Accidents happen C6:

Charlie's 8 almost 9 years old:

'Charlie, you know that in a few days time it's the full moon?' Charlie nodded 'Well I can't be around properly on your birthday... You see, I would be very unwell then and that isn't very good on someone's birthday.'

'Why daddy? What happens on the full moon? Why does it matter?' Charlie asked quizzically.

'Well Charlie, you're old enough to know now that I'm a person who every full moon becomes a wolf. I'm a- a- a werewolf.' Remus glanced around to check for any people near by- he knew there weren't but he did it out of habit and then whispered the last word 'and it's dangerous for people, especially little people to be around me.'

'I'm not little! What will we do?'

'You don't mind that I'm a werewolf?' Remus asked, shocked.

'No daddy, you have always been a werewolf with me. I never minded...'

'Oh well, that's a surprise!' Remus grinned 'I was scared you wouldn't like me.'

'I don't...' Remus paled and his eyes started to water 'I LOVE you! You are my daddy!' and with that Charlie ran into a hug and kissed Remus' side.

'I love you too cub. I love you too.'

The sun started to go down, Remus dreaded this moment. He knew that through the next few days he would be irritable and then be in a lot of pain. He tucked Charlie into bed and went to get into his pyjamas. He climbed wearily into bed and fell asleep. Remus tossed and turned all night and when he woke up he realised that he had wrapped himself in his duvet so tightly that he had to use magic to get himself out! Charlie walked into the room and climbed into the bed, hugging Remus and snuggling up to him. Remus was weary, but always had energy to hug his cub. No matter what.

'My birthday's tomorrow.' Charlie said.

'Yeah, it is. And your party's in three days time! How exciting! You will be 9 years old! A whole 9!'

Charlie grinned and carried in hugging Remus.

'Love you daddy,' he whispered.

'Love you so much cub,'

'I love you more!'

' I wouldn't be too sure of that cub!' Remus growled playfully and started to tickle Charlie until tears streamed down Charlie's face with laughter.

They read a book that Remus tended to leave next to his bed for occasions like these, they sat reading peacefully for what seemed like ten minutes, but was actually thirty, Remus slipped out of bed and walked into the bathroom. He looked ghastly.

His face was pale and he had large black and purple smudges from sleep deprivation under his eyes, his mouth was tight and his lips were slightly swollen from all the biting his lip he had done in his little sleep. His hair was just wild. There was no other way of describing it. Just wild. His fringe was hanging in front of his eyes and the rest was like he had been attacked in the night, but the only thing that could have attacked him were his pillows. He groaned and started to brush his teeth, he couldn't stand having dirty teeth, it made his skin crawl, he didn't know why, but the feeling just repulsed him.

After he cleaned his teeth, they went down for their breakfast - jam on toast and peanut butter on toast. Remus read the paper and Charlie looked at the funny cartoons on the back page.

Life was good.

But all good things must come to an end.

The full moon rose up into the night sky, silver light reflected off and down into the house. Remus crouched in the locked basement, counting down the seconds until he knew the pain would hit. It had been a month since he had told Charlie.

3,2,1..

There it was, he gasped as a pain in his gut made him fall onto the floor. His insides were on fire! He screamed as his bones broke and reset into the body of the werewolf. The pain spread rapidly to his limbs and brain, it burned, oh it burned!

He screamed again! But this time Charlie heard when Remus' magic wavered with his transformation. He huddled up in the corner of his bed as he heard his daddy screaming. He started to cry as he heard the screams turn into a howl. His daddy wasn't there anymore. But he was safe, daddy had told him. He had spent all day putting up barriers and blocks. Charlie tried to sleep.

Guys, I know this was waaaayyy shorter than what it could've been, but let's be honest: Who actually really wanted to read self-pitiful drivel for about ten minutes? So I got to the point... Read next chapter to get to the good part!

R&R xx