Woes of the Moon:
Ok, so here's the next chapter! For once I actually did update soon! Anyways enough pointless babbling, here's the chapter!
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There was a long silence, which was finally broken by the sound of the door opening. Dumbledore had just re-entered the room with McGonagall and another lady Lily didn't know
"I'm sorry to interrupt, Mr. Lupin and Ms. Evans, but I'm afraid that your Healer says it's time for you to take your Blood Replenishing potion."
Lily quickly drained the red potion that was handed to her by the Healer.
"Is...is that how it works? You bite me and I become a...a... werewolf?" she asked, tears silently running down her cheeks.
"Well, not if you were only bitten once; but you got cut up pretty badly. Why, if I hadn't been going to check on Mr. Lupin, you might be dead," Dumbledore answered.
"What?! You were checking on me?! What if I had bitten you as well?!" Remus shouted out.
"Mr. Lupin, I assure you I am more than a match for you; even if you wanted to I doubt you'd be able to inflict any physical harm upon me," Dumbledore told him, calmly.
"I guess there are worse things then being a werewolf... It's only once a month right? It's better than being dead..." she added sadly.
"You're wrong. No one will want to hire a werewolf when you graduate, you'll have trouble making new friends, and hell, you might even have trouble keeping your current ones...I'm really sorry, Lily... It's all my fault," Remus said quietly.
"Now, Mr. Lupin, none of that negative attitude! You know perfectly well that even as we speak, highly qualified witches and wizards are working on ways to help werewolves everywhere. As for the matter concerning friends, I thought that you would know better than anyone that it takes more than being a werewolf to get rid of your true friends. And Ms. Evans doesn't blame you, do you, Lily?"
Lily looked into Remus' eyes.
' He really does look sorry... I don't think he'd be able to live with himself if I blamed him for all this... I guess it isn't his fault for being who he is...'
"No, I don't. If anyone is to blame, it's myself," she said, whipping tear from he eyes and suddenly feeling guilty, "I shouldn't have even been out that late at night, let alone be near the dark forest ..."
"We don't blame you, Miss Evans," said McGonagall. Lily had forgotten she was there.
"You don't understand! Jane even warned me! I didn't even have a reason for being outside, I just wanted to stop always doing what was told," Lily cried, tears swelling up in the corners of her eyes again.
"Shh, it's alright..." Dumbledore told her consolingly.
She wiped the tears from her eyes again. She took a few calming breaths and then nodded to show she was alright.
"At least you now know that there are reasons for rules," he added smirking.
Lily laughed weakly and nodded again.
"I'm afraid that professor McGonagall and I will have to be getting back to Hogwarts soon. Mr. Lupin however, has volunteered to stay here with you. If you have any questions for him, I'm sure he'd be more the willing to answer them," he told her, after quickly taking a look at his watch.
She nodded again. It was all she could do. Her throat had gone dry and she probably wouldn't have been able to talk even if she had wanted to. She watched as the two professors left the room.
"Do the transformations hurt?"
Lily and Remus were sitting in Lily's room at St-Mungo's. Lily was on the bed and Remus was on the chair next to it, answering her questions.
"I don't mean to frighten you, but they do. It's because of the fact that your bones are stretching. The un-transformations are painless though."
"Will you be with me? During my transformation, I mean?"
"Only if you want me to be."
Lily looked up at him. Their eyes met and Lily saw that he was looking at her strangely. Not unpleasantly just... differently...
"I do. Thank you, Remus."
He smiled then looked away from her.
"I really don't blame you, you know Remus," said Lily, breaking the awkward silence.
"I know; but I don't understand why not. Most people would-"
She took his hands in hers.
"Remus, it wasn't your fault. Most people are afraid of what they don't understand. I'm not afraid of you, though. It wasn't your fault."
"Well if it wasn't my fault, then it definitely wasn't your fault. So who's fault is it?" he asked.
"Hmm... Yeah, we need someone to blame... Let's blame James since I was pissed off at him at the time."
Remus laughed at this.
"But Lily, you love him, remember?" he joked.
"In his dreams," she said, rolling her eyes, "Why did he pull that stunt anyways?"
"Beats me. I think Sirius told him to try asking you out at least once more... I don't think he had anything like what James pulled in mind, though."
Now it was her turn to laugh.
"What's so funny?"
"You're such a bad liar. It was obviously planned; Sirius and Peter were about to burst out laughing even before he asked me out. Not to mention the fact that he said "I was hoping you'd say that" kind of gave it away that he was following some kind of plan."
Remus looked away, smiling.
"Am I really that bad a liar?"
She laughed again.
"No, but you could definitely use some practice," she told him, smirking.
"Gee, thanks," he said; now he was the one rolling his eyes.
"So when is the next full moon, anyways?" she asked.
"Erm... Twenty-eight days from yesterday so... On the 15th, then," he answered.
"Ooo... A monthly cycle that goes on every four weeks... Where have I seen that before?"
Remus chuckled.
"Yeah, don't know much about that, but the werewolf cycle makes you sort of crabby all week too... I think that's got to so with lack of sleep, though, not hormones."
"Joy. Now I get to be a bitch two out of four weeks every month."
'Good luck keeping friends that way.'
Sorry if this chapter is a bit weirded out, its because I was exhausted while writing this. I just got home from running track in gym and we were all like sweating like pigs... :D
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