"-don't care." She finished.
Remus's jaw dropped to the floor. He had to have misheard her. He stuck his finger in his ear and wiggled it around to clean it out; he had to have heard wrong. There was no possible way…
"Could you repeat that?" He asked.
Ursula laughed, "Remus, you aren't thick. I don't care that you're a werewolf. I mean, you're obviously taking the proper precautions to make sure nothing happens so I don't see a problem spending time with you the other 353 days of the year."
"Are you serious right now?" He asked her with a hopeful voice.
"No, that's my brother," she quipped before laughing again. He smiled a little bit at the lame attempt at a joke. She jumped off the bed and walked in front of him, looking up because of the height difference. "Remus, you have to tell the rest of them. They've been miserable without you." She said seriously.
"No," he said panicked, "I can't. You might understand, but-"
"But what?" She demanded, putting her hand on her hips and giving him a look, "If I – a girl raised in the most judgmental, harsh, pureblooded families known to all of England – can understand, then the rest of them will. They've been your friend for over a year; they won't care. And if one of them doesn't understand, I'm sure we can find an oblivate spell to use."
"Do you really think they'll accept me after everything that has happened?" Remus asked softly after a moment.
She smiled gently, grabbed his hand and gave it a soft squeeze.
"I know they will."
Half an hour later, the rest of the group was moving up to the boys' dorm. Peter had found them after he went searching in the library by himself after Ursula left him. The rest of the group was curious as to what caused her to go running off but judging by the fact they haven't heard her name in any passing gossip, they figured that she was okay.
They were on their way up the stairs when they heard voices coming from their room. James looked at Sirius confused, who the heck was in their room? James pulled out his wand and the rest of them followed suit. Slowly, James pushed the door open and blocked his friend's from being able to see inside the room. But still, they could see the change on his face.
"Lupin." He said as he put his wand back into his pocket. The rest of them followed suit.
"James, get in here." A distinctly not male voice said. Sirius peered around James's shoulder and looked incredulous when he saw his sister sitting on the bed next to Remus.
"What the hell are you doing?" He exclaimed.
She glared at him.
"You are going to get in here, close the door, shut up, and listen to what Remus has to say." Her voice left no room for argument.
The boys shuffled in, refusing to meet Remus's eyes as they settled on their beds. Elyse decided to claim a random bed as her own so that left Peter sitting at the foot of his bed. Once they were all sitting, Ursula began to talk.
"Now, you little dunderheads are going to listen to what Remus has to say. I swear on my Magic if any of you say anything I don't like…" She left the threat empty but she waved her wand around, showing that she meant business.
All of their attention went straight to Remus. The boy looked absolutely terrified as he was playing with a thread on his comforter.
"So obviously, I have been lying to all of you for the last year. I swear that there was a reason though. Professor Dumbledore made me promise not to tell anyone about it unless I completely trusted them, but my parents didn't want anyone to know. If the wrong person found out, I would be kicked out of Hogwarts. This isn't something that is good guys and I would completely understand that if you never want to speak to me again. Believe me; I wouldn't want to talk to me either." He paused and looked up at them for the first time with tears in his eyes.
"Whatever you have to say, just spit it out, it can't be that bad." James said, slightly hopeful that he would have his friend back and slightly annoyed that this explanation was taking so long.
Ursula pointed her wand at James in a threatening way but James just held his hands up in surrender as if to say 'what? It was taking too long'.
Remus ignored them and took a deep breath.
"I'm a werewolf."
Dead. Silence.
None of them were expecting that. Peter gasped in shock and Ben's jaw was dropped to the ground. Sirius and James were frozen in shock. Obviously whatever they were thinking Remus was going to tell them, that was definitely not it. Elyse's eyes widened, shocked that a mystical creature she only thought to exist in fairy tales was actually in the same room as her.
James was the one to react. He shot of the bed as he whipped a pillow at Remus. He grabbed another pillow off his bed as he ran towards Remus and started to attack him with the pillow,
"You" hit "Stupid" hit "Idiotic" another hit "Git! That's why you stopped talking to us!" James hit him the pillow quite hard again.
Remus was practically flattened against his bed at this point, staring fearfully up at James and the pillow. Ursula was trying to hold back a laugh at what she was witnessing. She had an idea where the James was going with this.
"You're not disgusted by me?" Remus asked in a meek, shocked voice.
James snorted, "Hell yes I'm disgusted by you." He practically shouted.
The look at Remus's face broke Ursula's heart and she was about to hex James into kingdom come (this wasn't going where she thought it was) and knock that stupid smirk off his face but then James continued,
"I'm disgusted that you didn't trust us."
It looked like Remus had just seen James in a new light. Sirius spoke up from his bed and shook his head with mock disappointment, "I'm disappointed in you Remus; I thought you were the smart one in here."
"Hey!" Ben shouted and threw a pillow across the room at Sirius but he ducked just in time to avoid the projectile.
"None of you guys have a problem with me being a werewolf?" Remus asked, shock and amazement in his voice. "You don't care that I'm a crazy, blood driven, murderous psychopath?"
"Hate to break it to you mate," Sirius began.
"We live with one already," Ursula finished.
James sniggered at their slightly inappropriate joke, considering that Ursula's bruises were still just visible on her face and Sirius's burn had faded into a pink on his neck.
Remus rolled his eyes but looked at them hopefully, "So you guys really have no problem with this?"
Ben spoke for them all when he said simply and honestly, "No."
"Plus," Elyse spoke up, "yeh's friend wit some oov teh smartest people at Hogwarts. We kin figure sometin oot teh help yeh."
"Yeah, there has to be something, somewhere in this castle that will help you out during the full moons. And if not, well maybe we'll be trying some new things out." Ursula offered.
'Yeah, even breakin some laws' Elyse thought while everyone started to discuss where they should start looking. The first stop on their list; the potions room.
So they finally know. I hope that this chapter was up to your expectations. Things are going to really be picking up from here so just hold tight. There's going to be some major developments before they finish the year such as Quidditch, the hospital wing, some random potions, Mrs. Potter, and some sneaky sneakiness.
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