"Remus? Is it actually you this time or the wolf?" Hermione asked softly. The thing just stared at her in those blue eyes, and then stood up suddenly. It started to lunge after Hermione. She stood up clumsily and held out her wand. The wolf was snarling viciously and as Hermione raised her wand to her to stun it but with more loud howls, the thing stumbled forwards and the screams started to become progressively more human.
The wolf head was rearranging itself back into the man. The shape of the head was getting smaller and less narrow, and the snout was shrinking slowly in. A few seconds later, Remus Lupin lay, totally human, panting, with tears of agony in his eyes.
"Remus! Thank goodness! I thought I was going to have to stun you!"
He looked up at her in total confusion. "Why were you going to stun me? All I know was that I was sleeping, and now I'm on the floor. And my head hurts worse that it did before?
Hermione hesitated; she did not really want to tell him what had happened because she knew he would be upset that he could have, and did, hurt her.
He saw the letter that Sirius has written lying on the floor and grabbed it quickly. Ignoring his throbbing head, he read over the letter quickly.
"Hermione, why didn't you leave the house? Or lock me up? Do you believe me now when I say that you could be killed living with me! Sirius and James got lucky last time yelling about their pants!"
"Honestly, do you think I started yelling my pants were on fire?" Hermione asked skeptically.
"Well I'm human again so you must have yelled something!"
"I bribed you with chocolate."
He raised his eyebrow at her.
"Okay! Relax, I just said your name a few times. The only thing you did to me was put my legs to sleep when you were sleeping on them."
"You let that thing sleep on you all night!"
"Well, it was rather frightening. I mean with the wolf head on your body and with your hair still there though. But you just curled up and slept after I had said your name a few times and I was afraid that if I tried to move you to lock you up would panic."
He started to walk into the bedroom as Hermione went to and see if the book listed any side affects after the partial transformation. She had forgotten that she had not had time to clean up the blood stains form her nose until she heard Lupin yell for her. She dropped her book in surprise and came running.
"Remus! What's wrong? Are you- oh no."
His voice got deathly cold. "Hermione, what did I do to you?"
She sighed. "You were…panicking and I was stupid and stood close to you and your hand shot out and hit my nose. It healed up fine, it was my own fault."
"It was not your fault. I should have known better than to go near you when you were like that. You didn't know that that would happen."
"That's the point. When the wolf takes over I never know what happens. I could have killed you and I wouldn't have known it until I turned human again and saw your ripped part body!"
"Look, next time you get sick we'll just have to be more cautious!" He hung his head and she looked at him in concern. He looked up with a mask of determination.
"There will be no next time, Hermione. We're signing the divorce papers and I ill be sent to Azkaban. I will not risk harming you physically or socially more than I already have."