Chapter Two: The Lupin house, midnight;
Mr. Jack Lupin was walking back for work towards a small house that still had the lights on. Smiling he watched as the door open and a small figure flung himself into his father's arms. "Hey Remus why are you doing still awake?"
"Mum said I could stay up until you came home." Remus replied watching his father with serious amber eyes.
"Did she now?" Jack asked amused. Placing Remus down he took his son's hand and continued walking up the yard.
Remus eagerly nodded his head and opened his mouth to say something when a loud howl erupted through the night from somewhere off to their left. It sounded close, too close for comfort. Jack noticed a figure running across the ground, heading in his direction. His wife, Aydia, screamed from the doorway and pointed at the creature, horrified.
"Remus run to your mother and tell her to lock the doors and windows." Jack instructed and pushed his son in the direction of the house.
The creature abruptly changed direction as Remus ran towards the house. Snarling the werewolf leapt for Remus and his jaws clamped firmly around the boy's leg. Remus screamed in pain and collapsed onto the ground. Saliva dripping from his mouth the werewolf crawled up the boy's thin body and lowered his muzzle to take a huge chunk out of Remus's neck. A flash of red light struck the werewolf in the side and lifted him off the boy, throwing him a good distance away.
Jack ran and stood over his son and waited as the werewolf got to his feet and lunged for him. Making a slashing movement with his wand Jack smiled grimly as a gash appeared on the werewolf's chest. Clearly defeated, but not happy with that fact, the werewolf growled before loping off in the direction of the woods. Jack knelt beside his son and cried. Lifting the small boy into his arms he instructed his wife to meet him at St. Mungo's before apparating to the given location with a loud crack.
"Help me. My son's been bitten by a werewolf!" Jack said as he elbowed past the people that stood in a line in front of a blonde witch.
The witch popped a huge pink bubble with her mouth before pointing up at the sign with one of the long pick talons she called fingernails and said in a bored voice, "First floor, second door on the right, Dai Llewellyn ward. Next."
Jack nodded and grabbed hold of his wife's arm pulling her along with him through the double doors. After running up a flight of stairs they finally reached the "Creature-Induced Injuries" corridor and walked through the second door on the right which as it swung close behind them made the words upon it readable, "DANGEROUS" DAI LLEWLLYN WARD: SERIOUS BITES. Placing Remus on one of the empty beds, the room was empty except for a couple of witches and wizards that were robed in lime-green robes, Jack called for the Healers to help his son.
After finding out what had happened the Healer's ushered The Lupins out of the room and surrounded their son. Aydia sat on one of the padded benches that lined the walls while Jack paced the floor nervously. After about an hour one of the witches walked out and sighed.
"We got him stabilized but as he was bitten by a werewolf on a full moon we are positive that he will become a werewolf once a month. I'm terribly sorry."
Aydia stood and smiled slightly, "Thank you. Can we see him?"
The Healer nodded and opened the door behind her, "Go right in." she said softly.
Aydia thanked her and crossed the room to sit in the chair next to her pale son's bed. Gripping his hand she rested her head against his knuckles and sobbed softly. Jack sat down beside her and rubbed her back while stroking Remus's sandy blonde hair. Soon Aydia stopped cry and as Jack leaned over to brush her blonde hair out of her face he found that she had cried herself to sleep. Kissing her and Remus on the cheek he crept out and waited until he was outside of St. Mungo's before apparating back to his house.
Grabbing a bag he shoved his clothes and holding the bag he apparated back to St. Mungo's. Running up the stairs he crept back into the room and left the note he had written back at the house on the bed next to his wife's hand.
"I love you both and I'm so sorry Remus." He whispered before taking one more look at the huge silver moon that hung in the sky and cursing it he left and departed out of his son's life forever.