Charming Mysteries: Chapter Two
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Summary: So this is how it is, you all know Remus Lupin, Fresh out of Hogwarts; he's a member for the Order of the Phoenix. But you don't know Keira Brayden, or should I say Tobi Maren, Undercover-Professor, a.k.a Voldemort's right-hand girl.
So Remus goes for a job at Hogwarts, as a D.A.D.A professor, at the age of nineteen, while his friends come out of Auror's training. Guess who get's to go undercover as Charms professor, since Flitwick had decided to take a year off.
But what happens when Tobi can't help her feelings and falls for her colleague? Guess how mad Oldie-Moldie-Voldie gets.
And what's up with this Amity girl? What do most people know that Keira has to find out on her own?
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Disclaimer: See previous chapter. The song which I write in this chapter is from Christina Aguilera's song "I'm OK" From her 2002 Album: Stripped.
Last Time:
"I hate the first day at school," was all Severus would say. He glanced over what was in her hands. "Ahh... Amity Kilenya, had her yet?"
"Partly," Keira said, frowning at the records.
Severus said an eyebrow. "How do you mean?"
"Minerva escorted her to class a short while before it ended. What's the deal with Amity anyway?"
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Chapter Two: I'm OK
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Once upon a time there was a girl
In her early years she had to learn
How to grow up living in a war that she called home
Never knew just where to turn for shelter from the storm
It hurt me to see the pain cross my mother's face
Every time my father's fist would put her in her place
Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room
Hoping it would be over soon
--
The next few weeks seemed to float by, Keira got laden down with essays and extra-credit assignments she barely had time for what she was actually there to do.
She is working late one night in the Staff Room when the door opened.
"Keira?!" came a voice Keira had taught herself memorize, it was Remus' He had been shocked that anyone was here so late.
He looked so pale; Keira would have been worried for him if she didn't already what his condition was, and that he would be fine.
"Hello Remus," Keira said politely, going back to marking essays. Remus slipped into a seat next to her.
"How's it going?" He asked.
"How's what going?" Keira asked.
"Teaching," Remus said with a smile.
"Great, they're such good kids; it makes me feel bad that I was such a brat at school."
Remus laughed. "My friends and I got into a bit of mischief when we went here," He explained, not knowing that Keira knew all too well.
"So I've heard," Keira told him, more sweetly than bitterly.
Remus looked up at her. "I take it you've heard the... horrifying version, from Severus?"
Keira smiled warmly at him, kicking her play into action. "Yeah, but... I don't think you guys could have been that bad, I mean, it seems it was more Black and Potter than you," He said, laying a hand on his knee.
Remus looked down at her hand, blinking.
"From what I hear, you just hung out in the background, I can't blame you for that," She said, moving her hand further up his leg, looking into his widened amber eyes. "Remus, relax."
She leant forward, brushing her lips over his softly. Remus quickly pulled away.
"Keira, we... we can't. We're professor, we must set an example for the students," He said, although Keira could tell it took all his will power.
She smirked at him. "Remus, you're a nineteen year old guy, I'm a nineteen year old girl, I'm sure they'll understand."
Remus seemed stuck between choices. Keira knew he wanted it; he was just trying not to show it.
Keira rubbed his thigh as if to close the deal. "Come on Remus," She leant forward again, pressing her lips against his. Moving her mouth with his. Remus ran a hand through her soft straight black-hair, as if he'd been dying to touch it for weeks.
They heard footsteps approach the room; they quickly sprung apart when Minerva's voice echoed in the outside corridor.
"Albus requests that you make it, please, Severus. You're the only one at this school with the talent..."
"Fine," Severus said, not sounding happy with what he had just agreed to do.
The Staff door swung open, Minerva and Severus entered the room, raising their eyebrows at Keira and Remus.
"Hello Minerva, Severus," Keira said, not pink in the slightest, Remus on the other hand had to start shuffling through papers to hide his face. Keira had her quill back in her hand, essays in front of her.
She sighed as she slowly read the last one, cursing herself for setting the essay. She glanced at the name at the top of the parchment, it said: Amity Kilenya.
She looked down at the essay, the carefully curved writing stretched for what seemed like again. She began to read with more interest. Amity had turned up late to most classes, and when she was there she didn't seem to be paying attention, it was strange that the girl would have such a good essay. Maybe one of her friends helped her, Keira thought.
She was thoroughly surprised when she finished reading, the work was fantastic, and she would expect this kind of work from a Seventh Year, not a Fifth Year.
She placed up her essays and marking materials and got to her feet, Minerva had left shortly after she arrived.
"Well I'm off to bed," Keira announced. Remus looked up at her; she winked at him and turned towards the door about to walk out.
Severus stood suddenly. "I'll walk you," He said, following her out of the room.
They had just reached her room, Severus quickly cast a silencing charm on the room and he rounded on her.
"You didn't, did you?" He asked.
"I didn't what?" She asked innocently, knowing exactly what he was talking about.
"Don't give me that bull shit," Severus said. "You kissed him."
"Sev, in case you've forgotten, that's what I'm here to do, get close to him."
"The Dark Lord never mentioned anything... intimate."
"Well what did you think I was gunna do? Hold his hand and ask him to spill his deepest secrets?" She shot.
"It would be better than what you're doing," Severus snapped. "You... you can't be with him."
"And why not?" Keira asked. "Give me one reason why I shouldn't do as my Lord instructs."
Severus moved closer to her, wrapped his arms around her, kissing her deeply.
"There's a reason," He said before striding out of the room.
Keira stood there, frozen in the moment. Had Severus just kissed her? Her best friend Severus? He didn't want her to do anything with Remus because he liked her? But what about her Lord? She couldn't disobey him, could she?
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Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
And every morning that I wake I look back at yesterday
And I'm OK
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Meals the next day were so uncomfortable. Severus refused to talk to her, and Remus seemed too shy to, and she still didn't know what she was going to do. It was not a good thing.
She had a free period and she making her way back from her last class when she heard a sob come from a classroom with its door closed.
She heard it again, slowly sobs, the sobs of someone crying.
She slowly opened the door and looked inside; the weeper looked up at her, from under black-stained cheeks. It was Amity.
"Amity? What... Why are you crying?" Keira asked, she dropped her briefcase on a desk and rushed to where the girl was crying. She was hugging her knees to her chest and rocking slightly.
Keira put her arms around the crying girl and hugged her. She couldn't stand to look at this girl cry, she... she looked just like herself. When she was a young girl, her parents used to fight, and sometimes her step- father would get physical and hit her mother. Keira, or Tobi, would sit up in her room, rocking on the floor as she listened to her mother scream.
"Amity? What happened?" Keira asked, trying to subside the girl's enormous sobs. "I... I can't tell you."
"Why?" Keira asked. "Did someone do something to you?"
Amity looked up at her through her pink fringed.
"Was a student?"
Amity shook her head, letting out another sob. Keira gave her a tissue from her pocket.
"Was it a teacher?"
Amity shook her head again.
Who could it be? She wondered, then it hit.
"Amity, how are things at home?"
Amity blinked at her, shocked as if she'd hit the right spot.
"F-Fine," Keira could tell she was lying.
Keira took Amity at arms distance. "Amity, you can trust me, when I was a girl..." She went on to tell Amity of her father's fury and what it did to her as a girl.
"Did he ever hit you?" Amity asked, wiping her black-streaked cheeks.
Keira nodded. "If I got in the way, my mother would mostly protect me from him."
"My... my mother's dead," Amity told her. "I... I live alone with my father."
"Your father hits you, doesn't he?" Keira asked.
Amity looked at the ground and nodded, completely dumb.
"You should do something about it," Keira told her.
"Like what? He's stronger than me."
"No, I mean confide in a social worker at a Councelling centre for magical teenagers."
"I... I can't, He'll just hurt me more. You... You aren't going to tell anyone are you?"
Keira thought about this for a moment. Should she tell McGonagall or Dumbledore? They'd want to know. But if Amity didn't want her to, it could make things worse for her. This was a tough decision for the right-hand woman of Lord Voldemort.
She looked into Amity's eyes and couldn't help herself. "Of course I won't, but I'm going to try and make arrangements for your housing when you go home at the end of the year. You shouldn't live with that man anymore."
Amity nodded. "I know, but I knew I couldn't do anything."
Keira nodded. She had tried to do something about her Step-Father had had ended up making things worse, no-one was going to listen to a young girl, not in this world.
"I'll make everything better," She told the girl. "I promise."
--
I often wonder why I carry all this guilt
When it's you that helped me put up all these walls I've built
Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door
Echoes of a broken child screaming please no more
Daddy don't you understand the damage you have done
For you it's just a memory but for me it still lives on
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The truth about Amity's home was wicking her like crazy. Was that was Severus as talking about. It couldn't be, there would have been something done already. Or had they tried? It didn't matter, all that matter was that she as getting that girl away from that man, and she was going to make sure she never had to see him again, ever.
She cornered Severus in his dungeon classroom after her talk with Amity, she needed to talk to someone badly, and since Severus was one of the people she had things to talk about, it was like killing two birds with one stone.
Severus sighed as he watched her enter the dungeon classroom after his last student left.
"T-Keira, I... I'm really busy," He said, recorking vials.
Keira slammed her hands down on the desk. "Severus, I want to talk to you, or I could go talk to Remus if you like."
Severus nearly dropped the vial he was holding. He turned to her, placing the vial on his desk. "Fine, what do you want?" He took a seat at his desk.
"Severus, I am not one of your students," Keira told him. She walked around the table and leant against that side of his desk.
Severus looked up at her. Keira knew what he was thinking about.
"Sev, you... you mean so much to me, you know that right?"
Severus nodded.
"And, I don't want to lose you," Keira told him. Severus blinked at her from his seat.
"You... You mean more to me than any stupid mission does."
She bent down and kissed him deeply on the lips. She pulled off and took a step back.
"No-one sees you like I do, you're- you're yourself," She told him.
Severus blinked. "I... don't know what to say."
"You don't need to say anything. I need your help with something."
"You do? What is it?"
"It's got something to do with what you won't tell me."
"It does?" Severus asked.
"Sev, you have to promise you won't tell anyone this, okay?" Severus nodded. "I just had a little talk with Amity Kilenya. She needs help Sev; her... her father beats her." Severus' eyes widened. "He does?"
Keira nodded. "She just told me."
"Did you tell her about your..."
"Yes," Keira said before he could finish. Thinking about it too much in one day wasn't something she strived to achieve. "Now you have to tell me what you know."
Severus stood, putting an arm around her waist. "Are you sure you want to know?"
Keira nodded. "Yes, I have to."
"Amity doesn't know, but her father changed his last name when he left his first wife. His original last name was... Maren."
Now it was Keira's turn to blink. "You mean that Amity is my..."
"Half sister," Severus told her.
"So that means my father is... and he's..." Keira pounded the desk behind her. "How dare he!"
--
It's not so easy to forget, all the marks you left along her neck
When I was thrown against cold stairs
And everyday afraid to some home in fear of what I might see, next
Bruises fade father but pain remains the same
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
And every morning that I wake I look back at yesterday
And I'm OK
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END CHAPTER!
Okay, please review and tell me what you think, I'm not sure I've gotten right into Keira's character yet, she's a little to compassionate, but Amity is her sister, how would you be?
Until next chapter,
-Thai.
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Summary: So this is how it is, you all know Remus Lupin, Fresh out of Hogwarts; he's a member for the Order of the Phoenix. But you don't know Keira Brayden, or should I say Tobi Maren, Undercover-Professor, a.k.a Voldemort's right-hand girl.
So Remus goes for a job at Hogwarts, as a D.A.D.A professor, at the age of nineteen, while his friends come out of Auror's training. Guess who get's to go undercover as Charms professor, since Flitwick had decided to take a year off.
But what happens when Tobi can't help her feelings and falls for her colleague? Guess how mad Oldie-Moldie-Voldie gets.
And what's up with this Amity girl? What do most people know that Keira has to find out on her own?
--
Disclaimer: See previous chapter. The song which I write in this chapter is from Christina Aguilera's song "I'm OK" From her 2002 Album: Stripped.
Last Time:
"I hate the first day at school," was all Severus would say. He glanced over what was in her hands. "Ahh... Amity Kilenya, had her yet?"
"Partly," Keira said, frowning at the records.
Severus said an eyebrow. "How do you mean?"
"Minerva escorted her to class a short while before it ended. What's the deal with Amity anyway?"
--
Chapter Two: I'm OK
--
Once upon a time there was a girl
In her early years she had to learn
How to grow up living in a war that she called home
Never knew just where to turn for shelter from the storm
It hurt me to see the pain cross my mother's face
Every time my father's fist would put her in her place
Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room
Hoping it would be over soon
--
The next few weeks seemed to float by, Keira got laden down with essays and extra-credit assignments she barely had time for what she was actually there to do.
She is working late one night in the Staff Room when the door opened.
"Keira?!" came a voice Keira had taught herself memorize, it was Remus' He had been shocked that anyone was here so late.
He looked so pale; Keira would have been worried for him if she didn't already what his condition was, and that he would be fine.
"Hello Remus," Keira said politely, going back to marking essays. Remus slipped into a seat next to her.
"How's it going?" He asked.
"How's what going?" Keira asked.
"Teaching," Remus said with a smile.
"Great, they're such good kids; it makes me feel bad that I was such a brat at school."
Remus laughed. "My friends and I got into a bit of mischief when we went here," He explained, not knowing that Keira knew all too well.
"So I've heard," Keira told him, more sweetly than bitterly.
Remus looked up at her. "I take it you've heard the... horrifying version, from Severus?"
Keira smiled warmly at him, kicking her play into action. "Yeah, but... I don't think you guys could have been that bad, I mean, it seems it was more Black and Potter than you," He said, laying a hand on his knee.
Remus looked down at her hand, blinking.
"From what I hear, you just hung out in the background, I can't blame you for that," She said, moving her hand further up his leg, looking into his widened amber eyes. "Remus, relax."
She leant forward, brushing her lips over his softly. Remus quickly pulled away.
"Keira, we... we can't. We're professor, we must set an example for the students," He said, although Keira could tell it took all his will power.
She smirked at him. "Remus, you're a nineteen year old guy, I'm a nineteen year old girl, I'm sure they'll understand."
Remus seemed stuck between choices. Keira knew he wanted it; he was just trying not to show it.
Keira rubbed his thigh as if to close the deal. "Come on Remus," She leant forward again, pressing her lips against his. Moving her mouth with his. Remus ran a hand through her soft straight black-hair, as if he'd been dying to touch it for weeks.
They heard footsteps approach the room; they quickly sprung apart when Minerva's voice echoed in the outside corridor.
"Albus requests that you make it, please, Severus. You're the only one at this school with the talent..."
"Fine," Severus said, not sounding happy with what he had just agreed to do.
The Staff door swung open, Minerva and Severus entered the room, raising their eyebrows at Keira and Remus.
"Hello Minerva, Severus," Keira said, not pink in the slightest, Remus on the other hand had to start shuffling through papers to hide his face. Keira had her quill back in her hand, essays in front of her.
She sighed as she slowly read the last one, cursing herself for setting the essay. She glanced at the name at the top of the parchment, it said: Amity Kilenya.
She looked down at the essay, the carefully curved writing stretched for what seemed like again. She began to read with more interest. Amity had turned up late to most classes, and when she was there she didn't seem to be paying attention, it was strange that the girl would have such a good essay. Maybe one of her friends helped her, Keira thought.
She was thoroughly surprised when she finished reading, the work was fantastic, and she would expect this kind of work from a Seventh Year, not a Fifth Year.
She placed up her essays and marking materials and got to her feet, Minerva had left shortly after she arrived.
"Well I'm off to bed," Keira announced. Remus looked up at her; she winked at him and turned towards the door about to walk out.
Severus stood suddenly. "I'll walk you," He said, following her out of the room.
They had just reached her room, Severus quickly cast a silencing charm on the room and he rounded on her.
"You didn't, did you?" He asked.
"I didn't what?" She asked innocently, knowing exactly what he was talking about.
"Don't give me that bull shit," Severus said. "You kissed him."
"Sev, in case you've forgotten, that's what I'm here to do, get close to him."
"The Dark Lord never mentioned anything... intimate."
"Well what did you think I was gunna do? Hold his hand and ask him to spill his deepest secrets?" She shot.
"It would be better than what you're doing," Severus snapped. "You... you can't be with him."
"And why not?" Keira asked. "Give me one reason why I shouldn't do as my Lord instructs."
Severus moved closer to her, wrapped his arms around her, kissing her deeply.
"There's a reason," He said before striding out of the room.
Keira stood there, frozen in the moment. Had Severus just kissed her? Her best friend Severus? He didn't want her to do anything with Remus because he liked her? But what about her Lord? She couldn't disobey him, could she?
--
Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
And every morning that I wake I look back at yesterday
And I'm OK
--
Meals the next day were so uncomfortable. Severus refused to talk to her, and Remus seemed too shy to, and she still didn't know what she was going to do. It was not a good thing.
She had a free period and she making her way back from her last class when she heard a sob come from a classroom with its door closed.
She heard it again, slowly sobs, the sobs of someone crying.
She slowly opened the door and looked inside; the weeper looked up at her, from under black-stained cheeks. It was Amity.
"Amity? What... Why are you crying?" Keira asked, she dropped her briefcase on a desk and rushed to where the girl was crying. She was hugging her knees to her chest and rocking slightly.
Keira put her arms around the crying girl and hugged her. She couldn't stand to look at this girl cry, she... she looked just like herself. When she was a young girl, her parents used to fight, and sometimes her step- father would get physical and hit her mother. Keira, or Tobi, would sit up in her room, rocking on the floor as she listened to her mother scream.
"Amity? What happened?" Keira asked, trying to subside the girl's enormous sobs. "I... I can't tell you."
"Why?" Keira asked. "Did someone do something to you?"
Amity looked up at her through her pink fringed.
"Was a student?"
Amity shook her head, letting out another sob. Keira gave her a tissue from her pocket.
"Was it a teacher?"
Amity shook her head again.
Who could it be? She wondered, then it hit.
"Amity, how are things at home?"
Amity blinked at her, shocked as if she'd hit the right spot.
"F-Fine," Keira could tell she was lying.
Keira took Amity at arms distance. "Amity, you can trust me, when I was a girl..." She went on to tell Amity of her father's fury and what it did to her as a girl.
"Did he ever hit you?" Amity asked, wiping her black-streaked cheeks.
Keira nodded. "If I got in the way, my mother would mostly protect me from him."
"My... my mother's dead," Amity told her. "I... I live alone with my father."
"Your father hits you, doesn't he?" Keira asked.
Amity looked at the ground and nodded, completely dumb.
"You should do something about it," Keira told her.
"Like what? He's stronger than me."
"No, I mean confide in a social worker at a Councelling centre for magical teenagers."
"I... I can't, He'll just hurt me more. You... You aren't going to tell anyone are you?"
Keira thought about this for a moment. Should she tell McGonagall or Dumbledore? They'd want to know. But if Amity didn't want her to, it could make things worse for her. This was a tough decision for the right-hand woman of Lord Voldemort.
She looked into Amity's eyes and couldn't help herself. "Of course I won't, but I'm going to try and make arrangements for your housing when you go home at the end of the year. You shouldn't live with that man anymore."
Amity nodded. "I know, but I knew I couldn't do anything."
Keira nodded. She had tried to do something about her Step-Father had had ended up making things worse, no-one was going to listen to a young girl, not in this world.
"I'll make everything better," She told the girl. "I promise."
--
I often wonder why I carry all this guilt
When it's you that helped me put up all these walls I've built
Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door
Echoes of a broken child screaming please no more
Daddy don't you understand the damage you have done
For you it's just a memory but for me it still lives on
--
The truth about Amity's home was wicking her like crazy. Was that was Severus as talking about. It couldn't be, there would have been something done already. Or had they tried? It didn't matter, all that matter was that she as getting that girl away from that man, and she was going to make sure she never had to see him again, ever.
She cornered Severus in his dungeon classroom after her talk with Amity, she needed to talk to someone badly, and since Severus was one of the people she had things to talk about, it was like killing two birds with one stone.
Severus sighed as he watched her enter the dungeon classroom after his last student left.
"T-Keira, I... I'm really busy," He said, recorking vials.
Keira slammed her hands down on the desk. "Severus, I want to talk to you, or I could go talk to Remus if you like."
Severus nearly dropped the vial he was holding. He turned to her, placing the vial on his desk. "Fine, what do you want?" He took a seat at his desk.
"Severus, I am not one of your students," Keira told him. She walked around the table and leant against that side of his desk.
Severus looked up at her. Keira knew what he was thinking about.
"Sev, you... you mean so much to me, you know that right?"
Severus nodded.
"And, I don't want to lose you," Keira told him. Severus blinked at her from his seat.
"You... You mean more to me than any stupid mission does."
She bent down and kissed him deeply on the lips. She pulled off and took a step back.
"No-one sees you like I do, you're- you're yourself," She told him.
Severus blinked. "I... don't know what to say."
"You don't need to say anything. I need your help with something."
"You do? What is it?"
"It's got something to do with what you won't tell me."
"It does?" Severus asked.
"Sev, you have to promise you won't tell anyone this, okay?" Severus nodded. "I just had a little talk with Amity Kilenya. She needs help Sev; her... her father beats her." Severus' eyes widened. "He does?"
Keira nodded. "She just told me."
"Did you tell her about your..."
"Yes," Keira said before he could finish. Thinking about it too much in one day wasn't something she strived to achieve. "Now you have to tell me what you know."
Severus stood, putting an arm around her waist. "Are you sure you want to know?"
Keira nodded. "Yes, I have to."
"Amity doesn't know, but her father changed his last name when he left his first wife. His original last name was... Maren."
Now it was Keira's turn to blink. "You mean that Amity is my..."
"Half sister," Severus told her.
"So that means my father is... and he's..." Keira pounded the desk behind her. "How dare he!"
--
It's not so easy to forget, all the marks you left along her neck
When I was thrown against cold stairs
And everyday afraid to some home in fear of what I might see, next
Bruises fade father but pain remains the same
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
And every morning that I wake I look back at yesterday
And I'm OK
---
END CHAPTER!
Okay, please review and tell me what you think, I'm not sure I've gotten right into Keira's character yet, she's a little to compassionate, but Amity is her sister, how would you be?
Until next chapter,
-Thai.