Double Deuce: A Tale of Twin Destinies

I probably looked very close to a fish out of water. I was trying to say something, but the words wouldn't form. A scarred man and his dog had walked in. But now it was a scarred man and a man with ice-blue eyes.

"What the hell!" my partner yelled out. His hand had stilled on its way through his unruly hair.

The blue-eyed man chuckled, looking at the scarred man, "You tell them or should I?"

"I'll tell them. Though I had hoped you hadn't been so showy." The scarred man joked.

Showy? The black dog had turned into a man before our eyes. No smoke, no mirrors and defanatly no hidden trap door. The dog had just rippled a bit then stood up and was a blue-eyed human.

Blinking a bit, trying to make heads or tail of the situation I shook my head.

"How did he do that?"

"Magic" The blue-eyed man said, a dog-like smirk on his face. The scarred man rolled his eyes but nodded all the same.

"Magic? What the fuck have you guys been smoking! I'm callin' narcotics…" Dee said, reaching his hand towards the phone. The blue-eyed man moved fast, his hand falling on the phone just before Dee grabbed.

"Sorry mate, can't have you doing that quite yet. We've got a bit to talk about. So I recommend sitting back and enjoying the break."

"Sirius," the scarred man said with a little sigh, "Well, as my friend here said we do have much to discuss. But before all that gets under way. Perhaps a bit of introduction?"

I nodded numbly; Dee glared daggers at Sirius before crossing his arms and nodding as well. By the look on his face I could tell intros were up to me.

"I'm Randy McLean, and my fuming partner here is Dee Latner." I said a bit calmer then I thought I could.

The scarred man nodded, "I am Remus Lupin, and this is Sirius Black."

Sirius grinned at his name and waved. So, now we knew who they were, but they still hadn't cleared why they were here.

"Uh, what did you mean by an aura? It just looked like a gas." I asked, hoping he answered the way I wanted.

"Yeah, and the guy didn't have any lacerations not even a bruise! But there it is, death by unnatural causes." Dee added in, pointing to the picture of our mysterious cloaked victim.

"Cause he wasn't killed with muggle weapons." Sirius spoke up, looking at the picture and purposefully ignoring Dee's glare. Turning to Remus I raised an eyebrow. In all my police training, I'd never heard of 'muggle' weapons before.

"Muggle weapons? What are those? Some knew bio weapon?"

Remus chuckled and shook his head, "No Mr. McLean, it isn't a new weapon. Our…" he seemed to pause, I waited for him to continue, noting the scars on his face. Now that I could look and not seem to be staring, just paying attention. "Kind I suppose will have to do. Our kind calls certain people Muggles. Those with no magic running through their veins."

"There's no such thing as magic." I said point blank, "Only in Las Vegas."

Dee looked at me, "No magic? All right Mr. Skeptic, explain dog boy here." He pointed at Sirius who looked a little pissed at being called dog-boy. "How can a four foot mutt turn into a six foot guy?"

I paused, ever since he and Bikky claimed to have seen a ghost, Dee jumped on anything that was remotely paranormal to try and convince me.

I was starting to falter.

I looked back at Remus, ignoring Dee for the moment. Enough games.

"You said you had some information about the murder victim Mr. Lupin. What can you tell us?" I motioned to the chair by my desk. Sirius and Dee watching us from the other chairs.

"Enough that you won't believe a word of it," Remus said sitting down and looking at me.

"Now that's not really useful is it."

"No, but what else do you have to go on?"

"I'll give you the benefit of the doubt." I sighed, pulling out some notepaper and a pen, waiting for him to begin.

"The man's name is…was Walden MacNair. He worked in England at the Ministry of Magic. Yes England has it's own government concerning the affairs of the magical community."

I raised my eyes when he recognized my silent question. "All right. If he was from England what was he doing in New York?"

"Recruiting."

"For what?" Dee interrupted, "Some terrorist group? From England?"

"Sort of, call them selves Death Eaters. They're trying to change the ministries views on what makes a wizard a wizard." Sirius added, seemingly fascinated by our fax machine.

I turned back to Remus, "Death Eaters? So then the cape and cowl is a uniform right."

Remus nodded, "As well as the mask your police found next to him."

I looked at Dee. They hadn't read the report, and the mask wasn't in the picture. Maybe there was something to what they were saying after all. I held my ground though.

"Ok, so they want Americans on their side."

"No," Remus interrupted me; "They want to keep Americans off our side."

"We've some good contacts here, mostly wizards living muggle lives. But they still practice magic. It was probably one of them that got to MacNair." Sirius added helpfully.

I raised my eyebrow again, still skeptic about the whole magic thing. Despite what I had just seen.

"Then if you're contacts can handle themselves, why are you two here?"

Remus and Sirius looked at each other, before looking at me in turn. "Well," Lupin spoke up, his voice changing slightly, "It seems, Ryo, that you and your partner are more then just Detectives."

My eyes widened, I had not given him my Japanese name. "What else are we?" I asked, taking the obvious bait.

"Part of a complex spell that was begun generations ago."

"We're joined." Sirius added.

Dee opened his mouth to say something, but closed it again. I blinked, joined? How? When? Why? Questions flew through my mind, but none would get the answer I wanted. Narrowing my eyes I looked at Lupin.

"What spell joined us?"

"A duplique vivate spell. In short, our souls are living two lives, at once. Instead of living the life of a detective then dieing and being reincarnated as a werewolf. We are living both at once, without the reincarnation."

Living two lives at once? Like some warped Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. I blinked at Remus, not buying it, but beliving at the same time.

Dee's voice pulled me out of my thoughts. "Wait, werewolf?"

Oh…guess I missed that part…. "But I've never changed, and the watch I'm wearing is silver."

"Yes, and I'm the werewolf. You're the detective. I change; you just feel the changes. Like somethi-"

"Like something is sitting on me and I can't move. And it smells like pine trees and musky fur."

Remus blinked, guess he wasn't expecting that. He looked at Sirius, who shared a worried look. He looked between Dee and me.

"It's happening faster then we thought. Dumbledor was wrong. It wasn't next full moon, but this one." Remus said, his eyes looking very worried.

"That was last night…"Then it hit me. I had had that strange feeling last night, the sensations: sensitive hearing, smell and strength. I'd gotten it periodically all yesterday.

"This is bad. If Voldermort finds out," Sirius started, but Dee interrupted him.

"Wait! It's started? What's started?"

"The spell. Four people: with eternal bonds, powerful enough to form a around anything...or anyone. We'll slowly start reforming the bonds, but the reformation is going to send out powerful streams of magic." Remus explained, "And there is some out there after that power." Remus stopped abruptly.

Dee jumped up and glared at Remus, "Don't just stop there, who? Who's after that power? Why? And is it putting us in serious danger?"

"Voldemort. Don't know. And yes, a lot of it too." Sirius snapped back.

I put a hand to my head and let their arguing become a backdrop. I tried to be skeptical about it, really I did. But with Sirius transformation, my dream, and Remus' scars: I just couldn't. I sighed and looked up.

"Well…Let's figure this out at my apartment. Shift ends in ten minutes."

After agreeing to it, Remus and Sirius, in dog form, walked out of the office intent on waiting for us downstairs. I looked at Dee and he just shrugged, printing up his report and putting his jacket on.

I watched him walk off, while I organized my files and Remus' statement. As I turned off the light in our office and headed towards Dee's car, I heard skitters behind me. I looked around the garage; only seeing a rat running into the drainage pipe. Getting paranoid McLean…I looked at the two men and dog before me.

I must be crazy.

A/N: Ok third chappy , There's mild cursing because mainly I don't curse beyond 'hell' and 'damn' in real life. And it's kinda weird to write what you don't practice ; so major badwords will be minimal, sorry Dee. I have an idea where this is going, but not how long it'll take me ta get there. Thanks for all the Reviews! They give me happy chills! ¬¬; heheh,

And as for Remus and Ryo being twins….well it's pretty close don't ya think . I have one debate about the fic though, whether or not to have Ryo go through the change. I have been rolling it around in my head, but still haven't a clue what to do with it. Oh well, when the time comes I'll figure it out ; Thanks again!