AN: For The Golden Snitch: Halloween Costume Contest, Dress-Up Challenge. The Prompt is- Werewolf: Write about Remus Lupin coming into contact with Fenrir Greyback at any time in their lives. Hunting warning, mention's of death.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER!
Remus Lupin prepared for this Halloweens full moon by shedding his clothes in the clearing. Even though he was an avid Wolfsbane drinker, for some reason on Halloween the potion never worked. He had to undergo the transformation, and the power of the moon turned him into the wolf-creature he was.
When the lunar light finally washed over him, he let out a howl of agony, and let his body turn into large sleek, grey wolf. With Moony on the loose, he howled once more to the moon, listening to another howl being relinquished close by.
Sniffing the air for the other's scent, he hurled his body East and ran until he came upon another clearing. In the middle was a large, black, Alpha wolf, baring his teeth towards him. Whimpering his submissive, Moony lowered his body to the ground when he finally met his creator. Recognizing the young wolf's scent, his older counterpart nudged Moony's shoulder with his snout.
All too soon, Greyback took off, commanding Moony to follow. They ran for hours, following the scent of multiple prey, they didn't stop for any of the lesser creatures until they caught scent of a hunting Grizzly bear. Finally setting on a decent meal, they stalked closer to the large predator turned prey.
Letting Moony take control of the hunt, Greyback sat back and watched his wolf son strike his prey down and present it to him.
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Stalking back to Greyback's cave through the last hours of Moonlight, they settled down for a few hours rest after their full meal.
When they got there rest out, the both woke, nude and cold on the stone floor. Streching his sore bones, Lupin sat up, and took a good look about the cave. It was small and rounded, with a raised dias around the edge that had varying patches of straw and dried grass. In the middle looked to house a small pit for fires, and there was a doorway leading to some unknown part.
Finally noticing his counterpart waking up, Lupin turned to greet the man who turned him as a child. Unable to stop his tongue, he blurted out the one question he's spent year's asking himself, "Why?"
Grunting from exhaustion, and the all too bland question, he turned and replied, "My Wife, if you're asking why I turned you. We had a litter of pups, three small things, Dumbledore slaughtered them on one evening. Claimed it was for the greater good, it left my wife traumatized, and she lost the litter we were expecting. You looked so much like her, I'm sorry, I couldn't resist, I just wanted to make her happy, you know? But, your family was an anomaly, they didn't give you up, didn't banish you to be an outcast like I expected. My wife, Tanika, refused to take you from them."
"Where is she now?" Lupin asked.
"Dead, gone by the hands of heartbreak, I wasn't enough to keep her grounded, she went crazy. Crazy and frail, by the end of it she was hallucinating about the pups, had visions of them around her." Stuttered Greyback.
"I'm sorry, if that helps. I know what it feels like to lose one close to you, I didn't know. I would've helped if I could have."
Settling on a truce, Lupin joined Greybacks one-man pack, letting him have a piece of sanity back that Dumbledore stole from him. Effectively, it released the hold Voldemort had over him, so when he returned, they fled the country to Russia, running free with their own kind.