Not the Best of Ideas
After that morning and dealing with the first of the nay sayers, things started going much smoother for Elizabeth and Remus. Nearly everyone was fine with the relationship and if they weren't they would usually keep their mouths shut, especially after a few incidents when Remus or Liz had told off those that had spoken ill of the pairing. Molly was still far from pleased with the pairing and on more than one occasion made not so subtle remarks on how wonderful George was. Liz had stayed true to her nature and ignored the lot, keeping her attention focused entirely on Remus. The first and only real argument that the pair had during those months had been when the next full moon came up. Liz had wanted to use her shape-shifting ability to go with Remus when he transformed but he had flat out refused and demanded that she stay inside. After some arguing she had reluctantly stayed in but only after getting Remus to agree that when the moon set she would get to take care of him once he got back. Liz herself had decided that if the moon had set and Remus still wasn't back after some amount of time she would go out and bring him back in, though she had opted not to inform him of her additional condition since she wouldn't put it past him to tie her to something to keep her inside.
Having taken a nap earlier in the day, Liz stayed up to see Remus off, then taken another nap with an alarm set to wake her up when it was nearly time for the moon to go back down so that Remus couldn't get upset that she was being deprived of sleep. Working as she'd hoped the alarm went off shortly before the moon set, giving Liz enough time to throw together a small snack for Remus when he came in. Nearly two hours after being due back in the house, Remus had still not come back. Being extremely worried, Liz went outside still in the shorts and tank top that she had gone to sleep in and proceeded towards where she knew Remus would be with caution, she still very much remembered her mother's fate and as such took caution in most everything. The closer she got to where Remus should be the more worried Liz became. The environment around her was eerily silent and devoid of any other forest creatures. On any normal day, it took quite a bit to scare Liz but at the moment she was terrified and had no idea what to think. She didn't know if something had happened to Remus or if he was in fact the cause of the unusually desolate forest.
"Remus?" Liz called out softly. "Rem, are you out here?" The forest remained silent, seeming to echo her every word until Liz thought she heard movement in the distance. Heart rate spiking, she listened intently but heard no more noise and her heart sank as she started worrying that Remus had been taken. The answer to her worries came as Liz found herself being slammed against a tree before a hard body pinned her to it with a growl. Liz let out a pained squeak and clamped her eyes shut as her body trembled. Remus hadn't answered her which meant that it was unlikely that he was the one that had her pinned to a tree, leaving her with the horrible fear of her apparent captor.
Focus damn it, you came out here to find Remus not suddenly turn in to a coward. How can you possibly expect to fight death eaters when you can't even manage going out in these woods and finding Remus. He's said it himself, you're one of the strongest witches he's ever met so stop being a baby and take care of this so you can find him. Liz yelled at herself. Still trembling, Liz opened her eyes and nearly screamed when saw her captor.
"Remus!" She gasped softly, shifting to move out of his grip only to be pushed back against the tree. "Remus stop it you're hurting me." Liz cried out as Remus' hands tightened in to a vice like grip around her arms.I am starting to think that coming out here looking for him was a bad idea. Liz thought fearfully, starting to worry more as he stared hungrily at her body and his face hovered hardly an inch from hers. As Remus' lips suddenly started attacking her neck, Liz thought back to everything he'd once told her about werewolves and went pale when she remembered what he'd said about the increased sex drive near full moons. Her worry from this recollection was more for Remus than it was for herself because she knew full well that anything that happened he'd hold himself fully accountable for and that if Liz was hurt by him because of this then she'd likely be waiting until hell froze over to get sex from him again.
Making a decision, Liz waited until Remus' arms traveled down to her waist before she shifted in to a wolf and took off to the house, not shifting back until she'd made it inside. With any luck, Remus would calm down by the time he got to the house rather than become more riled up, the second of which would not bode well for her. Breathing heavily, Liz hurried to put on pants and a longer shirt before taking measures to ensure that they would be more difficult to take off, though she was aware that it wouldn't take much for Remus to rip them clean off if he so wished. Once she'd put on the extra layers, she cautiously made her way back to the main room, nearly screaming when the door opened and Remus stumbled through. As soon as she was sure that there was little risk, Liz all but ran to Remus' side and helped him to the couch.
"You had me so worried." She said softly as she grabbed the nearby first aid kit she'd set up and started to patch him up. As she worked, Liz paid close attention to Remus in case he reverted back to the way he'd acted in the forest.
"You shouldn't have come in to the forest. You have no idea the danger you put yourself in, what I could have done to you." Remus said weakly, wincing when she cleaned out some of his cuts. "The wolf doesn't care what damage it causes as long as it gets what it wants, it would have destroyed me to hurt you like that."
"I know and I'm sorry. I didn't even think of that until you grabbed me, I just wanted to find you and make sure you were okay. Before you even say it, yes I know it was even more foolish to go out in the woods dressed like I was but if the roles were reversed you would have been out looking for me if I was a few minutes late. I waited two hours, I figured that you were trying to calm down or something but after so long I was worried that you were too weak to make it back. I didn't want anything to happen to you while I was all cozied up in the house. If you just would have let me shift and come out with you…" Liz started, being cut off by Remus
"If I had let you come out with me you'd be lucky if you were able to move right now. You still don't seem to understand the harm I could have caused you outside. You have no grasp of how much damage our intimacy can cause, we were lucky the first time that it was far enough away from the full moon that the wolf didn't come out. If I'd have taken while we were outside you'd never have gone near me again and you'd have been lucky to be able to walk in a few days with no outside assistance and that is the better alternative. If I would've allowed you to accompany me as a wolf you probably would have ended up in a hospital. You shouldn't keep tempting fate, sooner or later it's going to end badly for you."
"Remus just shut the hell up already! Stop acting like you're doing me such a favor by shutting me out of the aspect of your life that makes me love you more than anything else. Stop treating me like I'm still the frightened and battered little girl that I was years ago and start treating me like your bloody mate. You fail to grasp that I am your mate now and I made the decision to be with you despite the damage you think you could do to me. The only reason I ran back here instead of letting you take me against that tree was because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life begging you to sleep with me again. You need to consider that maybe I don't give a damn if you hurt me a bit when we go at it, that maybe I would enjoy it. I hate the way you treat me like a fragile glass doll when you know damn well I can take damn near anything thrown at me. I've had every chance to turn away from and every chance to consider any potential harm that could come to me. What you aren't taking in to consideration is that I've accepted and looked forward to the fact that being your mate means that you get to take me anywhere and anyway that you want. You need to accept that as well, you're never going to scare me off, so why don't you just accept what we have and enjoy it." Liz snapped back. She hardly had the time to finish her last sentence before Remus growled at her and she ended up pinned underneath him…again. Much like she'd just told him, Liz wasn't afraid of the carnal way he was looking at her, nor did she fear the thick hardness pressing against her lower half. On the other hand, the force with which he was holding her down and the strange glint in his eyes worried her just a bit.
"Do not tempt me! You may not care if I hurt you but I sure as hell do. Not caring what everyone things of our relationship is one thing, but if I ever hurt you like that and anyone found out, which they would, it would be nothing but everyone throwing out 'I told you so' and I don't want that for us. I hurt you bad enough to put you in the hospital and you can kiss our relationship good bye because the ministry would deal with me faster than you could blink your eye. When I tell you not to follow me out it is for a good reason Elizabeth, not because I don't want you there. I know how I'll be before the full moon, you don't. Sometimes I end up acting like I did outside and regardless of what you think, that could be very bad for you. Just because I know you can take a lot doesn't mean I want to throw it at you. It is far too soon in our relationship for me to be throwing that at you as much as you think you want it. I think that if you really wanted it you wouldn't have run and you wouldn't have changed your clothes regardless of how you thought I'd act after."
"Then why couldn't you just tell me that instead of leaving me feeling like I was good enough to be your lover but not good enough to keep you company. You always let my dad go with you but never me and I'd have been better at controlling you. All you ever had to do was tell me why and I wouldn't have made such a big deal about it. I mean I'd probably still argue with you about it but that's always kind of a given. For the record I would like to see the ministry get through me to do a thing to you." Liz responded before clamming up a bit at his last comment. She'd told herself it was to avoid Remus flipping out but truth be told she'd been a bit terrified when they were outside. She likely wouldn't have been but the fact that he reacted to her at all apart from the very physical had seriously worried her. She however, was not going to admit that to him, especially now that he was much calmer. "If you're so concerned about the dangers of fucking me then why is it you've still got me pinned to the couch? Seems to me like that would just be more of a temptation especially given it is more than obvious how turned on you are."
"I let your father come because I was never attracted to him and never had the slightest desire to sleep with him so there was never the danger of me trying to mate with him. You however are enough of a temptation when it isn't close to a full moon, let alone when it's closer. Even still, you aren't going to goad me in to fucking you so you can give up. Moony isn't in control I am, and I'm exhausted right now okay. It was a rough night and I was looking forward to having a certain beautiful young woman take care of me like she demanded to, but all she's done is try to seduce me."
"That is such bull! I fixed you up when you came in. Then we started bickering and you pinned me to the couch. I even made you a snack before I came looking for you! I wasn't even planning on seducing you either."
"True, and that was sweet of you to make something," Remus said before softly kissing her. "So how about this, we head to bed and I will eat this snack there since you went through the trouble of making something. Then we'll go to sleep and get a bit of rest hmm?"
"That sounds good to me, so I'll meet you in there after I lock up and grab your food. So off with you sleepy wolf man. And no falling asleep before I get there!" She laughed before pushing him off her and towards his bedroom.