"How did everything go?" Remus asked as she walked in to her apartment and saw him sitting on her couch.
"It went alright I suppose, they have something, I don't know what it is but Bellatrix is keeping a watch over it for the time being so we can assume it is important." She said and flopped down on the couch with him. "And we barely made it out, they noticed us and we almost got caught." She said and folded a leg underneath herself and looked at Remus.
"How did you get out?"
"Well that's something I wanted to tell you." She said and he looked at her curiously.
"Well we got cornered in an alley and then- well a long story short Sirius and I kissed and they- well it sounds a lot worse than it really was but they didn't recognize it was us so that was how we got out." She said trying to find her words.
"What?" He asked and he took his hand.
"I still hate the guy and it meant nothing. It was only to get out of the situation we were in." She said and he chewed his lip.
"Alright." He said and nodded.
"You're not mad or anything?"
"No, I mean it didn't mean anything and it was only to get away, I can deal with that." He said and she smiled.
"Yeah, I just felt it was fair to tell you what happened, I didn't want to keep it a secret or anything." She said and scooted closer to him.
"Thank you for telling me." He said and she leaned her head against his shoulder as he laced their fingers together.
"So did you want to go out to get something to eat tonight, I am feeling very lazy tonight." She said and looked at him.
"Yeah, sure, what did you have in mind?"
"I don't know, I'm not really that hungry." She mumbled and gave a small laugh.
"So we aren't going to go out?" He asked confused.
"Do you want to?"
"Well do you?"
"I'm asking you."
"Well I am asking you."
"I asked first." She said and kissed his hand.
"I'll do whatever you want to do." He said and leaned his head back and stared at the ceiling.
"Want to go for a walk in the park and then go get something to eat?" she asked as she nuzzled his neck lightly.
"Yeah, that sounds alright." He said and she smiled in to his neck. "Alright, let me grab my coat real quick." She said and sat up and pecked his lips before heading up to her room and returning shortly and they walked out of the apartment together, passing Randall on the way out.
"Hey Rebecca." He said as he stopped and turned around and she glanced back at him.
"Hey."
"Hey Remus."
"Hi Randy." Remus said and she felt his grip around her waist tighten slightly and she smiled and kissed his cheek and he loosened up slightly.
"So some friends and I are going out next week, dancing and stuff, you know, the fun stuff." He said with a chuckle and she rolled her eyes. "And I was wondering if perhaps you and Remus and whoever you'd like to bring would join us."
"What do you say so a little dancing?" She asked as she looked at Remus and bumped her hip against his with a smile.
"Um, alright." He said unsurely and she raised an eyebrow at him. "It sounds fine with me, we can bring the others perhaps?" he asked and she smiled and nodded.
"Alright sounds good." She said as she looked at Randall.
"Alright well I'll drop by later and give you the details if you'd like."
"Alright sounds good."
"Alright have a good night." Randall said as he looked at them both and gave a nod and went up the stairs and her and Remus headed out of the complex.
"I still don't like him." He muttered as they headed down the street and she wrapped an arm around his waist and pulled herself closer to him.
"I'm sorry; he isn't that bad though, except when he interrupts us." She said and kissed his shoulder and looked up at him.
"Yeah, that too." He said with a shake of his head.
"Come on a little dancing might be fun, don't you think?"
"I'm not that good of a dancer." He said and she spun around so she was facing him and walking backwards in front of him.
"There is really nothing to it, its all in the hips." She said and swayed her hips awkwardly as she tried to walk backwards and nearly fell over but he grabbed her hands and held her up.
"Is falling over part of it or what?" he asked cheekily and she stuck her tongue out at him and pulled herself next to him again and laid her head on his shoulder.
"I wouldn't recommend the falling part." She said with a laugh as they walked in to the park.
"Yes I will be sure to do that Kylie." Rebecca said as she made her way out of the café and headed down the street towards her apartment. A bath sounded nice right now, maybe some candles and soothing music, perhaps have Remus give her a back massage. That sounded nice. She glanced at her clock, it was near 8 already and she needed to start studying for her Healer license, something she was both hating and looking forward to. She headed up the stairs to her apartment and fumbled through her purse for her keys and walked up to the door and leaned her head against it for a moment and took a deep breath. Perhaps she could order some take out, she didn't really feel like making any food right now. She opened up the door and was met with the darkness and she tossed her keys on the small table by the door.
"Remus? Are you here?" She called out and turned on the lights and saw a letter sitting on the kitchen table.
"Remus?" She called again and looked up towards her room; he had said he would be here when she got off of work. She saw the letter was from him and she sighed and opened it and sat down as she read through it.
"Come to Headquarters." She read out loud and rolled her eyes.
"You sound like Moody." She muttered dryly and folded the letter and looked around. She really did want a nice bath and some food. She glanced towards the stairs and looked at the letter and sighed and walked back to the front door and grabbed her keys and purse and headed back out and went out side and apparated to the Headquarters.
She walked inside and saw it was dark which confused her, wasn't Remus supposed to be here? She closed the door cautiously behind her and felt the hairs on the back of her neck rise and her stomach dropped before the lights came on.
"Happy Birthday!" Everyone shouted and she stumbled back against the door, nearly dropping her wand and Remus hurried over to her and kissed her cheek.
"Birthday?" She asked curiously and he smiled at her.
"Yeah, it's your birthday." He said with a chuckle and led her inside as Lily came over and gave her a hug.
"Happy Birthday Becky." Lily said with a grin.
"Y-yeah thanks." Rebecca said and looked at Remus.
"Is it really the 23rd already?"
"Yes it is." He said and she felt herself tugged away from Remus as the twins pulled her in to a tight hug, one on each side.
"Happy birthday Becky." They said and each planted a kiss on her cheek and she laughed as they looked at Remus who crossed his arms at them and she blew a kiss at Remus and the twins each took one of her arms and looked at Remus.
"We are going to borrow her." Fabian said.
"Just for a moment." Gideon said and they dragged her off around the Headquarters, people wishing her happy birthday until she made her way back to Remus who held out a glass of punch for her.
"So whose idea was this?" She asked as she looked around.
"Actually it was Padfoot's." He said and she looked at him surprised and glanced across the room at Sirius talking with James and Lily.
"You're shitting me right?"
"Yeah, he said he wanted to see your surprised face." He said with a chuckle.
"Yeah I feel like an idiot, I was so surprised, the thought didn't even cross my mind that it was my birthday."
"Andrew is coming by the way." He said and a smile spread across her face.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I thought you might want him here." He said and she kissed him.
"Thank you, gosh I haven't seen Andy in forever." She said with a wide grin.
"I actually got you something, but I wanted to wait until later to give it to you." He said and she smiled with a nod and leaned her head against his shoulder.
"Tired?" he asked and she nodded. "I was actually hoping you might rub my back for me tonight after I take a bath." She said and looked at him.
"Of course." He said and kissed her forehead.
"Happy birthday my dear." Dumbledore said as he walked up to her.
"Albus, I didn't know you were here." She said surprised.
"I just dropped by to wish you a happy birthday, I am afraid I must go though, I have a bit of business to tend to."
"Thanks for stopping by." She said and he gave her a smile and nodded to Remus before turning and heading out of the room.
"I have to go." Remus said as he looked at his watch. "I am picking up Andrew."
"Aw Remus, you are too sweet." She said as she wrapped her arms around him and looked up at him. "Thank you." She said and pecked his lips.
"I'll be back soon." He said and set his drink down and kissed her forehead before heading out of the Headquarters and Rebecca made her way over to Lily, James and Sirius.
"Were you surprised?" James asked and she scoffed and rolled her eyes.
"No." She said and smiled. "A bit. I honestly forgot that it was my birthday." She said with a laugh and looked at Sirius as he looked at her while he took a drink of his punch.
"We'll be right back." Lily said as she touched Rebecca's arm and pointed across the room and Rebecca looked at her and nodded before looking back at Sirius and Lily and James walked across the room and she leaned against the wall facing him.
"So a little birdie says it was your idea." She said and looked at her cup and back up to him.
"Why would I do that?" He asked with a small smile playing on his lips.
"I haven't the slightest idea." She said with a shrug.
"It was pretty funny seeing you so surprised." He said with a chuckle and she rolled her eyes.
"I am sure you got a good kick out of that."
"I did. Thank you."
"Oi, birthday girl." Fabian said as him and Gideon walked over either side on Moody who looked rather mad.
"Moody has something he wants to say to you." Gideon said with a grin.
"Come on just like we practiced Alastor." Fabian said and pat Moody on the shoulder who gave him a sharp glare.
"Better watch your back Prewett." He said dangerously before looking at Rebecca.
"Happy birthday Walcott." He said and raised his glass to her and she smiled and laid a hand over her chest.
"I know how hard that was for you Moody, thank you." She said mockingly and he rolled his eyes and turned on his heel and walked away and she laughed as she looked at the twins.
"How on earth did you manage that?"
"Oh we have our ways." Gideon said and they both smiled at each other and looked at Rebecca.
"Where might Remus be?" Gideon asked as they got on either side of her.
"He should really know not to leave you alone." Fabian said and she laughed.
"He went to get Andrew."
"Oooh who is Andrew?" Gideon asked wiggling his eyebrows.
"A very good friend of mine." She said the twins leaned forward and looked at each other with dubious looks.
"Oh don't give me that, Andy and I have been friends forever." She said with a roll of her eyes and took a drink of her punch.
"Becca." She heard from the front door and she turned and saw Andrew and she forced her cup in to Gideon's hands and ran towards Andrew and jumped in to his arms and he spun her around with a laugh and put her down as she kissed his cheek.
"My god you're tan, what have you been doing?" She asked as she looked at him and hugged him again. "It feels like forever since I last saw you, you must have grown a foot or something, you're so tall." She said and looked at Remus behind him.
"Thank you." She said with a smile and he nodded and she grabbed Andrew's arm and led him off to the food table and got him a cup of punch.
"So what have you been up to?" She asked excitedly.
"Just working with my uncle, going to school." He said with a shrug and looked around and gave a small wave to Jenny. "I met a girl." He said and took a sip of his drink.
"Oh really? What's her name?"
"Coincidentally Rebecca." He said with a chuckle. "She is a model." He said and she raised an eyebrow at him.
"Good job Andy." She said and nudged him. "What's she like?"
"Really sweet, too good for me in my opinion." He said with a chuckle as he looked at his drink.
"How old is she?"
"Nineteen."
"Ooooh an older woman, how devious of you Andy." She said and he rolled his eyes.
"You should meet her, she really is great, I think you would approve. She is smart too; she is going to be going to Stanford in the Spring. She wants to be a lawyer."
"Oh beauty and brains, maybe she might be too good for you Andy." She said and nudged him teasingly.
"What about you birthday girl? What have you been up to?"
"Just my training, I test in two weeks for my license before I start my probationary work and if I pass that I get instated at St. Mungos."
"Sounds great. How are things with Remus?" he asked as he looked across the room at Remus talking with Gideon and Marlene.
"Great, really great." She said as a smile crept up on her lips.
"Are you happy here?"
"Yeah, I think I am."
"I am really happy for you then." He said and kissed the top of her head.
"Thanks, I am glad everything is great in California. God did you ever see any of this happening? Us on completely different continents like this?"
"No I can't say I saw this coming."
Suddenly all the lights went out and Rebecca saw a bright light come from the far doorway and her eyebrows rose as Gideon and Fabian walked over carrying a large cake covered in what looked like a hundred candles.
"Guys I'm only eighteen." She said before everyone started in on a chorus of 'Happy Birthday' and the twins stood in front of her with the cake and she looked at the twins who had a devious look in their eyes as they looked at each other.
"We made the cake just for you by the way Becky." Fabian said.
"Blow out the candles." Gideon said.
"I am scared to. What's wrong with the candles?" She asked curiously.
"Are you accusing us of doing something to your cake on your birthday?" Gideon asked looking offended.
"We are so offended; come on this cake is heavy." Fabian said and she sighed and looked at Andrew.
"Help me?" She asked and he stood next to her as they blew out the candles together and suddenly the twins shoved the cake up in to her face. She stepped back and wiped the cake from her eyes and looked at Andrew who had gotten cake in his face and she heard the twins laughing. She raised an eyebrow at Andrew and they each grabbed large handfuls of cake and shoved them in the twin's faces and the room erupted in laughter.
"How does that taste?" She asked as she slung her arm around Gideon's shoulders and rubbed the cake in his face and he looked at Fabian and they all burst in to laughter and she took a handful of cake and looked at Remus who held out his hands to her.
"Remus come here." She said with a wild grin and he took a step backwards.
"I would rather not."
"It tastes so good." She said and took a bite of the cake. "Ugh this is awful guys." She said and looked at the twins; "I think you added salt instead of sugar." She said and they started to laugh.
"Molly got all the cooking genes." Fabian said and she turned back to Remus before running after him and he ran to try and get away from her. She jumped on to his back and smooshed the cake in his face and he groaned. She got off his back and came around to face him and he wiped the cake away from his face and she laughed and kissed him.
"The cake tastes awful." He said and she laughed and nodded as she looked back at the twins who were circling each other with large pieces of cake in their hands, the rest of the cake forgotten on the floor.
"You have cake on your face…in this general region." She said as she circled her face.
"You have cake in…this general region." He said circling his shoulders and head.
"This is going to take forever to get out of my hair." She said with a sigh as she leaned her head against his shoulder.
The party went on for another hour before everyone started to head home. Andrew headed home before Remus and Rebecca went back to her apartment.
"I feel so stuffed." She said as they walked in to the apartment.
"Want me to start the bath for you?" He asked and she smiled and nodded and kissed his cheek.
"Thanks babe." She said and walked in to the kitchen as he went up the stairs and she heard the bath start running as she sat down at the kitchen table with a glass of water.
Soon Remus came back downstairs and she sighed as she got up and walked up stairs with him.
"Did you have fun?" He asked and she nodded as she started to strip off her cake covered clothes. She slipped off her underwear and stepped in to the bathtub and sighed with a smile as she sunk down underneath the suds and water before resurfacing and pushing her hair back and saw Remus sitting at the doorway.
"You can sit down if you want." She said and he sat down next to the tub and leaned his arms against the side as he looked at her.
"Thanks for inviting Andy; it was really good to see him." She said as she played with the suds.
"Your welcome, I'm glad you had a good time tonight. I know you wanted to stay in tonight." He said and she shrugged.
"Its alright, I had a lot of fun." She said and lifted up her leg and used the wash cloth to wash it.
"I was wondering something." He said as he looked at the rim of the bath tub.
"What's that?"
"It's nothing really I was just wondering if perhaps I could…I don't know…meet your family." He said and she stopped washing and paused and looked at him.
"Meet my family?"
"Yeah, I mean you never really talk about them."
"There is a reason for that." She said with a roll of her eyes.
"I didn't mean to upset you." He said quickly and she shook her head and sighed as she looked at him.
"No, no, I'm not upset." She said with a small smile as she laid a hand on his. "It's just, I don't really get along with any of them, nothing is ever good enough, I'm just afraid-."
"They won't think I am good enough or something?" He asked sharply and she pursed her lips and sighed.
"Remus I love you and I think you are amazing but my mother, she always has something bad to say about everything when it pertains to me."
"Alright fine." He said with a nod and stared at the floor.
"I mean if you are really up to it I could arrange something." She said as she tilted her head to try and catch his eyes.
"It's fine Becky."
"Remus I didn't mean it like that." She said and he looked at her. "I just want you to know what you would be getting yourself in to, its not that I don't want you to meet them or anything, and I most certainly don't think you aren't good enough for me." She said and kissed his hand. "If anything you are much too good for me." She said with a small smile.
"It's fine, really Becky, if you don't want to its fine with me."
"I'll set something up alright? Maybe a lunch or something, I don't know if I could handle dinner."
"If you want to."
"It would be nice to see my dad again; I haven't seen him in a few months."
"Well if you change your mind I won't feel bad alright?"
"Alright, come here." She said and he leaned in towards her and she pecked his lips. "I love you." She said with a smile.
"I love you too." He said with a returning smile and she leaned back in the bath tub and continued washing.
"So you said you got me something." She said as she leaned her head back on the tub.
"You didn't have to get me anything you know, I am happy with having you for my present." She said with a smile and leaned forward and kissed his hand.
"I did get you something." He said and reached in to his jacket and pulled out a thin silvery box with a ribbon wrapped around it.
"Remus." She said with a frown and he held it out to her.
"Its nothing too big, I just hope you like it." He said and she took the box from him and pulled the ribbon loose and opened the box and saw a thin silver chain with a heart and she looked up at him and he bit his lip as he leaned forward to her against the tub.
"I know its kind of cheesy and not entirely flashy, you don't seem like the flashy type, I can get you something better if you want-." He said not looking at her.
"Remus I love It." she said with a smile as she looked at it.
"You're the only one with my heart." He said as he looked up at her brows furrowed as she felt a lump in her throat and she touched the side of his face.
"Oh Remus." She said with a sigh.
"You're everything to me Becky." He said and as he rubbed his thumb over her hand and she leaned forward and kissed him.
Awww aint they sweet? Love the reviews guys, they keep me pumped.
This chapter was a little slow but the next chapter will have a little more action lol, keep up that reading and reviewing =) see you Thursday
Also spelling mistake on my part, its actually Walden Macnair not Manclair, just to clear that up, happy reading!