Chapter 8: The Truth
Summary of Chapter: A revealing conversation, a visit to St. Mungos Hospital, and a shocking discovery.
They were finally alone. Again...
Harry looked at Lupin straight in the eyes. He didn't see the usual light of amusement that Lupin always had in his eyes, even in the most serious situations. But this situation was out of his hands. And plus, he blamed himself too. Harry's eyes traveled from Lupin's eyes to his forehead, which beads of sweat were rolling down slowly, to his nose, it's nostrils flaring in then out with every breath he took. He then looked at Lupins mouth. It was sagging downwards, as if he had been frowning since he was born. Harry then looked at Lupin's face all together and it looked...it looked as if he had done a terrible, horrible crime, and he was terrified to get near anyone, or he might do it again.
Or it might just be the lack of sleep that's making him look like that. Harry smiled as the sound of Sirius' voice came into his head and say something that the Sirius would have said out loud, had he been alive, at a time like this. Lupin saw Harry smiling and asked what was up.
"Nothing. Just...Just thinking about Sirius." Now Harry soon regretted saying this for Lupin's eyes got wet and he looked away from Harry and covered his eyes.
"It's all my fault. It's all my fault. I should have let you sleep. I should have just left you alone and Arthur wouldn't have...he wouldn't have..." Lupin stopped talking as sobs took over his body. Harry felt like going up to Lupin and comfort him or something, but he couldn't let Lupin think that He was forgiving him. Not just yet.
"Lupin? Lupin can I ask you something?" Harry asked.
Lupin looked up with red, puffy eyes and nodded.
"I...I had another vision last night. But this time, it was like a...a continuation of the one I had when the dementors were near me..." Harry went on and told Lupin the whole vision. When he was done, Lupin was looking at him with wide eyes.
"And there was something I was asking my self about the guy in the vision. He looked familiar...very familiar...like someone who is sitting right in front of me."
Lupin looked from Harry, to his hands, which were under the table.
"Well? Is it true? Was that you in my vision?" Harry really wanted to know if it was true.
"Listen Harry. There's something I have to tell you, that I have been waiting to tell you when you were ready to know about it."
"Well? What is it?" Harry leaned towards Lupin so closely, they're eyes crossed every time they tried to look each other in the eyes.
Lupin took a deep breath and said," You mother and I went out...but in a bad way."
"What do you mean 'In a bad way?'" Harry asked.
"We went out...behind your father's back."
Harry moved away from Lupin and yelled,"You WHAT?" Harry was enraged.
"Harry! Just listen please!" Lupin tried to calm Harry down, but Harry was clearly pissed.
Harry got up from his chair and was pacing the kitchen.
"How...How could you do that!? And to one of your best friends? I bet you did the same thing to Sirius' girlfriend, whoever she was!"
"Narcissa Malfoy," Lupin said so quietly, that I took Harry about 10 seconds to know what he said.
"My mum! My mum! Just to think that you were...What? Who did Sirius used to go out with?"
"I said, Narcissa Malfoy."
"He...he went out with Narcissa Malfoy? But...But wasn't that his cousin?" Harry asked, remembering a year ago when he was here last time. He was looking at the Black Family Tree tapestry. He remembered how a double line of gold embroidery linked Narcissa Black with Lucius Malfoy. Then how on single vertical gold line from their names led to the name Draco.
"No...I mean yes...I mean....Arrgh! That's a long story, which I don't have time to tell right now. Harry, listen to me. There was a reason your mother and I was going out without your father knowing."
"Why then? Tell me! I really need a laugh!"
"Harry don't take this as a joke because it bloody well isn't! Now Listen! And if you're just going to sit there and laugh, then go! I'll leave you with that thought on your mind for the rest of your life Harry!"
That was the second time Lupin had yelled at him. And they were both because he was angry with Harry. Harry sat down on the chair across from Lupin and looked intently at Lupin.
"Go ahead. I'm all ears."
"Good." Lupin said, and he got comfortable in his chair because he would be sitting in that same chair for a while.
"Okay. It all started when your grandfather on your father's side passed away. That was in our last year at Hogwarts. He and Lily had been going out since sixth year, and they told everything to each other. But for some weird reason, he didn't tell her this piece of information. Neither had he told us. Yeah, we saw him sometimes moping around with a frown on his face, and sometimes, when we would be near the lake, he would just sit there and not do anything, but we just thought he was having girl trouble with Lily. We never thought it would get as far as it got.
"One day, Lily came crying to Sirius and I. Pettigrew, strangely, wasn't around that day. We had asked her what was the matter, and she said that James was standing on the top of the north tower with a bottle of fire whiskey in his hand. As soon as she said that, Sirius and I wasted no time getting there. When we did get there though, your father was nowhere to be seen. All three of us ran to the ledge, but there was no evidence that he had jumped. All of a sudden Lily ran over to the left side of the ledge and picked up something.
'The watch! This is the watch that I got him for his birthday! Why doesn't he have it on? WHY!!!!????' She screamed, and screamed, and screamed until her voice was hoarse, then she just broke down and started crying. I looked over at Sirius and saw that he too had tears in his eyes. He always felt more hurt for people than he did for himself. He walked over to Lily and gave her a hug. Then he got up and put a hand on my shoulder, looked me in the eye and said very low,' Let's look for him later'.
"After he left, I went over to your mother and sat down next to her and hugged her. I hugged her as if she were a relative that I would never be seeing again. We stood like that for a while, and then she stopped crying and she looked at me. And I did something I swore on myself that I would never do."
"What was that?" Harry asked, but he had an idea what it was.
"I kissed her. And I was expecting her to push me away or something, but she didn't. She actually kissed me back. And that's when I knew I was in love. But I didn't feel that floating feeling that James told me about when you're in love. Instead I felt like a 500 Lbs. weight had fallen into my stomach. I stopped kissing her and I moved away. She asked me why I stopped and I said because it wasn't right. She loved James and James loved her. If I came in, it would just complicate things. Then she said something that got me mad at her. She said that James was probably already dead. I looked stared at her while thinking how could she say those things? Then I got up and walked into the tower and into my dorm."
Lupin looked at his hands. He didn't dare look at Harry for he was afraid of what he might see.
Harry just stood there, staring at Lupin, breathing fast and hard. He was about to say something to him, but the door opening and the people coming out of it distracted him.
"What's the matter?" Harry asked instead.
"We have to go to St. Mungo's Harry. They need me for some questioning over there. Come on now...Get your shoes and robe on, we don't have any time to get properly dressed. Oh, and we're going to have to have to use floo powder to get over there, they need us immediately, and it's the quickest way. Hurry now!" Mrs. Weasley said, while helping Ginny with her robe.
Everyone put on their shoes and their robes. Mrs. Wealsey called down Charlie and Moody. They both came down and Mrs. Weasley told them how they would get to St. Mungo's. Harry looked over at Lupin, to find that he wasn't there.
"Hey. HEY!!!" Everyone stopped doing what they were doing and looked at Harry.
"Where did Lupin go?" He asked with desperation in his voice.
"He left a few minutes ago," the beautiful girl, who was in the room with Hermione earlier, answered.
"Oh..." Harry couldn't stop looking at her again. But this time, it wasn't Hermione who interrupted his thoughts; it was Moody chuckling behind him.
"She's a beauty isn't she, Potter?"
Harry looked back and saw Moody behind him, with a smile, or it kind of looked like a smile, on his face.
"How did you...?"
"Every man looks at a woman like that when she's beautiful, Potter. You have a lot to learn about love."
Harry almost laughed when Moody said that. He could not imagine Moody talking to him about love. At that moment, he felt himself being pushed towards the living room. When they got there, they started going into the fireplace by two's. Harry got in with the mystery girl. When they got in, the girl introduced her self.
"Hi! My name is Katie! And I am your-AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" Her words turned into a scream, for she and Harry were swirling around in a mass of colour. She thought she was going to puke when they both hit ground. Since she wasn't used to doing magic like this, she fell to her knees and yelped in pain.
Harry looked over his shoulder and saw that the girl, Katie, was kneeling on the ground nursing her stomach and was looking very pale, as if she wanted to throw up. He went over to her and gave her a helping hand. She took it and he helped her up. They stood there staring at each other.
Up close, Harry thought, she looked even more beautiful. Her bright eyes sparkled, as if she were happy to be near him. And little did he know, that she was happy to be near him.
"So...what were you saying before? You know before we-" Harry's question got cut off as a loud speaker over them announced something involving Mrs. Wealsey.
"Will Molly Weasley report straight to the Natural Causes section of the hospital for questioning. I repeat, will Molly Weasley please report straight to the Natural Causes section of the hospital for questioning. Thank you."
"Oh Dear! That's us! Come on children! Hurry along now! You too Alastor!" Mrs.Weasley hurried them to a door to the right of the hospital.
Time went by fast when they walked into that room and it wasn't by magic. Mrs. Weasley told all of them to sit down in the waiting room until they finished questioning her. It seemed only like 2 seconds, but she came out with an astonished look on her face. Everyone got up and went up to her and asked her what was the matter.
"I...I can't believe this!" She squealed.
"What? Mum? What is it?" Charlie asked his mother with a trace of worry in his voice.
She looked her eldest son in the eyes and said," I'm...I'm pregnant."
A/N: Hey ya'll! I'm back! This chapter took a few days to upload because my pc kinda shut down from too much memory loss and I couldn't get on for like 3 days! I got pc sick! But I finally fixed it today and I spell and grammar checked this chapter and...here it is! Hope you like that ending. I kinda shocked myself also when I wrote it, but hey! It could happen! Her and the late Arthur could've gotten freaky when everyone was sleeping and...okay...too much information there, but I hope you guys know what I mean. Thanks for the reviews and don't forget to R&R this chapter a lot! Please!!!!!! Lol. Bai. Until next time, CIAO! Krystina