Remus ran through the Ministry of Magic trying to get to the portkey office before Jess and Laura left. He didn't hold much hope that they were still here but he had to try.

He finally reached where he was looking for.

He flung open the door and ran into a waiting area where there were many wizards waiting with luggage.

"Excuse me sir, can I help you?" A witch behind a desk asked.

"Yes, where is the portkey leaving for Paris?" He asked.

"I'm sorry you've just missed the first, but there is another one leaving in approximately," the witch consulted the big clock on the wall, "one minutes."

"Where from?" He urged.

"Let me see," the witch said looking through her sheets of parchment, "it's here somewhere."

"If you could hurry up then that would be great." Remus said, "I am in a rush."

"Just a minute." the witch said.

"I don't have a minute." Remus snapped.

The witch looked at him huffily, "Departure room number seven." She said and she busied her with other things.

Remus didn't bother to say thank you and he turned and ran for the room with a big gold seven on.

"Excuse me sir, can I see your ticket?" A witch asked at the door.

"No," Remus said and he pushed passed her into the room.

There was a group of people all touching a miniature Eiffel tower.

"One……." A wizard said standing to the side.

"No," Remus said to himself.

"Two….." The wizard said.

"Jess, Jess." Remus shouted.

Jess looked up and looked her hand off the portkey as the wizard said "Three," and everyone disappeared.

She spotted Remus on the other side of the room.

"Remus?" She asked "is everything OK?"

Remus smiled, "yeah, it is now."

"Excuse me sir, you're not allowed in here without a ticket." The witch from the door said.

"Sorry," Remus said and him and Jess went out into the waiting room.

"Remus what is going on?" Jess asked sitting on one of the chairs, "Laura's now In France on her own."

"I know but I needed to talk to you, tell you something." Remus said.

"Couldn't it have waited until I got back?" Jess asked.

"No," Remus said, "now don't say anything until I'm finished."

Jess nodded.

"You see, I've been thinking a lot lately and I was really not sure about doing this, but I talked to Lily and she helped me." Remus said, "I want to tell you something, but I'm scared, but I know if I don't tell you I won't be happy until I do."

Jess listened puzzled.

"I like you, and when I say that I mean not just as a friend I mean like more then a friend, now if you don't feel the same way then that's fine just forget I said anything." Remus stopped babbling for a breath. "You see you've been there for m for the past year or so when I had problems, you've been amazing, always helping me, and I really wanted to ask you about that but I couldn't because it was about you. I'm now scared that you're going to reject me horribly and we're never going to speak again, and I really don't want that."

Remus closed his eyes waiting to hear her let him down gently be all sympathetic. He didn't want that, maybe he should just run now or apparate home and hide in the cupboard. Anything would be better then rejection.

He slowly opened his eyes and saw jess just looking at him her mouth slightly open.

"Please say something." Remus said.

Jess shook her head slightly, was this really happening? She wondered to herself. She pinched herself, and it hurt, she wasn't dreaming.

She looked at Remus and a smile broke out over her face, this was probably one of the most romantic things that had ever happened to her. It was like something out of a muggle film.

"Jess?" Remus asked.

"Do you know how long I've waited for you to say that, or something like that?" he said and she pressed her lips against his wrapping her arms around his neck.

"That is so romantic," the woman sitting next to Jess said to her husband, "you never did anything like that for me."

Remus pulled away, "so this means you like me to?" He asked.

Jess nodded, "yes it does, come on lets go."

"What about Laura?" Remus asked.

"She can look after herself." Jess said and they left.

A few weeks passed and Laura hadn't returned, Jess was starting to feel bad that she had ditched her friend in a foreign country, but the feeling of happiness she had right now was more overpowering then the one of guilt.

It was late on Saturday afternoon and Jess and Lily had decided to spend the afternoon with Emma having a picnic in Lily's garden. They felt bad for her as there wasn't much else she could do.

Emma lay on the ground her bump sticking up in the air, staring at the blue sky littered with a few white fluffy clouds.

They were brainstorming baby names.

"Sirius wants to name the babies Sirius Junior." Emma said.

"Both of them?"

"Yep." Emma said.

"What if one of them is a girl?"

"Then he said, Sirius Juniorette." Emma said.

"Is that even a real name?" Jess asked.

"Don't think so." Emma said.

"So when are you and James going to start reproducing?" Jess asked Lily.

"What?" Lily asked.

"She means when are you going to have babies?" Emma said.

"I don't know, we haven't really got anything planned." Lily said.

"You really should start thinking about it, you would have some god looking children." Emma said.

"I'm Ok for the moment," Lily said.

James, Sirius and Remus came out into the garden from the house.

"Hello my darlings," he said to Emma.

"I'm only on person you know," Emma said.

"No, you have two little people inside of you." He said and he sat next to her and hugged her bump.

"Why does everyone always do that?" she asked. "Has my stomach suddenly become public property?"

Everyone laughed, Remus sat next to Jess, and he lent her head against his shoulder.

"What have you been up to?" James asked as he sat close to Lily and kissed her on the cheek.

"Listening to Emma whine about being pregnant." Lily said.

"Very funny," Emma said, "I think I have a right to whine, I'm the one who has to give birth to these children, anyway I'm not that bad." She protested.

"Emma all pregnant women are like that." Jess said, "my sister's just had a baby and you couldn't spend more then five minutes with her without wanting to kill your self."

"I didn't know your sister had a baby," Lily said.

"Yeah, just last week, I'm going up to see her tomorrow." Jess said.

"I didn't know that," Remus said.

"Didn't I tell you?" Jess asked, "well you can come if you want, I didn't think you'd want to spend an afternoon with my family."

"Well I do." Remus said.

"Come along then, you can stop me from going mad." Jess said.

The next day Jess stood outside her parents front door with Remus waiting for someone to answer.

Her mum can to the door wearing an apron with a tea towel over her shoulder.

"Jessica," her mum said hugging her, "and you brought a friend, who's this?"

"I'm Remus." Remus said extending his hand out and Mrs. Brown shook it.

"Very nice to meet you, do come in everyone's inside already." She said and Jess linked Remus' arm as they stepped inside.

"Everyone's in the front room." Mrs. Brown said and they headed into a room on the left.

"Hi Jess." Her sister Charlotte said as she rocked her new born baby to sleep in a pram.

"Hello Jess." Her other sister, Hannah, said.

Charlotte was three years older then Jess at twenty two, and we already married. Hannah was two years older then her at twenty one, they both had the same dark hair and eyes as Jess, and they were constantly being told that they looked like triplets.

"Who's your friend?" Hannah asked.

"Charlotte, Hannah, this is Remus Lupin." Jess said introducing him.

"Nice to meet you." Charlotte said.

"Congratulations on your new baby." He said. "What's her name?"

"Thank you, she's called Sarah." She said.

"Where's George?" Jess asked, George was Charlotte's husband.

"Dad's taken him down to the garden to show him the shed he built."

They took seats in the room and made pleasant small talk while waiting for dinner.

When the meal was ready they filed into the dining room and took seats at the table.

"Jess darling." Mr Brown said hugging his daughter. "How've you been my sweet?"

"Fine dad." Jess said. "This is Remus, my boyfriend."

"Hello son," he said shaking his hand.

"Hello Mr Brown." Remus said a little uncomfortably.

"Dinner." Jess' mum said coming into the room with a large roast chicken. She placed it in the centre and began to cut it up.

"So Remus tell me what do you do?" Mr. Brown asked.

"I'm training to be a teacher," Remus said.

"That's good, so tell me how did you meet?" He asked.

"We went to school together dad, I've told you about him before." Jess said.

"Oh yes I remember now." Her dad said.

"Come one tuck in." Mrs. Brown said and everyone filled their plates with food.

"So Hannah, have you got anyone special in your life at the moment?" Charlotte asked her sister.

"No not right now," Hannah said.

"Lupin, where have I heard that name before?" Mr. Brown mumbled.

"What was that dad?" Jess asked.

"Nothing, I was just wondering where I'd heard the name Lupin before." He said.

There was a few moments silence.

"I remember, there was a piece in the paper," he said, "but that can't be right surely."

"What can't be right Hannah asked.

"It was an article about Werewolves, and there was a bit about a man, something Lupin who killed someone during a transformation, but it must be a coincidence." Mr. Brown said. "If not that would mean you were a…."

Remus move uneasily in his chair and didn't say anything.

"He's not a werewolf is he?" Mr. Brown asked.

"Um," Jess said. What did she say?

"He is?" Mr. Brown said outraged, "what the hell are you doing with a werewolf?"

"Calm down." Mrs. Brown said.

"No I will not calm down my youngest daughter is running around with a werewolf, she could catch something."

"Dad!" Jess said angrily.

At that moment the baby started crying and Charlotte's husband went to tend to her.

"Get out of my house," Mr Brown said to Remus.

"Dad stop it," Jess said, she had never been so angry in all her life. "You have no idea what Remus is like."

"Yes I do he's a werewolf." Mr. Brown shouted. "and you're not to see him."

"I cant believe you just said that," Jess said and she got up from the table.

"Sit down dear." Her Mum said but Jess ignored her.

"I don't care what you think about him, all that matters is that I know he's a good person." Jess said. "and you can't stop me from seeing him."

She started to walk away with Remus.

"Come back here," her dad shouted after her.

"No, I never thought you'd be so shallow. You don't even know Remus and already you don't like him, you haven't even given him a chance." Jess stormed, "and I'm not going to talk to you again until you apologise."

Jess stormed out of the house pulling Remus behind her and slamming the door shut on her way out.