Some Dark Things Turn Light
by: Ethiawien
DISCLAIMER: If by chance you have heard it before my story, then it tis not mine!
Chapter Two: The Moon
((A/N: With Draco and Kieran 200 miles from Regina, Saskatchewan, a province in Canada.))
Draco woke to the smell of something he had long missed, coffee. It had been near a month, and it was now Draco's birthday. Kieran had not found any help where she looked, but had taken him to her family's summer home. Draco was comfortable there, he felt safe, but he had started to notice Kieran's changes. She no longer smiled freely, or laughed. She was stone-faced and always busied herself with cleaning or something where Draco couldn't find her. It worried Draco, but she always kept him busy with a fun activity she left for him, a shopping trip, hockey games, concerts, or even scavenger hunts to a treat.
"Draco! Breakfast!" Kieran's call came up the stairs. Draco groggily got out of bed and groaned. He was 17 now, and the realization that he was an adult had just sunk in. His things were packed, because they had planned on returning to England this day. He went downstairs, where Kieran had set breakfast for him. He gazed at the 15 year-old before him. She didn't look her age. She looked nearly 20, and gray flecks were present in her tawny hair.
"Morning Kieran." Draco said smirking. She nodded to him. "What time are we leaving?"
"Shortly after breakfast." Kieran said. Draco sat down and started eating. Kieran buzzed around him, straightening things one last time. Draco grabbed her arm.
"Stop, sit, relax, smile." Draco told her in a whisper, pulling her down to his level. Kieran gave him a strange look. As if they had both lost control, their lips met. They both pulled from the kiss, wide-eyed. Kieran whimpered before their lips met in a deeper embrace. Draco wrapped his arms around her firmly and aparated them upstairs to a bedroom.
((A/N:With Remus, Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Snape, at Number 12 Grimmauld Place.))
"Wonder when they'll get back." came Hermione's anxious voice in the crowd of men waiting in the entrance hall of number 12, grimmauld place.
"Any minute now, have faith." Severus said. No sooner than he had said that then did a knock fall upon the door. Ron threw it open. Before the group stood Kieran, looking older than ever, and Draco, with a bleeding bite-mark on his shoulder.
"What happened?" Sirius asked, confused. The rest of the room already knew.
"You guys... fell in love." Hermione whimpered.
"No..." Remus gasped. "Kieran..."
"We didn't exactly fall in love..." Draco said softly. "I sort of got heated this morning, and she..."
"Tonight's the full moon, she's always aroused the day of." Ron said simply. "So she didn't protest."
"You bit him, do you realize the consequences?" Remus exclaimed. There was a mixed reaction in the group. Hermione was in tears, Sirius was having trouble not laughing, Harry had the suspicion something like this would happen, and had an understanding look, Severus was thoroughly shocked, and Ron and Remus were upset, Ron at Draco, and Remus at Kieran.
"Do you think I expected or wanted this to happen... it just did..." Kieran whispered. With a forceful sound, Remus smacked Kieran, who whimpered and fell to the floor. Draco made an odd, fearful noise and dove behind Harry. Ron, Harry, and Hermione stared on in shock. Sirius went wide-eyed and transformed into Snuffles, an automatic reaction to Remus's violence. Severus acted immediately, stunning Remus and running to Kieran, helping her up. She whimpered again, this time at the potions master's touch, which she found to be gentle and warm.
"You're okay Kieran." Severus whispered to her, "You're okay, no one's going to hurt you. It's the moon, not him." He wrapped her into his arms, as he had done for Draco so many times before. She shuddered uncontrollably, whimpering.
"Kieran, snap out of it." Ron said, kneeling by her and Severus. Offering to take her into his arms.
"I'm sorry... I didn't mean to... everyone else was!" Kieran squeaked at Ron fearfully. Draco pulled Ron away from her.
"You look like her step father." Draco said.
"He beat her too." Ron finished. He understood. He backed off and went upstairs. Hermione looked hurtfully at Draco and ran off after Ron. Harry nodded to Draco and led him upstairs. Sirius took the stunned Remus out of the room and released him from the spell, sat him down to calm him down. Severus just knelt there, holding Kieran.
"Kieran Marie?" Severus whispered.
"I ruined everything didn't I?" Kieran whispered. "Ron and I, Hermione and Draco, his trust in me, Sirius and Harry's respect, your love."
"Nothing you do can ever change the way I feel about you." Severus said. "You are an outstanding young woman. Your only fault is that you wish to please everyone. No matter how insane their request."
"I don't even really remember it happening..." Kieran told him. "But the last thing I remember... we kissed, and then I woke up and he was tending to the bite. Have I given him lycanthropy?"
"More than likely, but a case more minor than your own I would imagine." Severus said. "I wouldn't think a half-blood werewolf could transmit full lycanthropy."
Later on that night, Kieran had gone to bed, and was sitting on the bed, readinf. She heard someone come in, and suspected it to be Draco, she didn't know if he could sleep or not. It was Ron though. He sat down next to her.
"Why?" he demanded.
"I don't know." Kieran breathed. "I remember kissing him once, and the rest is a blank. The kiss was just I think lonliness. He missed her terribly. I was just to out of it to know better. I mean... we hid at my old home... and I think any long and I might have lost it." She looked him in the eyes and touched his face slowly. Silent tears began as she saw him crying in Hermione's arms after she left, and then him and Hermione kissing.
"I was lost." he said softly.
"And you think Draco and I weren't?" Her tone had become angry. "You have no right to have anger towards him!"
"You two slept together!"
"A tragic mistake that takes two parts!"
"You were under the influence of this!" Ron got up and pulled aside the curtain, the full moon's light shining on Kieran, who whimpered at first, then ran to the window, howling at the moon. Draco ran in, looking wide awake. Remus's wolf form gave a great howl from upstairs somewhere. Kieran turned to face Ron and Draco, small fangs now present in her mouth.