Lupin's Return

Lily had been instructed to stay out of the department of mysteries with Jenny to help with any injuries if there were any before St. Mungos were informed. She looked at Jenny with a confused expression when James had muttered 'Moony'. The aurors seemed to pour into the room in the department of mysteries as Lily and Jenny stood aside, they couldn't have entered the room if they had wanted to. After a few minutes Lily glanced into the battle area. Her mind was racing, how had Voldemort gotten into the department of mysteries in the first place? How had so many Death Eaters gotten in. All these questions and more ran through Lily's mind until she saw one figure she was not expecting to see.

"Oh my god." She said slowly.

"What is it?" Jenny asked. Lily turned to Jenny with her eyes wider then usual.

"You will not believe who's fighting." Lily said. Jenny frowned and took Lily's place. Jenny looked into the room but the person had disappeared behind a crowd of death eaters. Instead she saw Rhia trying to protect an unconscious Bo from any harm. But she was useless without her voice.

"Bo!" Jenny said before running into the fray of aurors and Death Eaters. Lily followed her in but soon got lost. She ducked a few spells that missed her by a matter of inches and shot some spells back.

"Jenny!" Lily shouted but her voice was lost in the fighting. She pushed her way through the crowd to where James was fighting a group of Death Eaters. She was about to push a girl out of the way when she realised who it was.

"Hermione!" Lily said. Hermione pointed her wand at Lily then gave her an innocent smile.

"Hello Mrs. Potter." Hermione said. If Hermione was here then Harry was bound to be here. Lily's heart began racing even more and she thanked god that at least Emma was still at Hogwarts.

"Hermione, go and help Rhia." Lily said, pointing towards Rhia. Jenny had been caught up and looked as though she was only just coping with the Death Eaters who wanted her dead. Hermione nodded and disappeared into the crowd of fighting. Lily pushed her way through again and knocked down some Death Eaters that were surrounding James. James looked at Lily and gave her a smile. Lily felt like there was a lull in the fighting for a moment. James' smile still had such an effect on her. James fired a spell just over Lily's shoulder. Lily turned to see a Death Eater falling. Lily went to James and he put his arm protectively around her.

"Remus is alive!" Lily said.

"I know." James said.

"And Harry's here!" Lily said a little more urgently.

"I know, STUPEFY!" He shouted. The spell shot through the air and knocked a Death Eater unconscious. Lily was please to see that a lot of the Death Eaters had either fled or been knocked out. She scanned the scene, she had never been very good at duels so she rather tried to avoid having to duel in a lot of cases. She sent a spell at a Death Eater that had been about to fire a spell at Ron's back. The red-headed boy was rather preoccupied in avoiding a spell from Wormtail. Lily sent a few more spells flying and soon the fight was pretty much over. April looked over to Lily as they failed to identify or find Voldemort or any of his main followers except the ratty, snivelling man that stood shaking between Harry, Ron and Hermione. James looked about him and called the Aurors to attention.

"Take these Death Eaters to Azkaban. I want each and every one of them questioned once they get there. Put extra guards at the prison." James demanded, glancing at April as he did.

"Except him." April said pointing her wand at Wormtail. "I want a little chat with him."

"Please, spare me." Wormtail cried as he cringed away from April.

"Ha, spare you, unlikely, after the way you've treated us." Laughed Remus as he approached them rather casually. Lily saw Jenny turn pale.

"Remus." She gasped. Remus looked at Jenny and start grinning.

"Jenny!" He said. Jenny ran to him and kissed him as soon as they embraced. James smiled at Lily as they watched, happy for their friends' reunion. Sirius was helping Bo to his feet and then putting a protective arm around his daughter as they did. Bo shook his head as he stood up and stumbled a bit as he took a step. He blinked a few times as he looked up and saw his dad. He rubbed his eyes then shook his head.

"I'm dreaming." He muttered to himself. He hit himself lightly. "After effects of the curse." He said. Remus laughed and held out a hand to Bo. Bo stood there and just looked at Remus too stunned to do anything.

"As amazing as this reunion is." Harry said. "I would like to rest my arm at some point." The three students were still the only ones keeping Wormtail where he was. April and James snapped out of their reverie and they went to relieve the students.

"We'll take it from here." April said, putting a hand on Harry's shoulder. Harry nodded and lowered his wand. He looked over at Lily who looked at him disapprovingly. Harry looked away and took a strategic step behind April.

"Please spare me. I won't hurt you, I'll be a spy if I have to, just spare me." Wormtail begged as he fell to his knees.

"He's rather pathetic isn't he?" Remus said as he kept his arm around Jenny.

"Yep, that's why his animagus was a rat remember." Sirius said.

"A wimpy, two faced son of a bitch Rat" James said.

"And don't even dare changing" Remus said. There was a slight growl in his voice that made Jenny look at him. Wormtail gave him a challenging look. Remus let go of Jenny and slowly his body began to change from that of a strong healthy man to a growling wolf who approached Wormtail. Rhia gave a cry of alarm as she held onto Sirius and buried her face into his shoulder. Jenny gave a start of surprise while the others gasped. Wormtail stared horrified and ready to wet his garments. James was the first to come out of his surprise and turned back to Wormtail.

"Now, walk, you're going to my office. April take him up and bind him, Padfoot and Moony, please assist her."

"With pleasure." Sirius said with a grin as he turned into a dog. April poked Wormtail in the back to prompt him to move. Once the four had gone James turned to Harry and his friends.

"You were under orders to stay at school." James said to Harry sternly.

"But-"

"No buts Harry. Your mother and I will talk to you about this later. You are returning to school!" James said. He then turned to Rhia and Bo. Bo still looked rather worse for wear and ready to collapse. James frowned.

"Lily, could you help Bo." James said. "He looks ready to faint." Lily looked at Jenny, then nodded for Jenny to help her son. Jenny reached him and Bo's knees gave way.

"He's alive." Bo said. "He's actually alive, how did he come back alive, why is he alive?" He looked at Jenny, "He's supposed to be dead but he's alive!" He said, getting more and more worked up by the minute. Jenny put her hands on his shoulders.

"Bo, I know he is but he's alive now. Someone brought him back to us." Jenny said. Bo looked at Jenny shaking slightly.

"I sort of-" Harry started to say when someone came running into the department of mysteries. Dwight tumbled in and went to Jenny.

"Thank Merlin, you're ok!" He said as he put his arms around her. Jenny tensed slightly and pushed him away.

"Dwight, I said stay away from me." Jenny said.

"Jenny-" Dwight started to say but a look from Bo silenced him.

"She said go away, now get lost" Bo said pushing Bo away from Jenny.

"Don't you get involved in things that don't concern you." Dwight said. Bo's eyes narrowed and his hand went to his wand. Jenny took Bo's arm.

"Dwight, go and see to the Death Eaters we caught." James ordered gently. Dwight glanced at Jenny.

"We need to talk." He said to her.

"We really do." Jenny said. Dwight nodded and left the room.

"Ok, everyone. Lets get the kids back to school and celebrate Remus' return!" James said.

"Can we come?" Rhia asked Lily.

"Ok." James said happily.

"James." Lily said, "it's not really a good idea to let the kids skip school, besides, these three shouldn't even be here." Lily said looking at Harry and his friends. They looked at each other guiltily. James made a portkey and called Rhia over.

"What about Bo?" Ron asked.

"He'll be back at school by tonight." James said. He gave them the portkey and they disappeared from the rooms. James looked at his friends and they left the room. They made their way up the path that April had gone down with Moony and Padfoot. They made their way into James' office, where April had tied Wormtail to a chair with Padfoot patrolling in a circle around him. April was talking to Remus and just gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek just as the others came in.

"Tut, tut, cheating openly are we April?" Lily said with a smirk. April looked at Lily and shrugged.

"You know me, Sirius isn't enough."

"I wasn't talking about Sirius." Lily said, she put a hand to her chest and pretended to cry. "I meant me, I thought you loved me." She said. April laughed and went to Lily, causing Padfoot to turn his head slightly.

"I'm sorry." April said giving Lily a quick kiss on the lips, making Padfoot jump up slightly, then both of them started laughing. Jenny had already gone to Remus while Lily and April performed their little play. Remus gave her a quick kiss and looked at Bo, who still looked incredibly shell shocked.

"Are you just going to stand there?" Remus said with a grin. Bo couldn't believe his eyes. His dad was standing there in front of him back from the dead. How? Was the only thing that went through Bo's mind. Bo could also sense something different about his dad. It wasn't like his mum or anyone else he knew, who had a particular sense of being a human. His dad had always been a comforting presence but that had now changed. There was something different about him. Bo shook his head and took a step away.

"You're different." Bo said. "You're very different." He said.

"We know he's different." April said, "I mean, he just did turn into a werewolf and not attack anyone." Bo shook his head.

"I want to go back to school." He said. "There's something wrong about dad. He's not right."

"Don't be ridiculous!" Remus said with an uncertain smile. Jenny looked at Bo strangely.

"Bo." She said. Bo shook his head and apparated out of the office. April looked at Lily uncertainly. Remus sighed.

"I guess we better get on and question Wormtail then." Remus said. The others nodded and looked at Wormtail.

"This should be fun." James said with a slight smile. Wormtail looked at James and Lily. He was terrified to say the least. Lily looked at him darkly with her wand out.

"Please, you must understand that I didn't mean to do anything that I did!" Wormtail said.

"Not as brave as you were when I was undercover are you?" Jenny asked.

"Please spare me." Wormtail said.

"Oh shut up with the spare me crap." Sirius said.

"Do you really think that we'd hurt you?" James asked. Wormtail nodded. "Then you don't know us. You should know that we'd never actually hurt you"

"I would." Lily put in. April and James looked at her.

"What?" April asked.

"I'm ready to kill him." Lily said, "He betrayed us, nearly got me killed when I was pregnant with Emma! It's his fault that our lives have been so bad. How can you say you won't hurt him!" Lily asked.

"You don't mean that." James said.

"I do and I will." Lily said darkly as she held her wand tighter. James grabbed Lily's hand and took her wand away.

"Not yet." James said.

"Yet?" Wormtail squeaked. James turned to Wormtail.

"Now tell us how you got into the Department of mysteries." James asked.

"No." Wormtail said weakly. Lily crossed her arms and went to James' desk. She lifted herself up onto it and sat on it with her legs crossed looking rather annoyed. James sighed at her then turned to Wormtail.

"So, tell us." He said. Wormtail suddenly gave a start of surprise and pain. Behind him Sirius had gotten out his wand and sent a stinging hex at him.

"Just because we won't kill you don't mean that we don't have to hurt you." Sirius said.

"I will!" Lily said. James gave her a hard look and she looked away. Wormtail shook in the presence of his old friends.

"Someone let us in. One of Lestrange's contacts!" He whimpered. "I just too a portkey from the Lord's house to here." He looked over at April wearily. She pulled a face at him and he squealed in fear. April suddenly burst out laughing.

"What is it?" Sirius asked.

"He's still rather funny, that's all" April said. Wormtail moved his gaze to Remus. He had an arm around Jenny rather protectively.Wormtail shuddered and closed his eyes as preparing to answer many painful questions.

Harry left the Gryffindor common room silently. The teachers had effectively put a lock down on the entire school. Rhia watched him leave and went to his room to get his map. She tapped her wand against it.

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." She said. The map revealed the school and a dot labelled Harry Potter. Rhia left the boy's dormitories but bumped into her brother near the bottom of the steps.

"Where are you going?" Orion asked.

"I need to talk to Harry." Rhia said.

"But you spoke with him didn't you?" Orion asked. "What happened at the ministry?" He asked eagerly.

"Nothing, Orion move out of the way." Rhia said. Rhia went past him but Orion followed her anyway. They snuck out of the Gryffindor common room. Rhia was glad that Orion was with her but she was a bit annoyed because she wanted to talk to Harry about what happened in the ministry. Even though they had only returned a few hours ago, Harry seemed to be distancing himself from his friends. He had spoken to Rhia but he seemed distracted. Rhia followed Harry's dot to the room of Requirement. When Rhia and Orion entered the room Harry spun with his wand out. He relaxed when he realise who they were.

"You should be in the dormitories." Harry said as he went to Rhia.

"So should you." Rhia said. "Harry we need to talk."

"I know we do." Harry said. "I've been thinking-"

"Harry-" Rhia interrupted.

"No, I need to tell you this." Harry said, "After today I don't think I can continue to be your boyfriend." Rhia's eyes widened as Orion clenched his fists.

"What?" Rhia gasped.

"I know that as long as you are with me you'll always be in danger, you're one of the ways to get to me and they know that. If something happens to you I don't know what I'd do. I can't run that risk." Harry said.

"And you think we're not in danger anyway?" Orion said, "We're Blacks Harry, Voldemort hates us as much as he hates you" Harry looked at Orion then back to Rhia's shocked face.

"You're breaking up with me?" Rhia asked. Harry made a pained face then nodded.

"Yes. But it's only until Voldemort has been defeated." Harry said, "If I can defeat him. If you don't want me then that's fair enough but for now I can't have any distractions."

"And I'm a distraction?" Rhia asked. Harry nodded. "I don't mind helping you, I don't want you to break up with me. I'm in danger whether I'm with you or not." Harry shook his head.

"Sorry Rhia." He said.

"Why you-" Orion jumped at Harry and landed on him. They were both knocked to the ground and Orion swung a fist at Harry's face.

"Orion, no." Rhia said, running to stop Orion but his fist had already collided with Harry's face. Rhia put her arms around Orion's neck and pulled him off. Harry touched his face and licked a bleeding lip. Rhia held Orion back and looked at Harry.

"I deserved that. I promised I wouldn't hurt you. Rhia you understand why I have to do this." Harry said.

"No I don't Harry. I don't care if I get hurt."

"But I do! If you get hurt it's the end of the world for me. I love you Rhia, more then anything. If you got hurt I wouldn't know what to do, I'd blame myself and if you were killed I don't know what I'd do. I honestly wouldn't. I have to distance myself from you and all my friends if I'm going to defeat Voldemort." Harry said, raising his voice.

"No you don't Harry!" Rhia said. "That's the kind of thing Voldemort wants. Whether you're close to us or not he's going to try and kill us simply for being who we are." Harry went to the door and put his hand on it. "Harry Potter!" Rhia said. Harry closed his eyes and bit his lip. He opened the door and left Rhia and Orion in the room of requirement. Rhia turned to Orion.

"He didn't just…he…he-" Rhia felt tears coming to her eyes and waved her arm uselessly at the door. Orion pulled his sister into a hug. Usually he would avoid it at all costs but he hated seeing his sister cry. Rhia cried for a little while, not caring if Orion was her brother or not.

"Do you want me to kill him?" Orion asked. "Because I will. I could even tell Dad if you want." Rhia shook her head. Her mind was numb. She hadn't expected Harry to suddenly break up with her. She had wanted to talk to Harry about what had happened in the ministry, Remus coming back but no, Harry had dumped her.

"This is a nightmare." Rhia muttered. Orion shrugged. He took the map from Rhia and looked for a clear way to get back to the dormitories. Harry had already reached the Gryffindor tower and was sitting with Hermione and Ron.

"Come on." Orion said. He helped his sister up and walked her back to the Gryffindor tower. When in the tower someone called to Orion but he ignored them. Emma waved over to Rhia. Rhia glanced over and saw her talking with Harry and his friends. Rhia's eyes narrowed and she went straight to her dormitory. Emma frowned and looked at Orion. She excused herself from her brother and went to the younger boy.

"What happened?" Emma asked.

"Harry dumped Rhia." Orion said darkly. He glared at the back of Harry's head.

"What!" Emma nearly shouted.

"Because she's a liability." Orion muttered. Emma turned to Harry.

"Harry Potter! What in the name of Merlin did you do that for?" Emma said. Harry turned and looked at Emma.

"What?"

"With Rhia? Why!" Emma said walking towards Harry.

"I have my reasons Emma, leave me alone and go and comfort her." Harry said. Emma hit her brother rather hard then stormed up the girl's dormitory steps. Hermione and Ron looked at Harry curiously then followed him to the boy's dormitories.

The next few days found Harry falling into all kinds of traps and pranks that the Black siblings had undoubtedly set up. Harry had noticed that Orion, Jessie and Kaylee were ignoring him. Usually Harry saw their heads in together as if they were plotting. Emma refused to talk to him and spent her time with Rhia. Hermione was rather distant, having scolded Harry for his decision, she had decided that if Rhia was a liability, she was also a liability. Harry had thought about his decision a lot and every time he felt it was the best thing to do. His parent's didn't know yet though he knew Lily was getting curious. Harry wondered up to the Hospital wing after school to go to his mum for his usual occlumency lesson with her. He didn't know how much longer it would be until he had to go to Snape for lessons. Harry entered the hospital wing and watched as his mum gave a first year Ravenclaw a potion to drink. Lily looked up and nodded for him to follow her. Harry followed and tried not to catch the eyes of the young Ravenclaw, who was staring at him with his mouth open.

"Ok, ready for your lesson?" Lily asked.

"Not really." Harry said. "I'd rather had a defence lesson then Occlumency." Lily looked at Harry curiously then got out her wand. She sent a stinging hex at Harry, which he promptly blocked. Lily moved her head out of the way and the spell flew harmlessly into the wall.

"What's wrong?" Lily asked.

"Nothing." Harry muttered. Lily sent a succession of hexes and spells at Harry. Most of which got past Harry's defences. Lily frowned and picked Harry off the floor. She led him to a chair.

"Sit." She said. Harry sat down. Lily summoned a chair towards her and sat next to Harry. "Now tell me what's wrong?" Lily said.

"I can't tell you, you'll probably kill me." Harry muttered.

"I'm your mum, Harry, would you rather speak to your dad?" Lily asked. Harry thought for a moment and then nodded. Lily sighed.

"Alright. I'll try and get him here but he's really busy. He's having April search every single employee in the ministry." Lily told him.

"He has to have time for me." Harry said. "Tell him it's to do with some rather personal matters." Lily looked at Harry curiously.

"Rhia?" Lily asked.

"Yeah. I want a man's help on it. Ron has no clue, Bo's not talking to me and I'm fed up of the girls trying to give me advice." Harry said. Lily nodded.

"Alright. We won't have any more of these sessions until you've spoken to him, it's obvious that it's distracting you and you can't have any distractions." Lily said. Harry nodded and put his wand away. He got up to go and was about to leave when Lily called him back.

"Yeah?" Harry asked.

"Rhia was in here crying yesterday. I personally pray that Sirius is in a good mood when he finds out." Lily said. Harry nodded and left the office. In the hospital wing he passed Emma and Rhia going to talk to Lily. Harry looked at Rhia but she ignored him and continued forwards. Emma gave him a disapproving look.

Jenny opened the door to Grimmauld place. Dwight stood in the doorway, he came in and looked at Jenny.

"I'm sorry for anything I said to offend you." He said. Jenny narrowed her eyes.

"Get out of the house." Jenny said

"This isn't your house." Dwight said.

"But I'm effectively the keeper of it. Get out."

"Can I just ask why you're so touchy on the subject of half breeds?" Dwight asked.

"Because my son is half werewolf." Jenny said. Dwight gasped.

"He is? But he's so normal!" Dwight asked. Jenny narrowed her eyes again. "And he's head boy, what on earth is Dumbledore thinking!" Dwight said, thinking out loud. Jenny was about to hit him when Remus came down the stairs.

"Jenny, who's that?" Remus asked. He came to Jenny's side and put an arm around her. Dwight looked at him suspiciously, his eyes widened as he recognised some of his features from Bo.

"Dwight, my husband, Remus Lupin." Jenny said. Dwight went pale and took a step back.

"I thought he was supposed to be dead." Dwight said.

"I was, but a good friend of mine brought me back." Remus said. "Who are you?" He asked.

"Oh no one, um, well I suppose this is goodbye then Jenny." Dwight said. Jenny gave him a little wave. Dwight disapparated and Jenny closed the door.

"Who was that Jenny?" Remus asked.

"The Head Auror, he came to report. He's a half breed hater." Jenny said. She felt Remus' arm around her tense, "Don't worry." Jenny said. She kissed Remus softly on the lips. She smiled to herself and looked into Remus' eyes. They no longer had that spark of life that he had had before. There was also something strange in there but it was Remus. He was still Remus and Jenny was so happy. She kept trying to think of ways to thank Harry for bringing him back but each token seemed too feeble. Remus smiled at her and pulled her closer. There was another pop from further down the corridor. Jenny and Remus turned to look at a small grey haired woman. She had a rather large bag in her hands and was looking about the hall. She began talking in Chinese then turned to look at Jenny. Jenny burst out into a smile.

"Grandmother!" She said in Chinese. "What are you doing here?" She went to her grandmother and gave her a hug. Her grandmother kissed her on the cheek before turning to Remus. She looked at him and turned to Jenny.

"I came as soon as we got your owl about Lemus." Grandmother said. Jenny smiled and turned to Remus. He smiled at her and bowed to the old lady.

"Grandmother Chang." He said respectfully.

"At least he still has his manners" Grandmother said in Chinese, putting her hands on the top of her walking stick.

"Thank you." Remus said. Jenny looked at Remus.

"You understood that?" She asked.

"Of course I did." He said. Jenny looked at him curiously.

"Why did you come, there is nothing to be worried about, Remus and I are fine." Jenny said. Grandmother clicked her tongue against her teeth.

"This is unnatural. Lemus should be dead. Whatever happened to bring him back must be reversed. I can sense there is something different about him." Grandmother said to Jenny in Chinese.

"I feel different but a god different. I would never hurt Jenny." Remus said in fluent Chinese. Jenny and Grandmother both looked at Remus.

"Ok, now what's happening?" Jenny asked Remus. "You cannot speak Chinese. The most you can say is thank you, hello and goodbye." Remus shrugged.

"I guess I learnt a few things by being dead." Remus said.

A/N:-Ok, not one of my best chapters, i admit. I think it was rather bitty and jumpy and not written to it's best potential but i did kinda rush it. I wanted to get this chapter over and done with, simply cause i did't like writing half the stuff i put in here. But yeah the story is about to change. Just so you know, HArry has been taking regular defence and occlumency lessons with Lily but not to the extent that he's fully prepared cause, well, Lily's not an auror or particularly fantastic at fighting though she's a good witch (Well in my story anyway, i'm not sure about others). I thought i'd get this up before i went on holiday so when i get back i'll have like...lots of new emails! hehe. Also there was someone who wanted me to email them but i only got hte first part of your email address, it was corneliokidthen it kinda stops there. You could send me an email or put ur email addy in the review thing, i beleive it lets you put in ur email addy and i'll email you when i get home. Thanks for all urs patience...18 days of school left...EVER...eek!