Remus woke up, smelling a feline in his room. He sat up in bed and saw a pure black cat with silver eyes at his door.
Remus stood up and was about to let the cat in, but it ran away scared. Remus smiled sadly, animals didn't like him much because of his lycanthropy.
A few minutes later though the cat was back, standing at the door cautiously.
"You can come in you know." Remus said, amused at the cat's actions.
Hesitantly the silver eyed cat entered the room, and walked over to Remus, sniffed him cautiously, butting his head against his leg. Remus bent down and pet the cat a few times before the cat laid down at his feet. Remus sat down on his bed to think about his situation.
Everyone he loved was dead, he was some strange pureblood's slave, and he couldn't leave here at all.
There was a knock on the door and the woman who brought him to this room came to the door.
"Lunch is being served if you want it. You can call for Pomma the House Elf to bring you to the dining room." She said before leaving.
Remus called Pomma the House Elf and she brought him to the dining room.
They ate lunch in silence. It was only him and Bartro.
"I thought you said I wasn't the only one." Remus commented quietly.
"Like I said, you being a werewolf, you wouldn't get along with him. Plus I doubt you would understand him very much." Bartro(I refuse to think of him by his first name) stated.
"Are you saying I'm not very smart?" he asked.
"No. It's not that. Just… he's… Well, you wouldn't understand anyway." He sighed, shaking his head.
So that's all he would say.
Remus walked around the house without permission. The place was huge. It made him think about Hogwarts… But he couldn't think of there right now. It no longer existed. Voldemort had taken care of that. Some of the others tried rebuilding it, but Malfoy also took care of that as well.
Remus found a library while wandering around, he knew he'd have to ask Pomma to help him find his room later on.
Later on after looking at the books not finding anything interesting, he called for Pomma.
"Yes Master Loopy?" Pomma asked Remus, irritating him.
He paused for a second a thought coming into his head.
"Can you keep a secret from your master?" Remus asked her.
"Yes. Master Bartro's Crow tells Pomma his secrets all the time." Pomma said.
Remus was relieved she didn't start abusing herself.
"Can you bring me to your master's other slave?" Remus asked her quietly.
"Yes Pomma can. Come with Pomma, Master Loopy." She said, calling him by that ridiculous title again.
They walked down a hall and came to a room with a closed door. Pomma quietly opened the door to the room and they saw an innocent looking black haired boy sleeping on the bed of the room.
"You can bring me to my room now." Remus said quietly, giving the poor boy one last look.
Pomma sighed closing the door. They began walking down the hall way and went down some stairs.
"How long has he been here?" Remus asked the female House Elf
"Master Bartro brought Master Bartro's Crow here over a year ago for Pomma to take care of." She said, nodding.
"Why does your master have him?" he asked.
"Master Bartro's Crow has no family, so he says Pomma will be Master Bartro's Crow's family. Master Bartro just lets Pomma take care of Master Bartro's Crow and Master Bartro doesn't interfere with Pomma's family." She told him.
"Pomma, your master said that I came here because I'm a werewolf… Why is Crow here?" Remus asked, calling the boy Crow since that seemed to be his name.
"Master Bartro's and Pomma's Crow is a Shadow Kitty. Pomma needs to protect Master Bartro's and Pomma's Crow." She told him.
A shadow cat? You couldn't find a shadow cat nowadays. No wonder why Bartro took in the boy named Crow. Remus thought.
"How old is Crow?" he asked.
"14." She answered, happy to answer any questions on her family.
They reached the room.
"Can you not tell your master that I asked you to show me where Crow is, and asked you questions about him?" Remus asked.
"Pomma don't tell Master Bartro if Master Loopy isn't wanting Pomma too." She said, nodding eagerly before leaving him in the room alone.
Remus sighed. Bartro took an innocent 14 year old boy. Who knows what he's done with him. The war hadn't even been over for a year… so he had Crow illegally, but it doesn't matter. It's legal now. And soon, killing another person would probably be legal.
RLSBRLSBRLSBRLSBRLSBRL
PLEASE REVIEW!