MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! Sorry this chapter is so short!!!

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"You're what?!" Dyre screamed in shock.

"I'm a werewolf." Remus repeated slowly.

"Right. And for how long exactly?"

"Since I was 5."

"Right." She said still shocked. "So for the last 23 years you've been mated with me?"

"Yes.

"And I never knew."

"I was going to tell you but you just disappeared. The wolf was mourning for you."

"And now..." Dyre said confused, "you're my teacher and the wolf has an inexplicable urge to shag me?"

Remus gulped, "How'd you know that?"

"3rd year DADA. I did my research."

"It can't happen you're my student." He said glumly.

"Er- Right." She said awkwardly. "I'll see you tomorrow?" She asked and he nodded solemnly as she stood up and left the Great Hall.

Remus sat there at the table after Dyre had left going through all the events of the day. The person he had run into was Dyre and finally she was here! With him but he was a teacher and she a student it was unethical and almost certainly against the school regulations. His head jerked up as someone said his name; Dumbledore stood at the door and looked at him.

"How about I show you to your room?" He asked with that damn twinkle still in his eyes. Remus's browed furrowed but he nodded and got up to join him. Remus walked silently as Dumbledore talked to him or rather towards him.

The trip to his new quarters took little more than 5 minutes and when they had finally reached the small statue of Freyja that marked the door Dumbledore turned to him smiling, "She's not your student." Dumbledore said to a stunned Remus. "She doesn't take DADA. Oira melmë." He said and the space of wall next to the statue moved aside. Dumbledore sent him a reassuring smile and walked off in the direction of his study.

Remus stood there staring at the statue, she may not be his student but he was still a teacher. He glanced up at the statue and entered in to his quarters. The irony of the statue wasn't lost on him; it was Freyja the Norse goddess of Love.

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Everyone go Read 'Down on the inside'. Which is posted under The Elhini which is co-written with my friend Almare. It's RL/OC SS/OC JP/LE.