~Hello everyone! Now then I know it's been some time since my last update and I apologize for that we've been having internet issues so I haven't been able to get on at home and my school has the site blocked so I can not connect to it there either but hopefully now I can update normally. I also apologize for casting the werewolf kingdom aside for those of you who were wishing for more from that side.~

Chapter 5, In the Light of the Moon.

*Lumos*

"If you move you'll never see light again."

Remus froze at the sound of the voice and his heart thudded in his ears but some how he could hear Maggie's muffled screams from somewhere behind him, he caught a glimpse of light before his eyes were covered by fabric and he was forced to his feet then out the door as the sounds of the early afternoon sounded around him, cicadas buzzing and the wind in the trees blew the smell of wild grass over him and then came Maggie's screams as she was led outside his blood ran cold as the little girl started crying for him and Dora but he knew even if Dora was in hearing range there was little she could do with the sun out full force according to the warmth on his skin, he jerked his hand in an attempt to get it free but found they were bound by a rope and after a few minutes of trying to get free of the rope he stopped hearing Maggie's screams stop all at once but before his mind could figure anything there was a heavy blow to the back of his neck and his mind shut off.

When he woke he was laying on the stone floor of a cellar beside him shaking and sobbing was Maggie and in front of him pacing the floor was Lilly her red hair a flame in the dark enclosure, she paused hearing him move to sit up causing Maggie to fling her self at him clinging tight as he held her.

"What happened, Lilly what are you doing here?"

Lilly looked at him over her shoulder before with a sigh she walked over to him.

"You're father sent members to find you he thought your just run off somewhere in the territory but then he found out you had Maggie and that you were living with Dora but the mark on your shoulder did it Lucy threw a fit about it and demanded you and Maggie he kept away from the pack that you two were dangerous for talking with vampires."

Remus clenched his jaw and softly rocked Maggie trying to stop her shaking as Lilly began pacing again watching the door up the stairs and after some time their were foot steps above them and Lilly paused looking up the stairs and the door opened enough for two men to push someone through, Lilly quickly moved to the middle of the stairs and caught the person around the middle carefully backing down and as he watched she laid Dora on the ground making his heart stop for a moment as he took in the pale pink mark on her forehead and his eyes moved to her chest looking for the rise and fall and to his relief it was doing just that as Lilly moved her bangs from her face looking at the mark.

"W-why did they being her here tonight?"

Remus listened to his words as they left his mouth though they sounded strangled and for the first time he knew why his bones were beginning to ache and a horrible heat was starting to wash over him in waves, Lilly looked at him her green eyes cold as stone and her face void of expression.

"They are hopping we will take care of her for them so the pack won't have to dirty their hands or in tonight's case their paws."

Remus' heart plugged so deep into his stomach his hand moved to his chest to make sure it hadn't fallen to the floor as Lilly sat on the floor away from them her back to the wall a red flush covering her cheeks as sweat glittered on her brow, the moon was beginning to rise outside their bodies were telling them so as he felt the heat raise through his skin from his bones and Maggie whimpered curling in on herself.

It didn't seem like long after the sound of all three of their bones snapping and reforming filled the cellar along with Maggie's screams of pain that turned quickly to howls from a snow white wolf the only non white place on the small female was over her left ear that was brown but so faint it was hard to see, across the room Lilly's muffled whines turned into whimpers from a red brown female wolf nearly twice the size of the white wolf both shaking their heads as if a bad smell had filled their noses as they paced circles around Dora their actions, however, stopped when a ear splitting growl came from the now large brown male wolf that had taken Remus' place, he was nearly three times the size of Lilly and his fur was the color of chocolate his amber eyes trained on the older female who had taken back to pacing around him and Dora.

Hearing the sounds around her Dora forced her eyes open and quickly sat up looking around her then freezing as she came eye to eye with the large male wolf, a scream built in her chest but was strangled in her throat so she was shaking her eyes locked on the large amber ones watching her she forced herself to look away to the two females the older red brown wolf had stopped pacing and was watching her with the fur on the back of her neck standing on end but the smaller white female was looking around the large male her tail wagging ever so slightly like a happy puppy, a growl from the male made her look back to him watching as he turned his back to her with a huff as he now faced the older female his teeth bared as her growls turned to whimpers and she shrunk away to the wall he then returned and got close enough Dora could feel his breath as he sniffed at her after a moment of sniffing at her he lightly nudged her cheek with his nose making her look at him surprised.

"R-Remus?"

The wolf bowed his head as if answering her before he lightly guided her hand with his muzzle to a spot on his shoulder where her fingers could feel the bite mark through his fur, she felt herself relax as her hand stroked the corse brown fur making Remus snort and sit before laying down though surprisingly to her he was still large enough that she didn't need to bend down to pet his head, she looked to the white wolf who had moved to Remus' side her tail wagging faster before she pounced knocking them to the ground licking Dora's face making her laugh.

"Okay okay Maggie down sweetie!"

The female yipped but let her up as she went to Remus moving so her front paws were on his back her back paws barely touching the ground as she tugged playfully at his ear though he acted as though she wasn't there apart from a gentle paw to the head if she bit to hard, Dora turned around her eyes falling on the red brown female who was eyeing her cautiously.

"Lilly?"

The wolf paused in her growling to get to her feet before she walked to her glancing at Remus now again though he seemed less interested as he laid his head on his paws letting Maggie nip at his tail playfully as it moved, the red brown female moved carefully closer sniffing once she was close enough and after a moment she nudged Dora's hand as Remus had done before going to Maggie nudging her away from Remus who seemed to be growing annoyed before suddenly everything moved at once faster that even Dora could see, the door was ripped open and all three wolves were surrounding her as if to protect her and after another second Sirius was standing at the bottom of the stairs looking between the three wolves and Dora trying to register what he was seeing and in that time James had joined him but he didn't pause to make heads or tails of what was happening as he went to Lilly's wolf who growled for a moment until he showed he wasn't going to back down even as she snarled at him then she looked him over her nature shifting as she went to him rubbing against him nearly hard enough to knock him over.

"Nymphie come away from there slowly, your mother is waiting upstairs please."

Dora looked at her cousin as he nearly begged her to move away from Remus and Maggie who was now standing in front of her growling.

"No I won't Sirius they won't hurt me."

As if to prove her point she went to Remus and hid her face in the fur of his neck making him look at her his growls subsiding as he watched her peek at Sirius who was watching dumbfounded by his cousin's action as if it were a kind of attack on their kind.

"N-Nymphie how-when- how did you take that werewolf?"

Dora looked at him keeping a hand on Remus as she looked at her cousin.

"I took him as my mate, I did not take him it is his choice to let me do this he could rip me apart right now if he wished but he won't."

As if in agreement Remus' wolf nudged her cheek softly and she gave a small smile before placing a kiss to his nose then looking sternly at Sirius again.

"Take mother and go, I'm not leaving them take Lilly to if she wants to go but I'm staying with Maggie and Remus."

Sirius starred at her at a loss for words until Andromeda spoke from the top of the stairs.

"Sirius James come along things are under control now leave them be."

James looked at Lilly who bowed her head and fallowed him up the stairs but Sirius hesitated looking at Dora who was watching him stone faced as if daring him to try and make her leave the two wolves beside her before he too went up the stairs, Dora sighed resting her head on Remus' shoulder making him look at her and whine nudging her cheek.

"I'm alright love they caught me in the middle of feeding."

He nudged her again lightly pushing her with his shoulder so she was closer to the stairs it took her a moment to understand he was telling her to leave ahead of him and Maggie, she climbed the stairs and once through the door way looked around seeing they were outside the sounds of the night filling the air, a soft wind blowing through the trees, crickets chirping the soft beat of dozens and dozens of bat wings as they flew in a great cloud across the moon.

She turned around to see Remus helping Maggie out the door before he came to her side nudging her before he laid down looking at her she looked confused for a moment until Maggie nudged her other side and she understood and carefully got on Remus' back holding tight to him as he stood up again and the ground under her feet vanished it amazed her how far from the ground she was on his back knowing he stood taller than her on all fours as it was, once she was on he began running into the trees weaving easily through them as Maggie, a streak of white in the dark area, fallowed closely by his side her ears flat in an effort to keep up.

After a few minutes of running Remus slowed to a trot before stopping and laying down so she could get off looking around she seen they were less then a few hundred feet from London, she looked at Remus as he nudged her back with his nose inching her forward before he turned away to Maggie guiding her in the opposite way glancing back at her and giving a whine.

"I'll be back at the house before dawn, I don't have my cloak so I won't be long."

He bowed his head before leading Maggie away she sighed and stepped into the London streets dodging cars as she crossed the street heading into the heart of the city, she ducked into a bathroom and pulled a change of clothes from a hidden spot behind a lose stone and exited the bathroom now in a close fit black dress and boots that reached her knee leaving an inch or so gap between their tops and the bottom of her dress, she was placing diamond studs in her ear lobes as she walked into the dark alley to her left and it wasn't long before she came across a small pub with a few men standing outside, she quickly put on crimson red lipstick before walking past making the men stop in their rather loud conversation to look at her and just as she'd hoped with a backwards glance and a wink one of them, a young male with long black hair and blue eyes, handed his bottle over to the man by his side and fallowed her as she turned right into an abandoned alley that had only a single light, she smirked before looking around as if she were lost before turning to face the young man who was looking at her as if he were seeing some gloriously beautiful creature.

"Are you lost Pet?"

She gave a small smile hearing the man's slurred words as he came closer to her so only a few feet separated them.

"Yes sir I am, I was on my way home and got lost."

The young man smirked stepping close to her his clammy hand brushing her cheek before she let herself be forced against the brick wall the young mans hand at her throat, she didn't make an attempt to fight back but looked slightly surprised as his eyes took in every inch of her before his free hand began to reattach up the bottom of her dress making her give a fake gasp then a trilling laugh that made him freeze then gasp in horror as she grabbed his throat and pinned him to the wall, his eyes were filled with terror as he looked over her face as she smirked at him.

"Aww don't be frightened 'Pet' this won't hurt more than a moment."

The young man let out a scream but it was cut off as she sunk her fangs into his neck draining him quickly and letting him slide to the ground as she whipped her mouth of any blood feeling a bit woozy from the alcohol in his blood as she walked back down the alley and past the other men who were looking behind her for the young male then at her as they didn't see him.

She looked at a clock mounted to a wall outside a restraint and sighed seeing there were a few more hours until dawn but her body was telling her she needed to keep feeding as her throat burned and tightened as a young mother passed her with a small child, she forced herself away from the people in the main streets of the city and back into the darkened alleys where she quickly found pray in a drunk man advancing himself forcefully on a girl who was screaming for help.

She forced the man away from the girl who ran away at once without a glance back and as soon as she was out of sight she finished off the drunk letting his body slide to the ground like the first before she slipped out of the alley a different way exiting London into the trees where she moved as fast as she could racing the now grey sky until she reached the house and shut herself inside her head reeling from the alcohol the men had in their blood as she went to the couch and laid down covering her head with her arms as the sun rose outside.

After awhile she was being woken by the sound of the door opening and closing and as she moved her hand she found Maggie and Remus trying to sneak upstairs until Remus seen her move to sit up, he sent Maggie upstairs watching the little girl trudge sleepily up them and out of sight while he came to the back of the couch.

"Are you alright Dora?"

She nodded sitting on her knees and throwing her arms around his neck making him chuckle and lift her and hold her close as she closed her eyes to stop the spinning room.

"Are you sure? You act like your on a hang over."

She groaned hiding her face in his shoulder.

"Yeah bad choice in blood I picked the two with way to much alcohol in them."

She had no more then finished speaking before she pulled away to look at herself and her eyes widened seeing she was still in her other outfit, Remus fallowed her gaze and a blush covered his cheeks as he took in the outfit before she hid her face again in his shoulder.

"God I was so woozy I didn't change back out of this, bad as it sounds I wear this to lead men on that would force themselves on any girl with a pretty face it's rare when I just pick someone from the street doing it the way I do makes me feel like less of a monster."

He held her close and carried her up the stairs as she drifted in and out of sleep.

"I don't think I could ever think of you as a monster."

She barely remembered hearing these words before she slipped into a dreamless infinity, Remus laid her on the bed as she fell asleep and smiled placing a kiss to her forehead before going into the bathroom and filling the tub with warm water, he had just closed his eyes when the sound of feet tip toeing across the floor than the water being disturbed made him open them an blush madly seeing Dora slip into the tub beside his feet, he opened his mouth to ask what she was doing but before he could she closed her eyes relaxing into the warm water before she looked up at him with a small smile her eyes apologetic in a way he couldn't be mad at or refuse.

She relaxed in the water but after seeing Remus close his eyes she smirked and moved so she was straddling his stomach leaning close so their faces were inches apart making him blush again but wrap his arms around her waist, she moved so her lips brushed his neck and shoulder though she didn't miss him flinch slightly making her look up at him.

Remus thought she'd be hurt that he'd flinched away from her but instead she was smiling in an understanding way and whispered into his ear her breath ghosting over his skin.

"Don't worry I won't bite, like that any way."

The purr in her voice sent a shiver through him and he watched in a daze as she slid back to her end of the tub and under the water, he could feel her hands still on his chest before his body was over come by pleasure and his mind couldn't get a grasp on anything through the blissful haze until it thinned for a moment as she came up from the water and kissed him deeply her cool fingers leaving goose bumps on his skin even in the warm water as he held her close kissing her neck and shoulder.

The water in the tub had become much cooler than before as she laid on top of him her head on his shoulder and her breath slightly winded as she closed her eyes while his hands ran over her back his heart slowing down steadily as the flush began to leave his cheeks, he glanced at Dora and seen he had left two marks on her skin one just bellow her collar bone and another on her neck, the marks looked exactly like hackies that were nearly gone but they were there against her ivory skin.

She sighed as her breathing became normal once more moving so she was sitting lightly on his stomach looking down at him.

"The waters gone cold even to me, we should get out so you don't catch cold."

He was about to protest but she had already gotten out and was wrapping a towel around herself and looking over her reflection in the mirror sighing at her hair as it hung lank and tangled, he got out and wrapped a towel around himself letting the water out of the tub before going to her wrapping his arms around her making her smile.

"Why do you put make up on love your beautiful as you are."

She rolled her eyes rubbing away the trail of smudged eyeliner from her cheek.

"Vampires are naturally appealing to humans of the opposite sex but like most girls we can get discouraged if we see someone more beautiful than us human or other wise then there's me who just likes the human aspect of putting on make up to hide things."

He looked at her reflection and now could see her cheek bones were appearing slightly higher than they looked without her make up and her eyes were a bit rounder than the common almond shape most girls had, her eyelashes were long and not black but deep brown and on her right eyebrow there was a scar that cut through the tail end of it.

"I was 5 and my hair had begun to turn pink so some kid called me a freak and threw a stone at me, hit me right in the head course it healed by the time I had come back to the house but it left this."

She ran her fingers over the scar as he looked down at her.

"Your hair is this color naturally?!"

She looked up at him and giggled hearing his shock.

"Corse it is, it was brown when I was born but mum says by the time I was five the brown had mixed with a red genie in her family line and blonde on my father's side and made it turn an odd pinkish magenta it's been this way ever since and nothing covers it I've even tried dying it and it would wash out that night like the pink is a wax like coating keeping color out."

She smiled and ran a brush through her hair as he held her close looking at her reflection she glanced up fallowing his eyes to her cheek bones and he heard her give a low growl.

"I get high cheek bones from by damned aunts, those two women from before, Bellatrix the dark haired one and Narcissa the blonde, and I hate them they make me look to much like my aunts even mum said when I was younger I looked like Bellatrix when she was young."

She shuddered looking into the mirror and a soft smile came over her lips.

"I could never hate my eyes though, they come from a combination of my father's shape and my mother's family eye color the entire line of my mother's family has grey eyes they say it's because the Black family is descended from the first vampires."

He kissed her head making her giggle and turn so her head was on his chest the top if her head fitting nicely under his chin as he chuckled lifting her bridal style and carrying her back to their room where he laid her on the bed though she got up and dug in the closet for a moment before coming back in a pair of pale blue shorts and a borrowed t-shirt of his making him smile and kiss her cheek before getting himself dressed, when he came back to the bed she was laying down her eyes half opened as she looked at the ceiling.

"If you're tired you can sleep love, it's still ear-"

He hadn't got the chance to finish speaking before she quickly got up and grabbed her cloak and a needle with red thread and quickly finished something that was on the breast of the cloak, as he looked he could see her sewing the letters that spelled out Forbidden and on the hood was a stitched on outline of a wolf head the shoulder had a stitched on paw print as well, he watched as she cut the thread and examined her work nodding then looking at him with a small smile.

"Forbidden, that's what vampires will call a couple like you and I or James and Lilly, if a female vampire has this on her cloak it's like a scarlet letter to others it's a bit cruel but true and it's not that big a deal."

He sat beside her on the bed looking over the cloak before he kissed her head as she rested it on his shoulder with a small yawn.

"Sleep love."

She tried to fight her heavy eye lids but soon was asleep nuzzled into him as he laid with her rubbing her back as she slept unaware he had fallen asleep himself until the jarring of the bed woke him and made him open his eyes to see Maggie's outline crawling into bed between him and Dora where she laid down nuzzling close to Dora who smiled half awake and held the girl close before going back to sleep, a glance at the clock told Remus it was just past 9 at night though he wasn't surprised he and Maggie were sleeping so much after a full moon but he shrugged it off and let himself fall back asleep.

Remus opened his eyes and found he was no longer in the bed or even on the bedroom but in the hallway outside the bedroom's closed door on the other side he could hear Dora's whimpers of pain and beside him Maggie, who looked older than before, looked worried as she moved away to sit on the top stair while he looked back to the door as Dora gave a small scream and he felt his heart break into a sprint along with urge to break open the door until a small sound made everything else vanish, a small and tiny baby cry came from the other side of the door made everything melt away then Lilly's voice came in a soft tone.

"It's a boy."

Dora's winded chuckle came next and the crying stopped and was replaced by a gargled cooing like sound.

"A little boy, he looks just like his father."

Remus was frozen his mind was racing to keep up with what was going on and how he had suddenly became a father, Maggie heard the sound of the door open and hurried back to his side as Lilly pulled the door open a soft smile on her face.

"Quite now he's just gone to sleep."

She stepped aside to let him and Maggie in, Maggie went to the bed side and stood beside Dora who was showing her a small bundle of blue she held in her arms, she glanced away from Maggie to Remus as he took a numb step into the room but came no farther as he looked at the scene before him.

"Remus? Why are you standing back there?"

He met Dora's eyes and felt himself thaw and his legs carry him to her other side making her smile softly and once he sat on the bed she carefully handed him the small bundle.

"Careful mind his head."

He held the small infant carefully looking down into the face that looked like a perfect combination of Dora and himself, the child's hair was a soft brown but the eyes that fluttered open at being moved from Dora's arms were completely and undoubtedly Dora's being the same stormy grey as they looked around with innocent curiosity, Remus' heart swelled as he looked at the baby in his arms and he smiled feeling Dora rest her head on his shoulder her finger lightly stroking the baby's palm until with a gargled babble the child closed his tiny fist around her finger making her chuckle.

"What's his name?"

Remus tore his eyes away from the newborn baby to Lilly who had sat at the foot of the bed with a toddler with unruly jet black hair and glasses standing by her legs looking at the new parents, Remus looked to Dora who was still looking at the baby as he fell asleep.

"Edward Remus Lupin."

Remus wondered if he looked surprised as he felt as Dora looked up at him with a soft smile.

"Edward after my father and Remus after you love."

He felt himself smile and place a kiss to her head looking back at the baby in his arms his heart swelling again, Remus had closed his eyes for a moment when again everything changed he was now standing outside the bedroom door but he wasn't hearing Dora's whimpers or screams this time but rather hushed voices when suddenly he felt a tug on his sleeve that made him look away to be met with Maggie who had to be at least 12 now holding a little boy no more than 2 in her arms his little hand on Remus sleeve and his grey eyes watery as if he'd been crying, swallowing a lump in his throat he took the boy into his arms holding him as he clung to him in a way Dora normally would.

The door opened a moment later making him look up and met the eyes of Lilly who looked paler than ever her eyes were heartbroken as she pursed her lips and stepped aside to let him in and as he took a step into the room his heart fell and shattered into a million pieces on the floor, lying on the bed looking as though she'd been through hell and back was Dora, she was paler than he had ever seen her eyes were blood shot and red tears rolled down her cheeks as she looked at the blanket covering her legs her hands sitting lifeless and ghost like in her lap as he sat beside her letting their son down to crawl into his mother's lap where her arms lifted and embraced him the red tears flowing faster as Remus put his arm over her, he wasn't sure he wanted to know what had happened this time to cause a reaction like this from the normally steel willed Dora but it appeared he was going to find out anyway as Lilly came back into to he room with a very small pink blanket, he could tell there was something wrapped in it but he dare not ask what as she shakily handed the blanket over to Dora looking at the floor as Dora's sobs came faster and harsher, he held her close as she would allow feeling his heart break knowing he couldn't help in many other ways.

Remus' eyes flew open as he bolted up right panting looking around the room his eyes falling on Dora's sleeping form beside him along with Maggie's as the darkness poorer in from outside he looked at the clock and seen it was three in the morning a soft noise made him look down at Dora seeing she had her eyes open and was watching him as she sat up looking concerned.

"Remus you okay?"

He took a moment to calm himself and nodded as she carefully moved Maggie to the center of the bed and laid herself beside him a hand to his cheek as she pulled him back down looking into not only his eyes but his very being.

"What happened? Bad dream?"

He looked over her face debating about weather to tell her but decided against it nodding and holding her close closing his eyes.

"Yeah but I'm okay now nothing to worry about, try to go back to sleep love."

She nuzzled close to him but he wasn't sure if she'd fallen asleep before he had fallen asleep again but his mind stayed clear of the nightmares to his relief as he held her close through the black and dreamless sleep until a single image came into his head, him dressed in his best holding Dora who was in a white wedding gown and a vail both smiling happily their hands interlaced showing off the golden wedding bands on their fingers as a soft music box song played.

*Nox*