Kain didn't wake up that day. When she did she was in a great amount of pain. "Don't touch it. You've done enough to it already. How do you feel?" Poppy asked. "Sore. Is anyone looking for me?" She knew she had slept for a long time. "Yes but you can rest easy. I told your friends it was a muggle virus. They'll be sure to get your work to make up." Pomphrey pushed a healing potion into her hands.

"I hope you won't try anything like that again." Poppy scolded. "Don't tell me twice. I'm never hunting alone again." Kain groaned. "It's permanent scaring. They were rather deep. So try your best to keep them hidden. They should be healed in a few days. When you feel well enough to walk I'll let you back to your dorm room."

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Kain was set free three days later. The girls had dropped off her assignments and after having slept 48hours she stayed up all day and night to finish her work. When she walked into her charms class Alanna, Jenna and Dawn smiled. When the class was over they walked out into the corridor. "What happen to you?" "It was a muggle virus called flu. It bloody well sure wasn't pleasant. All I did was sleep through it." she lied as if it were a normal thing and in her case it was.

Dear Moony and Padfoot,

I tried hunting alone and landed myself into a great deal of trouble. Missed four days of classes and now have a new batch of scars. It's lonely to roam the night alone. I don't see how you could stand it all those years Sirius was gone. When I get home for Easter holiday would it be all right to go hunting. The wolf craves it. I had a raw streak the morning of the full moon.

Love

Kain

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Kain had snuck into the showers late so no one might see her scar. Three now smooth lines ran down her side where the hippogriff's talons meet her body. Kain had been in her own thoughts and didn't hear Alanna coming in. Alanna stopped when she saw the scars. She had never seen them before. They had to be new. But then again Kain's body was littered in scars. Kain had told them that it was from the beatings her parents gave her for those years before Sirius and Remus.

Alanna went back to the room and told Jenna and Dawn what she had seen. Now it was just a matter of waiting for the girl to come in. To find out what really happened and where she had really been.

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Dawn stood by the door while Jenna and Alanna waited on Jenna's bed that was closest to the door. Kain walked in dressed in her nightwear. Dawn closed the door and stood in front of it while dawn and Jenna sat Kain in a chair. "What's going on with you three?" She asked. "What really happened to you Kain? Alanna saw the scars and she said they weren't like the others that these were new ones. So tell us what happened." dawn said.

"Nothing happened I've kept them hidden well enough and now you've seen them."

"No Kain stop lying to us. We're your best friends. We'd still be your friends if you told us what happened to you. I don't care if your half troll, or pixie please tell us." Jenna pleaded. "You say that now but you'd change your mind once you knew." Kain almost growled.

"Please why won't you tell us? Don't you trust us?" Alanna questioned.

Kain's head hung. She had lied to her friend for three and a half years.

Friends are more accepting then you think. Was that really true or was that just something someone had said to make her feel better?

"Please tell us what happened. We were worried sick the least we could get is and answer." Dawn snapped.

"Alright. I.. I'm.. I'm a werewolf. There now you know. Go on run be afraid of the big bad wolf." Kain said to them bitterly. "Why would we run? We're your best friends. We don't care." Alanna hugged Kain Then dawn Finally Jenna. "We're your best friends no matter what. You've been there when we needed you and we're here for you now."

It was over. The secret was out. She wasn't alone and her friends didn't hate her. "So now that you know I guess there's a lot to talk about now isn't there?" Kain asked.

"Well of course there is."

"So when did you become a werewolf?" "How long have you been one?" "Is it painful?"

"Slow down. Now one at a time alright." She looked at Dawn. "Is it painful?" "Yes. But only when I go without my wolfsbane potion. I'll explain that later. Alanna?" "So when did you become one?" she settled more onto the bed. "That ties into how long I've been one so I guess I could tell that story." Kain said. "Please do." the three said at once.

"Well I was three when I was bitten. I lied when I said I didn't know my birth parents. I knew them till I was three when I was bitten they grew to hate me. I was three soon to be four. My birthday was just two or three weeks away. IT was a party with family and friends. My cousins and I were catching fireflies near the edge of that the woods. We were only in them by a few trees you could still see the house. Everything after that was is a blur now. I was bitten there was screaming and yelling, pain.

They put me in the basement. But Professor Dumbledore had erased all memories of my time down there. The only reason I know that they kept me in a basement was because I over heard Remus and Sirius talking one night. Other then that I don't remember the basement. I remember the night I was bitten, being extremely lonely." Kain had focused her eyesight on the floor while thinking.

"What about Remus And Sirius? How did you wind up with them?"

"That was also Dumbledore's doing. You see Dumbledore has always meddled in things and peoples lives. Sometimes for the better, in my case the better. The night he came, he came with Professor McGonagall. I thought they were there to hurt me the wolf in me was scared so it screamed and snarled at them. Dumbledore had used a sleeping charm on me because the next thing I knew I was waking up in his office. I was five by this time. I had been cowering in the corner trying to make myself smaller, to disappear away from the strange place. That's when Remus and Sirius came.

I looked at them and thought they looked far too nice to be mean. Remus had eyes like mine amber colored. Sirius eyes were gray I had never seen gray eyes before. Now if you know Remus has a deep addiction to chocolate. It fixes everything in his case. But he gave me a piece. Sirius had put me on his knee, as he held me I felt something I knew I hadn't felt in a long time. Warmth. You warmth you get when your mother or father hugs you. I fell asleep in his arms. Next I woke up in a bed. Warmth, safe, secure.

My first day there Remus told me about wolfsbane. HE said that I would think like a human on the full moon and I wouldn't feel pain. I gave it a shot and my next full moon I was rounding abour the yard with Sirius. He's a animgus his animal is a dog." Kain finished telling them.

"What's it like?" dawn asked. "Well when I take my potion it's so much fun. But when I don't I'm in great deals of pain and I hurt myself every time. You know how every now and again you hear Shrieking coming from the shrieking shack. Well that shrieking is me. The transformation from human to werewolf is very painful. The day of the full moon my eyes change color, my nails grow and my canines get longer. It happens to young werewolves." Kain answered.

"So where do you get the potion from?" Jenna asked. "Snape. He makes it and gives it to Madam Pomphrey to give me." Kain said. "But being a werewolf don't you crave raw meat. I've never seen you eat the stuff. Not even a rare steak." Alanna said. "That's what got me in trouble this last full moon. I tried to take down a wild hippogriff and the bloody thing won that fight. If I really need meat I just go down to the kitchens early in the morning. The house elves give me generous hunks of it." she smiled.

"Who else knows besides Madam Pomphrey and Snape?"

"All the teachers know. The fight I got in we didn't lose any points for it. Even Filch knows. I've run into him a few times while going to get meat from the kitchen. Anything else?"

"Can we join you next full moon?"

"No. I don't want you getting in trouble or losing sleep. Maybe this summer if Remus and Sirius say it's all right then you can come. But you cannot tell anyone about it. Swear it cause I keep all your secrets." She said. On that note the girls climbed into bed. "My best friend is a werewolf. That's pretty cool."

"Go to sleep Alanna." Kain laughed.

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Dear Harry, Padfoot, and Moony,

I told them. They now know that their friend is indeed a werewolf. They haven't the slightest issue with it. If fact we spent a good amount of time talking about it. They were rather curious about werewolves. All in all I'm happy. My shoulders feel much lighter now that I don't have to hide it from them. The wolf is happy too. I didn't tell them about you Moony but they want to see me during the full moon this summer. I said Only if the two of you would be all right with it.

Lots of love,

Kain