Kim pulled her cloak over her shoulders and clasped it in the front then out of the corner of her eye saw a different picture of her mother that was hung on the wall fall. She walked over to the fallen picture with her wand out ready to repair it. The glass in the frame broke and the picture had slipped out of the wood a bit. She saw writing on the back that she'd never noticed before. When she picked up the picture she saw that it was a separate not that her mother had scrawled hastily on a crumpled piece of paper. At the bottom of the paper she saw her Fathers handwriting as well.

Kimberly,
Always remember that the male wolf chooses his mate. Once
chosen she is his mate for life.

Mom

Kimberly,
This note was found with your mother on the night she was
killed. I don't think she wanted you to see it right then,
but I put a charm on it so you'd find it when the advice
would most benefit you. You were her life.
Dad

Kim shook her head and tried to think how this not would benefit her now. She strained to understand it then folded it up and put it in her pocket and opened the closet to get her suitcase and magically packed what she needed with a simple wave of her wand then closed and latched it. She walked into the bathroom and waited as the mirror unfogged itself.. Then she scrunched up her face and her auburn hair turned black and grew longer. She let it grow and change till the ends were layered and framed her face. She then closed her eyes tightly and when she opened them they were green.

"Why that is a new look for you deary." The large mirror said in her usual cheery voice. It was an old Victorian stand up mirror with a wooden frame and feet to match the table and bed.

Kim laughed "Thanks Mir. I'm going to be gone for a few days. I hope you can survive without me."

"Well I will get a bit lonely. But I guess I'll survive."

Kim continued her conversation with the mirror as she began to put makeup on. "I'd go for the lighter blue eye shadow. It matches the shirt better." Mir said happily.

"You think so?"

"Yea, and go for the lighter lipstick too and don't layer it on, but do gloss it afterward that's the best look for you."

"Thanks Mir." Kim finished her makeup and smiled into her reflection. And a new face appeared in the mirror.

"God I remember when you were just a girl. You've grown up so much." Mir grinned. "Got a guy you're trying to impress?"

"Nope."

"Oh come on. I hear you two talking down there. And it's no one I can remember."

"Mir, he's an old friend from school."

"Aha! So it is that Remus!"

"Mir what Remus are you talking about."

Mir then turned into mist and Kim could see nothing through the glass but the fog. Kim sighed. She knew what was coming. "Look, Mir I haven't got time for your memories." Kim said running her fingers through her hair and turning around to go back to her bedroom.

"You've got time for this one." She heard a faint voice.

As Kim was about to shut the door she heard another voice. A voice she hadn't heard since she was thirteen.

"Here. Open this one early!" She stopped in her tracks and listened.

"Mama! We can't open presents without Dad here!" she heard her own voice say. Only it was younger. About eight years younger.

Slowly, she turned to go back to the mirror. She saw her twelve-year-old self sitting on her mothers bed with a gift in her lap. And her mother sitting beside her.

Mir had shown her many memories before. But never did they involve her mother.

"Just open it honey. This wasn't supposed to be for Christmas anyway. Please. Your father doesn't want you to have one. He doesn't think you're ready, but I know you're more responsible than he was at his age."

"Are you sure Mama?" The younger Kim looked up at her mother with admiring yet questioning eyes. This was the first Christmas where her father would be away on business for the order. He was coming later but could only stay for a little while.

"I'm sure sweetie. Open it." Her mother leaned in and kissed her cheek as she pulled the bow off of the paper.

When she unwrapped it Kim's eyes widened. "Mama! It's an invisibility cloak!"

"It was grandma's. It was supposed to go to me, but I already have one. I'm sure she would have wanted you to have it. Now you can use it to follow that crush of yours all over school! You still haven't told me who he is!"

Kim's twelve-year-old face twisted into a mischievous grin and she leaned over and whispered the name into her mom's ear, but the Twenty-year-old Kim could still hear it. Possibly because she'd remembered how she'd said it so many years ago or perhaps she'd actually said it loud enough for Mir to remember. "Remus Lupin" Kim closed her eyes remembering the soft feel of her mother's cheek against hers. And she was back in the memory with Mir.

"Remus Lupin?!?!" Her mother shouted in excitement.

"Yea!" Kim said giggling.

"I can't believe it! And you see him all the time outside the order meetings! I always see you two talking! He's a bit old for you don't you think?"

"Dad's nine years older than you. Remus is only five years older than me." Her mother smiled sympathetically. "Yes but that is when you get olde-" she cut off and smiled. "So why do you like Remus so much? I was expecting it to be James Potter if any of them. He's a hunk!"

"He knows it! Mom, he's to conceited and he's kinda mean sometimes. Remus is nice. He's smart and funny. We talk all the time. We walk to the common room everyday after my Defense Against the Dark Arts class. He gets out of Ancient Runes and we cross paths. We always walk together after that class. Sometimes I even sit with him and the rest of the Marauders and talk after we get to the common room. They have so much fun! I wish I could go with them sometimes! Remus always says he has to show someone the secret passages they've found before he leaves."

"Kimberly I don't want you getting into trouble with those boys. And don't get too friendly. Boys their age are only after- well I suppose not Remus. He probably wouldn't be-" But before her mother could finish the doorbell rang and Kim jumped off the bed knowing it was her father. The cloak fell to the ground at her mother's feet who then picked it up and folded it and put it away. Minutes later Kim ran into the room with her father close behind. He was carrying two gifts and a camera.

Kim watched in her mirror as the Family sat around in her mother's room by the tree (as it was the room with the tallest ceiling) opening gifts and taking pictures. That was the day that the picture by her bed was taken.

The Mirror became misty again and cleared to show her parents standing in the room alone talking in hushed voices. "Patricia I don't think you should tell her. Just because you had one of your dreams doesn't mean it's going to happen. Besides how do you know you were dead? You could have been unconscious."

"Don, I saw it. I saw it very clearly. We had killed each other. I have to tell her. What if she-"

"Patricia, Kimberly is a smart girl. Dumbledore said it himself-"

"Book smart! She's book smart Don. She - she likes Remus Lupin for god's sake."

"Well she doesn't know what he is. And who's to say whom you're attracted to has got anything to do with intelligence. If I were smart I would never have married you. You were always too adventurous for me. She's just like you."

"I know and I almost never married you."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, marrying you was the best thing I have ever done. I almost said no."

"So you're saying what if she does? What if she says no to number eight?"

"Right. She'll never be happy!"

"Like I said she's just like you."

Again the mirror fogged up and it showed Kim and her mother lying down on the floor staring up at the ceiling that her mom had bewitched with a snowstorm. The snow though disintegrated before it got to the floor.

"Kimberly, I'm going to tell you this now and remember it forever okay. Even if I'm not around anymore you have to remember it. Promise?"

"Of course I do Mama!" Kim's eyes widened as she saw her mother sit up. She'd forgotten until now. As her mother spoke the words Kim whispered the forgotten message with her.

"Marry Number Eight."

"What?"

"You'll understand when you get older." The Mirror again fogged up and Kim's Mothers smiling face faded from sight and was replaced by her own reflection. Tear tracks streaked her face and her mascara was running. She had broken a promise to her mother. She quickly counted in her head how many boyfriends she'd had. Five. Good only five that can be counted as serious boyfriends. I still have a long way to go.

"Hey, wipe those tears away kiddo. It wasn't meant to make you cry."

Kim quickly dried her eyes and fixed her makeup and went to her bedroom. She picked up her bag and went to the stairs. "Goodbye Mir. I'll be back in about a week." And then she went quickly down the stairs her cloak swooping along behind her.

She set her bag down by the door and turned to find Remus on the couch. She laughed softly. She was right the potion had knocked him on his ass. She went to his side and gently shook his shoulder. He didn't wake.

With a sigh she stood and went to the kitchen and fixed him a quick dose of pepper-up potion then went back and sat on the edge of the couch. With her right hand she gently lifted his head and then poured a tiny bit of the new potion into his mouth. She set the glass on the table then made sure he swallowed and set his head back down. She waited a bit and was about to give him some more when he jerked awake. He scrambled quickly to get off the couch without noticing she was there, perhaps because he had knocked her to the floor. When he was standing he stopped suddenly as if her realized where he was and ran his hand through his hair calmly looking around checking if Kim had seen him. He looked relieved when he found she wasn't standing behind him, but when he saw her lying on the floor relaxing with her arms behind her head his face turned red. He looked at her questioningly.

"Kim?" he asked not recognizing her with her black hair and green eyes.

"Um, yea-"

"Wow, you look good as my make believe girlfriend." He said laughing to cover his embarrassment.

"Thanks Remus. But if you don't mind me asking-"she began.

"A nightmare." He said quickly.

"Actually I was going to ask if you could help me up."

"Oh. Sorry. How long were you down there?" He asked as he reached out is hand to help her.

"About thirty seconds. Ever since you knocked me off the couch. And all I was trying to do was give you this." She picked up the glass of pepper-up and handed it to him. "Drink it. You'll feel better." She said. She decided she wouldn't ask about his "nightmare" until later.

"I hope that potion doesn't do that to me every time I take it." He said sipping from the glass.

"It shouldn't. It was just the flobberworm puss. It will do that to you if you're not used to it. It's in your system now. It shouldn't do that tomorrow. Your body will get used to it eventually and you won't have that reaction anymore."

She went into the kitchen and he followed. With a wave of her wand all the ingredients she needed to make the wolfsbane potion were stored neatly in a carrying case. She then placed a shrinking charm on her cauldron and shrank it so it was about the size of a baseball and placed it in the case next to the puss. She then locked the case and turned around. "I should go tell Aunt Molly where I'm going. I'm sure she'd love to see you. Why don't you come?"

"Aunt Molly?" Kim called entering the back door of the Burrow with Remus behind her.

"Yes dear?" Her Aunt called coming from the kitchen with a dishtowel in her hands.

"Oh Kimberly why do you keep changing your look on us? Oh hello Remus. How are you dear?" She said when she saw him behind her.

"I'm good thank you. How are you?" He said still sipping the potion.

"Wonderful dear! Have a seat!" She motioned toward the couch where they all sat down.

"Aunt Molly um, Lupin has to go to a friends wedding this weekend and he has to leave tonight."

"Oh, So this is the end of your little visit?"

"Unfortunately. I wish I could stay longer, but well, love is a powerful magic you know."

"Yes, it is." Molly agreed, chuckling.

"But Aunt Molly, as you know well, the full moon is coming up and he can't go to a wedding and turn into a full blown werewolf!"

"Are you suggesting we hog tie Mr. Lupin and force him to stay here?"

"No Aunt Molly. I'm going to go with him."

"Kimberly! I don't want you to put yourself in danger!"

"They're muggles Aunt Molly!"

"What?"

"Muggles. The friends that are getting married are muggles."

"That still-"

"Let me explain! Aunt Molly, since I was twelve I have been working on crating a potion for werewolves. One so that when they change they keep their human mind. So that they are harmless and I thin I have finally done it. We're going to test it this week on Remus."

"Honey, I know that you're very skilled in potions but are you sure it's gong to work?"

"To be honest, no. It should work I don't see why it wouldn't work but there is the possibility that it won't."

"Maybe you should have Severus Snape look at it."

"Aunt Molly, Severus wouldn't help me if his life depended on it. I just came in to say that I am leaving and I'll be back in a week. Aunt Molly don't worry if the potion doesn't work I can protect myself from him. Honestly look at him he doesn't look to fierce." She said trying to lighten the situation.

Remus looked up and smiled." We'll be fine Molly, we'll take proper safety precautions, everything will be fine." Remus said reassuring her with his kind eyes. He took her hand. "I trust Kim, Molly I do. She's amazing with potions. She knows what she's doing. I took the first dose today and I'm fine. Really I'm just a bit woozy and she knows exactly why. She can tell me the reason my body doesn't like a potion just by looking at the ingredients. It will be fine I promise you. Besides if I do happen to bite her I'll be in good company every full moon. We could move in together and throw werewolf parties every month."

Molly only smiled weakly. "So," Mrs. Weasley said after a while, "is this supposed to be a date type thing?"

"No!" the two said at once.

"It's just to help with the potion. I can't make it on my own."

"And besides who would keep him in control in front of the muggles?" Kim asked.

"That's right." Said Mrs. Weasley. "So when are you leaving?"

"Well we have to stop by the Leakey Cauldron for a bit to pick up my things, then swing by my house and catch a train down to Scotland."

"You'd better leave soon then. I'll make you some sandwiches and call the family in to say goodbye dear." She said standing up. Minutes later after saying goodbye to the family and collecting their food from Mrs. Weasley Kim and Remus left with one loud CRACK from the Weasley's living room.