Don't own anything recognisable from JK Rowling's Harry Potter books

(A/N The large passages of italic are still flashbacks.)

Chapter 4

Lunar Lupin

"It's this way. I swear it is!" Primrose Hardwin said with no conviction at all.

"Are you sure?" Antonia Murphy (who everybody called Toni) said cautiously.

Primrose turned to the other girl Lunar Black. "Well? What do you think?"

The three girls were stood on a staircase in the middle of Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and they were lost.

It hadn't taken that long for the three girls to gravitate towards each other after being sorted into Gryffindor, and become firm friends.

They were a sight to behold.

Primrose Hardwin was the tallest of the girls, she was also the most stubborn. She had short spiky jet black hair, observant violet eyes, and a plump – but not fat – frame. She could trace her rich wizarding family back to Merlin himself, and although many people boasted it, in this case it was true!

Toni Murphy was by far the shortest of the girls, and also the worrywart. She had mousy-browny/blondish/ginger hair (it could never make up it's mind), big brown eyes, and a skinny frame, which was swamped by the large robe her parents had bought her. ("You'll grow into it!")

Finally Lunar Black was a medium sized, blonde haired, blue eyed, medium build girl. She was the spitting image of her mother. Which caused a lot of speculative looks from the male population of Hogwarts. And she loved it!

They were trying to get to their first class of the day. Charms. Unfortunately it was their third day at Hogwarts and the designated prefect who had been showing them around, had decided that they should know where they were going by then.

"Okay. Where is charms being held?" Lunar asked the other two.

The other two shrugged agitatedly.

"Right… Where are we now?" She asked the other two.

Again they shrugged.

"How did we get here then?" Lunar asked.

"I dunno! I was following Primrose!" Toni said, fearfully.

"Well I was following you!" Primrose's posh accent came through strong when she was afraid and now her clipped tones echoed through the corridor.

Lunar looked around her. "Well do you see anything familiar?"

A growl came from the staircase underneath them. "You'd better hurry up. Professor Malory deducts House Points for late students, whether they have an excuse or not."

Lunar leaned far over the banister, holding her long blonde hair behind her head. "Hello?" She asked cautiously.

"What are you doing?" Primrose hissed. "It could be one of them Slytherin boys again!"

"Yeah! This all started when we followed instructions from them!" Toni whispered.

"Come on! I'd rather get even more lost than see those scumbags again." Primrose said loudly and, taking Toni's arm in hers marched further up the stairs.

"I can't see anyone!" Lunar hissed at their retreating backs. Then she felt her grip loosen on the stairs. "Whoah!" She fell headlong over the handrail only stopping when she felt someone grip her arm and pull her back.

"Thanks!" She said. Brushing her hair from her eyes she was surprised to see a young man holding her arm. She blushed, he was gorgeous. He had light brown hair, which gently flicked around his collar, and grey eyes, they looked searchingly into hers.

"Are you okay?"

Lunar was shaken to the core, but it wasn't because of the fall.

"Lunar? Are you okay?" He asked again, his gruff voice softened slightly.

She managed to get her voice back, and ignoring her friends' speculative looks, said.

"You know my name?"

The boy smiled softly. "Yeah. I don't think we've met. I'm Remus, Remus Lupin. Sirius' friend."

"Remus?" Her voice croaked. He was being so nice to her, unlike her older brother, who delighted in teasing her, and completely unlike the other boys who drooled all over her.

"Yeah." He turned to the other girls and smiled. They immediately stopped making kissing and thumbs-up motions behind her back and smiled innocently. "I take it you want to get to charms?"

"Yes." Primrose answered firmly.

"Do we have time?" Toni asked, looking at her worn watch hurriedly.

Lunar just looked at her arm, where Remus was still holding onto her. She felt the warmth coming from his soft, large and pale hand. She blushed slightly when she realised that she had been staring at his hand for a while.

"… Well?" He turned towards her, his grey eyes probing hers gently. He looked at where she was staring and removed his hand from her arm.

Lunar ignored the grinning faces of her friends, and said distractedly. "Sorry, I was miles away. Could you say that again?"

He smiled at her gently, but his eyes became shuttered. "I said I can take you to Charms, and get you there in time, but you'll have to trust me."

Lunar smiled back at him. "Take me…." She breathed, and blushed when she realised what she said. "We don't want to be late for charms."

Remus nodded. "Of course."

He stamped his foot on the staircase. "Move!" He commanded.

The staircase slowly began to turn around; Primrose, Lunar, and Toni grabbed the banisters, looking slightly green in the face.

"Where…?" Toni asked trailing off.

"You'll see." Remus said, and stamped his foot again to stop the staircase.

"What did you do that for?" Primrose asked with annoyance. "The hallways are over there! All we can do is climb up to that stupid painting!"

He climbed up to the painting and stopped. "You coming?" He asked.

The girls frowned at each other, but decided to follow him anyway.

He put his hand on the side of the painting and ran it up and down. There was a click, and the painting swung open.

"I'll go first. It can be dark in there and you don't know the route." He held out his hand. "Hold hands with each other in a line, then one of you hold onto me." He said.

Primrose and Toni held hands with each other and pushed Lunar towards Remus.

She reached for his hand hesitantly.

He grasped her hand in his, and she felt a shock go up her arm and into the pit of her stomach. She glared at her giggling friends and followed Remus into the dark.

~ * ~

"He was nice! Wasn't he nice?" Toni asked Lunar later when they had got out of charms and back to the Gryffindor common room.

True to his word Remus had got them there before Professor Malory had arrived, much to the infuriation of the Slytherins.

"Wasn't who nice?" Lunar asked innocently, remembering the firmness of his hand as he had led her through the dark passageways.

Toni and Primrose rolled their eyes and shared looks of annoyance.

"What exactly do you mean who do I mean?" Toni asked exasperatedly, while Primrose picked up her charms notebook and waved it at her.

"Hellooo?" She said, and started to flick through the pages of the book. "Here we have a prime example." She said, and showed Lunar the page where she had written neatly.

LB For RL forever.

She then flicked to the next page, which was full of:

Lunar Lupin

Lunar Lupin

Lunar Lupin

"Now tell me who you think I mean!" Toni said, while giggling.

Lunar blushed. "What?" She asked the other two. "I'm not marrying anybody whose last name doesn't go with mine!"

They burst into laughter.

"What? What's so funny?" Sirius entered the room, winking at Lunar's two friends and loosely draping an arm over Lunar's shoulders.

Lunar shot daggered looks at her friends, Primrose hid the book behind her back, while Toni looked innocently at Sirius.

"Lunar was just telling us about your most embarrassing moments, wanna stick around?"

"What?!" Sirius looked at Lunar. "You had better not be!"

Lunar grinned at him. "This is a girly conversation, nothing to do with you."

Sirius relaxed and started to make himself comfortable on the arm of Lunar's chair.

"If you don't leave now it will be about you though." She raised her voice. "I remember when Mum had to change your sheets every night because mumph hutrth…"

Sirius put his hands over Lunar's mouth and turned to the captive audience.

 "Nothing to see here!" He lowered his voice threateningly, but only teasingly. "Okay! Okay! I'm going! You had better be careful or I might set my friends on you."

He turned and waved at James and Remus who had just entered the room.

Lunar and Remus shared a long look, and Lunar felt a frission of excitement run up her spine.

"I don't think that was much of a warning." She heard Toni murmur to Primrose.

Primrose agreed. "Yes. I think she would like to be set upon by Remus." They giggled.

"You're not wrong there." Lunar admitted quietly as Sirius made his way over to his friends and she reluctantly broke eye contact with Remus.

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(Present day)

Remus watched her for a moment. He had woken up thirsty, but all that changed when he had seen her lying next to him.

She looked so serene, but Remus would prefer her to be angry and wild if it meant that she was awake.

He watched her; it appeared to him that she was asleep. He suppressed the urge to kiss her. It may have worked on Prince Charming, but it wasn't going to do much good here, he also knew that if he started kissing her he wasn't likely to be able to stop.

"Frustrated pervert." He whispered to himself, and looked at her red lips.

He sighed despairingly. "I would never have seen her like this if it hadn't been for the curse. Who would share a bed with a man like me, let alone a werewolf? If Lunar was awake…"

His shoulders slumped, he wasn't sure if she would ever be awake again.

He yawned.

"What's that expression?" He murmured to himself as he fell back to sleep.


"It's better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all… Completely untrue. It's much better to love and have her still."

A/N OH MY GOD!! I can't believe that JK Rowling did that!!! I honestly believed that someone else would die. I never thought it would be Sirius!!!! Man!

I still intend to write about him though!!!!

Thanks to: Annoriel, Iluvlegolas, and Squirrel for reviewing.

Love to you all,

See you soon

Krusty.