Fan Fiction ❯ Everlasting Sacrifice ❯ Summer with a werewolf 2 ( Chapter 9 )

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A/N: And now to finish the second half! Malfoy's a git, I hate him…both Lucious and Draco…

Summer with a Werewolf: Part 2

Crystal

We headed out early to get a camping site for the Quidditch World Cup because of the fact that it would get harder and harder to amass so many people, so we decided on a nice out of the way spot where privacy might follow us. However, I was having a lot of trouble sleeping lately, and tonight was no exception. I had already woken up twice in the midst of nightmares and stuff I didn't understand…

(Dream)

"Why don't you hit her Snape?" a malicious voice asked.

"I just don't want to!" a voice replied, it must be Severus's voice.

"C'mon, its Slytherin tradition, you have to take part in it!" the voice said.

"I already did take part. I lured her here and I don't want to hurt her by my own hands," Severus replied.

"You know she won't blame you!" the voice reasoned.

"Malfoy, that's the point, she won't and that's why I can't!" Severus exclaimed.

"Why can't you hit her? Just once, why can't you hit her?" Malfoy asked.

"I don't want her to hate me…" he replied.

"She won't hate you, she won't even blame you. She never has and she never will!" Malfoy exclaimed.

"It's still my choice and I don't want to hit her!" Severus practically yelled. I heard scuffling of feet and the unlatching of the door. Have they come to hurt me again? Lucious Malfoy seemed to hear of a tradition from somewhere where they kidnap someone from one of the other houses and torment them for a long time, until rescue or until they got bored and dropped the person off in the hospital wing. I've been here a week already, and they said that was the longest any of the people kidnapped had been in here.

"Cat?" a nervous voice asked me. I felt a light touch on my cheek. I was so weakened I could barely look up.

"Sev…" I began but I felt a finger pressed to my lips.

"I'm sorry, I really am. I should never have tricked you into coming here. Now I'm in here with you until I hit you at least once. I won't do it though, I can't bear the thought of causing you more pain," he said.

"I…won't…blame…you," I muttered. I heard the tearing of cloth and something was being wrapped around my head.

"You're bleeding really badly," he said, and I could tell this was out of character for him, so why was he doing it?

"Why…why do you care?" I asked him, trying to look at him.

"Because you cared. When I needed a friend, you were there, no one else was. You cared when I truly needed it," he said, "You are the only true friend I think I have."

"But…you still…hurt me…" I stated.

"I won't anymore…I promise…" he said, and even then I knew it wouldn't true until he stood up to the other Slytherin boys and told them off and to leave him alone.

"Sev…" I began to speak slowly.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Don't…leave…me," I said, "I need…you…too, just some…sometimes…"

"…" Severus didn't say anything, but I sensed a blush rising upon his face.

"Sev?" I asked and he took my hand into his.

"…" he still didn't say anything.

"That's…okay," I murmured and fell unconscious. He must really have mixed up feelings about me…

(End Dream)

I opened my eyes slowly, and looked out the tent exit/entrance. The sun was beginning to shine down onto the grass. This was new. I woke up in the morning… that dream was really interesting; it wasn't as bad as the past few.

"Remus?" I asked, turning to look at the other bed.

"What, is it morning already?" he asked, yawning and stretching and attempting to sit up.

"Remus, I have another question…" I began.

"What is it?" he asked.

"Who saved me?" I asked.

"From what Crystal? Who saved you from what?" he asked.

"From the Slytherins… during their tradition… who saved me?" I asked.

"Is that the dream you had now? Well, let me see… I believe it was Lily," he said.

"So Severus didn't save me?" I asked.

"In some ways he did. It was he who told Lily where to find you and then helped her get into Slytherin, but in fact, it was Lily who truly saved you," he explained, "But you still didn't blame Severus…"

"Should I have?" I asked, sitting up in bed as well.

"Well, I like to think that because you never blamed him, the guilt trip got to him and he changed so he wouldn't think anymore he'd loose you…" Remus said, "At least, that's my theory…now, let's say we get breakfast started! The match starts today, and I assume it'll be a good one!" I got up and went outside in my PJs. It was truly a lovely day!

"Now what do we have here?" a cold voice asked, and I turned to look into the face of Lucious Malfoy!

"What are you doing in this part of the woods Mr. Malfoy?" I asked.

"I'm merely trying to see who's here for the big game," he said, "It's completely innocent to talk to my neighbors, isn't it?"

"I do suppose so, but please leave our campsite!" I said solidly.

"Riyusaki, is it? Who might you be here with? I thought Draco informed me you had no family," he said.

"Crystal, breakfast!" Remus called, coming out of the tent. I could have almost laughed at the sight, Remus and I were still in our PJs and here a Malfoy stood in front of us.

"A little inappropriate, isn't it Lupin? Being here with a minor?" Lucious asked with a smirk on his face. Remus turned a slight red.

"It isn't! I don't think you have a right to assume anything!" I said, and met his gaze, "And whether you believe it's inappropriate or not, that's your business. I don't believe Professor Lupin or I are required to give you a reason!"

"A bit bold for someone of your stature. You remind me of someone, someone I hope you won't turn into, for that would be very bad indeed…" Lucious said and walked away from our campsite without another word.

"Thank you Crystal. But why did you refer to me as Professor? Last time I checked I wasn't your professor anymore, merely a friend, but whether I'm an old friend or a new friend has yet to be seen, eh?" Remus asked with a smile.

"To show respect. To call you by your first name might have given Lucious some sort of idea to attempt something with," I said, "I won't have you receive any punishments on my account…"

"How noble," he said sarcastically, "Yep, I have no doubts in my mind, you act very much like Katy. Come in now, breakfast is ready."

"Yummy, I'm famished. Telling off a bad guy makes you hungry!" I said, strolling past Remus. I heard him laughing as he came inside the tent, maybe today wouldn't be too bad after all. I wondered if the match would be really good today, I hope it's a good one worth seeing.

We had pretty good seats, up high so we could actually see what was going on a little better. I was so happy to be able to spend time here with Remus, not as supposed old friends, but just as friends, not as old or new friends, with no strings attached. I really couldn't wait for the game to begin. I looked around and saw the top box across the way. I looked in my Omnioculars to see who was in the box, and I saw some ministry officials, some foreign people, the Malfoys and the Weaslys! Wow, Harry was there too! So was Hermione! They had some of the best seats, lucky them!

"What are you looking at Crystal?" Remus asked, pulling me back down into my seat.

"I'm looking at the top box; Remus, I see Harry and company are up there!" I exclaimed as I sat down. Each team was starting to be introduced, well, not the teams, but their mascots instead.

"Veela!" Remus exclaimed, ignoring the comment I had just made. I looked down at the field to see women with white or silvery hair dancing around. Veela, I had read about them, weren't they like Sirens or something? I noticed Remus staring quite intently. I could tell he wanted to do something…

"Um…Remus? What are you doing?" I asked, but he wasn't paying attention, in fact, he looked about ready to jinx something…

"…" he opened his mouth but I whacked him upside the head.

"REMUS LUPIN!" I shouted, loud enough to snap a few other men out of their trance as well, turning to watch me.

"What, what exactly did I do wrong?" he asked.

"Well, you were falling under the spell of some women!" I exclaimed, glancing to see they were moving to their side of the field, having stopped dancing.

"Ah, look Leprechauns!" he exclaimed, ignoring me once again. He was like such a little child right now! I sat down and watched them do whatever they were doing. All of a sudden, a rainbow appeared in the sky, and gold began to filter down.

"What the hell?" I asked, "It can't be real!" I was planning on ignoring it if not for Remus shoving it into my lap.

"Put it in a bag!" he said excitedly, and tried to grab more. The rainbow faded away and Remus sat down once again next to me, and everybody else sat around us as well, settling down because the teams were about to be announced.

"Remus, I don't think this gold is real…" I began. He looked over at me, took one of the coins and examined it closely.

"What makes you say that?" he asked.

"Well, mostly because no one would just let gold rain down from the sky just to give away to random people in a stadium. I mean, this place is packed!" I said solidly. Remus looked at the gold again.

"Oh wait, it can't be real… Leprechaun gold disappears in a few hours doesn't it?" he asked in a disappointing tone. The few people listening in on us turned to face us.

"Does it really?" one of the witches asked.

"Yes, I'm afraid so," Remus muttered and looked at the amount I had in my lap, "And I went so quickly to collect it!" I sighed heavily, this wasn't good for him to mope, and I didn't want him to mope around like that for the rest of the summer.

"Well, how about, I'll buy you a double scoop of chocolate chip ice cream covered in mint sprinkles," I said and to my surprise he began to laugh and reached over and hugged me.

"You remembered my favorite!" he said, "You may not remember, but that was my favorite ice cream!"

"How the heck did I know that?" I asked.

"I don't know, but maybe in the back of your mind something's waking up and remembering things, maybe just little things, but it's good your memory seems to be…well, remembering!" he said, and let go of me, "But…I guess we can sort out the confusion later…let's watch the game!" I turned to face the game once again. It had already started while he was contemplating the gold and such. It seemed to be pretty interesting right now. I pulled out my Omnioculars and watched what was going on with the seekers. It looked like there was no snitch in sight yet. Bulgaria Versus Ireland, this was an interesting match. Both sides probably didn't even speak English! The one seeker, I believe he was named Krum, seemed like a really good player. I think at the moment, well, he looked like he saw the snitch! I watched him zip around the playing field and the other seeker dashed after him. They were all on Firebolts, wait, Harry had one of those too, didn't he?

"What just happened?" I asked as I heard the whistle blow.

"Victor Krum feinted!" a wizard yelled.

"Oh, is that all?" I asked.

"That is a foul, that is!" the wizard yelled, only giving me a glance, then turned back to watch the game.

"Sorry!" I yelled and turned back to focus on the game as well.

"I hope you are enjoying this," Remus said, "It's been so long since I've seen a professional Quidditch game!"

"Oh, that's right; all you've been able to watch have been school games!" I said with a giggle.

"Well, let's focus back on the game!" he said and turned away from me. I watched it a little bit more, standing up to get some better views of the game and then sat down as I began to get tired out. I'd feel better playing Quidditch.

(Flash)

"Hey, Cat, I heard you are our newest addition!" James called out to me, running to catch up to me.

"Yeah, I'm your new beater!" I replied.

"Well, I hope you do us some good, the previous beater you're replacing had some troubles playing, he always seemed to have an excuse for his mildly poor performance," James said, shifting his feet again, "I hope you have better manners too."

"I'll do my best!" I said, "Well, I best be off to class Potter, I'll see you later!"

(Flash)

"Crystal, are you awake in there?" Remus asked worriedly.

"What happened?" I asked, snapped out of my flashback.

"Ireland won, but Krum from the Bulgarian team caught the snitch," Remus said.

"Was I out for that long?" I asked.

"No, not really. Ireland was defeating Bulgaria so badly so quickly I guess Krum just decided to end the game. We should head back to the campsite, but I don't think we should expect quiet tonight; every Ireland team supporter will be celebrating tonight. And though we're out of the way, I don't think we're immune…" he said, "But it's not so bad, I should be celebrating with them…"

"Why must you?" I asked.

"Well, I made a small wager that I just won…" he said and turned red, "I know…gambling is bad…but it was a really small wager, and besides, it turned out all right, didn't it?"

"…" I didn't say anything back; I didn't exactly know what to say.

"It won't happen again," he said quickly, "I promise on pain of death!"

"…" I still didn't know what to say. Remus turned bright red for a moment and then grabbed my hand.

"Well…we should leave, most of the crowd has cleared out anyways, so traffic back to our site shouldn't be that bad…" he said.

"Yeah, I'm getting a little hungry!" I said.

"Tell you what, let's see if we can't get some snacks from some of the venders before they close for the day!" he said and I felt myself dragged down the stairs and out of the stadium seats.

"Yeah, some sugar might do us some good," I said with a smile and a slightly cocked eyebrow. Remus smiled at me and I started to laugh.

"SUGAR!" I cried giddily, looking over what we had left of the treats we had purchased. We had a stash that Remus said we should eat fast so we can get rid of the trash, so I was on a sugar high tonight!

"Yes…ha, ha, sugar…" Remus said through fits of laughter, lying on his bed. We had run out of conversational topics, so we had begun to tell dirty jokes. Remus had a lot of them, but then again, he said since he hung out with James and Sirius, he had learned a lot of jokes in his day.

"Okay, I have another one!" I said, laughing again, "I got this one off of Fred and George Weasly…"

"WAIT!" Remus said, sitting up and hushing me, "Do you hear that?" I glanced around and strained my ears before I heard panicked screams and terrifying screams.

"That doesn't sound good," I said, and Remus and I poked our heads out of the tent to see what was going on outside.

"Dear me! Look what they're doing to the poor muggles!" Remus shouted. I looked to where he was pointing and a group of people were tormenting the Roberts, the family that had helped us discover where our campsite was and helped a lot of the people stay on these campgrounds, so why would anyone be so mean to them?

"Isn't there anything we can do to help them?" I asked worriedly.

"Stay here, I'm going to go and help them as best as I can, you stay here, and if they come here, head towards the forest, I'll find you! Promise!" he said and looked at me. I glanced back at him and nodded.

"Stay safe, that's what I'll do!" I said and nodded again.

"This sugar high better last me a while," he said. I nodded again and put on a coat and continued to watch what was going on. I couldn't believe they would do that to muggles! Wait…what time of the month was it? Had it been thirty days since the last full moon? I had to find Lupin, or else the ministry might hurt him as well. I slipped past the people in hoods and looked around for a werewolf or any signs of the moon at all. Aha! There was a clearing! I ran into it and looked up into the night sky.

"DAMN!" I yelled, and then hushed myself. I hardly swore, why start now? I had to find Remus. I could hear people laughing and cheering and screams and such as I ran back into the fray. I pulled out my wand to protect myself in case someone wanted to pick a fight with me. On of the hooded people did!

"What do we have here?" the person asked and turned his wand on me.

"Stay away from me! We're all in danger if I don't find him!" I said, but the person grabbed a hold of my arm.

"You're not going anywhere little girl," he said, at least, it sounded like a man, "Who're you trying to find?"

"A werewolf!" I shouted and aimed my want at him, focusing all my energy, "VERMILLIOUS DUO!" Light shot out of my wand and knocked him backwards back into the fray. A few people turned and looked to see where the attack had come from and decided testing the area where it did originate from wasn't a good idea. I ran around, trying to find signs of Remus. I heard a loud voice boom something and some green light began to spill over everyone and there was great panic! I couldn't make out what was going on, I just had to find Remus amidst all this chaos.

"WEREWOLF!" a woman's voice shot out and I moved in the direction of that voice. It had to be Remus, if not, another werewolf I might be able to help not hurt anyone.

"REMUS!" I shouted and saw a werewolf charging in my direction, chasing after a woman. She shot past me and I stood my ground. The werewolf jumped onto me and bit my arm.

"REMUS!" I shouted again, "STOP THIS MADDNESS!" The teeth lessened and the werewolf backed off and looked at me.

(I bit her, it's over now…) he said, but I didn't feel any different from the bite.

"Remus, are you okay? You didn't hurt anyone, did you?" I asked, running up to him and hugging him around his neck.

(No…no one but you…) he said in his mind and in my embrace I felt him changing back into his human form.

"It's okay…" I cried and held onto him, wrapping my coat around his torn clothes.

"No it's not…I just bit you!" he said and I felt warm tears on my shoulder.

"I won't change, it won't affect me…" I said, "I don't feel any different and I don't think I can!"

"Wait, that's right, you're the Protector of Forest, no animal curse seems to affect you…" he said, "I still hate myself for biting you!"

"It's just a bad night, that's all!" I said.

"Why are you out here anyways? I thought I told you to hide…oh wait… you…" he said with a whisper.

"I realized tonight is the full moon…" I finished, "Let's go back to the tent and you tell me what happened…"

"The ministers had their hands full… I could tell that," he began, "I offered to help, which they accepted, then I realized what night it was and I ran off into the words before I changed, but then that woman came into the woods and discovered me…" He let his voice trail off after that and told about what that green spell might have been, even though he didn't see what it was.

"I assume Mr. Weasly will tell you if you ask, right?" I asked.

"Perhaps, I can still hear some commotion going on out there…" he said, "It was a bunch of former death eaters. Nice reminder that they're still out there…oh sorry…"

"For what?" I asked.

"Severus was a death eater…well, he's sort of the spy for our side now, thanks to you, but he still was one…" Remus said.

"Well, my sugar rush has worn off," I said, "I really think we should get to bed."

"Crystal…" he said and I hushed him.

"It's okay, it really is!" I said, "I don't mind…I mean, I don't mind now because I don't remember but I don't think I'd mind even if I did remember, I think…" I said.

"Alright then, we should get to bed, we probably are leaving in the morning…" he said, "I'll step outside so you can change…" He was probably going outside to use the bathroom before bed, so I changed quickly and crawled under the covers.

"Well, we actually need to clean up our mess…" I said and Remus came back in a little bit later.

"Oh, that's right, we need to clean this up, don't we?" he asked and waved his wand over the garbage and it disappeared, "We wouldn't want raccoons in this tent now would we?" He laughed slightly and shed his coat as well and crawled under the covers.

"Aren't you going to change?" I asked from across the tent.

"No, I think I'm too tired to bother," he said, "Besides, if we leave early, I can get up and pack and let you sleep."

"You're too kind…" I whispered as I faded off into sleep.

"After what you did tonight? Making sure the ministry didn't come after me, which they might still seeing as how I was the only werewolf there and I was chasing some woman, was more than kind for me…" he said and closed his eyes, "Besides, I…" He was already asleep before he finished his sentence. Remus was a good man, I wondered why there wasn't anyone in his life, and I might have to do some matchmaking. Wait a minute, was that me talking in my head or my past self saying that? It was getting harder and harder to know who I was, and that was trouble for me I thought. I was worried about this year at school, I sensed something big would be happening, but what the big thing was I couldn't tell! I felt myself drift off into a dreamless sleep, still worrying over the future. This year…something was going to happen, I could just sense it!

TBC

A/N: And this was one of my longest chapters yet and I did it without a song this time! This chapter was a little lighter than some of my other chapters, and because technically the "fourth book" is coming into play, there's going to be a lot of stuff that's going to happen, and I can't wait to write it! I hope all my reviewers will wait patiently for it… so read and review please and don't flame me! (Unless it's rated G-PG)