lupin awoke the next morning lying on a couch and he didn't remember how he had got there. Course he slept half the way. He looked over to a chair to see a woman sitting curled up in a ball facing him asleep.

'Is that Marie Willis? No it can't be she died years ago with James and Lilly.' Lupin thought and started to sit up but realized that he had a blanket wrapped about him. He removed the blanket and stood up. He walked over to the fireplace and looked at the pictures astounded. It was pictures of himself, James, Lilly, Sirius, Peter, and the young woman curled up in the chair. 'She is Marie. But I don't understand…how?' Lupin thought and turned looking at her astonished.

A couple of hours later Marie woke up then looked over to the couch. The blanket was folded and the pillow placed on top but there was no sign of Lupin anywhere.

"Remus? Remus are you still here?" she questioned as she got up then smelled something she would have never thought. Food being cooked she then walked over to the kitchen and looked in. "Remus I thought you'd left or something." She said walking into the kitchen.

"No. You are Marie Willis correct." Lupin said turning to her drying off his hands with a dish towel cause he had just cleaned a bowl that he needed for breakfast.

"Glade you remember me Remus. What are you cooking anyway?" she said and half-heartedly smiled at him.

"Just some gravy and biscuits, eggs, and bacon. You want some tea or some thing?" he asked.

"Sure but I think your egg's are burning." Marie said pointing behind him to the stove.

"Damn." Lupin said spinning around to see some smoke coming from the skillet. "Ouch, hot."

"Here let me do it." Marie said grabbing a glove and moving the skillet off the hot eye.

"Why didn't you ever come find us?" Lupin asked.

"By us you mean you and Sirius. Well I thought Sirius was the traitor at first since all those Muggle's were killed along with Peter but then I thought about it and realized that Peter had to be the traitor or else Sirius wouldn't have went after him. But I couldn't very well go to him cause he was in Azkaban and I had absolutely no idea where you were. After Lilly and James died you just dropped right off the map no one knew you or knew where you were. So I just stayed here after looking for ten years." Marie said and looked up at his sad, lonely, tired, and wore out amber eyes. "I see your transformations haven't got any easier have they?" she said sadly.

"No actually they got harder after…" he said but stopped and looked at her.

"After James and Lilly died right." Marie said and looked up at him sympathetically.

"Yes and you too. Dumbledore said you had died with Lilly and James. That Sirius had betrayed all of you that night. But I couldn't believe that. Sirius was basically James' brother." Lupin said then turned back to the frig and got some more eggs out.

"What? Dumbledore knew I was alive. I guess he didn't want you go be at St. Mungo's with me. I was there for a year after they were murdered." Marie said in a sad voice.

"Why didn't you contact me at Hogwarts?" he asked.

"You were a teacher I didn't want to bother you. After the school year ended you had disappeared again. I wanted to just go jump off a bridge or something knowing where you were and not talking to you." Marie said and looked down at the floor.

"You know I was the only one to have a cursed life. Every one else seamed to have a blissful life. But I'm the only one left out of the four." Lupin said.

"The only one left out of the Marauders, Remus but not out of your friends. I'm still here if you'll let me stay, course you really can't kick me out of my own house." She said hoping to make him smile and for a second she thought she had. But then he looked so tired. "You look like you need some rest Remus. You truly do." She added hoping he would ask if she had an extra room in the house. But he didn't he just finished making breakfast and sat it down at the table.

"Come on you look hungry Marie." Lupin said and pulled out a chair for her.

"All right but promise me you'll get some sleep after breakfast." Marie said siting down in the chair he had pulled out.

"I will. I've noticed that you don't have any thing silver in your house Marie." Lupin said looking around.

"Yeah well you can't touch silver now can you. I made sure if I ever found you there'd be nothing in here that could harm you." Marie said and smiled at him for a second then took a bite of the breakfast he'd made. "This is wonderful Remus when did you learn to cook?" she asked and looked up at him.

"After James died. I couldn't rely on you and Lilly any more." Lupin said. "You must of went through a lot of trouble to have a house built with out any silver what so ever." Lupin added.

"Yeah and it coasted too. Most of my bank account was used up having this built course I got it back eventually having a steady job." Marie said.

"What do you do?" Lupin asked.

"Oh I'm an Auror. Didn't like the Ministry make 'n fun of Harry that's for sure. Course that's why I got demoted too. Told 'em I didn't like it." Marie said and took a sip of her tea. (I hate tea just so every one knows.)

"You're an Auror." Lupin said kind of surprised.

"Yeah had to do something for money ya know. I tried every thing I could to get the Ministry to lay off Sirius after he escaped from Azkaban. Every time I heard about him some where I said he was on the other side of the country, down in Syria or something." Marie said and smiled at him. "Malfoy is the one who told the Minister that Sirius was in London. I tried every thing I could think of to have his butt sent to Azkaban. Damn death eater." She said then looked Lupin in the eyes to see if he was puzzled, angry, or just plain confused. But she couldn't tale his eye's looked so sad, lonely, and hurt.

"I see no rings or signs of a husband. Why did you never marry? You're very beautiful so you can't say you couldn't find a guy." Lupin said looking he back in the eyes.

"Remus I couldn't marry some one. I had a couple proposals but I didn't take them. My love belonged to some one else." She said looking away from Lupin.

"Why haven't you ever told him. you deserve to be happy Marie." Lupin said.

"Cause he's never wanted close bonds like that before. He didn't even want friends at first." Marie said and looked out the kitchen window at the rain pounding on the window. 'Wonder if he picked up on it?' she wondered then looked back to him.

"Do you mean? Why would you?" Lupin asked stunned as he looked at her.

"Oh Remus just because some people will never accept you doesn't mean no one will. That's why I searched for you for ten years." Marie said then looked down at her breakfast. "If you didn't want a commitment I wasn't about to force it on you." She said then looked up into his amber eyes again. Then Lupin stood up and walked towards the front door. "Wait Remus where are you going?" she asked watching him.

"Dumbledore said he needed a statement from me." Lupin said and placed a hand on the doorknob.

"But Remus the professor said he'd come here to get it. Besides it poring down out side you'll get sick. And you made me a promise." Marie said standing up and walking over to the kitchen door and stood there.

"I did promise didn't I?" Lupin asked and turned around. "I guess I should carry out my promise then shouldn't I?" he said and smiled ever so slightly to her.

"Come on up here." she said then started up the stairs to the second floor. "here's your room and there is the bath room. You already know were the living room and kitchen are so there's no since in telling you." Marie said opening his door then pointing to a door on the other side of the hall.

"What are those?" he asked pointing down the hall to three other doors.

"Guests or kids rooms which ever came first." Marie said and shrugged.

"and that room if you don't mind me asking." Lupin said pointing to another room on the opposite side of the door.

"That's my room." She said and smiled at him "Oh and I almost forgot. I have a basement you can use for your transformations. Sound prof. I know it's not nice to have to be reminded all the time but you know you have a place where no one will try to kill you and you have no way of getting to others." She said looking down at the floor.

"You seemed to have put a lot of effort into this house for me." Lupin said and put his hand on her chin then tilted her head up to look him in the eyes. Then he leaned down and kissed her lightly on the lips. "Thank you." He said then walked into his room and she shut the door.

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Authors Note: Hey every one hope you like this sort of I was kind of depressed when I wrote it. Well should I write a second chapter or leave it there? Leave a review please.