Chapter 2 - the Sun



"Sirius, come on ! We need to go to the hospital wing before they bring Remus there! You know as well as I that we were out for a long time! And when we woke up the girl was gone! GONE! Just gone and we – we don't know whether she is alive or not !" James Potter whispered hurriedly to a big , black dog. They had just got the werewolf, or Moony as they called it , to sleep.

"Come ON! I'm going now and if you don't want then – then don't come and care about your friend Padfoot! He's going to be shattered if he has bitten somebody! Or – or eaten!" James's voice was now getting frantic as he spoke quickly and gestured the black dog to go down the trapdoor.

The messy-haired boy and the black dog made their way to the grounds of Hogwarts and from there they headed to the entrance doors. When finally in, they walked to the hospital wing . Carefully they cracked the door open and crept inside.

"Can you see her , Padfoot ?" James whispered and looked around. The dog swayed its tail. "Ok, ok. I'm coming."

The dog lead the boy to a bedside of a young girl. Presumably the girl was near the boy's age but because of her fragile and thin frame those who had seen her thought that she was years younger than sixteen.

"Does she breath, Padfoot ?" the boy whispered. The dog swayed its tail. "Good. I don't see any injuries on her but she is in the hospital bed. I reckon we should come check on her later under the invisibility cloak and maybe overhear a conversation about her current state. "

The dog swayed its tail again. The boy nodded and both the boy and the dog disappeared.

The girl in the bed listened intently the fading sounds of the dog and the boy. Her eyes opened and her emerald green eyes shone in the darkness. One lonely tear escaped her figure.

"They care about me", the girl's voice was so fragile and when the sentence was whispered one could never tell if it really was for real.

Remus Lupin was a boy with sandy hair and sweet eyes. But his face and emotions were hardened by the life and he was easily considered emotionless when he was not smiling. But even within this prejudice he had managed to have himself a gentle, caring and sweet nature. He could never hurt a fly or a beetle and he was called soft-hands by his friends because he always took care of everybody and seemed to be there for every one who needed a shoulder to lean on. That was his way to show that he was not a monster but a gentle human being.

Remus's blue eyes fluttered open and his gaze swept over the familiar nursing room. He shuddered as he thought about the many times he had been there for this same reason.

Slowly he began to notice that there was one other occupant in the room. A red-headed girl was laying in a bed next to his. The girl's face was calm and white like it would have never even been touched by a freckle. But that though wasn't what caught Remus's attention. The girl's arms, which were resting on her sides, were marked with bruises and cuts and some of them even had a blooded bandage covering them.

Remus's eyes enlarged and his breathing quickened. He couldn't believe it. He was sure this was a some kind of a nightmare. He couldn't have, could he ?

The door of the infirmary opened and madam Pomfrey stepped in. Remus pretended to be asleep and found out why the girl was here.

"Aah, you poor girl. Here you are still asleep like a lamb. But what would I do with you now ? Nobody knows you and you surely are not from Hogsmeade or Britain. Every girl in your age has already been sent to Hogwarts or some other Wizarding school. But . . . oh , well. I suppose I just take care of these cuts you have on your arms, right ? Professor Dumbledore being so dear and telling me nothing about how you got injured. Just saying that you were in the shack and didn't get bitten by a werewolf. But how am I supposed to believe this ? How could you be in the shack with a werewolf and come out unharmed without a wand and without having bitten by a werewolf ?" madam Pomfrey talked to the girl.

Remus shivered in his bed. He didn't know how to handle this. Supposedly he hadn't injured the girl, but somebody else had. And the girl had been in the shack but had come out unharmed. Now that was a hard piece to believe. How could some human be in the shack without his werewolf instincts kicking in and he biting the human in question ?

Remus kept his eyes closed and waited. He knew that he would be coming soon. And that there was no need to rush when he could use his time to sleep and gathering some strength he knew he would need later.

Albus Dumbledore had been troubled that night and was still lightly that morning. He couldn't figure out the girl's secret and therefore he was slightly annoyed. But he wouldn't let it show. Besides , it had been a long time since some one had been able to keep his mind troubled for this long.

But now, he was to focus on a young Remus Lupin. The boy had suffered enough within the way it was and Albus didn't want to make it worse but he needed to inform him about the current situation with the strange girl.

Remus opened his eyes and looked at his headmaster intently waiting for answers.

"Morning, dear boy. Trust you slept well enough since Poppy aloud me to talk to you", the headmasters eyes twinkled.

"Sir, I know how you love all that chit-chat but could you please just tell me what happened last night ?" Remus asked trying to make his voice sound patient.

"Of course and I know this must trouble you greatly though not as greatly as it troubles me. See, you didn't bite her last night or that is how I understood the current situation." Remus breathed relieved.

"The problem is in fact that you didn't bite her. "Remus's eyes shot up to the headmasters face from the wall where they had wandered off a little while ago.

"That I didn't ?!"

"Yes, as you understand me and professor McGonagall were slightly worried when we heard cries and howls from the shack. We came in to look the source of the cries and we found you and the girl. But the girl wasn't fighting you off. And you weren't fighting to get to bite the girl. The girl was riding in your back."

Remus gasped.

"It's impossible ! I mean, she's a human right ? I mean, I wouldn't just carry her around but eat her!"

"Yes, my boy, but you didn't. Though I don't know what happened before we came in with Minerva but already then the girls bruises and other injuries looked older and not caused by your claws. So don't you worry. It wasn't you, Mr Lupin. And I can assure that I and Minerva will find out why it happened like it happened. "

"But professor, what if I did bite her ?!"

"No, my boy, you didn't. We ran a series of tests on her including test that tested her reaction to silver and nothing came out."

Remus breathed a bit more freely.

"Good, now Mr Lupin I suggest you rest and when you feel good enough to leave the infirmary you shall go to rest to the Gryffindor tower. Good day, mister Lupin." And with that Albus Dumbledore was gone.

The Easter holiday began and the sun was shining. Remus Lupin was already back in his tower with his friends taking care of a mount of homework.

Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall were still pondering the problem of the red-headed girl who nobody knew.

And the red-headed girl who was still laying in the hospital bed enjoyed the peace and sunlight that were available in the hospital wing. She saw no reason to get up yet since it was her only chance in long, long time to get some rest.

A/N: Hellou. This is the second chapter of this story. Please review after you're done with the reading! x]

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