A Werewolf Romance

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters.

This story contains several of my own characters, if you wish for more detailed profiles please don't hesitate to ask.

"What?" Micky repeated again.

"Oh, come on now, Uncle Felix's never mentioned me has he? Then again I'm not really surprised, a Gryffindor like me is a shame on the 'Noble House of Black'."

"No my dad hasn't mentioned you. And I'm a Gryffindor myself thanks."

Sirius smiled at this, almost as an uncle would do to his niece when she'd made him a picture.

"Smart kid." He said, more to himself than to Micky. But then he turned back to Lupin who had gone rather pale after Snape had stated that he knew, seemingly all along, about Micky and himself.

"Now come on Moony," Sirius said, his voice seemed as though he was expecting someone to shout surprise at any moment. "Snape is only jesting isn't he?"

"This is Severus Snape we're talking about Sirius, I don't think he knows what a jest is, never mind how to pull one."

Sirius then went very quiet, and his weak smile that had been there a moment ago vanished. It wasn't an expression of shock he was wearing, but rather one of thought. He then turned to Snape with a look of arrogance,

"As long as the two are happy I don't see what your problem is, even you should be aware Snape, that Remus is a decent man. And even by wizarding standards, Micky is old enough to make her own decisions."

Micky remained quiet, she was starting to hope she was dreaming and she'd wake up soon. Not that she wasn't glad Sirius was defending her, but the whole conversation had taken a peculiar turn: The fact the Severus seemed to known all along about what was happening; the fact that she'd been 'outed' by him and now, to top it all Sirius Black, notorious murderer (supposedly) turns out to be her cousin.

But she was quickly snapped back to her senses as she saw, first, Snape lunge at Sirius (calling him Black seemed weird to her), then three jinxes fly by her head and knock Snape clean off his feet and sent him in the four-poster bed in the corner of the room, smashing it on his way.

She edged forward slightly, just enough to see a small amount of blood trickle down his forehead. Micky then turned and looked behind her, there, all three of them- Harry, Ron and Hermione were just lowering their wands.

"Oh my God, we've attacked a teacher!" Hermione then exclaimed.

"You should have left him to me," Lupin said, still in his usual calm manner.

"Well he won't cause any more trouble unconscious, now Ron give me that rat!"

Almost as though waiting for a signal, Scabbers leapt out of Ron's arms and scurried across the piano towards the door.

"Don't you dare Peter!" Sirius yelled at him and both he and Remus started trying to blast him with a spell, presumably to change him back. Eventually one did hit and soon after a moment or so, a small man was standing in the place where Scabbers the rat had been just before. He hunched right over and he had a nervous twitch in his nose, it wrinkled up every so often and was usually followed by his hands flexing quickly.

"Sirius…Remus, my old friends." His voice was quite high pitched for a man. He was seeming more and more rat-like in person all the time. Peter made his way towards the two men he'd spoken to, but Sirius quickly sidestepped him.

"I've got enough dirt on my robes without you touching them thank you." Peter seemed to wince at this. "Now, Peter, you may have missed some of our conversation when you were squirming about on the bed, are you going to tell Harry about how his parents died are am I going to have to tell him myself?"

"Don't k-know w-what you're talking about S-Sirius." He stuttered.

"Oh don't you? About how you were there secret keeper therefore only you could have given Voldermort the information that led to their deaths. Oh what's up, unable to bear your own master's name?"

Peter had practically bent over double when Sirius said the name of the Dark Lord, as though he had just been flogged.

"Come now Remus you don't believe this do you?" His voice was starting to sound more desperate and Micky noticed that his eyes never remained in one place; they were constantly darting around the room looking for a way out.

"I really fail to see why a innocent man would spend twelve years as a rat, if he wasn't hiding from deatheaters or anyone else."

"Innocent but scared. He was the spy for you-know-who," He said pointing at Sirius.

That seemed to ignite a fire in Sirius' head. His eyes turned venomous and he straightened himself up, looking dangerous. He started to shout in a voice that almost sounded like a bark.

"I'd sooner die then betray my friends, you worthless little rat. I should have known you were the spy to begin with you always did like having big friends that you knew would look after you. No more talking I'm killing you NOW!"

"No!"

The shout had come from Harry.

"Harry," Remus said softly. "This man is the reason you have no parents."

"I know that, but we can take him up to the castle. After that the dementors can have him."

Peter let out a squeak of sadness and dashed, not to the door but to Ron.

"Please Ron, please, you won't let them take me in will you. I was your rat."

"Yeah, and I'm feeling sick at the thought."

He whimpered again and ran to Micky.

"Your Kathryn Snape's daughter aren't you, you look so much like her. She wouldn't let me get hurt, she'd help me now."

Micky stared down at this quivering mess that was at her feet. It was possible that her mother would have helped him if she thought it just. But justice in this sense was to make sure that the right man got punished for a murder.

With that she kicked him off her and took a step back.

"She wouldn't hurt you, but she wouldn't stop them either."

And from behind him Remus shot the same ropes form his wand that had bound him earlier and Peter fell to the floor.

Another chapter done please review. I will not have another chapter done for a while. I have major exams in January and unfortunately that means mountains of revision to go with it. I might do one in between Christmas and New Year, but after that there won't be another until February.

So just in case… MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! :)