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The time passed by quickly that day and Remus himself had no idea that he had taught all his classes with no troubles at all. As a matter of fact, he barely thought about it until dinner had approached. He dusted off his robes and shut his briefcase then made his way down the corridors to the Great Hall. He was stopped suddenly by a woman nearly knocking him to the ground when she pounced and hugged him tightly.
"MOONY! It's been ages! How are you holding up, old boy?" Dark violet eyes danced with happiness at the sight of him. The familiar woman stood at about 5'7, her long curtain of black hair curling at the ends. She looked very elegant in her deep wine-red colored robes that did her body no justice.
"Rhiane...? Rhiane Westwaters?" He felt his voice crack slightly from surprise. "I thought that you lived in America..? Are...." He laughed and stuffed his hands in his pockets, "you're the one thats come to take my place as Defense Against Dark Arts teacher? I had no idea that it'd be you."
"Yeah! I won't be taking it right away, but of course that's what I'm here for. How are you anyhow? I'm so excited to see you again!" She hugged him tightly to the point where he thought he might black-out.
"I'm well enough. A lot has happened since you left, you know." He felt the oxygen run back to his brain after she had been satisfied with her hug.
She looked down at the ground and nodded. Speaking slower and quieter now, "I heard and I visited his grave site. I'm so sorry, Lupin. I know they were your best buds." She tinkered with a bracelet and looked at it with saddened eyes.
"Yes, well..." Remus trailed off, thinking about the losses that he'd gone through once again. He cleared his throat to try and keep himself from shedding more tears and pasted on a smile. "You're just in time for dinner, Rhiane."
"Perfect! I've all ready got my things set up in a bedroom, not yours, so I'm all ready to go," she giggled and swept her arm around his and rested her head on his shoulder. "Those are really nice robes. Did you get a new job, besides this one?"
"Er... no.." He glanced down at her, a little uncomfortable but he let her cling to him nevertheless.
"Oh? Did someone buy them for you? I have to say, it's just your color. Oh, Lupin, I'm so happy to see you again! Have you read any good books lately? I was reading a really good one on the plane ride over here and it gave me tons of informations about charms! It's actually called 'Charms For Dummies', great book. Maybe you should read it sometime, but I can't remember how good you are with charms. As I recall you were a little better at it than James. But in any case...." She spoke very quickly and strolled with him toward the Great Hall. He had to admit that it was good to hear her chatting away happily again.
He let out a hearty laugh as they entered the Great Hall at a great blond joke she had told. Aislynn stood up with a smile but he watched it fall at the sight of Rhiane on his arm. She sat down slowly, not taking her eyes off the two of them. He could have sworn that Rhiane had smiled with deep satisfaction to see that her arrival had both Snape and Stellar brooding with anger. He led her to the seat next to his own and she began to chat away with Professor Flitwick and himself. He risked glancing at Aislynn from time to time and saw that she was either staring at her food or was caught staring toward his end of the table. Finally she had left when he glanced over again.
With a wince, he excused himself, explaining he was exhausted. Remus walked quickly down the halls, searching left and right for Aislynn. He had a faint idea on why she would leave but he wasn't exactly sure.
"Looking for someone, Lupin?" A cold voice came from behind a statue. He turned and looked at her. Even her posture was cold like the statue she leaned against.
"Yes. I was looking for you, actually."
"Oh... for some reason I'm surprised," she blinked slowly. "I left you a note right after I yelled in the hall. I felt really bad. It's up in your living quarters. That's what I wanted to tell you when I stood up."
He watched her lift her chin slightly in a sort of last stand for pride.
"Thank you. I'll read it when I get back..." His voice trailed off and he looked at the ground, at a loss for words.
"Well then, I'll be off. Good night." She uncrossed her arms and started to head down the corridor.
"Aislynn! Wait..." The words slipped out of his thin lips before he could stop himself. "What is bothering you? Why are you behaving so differently now?"
She turned around with tears in her eyes. Those big beautiful eyes that he'd grown fonder of.
"So, you're going to play the innocent this time? You're going to play stupid this time? Fine! Make me explain it to you and lose the last bit of dignity I have.." She sniffled. "You remember back when we were taking the O.W.L.s... I was head over heels for a certain young Black. Always looking hopefully in his direction so that he might perhaps notice me and fall as deeply as I had. Lily and I talked about you and your posse all the time but she didn't know that I had a crush on him. Then Westwaters came. He and everyone else of the male gender fell for her. She began going out with him and I lost interest.. I felt like she knew what I wanted so she had to have it. It's silly, I know..." She stopped and wiped her tears away.
"After I had gotten over Sirius, I started to talk to you because we had the same classes together. And I... Then she... Every time at Hogsmeade I'd see you two hanging out and laughing. But for some strange reason, I still had feelings for.... I felt jealous, of course, but I wouldn't stop being around you. I couldn't. Because Lily and James started to actually grow attatched that meant that I became a better friend too. Westwaters had grown tired of the game and moved onto Severus... Poor guy.. And now! And NOW she's back! Hanging all over you! Not that it bugs me! Because I'm more mature than that, dammit!" She wiped her tears furiously with her robes sleeve.
"Ais..." He took a step towards her but she stepped back.
"No. The only man I've really actually loved... and she'll take you away.. But ya know, it's all right," her lower lip trembled along with her voice.
"It's not like that. Please, Aislynn. Let's go and get a cup of tea, all right?" He had a strange sensation of his heart breaking because she was crying but floating because she had said the words he wanted to hear.
"I'm not feeling well. Just... I won't be like this tomorrow.. I'm sorry. For everything. I-I..." She shook her head and more tears spilled to her flushed cheeks. With a toss of her hair, she was gone around the corner, whimpering and sniffling.
Remus wanted to run after her, sweep her in his arms and kiss away all her sadness. He sighed heavily and rubbed his forehead. He'd have to explain it to her once she had calmed down. Slowly he made his way to his living quarters and sat down in a chair to read what she had written earlier. An owl must have had it in it's beak because he found some puncture marks in the very top of the parchment. He read it word for word very slowly,

Dear Remus,
How are you fairing? I have to admit that I feel very foolish for the way I acted earlier. I apologize for my behaivor. However, to get right to the point... you should think a bit about keeping Harry with you sometime. Ask him what he would like to do. I'm sure that you'll be glad if you do. And you know that you are more than welcome to stay as guests in my house.
While I'm hot on the subject... I was wondering if you'd like to stay as a permenant guest in my house? We are both in the Order... And if Harry stayed with us then he'd be safe times two. Of course Molly would help take care of him as well.. Just think about it some. You don't have to answer right away. Sometime would be nice, though. Take it easy...
Aishite imasu,
Aislynn I. Stellar

He folded it up nicely and closed his eyes. What was he going to do? How was he going to explain everything to her?
Rhiane had waited until she knew that Aislynn had calmed down a little before barging into her living quarters. Aislynn looked up, startled.
"All right! You listen to me, Stellar. It's the first night and all ready you're treating me as if I were making your world crash down on you." She pointed a finger to the door, "and poor Remus is probably a nervous wreck..."
"How dare you come into my quarters and start telling me which end is up? Hanging all over him when you know for a fact that I love him!" She stood up, shaking in a fury.
"YEAH! I know! I've known it all along! He is my friend, Aislynn. That's all he is. Since Sirius died he's been my support beam... We've been sending owls back and forth. That's as far as it'll ever go. Friendship."
Aisylynn stood in a stupor for a moment. Rhiane had never called her by her first name before. She suddenly felt very foolish again.
"And what about Black?"
"What about him? You never made a move, so I did." Rhiane glared at her and crossed her arms. She let that sink in before grilling into her some more. "And I don't think it's very fair of you to be exploiting my love life to anyone. Not even Remus. Especially about Serverus..."
"I...." She sighed and swallowed her pride, "I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize to me, ya great big air-head. Apologize to him! Jeez... And after that, you can go to the Gryffindor Tower and keep guard for a while."
"Now, hold on! You can't just give me orders like you're the Queen Bitch of the Universe! And I'm not as air-headed as you... Miss Let's-Come- And-Smile-Sweetly-At-Snape-So-He'll-Forgive-Me."
Rhiane made a sound of objection.
"Oh.... have a cup of tea, will you?" She still spoke hostiley and Aislynn whisked her wand out, white sparks came from the end of it. A steaming cup of Chai spiced tea was floating in front of Rhiane.
"Thank you!" She replied just as hostiley and took a sip. She took her wand out, still holding her cup and pointed at her,
"Incarcerous!" Ropes came out from her wand with red sparks and wrapped around Aislynn somewhat tightly. "Now, we are going to talk to Remus!"
"What are you doing?! Are you mad?! I can go there on my own free will, you know! Release me!" She struggled and tried to free herself from the ropes.
"I don't think I will. Think of this as punishment for bad mouthing me in the halls." She smiled happily and dragged her to Lupin's living quarters. She barged in once again and pushed Aislynn in with a grin.
"Hi-ee! She's come to apologize to you for being an air-head." Rhiane sipped at her tea again and plopped down in a chair. Remus looked up from the parchment that Aislynn had written and blinked, trying to contain a laugh,
"She had to come as a prisoner of war?"
"Not prisoner of war! Just... hostile witness." She laughed and spoke an incantation with her wand to release the ropes from her.
"If you think you've seen hostile, just wait until you fall asleep, Westwaters!" Her ears went a little red with anger.
"Pipe down, Stellar. I'll do it again if I have to," She readied her wand as did Aislynn.
"Ladies! Please! Let's keep our maturity while in my quarters at least." He lifted his hands and stood between the raised wands.
"She started it!" Rhiane sputtered.
"And I'll finish it too!" She glared.
"Aislynn! Rhiane! Stop it, for crying out loud!" He felt like he was drowning in estrogen and sat down slowly. For a while, he merely watched them stare at each other.. if only looks could kill.
"A little privacy, please, Westwaters..." Aislynn nodded to the door.
Rhiane got up, blew a raspberry at her and left Lupin's living quarters. Remus looked up at her and looked at his hands,
"Ais, look... It's not what it lo--"
She knelt down and hugged him, stopping him in the middle of his sentence. "I'm so sorry, Remus. I didn't know. I acted very rudely. I should have known the facts before biting your head off. And I shouldn't have talked badly about Rhiane... Please forgive me again."
"Forgiven, Ais..." He lifted a hand to her head and buried it in her soft hair gently while the other hand wrapped around her shoulders. They sat like this for a while, savoring ever second. After, Aislynn explained that she needed to go to Gryffindor Tower to keep a careful eye on the students and left him with a heavy heart. Rhiane was waiting outside and came bouncing in his quarters again after seeing Aislynn off.
"So, did you kiss her? Did you tell her that you love her and you want to marry her and have her bare your children? Did you.... frisk her perhaps? Didja? Didja?" She wriggled her eyebrows and winked.
He blushed and cleared his throat. "The thought never crossed my mind, Rhiane." He lied.
"Oh, bull spit. You wanted to kiss her, take her in your arms, throw her on the bed and make her scream your name until the sun came up." She laughed and grinned widely because he had gone almost a candy apple red. "I was right!"
"No! Rhiane! Come on, now... I... Oh, my. Look at the time. You should get some rest." He glanced at the clock and lead her out the door, he let out a great sigh and leaned against it for a moment. With a smile, he went and sat in his chair, keeping his thoughts to himself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A third chapter done! I'm on a roll, baby!