Now at home Everyone could relax. It was warm outside windows open. And a father to talk to. Arrum went to his father in his study to speak with the man. Arrum and his father looked a great deal alike except his father's hair was short. "Dad you busy?" He walked in. "No. Why is everything alright?"
"Yeah I just wanted to talk to you." His father looked up. "Oh about what?" Eyes that matched his own settled on him. "Well there's a girl at school. I like her but she wants me dead. I tried talking to her once she ran away from me." He said. "Better then getting punched in the face. Your mother has a wicked right one she does. Had a shiner for a week." he said.
Arrum laughed. "Tell me this girl what is she like?" His father continued. "She brilliant. She's the only girl on the Quidditch team for our house. She's been on the team since second year. Her name is Kain. She's something else. Smart, witty, fierce untamable. They call her Kain the wolf. She has these eyes that could nearly be compared to sunrise." He explained.
"She sounds like a catch. Kain's an odd name though. How does she spell it?" His father asked. "With a K. I think it suits her. It's strange for a girl to have that name. She's strange." Arrum smiled.
"You really like her?" His father asked. Arrum nodded. "I gave her a rose on Valentine's day she took it and burned it there at the table." Arrum looked down. "Young love. Do you think it has something to do with the time you chased her?"
"I chased after her twice. Just to talk. After the rose Bill talked to one of her friends and her friend said that I should give her space and let her be." Arrum told the man. "Well leave her be. The school year will be over soon. You have a few months to give her space then you try again. No chasing her down the hall. Go up to her and have a conversation." His father pointed to him.
"But what if she finds someone else?" He asked. "Has she shown interest in anyone or are the others to scared to go near her?"
"Some to scared. They all fear for their lives when it comes to Kain. She beat up a Slytherin one year he backed off for a while but came back with a vengeance. She pulled the greatest prank on them. They haven't done anything since." Arrum laughed at the memory.
"What did she do?" His father's face was one of fear and wonder. "Well once she put their beds on the lake in the dead of night. And when they finally left her and her friends alone she had put them in dresses with heels and made them sing and dance on top the tables in the great hall during dinner."
"She's untamable. Smart, witty, on the Quidditch team. Better let her have a go at you and see where it goes from there." His father looked down at his work. "Don't tell him that." Arrum's mother walked into the room.
"Hi mum. How much did you hear?" He smiled at his mother. "All of it loves. Do what her friend suggested. You'll save yourself a broken nose. And you," she pointed to her husband "Don't go telling him to let girls punch him in the face." she scolded.
"You did." He said. "Well I was mad with you and you very much so deserved it. Don't listen to your father. Give her space till next year them maybe she'll come around. Not all women are meant to be tamed." she glared at her husband playfully.
"Don't worry if she is like you say she is she'll come around soon enough." his mother said.
At the Lupin-Black home Remus watched his daughter from the corner of his eye. That night in their bedroom Sirius stood in the doorway looking at his husband get settled. "Are you going to stand there or are you going to come to bed?" Remus asked. "There's something your not telling me. Tell me." He said. Remus opened his mouth to reply.
"Don't you dare lie to me Remus. I've seen the way you look at her. You know something now tell me I want the truth." Sirius starred at the man. "She turns sixteen next month." Remus said. "What your having that time period where you want her to be that five year old again?" Sirius asked.
"Yes and no. When bitten before your sixteen and as young as Kain was bitten the wolf ages with you. Orian has grown with her for twelve years. Soon she will be and I'm dreading it. It's painful to deal with. It's like a liquid fire in your veins. Pain feels like your body is caving in and your bones feel like they're being shattered." Remus said.
"Bloody hell. How did you survive it?" Remus looked at him with the look that all spouses give to the other at one point in time or another the famous 'did you really just ask that?' look. "Not very well if I look like this. Remember when I came back to school how thin I was. Haven't gained much weight since." He said.
"I thought you were just that thin. You had always be thin I just didn't notice. Your complexion was pale. Kain is but not a great deal." Sirius sat on the bed. "She'll start losing weight and eating more meat, sleeping more. When it's over with we'll have to put the weight back on her."
HE cuddled into the dark haired mans side. "How bout in the mean time we put the weight back on you." Remus hit the man in the chest turned away from him.
"Wonder how the pup is dealing with the greasy git." Padfoot yawned and lay down. "Most likely trying not to kill each other." Remus laughed.
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"You're impossible." Kain said to the man standing next to her. "The potion has to be watched you are not going to sit in there. Nor are you going to fall asleep. That potion has to be watched closely." Snape said. "We don't have to check it for two hours why can't I get just a little sleep?"
"Because I said so. The potion is very hard to make and you will not botch it up. You can sleep late tomorrow." he said. Kain watched the man sit in an armchair and watched from behind the arm of the couch she sat upon.
"You can stop glaring at me." He didn't look up from his paper. Kain growled. This was her first time staying at the flat of the potions master. They were working on a potion that took a great deal of time to make and to be done in pairs hence why she was there. The home was rather pleasant. Not Slytherin colors but browns, burgundy and deep reds.
She got up and went into the kicthen. If she were going to be forced to stay up all night she would need a decent steak to make it through.
"Try not to eat all of it." Snape called. They were in for one hell of a night.
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Because Kain couldn't be home for her birthday and she was turning sixteen they had a party before the teens were due back for school. The birthday celebration was simple. Dinner with everyone except Bill, Charlie, and Arthur who was stuck at the ministry. But the dinner was good never the less. Two days she was on the train again. She was surprised that Arrum hadn't come around at all. When they passed in the halls he would look at her in passing and continue to keep walking. He wasn't that bad. Really cute and smart but he couldn't love an animal.
Dawn and Bill were talking. They went to Hogsmeade during the first weekend back for a cup of butter beer. When she came back she was all smiles and giggles. She closed the door behind her when she entered the room and said words to drop everyone's jaws to the floor. "We kissed." Her first real kiss from a guy that liked her. The others could be happier for they're friend.
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"Maybe I should go tell him what's what." Kain walking down the hall. She was walking from divination class to lunch with Jenna. "Don't do that. He likes her as it is don't put fear into his heart as well or it'll never go well." She said. "Fine I won't kill him." She said. When they entered the great hall Kain stopped at the door. All the smells of the food ad the sight of it made her sick to her stomach. "Kain you okay?"
"I'm not hungry. I'm going to go to the library for lunch I'll see you for dinner." She left. Kain's birthday had pasted day days before making it the 15 of May. She put her behavior to the moon. It was a few days off and this wasn't the first time she had wanted to skip a meal. A steak would be better. She slipped down to the kitchens and to her great surprise it was Leaf. A house elf that was rather fond of the girl.
"Ms. Kain want steak moon coming soon. Leaf get Ms. Kain her steak." She went off. A moment later she was back with a slightly dripping package of steak. "Thank you Leaf." Kain left to a place no one would find her so she could eat in piece. She rushes of to a high tower no one went to eat. Three steaks perfect amount of meat. Kain sat them on the ledge and picked one up to take a bite. She felt instantly better when the bite settled in her stomach.
It had started. She didn't know it. Everything that happened that week was put up to the moon. Her temper, craving for meat, wanting to run around for hours when the others had since sat down. Hell was about to set in. some days she'd only want to sleep and would fall asleep in classes causing the house points.
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"Maybe you should go to Madam Pomphrey." Alanna suggested. "I'm fine. After this I'm done for the day I'll Go take a nap. Now hush Snape's coming and I've caused us enough points today." They had all been standing in a clutter waiting the professor. "Alright today we're tasting these potions and the effects they have. Would anyone like to volunteer?" He looked up at the class. Everyone had backed up except Kain who hadn't been listening. "Ms. Lupin if you would I don't have all day." He said. "Wait what?" She looked confused at the man.
"You volunteered to taste the potions and demostraight their effects on people." She looked behind her the others were all three feet from her. "Cowards." She hissed at them. "Today Ms. Lupin-Black." Kain went up to the counter. "This is a poly juice potion that unlike a weaker form with fewer ingredients that takes a month to brew this only takes two days. Ms. Lupin." Snape handed her the bottle. Kain swallowed making a strange face at the taste. Her skin felt weird and she felt like she was getting smaller. Furrier.
"Where'd she go?" one student asked. Snape bent down and picked up the kitten. "This poly jucie potion does many things. It makes you take the form of someone or thing for three hours unless you have the antidote. But when hair is mixed in the drinker will take on that shape. It appears cat hair has found it's way into the potion and now Ms. Lupin is a kitten." He told them. He put the antidote on the counter in front of her while he rambled off what was in the potion.
Three potions later Kain was very much so ready to hex the man. The bell rang. "Thank you." She dashed out the door quicker then the others. Her friends followed quickly behind her. "That was priceless. You turned into a kitten. I wanted to hug you so bad. I adore kittens." Jenna said. "You're terrible friends. And he owes me a bar of Honeydukes chocolate." Kain said. "Well you lot get to your next class I'm going for my nap." she said. The last few days Kain had begun to get dark circles under her eyes.
"I hope she's alright. I've never seen her like that even with the moon hovering in the sky." Dawn said. "She'll get better."
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