Daughters of the Wolf
By: LupinTwins, a.k.a. Lorelei Lupin and Jai Lupin
A/N: Alright, so Jai is writing this chapter as quickly as possible, trying to please her sister Lorelei. And while she's doing this, she's trying to write the first chapter to a new fanfiction, trying to plan for the fics to come after we finish this one, a new Marauders fic, and a new chapter to her current fiction entitled A Picture's Worth 229 Words. And she's trying to wake up early enough to get to work every day! So forgive me for taking about a day to write this. I think it turned out rather nicely, so please tell me if you like it!
Chapter Two: A Family of Wolves
Little Jerica Kaimi Lupin was bored. Her sister was colouring intently--inside the lines--and Jerica didn't have anyone else to play with. Mum and Daddy had gone to transform.
"Jenny, wanna go to the forest and play?" Jerica finally asked.
"No, sorry, I'm colouring," Jennifer said, not taking her eyes off the picture of a large shaggy dog in the colouring book. She placed the Exploding Blue crayon on the table and picked up a Smelly Green one instead. Jerica noticed the crayons as the ones Cousin Fred and Cousin George had given to Jennifer on their third birthday.
"Please? I'm bored, and I want to go to the forest," Jeri said, frowning at Jennifer. Her twin was picking up a Fuzzy Pink crayon now, first colouring, then feeling where she had coloured.
"Look, Jeri, feel the pink!" Jenny said happily. Instead of touching the picture, she walked over, bent down, put her nose right up to the green areas, and sniffed. It smelled horribly like old eggs and mouldy bread.
"Ugh! What is that?" Jerica said. But just as she was about to pull her face away from the picture, the blue crayon exploded in her face.
Jennifer was doubled over with laughter, but soon regained her normal manner and started saying how sorry she was.
"If you're really sorry, come and play with me," Jerica said, smirking.
"Fine. But you have to ask Tonks," Jennifer said.
"Fine," Jerica said, marching out of the room to the kitchen and tugging on the leg of Tonk's patched jeans.
"What is it, Jeri?" Tonks asked, stirring a bit of stew on the stove and adding a bit of broth with her wand every few moments.
"Can Jennifer and I go play outside?"
"What for?" Tonks said, obviously catching the glint in Jerica's eyes.
"I just wanted to play. I'm bored and Jenny said that if I convinced you to let us go, she'd play with me," Jerica said with a pleading look at Tonks.
"Yes, alright, go on then. But do not go past the fence, young lady. It's dangerous, and there aren't any protective spells past the gate."
Jerica skipped back into their play room, with a plan forming in her young mind. "Jenny! Tonks said that we could go play outside!"
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Tonks had never seen a girl so outgoing at the young age of 3. Jerica was like a younger version of Fred, George, and Sirius Black. It was so funny to see her picking up Remus's wand and trying to turn the kettle into an owl.
And, of course, Jennifer was the calmest, most beautiful girl Tonks had ever seen. She was smart, kind, and thoughtful, like a younger, female Remus Lupin. Of course, both girls looked like Remus, but the one difference between the twins was their eyes. Jennifer had Remus's kind, soft blue eyes. Jerica had her mother's stormy, ready grey-blue ones.
And now there was the new member of the family, Sirius James Lupin. The girls' baby brother had been born about a month ago, 8 November. But the thing was, this boy, unlike his older sisters, was a werewolf. Tonks remembered the hurried discussion before Remus and Aria had left for the werewolf forest to safely transform.
"Remus! Remus, what if he's born tonight?" Aria had asked.
"I know what'll happen, dear, but we have to just hope it doesn't," Remus had said calmly. Obviously, he wasn't as calm as he made it appear to be though. Tonks had seen his eyes, and they had become cold and resolved, like ice.
"I'll look after the twins. Now go, just go!" Tonks had said, pushing them out the door and telling them to floo to the cabin inthe forest designated for werewolves.
Tonks had waited for what seemed like ages. When Remus and Aria had finally returned home, the latter of the two was holding a bundle in her arms, crying softly.
"No, no, it can't be like this," Tonks had said, looking to Remus for an explanation.
"Tonks, he's a werewolf," he had said, falling into an armchair and looking like death.
"No, it's a mistake. How do you know he'll transform every month? Maybe this is a onetime thing," Tonks had said, sitting on the couch.
"We know. It's what happens when the child is born during the full moon. He's a werewolf," Remus repeated, his face in his hands.
"Remus, it isn't your fault, you can't have done anything--," Tonks had assured him.
Tonks shook the memories from her head and continued to make dinner. Remus and Aria had taken little Sirius to his first true transformation tonight, and Tonks had wished them all goodluck. Feeling sorry for Jerica and Jennifer, she had also let them play outside, something she had never let them do before. But seeing as their new baby brother wasn't here to help them through their parents' transformations, Tonks had allowed them to leave the house, telling them to go no further than the fence.
She looked out the open window and saw the twins playing tag by the gate, and laughed as Jerica shouted, "You're it!" from across the yard.
"You didn't even touch me! You're all the way over there!" Jennifer shouted back.
Jerica laughed and ran away.
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"Let's go play tag in the forest," Jerica said after a long while, pointing into the trees past the gate.
"Did Tonks say we could go past the gate?" Jennifer asked, her brow furrowed.
"Yes," Jeri lied, "so, do you want to?"
"Um, isn't it dangerous past the gate?"
"Oh come on, it's not like it's the werewolf forest or anything!" Jerica said, impatience starting to fill her words.
"Oh alright," Jennifer said.
Making sure Tonks wasn't looking, Jerica led the way past the gate and into the forest. Jennifer didn't like the idea of going past the gate, but followed reluctantly.
They walked a long way, looking at rocks, streams, and leaves, until Jennifer noticed something on the ground.
"Look at that!" Jennifer said, pointing at an eagle feather partially covered in leaves.
"What is it?" Jeri asked.
"It looks like a quill," Jenny said, picking it up.
"I know, we can bring it home and I'll give it to little Sirius! He'll love it," Jerica said, taking the feather from Jennifer.
"Hey, I found it! It should be from me," Jennifer said, taking it back.
"It was my idea! Plus, I brought you to the forest!"
"You wouldn't be in the forest if it weren't for me! Remember? I agreed to play with you!"
Jerica let out a muffled scream and leaped at her twin, doing something that scared Jennifer greatly. Mid-jump, Jerica turned into a black wolf pup, pouncing on her little sister and scratching the younger twin's face. In defence, unknowingly, Jennifer turned into a wolf as well--although pure white instead of black--and they fought each other for a long time before changing back and saying sorry.
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After about an hour, dinner was completely ready, and the table was set. Tonks was so busy cooking, however, that she didn't realize the twins were missing. When everything was finished, she opened the back door and looked around for the 3 year olds. It surprised her when the twins weren't there.
Panicking, Tonks ran to the gate and shouted the names of the girls. Eventually, she ran into the forest, following a deer trail and calling them through ragged breaths.
When she got to a clearing, Tonks found them. They were covered in scratches, and sitting on the floor, catching their breath. Tonks decided to join them, sitting down and looking at one, then the other.
It was nearly dark, seeing as the sun had just set, "Lumos,!" Tonks exclaimed, creating light with her wand.
"What were you thinking, girls? I told you not to come in here!"
At these words, Jennifer gave Jerica a very annoyed and startled look and turned back to Tonks.
"Well, Jeri told me you said we could come here."
Tonks looked at Jerica, ready to tell her off, but found that her voice had betrayed her. Instead, she asked, "Why are you two so scratched up?"
"We were just...well we decided to climb trees, but we both fell out and landed in a bunch of thorns," Jerica lied. She felt that it wasn't a good time to tell Tonks that they had been arguing, let alone tell her that they had turned into a couple of angry wolves.
"You two are going to be in so much trouble. As soon as you've had dinner, both of you are going to bed right away," Tonks said, too relieved to be angry. She smiled at them, picked up Jennifer, held Jerica's hand, and walked back to the house. She didn't even see the eagle feather clasped in Jennifer's fist.
Once they got inside, Tonks sealed the cut on Jennifer's face, and spread an anti-scaring potion that she kept in hand for her own lack of grace, over the gash.
Jerica had already began eating ravenously and by the time that Tonks had finished taking care of Jennifer's wound, the elder twin was finished eating. "Thank you, Tonks, I'm sorry about disobeying you," she said, with only a hint of guilt to her voice.
"Get ready for bed," Tonks said with a sigh, starting to feel guilty about punishing them at all.
Jennifer ate more slowly, rather, barely touched her food and just played with it instead. "I'm sorry, I didn't know," Jennifer said after a while, putting down the spoon.
"I know," Tonks answered. "Are you sure you're done?" she asked, looking at the barely-touched soup. "Does it taste all right?"
"Yeah, it's good. I'm just not too hungry," Jenny answered, standing up and heading up the stairs.
"Goodnight," Tonks called after her.
"Goodnight," Jenny softly answered back.
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"I am so sorry, Sirius James," Remus was saying, putting the sleeping boy in his cradle. "You don't deserve this. You, of all people, shouldn't have this curse."
Remus's eyes focused on his wedding ring, which was replicated from Aria's father's. It was some sort of family tradition for the men in a family to have rings and the women to have necklaces that were passed down from person to person. Remus had gotten his ring after Aria had accepted his marriage proposal. Her father had welcomed him into the family, and had given a toast, but instead of raising water glasses, her father had his hands rolled up into a fist, and held out high. The hand had glowed faintly, and when he opened it, a ring with his initials had appeared in the previously empty hand. Aria had taken the ring from her father's hand, and slid it onto his left ring finger. Children always got their rings and lockets from their parents, but not always at the same time, rather at an important time in the child's life involving the parent of the same sex. Remus was still waiting for the day when his three children would get their necklaces and ring.
Well, not exactly. He was still waiting for the day when the twins would get their necklaces. For the day when little Sirius got his ring was staring him in the face.
After gazing at his left hand for a while, after staring at the initials "R.J." on his ring, Remus took the baby's left hand in his own. Something happened when he did just that, however. His ring changed. A faint glow was coming from it, and Remus watched as the one ring made itself two rings. One slipped off his finger and fell into the baby's open hand. Remus saw the initials "S.J." engraved there.
Dropping his hand by his side, Remus stared at what had just happened. Then, taking the tiny ring from the little boy's hand, Remus slid it onto the baby's finger.
After gazing at Sirius James, who was named after his two best friends, for a long time, Remus tore from the room, turned a sharp corner, burst into his bedroom, and took the hands of Aria into his own. Leading her to the bed, he told her what had happened.
"Wait, so Siri has his ring?"
"Yes, my ring just sort of...split into two! And the second ring shrunk and fell into Sirius's hand!"
"Can--can I see?"
Remus laughed. Of course she could see. He pulled her out of the room, and--with the most energy he'd ever had after a transformation, ran into the nursery.
Trying to stay quiet out of respect for the sleeping boy, Remus showed a tearful Aria the new ring.
After a long, cheerful moment of silence, they went to the living room to say good morning--or goodnight--to Tonks. She was lying on the couch, her eyes closed, but obviously awake, for she sat up when they entered the room.
"Everything settled?" Tonks asked, smiling at the couple.
"Yes. The twins weren't much trouble, were they?"
"Not at all. They're just full of energy though, aren't they?"
"Yeah, well I think they get that from their mother," said Remus sitting down in a chair.
"I'd better get home and get a bit of rest. I'll see you two later!" Tonks said, changing her messy purple hair to a very vibrant orange and showing herself out.
A/N: *Dies* okay, so that was a bit longer than the last chapter. You're welcome Lorelei! I think I'll be able to use my hands in a few hours. This wasn't too hard, but with all those other fics...yeah, it's a bit of work. Okay, so we have a lot more of Jerica and Jennifer coming up. In fact, we've already planned their entire first year, and we're ready to write it as soon as we finish this fic. So R/R please.
Lorelei: I'm sleeping over at a friend's house, and it's five in the morning, and yeah… Jai finished this part a bit earlier, and I edited/added stuff, so yeah. I am tired, I've been getting up early to babysit and crap, and staying up late to write, which isn't very nice.