Remus made his way through the hallways a few weeks later and wondered why it seemed that so may of the students weren't quite were they were supposed to be in Defense Against the Dark Arts. He guessed that it was merely because they all had so many different teachers, but he still wished that they had more competent teachers.

"You're hurting me, let go of my arm," he vaguely heard someone say in a somewhat anguish filled voice. Remus looked up as he made his way down the hallway and spotted a girl and a boy standing beneath one of the archways that lead out, where many of the students were as it was a particularly sunny day. He furrowed his gaze as he noticed that it was Selene and that a Slytherin boy that was in her year had her arm in a pincer-like grip.

"What do you mean you don't want to get back with me? You're mine, or have you forgotten?" the boy snarled at her. Remus walked over and stood beside them, which caused the boy to immediately drop the hold that he had on her arm. Selene turned and looked away in embarrassment as she saw out of the corner of the eye who had just walked up to them.

"Is there a problem here?" Remus asked as he looked at the Slytherin boy who was looking up at him with contempt filled eyes. He glared at Remus as he gritted his teeth together. Damian Dolohov was standing before him, one of the Slytherin students that was also in the seventh year. He was one of the people that liked to give him a particularly hard time.

"None at all Professor Lupin," he said before turning around and marching away. Remus shook his head as he slowly turned his attention to look at Selene who was staring everywhere but at Lupin. She was very embarrassed that he had witnessed that and she didn't want him to see the tears that had built up her eyes.

"Are you all right Selene?" Remus asked as he stared down at her. Selene slowly turned around and looked up at him with a smile on her face, but he could see the teary sparkle in her eyes.

"Yes, I'm all right. Thank you Professor. Damian has a bit of a hard time understanding the word No. I guess it's because of the way that he was raised," she said as she looked up at him. He stared at her, not really understand how she could possible smile at him. But the sun that was shining behind her made her glow like a beautiful, yet sorrowful angel and it seemed that no amount of smile or sunlight could take her sorrowful beauty away.

"How can you possibly find the will to smile so much Selene?" he asked as he stared down at her in admiration. She stared up at him with her beautiful smile as she wiped away the moisture surrounding her eyes.

"If I didn't smile Professor, I don't think that I would have the will to continue to live," she said as she stared into his eyes. A strand of hair fell loose and fell over her eyes. Remus smiled as he stared at her, he was completely entrances by her beauty and everything that she seemed to be.

"Then I hope that you never stop smiling," he said as he stared down into her black eyes and tucked a strand of lose hair behind her ear. Selene momentarily closed her eyes as she felt his fingertips gracing the side of her face. Before snapping out of it and looking up into his eyes with an extremely broad smile.

"So my birthday is coming up Professor and I am expecting a gift from you," she said as she looked at him. He felt somewhat taken aback by this which caused her to laugh. "I'm only joking Professor. But in all seriousness by birthday is coming up. It's this Saturday."

"Oh, how old will you be?" he asked a she stared down at her.

"I will be turning eighteen, yes I know I'm getting so OLD," she said as she stared into his eyes.

"You must think me ancient then," he said with a light chuckle as he stared at her.

"Please Professor Lupin, with those eyes you look like a fifteen year old boy. But I guess your eyes never lost the mischievous sparkle," she said as she stared into his eyes. He stared at her for a moment before smiling, he wasn't sure, but he almost thought that was a compliment.

"Well what are you planning to do on your birthday?" he asked as he stared at her. She shrugged as she looked at him.

"Well, that's my own little secret," she said as she stared up at him.

"May I ask you a question?" he asked as he stared at her.

"For future reference Professor Lupin, you may ask me anything you wish. That way you don't have to continue to ask me whether or no you may ask me a question. Now, whether I chose to answer or not is a completely different story, but I will always try to answer as honestly as possible for I cannot tell a lie," she said as she stared at him. He smiled as he shook his head.

"I wanted to ask you why Mr. Dolohov was bothering you and why you allowed him to bother you," Remus said as he stared at her. She looked down at the floor for a moment before looking up at him.

"Damian thinks that because we dated once that he has all rights and property ownership of me; he's like that with all the girls that he has dated. The reason that I didn't do anything to him was because it's easier to ignore him then to get into a fight with him," she said as she looked at him.

"Why would you date someone like him in the first place?" Remus asked as he looked at her.

"He was very nice and charming, and I was fourteen, young and stupid. Of course that all faded very quickly and I haven't had a boyfriend since him," she said as she looked at him. "I find it much easier to get along with boys and be friends with them rather instead of dating them. Besides, there isn't a boy in the seventh year that Jean hasn't dated yet and it isn't right to date someone that your best friend has dated."

"Ah," Remus said as he looked at her. "I myself had a friend like Jean and it was hard to date a girl that he'd never dated either. So I guess it would suffice to say that I never really had a relationship when I was in Hogwarts either, at least not a meaningful relationship," he said as he stared at her.

"You were a student of Hogwarts? Did you attend Hogwarts when Professor Snape did?" she asked as she stared at him.

"Yes, in fact, we were in the same year," Remus said with a smile as he stared at her.

"I don't think that he's very happy about the fact that the boggart you had for third years turned into him and that he was dressed in drag," she said as she looked at Lupin and giggled lightly. It was the first time that he'd heard her giggle and he had to admit that it was quite the alluring laugh.

"Yes well perhaps he should think twice about being so horrifying in his treatment of others," he said as he stared down at her, chuckling as he remembered the sight of Snape in that awful dress. He had to give Neville Longbottom extra points for that, it was simply unforgettable.

"Professor Snape isn't that bad and really he just wants people to be very careful when making their potions. You can get seriously hurt if you're not serious and he's a very good Professor," Selene said. Remus slowly turned to look at her. "Potions is one of my favorite subjects and I have a tendency to be optimistic about everything. Sorry."

"Don't apologize for the way you are Selene, You are a great person, never apologize for who you are," he said as he stared at her. Selene looked up at him and smiled. No one had ever said anything so nice to her, perhaps Dumbledore, but Dumbledore saw her as something like a grandchild or something, so that didn't count. "You're perfect."

"I'm not Professor, trust me, I'm not," she said, turning her gaze to the floor. Lupin reached out and placed his hand on her chin, lifting up her head gently so that he could look into her beautiful face.

"You are and don't you ever forget it," he said as he stared at her. She smiled as she stared into his eyes.

TBC…

A/N: Well that's all for this chapter. Please leave a review! How do you like it so far?