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Chapter 6 – Forgiving Wolf
The next day Rosh found Katherine sitting by a tree near their spot. She was looking at her pendant and didn't see him approach. He sat down beside her and took a peek at the pendant too. Once in a while it shined in a rhythmic way giving the impression it was talking by means of light signs. Rosh frowned deeply as he watched this happen for some time. After a while he saw her smile and put the pendant back inside her robes. Then she turned to him and spoke, her smile still present.
"Hi!" she said rather cheerfully.
"What were you doing?" Rosh asked intrigued.
"Nothing."
"Your pendant was acting weird."
"Oh come out of it Rosh. I was just looking at it. It's nothing more than a rock."
"If you say so."
"I do. So what brings you here cousin?" she asked looking at him softly.
"I think we need to talk."
"All right. What do you want to talk about?" she asked, her cheerful happy tone disappearing.
"About what happened yesterday and what is this idea of you going out with Jacob?"
"I can explain that. And yesterday was…nothing. We should forget about it."
"Well, it was a pretty good nothing." He said seriously, his eyes boring into hers.
"I know it was. But I don't think it should happen again."
"Because we are cousins." He sort of finished her sentence.
"Yes. What would your parents think if we…you know?"
"What my parents think is not entirely relevant. But maybe we should consider the fact that we are cousins. We can't go beyond of what we already have. Right?" he asked. However his tone showed he wasn't completely in agreement with what he had said.
"Right." Her tone wasn't convincing as well.
"Ok. With that out of the way, I would like to know…why the hell are you going out with that Slytherin?"
"Because of you."
"Excuse me? Did you say because of me?" Rosh asked incredulous.
"Yes. We made a deal. I would go out with him 3 times and he would tell Professor Dante to change his story in relation to the attack. Jacob did what he said he would, you got free from the detention and now I have to go on dates with him."
Rosh looked at her with his mouth open and wide eyes.
"You can't be serious."
"Why would I make this up?"
"You…but…no. How could you do such a thing?" he yelled and got up angry.
"Come again?"
"I would rather spend a year in detention than watch you go out on dates with Jacob. You're insane."
"Rosh put yourself together. I thought…"
"You thought wrong. Damn it Katherine." he said exasperated. One of the branches from the tree was broken when he hit it.
"I'm sorry, Rosh. I thought you wouldn't mind about it. It's not like I like Jacob or anything."
"Just…never mind. Do what you want." He said softly, shook his head and left.
Katherine stood on her knees watching as he made his way back to the castle. Now what was she to do?
Rosh entered the castle with his head spinning. He was thinking about Katherine and all the past events and his surroundings seemed not to exist. That was until somehow a voice penetrated his ears and what the voice was saying caught his attention.
"I'm telling you, the beast was huge. Like this big."
Rosh turned his head quickly towards the direction of the voice and saw Jacob surrounded by a bunch of girls, all of them listening intently to his words. Rosh noticed he was using his hands to demonstrate what he had said. All the girls gasped as his hands separated to show just how big the 'beast' was. Being a curious wolf Rosh approached the group to hear Jacob's story.
"Where you scared?" a 5th year blonde asked.
"Of course not. He was big, his eyes were bright and scary, his fangs sharp and ready to bite and his claws prepared to strike at me but I wasn't scared. I looked at him without fear, because they can smell it, and I took out my wand, ready to throw him a spell or two. He dodged the first one and made a plunge at me. He hit me with his claws and I fell. Then I pointed my wand again and this time I hit him. I jinxed him hard and I think that right now he's in the forest, dead." Jacob told his story with confidence and the all the girls sighed.
After Jacob was done with his brave story Rosh started laughing. He laughed so hard everyone on the group looked at him.
"What are you laughing about, Lupin?" Jacob asked.
"At your stupidity of course." Rosh said between a laugh and a smirk.
"Excuse me?"
"How big was the beast? And what kind of beast was it? I missed the beginning of the story." Rosh asked amused.
"It was huge. And it was a wolf." One of the girls answered for him.
"A wolf. Huge you say?"
"Yeah. This big." Another girl said and then imitated Jacob using her hands as a visual aid.
"Wow! Well let me just say that a wolf would never enter Hogwarts and another thing is that they never get that big." Rosh explained smiling.
"I know what I saw, Lupin." Jacob said.
"Sure you do. However I must ask this. Are you the one stealing my mother's potions?"
"Mr. Lupin, I would appreciate it if you left Mr Adams alone." A deep, adult voice came from behind Rosh.
He turned around and found himself looking at none other than Professor Dante.
"Professor Dante, I was just asking a question."
"No, Mr. Lupin. You were trying to accuse Mr. Adams of stealing."
"It was a joke Professor. No one stole anything."
"And what exactly was the meaning behind your joke, because no one seemed to understand it, since I don't see anyone laughing."
"Well maybe it wasn't meant to be funny." Rosh said bitterly.
Professor Dante approached Rosh with a glint of hate in his eyes. He was about to say something when Harry Potter appeared.
"What is going on here? Dante, is there a problem?" he asked.
"No, Potter. There is no problem. But perhaps you should have a conversation with Renata about this boy's behaviour."
"What did he do this time?" Harry asked looking at Rosh from behind his glasses.
"He was accusing Mr. Adams of robbery. And he was defying me. Again." Professor Dante explained using a menacing tone.
"I'll take it from here Dante. Mr. Lupin, follow me." Harry said.
"Yes Professor." Rosh said simply and took off behind Harry.
The two of them went to Harry's office in silence, except when Rosh sighed heavily. Harry was the first to enter and Rosh followed suit. After they were both seated Harry spoke.
"Rosh you know better than to annoy Professor Dante. He seems to prefer you when it comes to pick on students."
"I don't understand how Professor McGonagall allows him to continue here. He keeps picking on the Gryffindors, especially me, and he favours the Slytherins, especially Jacob."
"Well obviously you weren't here when Snape was the Potions Master. Professor Dante is a very good teacher. There are no complaints there. He's just picky. That's all."
"I don't like him."
"You don't like anyone Rosh. I didn't expect Professor Dante to be an exception to that."
Rosh stayed silent looking at the man sitting in front of him. His messy black hair gave him a young look, his green eyes shone behind his glasses and occasionally a smile played on his lips. His well-known scar was long gone, nothing more than a memory from 12 years ago. Harry Potter was a changed person, a person who had survived a nightmare many had succumbed to. Now there he was, teaching DADA and acting like he knew Rosh very well. Rosh liked someone. He liked that person very much. And he had been acting like an idiot with her. He loved her and he should understand what she did for him. He had to go and make things go back to where they were.
"Can I go Harry?" he asked with confidence.
"Sure. I have nothing more to say. And I won't tell Sarah." Harry announced.
"Thanks. See you in class, Professor." He said, this time in a mock tone.
Rosh got up and left the office. He then proceeded to look for Katherine. He found her in the library with Jade.
"Hello ladies." He said smiling.
"Hello, Rosh. We heard you got engaged in a verbal fight with Professor Dante." Jade said happily.
"Stuff in this school travels too fast. And twisted too. Anyway, Katherine could I have a word with you, outside?"
"Ok. Let me just finish this and I'll meet outside in the usual spot." Katherine said looking at him.
He nodded and said goodbye to Jade. He had to wait for almost an hour before Katherine showed up at the specified location.
"What do you want, Rosh?" she asked annoyed.
He got up from where he was
sitting and approached her. Swiftly he grabbed her by her waist and kissed her
softly.
"I'm sorry. I'm being a complete idiot. You're doing all this for me and
instead of thanking you I snap." He whispered to her after the kiss was broken.
"It's ok. I forgive you. Now why did you attack Jacob as a wolf?" she asked snuggling against his chest.
"I attacked Jacob because I got jealous and I did it as wolf because I didn't want him to know it was me." He explained softly.
"I see. It was wrong of you to do that but I can understand. So I won't
hold it against you."
"Thanks. That means a lot to me."
"I love you Rosh." she whispered in his ear.
"I love you Katherine." He whispered back to her, his eyes closed as he savoured the feeling of having her in arms and knowing she was his and no one else's.
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Amilin: Jacob likes Kat...but in a bizarre sort of way...you'll see what I mean soon...And don't worry about the action, it's coming…Just hang in there.
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