Remus Lupin hurried towards the staffroom in which Dumbledore had called a meeting. As he passed by McGonagall's office, he could hear someone sobbing. Worried that McGonagall might be hurt, he knocked gently on the door.

When no one answered, he opened the door and looked inside. His heightened senses picked up the scent of two unknowns, and the heartbeat of both. The first heartbeat was clearly human and matched the scent of a young female. The second though worried Remus. The heartbeat was too slow to be human but it didn't match anything that Remus could recall. The scent was one of a human baby but it also smelt of death. It didn't match up.

Creeping closer, Remus noticed it was indeed a young woman with a baby. She was sobbing in her sleep, holding the baby close to her. He gently placed his hand on her shoulder to try to calm her down but no sooner had his hand touched than the girl's eyelids snapped open and she jumped up to stand in a defensive position.

"Who are you?" she demanded, no sign of weakness showing in her stance or voice.

"I'm sorry to worry you, my name is Remus Lupin, I am a professor here at Hogwarts," he quickly apologised.

She backed down slightly, but he could sense she was still tense. He also noticed she was between him and the baby.

"Cordelia Chase, where is Minerva?"

"I believe she would be at a staff meeting, I was just on my way there myself but I could hear you sobbing and thought it was her," he justified himself without knowing why, "Is everything okay Miss Chase?"

"Fine, everything is just fine," she sighed. "It's just been a couple of rough days."

"Tell me about it," Remus agreed, thinking of the last night's change. Thankful that Snape had brewed his Wolfsbane potion. "Miss Chase, are you staying here long?"

"Yes, I…" she started before grabbing her head and shaking. "Oh god! No! No!"

"Miss Chase!" Remus looked at her alarmed. He didn't know what to do. "DOBBY!"

The house elf suddenly appeared at his side.

"Master Lupin, what can Dobby do sir?"

"Go to Dumbledore, get Professor McGonagall and Madame Pomfrey to come back here immediately."

With that, Dobby had disappeared and Remus was left to try to calm down the now screaming baby who had woken up with Cordelia's yelling. He picked up the small baby and gently rocked him. His senses were screaming at the proximity of the baby but he tried his hardest to settle the baby down.

Before long the door burst open and in rushed Professor McGonagall followed by Madame Pomfrey and Professor Dumbledore.

"Professor Lupin, what happened here?" Dumbledore asked as McGonagall ran to the crying girl.

Remus explained the story as McGonagall finally got the girl settled down. Madame Pomfrey called a stretcher and gently raised the girl onto it. As the stretcher floated passed Remus, the girl's eyes locked onto him.

"Lock yourself up tonight. The potion won't work as intended. Someone wants you out there to kill. Stay inside."

McGonagall didn't seem surprised by her announcement but the others in the room certainly were. Instead she reached for the baby in Remus' arms and gently lifted him to her.

"Trust her Remus, she knows what she is talking about."

With that, she followed Madame Pomfrey out of the office. Remus and Dumbledore shared a look and decided to follow.

Cordelia woke up in some kind of hospital ward, the whiteness of the room hurt her still sensitive eyes. Her head throbbed but not as badly as before. She looked around through squinted eyes and noticed her aunt in a chair next to her bed holding Connor closely to her.

"Aunt Minnie?" Cordy asked weakly.

"You're awake, heavens girl you frightened me."

"Sorry Aunt Minnie," she automatically apologise. "That man, Remus Lupin. Did he understand what I told him?"

"Yes dear, he will listen to you."

Cordelia sank back in the bed in relief. She opened her arms and Minerva carefully placed Connor into them. Cordy cuddled him gently, loving stroking his head.

"What am I going to do Minnie? I can't continue with the pain," she admitted. "But I don't want to loose these visions. It's too much of a link to Doyle."

Her aunt looked at her in sympathy. The young girl's life had never been simple. She knew too much about the world that normal humans tried hard to overlook. Going to high school with the Slayer and then working with a half demon and a vampire was sure to make her a little unusual in the normal world but within the magic world, it could just be an advantage. But the whole visions deal needed to be dealt with. Somehow they had to overcome the pain barrier.

"Sweetheart, Madame Pomfrey is already investigating it. She will work with Professor Snape to see if they can create a potion or a spell to reduce the pain."

"Thank you Aunt Minnie."

"Sleep now dear, I'll take Connor to my room and watch over him."

Remus waited until McGonagall had left the hospital ward before seeking out Cordelia. He crept towards her bed, hoping Madame Pomfrey didn't hear him. She looked peaceful and asleep, to which he softly cursed. He needed to know what she knew.

He didn't notice her eyes opening up when he curse and he turned to leave when he felt a hand grab his wrist. Turning back around he noticed the now awake Cordelia.

"Stay a moment," she whispered. "You have questions?"

"Yes. What do you know about me? What happened?" he whispered back.

"What you witnessed was a message from the Powers that Be. I am a seer for them. They let me know when there is danger that is needed to be stopped. My friends go out… went out and saved who needed to be saved," she said trying not to cry as she remembered Angel, Wesley and her other friends who had died recently. Taking a deep breath she went on.

"I know that you are a werewolf and I don't care. Aunt Minnie explained to me that in this world you are treated as subhuman. In high school one of my closest friends was dating a werewolf so I have no issues with it. Oz was cool, maybe one day we can introduce the two of you," she smiled wistfully as she remembered the Sunnydale crew. No matter how hard she had tried to pretend that they weren't friends, she knew that they were.

"The vision showed me what would happen tonight if you only took the potion and stayed unchained. Someone slipped something into it and it makes the wolf more vicious. I saw you ripping into a young boy who had snuck out of the school. When the vision stopped, you were covered in blood."

She thought about it. The reason she had been sent the vision must have been to protect the boy; otherwise it didn't make sense. She had never received visions when other werewolves had attacked unless the human side of the werewolf was as vicious as the wolf side.

"Is there anything special about the young boy? He was wearing glasses and had dark, messy hair…" she begun describing the victim.

"And a lightning bolt scar on his forehead," Remus whispered the rest of what she was going to say. "I was going to kill Harry."

"You know him?"

"He's practically my son," Remus admitted. "Harry's parents were killed when he was a baby by a dark wizard. The wizard tried to kill Harry but the curse he used bounced off Harry and reflected back at him. Everyone thought that the wizard was dead. Unfortunately we now know that's wrong. Harry found out only about six years ago about being a wizard and everywhere he goes in the wizarding world he is known as The Boy Who Lived. He's the only one to ever live through the curse."

"How does that make him your son?"

"What he doesn't know is that I have been watching out for him whenever I could. His parents were my best friends through Hogwarts and I was shattered to hear that they had been killed. Now whenever he needs help, I hope that I will be there for him. He's had a really rough life. The wizard has tried several more times to kill him and managed to kill his godfather who had gone to save him…"

"And now he's in danger from you."

Remus shuddered at the thought of hurting Harry. It was not possible but he decided to trust Cordelia and decided to find a way to be chained up so he wasn't a danger.

"I'll leave you to your sleep. Thank you for answering the questions," he murmured.

"Come back and see me tomorrow," Cordelia replied sleepily. "Let me know how you go tonight."

"I will," he replied and then bent down to lay a soft kiss on her forehead as he heard her heartbeat slow. "Goodnight Cordelia."

Cordelia smiled as the door shut behind him before snuggling back down in the bed.