His grandfather's name was Dravyn and his grandmother's was Vatonia. "Met you grandmother when we were still young. She didn't go to Hogwarts but had wanted too. Back then Dumbledore was not the headmaster and werewolves were frowned upon. I was twenty and she was eighteen. Her parents thought her the ways of the wizarding world since she could not go to school. We met in a muggle market place." He grandfather smiled.
His grandfather had brown eyes with dark gray hair. He was a tall man with a wide chest and broad shoulders. Still rather slim for his age. "Now back when we were young werewolves were not aloud to hold jobs or work in many places. We were forced by the ministry to wear tags stating that we were werewolves so that everyone knew. We called them collars. I was bitten at the age of ten. It's rare for woman to be turned into werewolves. When a werewolf is looking to bite a human they look for testosterone something males give off.
We had been in the woods looking for a plate for our mother, my brothers and I, the flower could only be found during the full moon. We didn't know there were werewolves in the area. I saw it going after Franklin and pushed Franklin out of the way it bit me instead. The wolf ran off. That next full moon I was locked away in the cellar for my first change. The day following my mother took me to my room dressed my wounds and cried for me. The pain had been hell. I didn't remember a thing. I was registered with the ministry and given my tags. Tizzy." She called a house elf. Tizzy appeared.
"Please get my tags for me." She said. "Yes mistress." With a snap of the little elf's fingers she a chain appeared in her hands. She handed it over the Vatonia. "Thank you Tizzy you may go." The lf was gone. "Here." Vatonia threw the chain to her grandson." They bare my name when I was bitten and if I was cared for or not. I had to wear them in the open. I wouldn't be aloud to do magic if I hadn't been living with my family. I would never marry, never bond, never love or be loved. I told myself this from the age of ten and quickly believed it. I would forever be with my family." Vatonia said.
That day in the market place I saw your grandmother. She looked so beautiful but so sad. I thought I couldn't let someone so beautiful walk around sad. I went to cheer her up and she pushed me away. Pushed me right to the ground. She wanted nothing to do with me. But I waited for three days for her to come back. When she did I caught her by her arm and asked 'Why do you look so sad when the day is so pretty?' Your grandmother couldn't help but smile. She said 'Whether I'm smiling or not it is none of your business sir. Now release me or I'll break your wrist.' She was gone again till a week later. I couldn't help myself I had never meet a woman like her." Dravyn said.
"It went on like this for two months before he finally asked me to dinner. In the time we had these encounters we had talked a bit but not a lot. Our courtship lasted three years. In that time we had met each other's families and had grown to love each other. All the while I hid my secret from him with glamour. The night he asked me to marry him I ran way from him. I couldn't be a wife to him. I was beast on the inside and wouldn't let him tie his life to something that could kill him." Vatonia said.
"I told your grandmother that whatever is was we would work through it. She pulled her tags from inside her dress and looked at me with those sad eyes. 'I belong to the moon. People shun me for what I am. I cannot be a wife to you it would be unfair to put you through the pain of losing your family just for me.' she said. I didn't care. She was still human to me. Werewolf and all. It is true I feared your grandmother for the time being till that next moon.
I was there the next full moon I stood my ground and lived. There was no wolfsbane potion in those days. But she was just as beautiful in her fur as she was in her skin. I presented my knowledge of your grandmother to my family and they did not accept at first but quickly came around. We were married in fall. The ministry was not happy but I could care less. I loved her all the same. The wolf was part of her and it made her who she is." Dravyn kissed Vatonia's cheek.
"On our wedding day we stood facing each other ready to be wedded. Your grandfather stopped the ceremony to reach for my tags and rip them off. He threw them out of sight and said 'I intend to marry you. Those tags do not tell me who you are or tell me what I know about you. I know who you are because you have told me. Continue.' I was the happiest woman alive that day. Two years later we had your father and his brothers."
Dimitri was the middle child of three. He and his brothers were triplets and the only children. Female werewolves were indeed rare but like wolves having little they could carry any where from two to five children at once. The point is there is nothing to fear. You feel in love with her and she was a wolf for the time you knew her. Then she tells you and you fear her." his grandfather stated.
"But did you have night mares. She told me and that I went to sleep she was there in snow and beautiful then she was a wolf trying to kill me. How do I face that?" He asked. "It's in your head. Are you really in fear of this wolf or are you in love with the person? I had my nightmares but my love was stronger. After tomorrow night we want you to think about her, you everything we've told you." His grandmother said. Arrum nodded and headed for the spare room they kept for him.
"Think about her? That's all I ever do these days." He said lying on the bed.
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The next night they went to the back yard where of his grandparent's manor where his grandmother proceeded to turn into a large wolf with a mostly white coat of fur. She was beautiful with her yellow eyes and sleek body. She walked with grace. "Beauty in both fur and skin. It's a balance I've come to love. We use to run through the night like it was ours. We were the only two in the world on a full moon. It looked like his grandmother was smiling. She turned her head up and howled.
"Come on we'll walk for now." They followed the wolf into the trees. "When she's in her fur she likes to be called Orin." They walked and walked. "Do you know why I call you little loop?" His grandfather asked. "No." Arrum watched his grandfather. "Well another word for werewolf is Loups-garoux. When you were born your eyes were the same piercing colors as your grandmother's. You went to sleep once and woke up you looked at me and your eyes were a wolf's yellow."
"But you weren't worried that I could be born a werewolf?" Arrum asked. "We weren't worried. Werewolves can sense others. Your grandmother knew you weren't a wolf. But after seeing those eyes you were always going to be Little Loop." The night was perfect cold but beautiful. "Come on Little Loop we're going to run back. Think you can keep up?" the older wizard asked. "Better question is grandpa can you?" the three took off in a run back to the manor.
Orin won the race with her husband coming in second and their grandson bursting through the trees last. "I may be old but I'm not ready to be put out to pasture just yet pup." The older man smiled. After his grandmother had changed back he hugged her for showing him how beautiful the werewolf world was. Arrum went to sleep that night the next morning he ran down to breakfast.
"I love her. I don't care about the wolf in her. I love Kain and want to spent my life with her."
He said. "Then go get her."
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Orian was patrolling the halls the night before Winter Solstice. Christmas was just around the corner she was hoping to find a nice rare roast in a bowl with her name on it. She had gotten thinner over the last few months what with all the moving and burning more energy. When she got back to her skin Molly was going to have a field day feeding the girl.
She had stayed up well into the day watching the students go about getting ready. Orian retired to Snape's room around six to sleep the night away while everyone had a bit of fun. She woke to the sound of her name being called. "Come to the Great Hall. Headmaster's orders." Snape said. Not wanting to keep Dumbledore waiting she trotted her way to the great hall. It was flooded with students.
All right you got me here what is it?
"Your starting to sound like Severus."
You would too if you patrolled all night. What did you need?
"The students felt they should say thank you for what you did getting rid of the other werewolf."
I have no desire to be thanked. I would have done it students or not this is my stomping ground. Now I'm going back. Good night.
"Just for a little while. Come on." They walked in the dance floor was clear except for one man. A man she wanted to leave.
What's he doing here? Get him gone or send me to Azkaban.
It was Arrum." He is here because he wished to come and see the students this year." Dumbledore said.
I'm going before I'm seen.
She felt a great deal of hate in her heart for Arrum. Her heart had mended and it was no longer for the taking.
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Arrum had no luck in finding the girl at Hogwarts. Arrum saw dawn and Bill standing in a corner together. He walked over to the two. "Hey mate how are you? What are you doing here?" Bill asked. "I'm fine. I'm looking for Kain. I was hoping she'd be here." Arrum said sounding let down.
"Why are you looking for her haven't you done enough?" Dawn glared at him. "I know I broke her heart. But recently I've come to realize she's the only one for me. That who she was was not just her but the wolf as well. I found out that my grandmother is a werewolf. My grandparents shared their story with me. I need to find her and make things right again." Arrum said.
"Well we don't know where she is at the moment. No one has seen her since September. She left after the full moon." Dawn lied.
Thank you Dawn.
Dawn heard the voice of her friend. "At the moment. Where could she have gone?" Arrum said. "Yes. She left to join a werewolf pack. Last letter I received from her said they were moving through Romania. She said she'd send another letter around now. That was three weeks ago." Dawn explained to the man. "But did she say anything about coming back. Surely Remus and Sirius know." Arrum said.
"She has gone to a place where she is happy. If you respect your life you will leave her alone. Where she chooses to go is her business not yours. You have no ties to her." The voice that spoke was one Arrum knew very well. Snape stood two inches taller then him. His black eyes starred into him. Arrum gulped and back away from the man. Better Snape then Remus. The werewolf had made promise to kill him.
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Arrum left the school in misery. His huntress had gone off into the world. She could find a male and mate with him. Find someone who would expect the fur. But Kain was strong willed and would not let a male into her life so easily. He would wait for her every day till next school year. She was going to be teaching. That is what Dumbledore had told him before he left.
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Snape, Dawn and Bill all went down to the dungeons to find Orian sitting on the couch staring into the fire.
Thank you for telling him I'm away.
"We'll tell the others also that if he should go to anyone else they know what to tell him." dawn said. "So far he thinks your in Romania with a werewolf pack. Snape scared him off which I really didn't think was necessary. But after dawn told me about Remus well I think my friend got lucky." Bill said.
Well I start teaching next year. The DADA professor is going to resign at the end of school. Sev is going to take over for that class then I'm in for potions. So he might come looking for me then. I'll just hex him.
"Well tomorrow we go to Pack cottage for Christmas." Snape said.
Finally. But we really must figure out something for me to do while I'm down here by myself. It gets rather boring.
"Pack cottage. I thought it was called Lupin-Black cottage." Bill looked confused. The goatee he was growing mad him look older mid twenties. "They changed the name last year. To everyone who doesn't know about Remus and Kain it's Lupin-Black everyone else knows it as Pack cottage." Snape explained. "Well we're going to go back one last dance of the night. Good night Professor, Kain." Gareth said standing. Dawn waved on the way out the door.
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Christmas had been a very happy affair at the home of the boy-who-lived, two werewolves and ex-convict. Orian got her wish for roast cooked just the way she wanted it. It had been a very marry Christmas. At the New year's party Orian walked around weaving through the legs of the people. The only one not there was Molly. They had come up with a lie that Kain was sick and at the Weasleys.
Orian was just a dog walking about. She was the family pet and she didn't mind. Being on four legs was easy but you did come to miss your hands. She missed them she missed cooking and making meals for herself. Most of all she missed making the potions. But being in the potions lab and watching the other students she made due.
A/N: review or I set Orian on you.