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Silver Moon Megami: Thanks for your review girl. Like always …You're not useless? News to me ::sticks out tongue:: And I know Dallas is DAMN SEXY. Can you get on my case to finish that drawing? Or it probably never will be ::whistles innocently:: Yeah, I liked the term Wolf Moon. I read it in another fic somewhere, can't remember which one, but it stuck in my brain. And yes ::sighs:: here's the full moon. Not like you don't know what's going to happen anyway. Except that I haven't told you how Remus becomes a werewolf yet. I like taunting you ;P Yes, everyone seems to be commenting on that line of mine. I don't know where it came from…do I ever? ::grins:: I think that you'll get quite the shock from this chapter. Yes, I'll shock you…even though I've told you almost everything about this fic.

Atiannala: Thanks for your review. I'm guessing that college is getting to you a bit with the work load, you hardly update anymore. You know you're the only one that mentioned Orion's growing friendship with Severus. Didn't you just love that mental image of Severus sleeping and drooling in class…woe betide the poor student who does that in his class now. Lol. Well talk to you later.

SilverBlue Shifter: Thanks for your review. Yes, there was ink one Sevi's face. Poor bastard…I love him. Lol. And yes. Poor poor Remus. I'm so mean lol.

Insaneiac the Maniac: Thanks for your review…and about bloody time MK. I could grow old waiting for you to review…and I thought we were friends ::cries:: Ok, enough with the guilt trip bit…sorry. And don't tease my Remus…or I'll explain things very clearly for you later…stop gagging/screaming…stop glaring at me too…I mean it! lol. And as to the calm before the storm crap…HELL YA. This chapter is sooooo deep. And remember when I said that Orion was loyal during her sorting…you see a bit of that this chapter.

And now onwards with my next chapter…

Moonlight Sonata

By: dragonsprincess

Chapter Six: The Wolf Moon

Remus led Orion down a corridor that was near the Great Hall, and down a few stairs, before he stopped at a humble portrait of a bowl of fruit. He flashed a warm smile at Orion, then told her to tickle the pear.

Orion looked at Remus as though he'd gone crazy. "Tickle a pear?" She said in disbelief. "What's the point of tickling a pear, on a portrait, in the middle of a hallway? I thought that you were taking me to the kitchens."

Remus chuckled, and flashed the girl on his arm a smile. "Fine," he said. "Don't trust me, I've just been attending this school for four years, but I'm sure that you know more about it than I do."

Orion raised an eyebrow, giving Remus a rather dubious look. "Fine," she said. Then reached out to tickle the pear, wondering if she'd just been set up for some sort of joke. She pressed her finger to the painted fruit and started to tickle it. She was surprised when the pear started to dance and wiggle at her touch. She watched in suppressed awe as the painting swung open, revealing a rather large room with four long tables side by side. Orion quickly realized that she was in a room, that was the exact size of the Great Hall, which she now knew was right above her. She giggled as she watched plateful upon plateful of food disappear through the tables. The mystery of how her food had suddenly appeared in front of her the previous night was now solved.

Orion looked down when she felt a small tug at her skirt. She saw a cute little house elf with big brown eyes, floppy ears and button-like nose looking up at her and Remus.

"Would the Miss and Sir like something to eat or drink?" The small creature asked in its high pitched voice, "Some tea perhaps?"

Orion looked at Remus. He was smiling at her, a smile that made Orion remember just how cute this Gryffindor really was. Remus then looked at the elf, "Whatever is easiest for you to get us would be fine," he said.

Orion nodded to the little elf, "A glass of milk would be great if you could manage it," she said. The elf bowed to Orion, then to Remus, and scampered off to get their food.

Remus took Orion's hand, an idea springing to his mind. Remus led her to a corner of the kitchen that would be out of the working elves way, then took off his cloak, laying it on the ground. "Let's make a picnic out of this," he said. That smile playing at the corners of his lips again.

"A picnic indoors, Remus?" Orion asked incredulously.

"Sure," Remus said, once again grinning like an idiot. "Why not?"

Orion rolled her eyes, barely managing to suppress a giggle; this boy was definitely one of a kind.

Plopping herself gracefully down on Remus' cloak, Orion looked up at the boy in question. "So, what did you want to talk to me about that couldn't wait till after classes?" Orion watched in amusement as Remus' cheeks took on the lovely quality of an apple.

Remus looked at Orion, not exactly sure how to tell her what he'd done. "Well…" he started. "I… uhhh… well I kind of made a total ass out of myself. And now I'm avoiding my friends until I can come up with a good explanation for what I said."

Orion raised an eyebrow. "Remus, what exactly did you say?" She watched in sadistic glee as Remus' face reddened even more.

Remus gave one last little squirm before he sat down opposite of Orion, then started telling her about how he was thinking about how he was going to tell her how to get into the Shrieking Shack. And about how James had prodded him, and then what he'd said…

"And then," Remus said, flailing his arms around wildly. "I just had to say 'I'm sorry, it's too small'."

Orion looked at Remus blankly for a few seconds, then burst out laughing. That was the best thing she'd heard in a long time.

Remus and Orion ate their lunches with no interruptions, talking about things that they'd done in the past, the typical things that two acquaintances talk about which turns them into friends. The talk however, soon turned to the one thing that they knew that they had in common, the fact that they were both Loup-garou.

Remus and Orion had set out a date and time when Remus would show her how to get into the Shrieking Shack. They'd meet again this Thursday and go to the little house.

Remus was talking about how being a werewolf had been quite the plus in third year when they'd been studying them in Defense Against the Dark Arts…the substitute they'd had on the day had found it amazing that a thirteen year old could know that much about werewolves.

"Remus," Orion said out of the blue. "How…how did you receive your bite? How did you become a werewolf?"

The sandy-haired Gryffindor looked at her in surprise. He couldn't believe that she'd just asked him that question so suddenly…

To anyone else, Remus would have asked them if they really wanted to hear it, telling them that it was painful to talk about. Which it was, he simply didn't want to tell them what had happened that night. The experience of becoming a werewolf is simply to hard and troublesome to tell normal humans. They simply didn't and couldn't understand that pain of it all. But this time it was different. This time it was Orion asking him, a woman who had experienced the same thing as he had. The same pain. The same torment.

Flashback

A five year old Remus Lupin ran down a dock, his father hot on his trail, telling him to "Get back here so I can put a lifejacket on you before you fall in!" The boy however was completely ignoring his father – like all children do at that age – as he continued to run further down the dock, he wanted to get a good look at the lake set before him. His interest peaking at the thought of seeing a fish, or better yet, a whale.

Remus' mother Rhea was sitting on a blanket on the beach playing with her youngest son who was a little over a year old (old enough to start trying to wander away from Mummy and Daddy). Rhea chuckled a little as she watched her husband chase Remus down the dock, for a small boy he was incredibly fast.

Aries finally got a hold on his brat of a son and started trying to get his stubborn offspring to get into the jacket, Remus refusing the whole nine yards about putting on the "stupid muggle device", and asking his father why he couldn't just use a Bubble Head Charm like they usually did, that way it wouldn't matter if he fell in.

The reason for the "stupid muggle device" was because the Lupins had decided to take a vacation at a muggle lake. Aries had taken a week off work to spend some quality time with his family, Rhea would be off Maternity Leave, and back to work soon. However, at the moment Aries was having quite the time trying to explain to Remus that any muggle who saw him would think that he was wearing a fishbowl on his head…and then probably report to the authorities that a child was either being abused or neglected. And that that would just cause unnecessary trouble.

Eventually Remus gave in and wore the lifejacket, hating it the whole time. The child however exacted his revenge in a way that had earned the entire family (except for his father) a good laugh. He'd dropped a handful of slimy tadpoles down the back of Aries swimming shorts. And Aries, who'd been having a discussion with the muggle man from the next campsite had started yelling some very colourful curses as he'd danced around trying to figure out just what the hell had gone down the back of his trunks. Remus all the while running away, laughing his little head off.

That evening the Lupins had dinner with the family in the next campsite, they turned out to be the Youngs. Allison Young thought that Romulus was just the cutest thing ever, her and her husband Phillip were expecting their second child sometime around Christmas. Their eldest however was older than Remus by two and a half months. As Phillip regaled the Lupin family with a fishing story ("It was this big I tell you," Mr young said gesturing with his arms; "I'm sure it was dear," Mrs Young had responded dryly), Remus and the Young's daughter Danielle had sneaked off to go exploring, and since the two had been sitting far away from the fire, no one noted their absence.

Remus and Danielle ran down the shoreline of the small lake and up onto the Lupins dock. Danielle sat down at the end and dangled her feet in the water, squealing happily when her small toes first touched the glassy lake because it was kind of chilly. Remus stood beside her because he didn't feel like getting wet.

"Look at the moon," Danielle said after a while. "Isn't it pretty?"

Remus looked up at the ancient sphere, a slight breeze rustling his sandy hair. The moon was a full as he'd ever seen it, though he'd never really paid that much attention to the moon and her phases – what five year old boy did?

"Feh," Remus grunted as he picked up one of the rocks he'd left on the dock earlier and tossed it at the moons reflection, causing it to refract eerily. "What would I care about a giant rock in space? That's girl stuff."

Remus looked around and the grabbed Danielle by her wrist, pulling her to her feet. "Common," he said. Taking her back up the dock, towards the tree line and down a trail that he and his father had explored earlier that day…

Flashback Ended

"We ran through the trees for about ten minutes before we were attacked…and I got bitten."

Orion looked at her friend, a haunted look on his usually happy face. Was there something else to this story that he hadn't said yet? "What happened to the girl? Danielle?"

The pained look on Remus' face told her that she had hit the nail on the head…she wasn't certain if she should be happy about that or not.

"She died." Remus said simply, staring at something that only he could see, recalling some private memory that only he knew.

"I remember somehow getting up into a tree…all the blood," here Remus rubbed his left shoulder, Orion realizing that that must have been where he was bitten. "Our parents showed up in the middle of it, they'd discovered that we were gone and had come looking for us, and then they'd heard all the noise…the screaming…My father killed it…but not before Dani was…"

This was enough for Orion to comprehend the fact that Remus' experience had been more traumatizing than hers had. She took one more look at Remus – his light blue eyes shimmering with tears – then enveloped him in a powerful hug. She gasped as Remus buried his face in her chest, his arms wrapping themselves tightly around her waist, silent sobs racking his body. Normally Orion would have slapped a boy silly, and thrown in a few hexes for good measure if one had dared to put his head where Remus had put his. But Orion knew that there was nothing perverted in his actions…he simply need some comfort. And if given the option, subconsciously any human being will seek that comfort in the first place that they ever found it, a woman's breasts.

They stayed like that for a few minutes, Orion rubbing her companions back, before Remus got a hold of himself and let her go; apologizing for his outburst. Orion told him not to worry about it, it was obvious to her that he blamed himself for the girl's death, and probably always would.

The two finished the rest of their lunch in silence; never even bothering to try and come up with a solution to Remus' little problem…but for some reason it didn't seem important anymore. It, like everything else would eventually become 'old news'.

Glancing at his watch Remus noticed that their afternoon classes started in about ten minutes. When he told Orion this she stuffed her hand into her robes and pulled out her schedule; groaning loudly as she realized that she had Transfiguration next (it was her worst subject), not to mention that she hadn't the faintest slue where the classroom was. And from what she'd already heard of Professor McGonagall, you didn't want to be late for one of her lessons.

Remus finally put a smile back onto his face and told her that he'd show her where the classroom was…it wouldn't be a problem for him because his next class was on the same floor, and even if he was late, Professor Vector was fairly lenient.

Remus leaned against the stone walls of the Entrance Hall for the second time that day, waiting for Orion to come back from the Slytherin commons with her books. He forcefully kept his face neutral when other students…especially girls gave him odd looks as they came out of the Great Hall. Obviously news of his little Outburst in Charms had already traveled around the gossip rings of the older students.

Remus raised his head as Orion burst through the dungeon doors, black hair tussled and her cheeks pink from her run back to her dorms. Remus offered to carry her books for her, which she happily obliged.

Together they climbed a few flights of stairs…and went through a few tapestries before Remus stopped in front of a classroom door, telling Orion that this was the Transfiguration classroom. He handed Orion her books, and took another look at his watch before running up the corridor, waving at her and yelling good-bye as he slung his bag over his shoulder.

"Bye, Remus," Orion replied before opening the door and stepping in to the room, taking the empty seat beside Severus. A happy grin on her face, Severus had definitely gotten a wrong impression of Remus, he wasn't horrible at all. But she figured that if Severus was really her friend, he wouldn't be angry at her for making friends with the Gryffindor.

Orion's next few weeks at Hogwarts passed rather quickly. She could hardly believe it when she had been at the school for almost a month. Orion had quickly gotten used to her professors, and since all of her friends were fifth years all she had to do to make sure that she didn't get lost on her way to class was make sure that she was with one of them before it started. But with one of the Marauders showing her around the school…she'd quickly become an old pro at navigating her way around the castle.

Not to seem like the ungrateful son, Remus had tried out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team…and he'd made it to, a Chaser. Orion had been ecstatic for Remus when he'd told her that he'd made the team. But for Remus this just meant that he had more to do. But after a few practices with the team, he'd been singing a different tune…literally. Both James and Sirius were on the team: Sirius as a Beater and James as the Seeker. Orion would have tried out for the Slytherin team, but true to Remus' words, her body kept going nuts on her. And to put it rather bluntly…it was pissing the hell out of her. But Remus had assured her that within the year her body would accept the wolf, and return to normal…with a few permanent heightened senses to boot. Orion vowed that she'd make her house team next year.

Amazingly enough, Remus and Orion had managed to keep their friendship a secret. And the two of them were growing closer by the day. On the evening that Remus had taken Orion down to the Shrieking Shack, the two of them had just sat around for hours talking, Orion telling Remus about her attack. Their friendship however, had been on a bit of a rocky road at one point, with Orion refusing to talk to Remus. She'd discovered why Severus hated the Marauders first hand; they treated him like dirt…below dirt actually. Pettigrew wouldn't really do anything, and from what Orion had learned of him, that was because he was afraid of Severus, and would only do some taunting when things were completely out of Severus' hands. And by out of his hands, that means his wand out of his reach. Potter and Black however, were relentless, never passing up an opportunity to try and take Severus down a peg. Hexing him, or simply just embarrassing him beyond belief. And if there was one thing that Orion had learned about Severus very quickly was the fact that he was very proud. What had gotten Orion had not been what Remus had done to her friend, but what he hadn't done. He wouldn't do anything, just stand around and watch his mates be bullies.

Eventually Orion had talked to Remus, but only after he'd groveled a bit. She'd only seen Severus tormented by the Gryffindor boys twice, and the second time Remus hadn't been there, and Orion had taken full advantage of the fact…

Flashback

Orion was laying with Andromeda out on the grounds by the lake, enjoying the last little bit of summer before the chill of fall set in. The two girls looked up when Dallas and Severus joined them. Dallas sat next to Andromeda as Severus lay next to Orion.

"What's up?" Severus asked his friend.

"Hopefully your fly there, Sev," Orion responded.

Severus sat up and looked faster than you could say 'what?'. After making sure that he was safely stored in his trousers Severus turned a mock glare at the girl still laying to his left.

"What?" she asked innocently.

"You know what," he responded. When she continued to look at him like she had no idea what he was talking about, Severus' glare turned into a smirk as he raised his right hand and started to tickle Orion's abdomen.

Orion squealed in delighted surprise when she felt her friend start to tickle her stomach. She arched her back and started to smack him, mentally cursing anything that might just be passing by at the fact that Severus had managed to find the spot on her body where she was truly ticklish.

Between fits of laughter Orion managed to squeal, "Stop… ::snort::…Sevi… ::snort::… stop!"

"What," Severus responded just and innocently as she had before. Andromeda and Dallas had keeled over laughing at the show that the two dark haired snakes were putting on.

Severus was suddenly flung backwards as a hex hit him straight on the chest.

"Oi, Snivellus. When a girl says stop, you stop," came a voice from across the lawn. Orion sat up to see Potter and Black striding towards them.

Before Orion could even say anything, Severus had been levitated and hung upside down. Andi and Dallas had stopped laughing.

Potter was the one who was levitating Severus and bouncing him up and down with each word he said.

Orion stood up, to angry to even comprehend what the two Gryffindors were saying to her friend. The wolf was awakening inside her, and was ready to defend someone it considered a member of its pack. "Put him down," she said in a voice that was much calmer than she felt.

"Why," James asked. "We're simply protecting your virtue."

Orion now put on an act that any Slytherin could tell was a fake. "Oh, "she said in a little girl's voice. "I never looked at it that way," here she walked up and stood in front of James, dropping her act…

"Because what I see is a pair of COWARDS looking for an excuse to be as pair of jackasses!" Orion stopped her speech there and slapped Potter hard, making sure to leave a lovely hand shaped mark on his face.

Orion turned around when she heard and THUNK which told her that in his surprise Potter had been unable to hold his spell. She walked over and kneeled beside her friend, asking him if he was okay. Noting the definite green in his checks from being bounced up and down so many times.

She now turned her wand on the two Gryffindors, Potter still in shock at the fact that she'd slapped him. "Get outta here," she said. "Before I curse the two of you so badly that you won't even be recognizable.

Black and Potter had exchanged glances, then gotten up and left.

Flashback Ends

Severus hadn't exactly been thrilled about what had happened. But he had thanked her…when they'd been alone anyway. And even though Orion knew that Remus would have heard about it from his two dorm mates, he'd never said anything; which told Orion that if he'd been in the same situation, he would have done what she had, and that he harboured her no ill will.

But tonight was the night. The first full moon of the new school year. And Remus and Orion were heading out towards the Whomping Willow together. When they got there, Remus searched for a few minutes before he found a stick long enough to get to the knot that would freeze the tree. When he found one and had poked the knot, he took Orion's hand in his a lead her into the tunnel.

Orion was nervous, this was only her second transformation, and the only thing that she could remember from her first one had been that it was very painful to turn into a werewolf.

As if he sensed her nervousness he gave her hand an extra squeeze, and a look that told her that he would be there for her. Orion marveled at the fact that all day he'd seemed to know just what had been on her mind. But then again, Remus had told her that once her body leveled out, to make the change from human to wolf less harmful to it, it would start to turn the body during the day. It suddenly dawned on Orion what he'd meant, that other than his appearance and most of his mind, the day of the full moon his senses were already that of the wolves…

James, Sirius and Peter all sat in the Gryffindor Common room counting down the time till midnight. The three Marauders sat unobtrusively in a small corner of the homely room, waiting for all the students to leave the room so that they could leave and not be noticed.

"So," Sirius said in a whisper when it was about quarter to midnight. "You guys ready to surprise our furry friend out of his mind?"

"You know it," James replied. "We've spent the last seven months learning how to be animagi, now lets go test it out."

And with that the Marauders set off through the portrait hole, and towards their newest adventure.

Remus and Orion sat on the floor of the little shack, having decided to discard their wands before they got into the shack; it wouldn't do to destroy their wands now would it?

Orion had now graduated from nervous to scared, she had started to shake uncontrollably, refusing to let go of Remus' hand. Remus could tell that she was afraid of the transformation, he had been afraid his first few changes too, now he simply dreaded the feeling of it, but he was no longer afraid.

Remus took Orion and hugged her in much the same way that she had hugged him earlier that month. Remus, having been a werewolf for more than ten years felt the sway of moon powerfully, every one of her emotions. And he knew that the moon would rise in little over five minutes…his body was starting to prep itself for the change. He breathed deeply, "Can you feel it?" he asked Orion.

Orion could feel something, but she figured that it was just her supper churning; she had been feeling rather nauseous a few minutes ago. But she knew that that wasn't what Remus was talking about. "What?' she asked.

Remus looked at her, and she was surprised to see that his blue eyes had suddenly taken on a gold like quality, and were in fact starting to look more like dogs eyes. Was he changing already?

"The change," he said, "the moon will have risen in a few minutes."

Orion closed her eyes and looked deep into herself…yes she felt it. She felt the animal inside of her rearing to get out…

An hour or so later a rat, a stag, and one rather large dog were running down the long tunnel that would take them to the Shrieking Shack. When the three friends reached the end of the tunnel, they peered into the room and what they saw was something that none of them had suspected. There wasn't a werewolf here…there were werewolves, as in plural…as in MORE THEN ONE. Remus had never told them that there was another werewolf at Hogwarts; in fact he'd always told them that he'd been alone in his transformations. So why was there another werewolf in the Shrieking Shack? After one final look at the two creatures who were playing of all the things, they turned around and headed back up to the castle. They'd definitely ask Remus about this in the morning.

Well, I'm done another chapter. What did you guys think of it? I would like to take this chance to apologize for the long wait in between updates. I've been having a big issue with both writers block…and simply not having very much time to do anything at all, let alone write (as much as I love doing it).

I probably won't be updating this for a while. For a few reasons: a) I'm going to be updating FaaD:TWoD first. b) I have a one shot that I'm writing for an anime I watch. Naruto. I won't be posting it on this account in fact I won't be posting it on this site. I'll be posting it on Media Miner because…well…it's going to be yaoi. And for those of you who don't know what that means: boy on boy sex. Don't know what has made me want to write it though. If you like Naruto and want to read it, tell me so in your review and I'll be sure to email you when I post it. c) I have two chapters to beta, and both of those people have been waiting quite a while (yes SMM, I'm going to finally get my ass in gear and beta your chapter…get that smug look of your face or I wont and you'll have to post it with your horrible grammar ::sticks out tongue and waves powerstick around::… "Writer Star Power: Make-up" ::changes into the beautiful and intelligent Sailor Senshi of the English language:: … "Bad Grammar Go Splat"…No, I'm not stoned, and surprisingly enough I'm not even hyper this time. I blame it on the dog, she's telling me to be weird…?...::shifty eyes:: ). And d) I'll have my grade eleven finals starting in a little over a month, so I'll need to start studying.

I would like to thank my bf Danielle for letting me use her name in this chapter (even though I didn't ask ::winks::). And if you ever read this Dani, NO I don't want you to die. We'll save that for You-know-who…no pun intended…well, maybe a little. Lol.

And for those of you who'll mention it. YES! I KNOW THAT WHALES DON'T LIVE IN LAKES. But Remus is five…he wants to see a whale.

Please review this story; I hope to reach my fifty review mark soon.

Bye bye

dragonsprincess