That next morning Eve awoke not knowing where she was. She sat up suddenly and leaped out of bed looking all around in a confused and dazed manner. Her eyes settled on a sleeping Remus and she remembered what had happened last night sighed a little as the sleeping form of Remus started to wake up and felt around for her next to him and sleepily whispered,

"Eve?"

"I'm here Remus." She said quietly as she sat down on a chair by the window. Lupin's eyes opened as he asked,

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm ok. I just had a momentary relapse, Happens from time to time." She said softly

"Well why don't you come here?" Remus asked and with that Eve smiled brightly, got up and lay down next to Remus as he ran his fingers through her soft hair and whispered softly,

"Eve, I know I'm not Sirius and I know that some portion of your heart will always love him. I also know that you're blaming yourself for his death, but the fact of the matter is, he died for someone he really did care about; Harry. But, if you'd just give me a chance...maybe someday you could see me the same way that you saw him." With this statement Eve rolled over and looked Remus in the eye put her hand on his face in a tender way and whispered,

"You may not believe it Remus but I see you clearer than I ever saw Sirius. It's true I do love Sirius but with time that too will fade and my eyes will be only for you."

And with that she leaned in a moment of surprise kissed him so suddenly that it took him a few moments to realize what she had said and followed with. A knock on the door disturbed them and Eve sat up straightened herself quickly in a mirror and opened the door a little to see a girl about 17 with brown frizzy hair but a beautiful smile and intelligent and very sharp eyes.

"Good morning Eve, I'm Hermione and I've come to tell you and Professor Lupin that breakfast will on the table and ready for you in about five minutes."

"Thank you Hermione." Eve said graciously

"We'll see you downstairs." And she closed the door and ran back to Remus where he lay with his eyes closed she hopped up onto the bed which startled Lupin, as he said in a coarse whisper

"Hell!"

Eve's eyes looked down at Remus as he started to relax as she situated herself back into his strong arms to face him and started to close her eyes and fall asleep again feeling comfortable knowing that he was there but just as she started to drift off again a voice rang from the bottom of the stairs.

"Eve, Remus, breakfast is ready." The two looked at each other sighed a little and quickly got dressed in comfortable jeans while Remus put on a relatively snug bright orange T- shirt that bore big bold letters "C-C" and Eve put on a sweater made of grey wool when they both turned around Eve was surprised to see the C's boldly outlined on his shirt not to mention the fact that she finally saw the definition of his muscles and it made her heart melt all over again as she looked into his eyes and saw him surveying her flare jeans and sweater which she pulled at in slight nervousness and said with a laugh,

"The Chudley Cannons?"

"Ron gave it to me for Christmas last year." He offered with a smile

"Right...I knew deep down inside you were a closet quidditch fan."

"Oh I've always liked quidditch and you know it." Lupin said grinning broadly

"Oh yea hot-shot, then I challenge you to a game of backyard quidditch after breakfast." Eve said brightly

"You're challenge? Consider it accepted!" Lupin said and with that she grinned at him and started walking around the bed toward the door and with a flick of a heel left the bedroom. Lupin followed her out of the room shaking his head until he took the opportunity to race her down the stairs.

"Hey!" She said teasingly "That's not fair you got a head start!" and started speeding down the stairs. Once at the bottom Lupin turned around looked at her and said

"Stop!" But with too much momentum she barreled into him he caught her and fell back a few steps into the wall once everything on the wall had been straitened they both looked at each other and laughed all the way into the kitchen where everyone turned to look at them.

"Why does everyone look so depressed?" Lupin asked in a lighthearted manner that would soon change as Arthur slid the morning edition of the Daily Prophet across the table and he read carefully with Eve looking over his shoulder. The headline was bold and bore into Eve's heart like a thousand nails after she stared at it for a long while not really accepting until the two words finally made sense.
"Another War?!
Are we ready for terror?"

Lupin picked up the paper as Eve sat down quietly next to Moody who gave her a half smile that twisted his face.

"It'll be ok, Ms. Eve. Remus will be ok in a few minutes." Moody whispered coarsely as Eve's eyes watched Remus pace back and fourth reading the paper.

"Damn!" Lupin said as he put the paper down on the table and looked up slightly at Eve who had a nervous look on her face and then looked to Moody who had his eyebrows raised elongating his scarred face strangely.

"Sorry. These articles make me angry. Reporters complain and just sit around. If they're so scared why don't they get up and do something about Voldemort?"

"Remus!" Tonks hissed

"What?! I just think that it's not fair that they say something needs to be done about Voldemort but can't offer any suggestions." He said agitated.

"I'm sorry Molly I'm not very hungry right now." And he left the kitchen as quickly as he could. Everyone turned to Eve as she stood up.

With a meek "excuse me." And followed Lupin out into the hall and into the living room with a large sofa and fireplace where she found Lupin pacing back and fourth.

"And I was making you dizzy?" She said and apparently caught him by surprise as he spun around quickly and settled slightly. She started walking toward him.

"Remus, hun, what is it? What was it in there that put you off so?"

"Oh Eve." He said taking her in his arms "I just get annoyed with the reporters and how they alarm everyone. We're doing everything we can, but he's so hard to track. But of course you remember how it was..."

Remus cut off as Eve was walking over to the window,

"Remus, look." Eve said as she looked out the window from the living room where the late morning sun was shining through but still there were snowflakes falling softly to the ground each perfect in their own different way. Remus stood back watching as the sun beams fell perfectly making Eve's blue eyes sparkle more than they usual, in this light her skin was radiant even in the darkness of winter she was glowing like a warm summer day, and as the sun shown down against her hair that too seemed to shine. After gazing out the window watching the sun beat against the snowflakes Remus suddenly felt like one of those tiny snowflakes, while he was trying to protect and live against Voldemort these small snowflakes were trying to live against the heat of the sun. He looked back at Eve and asked,

"Eve do you want to go and find some Christmas presents? I need to go out and find a few?"

"Of course I do, I don't really know many people here but I suppose I could find something." She said and hopped up and even when she stepped out of the sun she still seemed to be glowing. Lupin blinked a few times and shook it off and held out his hand to take hers as they walked by the kitchen the open door.

"Harry, try and be tolerant after all it is Professor Lupin." Hermione was pleading

"I know Hermione, I'm just a little suspicious..." Harry said patting a bandy- legged cat with a bottle-brush tail

"Give her time, Professor Lupin has known her for a long time."

"And lost her, for a lot longer than 7 years of school and then she comes back into his life and everything is great again? I just don't get how he can't see it I mean obviously she's a fake trying to get into the system, I actually wouldn't be surprised if she were a Death Eater."

"HARRY JAMES POTTER!" Hermione Screeched just then Eve burst into the kitchen with Remus following close behind her saying calmly,

"Eve...he's just lost his godfather..." She stopped dead in her tracks spun around and hissed at him,

"So THAT'S how it is? When he bad mouths me you're going to take his side because he's 'just lost his Godfather', well let me tell you something," and she started walking toward him eyes glaring maliciously, "I just found out that the person that I thought I was determined to spend the rest of my life with has died a year ago and I'm not bad mouthing anyone I DON'T know. And the second person that I could see myself with is defending the one person that has been totally antagonistic since my arrival."

She pushed past Remus who threw a threatening looks at Harry, who for once in a long time felt a pang of guilt spread through his heart, and followed down the hall after Eve. Harry then looked at Hermione who shook her head and with an exasperated sigh stormed out of the kitchen turned around and spat,

"Harry Potter, you are the most selfish person I've ever met! This is the first time that I've seen Professor Lupin act like this like he's really in love and you take a risk to screw it up for him, couldn't you just try and get to know her?" and left him standing staring after her.