Lupin's Little Dark One
A/N: Finals have begun, so this chapter might take a while. But I promise, a lot will happen.
Last Time:
"HERMIONE!" Harry yelled. "I love you." Hermione raised her eyebrows and then started to shudder. She collapsed.
"Ron? Harry? What's going on? Where am I?" She looked around cautiously. Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan helped Kieran slowly to her feet.
"Take her to the hospital wing." Harry said. "C'mon Hermione, we need to go to Dumbledore's."
Chapter Twelve: Finally at Home
The trip down to the hospital wing was a blur for Kieran. She couldn't feel anything, her vision was a blur. She knew that the boys were holding her up, and she was walking, but she couldn't feel her feet against the floor. Then her world went black.
Kieran woke up to now clear vision and a pain-filled body. She couldn't recall what had happened. She looked around and caught sight on her father.
"Where am I?" she asked softly. "What happened?"
"Hermione attacked you again, but you broke it! She's fine now, and feeling awful about you. Ron and Draco have been in here everyday, I think there's something going on there." Remus told her calmly. "Now, Madame Pomfrey will be in to see you in a little while, stay put." She rubbed her head slowly and nodded. Remus stood up and excused himself.
"Pfft, I don't need to be here." She said looking after him. She looked down at her watch, she knew it was around lunch time, so she shot upstairs to her dorm and grabbed her books. She came back down as Ron and Draco walked out together.
"Kieran! You're out? We were just coming to see you!" Ron said.
"To make me choose?" Kieran asked. Both boys guiltily nodded.
"I'm sorry, but when Remus called us both up to his office, and told us... we didn't know what else to do." Draco said. Kieran smiled hopelessly and shook her head.
"Then this will come up to this." Kieran said. She kissed Draco. Draco wrapped his arms tightly around her and rubbed her back. She pushed away and looked at Ron. Ron smirked nervously as she kissed him. Ron hugged her close to him and ran a hand up her back and into her blonde hair. She pulled away and looked at them both with raised eyebrows. "That was close." The boys exchanged shocked looks. She sighed and looked at them for a long while, deep in thought. The people in the great hall started pouring out on their way to their next classes. Harry found the three.
"What's going on? C'mon, we gotta get to Potions guys." Harry said. Kieran nodded and took off with Harry, leaving Ron and Draco staring after her, and soon following. "What was going on?"
"they want me to choose between them." Kieran said.
"That's easy, Ron." Harry replied. Kieran smiled at him.
"Because he's your best friend, and now that you and Hermione are open about your feelings you don't want him to feel like a third wheel, so you're bent on making me the fourth?" Kieran asked.
"You're getting to be creepy with the psychic thing!" Harry said. Kieran laughed as the two boys caught up.
"That's not be psychic, that's stating the obvious." Kieran said, not noticing the boys behind her.
"You're psychic?" Ron and Draco chorused. Kieran whipped around in shock. Harry raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, she is." Harry said, saving Kieran the trouble. "It's tangible though, she has to touch you."
"So is that why you touched me?" Draco asked, "That one day...after the Veritrusium?" Kieran nodded. "And it's also why you ran away the day we were talking to each other right?" Kieran nodded again. "What did you see?"
"I saw the dark mark and panicked. The second time I saw myself." Kieran looked down. "Just now I saw your heart breaking."
"You're going to choose Ron. Because he's Harry's best friend." Draco said.
"Did you see anything when you kissed me?" Ron asked.
"Several people, in a group, they all had your hair, and only two of them were girls, I'm guessing your family?" Kieran replied. Ron nodded.
"Bloody Hell." Ron muttered. "A psychic..." Kieran sighed. Harry put a hand around her shoulders as they reached the Potion's Dungeon. Snape cleared his throat and Harry let go. Kieran waited in the doorway as both Ron and Draco took seats alone and motioned for her to join them. She turned abruptly and walked from the room. She needed to be alone, and there was no place in the entire castle where they couldn't find her, or at least she thought, so she went outside.
She walked down to path to where her 'Care of Magical Creatures' class was, where she had seen a lake and went over to it. She unbuttoned and removed her white uniform top, revealing a pale blue spaghetti strap top and removed her shoes and socks and dove off a rock, that led a ways in the lake, and into the water. She swam for a while before she heard the booming voice of her Professor, Hagrid.
"Miss Lupin, would ya mind tellin me why ya aren't in class?" Hagrid asked.
"Would you mind not telling my father?" Kieran replied, coming out of the water.
"Now that's dependin on yer story." Hagrid told her.
"I've got a lot on my mind and I needed to sort it out and I really didn't feel like sitting in Potions and thinking about it." Kieran said.
"Well, not many would like to even be in Potions, so yer safe on that one, but would ya like to elaborate?"
"Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy want me to choose between them." Kieran said. "Not to mention they both know I'm psychic now and Harry's pressuring to choose Ron and I know Professor Dumbledore would probably prefer me with Draco, I mean he said it himself, and my father, after what I've told him about what I've done in Canada, would probably like to take me to therapy or a gynecologist." Hagrid chuckled.
"I've seen it enough, students stress too much." Hagrid told her. "Ya gotta follow yerself and not what yer family and yer friends think." Kieran nodded slowly.
"That's good advice, now that I really think of it." Kieran said.
"But just ta let ya know, they're both nothin but trouble." Hagrid said with a smile. Kieran laughed.
"I know that much already, just from my father's one year experience." Kieran smiled as she said this. The signal came for the end of class. "Wonder if I have enough time to... oh, forget it..." Kieran put her hair up and slipped her shirt on. "Thanks Professor!" She hugged him, getting him wet and ran up to the castle as the signal to start class goes of. She continued her run towards her father's classroom and she was stopped by Argus Filch.
"You're wet, and running. Come, let's go to my office." he snaps bitterly.
"Please, Professor, I need to get to class." Kieran pleaded. "If I miss this class..."
"No excuses, I want to know how you got wet!" Filch said. "Now come! And I am NOT a Professor."
"I went swimming in the lake! Is that a bad thing?" Kieran asked.
"It's not permitted, you could get detention, come, I'll sign you up, Snape's not doing anything tonight." Filch said. He grabbed her by the arm and led her to his office. He sat down and began to fill out his papers.
"You're not serious! I don't need this, Sir, Please, just let me go! I want to go to class." Kieran whined, knowing as she grew later, her father would be more upset. "Professor Lupin is going to be angry as it is!"
"Lupin? Ha, he doesn't have an angry bone in him. Now, what's you name?" Filch asked.
"Kieran Lupin." she said softly.
"No, your real name!"
"Kieran Marie Lupin."
"What house are you in?"
"Gryffindor. I'm a sixth year, and I seriously need to get to Defense Against the Dark Arts before my father sends out a search party or something because I'm SURE Harry's told him I skipped Potions this afternoon!"
"Skipped Potions, let's just write that down."
"Come ON! This is disgusting, I'm going to class, and the only way you're going to stop me is to bind me to a wall!" Kieran ranted, she stood up and stormed out making a swift run to her father's class and walking in the door as Remus had started out. He grabbed her by the shoulders.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR TWO AND A HALF HOURS?" Remus shouted, dragging her into the class and up and into his office. The class looked at her and Remus stunned.
"Swimming in the lake, with Professor Hagrid, then some demented man wandering around the castle took me to his office and gave me detention." Kieran said calmly. She looked down at the floor as Remus slammed his office door.
"Your mother and her husband may have let you get away with crap like this. Not to mention the drugs and sex and drinking! But I'm not going to allow any of it!" Remus growled.
"Then maybe you should ship me to America! You can't control my actions!" Kieran yelled.
"You stay in here, I'll deal with you after class Kieran." Remus said.
"I need to talk to Draco." Kieran said. Remus glared at her and slammed the door behind him. Kieran stared angrily at the door. "I wish this dump was open campus I'd be out of here so quick! If it weren't from frickin Voldemort I wouldn't have these problems, I'd still be in Canada, if it weren't for my mother, I'd be dead, along with everybody else. But she had to make me hide." Kieran's voice grew dark as she wandered around Remus's office. The door opened and Harry came in.
"Kieran, you all right?" Harry asked. She glared at him darkly.
"Get out." She snapped. He looked at her confused. "Have you suddenly developed a hearing problem?" Harry went over to her.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing Harry."
"What did Remus say?"
"None of your business."
"It is my business, you're both upset, and I want to know what happened."
"He thinks I'm going to go back to the old ways, but how could I? I don't know any of you, this is closed campus...he watches me like a hawk."
"He's scared, you're his daughter, Voldemort's trying to kill you!"
"But that has nothing to do with him thinking I'm going partying or I'm going to have sex!"
"Kieran, you lived way to dangerously, how old are you?"
"Fifteen."
"You see, Kieran you're just a kid."
"What are you? Sixteen? Big Whoop."
"I'm not having sex now am I?"
"Shut up Harry, stop trying to judge me."
"I'm trying to help you see why your father was upset."
"You're taking his side because he was friends with your father!"
"I AM NOT!"
"You are too, you don't even know me well enough to judge me like that. He doesn't know what's best for me, he doesn't even know me. Besides, he's the one that didn't try hard enough to see me, what makes you think he cares now?" Kieran shoved past Harry and stormed out of the office and into the classroom. Remus stood in front of her.
"Go back in there Kieran." Remus warned her.
"Why do you pretend to care?" She said bitterly. "I don't need you." She stormed out of the classroom and up to her dorm. Remus, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco all followed her.
Kieran stormed to the portrait, now at a run, and shouted the password. She went up the stairs to her dorm and through herself onto her bed angrily. She screamed in frustration and threw a picture of Remus across the room.
"I HATE THIS PLACE!" Kieran screeched. "I hate this life! I hate everything!" Hermione slowly came in. "Go Away!"
"Kieran, I know that I sort of cursed you and all, but I would really like to get to know you, and if possible, become a friend." Hermione said. "I'm not going to tell you your problems aren't that important, because they are. You're facing Voldemort here. But I know for a fact you're not the only one with problems. Look at Harry, and Malfoy." Kieran looked up at her. Hermione took a seat next to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "Remus really is trying. You can tell he is. He doesn't know what to do, he doesn't understand. I'm not pretending to understand either, but give us a chance! Come downstairs and just talk! Talk out what's going on, we'll at least listen."
"No, that's the problem, talking isn't going to help the fact that there is a problem." Kieran said.
"It is, talk to me then." Hermione said. "Just try it."
"Ron likes me, but so does Draco. I'm psychic I can tell Draco's going to be really hurt by it, but I can tell that you like Draco, and I don't want to start conflict with all of this!" Kieran said. "So I was going to chose Ron, but then I think that Dumbledore's wish was to have me choose Draco or Harry, but Harry likes you. All this and my father thinks I'm just looking for an opportunity to have sex." Hermione looked at her in shock.
"How do you know that?" Hermione asked.
"Every time I touch somebody I have a vision, now it depends, like if I'm looking for something I see that, but if I'm not looking for something I just see random things." Kieran said. "That's how I know you like Draco." Hermione was baffled.
"What does your heart ask of you?" Hermione said. "Who is it pushing towards?"
"Honestly? Ron, but I don't want to goof up anything."
"What could you possibly goof up?"
"You'd be surprised."
"You want me to tell them?"
"you would?" Kieran asked. Hermione nodded. "Please?" Hermione nodded and left.