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Chapter Eighteen: Planned Deceptions and a Man to Man Talk

Lucian dropped heavily onto the couch and he felt Draco sit down beside him. "What are we going to do?" he asked quietly. Hazarding a glance at his father Lucian looked up and saw that he was sitting rather close to Remus. Figuring it was nothing to take notice of it Lucian brushed it off; his father was comforting a friend, nothing more. Although it would be nice for them to get together, they would be good for each other. His thoughts then rushed back to the Ministry and they're new bullshit law.

"How are they going to know if you are a werewolf?" Severus said looking at Remus and then glancing over at his son. They had to protect Lucian from the Ministry at all costs, if they found out that he was Harry Potter then all hell would break loose. And that was not something that he was looking forward to seeing.

Remus looked Severus in the eye. "Hearsay mainly. If they think that you could possibly be a werewolf they are going to force you into being tested." Remus knew that there was no way that he could get out of being subjected to the Ministry's new law but with luck they could keep Lucian's lycanthropy a secret.

"There is no possible way that I can escape the new mandate. My being a werewolf is too publicly known, but we may just be able to slid by without Lucian being registered." Remus continued softly. Just planning to keep Lucian from the Ministry was enough to get them all lifetime sentences in Azkaban, not something any of them really wanted to receive.

" Well I guess that will play into our favor. Lucian has been able to keep his lycanthropy a secret for two years now. Lets just hope that it will be a secret that the rest of us can keep as well." Severus said looking pointedly at the others. They sat there in relative silence until Remus's soft voice broke the quiet.

"Maybe it would be safer for me to leave for a while. I have always wanted to see the rest of the world." He said with forced cheerfulness.

"NO!" Lucian yelled jumping to his feet nearly throwing Draco to the floor. Draco had been lying on the couch with his head in Lucian's lap, and when he had jumped up Draco's top half of his body followed and he was left half on and half off the couch.

"No I think Lupin is right. Maybe it is time for Remus Lupin to leave." Severus said with a gleam in his eyes that rivaled Albus's.

"What! What the Fuck are you talking about? Remus can't leave, you guys are the only ones that I got left." Lucian blurted out and then a strange thought struck him. They where planning something. "Alright what is the plan?" his voice calm once again.

Severus laughed. "I wondered how long it would take you to catch on. Although it was a lot sooner than I had expected." He smiled at his son and saw the confused look on Draco's face. He glanced at Lucius and seen that the man was smirking. "I think that what we need to do is give Remus a whole new identity. One that can keep him from being subjected to the Ministry's all knowing authority"

Draco sat there still slightly confused. How exactly where they going to be able to come up with a way to disguise Professor Lupin and was it going to be permanent. "How do you plan on doing that?" he finally asked curious at what they had planned. Draco happened to look up at the clock sitting on the fireplace mantle. It was getting late. Not too much longer and it would be time for Lucian and Remus to transform. And as far as he could remember neither had taken their doses of Wolfsbane.

Severus glanced in the direction that Draco had been looking and had noticed the same thing. It was getting late. "I have a few ideas about glamours enhanced with potions that should be semi permanent. I will have to figure it out shortly. But right now you two," He said looking pointedly at his son and Remus, "need to take your last dose of Wolfsbane before it gets too late." He stood and walked toward his lab and a few seconds later he came back out with two steaming goblets and handed them into the waiting hands.

Lucian grimaced at the foul taste but swallowed as quickly as he could. " I don't think that I will ever get used to that awful taste."

Remus shuddered in sympathy as he downed his own goblet. "Your right, you never get used to it."

Lucian grabbed Draco and hauled him off the floor. He wanted to feel Draco at his side. It seemed like close to the full moon he became extremely protective of his boyfriend and more times than not they had to sneak off somewhere to get some privacy. Especially when he seemed to drag Draco off into any dark corner and ravish him. Draco always teased him and said that he just got territorial. He wondered if Remus had the same problems he did or if his teenage hormones where just intensified by the lycanthropy. Lucian thought that maybe he had better take Remus aside and ask him if it was normal and what he could do to control it better.

He leaned into Draco's side and whispered into his ear, "I am going to ask Remus some questions, I'll be back in a couple of minutes."

Draco looked at Lucian questioningly, "About what?"

Lucian's cheeks tinged a light pink. "About how I get around the full moon." He watched as Draco's eyes widened in understanding. "I'll be right back."

He then stood up and walked up to Remus and in a low tone that he knew the other man could hear he asked, "Can I talk to you privately in the kitchen?" He could help the blush that he could feel heating his cheeks and glanced at Draco. He was smiling with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Remus glanced up into Lucian's face and saw the blush staining his pale cheeks, and by the look on Draco's face he could almost guess what it was that Lucian wanted to talk to him about. "Come on lets go." He said as he stood. As he followed Lucian into the kitchen he threw Severus a meaningful look who in turn looked at Draco, and then smiled slightly back at Remus as he went into the kitchen.

Lucian sat down at the kitchen table and saw out of the corner of his eye that Remus had sat diagonal from him on his right. "This is going to come out all wrong but I don't know how else to put it." Lucian said quietly his head in his hands still not making eye contact with Remus. "Is it normal for me to be extremely protective of Draco close to the full moon?"

Remus stifled a chuckle. He knew that this conversation would come up sooner or later when Lucian told him that he had been changed. "It is very normal and nothing to be ashamed of. You'll also find that Draco is not the only person that you will feel overly protective of. Although with Draco, it will get to the point where it is not just being overly protective, but more along the lines of being territorial and having to constantly reestablish your bond with him." Remus said as he watched for a reaction from Lucian.

"Thank Merlin, I thought that I was going crazy." Lucian said as he finally lifted his head and looked at Remus. "Draco thinks that it is hilarious at how possessive I am of him."

Remus chuckled lightly. "I can see how he would think that. He takes a lot of things in stride instead of getting thrown off by something different. Lily, your mother, was the same way. She thought that it was adorable that I was so protective of my friends.

She always was mothering over me. She was more of a mother than I ever had." Remus swallowed visibly.

"My mother left after I was bitten, she said that her son died after my first transformation and then she left. It was just my father and I. He tried to make sure that he was there for me, but it was hard. When I went to school and met Lily she became sort of a foster mother for me. As odd as that sounds considering I was half a year older than her. She was friends with me long before James, Sirius, and Peter were." Remus winced at the memories of Sirius; it still hurt to think what he had done. But he was getting over it. He knew that as long as he kept close to Lucian and Severus he would heal. He had been slightly surprised when he had caught himself thinking about Severus. But he knew that he would never have chance with Severus. He blew that a long time ago.

Lucian glanced at his watch, it was almost time. "Well we had better figure out where we are going to change. It's almost time."