Chapter 4 - The Full Moon Pt. 1
Rita sat in Transfiguration with her head of house lecturing them about Animagus's once more. She felt sick and was about ready to vomit.
"Miss Janson, are you feeling alright?" Professor McGonagall asked, looking a bit worried.
"No, not really." Rita replied, holding her stomach.
"Go on to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey will take care of you." The woman said and Rita got up and, slowly, walked out of the room.
Rita kept near the wall as she made her way to the hospital wing, fearing she'd fall.
Once she reached the hospital wing, she walked in and saw Lupin laying on one of the beds, looking a little sick, like her.
Madam Pomfrey came out of her office when she heard the door open and she came up to Rita.
"What is it?" The nurse asked and Rita looked at her.
"I'm not feeling real well and Professor McGonagall sent me here." Rita said in a low voice.
"Oh, you're the one that got bit by that animal aren't you? Well, lay down. I'll be back in a minute." Madam Pomfrey said and she went back inside her office.
Rita sat down on the bed and grimaced.
"She's not an animal." Rita whispered and she had images come before her eyes. "She's coming for me."
"Who's coming for you?" Asked a male voice and Rita looked back at the bed where Lupin lay and saw him sitting up with a very pale face.
"Uh. . .well. . .I share the thoughts of the one who bit me. I heard her say in her mind that she was going to come here to get me." Rita said and Lupin nodded.
"She was probably trying to tell you that if she cares about you as much as you say in your rants about her not being a blood-thirsty animal." Lupin said, smiling, and he got up and walked over to her bed, sitting down next to the new werewolf.
"Well, she's not. She may be immortal, but she's still human when it comes to her heart and soul." Rita said and Lupin nodded, glad that someone besides Harry, Ron, Hermine, and most of the Order believed that werewolves weren't all that bad.
"I agree that werewolves have heart." He said, looking down.
"Well, you have to. You are a werewolf." Rita said, smiling.
--Lycan! Miss I-know-everything.-- Said an amused voice in her head.
--Syn?!--Rita asked, a shocked expression on her head.
--That's it baby doll.-- Syn replied, a knowing smirk on her face as she made her way toward her goal.
--This is so cool!-- Rita said and Syn began to laugh.
"Rita? Hello? Is anyone in there?" Lupin asked and Rita blinked for a minute.
"Wha--?" Rita said and she snapped out of it.
The girl looked at Lupin and blinked a few more times.
"What's wrong?" He asked and Rita smiled.
"I just found out that Syn and me can transmit our thoughts to each other like we're talking telepathically." Rita said, smiling big.
--I can do that with Lucian when I want too.-- Syn said and Rita looked puzzled.
--Lucian? Destructive Lycan leader Lucian?-- Rita asked and Syn laughed.
--Not as "destructive" as me when I get to that castle.-- Syn said, darkly, and Rita frowned.
"I have the feeling Syn might hurt somebody if I don't go to her." Rita said and Lupin nodded.
"The older, more powerful werewolves will stop at nothing to get what they want if they've had a rough past and it relates to it." Lupin said and Rita looked him in the eye, surprised.
"They do?" She asked and he nodded.
"How old is this 'Syn'?" He asked and she thought for a minute.
--550.-- Syn answered without much emotion to it.
"She's 550-years-old. Pretty old to look so young." Rita said, smirking as her sire growled.
"Well, some Immortals have the ability to look the same age as they were bitten, or changed." Lupin said, looking a little sad. "But not all of them do."
"You mean, you have to age?" Rita asked and she could tell that Syn was listening too.
"Afraid so." Lupin replied, rubbing a spot on his arm.
--I'm bored. Lucian's stopped talking to me and went off with Raze to do something. Also, everyone's afraid of me because I'm a Lycan elder and am legendary. So they won't talk to me, the meanies.-- Syn said and Rita burst out laughing.
--You sounded like a little kid talkin' about bullies!-- Rita said, laughing her head off.
--So?-- Syn said, defensively.
"She's so weird." Rita whispered as she tried to quit laughing.
"What'd she do now?" Lupin asked, an amused look on his face.
"She's talking like a kid that's being bullied! The other Lycans won't talk to her because she's an elder and they're afraid of her, so she's mad." Rita said as she quit laughing, wiping a tear from her eye. "I think she annoyed Lucian into not talking to her." She whispered to Lupin and he began to laugh.
--Hmph!-- Syn grunted and Rita could just see her crossing her arms.