Spoilers: PoA (not acounting HBP)

Disclaimer: The characters and the Harry Potter enterprise belongs to JK Rowling and all of her affiliates. No trademark infringement is intended.

Author's Notes: Not much to say... This is the inbetween chapter of sorts, but there is an interesting referance there (Harry Potter refrence, not any other book.) Enjoy!

Remus woke up. Where was he? He wasn't supposed to still be in the cabin. It was morning too. Exactly what had happened during the night? He hadn't turned into a… a… werewolf. Had he?

He looked around and saw Rachael. "Um, hi."

She looked at him in surprise. "Oh! So you're finally awake."

"Do — do you known what happened last night?" Remus asked, hesitating.

"Yes, I know you were in the forest." Uh-oh, something told Remus he was in trouble this time. "One of the most important rules was to not go into the forest. Why didn't you follow it?"

"How am I getting home?"

"Your parents were called and should be getting here soon to pick you up. I suppose they'll figure out why you were in the forest." She sighed.

"The big boy in Cabin A was making fun of my teeth." He said softly. "I just wanted to get away from him." Remus felt tears coming to his eyes. Rachael took pity on him and held him while he cried.

"Poor boy," she murmured, stroking his hair.

She figured out that the big boy in Cabin A was Vernon Dursley, and he really was big. She told her boss what she found out and called the boy's parents. That was a huge disaster. The mother refused to believe that her son would do anything wrong, and the father accused poor little Remus of hassling his son. It was unbelievable, really. The whole family was the same. At least Vernon wouldn't be coming back to Camp Green Lake.

Remus fell asleep again before his parents came. The Lupins had been angry at their son, but after talking to Rachael and finding out what had happened, their anger turned to worry, especially for Casey Lupin. She was a witch and knew full well what could have happened to her son, especially with two full moons. She just hoped she was wrong.

Time passed, and Casey and Richard didn't say anything to their son. They saw that he was getting along better with the other kids and loved watching him just playing and being happy. His interest in reading was great, but they had always thought that he needed to be more involved with kids, outside of school as well as in. They realized that everyone was bullied at some point in time and since it didn't repeat, they didn't think it would be a problem.

Richard claimed that Remus was a likeable kid and had been subjected for the first time to teasing and had reacted badly. The first time he had visited the forest (they were told about that too, Rachael turned out to be the counselor who took pity on him that first day) he put down as curiosity. As the psychiatrist, he should have figured out that something was wrong; it's a pity that Casey was the first to notice anything.

Casey was a loving mother and read every night to her son to nurture his interest in books. However, as a witch, she chose to tell him magical stories as well as the traditional muggle fairy tales. She was a muggleborn, and knew the importance of understanding and being accustomed to both cultures when one was anything less than a pureblood. This was especially true for a half-blood, like Remus. She noticed that after summer camp, Remus had a different attitude toward the beasts in the stories and wanted to give them a chance. Casey knew that something serious had happened to her son, but was hesitant to confront her young child about it.

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