A couple of days later, Remus and Hero were talking during transfiguration.

"What do we even use this spell for anyway?" Remus asked her.

"Why, to do evil things of course!"

He laughed and then his smile faltered. "You're not serious are you?"

"Of course not! Do I look like a manslut to you? I would think you of all people would know the difference. It's so disappointing."

"Well, not a man slut…"

"Hey!" she wacked him on the back of his head.

"I relent! I was joking."

"You better have been..." she threatened.

"Of course I was. I wouldn't say that about you. Honestly."

Hero got an evil glint in her eyes. "I'm gonna make you pay for that little comment, anyway."

"I'm scared now." His voice had a slightly sarcastic tone to it.

"You better be. What's your next class?"

"What does that have to do with anything? Weren't we talking about what your payback was?"

"Just humor me." she said with a roll of her eyes.

"Muggle studies."

"Hmm," She said as she leaned back in her chair. She put her hand on her chin in the thinking position.

Remus raised his eyebrows. "Should I be worried?"

"Not yet."

"What's your next class?"

"Why?"

"Humor me."

Hero narrowed her eyes again. "And why would I want to do that?"

"Why don't you tell me the answer to that?"

"Divination."

"See that wasn't so hard. Are you still going to answer your question? Because I'm curious about what the answer is."

"No."

McGonagall dismissed the class before the conversation got any farther. Hero packed her bag and left for her next class. She thought she was sage from the conversation, but Remus wasn't going to give up that easily. He started to walk with her to the divination classroom, and she was about ready to hit her head on a wall in frustration.

"Don't you have somewhere else to be like muggle studies?"

"I have plenty of time to get there. Is the answer really that embarrassing?"

"Yes! You know what? I'm gonna make you carry around my books until I've had enough. That is for your earlier comment." She thrust all her books into his unsuspecting arms.

Hero started to walk away and then she walked back and took a book from the stack. Remus smiled. "Have fun," She whispered and stalked away. It wasn't until she was in class that she realized what she had done.

While she walked to her class, Sirius finally found Remus. When he saw the stack of books, he started laughing.

"What did you do to get stuck with those, mate?"

"Let's just say that I said the wrong thing to a certain someone."

"And you're happy about this?" Sirius asked, shocked by his friend's happy smile.

"Yup. If I'm carrying her books, then I'm going to see a lot more of her."

"You're a tricky one, aren't you? I knew there was a reason that I am friends with you."

Hero finally caught up with Remus after class. She hesitated before going over to him, seeing he was with James, Peter, and Sirius. It didn't stop her like it usually would. She was determined to get her books back.

"I take back my punishment. Give me my books back."

"You can't take it back. It's my punishment and I'm enjoying it."

"Fine then I at least have my herbology book back?"

"What do you need that for? There wasn't any homework in that class."

Hero rolled her eyes. She found that she did that quite a bit around Remus. "I left something in it. Now give it!"

"Wait here and I'll go get it."

"You hid them!" she accused at the top of her voice as he walked away.

"How did he get stuck with your books?" James asked her.

"Long story."

"We have time."

She sighed. "Fine. I'll just say, it started with Black over there," Sirius Black waved when she said his name, "then went to sluts - well man sluts to be specific, and then it went to me."

"So let me get this straight, Remus, our Remus Lupin called you a … a slut?" James asked her clearly confused and mortified at the same time.

"He was joking though!" she tried to defend him.

"But he still said that?"

"What's going on? I'm gone for like 5 seconds and you guys are already arguing." Remus had finally arrived with the herbology book.

"They were just discussing how you got stuck with Hero's books." Sirius told him, trying to make the conversation get even more interesting.

"She said that she thought I just needed some more exercise, right?"

"See, I knew you didn't call Hero a slut!" James told him.

"You actually told them?" Remus accused Hero.

"They drew their own conclusions. I can't help it if they drew the right one!" she tried to defend herself.

"You seriously called her that!" Sirius asked and was now mortified.

"I did not! I just said that she wasn't a manslut."

"Your just digging yourself in deeper now. Just give me my book and shut up." She put her hand out gesturing Remus to give her the book.

"But what fun would he have in that?" James asked her.

"Not much, but it would benefit him in the future.

"How would he benefit?"

Hero thought it over before answering. "Well, I'm not sure of the end punishment but if he doesn't give me my herbology book and shut up, I'm sure I can use all the painful and unique punishments that I know on him."

She gestured for her book back. Remus took her advice and put the book in her hand without saying a word. She left them in the Great Hall to go to her dorm room in the girl's dormitory. While she walked away James thought to himself, "I never thought Hero was like that. She's changed. That mousey, little girl is gone and she might cause more trouble than we do. Hmm…that won't do." He looked at Remus. "And it looks like she has Moony whipped. That can't be good."

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A few weeks later, Hero sat in the library during dinner. It was one week away from the full moon, and she was trying to get ahead in her classes and write letters at the same time. She was writing to her granddad and her mum. Hero wasn't entirely sure it was sane for her to be writing her mum, since she was dead, but she was tortured by the things she wished that she had said to her mum, and decided to put them on paper.

Her mind wandered back to the times when her mum would chase away the monsters under her bed. Little, 5-year-old Hero would beg her mum to stay with her because the monsters would come back in her dreams.

"Well that simply won't do," Her mum told her as she tucked her into bed. "You want to know the secret to getting rid of them?" she nodded to her mum. Her mum pointed to the dream catcher that she had hung over Hero's bed. "You see that dream catcher? Well, it will get rid of those horrible, nasty monsters, but you must do one thing: you must not dream of puppies."

"But how do I not dream of puppies?" Hero asked her mum.

"You must repeat 'I will not dream of puppies' over and over." She would dream of puppies, but there would be no monsters in her dreams.

Hero started crying. She thought to her mum, "I wish you were here to chase away my monsters in this world."

She was startled when someone came up behind her. She looked up to see Remus sitting down beside her, and, other than the two of them, the library was empty. She could see concern in his eyes, but couldn't stop the tears.

"Are you okay?" he asked her.

"No," Hero didn't feel like lying and trying to act okay, she just wanted to cry. She hadn't cried when her parents died. This was the first time that she cried over their deaths. "I miss her."

"Who?"

"My mum."

"Where is she?" He asked, hoping that she would be out on an extended trip and could write, but he knew that it wouldn't be true.

"She's dead." She choked out.

Remus pulled her into his arms and let her cry. She cried for a few minutes before she gained control of herself. She stayed in his arms, though.

"How long?" he asked her softly when he realized that she was done crying.

"Nine years. She died when I was 7. My dad died shortly afterwards."

He didn't say anything. His only reaction was to tighten his arms around her and to try to comfort her. After a few minutes, she pulled away. She ran her fingers through her hair to clam herself and to make sure it covered her scar. Despite the effort, Remus caught a brief glimpse. He just figured that it was from some childhood accident.

"I should get some work done." She broke the silence and turned towards her books.

"Do you mind if I study with you?"

"Nope."

The rest of the week, Hero acted like the night in the library never happened. Remus took his cue from her. He wanted to talk about it but knew that she didn't. The days were just like the ones before the library, and soon the full moon hit them.

Remus was just leaving when he thought he saw someone in the hallway. He immediately thought of Hero, but shook his head. He decided that it was just his imagination. If there really was someone walking around, it probably wasn't Hero.

Hero noticed someone behind her and hurried to her hiding place in the attic. She hoped the person behind her didn't see her. After she jumped on the trap door, she hung the rope ladder where she couldn't get it as a werewolf. As soon as Remus reached the Shrieking Shack with his friends, the moon transformed him into a werewolf. Even in their werewolf form, they were surprised to hear each other's calls.

When Remus was in human form again, he began to freak out. At first he thought about the figure in the hallway, but then all he could think was, "There's another werewolf at Hogwarts."