AN: To all of my reviewers, I love you! You guy's rock! Seriously, you are what keep this story going! Knowing that you all enjoy this…it's fabulous. I'm so happy that you all like Spooks, I know that it must have been so hard for Lupin to keep Spooks after all this time…but it's one of those things that make you go "aw" because he kept it.

I'm happy you like my idea of Lupin living as a muggle. I mean, I can't see him living as a bum just because he can't work in the wizarding world. Lupin is to smart for that, and having a muggle grandparent helped him to understand the finer points of the muggle world so it just made sense for me to have him as a muggle.

And yes, Kit's father is an evil bastard. Although I do love writing him, because I can see him so clearly in my mind. He's wonderfully evil. I love evil characters, Lucius and Snape are like candy to me because writing them is so much fun. It's just fun to see how they torment other people…any who.

I'll get on with writing this chapter, but two more notes. One, I agree…Lupin Blue Jeans Sexy. And, two, he is trying hard not to corrupt her…but well…hmm, we'll just see where it goes eh?

On with the chapter! Woo!

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Chapter Twenty-Eight

(Present Day)

Winter Holiday's

Unlike Remus who seemed to be resting soundly next to her, Kit wasn't sleeping peacefully. In fact, she hadn't been able to get to sleep at all. She was far to giddy and it probably didn't help that as they lay under the thick blankets, they were both still naked. The bath had ended hours ago, and they had decided that heading straight to bed was the best option. Except, Kit just couldn't sleep. For the life of her, she couldn't get the thoughts in her head to go away.

Not that they were bad thoughts or anything, they were actually remarkably good and all centered around how great it felt to feel her Remmy's naked body pressed against her's. While he slept soundly his hand was pressed against her stomach, and his thumb would occasionally move in circles…this small movement caused her stomach to feel like it was flying away.

She liked feeling so close to him. In fact, she had never felt so close to him before…but then again that was probably because of the fact they were naked. Blue eyes were fixed open as she gazed out the window across the room. While it was completely dark outside, thanks to one of his neighbors outside lights, she could see the snow lazily fall down.

Kit sighed. She would never get to sleep, she was far to wired. Gingerly she slipped out from under Remus's hold, and upon standing she nearly dived back under the covers. It was freezing and she didn't feel like digging for her clothes out of her bag. Grabbing a stray shirt of Remus's, that easily fell to her knees she buttoned it up and tried her best to roll the sleeves up as she walked down the hall towards the living room.

Spooks gave a meow as he seen her walk in, almost as if trying to tell her to go back to sleep. Kit just gently rubbed the cats back before plopping down onto the sofa, curling her legs up under her, and leaning back with a sigh. Things were so…different now.

She couldn't help but think about it, Remus was different, Hogwarts was different, Spooks was…well he was the same, Sirius was different…Things had changed a great deal, and it just now seemed to actually be catching up to her, making Kit feel rather melancholy.

Humming lightly, she watched as Spooks padded down the sofa her way. The cat then proceeded to plop down on Kit's lap and purr, looking down at her cat Kit couldn't help but grin. So maybe things did change, that was the way life worked right? It wasn't all that bad, sure half of her friends were dead, the other half were either on the lamb from Dementors, or hiding out as a rat, and her boyfriend was…

Not just her boyfriend. It felt weird calling a thirty-three year old her boyfriend, maybe she should start calling him her mate, or lover even. Boyfriend just sounded so childish (but then again, she kind of was a child.) She let her eyes close for a slight second and gave a small sigh. Things felt so right, but boy were they confusing.

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One hazel colored hue popped open, followed by another. Only to be greeted by the darkness, Remus wondered what woke him up so suddenly. Right arm feeling at the bed slightly he arched a brow, Kit wasn't next to him; no wonder why he woke up. Glancing out the window it was quite easy to see that it was still night time out, she shouldn't be up so early. A small sigh was given as he rubbed his eyes awake before getting up from his bed.

Being met with a cold floor under his feet, and cold air against his body, Remus blinked, and then glanced down. Oh yes, he was still naked. Must have forgotten about that little fact, otherwise he would have known better to have stepped out of his bed without grabbing his nearby robe first. Once said robe was grabbed and tossed on over his lean body, he started his search for his mate.

Of course she would be in the last place he looked (isn't that the way it always was?), a smile touched his face when he seen what she was wearing, his shirt. He couldn't help but be happy seeing her in that and nothing else, Spooks sat on her lap with a lazy look on his face as he lay stretched out. Upon closer inspection a brow was arched as he seen that her head was canted off to the side and her eyes were closed tight.

Why was she sleeping out here? With ease he came to sit next to her on the sofa, causing Spooks to hiss before jumping off of her lap, causing her to wake with a start. She blinked and looked down at her now empty lap, then to him with an arch of her brow. "Oh, good-mor…well it's still night actually." Kit said, glancing out the living room window and into the darkness.

"What are you doing out here Kitten?" He asked, in concern. Was she still having the nightmares? Is that why he woke up so suddenly to find his bed empty of her? Remus watched as she shrugged her shoulders and used her hands to pull her orange hair back out of her face.

"Couldn't sleep."

"Why not? You're not still having nightmares are you?" Remus questioned, easily pulling the small girl into his lap as he spoke. She sighed, puffing her cheeks out for a moment while shaking her head.

"Just…couldn't sleep."

He arched a brow, in wonder how she couldn't sleep in bed like a normal person, but was quite able to find sleep while on the sofa with a rather heavy cat on her lap. "But you were able to sleep, sitting up while on the sofa?"

"Well…" She drawled out, Kit's head slowly canting to the side as she did so. "Youwerekindanaked."

He blinked, "Repeat that."

"Well, you were kind of naked. I couldn't sleep…"

"Because I was naked?" Remus asked, slightly amused about the situation. "You are aware that you were naked too right? And I was still able to fall asleep…"

"Well aren't you talented." She bit back, frowning ever so slightly.

"Don't be snaky, it doesn't become you." He told her, as he gave a light kiss to Kit's temple. "Was that really the reason Kitten?"

"As much as I hate to admit it, yes it was Remmy. I just…and bodies pressed together…then the commentary in my brain." She paused, and let her head crash down onto his shoulder with a groan. "I'm sorry."

He chuckled, fairly relieved that the reason he couldn't sleep was nightmares. He had to grin though, watching as she became flustered and how her face turned a shade of red. Remus forgot sometimes that she wasn't used to adult things (such as sleeping with another person in the buff). "You don't need to be sorry. I'm just happy that you told me."

A yawn escaped her lips, as she nuzzled at his neck. "Can we go to sleep now?" She asked him, and he nodded, even if she couldn't see it thanks to her now shut blue eyes. With ease he sat up, still holding onto her small body and carried her back towards the bedroom. Setting her on the bed he quickly changed out of his robe and into boxers and a simple well worn tee shirt.

Remus smiled, crawling over Kit and into his own side of the bed before pulling her close with his arms. She let her head rest on his chest and gingerly tossed a leg over one of his so she could be firmly pressed against him. Looking up at the ceiling he had to admit something…even if she was still fourteen, at least she was mature enough to admit that it was their nakedness in the same bed that seemed to bother her.

With that as his last thought, and one lazy glance out the window to see the snow still falling, Remus let himself fall into sleep holding the girl that he loved with all of his heart…no matter how old she was.

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Many miles away in Wiltshire, in a dark place that seemed to never have sunlight touch it sat a mansion, The Malfoy Manor. The way that the white snow blanketed the area around the manor, made it look like something out of a postcard, the way the trees seemed to be disfigured with age, or the way dead ivy climbed up the brick walls.

It was in this manor, where one Lucius Malfoy sat in his office with a thoughtful expression on his usually cold stone set face. Upon the solid ash wood desk in front of him, sat many upon many open faced books on the subject of time travel. A subject that had been boggling his mind ever since he seen the girl that he hadn't been able to kill so many years ago.

He left her for dead, in fact with all the blood that she had been loosing he had deemed the little mud-blood unworthy of the killing curse and left, knowing full well that she should have bleed to death. A growl (because this man would never sigh) escaped his perfectly pale lips. There was something about that girl…there had to be!

The last thing he had heard about her was that she disappeared off the face of the planet. He assumed that she finally died, or killed herself in such a manor that left no body behind. So imagine his surprise when he seen her there in the Diagon Alley potion supply shop while he was collecting the supplies he would need to poison a rather unwanted guest. She looked almost exactly as she had when he had held her captive all those years ago. The same look in her eyes, the same pale skin, the same mud-blood that he couldn't kill!

Blast it all. And now, here he was pouring over books like some mad man. He'd been working at it for the past month, trying to figure out how she could have managed time travel. How that little mud-blood could do something that even a full grown wizard like himself couldn't do.

When he finally found that there was simply no way that she could cast a spell to bring her to the future…he simply came to the conclusion that there must be a secret power laying beyond all of her impure blood. A white brow arched as he stood up from his seat, and a small smile touched his face. The kind of smile that would make your skin crawl if you knew that the man only smiled when a devilish thought crossed his mind.

If he could use her…to go back in time, like she came forward…then he could warn his Lord and master…perhaps even get a sweet reward.

The only question was…how to go about his devilish plan?

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The next day greeted Remus and Kit in the early afternoon hour, neither one of them seemed to be one for mornings. Upon waking and slipping out of bed they went about a new found routine of making hot chocolate and reading the Daily Prophet at the table. When everything was said and done, and they dressed for the day (er…afternoon) ahead of them, Remus took a glance over his kitchen supplies.

"I do believe we'll have to go out today to keep from starving." He told Kit, who was eager to get out of the cottage and into the outside world for awhile.

At the front door, Kit was tugging on her black boots and using Remus as a post to keep her steady. Her free hand holding onto the jeans he wore while the other tugged her final boot on. "You know, it would have been easier if you just unlaced them." Remus told her, as he opened the front door.

"Yes well, where's the fun in that?"

Remus rolled his eyes and took a moment to lock the front door before turning his attention towards Kit who quite honestly looked like she was wading in the snow. About halfway towards the car she turned around and put her hands on her hips. "Come on now!"

A grin toyed at his lips, she just looked so cute standing there with snow up to her knees and one of his old fur caps on her head. Which is mostly why he couldn't help doing what he was about to do. With ease he was able to run though the snow (after all it wasn't as deep for him). In running towards her in the snow, she gave him a deer in the headlights expression before tackling her down into the fluffy white snow with an "omph!" given by both of them.

He heard a sigh underneath him and Remus glanced down to see his counterpart squished into the snow. "And here I thought you were supposed to be the adult." She deadpanned with a look on her face that told him that Kit was trying very hard not to grin.

"Yes well…what can I say, you bring out the kid in me." He told her, placing a kiss on the tip of her nose before pulling himself (and her) up out of the snow.

It was bound to be an interesting evening at the store now.

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AN: This chapter would be longer -grumble- but my computer froze and I lost the last two pages of it. So leaving it off here seemed logical. -grumble- stupid computer.

Okay, so Lucius now thinks that Kit has a special power (she doesn't)…he just came to the only logical conclusion.

I'm going to leave off here because I'm dying to start on the next chapter.

Toodles.