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M.Maebeuf-What did I leave out? Where? In this chapter? I reread it and didn't find anything. I'd like to fix it though if you tell me where...

Chapter 15

Aurora lay in the hospital wing allowing Madame Pomfrey to fuss over her heavily bleeding scratches.

"You say the cat sprung on while you were sleeping, eh?" Madame Pomfrey said as she pressed an antibiotic potion mixture to the angry marks.

"Yes. It's my room mates cat. I had to fling it off me to stop the attack but I don't know where it went. I was in a dead sleep." Aurora said as convincingly as she could. True to her word to James, she had not shared that it was really a werewolf that had attacked her.

"Probably thought it was playing but he did get you good, didn't he." Pomfrey bustled.

Aurora said nothing. She bit her lip hard against the stinging sensation as Pomfrey continued sponging the potion to the cuts.

"These are very deep for a cat." Pomfrey remarked.

"Well, it's a very large cat." Aurora said and met the nurse's eyes.

"Must be." Pomfrey replied and finished her tending. "You are to stay here for the rest of the night. Your scratches will need this mixture applied in the morning as well. Here are some pajamas for you."

Madame Pomfrey set up a screen around her bed and disappeared. Leaving Aurora to nothing but her own thoughts. She stretched out on the bed to mull over what had happened tonight and James's cryptic last words.

Somehow the werewolf had broken into the hospital wing and was running toward Aurora. She screamed in fright and reached quickly for her wand.

"Scourgify" She yelled and watched in confusion as the werewolf's mouth began spilling bubbles though it still kept charging her.

"Waddiwasi" She shouted again and saw a wad of gum shoot from a bedside table and up the werewolf's nose. Still it did not slow.

"Eat Slugs!" She cried and watched as he did stop momentarily to belch up a slimly gray slug but immediately resumed it's path toward her.

Why am I doing all these useless spells against this thing, she wondered stupidly as she tried to pull herself from the bed. But when she looked down she had many hands holding her down. She tried to pry herself out of their grip but she was no match to their strength.

She looked down to plead with her captors and found herself looking into familiar eyes. There was Sirius and James tugging her backwards by her arms. Remus's other friend, Peter had a hold of her ankles. And then Remus himself, who had his arms around her midriff and was tugging her further into the bed.

"Please! You have to let me go. He's going to kill me." Aurora begged.

"Remus will talk to you when he's back to himself." James told her.

"But he's right there." Aurora replied with bewilderment.

"Aurora, what do you think of half humans?" Sirius asked her from below.

"Pardon?"

"Werewolves. What do you think of them?" Peter inquired.

Aurora glanced back at the werewolf that was still running at her but found it was no longer a werewolf. It was Remus running at her. She looked down in confusion and found that Remus was still holding her round the middle. When she looked back up again it was the werewolf.

Bafflement was setting in and all she wanted was out of this nightmare. She tried again to break free but got nowhere.

Aurora pointed her wand blindly behind her and yelled "Flagrate!"

When the ones underneath her let go to fight away the fire she had just set she pulled herself from the bed.

Aurora tripped over the bed sheets and whacked her head on the night table beside it and was blinking the stars away when she heard a voice from far away.

"Dear child! What in heavens name are you doing?" Cried Madame Pomfrey urgently and ran over to tug her patient back into bed.

Aurora blinked slowly and tried to focus her attention on Pomfrey.

"You're drenched with sweat!" She exclaimed. "You must have been having an awful dream. I could hear you screaming all the way in my quarters."

"Dream. Yes. It was a dream." Aurora said, knowing it was more than that as she tried to calm her pounding heart.

"I'm sorry I woke you Madame Pomfrey. I'm fine now, honest. You can go back to bed." Aurora said.

"Would you like a sleeping aid?" Pomfrey asked anxiously.

"No. I'm ok. Thanks." Aurora said.

She knew that no amount of sleep aid would chase away the truth that had just been realized. Her subconscious mind had found what her conscious mind could not. The clues had been pieced together and there was no avoiding the truth.

A pain that went beyond any kind of physical agony ripped through her with that knowledge. Remus Lupin had attacked her tonight. Remus Lupin was the werewolf.

Authors Note: Just to let you all know, I probably won't be updating for the rest of the week. I don't know why I waited until the last minute but I'm rereading OotP before HBP comes out and I only have 5 more days now, we all know how long it is. So I have to get cracking. I might get chapter 16 done tonight too...not sure yet. If not, I'll see you after HBP!