AN: The angst and drama begins! Mwhahaha. God, I think my muse has driven my insane…Seriously if your muse was Sirius Black you'd be insane too. All he can rant about is why this story is about Remus and not Him. -sigh-
So, I'll stop my insane ramblings and let you read on…that is what you are here for right?
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Chapter Twenty-One
(November. 15th, 1976)
Remus and Kit had settled into a pattern, it might have broken a few rules and James might have commented a few times on why he and Lily never did it, but the pattern became their way of life. Every night when everyone was sound asleep, Kit would creep into the boys dorms and slide into Remus's bed. They had been sleeping together (no not in the sexual way) ever since he had came back on the first of November.
The closeness of this, really was one of a kind. Kit found that she didn't dream of her father, and Remus found that he didn't dream of killing anyone while he was a werewolf, while they slept snuggled up together. It was a pattern that they had grown to love and enjoy.
They were so utterly comfortable with one another, that it showed, even during the daytime hours. Professor McGonagall had even went as far to stop them in the hall and tell them that they made a good match. Things in both of their lives were so blissful…normal even, well at least until lunchtime on the fifteenth of November.
While Lily received her usual Daily Prophet, and Sirius his usual slew of fan-mail and secret admire letters, Kit for the first time in her long carrier at Hogwarts received a letter as well. It was a beat up, wrinkled letter, that was sent by her parents. She bit at her bottom lip as the carrier owl picked at the toast she gave it. What was wrong? What could be wrong?
Her parents wouldn't send her a letter unless something was direly wrong. Both of them didn't understand (nor want to understand) the wizarding world. It would have taken something awful to happen to have one of them tie the letter onto the owls foot.
"Kit?" Remus asked, gently placing a hand on her shoulder, causing her to jump out of her thoughts. He looked at her carefully with a rather concerned expression on his face. "What's wrong? Bad news?" He joked, or at least tried to.
She shrugged, "I haven't opened it yet…I um…I'll be back…" after stumbling over her words, Kit stood with her letter still in her hand as she headed out of the Great Hall, leaving a very concerned Remus behind.
Kit paid no mind to that, in fact, she didn't even care that she had went out of the Great Hall alone. Instead of standing in the hallway, reading her letter; she made way for the empty class-room that was usually used by James to make sure she wasn't cutting anymore.
She sat on the floor, crossing her legs and opening the letter with trembling hands. What could it be? Oh God, what could it be?
Kit,
Thanks to a few chemicals to many, your brain dead mother is just that…brain dead…in a coma. Instead of staying at that damned school of yours for the winter holidays, I want you back here.
-Your father.
Kit had to re-read the note a few times to actually understand it. Her mother was in a coma because of all the drugs she did…her father wanted her home for the winter holidays. She bit at her bottom lip, bit it so hard in fact that she could taste the blood on her tongue. She bowed her head, and let herself cry. So her mother was brain dead, and her father wanted her home…there was only one reason for that. Probably to have Kit be there while they pulled the plug on her mother, he would be that cruel to make her watch as her mother's last breath escaped her lips.
She didn't want to go home for the winter holidays. She didn't want to see her mother in a coma, she didn't want to see her father, she didn't want to get hurt, all Kit wanted to do was spend the holiday's with Remus…was that to much to ask?
Apparently it was, because in three weeks she would be at her fathers disposal…and that scared her.
To death.
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Remus was worried about Kit. In fact, he was beside himself in worry. The way she had just left the Great Hall, clutching her letter like it was a howler about to go off worried him. His worries didn't get much better when he seen her after lunch, walking rather glumly behind James towards her next class. It had also looked like she had been crying, and he would have liked nothing better then to have swept her into his arms and tell her that it would be okay. That he would make whatever made her cry go away.
Remus spent the better part of his afternoon classes wondering about what could have made her so upset. By the time he got to the Great Hall, he was a mess. His hair was sticking up straight in some parts thanks to his hands combing through it every five seconds, and his robes were covered in a potion that had been spilled on himself thanks to his lack of attention skills.
Matters were only made worse when Lily had walked into the hall alone (usually she would be walking in with Kit). Thank-fully though, upon seeing the panic look from Remus, Lily went straight for him. "Your girlfriend seems sadder then normal. I left her in the common room, although knowing her she'll probably be in your bed." She told him. The moment she had spoke Remus was up and out of the Great Hall as if his robes were on fire.
Dinner wasn't important…Kit was. What was wrong? Why hadn't she came to him? He dashed up the stairs, and nearly collided with several people on his way up towards the Gryffindor Tower, so he was worried…who could blame him? James would probably do the same thing for Lily if something was wrong with her. In fact, Remus knew that James would be doing the same thing if it were him.
"Password?" The Fat Lady asked him, in his hurry he had almost nearly ran through the painting.
"Fizgig."
The portrait opened, and Remus dashed into the empty common room. He wasted no time in climbing up the stairs to the boys dorms, he was taking them two at a time and nearly tripped and fell on his face twice. When he reached the sixth year boys room, he wasn't sure if he should be relieved or not upon seeing her sitting in his bed. He was relieved yes, that he got to see her and could now ask her what was wrong. Then again, his heart was pulled out of his chest the moment he seen her.
She was sitting on his bed with her knees drawn up to her chest, her head resting on her knees as she sobbed. "Kitten?" He asked, as he slowly approached her. He had only seen her sobbing like this once, and that was in the library. It was easy to tell that she had been holding back in the library, because here in the dorm she not only sobbed, but her whole body shook while she did so.
"Kitten what's wrong? Please talk to me." He begged, slowly dropping onto the bed next to her. At that she looked up at him, her dark blue eyes were stained with red from how hard she had been crying. She sniffled slightly, and if it wasn't so awful a situation he would have laughed, because at that moment she just looked so darn cute. She slowly, very slowly crawled into his lap, taking her time to dry her eyes with the long sleeves of her robes.
"I won't be able to spend the winter holiday's here at school like we planned." Kit told him, in a small voice with a sigh. He frowned slightly, that's why she was so upset? Kit wouldn't get upset over something so simple as that would she? There had to be more that she wasn't saying.
"That's what your letter said?" He asked, adjusting her in his arms so that he could look down at her easier instead of having to crane his neck in a rather uncomfortable way to look her in her eyes.
"My mum's slipped into a coma." She started to explain, causing Remus to cringe just slightly. No wonder she was so upset, it was a surprise that she had lasted most of the afternoon without breaking down in tears. "Apparently she's brain dead and well it's obvious that my father wants me back so I can be there with her before she passes."
"How did it happen?" Remus asked, and as an answer he felt her shrug. "Could magic help her at all?" He asked her, although this time instead of a shrug he got a snort.
"My parents aren't really supportive when it comes to magic, so I doubt that my father will take her to get checked out by a medi-witch."
After that things stayed silent for awhile, him pondering why Kit was requested to go home for the holidays when her mother was ill now. Wouldn't it have made more sense for her to leave right away? Kit meanwhile tried not to cry as he held her in his protective arms. Occasionally a sniffle would be heard coming from her, but other then that, Remus managed to help her relax as he gently ran one of his hands up and down her small back.
After awhile, when it could be heard that there were Gryffindor's down in the common room, Kit spoke looking at him with a small thankful smile on her face. "Thank-you Remmy…you really know how to comfort me."
"Remmy?" He asked, slightly confused by the new nick-name.
"Well, your friends call you Moony…and everybody else call's you Remus. I want to call you something that is just mine." She paused for a moment, and bit at her bottom lip. "Unless you don't want me to…"
He grinned and placed a kiss atop of her head. "I don't mind at all, it will just take a little while to get used to."
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Kit and Remus spent much of the later hours of the evening sitting in the common room with the rest of their group. It had been asked why she was so sad (or sadder then usual) from both Lily and Sirius, it was Remus who explained it to the group, after receiving a look from Kit that stated that she clearly didn't want to talk about it anymore. Thankfully the talk began to turn towards the recent articles in the Daily Prophet, although, the talk about the articles was rather depressing.
More muggleborn wizards and witches were dying, and there was quite obviously a dark wizard gaining power. None of them liked to hear that, especially since Kit and Lily were muggle-borns. After awhile, the discussions in the group were split down the middle, while Remus, Kit, and Lily talked about their classes…James, Sirius, and Peter talked about Quidditch, as usual.
The common room was nearly empty when Remus asked James for use of his invisibility cloak. It was very obvious what the reason behind that request was, not only was Remus's stomach growling from lack of dinner, but so was Kit's thanks to forgoing both lunch and then dinner. It was decided (after a lot of words from James namely "Snog underneath my cloak and die") that the both of them would head down to the kitchens and spend a little bit more time together, seeing as the Winter Holiday's were in fact right around the corner.
"No wonder how you guys get away with so many pranks." Kit said, as Remus pulled the cloak over the both of them. Remus just grinned, and without a second thought they were out the portrait hole and heading down to the kitchens. Surprisingly enough they were able to move in sync with each other, taking a few moments to figure out which leg would be going first as they headed down the stairs.
Halfway down Mrs. Norris was seen "That cat will never die." Remus whispered into Kit's ear, causing the red-eyed know it all cat to look up for a moment in curiosity, before padding into a side hall. Halfway down, nearly towards the Great Hall Remus turned rather sharply to lead Kit down a corridor she had never been in before. He finally stopped and pulled the cloak off of them as they stood in front of a simple painting of a bowl of fruit.
"I don't think that looking at food will make us any less hungry." Kit stated, watching as Remus took out his wand from the inner pockets of his robes.
"Yes, I've brought my girlfriend down here to gaze into a painting of fruit to mock her with food that she can't eat. Well done job indeed…I should be getting my perfect boyfriend badge in the mail any day now…" Remus stated rather sarcastically with a wide grin spreading on his face.
"Funny." As she said that Remus did a rather unusual thing, sticking his wand out he gently started to tickle the pair. Kit blinked, and after a moment or two the portrait swung open to reveal the kitchens.
"Come on then." He said, taking her hand and helping her into the portrait hole. For Kit it was an interesting sight. Never in her years at Hogwarts had she been down to the kitchens, but here she was, getting to see how their food was made in all of it's glory. A few house elf's moved around, carrying pots and pans back and forth. It was like this until finally one of the little elves noticed the two of them standing there.
"Mr. Lupin is here with a guest, Mr. Lupin has brought a guest to visit!" Kit blinked, a rather perky thing now wasn't it? She had only seen house elf's maybe three times before hand, mostly in the corridors whenever she got lost they seemed to be there cleaning and were rather pleasant to help her out.
"What can we do for Mr. Lupin and his guest?" The house elf continued, blinking it's huge eyes with a thoughtful and adoring look on it's face. Was it just Kit…or did this elf look as if it had a crush on Remus? Kit arched a brow but said nothing as Remus asked for a picnic basket full of food. Instead she found herself enjoying her time, it was a nice change from how she had felt for most of the day. Instead of thinking about the impending doom, Kit thought of how nice Remus was, of how nice her life at Hogwarts was now, and not about how awful her life would be in less then three weeks.
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Remus had noted that Kit was in a better mood, in fact it had been noted and he wanted to keep her that way. Once the basket of food was given to him, and the invisibility cloak was secured over their head's again, he lead her towards the Astronomy tower. It was a long walk, but well worth it.
The stars shinned brightly in the sky, and Remus couldn't think of a better way to spend the night. He laid the invisibility cloak off to the side and set the picnic basket between them. Kit was looking at the stars as if it had been her first time seeing them in awhile, he couldn't help but think of how fragile she looked, head tilted back to see the great sky above them, her blue eyes shinning bright in reflection of all the stars…"Wow." he couldn't help it, she looked better now then when Lily had made her up.
Kit turned to look at him with an arched brow, "What was that?"
At her words Remus's face went bright red for a moment before looking down into the picnic basket, "Just, Wow…can't believe how much food they packed."
"Oh." She said, looking down at the basket herself; it was indeed filled up. Sandwiches, All kinds of sweet breads and rolls, there was even some bars of chocolate at the very bottom. Kit grinned at that, "Seems the kitchen elf's know of your sweet tooth."
"What can I say, I'm a sucker for sweet stuff." He said, grinning as he moved closer to Kit, handing her half of a sandwich as he did so. They ate in silence for awhile, both of them looking up at the night sky their worries melting away.
"Do you think we'll remember this day when we're old?" Kit finally asked, interrupting the silence as she nibbled slightly at one of the sweet rolls.
Remus blinked for a moment, "What do you mean?"
"Well, when we're older…grown up…do you think that we'll remember this night, what we're doing now…?"
He thought for a moment, looking over towards her small form with a sigh, "I think we will, after all…isn't half the school saying that we're destined to be together? We won't need to remember, because we'll never forget in the first place, this night will always be with us in our minds."
"Do you believe what they say? I mean…Lily has even called us soul-mates…do you believe that?"
"Do you?"
"I--without a doubt."
Remus took one of her tiny hands in his, and intertwined his fingers with hers. "The perfect fit." He started, with a grin and a small blush creeping up his face. "I promise."
"Promise what?"
"That we'll be together forever…"
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AN: Shameless fluff!!! I know I said there wouldn't be much fluff…but I couldn't help it. I mean, Kit was just feeling so darn bad…and it's only going to get worse for her.
And yes, if you haven't already figured it out…Remus and Kit are soul-mates. More on this will be explained in later chapters.
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