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::AN:: It took me SO LONG to update this time! I don't even know why! Anyway, thanks for being patient with me, people! I hope you like this chapter!

Mrs. Drew Malfoy: Hahah, I'm glad you liked the russian. I didn't even know if it was right, since all I did was translate it off of freetranslation. com. (lol) There will be no fic concerning Peter after this – that I can assure you (who wants to read about Peter? LOL). Queen of the Marauder fanfics? Aw, so sweet! Anyways, thanks for reviewing, and I hope you like this chappie!

Happy Hyper Bunny Lover: You're the only person who seemed to assume that Lada was NOT actually Dumbledore's biological daughter. I knew it wouldn't be obvious but COME ON! (lol) Congrats to you, though, since you're the only one who figured it out, hahah. (So, yes, she's his adopted daughter. The details will come out later, so don't worry.) Anywho, thanks for reviewing, and I hope you like this chapter, too!

Lady Zymurgy: I want to see the pic! (lol) But I won't be mad or anything if you can't send it, so it's okay. I know, I had to have her pull his beard and stuff. Talk about the opportunity of a lifetime, LOL. I hope you like this chapter!

gloomy: I never forget! Sometimes I just get too busy, you understand. (lol) Actually, while I was writing the last chapter (chapter two, not this one), the power went out all of a sudden and I hadn't saved my work, which got me peeved and delayed me for another few days (I couldn't go near the computer, I was so frustrated, lol). Anyway, thanks for reviewing! I hope you like this chapter!

randomblinx: I'm wondering if you will even read this without me having to remind you about nine-hundred times (you're so self-absorbed these days!) Anywho, I hope you like this chapter! (Don't freak out at me if it doesn't meet your standards, beeotch!)

msj: Yeah, the first chapter kind of… sucked. (lol) You'll find out the whole scoop on Dumbledore and Lada soon, so don't worry, lol. I'm glad you liked the chapter! I hope you like this one, too! -0000- You are SO considerate and understanding of other people's lives, yes you are! But I don't mind, because I'm the same way to people when I want them to update (lol). I was actually going to start the next chapter after I got your SECOND review, but I had to go out (sorry!). I'm glad you like my fics so much, and I'm sorry it takes me forever to update now. Maybe I'll have to try writing down chapters and THEN typing them up. Maybe that would work. (lol) Anyways, I hope you like this chapter.

sweetiepiepirate: Ew, Dumbledore fooling around… ::shudders:: Lada has a pretty big purpose in this story, actually! She was in the last chapter of 'The New Girl,' but she's not important in that one, since that only revolves around Faylinn, basically. You'll find out soon! Trust me! Oh, and Lada is their age, but she's smarter than them (naturally, of course. Any "child" of Dumbledore's would have to be a genius, right? LOL) Anyway, I hope you like this chapter!

The Apocalypse: Dumbledore? A wife? (Read my review-response to Happy Hyper Bunny Lover to get the scoop on that one.) I've actually been allowed on the computer for quite some time… (Sorry!) I've just been so busy with SCHOOL! Gah! Anyway, I hope you like this chapter!

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"Knock yourself out." Lada waved her hand towards the small table of chocolates and watched as Remus shuffled lazily towards them.

"So, what am I here for?" Remus asked in between mouthfuls of chocolates. It was ten o'clock at night and he was in the Room of Requirement. On Lada's orders.

Lada shrugged as she tossed a few papers aside on the desk in front of her. "Just a minute." She said. "I can't very well do two things at once."

Shrugging and turning away from the longhaired blonde, Remus sat down in one of the two large red chairs that faced each other in the middle of the room.

"Fill this out." Lada said about thirty minutes later, shoving a pamphlet of parchment and a quill in his face.

"All right." Remus agreed and watched as she sat in the chair across from him before he looked down at the parchment in his lap.

Lada studied him as he filled out the sheet. After all, it was her job. To study him. Study him. She rolled her eyes and slouched a bit in her chair. Get over yourself, Lada. She thought to herself. You're his age, if not younger. You're no better than him. The only thing you have to hold over his head is that he's a werewolf. Big freaking deal.

Remus looked up from the parchment. "Why do you need to know whether or not I'm, um, sexually active?"

Lada blinked a few times at him, trying to focus on his face without blushing like an idiot. "It's just… information." She cleared her throat and mumbled under her breath. All Remus heard was, "Physical endurance as characterized by heightened… stamina…"

He looked back down at his paper and Lada widened her eyes, biting her lip to stop herself from screaming in frustration. Oh yeah, this is REALLY professional.

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"How long do you think you can go without falling off?" Peter called up to James as he dangled off his broom upside down.

James waved his hands, sending the broom wobbling to the left a bit. "Oh, I don't know."

"Five galleons says you fall in less than an hour." Sirius laughed.

"You're on, Padfoot!" James cheered as the broom dropped about a foot lower to the ground.

Remus rolled his eyes at his Transfiguration textbook. He looked up suddenly as a shadow was cast over him. "Padfoot." He greeted his friend and squinted at the morning's sunlight.

"Moony." Sirius nodded as he sat down next to his friend, taking a brief glance at his other two best friends as they played catch, James still dangling off of his broom. "If I tell you something will you promise not to tell anyone?" He said lowly.

Remus sighed and closed his book. "What is it now, Padfoot?" He paused. "Is it to do with Faylinn? Because if it is, I swear, I can't handle the two of you squabbling right now."

"Squabbling?" Sirius laughed bitterly. "Better that than not speaking at all." He shrugged. "But, um, no. That's not it."

"All right, then." Remus nodded. "What is it? Is something wrong?"

Sirius shrugged. "Yeah. You know, um, Helen?"

"Edison?"

"Yeah." Sirius nodded. "Well…"

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Remus sat at attention, listening to every word that came out of Professor Armaband's mouth.

"This class will be spent practicing the spells listed on the board. Miss Edison, would you like to share that with the class? No, I didn't think so, put it away. As I was saying, you will be placed with a partner to practice these potions. And no, Miss Tatum, you cannot choose your own partner, so please put your hand down. You will be assigned a project the next time we meet that will be due shortly before NEWTS. It's to prepare you for your NEWTS, Miss Edison, so you may put your hand down. Miss Tatum, I believe I already told you to put your hand down, you cannot choose your own partner, and no, you won't be working with Miss Evans." Professor Armaband stated plainly.

"What? Why not?" Remus heard Faylinn call out from somewhere behind him.

"Because you aren't fit to be paired with Miss Evans. I will not place two highly intelligent students together when there are others who need the assistance of said students." The professor replied, raising an eyebrow.

Armaband turned to pick a piece of parchment off of his desk, but paused when Faylinn piped up once more from the back of the room. "That's not what I was going to ask, though."

"Continue, then, Miss Tatum." Armaband said with a nod of his bald head.

"Well," Faylinn began, and a tapping sound could be heard from all around the room. Remus assumed that it was her nails making contact with the desk. "I was going to ask that I not be paired with Helen Edison under any circumstances because she really won't shut up about anything and everything that's not her business."

Remus exchanged a look with Sirius, who sat at the next table. Armaband chuckled slightly, shaking his head. "I apologize for not remembering who I have placed you with, but I assure you, it's not Miss Edison. However, Miss Tatum, please refrain from speaking so profusely about your peers, or I may have to take points."

Peter nudged Remus as Armaband turned to write something on the blackboard. "Moony, what does profusely mean?"

Remus opened his mouth to speak, but closed it when he noticed that Helen Edison was turned around in her seat, glaring at something in the back of the room. Probably Faylinn. He thought.

"Right!" Armaband exclaimed as he wiped the chalk off his hands and stepped back from the board. "That is the list of partners. Please get into your groups quickly so that we may begin the lesson."

Remus heard Faylinn bickering with Lily and Helen somewhere behind him. He let out a low groan as he picked up his books and moved a few tables over, where his partner sat. "Good luck." Peter whispered to him as he walked away.

Remus didn't say anything as he sat next to Severus Snape. He merely pulled out a quill and started taking notes from the board. They didn't speak for the rest of the class period.

Just as the bell rang, Professor Armaband called Remus to the front of the classroom. "Dumbledore wishes to see you in his office." He said lowly. "The password is 'dungbeetle.'"

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Remus waited inside the circular office in silence. Dumbledore smiled at him for the twelfth time and drummed his fingertips on his desk. "Any minute now." He told the student. Remus nodded.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry!" Lada cried as she ran into the room, plopping into the chair beside Remus. "I lost track of time and –" She paused and glanced from Remus to Dumbledore. "Oh, I guess it doesn't matter."

Dumbledore smiled. "Thank you for deciding to join us, Lada." Lada opened her mouth in protest, but shut it before she said anything aloud other than, "Bu –".

"Remus." Dumbledore continued. "I believe you know Lada, as I have already introduced the two of you and you have met… twice already?" Lada nodded and reached onto the headmaster's desk to grab his bag of lemon drops. "Lada is a colleague of mine." Dumbledore said to Remus. "More specifically, she is my daughter." He paused and Lada rolled her eyes at his attempts at dramatist, while Remus blinked in confusion. "Adopted, of course." He added.

Remus nodded slowly, which gave Dumbledore the signal to move on. "Lada is seventeen, like yourself, but she's an expert in potions and what is known to the ministry as 'Magical Creatures Research.' I've brought her here to assist in researching a cure for you."

Remus shifted in his seat. There's no cure for me… He thought.

Dumbledore nodded his head. "Part of the procedure I have come up with includes Lada… basically following you around almost everywhere you go."

Remus raised his eyebrows and looked from Lada to Dumbledore. Lada shrugged. "What he means, is that I have to follow you around like some type of stalker and jot down little notes on your behavior and whatnot." She paused. "It's completely ridiculous and –"

"On the contrary, Lada!" Dumbledore cut in. "It is part of the procedure and –"

"We do not question procedure." Lada finished with him. She shrugged. "Well, tell him about the ring, then."

The headmaster nodded. "The bright side to being followed around is that you are to be the only one aware that you are being followed. No one else will know. You see," He reached his hand into his desk drawer. "Lada will be wearing a highly significant piece of jewelry –"

"A ring." Lada interrupted.

"- which will allow her to be invisible to everyone. Including you." Dumbledore continued, barely even acknowledging Lada's interruption. "Lada can explain more of this to you." He said with a sigh. "The two of you are free to go. You may start with this experiment first thing tomorrow or sooner."

"Right, then." Lada shrugged, standing up and holding her hand out as Dumbledore placed something on her palm. "Have a nice day!" She called behind her as she exited the office. "Follow me." She said to Remus.

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Remus wiped his forehead in exhaustion. "Do we really have to start this tonight?"

"Yes." Lada said. "Now, watch carefully." She stood up from her armchair and dug her hand in her pocket, pulling out the ring and placing it on her finger. "Can you see me?"

"No." Remus looked around briefly before he gave up. "Listen, I'm heading back to my dorm right now."

"Okay, I can follow." Lada said. "You're in what? Gryffindor? I don't know where that is but… Okay. Oh, don't look so glum. I need to see how you interact with your friends. I won't do anything weird or freaky, I swear."

"Fine." Remus grumbled. "Follow me."

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"Shhh." Remus hushed Lada while James and Peter laughed over something they were discussing. Lada, however, had found the joke not only not funny, but undeniably offensive.

Suddenly, the door opened and Sirius stomped into the room, tossing his robe onto the floor hastily and collapsing on the bed, burying his face in the pillow and groaning loudly.

Lada leaned closer to Remus's ear. "Who's he?" She whispered as Remus, James, and Peter all exchanged glances.

"Something wrong, mate?" James asked Sirius.

Sirius muffled something into his pillow, which was too muffled to be overheard by the others. "Come again?" Remus asked, leaning forward slightly from the weight of Lada leaning on his back as she eagerly awaited what would happen next.

Sirius sat up and scowled at his friends. "I'm in love with Faylinn and she turned me down." He said flatly before throwing his face back into the pillow.

There was a long pause. Lada instinctively clutched onto the sleeve of Remus's nightshirt. Peter was the first to speak. "Padfoot," he whispered loudly. "What happened?"

Sirius sat up a little more. "I…" But his throat clogged and he groaned again, burying his face in his pillows for the third time.

James moved over to his friend's bed and patted him on the back. "It might help if you talked about it, mate."

Sirius sat up and glared at his friends. "You wouldn't understand."

"Maybe not." Remus spoke up, trying to ignore Lada's breath on his shoulder. "But James has been turned down by Lily enough to have a bit of an idea." He shrugged to get Lada off of his back. "And I know Faylinn pretty well, so I might be able to help."

"Who's Faylinn?" Lada whispered, not moving from her spot, despite Remus's attempts to get her off.

Peter nodded. "Let us help you, Padfoot."

Sirius shrugged and looked down at his hands. "So, I went to talk to her, right?" He said slowly. "After all that happened at Remus's house and James's house…" He paused. "Oh, you guys don't know all that, do you? Um, Peter wasn't there but… At Remus's house, Faylinn found out some things about her dad, right? About how he has a whole other family and everything? Well, when James and I went over there to play quidditch with Remus, we had sort of forgotten that Faylinn was there. And then when we got there, Remus's mum told us that Faylinn was in her room and she was upset and everything, so I went to go see her. Well, we talked for a bit and I guess my little jokes and whatnot made her feel a little better, so she went to give me a hug and kiss me on the cheek but… I moved my head. On purpose, yeah, whatever. I mean, I wanted to snog the life out of her! Have you guys seen her? This is Faylinn we're talking about here! So, anyway, it was a little awkward after I kissed her, I guess, so I just left and I didn't tell Remus or James.

"The next day, there was a sort of embarrassing moment in the bathroom, where she thought no one was in there, but there was… And I was taking a shower… So, anyway.

"Then later on, she went to stay at James's house with us because she can't leave the country, you know. Illegal roaming or something like that. Anyway, when we were there, we got into an argument about my family and some other things and I… made her cry. Hey, don't look at me like that, Remus! It's not like I meant to! I just got so angry with some of the things she said! But when she started crying I felt horrible, obviously. So I tried to comfort her or whatever and she ended up falling asleep. It was great…

"But, uh, yeah. The next day, I acted like nothing had happened at first. But then I went back upstairs to talk to her and apologize and all, but she was, um, brushing her hair… in a towel. Don't look at me like that, James, you know I didn't do anything. But it was very, um, embarrassing. For me more than her, really.

"Anyway, later on, I went to talk to her outside and she didn't really want to talk to me, I guess. But either way, you know, we talked. Sort of. Well, anyway. James told me later that he had been watching the whole thing from a nearby bush, but you know, I didn't know that at the time. So, anyway. I kissed her once, and I guess she was surprised or maybe she actually didn't want me to, because she was yelling at me after. But then I was trying to calm her down and she kissed me! Except she still yelled at me after, and then we kissed again and wow, guys. She's an awesome – Sorry, I'll stop now.

"Anyway, then we went back to our room. Don't have a heart attack, Peter, we didn't do anything. All we did was share a bed. But then a few days later, James gave me this lecture about how if I treated Faylinn like all the other girls I've been with, then she would be hurt and it would ruin everything… So, I… I told Faylinn that things just wouldn't work out between us and… And I didn't speak to her for the rest of the holidays.

"I didn't even talk to her when we came back to school because of all of that… I mean, it wasn't right, what I did. Maybe you'd have had to be there, but… Never mind. Anyway, earlier tonight, I went to look for her. I couldn't stand it. Especially when we got paired together for that Potions project.

Anyway, I purposely bumped into her in the hall, and then I followed her to the Astronomy Tower. I'm not sure why she was going there in the first place, other than it's an Astronomy Tower. But there we were… talking. And she was so close, you know. And there was no one around…. So… It just feels so right. Being with her, you know. It's like nothing else matters and I don't have to worry about anything. So, we started talking and everything. And she cried a little… And I… Um, yeah. But then, she just, and I, and we. And there's nothing I can do about it because I already screwed up before and she won't forgive me."

"Wow." James said under his breath.

"Yeah, wow." Peter nodded, his eyes slightly wider than normal.

Remus frowned and shook his head. "Are you sure that's what happened, Sirius? I mean, because –"

"What do you mean, am I sure that's what happened?!" Sirius shouted. "Of course I'm sure that's what happened you idiot!"

"Whoa, just calm down Padfoot." James said slowly.

Remus nodded at James, then turned back to Sirius. "I meant, because that sound so… so…"

"Bizarre?" James suggested and Remus nodded.

Sirius rolled his eyes. "Whatever." He mumbled. "Does anyone have any rope? I'm going to hang myself."

Peter gasped but James and Remus exchanged a look before James chuckled. "Sirius," he began. "I'm sure that Lily is off talking to Lily right now. She's probably just as messed up as you are." Lada tightened her hold on the sleeve of Remus's nightshirt.

"I doubt that…" Peter mumbled as he watched Sirius glare at his hazel-eyed friend.

Sirius shrugged. "Where's the map?" He said suddenly. "Give me the map, where's the map? Can someone get me that damned map?!"

Remus shrugged out of Lada's hold and pulled the Marauders' Map out of James's trunk before scooting closer towards the others and opening the parchment carefully. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." He whispered, pointing his wand to the parchment.

"Where's Lily?" James asked quickly, ignoring Sirius's loud growl of protest.

Remus felt Lada lean on him once more. "What is that thing?" She whispered in his ear so that the others wouldn't hear. He raised his eyebrows. Better not let them see the map. He thought. They'll see Lada and throw a fit. "She's outside." Remus said, in answer to James's question. "By the lake. She's alone, actually."

"Faylinn?" James said, glaring back at Sirius as the gray-eyed boy snarled at him.

Remus's brow furrowed. "She's outside, too. But nowhere near Lily." He shrugged. "Maybe she's looking for her? Wait a minute…"

The other three boys sat impatiently, staring at Remus. "WHAT?!" They shouted together after a few moments of silence.

"She's headed to the forest." Remus said with a frown.

"Why would she go to the forest?" James scowled. "It's dangerous in there."

"She was born there." Remus and Sirius said at the same time.

Lada bit her lip. "Fascinating…" She whispered lowly.

Peter shrugged. "So maybe she's just stopping by for a visit?"

"Hey, who's Helen Edison?" Lada whispered to Remus as she looked at the dots on the map.

James shook his head and opened his mouth to speak when he was interrupted by a loud gasp from Remus.

"What now?!" Sirius exclaimed.

"She's being followed!" Remus practically shouted.

"BY WHO?!" The other three boys screamed, struggling to see the map.

"Helen Edison, it seems." Remus said, rubbing his chin, his frown deepening as he positioned the map away from his friends. He couldn't let them see Lada.

Sirius let out a low sigh. "Oh, her? No big deal, Moony. She's Lily's friend, right?" He managed a small smirk. "You had me thinking the Dark Lord was after her or something."

"Or worse!" Peter piped up, giggling. "Snivellus!" And he and Sirius clutched at their stomachs, snickering madly.

"YOU GUYS!" James yelled to shut them up.

"What?" They said in unison.

"Helen is Lily's friend." James whispered. "Not Faylinn's."

Remus nodded. "She doesn't know what Faylinn is."

"Shit. Let's go." Sirius said, scrambling off of his bed. The other followed frantically, racing out of the room.

Lada grabbed onto Remus's hand in the hallway. "What's going on?" She hissed quietly.

"No time." He whispered, wriggling out of her grasp and running after his friends.

Lada growled under her breath and clenched her fists at her sides. "Here we go." She shrugged and ran after the boys before they were out of her sight.


::AN:: I'd planned on adding more to this chapter, but I feel I must update, like, NOW. Many of you know what's going to happen next, but that's okay. The cool part is that you don't know what Lada's going to do, as she wasn't in 'The New Girl.' ::laughs evilly:: Anyways, I'm so sorry that it took me so long to update. But thanks for sticking with me, and please review!