A/N So it's just me, MoOnlet here. SelenA is currently on a trip to somewhere. Whereever she is... she is away for my birthday. But I think we can forgive her. Can't we Remus. :Remus shakes his head no: Well... if you say so... J/K. Anyway here is chapter 2. Sorry that it took so long. See I would make up excuses, but I can't think of any at the moment. And I don't think you would want to hear me drone on. Don't kill me (or SelenA) at the end of this. It's nothing you don't already know. Enjoy and review, please!

Chapter 2

After their father had returned from work, David and Remus had been sent outside to play as their parents talked in the kitchen. Deciding not to protest by the looks on his parents' faces, David had picked up little Remus and led him outdoors.

"David, I wanna eat my sandwich!" protested Remus, beating on his brother's leg with his small fists.

"Later Rem, how about we play a game of hide and go seek?" asked a weary brother as he kneeled before his younger sibling. It was still half an hour at least until sunset, what could possibly go wrong?

Meanwhile…

He suspects me…damn Lupin just couldn't mind his own business.

Well, I'm going to make sure that I teach him a lesson.

One he will never forget.

Greyback quickly strode through the woods. He knew that the Lupins lived in a muggle neighborhood just outside of London, and figured by the numerous rows of identical houses that he was getting close to them.

Sniffing the air, Fenrir detected the scent of humans nearby. Grinning in a grotesque fashion, he slowly morphed into his nocturnal form, relishing the pain of the formation as he felt dark power surge into his body. Unlike most werewolves, he loved his wolf, and saw it as more of a weapon than a curse.

His ears pricked at the sound of children laughing, and grinned before taking off in the direction of the sound.

Get ready to pay, Lupin….

Remus and David had already played one game of hide and go seek, in which David counted and Remus hid. David had pretended to look for a few minutes before approaching the bush with shoes sticking out of the bottom.

Now, Remus was counting while David hid. Climbing up a tree, David settled on a particularly large tree branch and rotated himself so he could watch his brother's progress. He would not be hard to spot as long as Remus looked up.

"Davvy, where are you?" Remus whispered once he counted to 100. If I was Davvy, where would I hide?

Remus searched in their shed, in the bushes, behind the trees, even inside the house, and he still could not find his brother. Beginning to get scared, Remus went back outside to look again. The woods loomed in the darkness, the sounds of night beginning to arise. Remus knew that he wasn't allowed inside the woods, but David was. Would Davvy really hide in the woods?

David, meanwhile, was trying to catch his brother's attention. He moved slightly on his branch to make the tree's leaves rustle. Remus would have heard the sound. When that didn't work, David began talking to himself. Remus usually could pick out his voice from very far away. Discouraged when that didn't work, David wondered what else he could do. He knew that Remus would be hurt if he didn't find his brother. Remus was a very determined person.

But the small figure of his brother inside the woods made him stop thinking his strategy through. He jumped down from his tree and ran after his little brother at full speed.

His heartbeat raced rapidly, and he felt as if he ran any longer it would burst inside his chest. Every breath was raw and hurt terribly, but he couldn't stop. Although Remus was small, and asthmatic, when he was on the "hunt" he wouldn't give up.

David slid to a stop as he watched on in terror, paralyzed, as a dark figure moved towards his brother, who was staring at it with a mixture of fear and curiosity.

"Remus, no! Come back here!" David cried in vain as the figure lunged toward its target with magnificent force and speed.

"David!" Remus yelled as he was knocked towards the ground.

David tried in vain to distract the monster by throwing rocks at his back, silently cursing himself for leaving his wand in the house. His efforts were futile. The werewolf had gripped Remus by the neck and was restraining him against a tree. To David's horror, the wolf leaned in and bit Remus on the side and then threw him to the ground.

The werewolf seemed to have a sickly grin as it howled mockingly and sped off into the dark forest. His work was done.

David ran over to his brother's prone form and cradled Remus's head against him. The five year old was very pale and shivering from blood loss. David knew that Remus needed immediate care. After coming to this conclusion, David gripped his little brother in his arms and sped off towards home.

His mother's scream of terror was the first thing he heard upon arriving…

At the Hospital...

The doctor's grave expression gave Jane Lupin a small sense of foreboding as he came out from Remus's hospital room. The doctor ran his hand through his hair, an obvious sign of discomfort.

"Your son is stabilized," he said carefully, "But he will face lycanthropy for the rest of his life. I'm sorry there is nothing more we can do."

Jane's face went pale and the doctor caught her as she fainted. John let his head fall into his hands and felt the hot sting of tears as they fell from his eyes. David looked down at his own hands which were still stained red from his brother's blood. He rushed off to the bathroom where he expelled his lunch into the toilet.

Only then did he give in to his tears.