A few seconds later Eve found herself on a hill with nothing but the moon and stars lighting the sky. It was a week before Christmas (the next evening Eve had to meet Harry and Remus's other friends back in London) and the moon was starting on its last quarter which unfortunately put Lupin in a precarious situation for Christmas Day but not New Years (Eve had something up her sleeve for that holiday if all went well.) The hill that she and Remus were standing on was surrounded by a circle of majestic looking evergreen trees that swayed in the breeze as if bowing to an unseen majesty.
"Well what do you think?" Lupin asked anxiously
"It's so quiet and peaceful." Eve said staring around her
"Well, we should change that. We need to do this now so that I don't feel as bad on Christmas" Remus said
With a wave of his wand fairies carrying mini multicolored lanterns in festive colors of red and green appeared and flitted around six of them approached Eve, two were carrying strands of emerald green ivy four more pulled two front strands of hair and twisted the ivy in her hair as to look like a winter crown of greens. She smiled at Lupin as he was about to wave his wand again she caught his wrist her small hand cover the back of his as she pushed his hand down to his side and shook her head and pointed to the bottom of the hill where a reign deer was grazing on some winter grass. Lupin clicked his tongue and it pranced right up to them. Eve let out a small gasp, the animal was huge about the size of a Clydesdale horse, she looked up at Lupin her eyes shining; she stood on toe and pecked him in the cheek.
"Care to go for a ride?" Lupin asked smoothly
"You're not saying—"Eve started
"--that this reign deer can fly?" Lupin finished.
Eve stood gawking in amazement as Lupin pulled himself up once situated offered a hand to Eve and pulled her up as soon as she was situated with her arms wrapped tightly around his waist and head over his shoulder the deer took off at a gallop down the hill heading straight for a bramble bush. The deer was about two feet from the bush when Eve let out a squeak and the deer took flight. Eve held onto Lupin tighter and he looked back at her and chuckled. "Eve, don't you dare close your eyes, hold your breath it gets better." He whispered in her ear and she opened her eyes to find herself soaring among the clouds. After about five minutes of flying the deer landed right on a cloud Lupin hopped off and held out his arms grabbed Eve around the waist and lifted her off they patted the nose of the deer Lupin's arm still around Eve's waist holding her to him until the deer took flight again at this Eve questioned,
"Remus, how will we get back?"
"He's a smart stag; he'll know when to come." He said with a wink after a minute of standing around staring at the changing shape of the other clouds and how the one they were on was remaining perfectly flat Lupin took eve by the hand and led her to the middle of the cloud, pulled her close to himself and like from a distant dream soft music started to play, an old familiar tune from way back when. Suddenly it came to Eve where she had heard the song. It was at a Christmas dance at the Leaky Cauldron two years before everything for Lily and James, Eve and Sirius, and Lupin fell through. It had been the song that she had pushed Sirius aside for one song and grabbed Lupin's hand to dance; all he had wanted was one dance to last a lifetime.
Are we dancing? Are we really here? Is this feeling something real or will it disappear? Are we dancing? Does the music soar? Was this lovely song I hear ever heard before? Are your eyes confessing things I alone can see? Or is my imagination flying away with me? Are we dancing? Say we really are! Than I'll know that I reached into the sky. I reached into the sky and touched a star. Is this feeling something real or will it disappear? Was this lovely song I hear ever heard before? Are your eyes confessing things I alone can see or is my imagination flying away with me? Are we dancing? Say we really are then I'll know that I reached into the sky. I reached into the sky and
touched a star.
It was as though she were in a dream; she couldn't see how someone as sweet as Remus could come into her life twice something had to go wrong soon, her luck was beginning to get too good for comfort.
The evening went wonderfully right up until Lupin mentioned going back to the cabin to get some of Eve's things so that she'd have all of her clothes for the trip back to England. Eve's eyes went the size of glass orbs at the mention of this and reluctantly agreed after being prodded and promised that she wouldn't have to go into Tom's cabin alone.
"Let's not worry about that now please?" Eve pleaded
"Alright but in the morning, we have to get your things because one more visit back and you'll never have to go again." Lupin said
At around 2:00 in the morning Lupin clicked his tongue and the deer appeared as if out of thin air and flew them down to the hill and once no longer carrying passengers took off down the hill and in a blink of an eye was gone. After literally soaring down from cloud Lupin took Eve's ice-cold hands in his surprised that she hadn't said anything about being cold he let her walk ahead a little until he changed the dress robes that she was wearing into a set of winter robes, a scarf and mittens, she jumped a little at the transformation of her clothes stopped and turned giving Lupin a gracious smile as he took her mitten-covered hands in his since he had transformed his clothes as well into a set of long pants, a sweater, and winter jacket. Eve and Lupin spent about four hours watching the stars and that night saw only one shooting star while sitting on a blanket and wrapped up in one on the crest of the hill Remus whispered in Eve's ear,
"Eve?"
"Hmm?" she sighed
"Can I keep you?"
"Mmhhmm." She whispered as she leaned back and fell asleep against Lupin's shoulder.
For about twenty minutes Remus watched her sleep thinking about how beautiful she was hoping against hope that the one portrait of Sirius that still hung in head quarters wouldn't be disappointed in his intervention and that the unmovable portrait of Mrs. Black wouldn't recognize Eve, after all she had changed; back in school Eve would have been considered cute, but now as she looked like a vela. Lupin sighed and regrettably had to wake his sleeping beauty.
As the sun came up over the horizon Lupin grabbed Eve's mitten-covered hands, looked into her eyes, which shone with the light of the last morning star, and kissed her with all his strength. From a distance anyone watching would have seen the most romantic sight anyone could ever wish for, the winter morning sun coming up and shining through the trees casting an angelic glow upon the two as a winter wind blew Eve's scarf and straight blond hair in ripples behind her, Lupin's arms wrapped around her small waist, holding her strongly and Eve's thin arms around his neck behind her it was absolutely perfect and was truly picturesque.
"Well what do you think?" Lupin asked anxiously
"It's so quiet and peaceful." Eve said staring around her
"Well, we should change that. We need to do this now so that I don't feel as bad on Christmas" Remus said
With a wave of his wand fairies carrying mini multicolored lanterns in festive colors of red and green appeared and flitted around six of them approached Eve, two were carrying strands of emerald green ivy four more pulled two front strands of hair and twisted the ivy in her hair as to look like a winter crown of greens. She smiled at Lupin as he was about to wave his wand again she caught his wrist her small hand cover the back of his as she pushed his hand down to his side and shook her head and pointed to the bottom of the hill where a reign deer was grazing on some winter grass. Lupin clicked his tongue and it pranced right up to them. Eve let out a small gasp, the animal was huge about the size of a Clydesdale horse, she looked up at Lupin her eyes shining; she stood on toe and pecked him in the cheek.
"Care to go for a ride?" Lupin asked smoothly
"You're not saying—"Eve started
"--that this reign deer can fly?" Lupin finished.
Eve stood gawking in amazement as Lupin pulled himself up once situated offered a hand to Eve and pulled her up as soon as she was situated with her arms wrapped tightly around his waist and head over his shoulder the deer took off at a gallop down the hill heading straight for a bramble bush. The deer was about two feet from the bush when Eve let out a squeak and the deer took flight. Eve held onto Lupin tighter and he looked back at her and chuckled. "Eve, don't you dare close your eyes, hold your breath it gets better." He whispered in her ear and she opened her eyes to find herself soaring among the clouds. After about five minutes of flying the deer landed right on a cloud Lupin hopped off and held out his arms grabbed Eve around the waist and lifted her off they patted the nose of the deer Lupin's arm still around Eve's waist holding her to him until the deer took flight again at this Eve questioned,
"Remus, how will we get back?"
"He's a smart stag; he'll know when to come." He said with a wink after a minute of standing around staring at the changing shape of the other clouds and how the one they were on was remaining perfectly flat Lupin took eve by the hand and led her to the middle of the cloud, pulled her close to himself and like from a distant dream soft music started to play, an old familiar tune from way back when. Suddenly it came to Eve where she had heard the song. It was at a Christmas dance at the Leaky Cauldron two years before everything for Lily and James, Eve and Sirius, and Lupin fell through. It had been the song that she had pushed Sirius aside for one song and grabbed Lupin's hand to dance; all he had wanted was one dance to last a lifetime.
Are we dancing? Are we really here? Is this feeling something real or will it disappear? Are we dancing? Does the music soar? Was this lovely song I hear ever heard before? Are your eyes confessing things I alone can see? Or is my imagination flying away with me? Are we dancing? Say we really are! Than I'll know that I reached into the sky. I reached into the sky and touched a star. Is this feeling something real or will it disappear? Was this lovely song I hear ever heard before? Are your eyes confessing things I alone can see or is my imagination flying away with me? Are we dancing? Say we really are then I'll know that I reached into the sky. I reached into the sky and
touched a star.
It was as though she were in a dream; she couldn't see how someone as sweet as Remus could come into her life twice something had to go wrong soon, her luck was beginning to get too good for comfort.
The evening went wonderfully right up until Lupin mentioned going back to the cabin to get some of Eve's things so that she'd have all of her clothes for the trip back to England. Eve's eyes went the size of glass orbs at the mention of this and reluctantly agreed after being prodded and promised that she wouldn't have to go into Tom's cabin alone.
"Let's not worry about that now please?" Eve pleaded
"Alright but in the morning, we have to get your things because one more visit back and you'll never have to go again." Lupin said
At around 2:00 in the morning Lupin clicked his tongue and the deer appeared as if out of thin air and flew them down to the hill and once no longer carrying passengers took off down the hill and in a blink of an eye was gone. After literally soaring down from cloud Lupin took Eve's ice-cold hands in his surprised that she hadn't said anything about being cold he let her walk ahead a little until he changed the dress robes that she was wearing into a set of winter robes, a scarf and mittens, she jumped a little at the transformation of her clothes stopped and turned giving Lupin a gracious smile as he took her mitten-covered hands in his since he had transformed his clothes as well into a set of long pants, a sweater, and winter jacket. Eve and Lupin spent about four hours watching the stars and that night saw only one shooting star while sitting on a blanket and wrapped up in one on the crest of the hill Remus whispered in Eve's ear,
"Eve?"
"Hmm?" she sighed
"Can I keep you?"
"Mmhhmm." She whispered as she leaned back and fell asleep against Lupin's shoulder.
For about twenty minutes Remus watched her sleep thinking about how beautiful she was hoping against hope that the one portrait of Sirius that still hung in head quarters wouldn't be disappointed in his intervention and that the unmovable portrait of Mrs. Black wouldn't recognize Eve, after all she had changed; back in school Eve would have been considered cute, but now as she looked like a vela. Lupin sighed and regrettably had to wake his sleeping beauty.
As the sun came up over the horizon Lupin grabbed Eve's mitten-covered hands, looked into her eyes, which shone with the light of the last morning star, and kissed her with all his strength. From a distance anyone watching would have seen the most romantic sight anyone could ever wish for, the winter morning sun coming up and shining through the trees casting an angelic glow upon the two as a winter wind blew Eve's scarf and straight blond hair in ripples behind her, Lupin's arms wrapped around her small waist, holding her strongly and Eve's thin arms around his neck behind her it was absolutely perfect and was truly picturesque.