𝙑𝙄𝙍𝙄𝘿𝙄𝙏𝙔 ➞𝘏.𝘎

twenty three

"A Wolf"

-THAT NIGHT, WHEN EVERYBODY ELSE WAS ASLEEP, ADHARA WALKED DOWNSTAIRS, WANTING A GLASS OF WATER. A sound caught her attention. Her eyes widened at the sight. "Didn't the wolfsbane work?" She asked worriedly, unknowingly giving the the man answers.

Remus tried sitting up slightly, but was pushed back down by his husband, who was busy cleaning up his many wounds. "It was you?"

Adhara tensed. "No?"

Remus smiled regardless, knowing she was lying. "Thank you."

"It wasn't me." She frowned, but they all knew that it was a lie.

"It worked. But I might or might not have fallen from a hill in my - erm, wolf form."

Adhara looked at him, blinking a few times at his stupidity. "How does one fall off from a hill?"

"They just do." Sirius answered for him, dipping the cloth in some water and wiping the blood, making Remus groan in pain.

Adhara cringed at the painful sounds and walked over, pushing her father out of the way, making the men look at her in question. She didn't look at them as she held up her hand on the open wounds, "Vulnera Sanentur." She muttered, not giving a glance to the shocked man at her display of wandless magic.

She stayed like that for about ten minutes, healing every wound that Remus had, even going as far as healing most of the scars.

As she stood up, she tensed even more as she realized what she had done. "Fuck."

"You can do wandless magic?" Sirius asked, earning a look from his husband.

"Yes. Beauxbatons had a class for it." She admitted, and scratched her neck sheepishly, not wanting a particular question to come, but luck wasn't on her side.

"Why did you heal me?" Remus questioned, looking confused and grateful.

Adhara looked at him for a few seconds and glared, "It's just a gift for a gift. You gave me something I always wanted, and I gave you something you always wanted."

"What?"

"You gave me an album of my parents- Sirius and my mum." She said, hoping that they didn't catch her obvious slip up, "And I healed your scars and wounds."

Remus and Sirius exchanged a look, "Thank you. So much." Remus eventually said, not questioning how she knew he was insecure.

Adhara rolled her eyes and walked out of the room, not wanting to seem weak any longer.

"She definitely cares." Sirius immediately said after she walked out.

Remus hummed and smiled. "Yeah, she does. The only problem is, she doesn't want to admit it."

Sirius' smile immediately vanished as he remembered what he witnessed a few hours before..

"You've always had a family!"

"You don't know what it's like to not be able to sleep, due to wanting to know what was so unworthy of you that you father left you!"

"Because when she cared.. she lost." Sirius eventually said, ignoring the confused look he got from his husband as he rushed up to his daughter's room.

Sirius knocked on his daughter's door and poked his head through it. "Can I come in?"

Adhara, who was reading a book despite it being midnight, nodded.

Sirius smiled and closed the door, sitting infront of her, not knowing how he never noticed the pain in her eyes that was so evident. "I fucked up."

She looked at him in confusion. "In what? Because you've fucked up lots of times."

Sirius raised his eyebrows, "I know." He admitted, shaking his head. "What do you want to know, Adhara? You look like you have many questions and I'm willing to answer each and every single one."

"Why'd you leave her?" She immediately asked, making him frown slightly, due to it looking like she'd been wanting to ask that for years.

"We had problems." Sirius replied and frowned. "Why?"

Adhara pulled out her necklace and gave it to him, making his eyes widen at the image, "Ceci.." he whispered.

"You're not that happy with Remus." She said bluntly.

Sirius didn't look away from the necklace in his hands, "Yeah." He admitted, making her sit up straighter. "But I was too stupid to notice. By the time I realized, she was- she was gone."

"And Remus knows this?"

"Oh, Remus knows everything." Sirius answered, making her roll her eyes.

"Of course he does."

"Could you give him a chance?"

She looked at him in shock and disgust. "Pardon?"

Sirius gave her the necklace, which she immediately wore around her neck again. "You only act like you hate him, because you feel like it'd be an insult to your mother if you like your stepfather. We all know that, Adhara. Trust me, Cecilia would want your happiness more than anything. Even if that means liking your stepfather."

Adhara's eyes narrowed dangerously. "I don't like him."

"You would not have spent a thousand galleons on Wolfsbane for him, if you didn't." Sirius shot back.

"Merlin's beard!" She exclaimed angrily. "Be nice to one person and it comes biting you back in the arse!"

"That isn't a language a thirteen year old should be using-"

"I'm fourteen."

"Nevermind." Sirius mumbled ashamedly and sighed. "Please, Adhara? Give him one chance?"

She wanted to say no, but the desperation was evident. So evident that it was hard not to notice. "Fine."