Lupin's Little Dark One
A/N: I can't believe I actually had the balls to post the last chapter. You'll see how I take it from here. Funny enough, I've already begun the sequel, and I haven't even finished this!
I'm not sure where the rating boundaries are, so if you think I'm going too overboard let me know. But I won't be having any like explicit things like intercourse.
Last Time:
"Call me Kieran, please." She said shakily, before falling into him, crying. "I'm sorry Professor. That you got stuck with me." Snape stared at her, carefully wrapping her in his arms, and ignoring the tingle he felt.
"I wouldn't want to be stuck with any other student Kieran." Snape said softly. He gently rubbed her back. "And my name is Severus."
Chapter Seventeen: Is that you?
So they returned to Hogwarts after break. Kieran, unsurprisingly, had been the only one to lose a relative during the attack, other people, who had family or a shop in Diagon Alley, found that those were robbed and destroyed during the Christmas attack. Everyone had heard about Remus of course, he was after all, a teacher. So everyone began acting oddly around Kieran. As Kieran began acting oddly around them.
The gryffindors were the first to notice the change. The Kieran who could often be found in the common room, cuddled next to Ron, nestled in a book, was no the Kieran in the corner, alone, playing her bass guitar and crying. Ron tried his best to communicate with her but she shut herself off from him and everyone else. Soon enough the Slytherins noticed. As Kieran made many frequent visits to Snape's quarters, in the Slytherin common room, and could be heard screaming and crying at the Professor. Then the other Professors noticed, as her grades sharply fell, and the talented student seemed to have lost her spark. The the remaining members of the hockey club noticed, as during meetings she simply got up and left, returning whenever she felt like it and eventually ceasing to show up. Then the rest of the school, ghosts and all, when during dinner, on the night of the full moon, Kieran let out a sharp howl and ran out of the hall and outside. They were truly afraid if the changed Kieran.
She was now sitting in the Astronomy tower, staring out at the full moon, having just interrupted dinner to howl at it in the Great Hall. She took a razor blade from her pocket and fingered it. However as she was about to slice herself, Snape entered.
"Kieran No." He commanded her weakly. He walked over to her and sat down, taking her in his arms as he'd come accustomed to doing. He had to admit, although she took this as innocent comforting, he took it as so much more, and how he enjoyed it. She started crying into him, something she did near every night. He tried to calm her his best.
"He's alive, I know he is. Severus am I crazy?" she asked, choking on her words.
"Wishing for something that could very well be true is not madness. We do not know if he escaped, but there would need to be an explanation for why he has not returned." He told her, rubbing her back and kissing the top of her head.
"Full moon, his werewolf got lost." Kieran whispered simply. She gazed up at him. "He'd never transformed in the suburbs of London before!"
"You have a point, tomorrow, is Saturday, perhaps Albus will let us go look for him in London, just for the day." Severus said quietly.
"The Quidditch Match between Slytherin and HufflePuff is Tomorrow, don't you have to attend?"
"No, I don't have to." He told her. "I rather see you reunited with your father." She smiled at him and hugged him tightly. As she let go, he gazed at her for a moment before pressing his lips to hers in a kiss, that she hesitantly returned. Pulling away, he let go of her and stood up. "Kieran, I'm sorry... I shouldn't have." He turned to leave.
"Severus don't leave me." Kieran pleaded. She got up and ran to him. Throwing herself back in his arms, she kissed his cheek.
"No, I'm your professor, you're just a teenager. Mr. Weasley is more suited to your needs." He pulled away from her.
"I don't want anything to change. Can't we just forget it happened? At least until summer?"
"And if it happens again, I'm sorry, you just remind me so much of what I'll never have. I'm signing your guardianship off to Molly and Arthur Weasley."
"Severus, no please don't. We've gotten so close." She was near tears again. She grabbed both sides of his face and pressed her lips to his again, now forcefully. At that precise moment they heard a howl from out the window. Snape pulled away and they both glanced out it. "It's him!" Kieran screeched. She ran towards the door. He stopped her.
"There's nothing you can do tonight Kieran, he's transformed, he won't hesitate to kill you in his current state." Snape took her hands. "We'll go find him forst thing in the morning."
"Oaky, as long as you promise Severus."
"I promise. I will meet you before breakfast and we'll go then."
"Don't tell anyone."
"Not a soul." He smiled and ran a hand through her hair gently. "Go up to your common room, be a social butterfly. But speak nothing that happened here."
"I won't, and don't you blurt either." She smiled at him softly. He pecked her on the lips and walked out. She watched after her. "I'm falling for my professor. How do I tell my boyfriend?"
She walked out and up to Gryffindor Tower and sat in the common room, and actually talked to people. She went to bed late that night, one of the last people to retire but found sleep hard to come by. When morning finally came, she ran down to the Great Hall in her pajamas, a Golden colored beater and baggy scarlet pajama bottoms that she had evidently stolen from the boys. Snape was already there, he was dressed in his normal black, billowing robes, but the new thing about him is that he smiled as she came down the stairs to meet him.
"Sleep well?" he asked her.
"Not at all until about an hour ago. I never sleep during the full moon." she replied. To there dismay Ron came up behind her, and not noticing Snape, put his arms around her waist and pecked her cheek.
"Glad to see you're feeling better lately." Ron said. "Oh professor, uh, sorry." He let go of Kieran. Snape had a red tint in his cheeks.
"Very Well Mr. Weasley, get to breakfast, Miss Lupin and I have things to do." Snape said quietly. Ron nodded and went into the Great Hall, blowing Kieran a kiss.
"You told me not to say anything." Kieran said. Snape nodded. The two walked outside. "You looked a little jealous."
"Why wouldn't I be? What you two have is very special."
"Special? It's a high school romance." Kieran said, walking towards where she saw the wolf the night before.
"And look what became of your father's."
"He lost her."
"He never gave up."
"Why do you, always?"
"There's always someone better for them. I don't think it's him."
"You don't have enough faith in yourself."
"It would not work. You are sixteen, I'm thiry-seven."
"Twenty-one years, big whoop, look at Dumbledore and McGonnagal. He's 89 she's 54. That's thirty-five years difference. They definetly aren't discussing student's behavior cuddling in bed." Snape looked at her, slightly disgusted at the thought.
"It's different, Minerva is not a minor."
"Why should age have anything to do with it? You're just looking for excuses. Look, that's his pawprint." A melted spot on the ground revealed mud, which bore a dog-like paw print.
"It doesn't matter, last night was just me letting my emotions run wild and your reaction due to the full moon. I really think this is a real wolf."
"No, it's you looking down on yourself and not thinking you have a chance with someone you would probably have the best chances with. It is a werewolf, look at the inflection at the second toe."
"How could I ever have a chance with your mother or Lily Evans, they're both dead. Yes, I see it, but what if it's another werewolf even, you shouldn't get your hopes up."
"I meant me you dolt! Wait a minute? You had the hots for my mom?" She stopped and stared at him. "So is that what this is all about? I remind you of my mother, so you think you'll make a pass on me. Well let me tell you something Severus Snape, I am the farthest away from my mother you can get! Is that what last night was about, missing my mom?"
"Yes." Snape said painfully. She slapped him. He knew he deserved it, he was lying, he really felt something deep for her. He couldn't take that chance with her life already on the line. "Look blood."
"It's his, he's the only werewolf that bites himself! I swear." She was looking a little hurt, but she didn't dare express it. She knew that this past month or so had been a lie, and she was determined to find her father. Then she saw him, Remus huddled in the bushes, bleeding profusely and whimpering. She ran to him and knelt by his side. "Daddy, it's me."
"Kieran, is that you?" Remus asked weakly.
A/N: So I wrapped this part of the story up early. I dunno, there's only so far I can go. I'll get the whole action thing on later.