"Fuck the Ministry!" Holly shouted slamming the door behind her on Tuesday after work, clutching a piece of parchment in her hand.
"What happened? What's wrong?" Remus said startled, he practically jumped out of his seat.
"Look at this!" she began to wave around the parchment.
"Maybe you should just tell me." he said staring at the parchment.
"Those jerks actually want to track down and….ug! They want to license Werewolf's! It's not right! Not only that, but they want to classify them! And! Oh! And if they get dangerous enough, they want to….it's so inhumane! I'll have no part in it! Avrik said the job was just to see how many there are!" Holly was so busy ranting and raving that she didn't see the blood drain out of Remus' face.
"Well, I'll have no part in it! I see Avrik's little game now. He wanted to lure me into working with him again, and then next thing I know we're Mr. and Mrs. Thane raising little…muscular babies…oh no…little dose he know that I'm with Sirius! Ha! Then again I'm pretty sure Avrik could break Sirius in half with one hand, but that's besides the point…Remus are you ok?" she calmed down immediately and got him a glass of water.
"Holly. How serious are they?"
"It hasn't passed legislation. It probably won't. But what they're trying to do is absolutely outrageous."
"Holly. I'm one of them." Not the best circumstances, Remus told himself, but this has gone on long enough.
"What?" She was confused.
"I'm a Werewolf." Her eyes got really big. It all made sense now. Why he got so sick, why he couldn't hold a job, why he had to move around. She didn't know why she didn't see it sooner. She felt like such an idiot. This is what everyone had danced around.
"Remus…"
"If you don't want me here…" Holly then did something that he never expected. She went up to him and hugged him.
"Remus. Your one of my best friends. I would never want you out of my life. It's an unfortunate circumstance, yes, but your still Remus John Lupin. Did that sound as cheesy as I think it did?"
"Yes, but thank you. I must say, you handled this the best out of everyone so far."
"That's surprising." she sat down on her knees in front of him.
"Well if you consider that James and Sirius sat me down and forced it out of me, yeah, I'll take a hug over those two pushing me around any day."
"Who wouldn't?" There was an uncomfortable silence in the air. "How about I make dinner, huh?" She got up and moved to the kitchen.
As she made dinner Holly thought that his secrete was much bigger than hers. It was weird, that the two people that everyone thought was the least capable of hurting another human being, turned out to have the most potential. Holly wondered in this spectrum where Sirius, James, Lily and Peter fit in.
Did this mean that James and Sirius, who were loud, and always rough housing were the least likely to take another life? Would that put Lily and Peter in the same category as herself and Remus? And what was up with the Ministry all of a sudden? She thought that handling You-Know-Who would be enough to handle. But apparently they felt the need to classified them.
Well, she definitely wasn't going to join Avrik. Somehow she thought that saying "no" to him wasn't going to be easy. This thought process was getting too much for Holly to handle, she decided as she looked down and realized that she was burning their dinner.