"You are a master mind my little pup. I raised thee well." Sirius said. "It was brilliant. The entire Great hall was laughing at them. Oh did I mention I threw in matching heels?" Kain asked. "If you had been a marauder you would have upstaged us all and I don't think any of us would have minded it." HE laughed.
"So do you think they'll try anything again?" Remus asked. "Moony you're the responsible parent your meant to scold me for doing such things."
"It'd the holidays he's lucky he didn't get anything worse. Wait could you come up with something worse?" Moony asked the young werewolf. "I don't think so." Kain shook her head.
"They call me Kain the wolf. Some bloody thing about me playing Quidditch. No I still haven't told them every time I think about it I get sick to my stomach."
"Well then it's not the time to. When it's time you'll know. Other wise it'll just fall from the sky." Sirius said. "Great and while things are fall an tree branch could fall on me so if they find out I don't have to deal with it afterwards." Remus shook his head. "You worry way to much."
"Your one to talk you were worrying everyday that someone other then Prongs, Wormtail, and I knew. So don't tell her not to worry." Sirius said. "Here better idea. Don't worry about it. I know this seems like a hard thing to do but if you stop worrying about it so much you'll find that you worried yourself far to much for something that would have been accepted in the first place." Harry said.
"I think you should have been a parent. No wait teacher. Teach high school." Kain laughed.
"Nope I'm happy where I am." Harry told her. "You know pup I was going to wait to give you this till you were sixteen but I think you can't have it now. On Christmas morning that is." Sirius said. That was the worst almost got a gift before Christmas morning trick ever.
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Christmas morning everyone was downstairs opening gifts. Sirius withheld Kain's gift from her so it would be the last thing she opened. From Remus she got a box of Honeydukes' chocolate, which contained about a month's worth of chocolate and a box of sugar quills. (Werewolves like sugar too.)
The last gift Sirius handed her the box. "I bought that when you were seven I tried to wait but it seemed to long a wait so I'm giving it to you now." Padfoot said. It was a small box with gold paper and a silver ribbon on top. Kain opened the box and inside was a silver crescent moon necklace. (My story silver doesn't affect them)
"Thank you Padfoot. I love it." She put the necklace on and then the bracelet. "The bracelet to match was Rem's idea. We couldn't wait for it any longer. You've done so well and controlled the wolf. We're proud of you. And we love you pup."
"I love you all too. But are you ever going to stop calling me pup. I'm not a pup anymore." Kain protested.
"Of course you are, you're our pup and you always will be." Remus said hugging her again. "Harry help me out here please." Kain begged. He shook his head and smiled continuing to watch.
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Now back at school Kain was getting ready to face the up coming moon. With that to worry about Jenna's birthday was just a few days away. The snow had fallen again but it was light and didn't add much to what had fallen when they were gone. "Fifteen one more and it'll be sixteen and after that you can use magic outside of school without getting in trouble. Bet that'll be fun."
"I'm not really worried about my birthday. Valentine's Day is next month and I'm wondering if I should ask Gareth to be my valentine." Jenna said. Three mouths dropped open. "What is wrong with you? You'll have all the time you want after we graduate to do all of that finding a boyfriend thing." Kain said.
"Oh it's not so bad. Besides I've seen Arrum looking at you sometimes. Although I don't know if that's the I-love-her-but-she-hates-me look or the she'll-kill-me-if-I-speak-to-her." Jenna and the others laughed. "Yeah, yeah. Har, har. Go to bed you goofy git." Kain turned over to sleep. The others did the same. Kain tossed and turned in her sleep the craving for raw meat was to great to let her rest. She opened her eyes it was five in the morning. By now the house elves were getting to the kitchen to start making breakfast. She slipped from her bed and slid out the door as quiet as possible.
She still crept around every corner as is she would get in trouble but she wouldn't. At the kitchen she met a house elf. "Moon is tonight would miss like her steak rare as always?" the house elf asked. "Just give it to me raw okay." A minute later she was devouring the thick chunk of meat satisfying the wolf till night. Her nails and canines had grown and her eyes changed color. Kain slipped back into the room and lay down drifting off to sleep till it was time to wake up.
The day was a rather cold one the snow on the ground and the wind whipping about. It would be a good night to go without the potion. But she didn't trust herself to be alone. It would have to be done when she went home. "Be careful tonight it's cold. I'll leave this here. Should it get to cold Hagrid said your welcome to his hut to escape the cold." Poppy Pomphrey said. Kain ran off into the woods.
The cold had stung her eyes a bit. The snow under her pads crunched as she stepped. The wolf in her was in the trill of a hunt. Hippogriffs were in around. Three of them. All those moons Sirius had taught her how to hunt by chasing mice and rabbits. It had it's head down. It didn't belong to the school, they were kept near Hagrid's little hut, and this one was wild so it wouldn't have mattered if it died or not.
Closer, closer, body low to the ground. Wait for the right moment. She stepped closer it brought it's head up. Wait for it, wait for it. She stepped closer stepping on a stick that gave a loud snap as it broke. Now or never. Kain jumped for make the attack but the hippogriff turned around on it's hind quarters and took a swat at her. Knocking her over. It didn't stop there it stomped it's clawed feet around her.
Kain got up and charged again going for the throat. It hit her again in the side knocking the wind from her. Kain stood and back away from the angry beast. Wincing in pain with every step. Three large deep gashes in her side. She stopped at the edge of the woods unable to go any further, blood lose taking its toll. A trail of blood littered the snow breaking the purity of it all. She had to make it further she was so close she'd freeze before sun up.
Kain forced herself further to get the blanket Poppy had left. She collapsed on the ground shivering madly. The sky began to little. Going from a dark midnight blue to a pale grayish one. The moon settled behind the mountains out of sight. Kain curled deeper into herself as she changed back. Using the last of the strength she could find to grab the blanket and wrap herself in it waiting for Pomphrey.
She had to stay awake or she would die in the snow. This would have been a good thing to stay a wolf to have the warm fur. "Merlin what have you done to yourself this time?" the woman rushed over to the shivering teen. Cuts were reopened and bleeding into the snow again. She hadn't seen anything this bad before not even from Remus.
She wanted to cry right then but would hold it. She knelt to pick the girl up, Kain screamed in agony as Madam Pomphrey touched the three large cuts. Taking one arm and wrapping it around her neck she slid her arm under the child's arm and helped her up before taking her in.
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The process had been painfully slow and agonizing. Pomphrey put her in the first bed she could reach and rushed off again to get two other nurses and bandages. "Hold her down." She said to them. Poppy began pealing the blanket away from Kain's skin making her scream. The two nurses gasped.
After much screaming, cleaning, crying and wrapping Kain was helped into standard issue pajamas for the hospital wing. When the nurses were gone Poppy Pomphrey came back over with a potion bottle in her hand. "I don't know how you managed such a feet and I don't care to know at the moment. Just drink this and go to sleep." Poppy pushed the cup to her lips.
"I'm sorry. This wasn't meant to happen." Kain whispered, voice tired from screaming. "What did you do?"
"Tried hunting." Kain's eyes fluttered shut. Poppy left the bedside leaving a Honeydukes chocolate bar on the bedside table.
Bill had been in one of his classes and burned his arm. The professor sent him to Madam Pomphrey immediately to get fixed up. As he walked in and passed the beds he saw the one that held Kain. She looked pained and paler then her normal. Kain had four scratches on her face. Two of which had been deep and needed to be bandaged. Bill hadn't realized it but he had stopped in front of the bed to study the girl. " come away from there you wouldn't want someone to gawk at you whist you got well." He took him by the shoulder and led him away.
Bill ran from the hospital wing to the common room looking for Alanna, Dawn and Jenna. He was sure they didn't know she was there. They had been worried about her when she didn't show up at breakfast. They weren't in the common room so they still had to be in the great hall. Getting all the way there he didn't see them.
"Bill come here." Gareth called him over. "Why are you all out of breath?" Gareth pulled bill into the seat. "I need to find… those girls that Kain the wolf…. is always with. Do you know where… I can find them?" He panted. "They just left for the library five minutes ago." A sixth year told them. "Thank you." Bill took off for the library.
In the library he found the three. "Hi Bill what you need cause your not getting my homework again." Dawn said. "Kain...is in...The hospital wing." Bill breathed. He placed his hands of his knees and sucked in air. The three got up and packed their things quickly before running off to the hospital wing.
The minute they got there Madam Pomphrey was there to stop them. "Not now she needs to sleep." Madam Pomphrey said. "But what happened?" Jenna asked. "It's a muggle virus. She had to stay here till she's better and I don't know how long that may take. But for now let her rest maybe tomorrow if she wakes up you my see her. Now off with the lot of you." she said.
The girls left back for their dorm. "How did she catch a muggle virus?"
"Sometimes it lays dormant till your exposed to the right conditions for it to come up." Dawn told them. "I hope she gets better." Alanna said.