A/N NOOOOOOOOOOOTES!!!!!

I GOT 8 REVIEWS!!!!!! Hehe

Sam - reviews?? (snort)

Miandre - oh hello you

Sam - oh JAAAAACK!

Jackson - yes?

Sam - Miandre says she got reviews, but i dont believe her.

Miandre - (sigh) yes indeed i got reviews.. and guess what?!?!?!?!

Sam and Jack in unison - WHAT!?!?#$?!#K$#(?

Miandre - i got 14 reviews for your story!!!!

Sam - yayayayay!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee (dances around) awww, i feel loved

Jackson - WOW! (claps Miandre on the back) good work there.

Miandre - yes.. and now on to the REVIEWERS:

Sam - (sniggering) as if you got reviewers...

Miandre - oh go away you. (shoves Sam and Jack back into other fic where they belong)

shmonkee - Okay, L.P? lol! I didn't notice that, it's supposed to be R.L.... i guess i must have taken it from Lu-Pin... lol...thanks for pointing that out, i'd change it... but i really could not be bothered.. :P

Mmm laziness all...

xxLullaby Of Lightxx - Captain stupid, that is kinda mean.. and really really stupid.. but my imagination had been killed by a long session of double maths and i really couldn't think of anything else.. i wanted to call the owl Captain because my friend jennifer who drew the original cartoon that this story came from has an invisible horse called Captain so.. And i dont think she was trying to be sarcastic.. :blues:

Gilwen Sumer - thankee the Japanese isn't really going anywhere at the moment... i only know a few random phrases and characters :(

GringottsVault711 - thanks once again for reviewing and yes there is a storm brewing ;) hehe. I have lots of things planned for Remus... (looks evil) looooots of things... including a full moon, thats coming up very soon.. wait, i think thats in this chapter! Lol...and dont worry, i'm writing more now!! See, look at me write :P :) umm. I guess i'd better start writing then:

(btw i'm not entirely happy with this chapter, I kind of got stuck writing it.)

Edit - okay this is only half the chapter but i'm going to post it anyway because i'm really busy at the moment and updates wont be very quick. AHAHHA!! I just had my gr 5 piano exam and i played all the scales wrong!!! (teary eyed) ah well..........

Chapter 4 - Full moon

The next week passed rather uneventfully. The storms died down, and the weather began to warm up again. After reading all 15 books that he'd taken, Remus now depended solely on Miandre's letters to keep him from dying of boredom. Unfortunately Captain had taken almost the entire week to return with her answer.

Dear Remus,

Hello! How are you? Yes i do have a pet, i have two guinea pigs and a bat called Charlie. Bit odd, having a bat, i think he has magical powers though, he's just too lazy to reveal them.

Oh and yes, it does get hot here!!! Far too hot if you ask me. I bow before whoever invented air conditioning, for it hath saved my life on many occasions. Hehe. I really like the cold though, you're so lucky to live in England!

I love storms too, they're exciting. For some reason i find bright blue skies depressing. Hmm.. Well, our holidays are finally over!! Noooooooooooooo! It's back to school for us... our school is okay, but a little boring. I've heard that Hogwarts is in a castle! Is that true? How cool would that be, going to school in a castle... (sighs) well, here is a drawing i did for you, hope you like i have to go to bed early, school in the morning.

Good night!

From Miandre

Remus unfolded the other piece of parchment. Miandre had drawn a storm, a mass of dark blue and grey clouds and lightning. Searching in his drawer for bluetak, he stuck the picture up on his wall, and looked at it for a long time.

That night Remus had a strange dream. He dreamt that he was in the storm in the picture, and he was trying to walk to the other side, but no matter how many steps he took he couldn't seem to get any further. A large gust of wind blew him over, he tried to stand up but couldn't, then a figure appeared in the distance, he knew it was Miandre, but when she turned around her face was blurred by the rain. She leant over and helped him to stand, but then the picture started to disintegrate, the colours began to run down the page and they were falling too, falling falling falling down into darkness.

The next day Remus started to write back to Miandre, before realising that Captain was still asleep. Sighing, he stood up and stared out the window, watching as his father left the house and drove away in his car.

"Have a good day at work." He muttered, turning around and picking the lock on his door with his mothers hairpin.

He collected some more food, a few more books, then went and sat in his mothers study. All her things were still here, exactly as they were when she was alive. He stood up sadly, and opened a cupboard. It was like there was a part of her in there, it smelt like her, it felt like her, but all Remus could feel was an aching numbness.

He spent ages just rummaging through her things, sometimes laughing, sometimes crying as they brought back old memories. In the bottom of an old dusty cardboard box, he found a faded book. Opening it, he found it to be a photo album. Slowly Remus flicked through it, tears forming in his eyes. There was his mother and his father, smiling happily at the camera, and there was him as a baby. After a while he came across a photo with his mother and some unfamiliar faces in it. The caption read:

Sara Lupin and the Potters

Remus frowned. He knew James Potter from school, they had almost been friends in their first year, before everything had started to go downhill. But he hadn't known that his parents had known James's parents... On the next few pages he found some even stranger photos with more un-known people in them. He stared in surprise at one photo, of Dumbledore holding him as a baby. Remus shook his head, he hadn't known that his parents had known Dumbledore either.

His head swirling with strange possibilities, he put the photo album back and trudged back to his room, just as his father drove into the driveway. Remus wondered why he didn't try to escape. Probably because there would be no where for him to go, and his 'condition' might endanger people if he couldn't be restrained. Sighing, he fell down onto his bed and began to write.

Dear Miandre,

Hello. I'm not really lucky to live in England, it's always raining. But i've heard that Australia constantly has good weather, is that true? And yes, Hogwarts is in a castle. Its pretty nice, but can get a little cold, especially down in the dungeons.

What's your school like?? Hogwarts is okay, but i dont really have any friends, last year my mum died and i've never really recovered... having friends is just too difficult. Today i snuck out of my room and sat in her study, it was interesting, i found an old photo album from when i was just born. What are your parents like? My dad is mostly too drunk to be nice, he doesn't like to see me.

Storms are interesting, but unfortunately they've stopped, and the weather is warming up again. But there's still 3 weeks left of our summer holidays so i'm stuck in this room with nothing to do.

Anyhow, please write back,

From R.L.