Chapter 12

"Stupid, immature child." Alex muttered, throwing the door open to Severus' office.

"Student?" Sev asked, looking up at her.

"No, my sister." She said, sitting down in front of his desk and propping her feet on the edge of it. "She informed me that I couldn't possibly understand what it would be like to loose a child."

"You never told her about Marcus?"

"Never really got the chance, quite frankly I didn't want to tell her."

"I never knew that Anita lost a baby."

"Yes… when she was in 6th year and she went out with Remus Lupin."

"LUPIN? Merlin's sake woman! How do you keep ending up with relations to those people?" Sev said with a shocked laugh.

"I don't know. It's starting to get rather annoying… do you think I should have told her?" Severus stood and moved to take the seat next to hers.

"It's up to you when you tell her, if you decide to. I'll tell you this much though, if she upsets you like this again I'll have to jinx her."

"Nothing says love like threatening to jinx a sister." Alex laughed.

"Remus?" Anita called, opening the door to his classroom and walking in.

"What is it Anita?" He asked, looking up from the open book infront of him. She could tell he was still upset with her.

"I wanted to talk to you…"

"About how you lied to me?"

"About why I lied to you."

"Doesn't really matter does it? It's over now, we don't need to dwell."

"Remus, I want to explain… I'm sorry I never told you… but you have to understand I was so young and scared…"

"And didn't trust enough in your boyfriend to tell him? I thought you knew how much I care about you, that you could trust me enough to tell me something like this… guess I was wrong about a lot of things."

"Please Remus, I thought that if I told you that you would be upset, besides I had already lost the baby… didn't really make much sense to tell you what we didn't have."

The two stood in silence for a few minutes before Anita began to speak again. "Why couldn't Alex keep her mouth shut?" She muttered more to herself then to Remus.

"You can't blame this on your sister, she wasn't the one who said that she loved me then kept something like this hidden."

"You're pretty quick to defend her." Anita said, crossing her arms defensively over her chest.

"Don't you think she's gone through enough without having to be blamed for your mistake?" Remus replied quickly.

"Gone through? She bloody well knew what she was getting into when she ran off to follow Severus. I'm so sick of everyone acting like she's some victim."

"You have no idea do you?" Remus asked with a shocked expression on his scratched face.

"Idea of what?" She demanded exasperatedly.

"You might want to sit down." He replied gently, realizing that she truly had no idea about everything that Alex and Severus had gone though and that he would have to be the one to tell her.

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