(A/N): Hey Guys! Wow guys, thanks for all the reviews! I love you guys so much, you give the best reviews ever.

Okay, so about this chapter.

In the last chapter, Leo stole and found all the ingredients they will need to make the potion, right, and this is basically the aftermath of that. Plus, a little bit on the end to further explain Leo's condition and to make up the 1,000 word minimum I usually abide by. So, bye!

Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo, Elaine, Nicholai, Quiggly and Shari.

Leo

The next morning, Remus and I, both exhausted, but for different reasons, ventured down to the Great hall for breakfast.

Of course, once there, we encountered a certain, extremely pissed off, Professor. I almost gulped at the sight of her storming towards us, but managed to compose myself, using that familiar, emotionless mask from my childhood, the one that had managed to keep me from many severe beatings, and hopefully now being found out by Minnie.

"Joannis, Lupin, may I see you in my office?" She asked quietly, in case anyone was listening, her usually calm voice seething.

"O- of course, professor." Remus stuttered, and I nodded, before standing up.

Five minutes later, we found ourselves in her familiar, yet somewhat uncomforting office. It was under-furnished, and lacked any sort of insight into the one that held themselves here. If I hadn't known better, I would have thought it was lacking a woman's touch, as they say.

"So, which one of you did it?" I did my best to look confused, and curious, just like Remus was, my eyebrows wrinkling.

"Did what?" We both asked at the same time, sounding rather clueless.

"Don't give me that, I know one of you did it! One of you collected the ingredients, how I don't have the faintest clue." She said, sounding both frustrated, and somewhat awed.

"I don't know about Remus but...I didn't leave the dorm after you dropped us there other than to use the toilet." I said bluntly, a blatant lie on my part.

"And I fell straight to sleep!" Remus exclaimed, as Minnie's furious eyes turned to him. I felt bad for him, seeing as this was all my fault.

"Besides, didn't I hear you lock the door last night?" She grimaced at me, and I knew I had her. "What are we supposed to have done, climbed out the window?" Great work Leo, pass what you actually did off as a ridiculous notion! I was half congratulating myself, half worried that it would draw attention to it later.

"Yes, well...I don't know how, or even who, but someone collected all the ingredients we need." Remus seemed relieved that we were no longer being directly blamed. "And Horace hasn't reported any missing stock." We looked puzzled, or, at least, I pretended to look puzzled, at this statement.

"Yeah, but couldn't half the ingredients be found elsewhere?" Remus asked, causing McGonagall's eyes to focus on him, and I saw she was starting to get suspicious of him again.

"Like, in the grounds or something?" She turned to look at me now, looking eloquently confused by now. Just as she locked in on one of us as the offender, the other one said something equally as incriminating, throwing her off the trail. Brilliant Remus, brilliant!

"They can..." She confirmed slowly, studying our faces, before continuing. "But only some of them. Others of them, however, are quite rare." She stared us down, and even I didn't know what she was getting at now.

"Which means, they could only be found in Horace's personal storeroom, without going outside of Hogwarts." My eyebrows wrinkled slightly.

"But didn't you say that Professor Slughorn hasn't reported anything missing?" Remus looked equally curious as to why she was blaming us, when we obviously had nothing to do with it.

"No, he hasn't. The reason I thought it would be one of you two, is rather obvious." Ah, so she could see us wondering about that. "You two, and I, are the only ones who know about this, and when I went in there this morning, all of the ingredients we need were on the table." Remus and I glanced at each other, looking equally concerned and curious about this.

"So, riddle me this. If you two didn't do it, and I didn't do it, who else knows about our little potion plan?" We glanced between each other, looking worried, and it almost hurt to see the other two so worked up about something I had done without their knowledge.

"I hate to break this little get-together up, but I really am getting hungry." Remus and Minnie rolled their eyes at me, before standing up.

"Alright, to breakfast with you then." I shook my head as Remus started to leave.

"Not that kind of hungry." They both turned to stare at me for a few seconds before lowering their gazes. What? Spending most of the night terrified, climbing up and down buildings and foraging for ingredients doesn't exactly satisfy ones appetite.

"Alright, just be careful no one sees you." McGonagall says reluctantly, and I nod quickly before zooming from the room, surprising both of them by the shocked gasps I heard from behind me, using vampire speed to make my way through the castle, and out into the empty grounds.

It was time to hunt.

I knew it was, because I was having trouble controlling myself, and my senses were heightened even beyond the usual levels. To the point where I could feel the rush of blood in the worms beneath the soil I walked upon, and in the birds that flew above me, in the clear and open skies. My eyesight was sharpened, but slightly blurred around the edges in contrast to the precise image I saw in the center.

It probably wasn't all that blurred, maybe it was only as good as my usual vision, but seemed blurred compared to the clearer, sharper image I saw elsewhere. I could hear everything, from the sound of the Thestrals loping, and the spiders skittering in the forest, to the dull roar of breath exuded by the students inside the Great Hall.

I could smell everything, the soil, the dust inside the castle, even the musk of Hagrid's dog, Fang, but what lured my attention, was the smell of blood as it pumped around the system of the small doe on the other side of the grounds, by the forest. It was injured somehow, I could tell, but it wasn't bleeding.

Not yet anyway.

I needed to hunt, so I did what I do best.

I used vampiric speed to approach the animal, and when I appeared directly in front of it, seemingly without warning, it took off into the forest. Exactly what I had hoped for.

A small, half-satisfied, half-disgusted smile bloomed on my lips as I raced after the doe, giving it a few seconds head start so it would be a proper chase. What was I disgusted at, you ask? Myself.

Here I was, chasing down a doe for my breakfast, while other students got to live at least semi-normal lives inside the castle, eating food, not the blood of the doe I had, by now, managed to catch, and was draining.

I didn't kill it, no. I let it live, but only barely. I watched as it wobbled away from me, probably to go get eaten by a hungry acromantula. As was the circle of life.

Pfff, as if the acromantula's were a recognised part of the circle of life, even here. They're acromantula's!

I wiped the blood from around my mouth with my sleeve, before grimacing at the stain it left. I'd have to wash that, before anyone saw it.

(A/N): So, what do you think?

After the 'As was the circle of life' bit, I was going to put 'According to the Lion king anyway' but then I realised that it wasn't out in 1971 when this took place so...yeah.

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PS: Yesterday, we suffered massive storms, and a blackout. I had to turn off my laptop, very suddenly three times yesterday, and when the power went off, I was sitting on my bed, with my door open, and I swear to go there was someone standing in my doorway when the lights flicked on for a split-second.

Me and mum surrounded ourselves with all the laptops we own for light, seeing as my dad and sister had just left to go to the shops. Even the streetlights were out, and we were so freaking creeped out.