That night Kain went to the shrieking shack without her potion. Let the wolf within have what it wanted. Madam Pomphrey had looked everywhere for the girl till she found her bloody and bruised on the floor of the shrieking shack her face covered in tears. Maybe it was time for Remus to come and talk to her. When Kain woke up she meet a pair of eyes that matched her own and they weren't happy not in the least. They were tired and wore out. Remus. Kain opened her mouth to talk but Remus shook his head.
"You're going to listen first. Being a werewolf was never easy. Your not a beast on the inside you're a wolf. Don't shun that part of you or you regret it later. You were robbed of a childhood as was I but you were robbed of it earlier. You were three, I was seven. My parent's love for me was more then the animal I was inside. They did everything they could to help me. As for skipping the potion I would be lying if I said I didn't skip my potion once in awhile. You have to sometimes to let the wolf run free and not be completely caged.
You have to have faith in yourself that you won't hurt anyone. I was a second year when I got into a fight. I'm glad you made it to third had more patience then I did at that age. As you get older the scars fade but some don't. We have enough scares to last us each four lifetimes. It gets easier when you have someone else know. But tell them on your own time. No need to rush but they'll know soon enough." Remus told her. Kain couldn't say anything. She was tired and hurting still. Even cool, collected Remus let the wolf run free every now and again. "Here eat the chocolate." He gave her a rather large piece nibbling on his own.
"Honeydukes solves everything." Kain said taking a nibble. "I blame and thank Poppy for my addiction to chocolate." Remus hummed. "Oh do you know?" Poppy came over to the bed. "I was tired of seeing you hurting after the moon. It made me cry. I
went to Albus and told him that I couldn't do it. He said that you needed me and you did. But I couldn't do it alone. Honeydukes had always made me feel better still does. Now it works for you two." She smiled. "You'll be okay you'll see. Get some sleep; send an owl in a few days so we know how you're doing. Send one to Molly she says you don't write her enough. Bye pup." Remus leaned over and kissed her forehead. As he stood she remembered the fight. "So your not mad that I beat him?" she asked.
"No. We'll see you home for Christmas." Remus left. Few hours later Poppy walked Kain to the common room. Kain went to her dorm the rest of the way by herself. When she snuck in the others were asleep. They had also woken before her the next morning. "What happened to you? We were worried about you we went to Snape to get answers and you know he's the scariest thing to walk these halls." Dawn said. Not true, I am. No stop, Kain thought. "I had to write I would not fight a thousand times. And then clean cauldrons. So you can thank me in potions today." She lied. "Why do you look so tired? And where did the cuts come from?" Alanna asked.
"I also had to help Hagrid with rounds. Stella thought she was being funny and took my wand she dropped it by the whopping willow. That's something I never want to do again. It hurt. So I spent the day in the hospital wing. But I got my wand." She smiled. The others laughed and got ready for the day. Anyone who had been in the courtyard the other day would have seen the fight. And now the whole school knew about it. Many of the other students from Gryffindor were thanking her and shaking her hand. Even Nearly Headless Nick had something to tell her.
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Marcus said nothing else to Kain or her friends. Whenever he saw her he turned the other way and his followers went with him. Many of the other Gryffindor students said she was a force to be reckoned with all right if she could put a stop Marcus and his goons. When the holidays came everyone said goodbye as they got off the train. Remus couldn't be there that year to pick her up but would be home that night. Sirius was there with a very large smile on his face. "Hello pup." Sirius hugged Kain very deeply. When Remus had abruptly left that morning for Kain he had been deeply worried but couldn't go with him. So when he found out what had happened to his daughter he wanted nothing more then to hug her and tell her that it was all right like a father should. "Can't breathe. Air, air I need air." Kain tried getting out of her father's embrace. "Sorry pup I missed you." Sirius said to his defense. "No you've been worried about me ever since Remus had to dash
off to Hogwarts." Kain said. "Lets get home I have s story to tell you." Sirius said.
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Now home at their flat Kain had curled into the armchair and Sirius was on the couch. "So what's the story about Padfoot?" "Remus nor I have ever told you how we his friends found out about his furry problem. So that it the story you will hear." HE took a deep drink of his tea. "Oh another Remus story go on get on with it." "Alright. We I had known James Harry's father for years. He was my best friend for years before. We had met Peter Petigrew on the platform before boarding Remus we met when we found the last barely occupied car.
He was the only one in it looking a little sad and nervous. James was the first one to speak. Remus was so cute as a first year his ears had a habit of turning red when he was embarrassed. But right there we had made him our friend it became even better when we were all put into the same house. Remus was for the most part rather quiet. We dragged him along for pranks. Then one day he was withdrawn more then his normal we didn't think of it. We all thought he was sick but then he had to make up a new lie when the weather got warmer.
Said that he had a sick grandmother. It worked but second year he had to come up with new lies every month like that he was sick or he ate to much at dinner and his stomach hurt. Third year we started to notice the scars on his arms he said it was from a camping trip with his father over the summer. Beginning of fourth year everything was fine then he was gone for a good two days. He said he had gone home because his mother died. We all felt really bad about it. He was careful not to say anything and we were careful not to say anything about his mum.
But he slipped up on his words one day and then we began figuring things out. He's mum wasn't dead and we wanted to know why he had lied to us. We at him down one night and made him tell us everything. Why he had lied and why he was covered in scars. Glamour wasn't Remus's strong point so he couldn't hide them. But he told us abut being a werewolf and how he hated it. How he wished he could be normal and would understand if we hated him. But we wanted to help him. For the first few months he still could not believe we were still his friends." Sirius told her. Kain went to her room thinking about all she had been told.
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"Well we could go hiking." It was the summer holidays. Where we could find the girls very bored with nothing to do. They were spending the week at Alanna's. Her parents didn't mind. "No try again." The four could be found sitting under a large shady tree. It was terribly hot in the sun. "I got a better idea and it means staying cool for the next few hours." Kain got up. "And what pray tell would that be?" they smiled. "Lets go for a swim. Come on it'll be fun. There's a clean creek not far into the woods."
"This'll be great." They came to the water's edge. Rolling up pant legs and wading in. Dawn was the first. "It's freezing. But it feels great, come on." She laughed. Kain waded in next. "Cold, cold, cold." She jumped. "This isn't going to work it's to bloody cold." She climbed out. "What are you going to do about it?"
"Jump in of course silly." She jumped in the water the momentum pushing her under the surface. The water was pleasantly cool when you jumped in all together. Kain resurfaced, Alanna and Jenna were next to jump in slashing the other two girls with water. "That's it. I'm tired of getting splashed with water." Dawn sent a large wave of water at Jenna who after recovering sent waves back. Alanna then spoke up, "If this is what your like during a water fight I don't want to know what you can do during a snowball fight."
"Snowball fights are lots of fun. Moony, Padfoot and Prongslet enjoy them very much. Last time we had one we lost to Remus. He is serious about snowball fights." Kain told her friends. "But he's funny. So is Sirius."
"Yeah and I love them to death." Kain said. The day was spent in the water. Kain went home two days later complaining that her stomach was bothering her. She got home a full week before the moon.