It was just past 7 and the sun would be going down soon. Erin hadn't known it was the full moon when she had asked her dad about going out into the moonlight for a run. She found him coming out of the Great Hall with Xenia. As she was invisible no one else saw her but she put a hand to his shoulder so not to startle him.
"I'll see you later?" Sirius said, smiling at Xenia, coming off as though nothing was out of the ordinary. He leaned in and gave her a good kiss.
The redhead smiled and kissed him back soundly. "Yeah, there's something I need to talk to you about..." She whispered. "It can wait though." She walked on but looked back and blew him a kiss.
Sirius had a dumb-love kind of grin on his face. "She's so bloody perfect." He said happily.
Erin chuckled shaking her head. She knew exactly what her mother was going to talk to him about and it would just put him at even higher opinion of himself so she wasn't going to tell him. "Hey, Dad, something came up...I need to meet you out there. Do you know where that big tree is with the branch that is shaped like a curl?" She hit her dad a little to get him out of his reveille.
"Huh...yeah…I know the one. Why? What's going on?"
Erin knew that Remus was going to hate her...but what could she do? She had promised both of them...so she just would spend some time with both..."Uh...nothing... really to concern yourself with. I just...uh...promised...someone that I would...uh...see them...and I...uh...can't break my promise. So I will see you out there a little past moontime." Oh, how was she going to pull this off?
Sirius shrugged casually. "If you wanted to go off and snog Harry it's no skin off my back." He teased not knowing if that was her real reason or not, but he didn't care. "I'll meet you out there." He said smiling
She hit him in the shoulder. "I was not going to go off and snog Harry." She told him. "He's having a nice conversation with his mum at the moment." She hit him again for good measure. "I'll see you there."
Erin became visible when she was out of the castle unaware that someone was watching her. She knew that Remus had already been taken to the Whomping Willow to change and Madame Pomfrey had already gone back into the castle. So she thought she was all right. She made her way there unconcerned. She didn't really like being invisible, especially at night. It gave her the willies. She didn't know why but it did. She took out her wand and stopped the swaying branches of the tree.
The one watching remained back out of the way and hidden as he watched Erin still the willow's dangerous branches with her magic. Not too far from the tree a boy sat hunched over on the ground. Remus looked up, nervously at the sky as the world darkened with each passing minute. He swallowed a lump in his throat. He jumped a little when he heard Erin approaching, but tried to relax a little as he turned back to the sky. "I didn't think you would come...In fact I was kind of hoping you might forget the whole thing..." He said, not knowing they were being watched either. He was too nervous.
Erin laughed. "Don't worry everything will be fine." She kneeled down next to him and hugged him. "I've done this so many times...I know it's hard for you. Don't worry about it." She hugged him again trying to put him at ease.
Remus didn't turn down the hugging even though part of him thought Erin was quite mad and should be a million miles away from him no matter what she said, Animagus or not, although it was sort of nice, not to be out here all by himself for once. "Yeah, I just...What if I hurt you?"
"You won't." She whispered. "Don't worry, we've done this before, when you're older, believe me we always have a lot of fun..." She grinned.
Remus nodded nervously, trying to just be calmer about it like her. He had run before with her when he is older so he shouldn't be afraid to now. And the tenser he was the more it was going to hurt when the changes began..."Right...fun." He smiled nervously. "This is going to be fun..." He sounded so unconvinced. "You're really sure about this?" He asked. But his eyes went to something behind her back and he was nervous for a whole new reason! "Sirius! Wha...What are you doin' all the way out here?" He asked, looking white as a sheet.
