Ely walked almost every inch of the castle as she tried to calm herself. She hadn't dared go to Hagrid's hut, although she wanted to. She didn't want him to see her like this, because then she would have to explain why. She couldn't do that to herself just yet. She wanted a place for herself, so she tried looking for the Room of Requirement. After she was about to give up, the door appeared in front of her.

Without even waiting to see if someone had seen her, she ran into the room. The Room of Requirement quickly created a bed, and she plopped herself on it and sobbed. She now realized that she had thrown out her one chance of possible happiness with Severus. It physically hurt with the Unbreakable Vow weighing her down. The only way it could possibly be lifted is if Severus genuinely wanted to speak to her, but she felt like that was never going to happen.

She went on alert when she heard the Room of Requirement its door. She sighed in relief as she got off the bed and ran to Remus, who quickly engulfed her in a giant hug. He had shown up at just the right moment, especially since she had not seen him the past couple of days because of his transformation.

The room changed again to a lounging area, almost an exact replica of the Gryffindor common room. Remus picked her up and sat down on the couch, Ely still crying in his arms.

"Ely, what could have possibly gone wrong for you to be crying so much? Did Matthew do something to you?"

"It wasn't Matthew. It was Severus…." She barely managed to say through her tears. Remus looked at her skeptically.

"What do you mean Snape? I thought you wanted him to go fly a kite in nicer terms." Ely smirked slightly before more tears continued to run down her face.

"I made an Unbreakable Vow to never be him unless he genuinely wants to be around me…"

"Well that's a good thing, I suppose…"

"You don't understand Remus… I'm in love with him!" This started a new round of tears, and a confession on Ely's part.

Ely spilled everything to Remus. She almost left nothing out from her past, and by the end all she had left were dried up tears.

Remus almost wanted to run in the other direction, but he someone knew that Ely wasn't lying. Both of them knew it all sounded crazy, but he somehow understood it all.

"You mean to tell me that James and Lily get married, Sirus gets put into Azkaban because of Peter, and I get married to a girl that can change her appearance at will?"

"Out of everything that was just said, that's all you got out of it?" Ely was almost shocked, but Remus shrugged.

"The future still isn't set in stone. You came back for a reason, and if your sole reason for coming back was for Snape, you would have disappeared as soon as you made that unbreakable vow."

"I never really thought of it that way…"

Remus smiled and gave her a tight hug. He was sworn to secrecy and Ely was finally smiling again.

"You know, Sirius had the biggest crush on you before he was partnered up with Bella?" Remus asked and Ely's jaw dropped.

"Sirius likes Bella?" When Remus nodded, Ely smiled wider, "That's great! I have a feeling that Bella kind of likes him too, but I don't think she wants to say anything because he's a Gryffindor and his family kind of sucks. Although ideally, they would work."

"I feel sorry for Peter…" Remus commented with a frown. "I think I could see why he would go over to the dark side."

"If it makes you feel any better, I want to help to make sure that it doesn't happen. He just needs some confidence in himself. He can do some amazing things with his amount of dedication; it's just that it's misplaced."

They stayed in silence for a bit, before Remus nudged Ely. "So, you used to be a Hufflepuff…"

She playfully shoved him, "It was terrible! I think the only reason that I was placed in Hufflepuff was because of my mum. I think my aunt was slight disappointed, but I think it's because she was a Ravenclaw."

"How did you not have any friends? I doubt you were that much different than you are now."

"I was actually the shy girl who kept her head in muggle books and talk to the animals. Hagrid was basically the only friend I had, and that was because he saved my life. I lived a very isolated life my whole life, especially after my aunt had died. No one ever really took the time to get to know me. The teachers all loved me because I was one of their best students; I was probably the Hufflepuff that had gotten the most house points from my year without having played on Quidditch team. It wasn't that I never tried out for the team; it was just that no matter how good I was, Hufflepuff didn't want me. Sprout had pity on me and let me be commentator for games that Hufflepuff played."

"I'm sorry you had to go through all of that…"

"It's not your fault. You have nothing to be sorry for. Quite frankly I blame my own house. I wouldn't even be in this predicament had they not pushed me into Severus in the first place. But, things are still way better now than they were the first time." She wrapped her arms around him and squeezed, "I have you, Bella, and Lily to thank for that."

"You know, James, Sirius, and Peter aren't all that bad. You should give them a chance."

"I would, but James hates my guts and Peter is afraid of me. Sirius I know would have been my friend by now if James didn't hate me so."

"James actually thinks you loath him. It kills him inside because his parents actually knew your parents when you were both little. He hates the idea that if your parents hadn't died you two probably would have been close."

Ely was speechless as Remus revealed this to her. There was so much about herself that she didn't know, and there was so much about her parents that she didn't know. It was mainly her own fault, she never asked when she was spending time with Aunt Minnie. Now she knew that she had all the resources in her hands to get to know the people that mattered most to her even though she never got to really know them.

Tucking her hair behind her eyes, Remus saw the scar that graced the side of her face. He knew how she had gotten it because she told him, but it was still gut wrenching to know that Ely had a constant reminder of why she was left without parents, and no idea of how she was still alive.

"Remus, can you do something for me?" When he nodded, she took a shaky breath, "Can you bring James into this room tomorrow? I want to talk to him, and get to know someone that could have been my friend had my parents still been alive."

"You'd be surprised at just how many people that could have been Ely. It could have been me, could have been Peter, heck it could have even been Snape if his mother was in the same year as your mum and aunt."

She realized quickly that her life could have been completely different had her parents been alive, or had her aunt stayed in Britain rather than leave to Australia. She knew as soon as she got home, she was going to have questions that needed answers.

They left shortly after, both headed towards Gryffindor tower, Remus to catch up on some mischief with the boys, and Ely to get ready for the dance.