Chapter Eight – Remus's Thoughts
A/N: Thanks to everyone's really cool feedback, here is chapter eight, I'm pretty sure that next chapter Anna will get her letter for Hogwarts, so read on. Who is this mysterious Tom Irvine? Lol. Do you think Anna should meet him again? What about Remus's mysterious jealousy? Read on to find out.
Anna woke bright and early, she looked around, prepared to see Hermione and Ginny in her face but she turned around in the bed to face Remus's face and his hand on her waist. She grinned, they were situated in the bed as if newlyweds. She giggled at that, and amazingly, Remus didn't awake.
She tried to wake him a few times, but he didn't hear her, so she sat up. Then the bed creaked slightly and she bobbed for a second before putting her hands around her knees and hoisted them up, then she slowly stroked Remus's messy brown hair.
He awoke to her breathing on his face, Anna smiled again, and continued to stroke his face and hair. Knowing that he was up, she started to talk about him. "You know, this is a little… unofficial, but I ask you not to interrupt, I like your eyes best, except for your nose, and cheeks, and so forth which I like equally, You're an excellent teacher, and a perfect height because you can dance with me without looking too tall, You have a kind personality because if you get angry or jealous, you smother it with compassion and consideration." Anna smiled, he looked up at her, awake, and she giggled, "There must be more I can say…"
So she spent around an hour telling him how good he looked and what his best qualities were. Finally she had finished and he was fully sitting up with her closer to him.
"Now that I've listened to you for about an hour," He paused, giving a small smile, "It's my turn-"
Anna shook her head and frowned, "No, no, no need." She looked at the bed, in it's muddled covers held a place of refuge. She looked up at Remus and knew that he was going to tell her anyway so she braced herself.
"Well, you have a startling and astonishingly beautiful face, unlike any other and it is insanely beautiful if I might add." Anna flushed scarlet as he continued. "Out of all your face, your eyes are the most unique colour I have ever seen them, they are much darker and deeper than Harry Potter's, The most magical, dark green fantastic windows to the spirit behind them."
Anna muttered under her breath, "That's pretty poor, The spirit?" He stopped her and put a finger to his lips before continuing.
"I'll return to that later, first I need to tell you about your eyebrows…"
Anna listened to him for two hours, double the time that she had spent talking about him. He talked about her whole face, nose, cheeks, eyes and skin before talking about her personality. He was the one who knew her the best.
After they talked for what seemed an eternity, a knock on the door sounded and echoed through the small spare room of Grimmauld place. Remus stood and walked to the door slowly. Looking at Anna, every step of the way.
The door flew open just as Remus reached for the handle and in came a happy looking Hermione, Anna smiled ad greeted her friend with warmth. "Hey Hermione."
Hermione then embraced her friend and smiled as Anna did as well. She looked as if she were about to bawl her eyes out in Anna's arms with happiness.
"What's wrong?" Anna asked when Hermione had stopped, she frowned and shook her head.
"Not here, not now." Hermione whispered in a desperate voice, Remus saw this and Anna looked up to him as if she expected something.
"Maybe I should-" Anna shook her head as Remus told her this, she stood with Hermione and made sure her friend sat down.
"No. Remus, It's alright." Anna said with a impatient wave of her hand, then she turned back to Hermione. "What is it?"
Remus rolled his eyes and sat on the bed, then turned around, ending up laying down on it, and finally closed his eyes. Alone. Again.
Remus knew what Anna and Hermione talked about in their hushed and desperate voices, It was about that boy that Anna had met, what's-his-face Irvine or something… He couldn't remember.
He was amazed how much girls loved their friends, more than boys ever knew. They held a more stronger bond than a girlfriend and boyfriend did. It was friendship, something that could never be taken from you, like he had with his friends. But girls confessed more things to each other, he guessed that it was because they trusted more things. Boys were hard to trust because they were less mature at the teenager era.
But he had to find out what was with this boy and why he liked Anna, because one way or another, it had to do with him.
Flashback: Anna's Humiliation Nation Remus's POV (A/N: This is basically the 'Humiliation' and what happened when Anna kissed Remus/What Remus did. Also some questions about feelings answered.)
Remus watched as Anna fainted in my arms on the bathroom floor, or seemed too, she was still conscious, just looked a little dizzy. He felt for her pulse and found it almost straight away, then, He hung his head over Anna's, waiting for her to awaken. And in seconds she did, for some reason, she seemed scared and jerked her head up, it was done by force but something happened, as if they were frozen together, he always had liked her, but he seemed way too old so he tried to push her out of my mind.
But every time he did, she seemed to come back.
As she broke away, she looked shocked and her face was flushed red with embarrassment. Her voice was shaky as well as she stood up, "Sorry Remus… B-b-but I-I-I… I have to go!" He knew she running up to Hermione and Ginny's room, panic and humiliation was written on her pale face as she left. He wanted to follow her, but he waited.
Because that was what she expected. As she raced out, He waited for at least two minutes before walking all the way up to Harry and Ron's room. He barged in on them, they looked up at him with surprised looks and immediately started to smile.
"What can we do for you Remus?" Harry asked, his green eyes watching the his new/old DADA as Remus asked for Harry's assistance.
"I need to borrow your cloak," Remus asked with a smile of his own, Ron was situated on the floor and Harry on the bed, both reading, Harry had looked up and so had Ron before the raven-haired teenager had stood and confronted him.
Harry reached over to pick up his invisibility cloak, "Whatever your planning Professor, Don't get us or yourself into trouble, we get into it enough at Hogwarts."
Remus grinned, and so did Ron and Harry, "Don't worry, I won't." And he left them there, then went to find Anna, or at least, her friends, that would have been full briefed on this beforehand.
He hid in the shadowy corner as he heard the door open and Hermione come out, she called something to her friends "Gin, Get this girl to a seat, I'll get the ice-cream." She then left towards the kitchens and Ginny came closer to the door, looked both left and right, then closed it, he heard Anna say the words 'Humiliation Nation,' believe it or not, he had asked Tonks what it meant one time when she had talked about it with her friends.
He heard Nymphadora Tonks's voice in his mind, 'Humiliation Nation was the two words which when a girl spoke, it would mean that an event to their dismay has happened, let it be a period stunt, or a problem with a boy, any other event would be in sub headings under these two if ever put into a book. The girl's friends would know immediately what it meant because every girl, or at least, every girl I know has. Trust me, when a girl is in humiliation nation, she's a wreck.'
Hiding back in the shadows, Remus saw Hermione come back with an absolutely huge, and sneaked, tub of three flavor ice-cream. He came closer to the door but they closed it before he could get half way there, he decided to take another approach. He put on the cloak and his head to the door, he heard them speak vaguely.
"Which one do you hate the most? Choose honestly cause this is a ritual." Ginny Weasley spoke, he could tell that it was her because of the way they all spoke, each one different, Hermione in the intelligent way, Anna in the outsider, silky and darkish way, and Ginny with the spunky, tomboy, and 'I don't care about you, only my friends' attitude type of way.
"Strawberry." Remus grinned as he heard Anna speak this, they were talking about the ice-cream. Funny way their mind works, he had thought, funny, but damn smart. They were unreadable, when you thought you had figured them all out, they come back with more enchanting and mysterious riddles for him to solve. One obviously, was what Anna felt for him.
"I agree with you," Hermione replied Anna, "What's your most favorite flavor?"
"Chocolate."
"I agree with that as well."
"I understand that something happened with either one of the two subjects, Periods or Boys/Men/Whoever?" Remus knew it! Either periods or the opposite sex. He would never doubt Tonks's smartness again.
"Boys… men… whoever," Anna said, slowly pronouncing each word as if, if she said them fast, they would poison her, Remus figured this because when he was angry or sad, he would do the exact same thing as well.
Remus realized what the ice-cream was for when Hermione explained to Anna, but she didn't know that she was also explaining to Remus as well. "What this is, is a ritual where you tell us the problem, we compromise and then find a solution, each part has a flavor, for the problem, it's the one you most like, for the solution it's the one you like the least and for compromising it's the one in the middle." Her voice held intellect and calm tones, he could only just hear them, because they became more cautious.
Deciding that had heard enough, he took of the cloak, removed his eye from the door and then knocked, he chuckled slightly when he heard Ginny knock back then he laughed a bit more when he heard her yell, "Could you knock any louder?"
He heard people laugh and Ginny chortle as well, "Sorry." He asked in a apologetic tone, but still loud enough for them to hear.
Remus heard a new voice, Hermione's, "Male, or female?" She asked in a sly and sneaky voice.
He yelled back, "God Hermione, It's Remus!" He heard some muffled talking, and also a quiet but still demanding yell.
"What's wrong Professor Lupin?" Ginny asked him through the door, Remus muffled a cough, he had hid the cloak behind him, shielding his body with it.
"No Professor Lupin, Sorry." Hermione said opening the door a crack. "I think she went into the bathroom again. She said something about mood swings." Remus nodded and pretended to leave, when he thought they couldn't hear or see him, he slipped on the cloak. He needed to hear them clearer. Hermione didn't fool him at all, he could hear her lie, she couldn't look at him when she lied, she had fib written all over her face.
He walked back near the door and waited for the right moment. He could still listen in on the converse but it took time and he had to act slowly. He hear laughter and then talk.
"So now we know who Anna is talking about," Hermione said, in a serious voice, or so Remus could hear.
"So it's Remus, now, for the second scoop," He could imagine Hermione taking a spoon and pushing out a scoop of chocolate ice-cream, he laughed inwardly, "Is to tell us, where it was and what the beginning is, talk like it is a story."
With that, he heard Anna burst into the story, "Okay, You remember how Remus asked to speak alone, well, he lead me out of the room and asked me where was the most comfortable place for us to talk. So I On a previous experience, the one with you two and becoming friends and all. Lead him up to the bathroom." So she went with Hermione and Ginny to the bathroom when they first met? Now the first part was clear.
"Then we walked in, and- do I include details?" He heard her interrupt herself, typical girl, pretty, smart, and all loved to ask questions, Anna's voice reminded him of a friend he had once had… but it was a long time ago. He listened in closer. "-I sat down, I asked him to sit down, and then he sit opposing me, then I rephrased myself and told him to sit beside me, now I wished I would have just left it."
She had obviously swallowed the ice-cream, he heard a gulp. Even though he couldn't see it. But he would soon, soon he'd walk in with the cloak on so no one could hear or see him.
Anna continued, "Then he sat and I asked him what he called me for, I could remember his exact words…he said it a little shaky but he said, 'I wanted to tell you, that you don't have to go to Hogwarts, I can always send you to some other school like Durmstrang or something.' But I was relieved that he had taken all that time just to tell me that, because I thought he was going to force me into enrolling at Hogwarts against my will," Remus's mouth was open, she thought he would force her? No wonder she was angry.
"And then, that's when the situation changed." This was it, he pulled out his hand for a brief second and whispered. "Openios," It was an advanced unlocking charm, 'Closios' was to close things and Openios was to open them, he slipped his hand back into the cloak and walked in sneakily, Hermione and Ginny took out their wands… God they were smart. Smart and alert.
If he looked them up in the dictionary he'd have to read every single word, they were so smart. Girls that is. Every single girl was different.
He almost gave himself away, when he laughed because Hermione had grumbled and Ginny had rolled her eyes, she walked out through the door and stuck her middle finger in the air. "Most probably Harry and Ron with their pranks." She assured her friends and then walked back to them.
Anna seemed relieved, "Now back to the story, As I was saying, this is when the situation changed," she gulped but didn't need the ice-cream yet. They waited for her to tell them, she sighed and then smiled slightly, "I-I-"
"Spit it out!" Ginny said with a hint of force, She looked at Ginny taken aback but then Gin replied with a small, "Jokes."
Hermione then edged her on, "We didn't promise that we wouldn't laugh, but we did promise to secrecy, so there is no one in the room that can tell everyone about your problem."
Remus watched this, so understanding. He looked at Anna, her perfect features, he loved every ounce of her. She was gorgeous, long black hair, spiritual eyes whether she believed it or not. He found himself checking her out as he had done in the bathroom. Keep out the mental images, he thought to himself, grinning sheepishly underneath the cloak.
"Okay," Anna swallowed the ice-cream, smearing some on her face, she giggled and wiped it off. This had an effect on Remus, she looked quite cute when smothered with the sweet cold muggle product. "I-I kind of sorta…checked him out…" With that, all of them, including a surprised Remus, started to burst up into laughter, Anna took two spoons and shoved some chocolate ice-cream into her friends mouth. "Looks like you need it more than I do." They all laughed again. What a co-incidence, both checking each other out without the other realizing. Typical Remus, he thought to himself, stupid git! Are you blind?
"This is so not obeying the tradition," Hermione admitted, Ginny however had a different theory.
"Tradition sucks, let's make up a new one!" Ginny said, "Ice-cream for all!" They all laughed again.
Anna tried her luck, "Does that mean I'm off the hook, can I go now?" Hermione and Ginny looked at her.
"Nope girl," Ginny said grinning, "You have to totally SPILL!"
He relaxed and just listened to them bicker, thinking a million thoughts as he watched them talk.
"So much for luck… It was exactly how Hermione told me it was, first the clothes, then the face and then the…mental images." With that she cringed, they all giggled again. Gods, girls liked to giggle. He listened in as he watched them, his legs were growing tired so he sat silently, but it was as if they weren't revealing so much. Little did he know It would come up, all of it.
Anna ate some more chocolate ice-cream, Hermione had done a freezing charm, he thought, or a ventilation charm, either one. They were both very advanced, but it was Hermione Granger, and she was the top in all her classes. "Then I did the most stupidest thing…I tried to fix his ultra messy hair!"
Hermione and Ginny complimented. "True girl."
They then talked about fighting, nicknames, sleeping in different rooms and other irrelevant subjects, until it came back to the story. Remus felt bad about invading, but he had to know. He vowed never to tell anyone about doing this.
Anna decided to continue once they got on the right track of things again. "Okay, so after I checked him out and fixed his hair, which fell back to messy again, well I assured him that I had decided to go to Hogwarts due to what you two helped me through."
"I'm so very touched." Ginny said putting a hand to her heart and smiling. She sounded like Sirius to him. He felt depression fill his lungs as he thought about his deceased friends and their times at Hogwarts, but Remus still listened on.
"And then he told me that he thanked me, and then I felt a sudden wave of dizziness, I think maybe due to my period." Hermione nodded at this. And Remus cringed underneath the cloak.
"Yeah, some girls get that, I do, I know that." Hermione replied, "It's just a side-effect I think a two second delirium or something… I get myself confused with that. But it does happen. Due to the loss of blood from your body, even though it comes back in seconds."
God that girl was smart, Remus thought to himself again.
"Yup, Hermione you got me in that. It was all blurry and I could only see the ceiling, but I had fallen into his lap, well my top half anyway. Here's the part which was I was mortified, As I tried to get up, I forced myself up so hard that…well… I sort of kissed him… but by accident!" She flushed, Remus watched her talk so causally about it. Maybe it was an accident, maybe she didn't like him. Why did he have his hopes up? She was so much younger than him. Ten year difference! He frowned. That didn't make him stop wanting her, he was lovesick, he had to admit. But what he heard made him smile sadly.
Hermione seemed alright with it as Anna did, Remus looked at the girls facial expressions before he stood, "Well, if it was an accident."
Anna frowned and crossed her arms, looking at her friends with a mock hatred that reminded him of James Potter, "Okaaaay, fine, Half accident half purpose."
Then he took this time to walk out of the room, still sort of shaken, while he heard the girls laugh behind him.
A/N: Sorry another damn cliffhanger, I hope you get used to them… I can't end the chapter properly though! THANKYOU for all your lovely reviews people, I have plenty of plots and happiness in my mind, and I have some great new characters thanks to people who put in theirs. Thanks for reading this story everyone. I might have to start dedicating chapters to people, and maybe at the end thank everyone individually for all of their wonderful reviews.
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