When Creatures Meet

Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Oh, Bloody Hell

Remus was expecting to wake up by himself the morning after the full moon like he has every full moon since the Potters were killed. He knows that Tom had nothing to do with the murders of three of his pack. He knew that Dumbledore was responsible for the murders of James, Lily, Tom, and Dani. Slowly, he stretched his sore muscles before just laying calmly on the ground. 

"Oh, good you are awake I was starting to become worried." a small voice calls out from the corner of the cave. 

Jumping at the other voice in the cave, Remus whacks his head on the side of the cave calling out. "Ouch, oh bloody hell." 

The small voice quickly moves over to him as starts to rapidly apologize. "Oh, I am so sorry! I thought you knew I was here. I mean we slept next to each other all night when you were a wolf, I did not mean to scare you. I am sorry, Moony. Are you okay? Does your head hurt bad?" 

Remus just stares at the girl trying to process what she was saying, seeing the girl begin to shake and panic he immediately comes out of his head and tries to calm the small child.

"Hey, hey it is okay. You just surprised me is all. My head is fine, just a small bump. See no blood or anything." Remus says and touches his hand to his head and then shows the child. "Now I have a couple of questions for you if you do not mind trying to answer them. Wait, did you dress me?" Remus asks, noticing he was wearing the clothes he laid out last night. 

Nodding slowly, "Well, you looked kind of cold and I saw the clothes so..." the child ends up shrugging. "I guess I can answer some questions if you do not mind answering some of mine?" 

Remus looks at the small child with a soft smile on his face, surprised by her kindness toward him considering he was a werewolf, "Sure, I do not mind answering your questions. How about I ask one and then you can and we can just keep going back and forth, Does that sound okay to you?" 

Seeing the child nod in response Remus asks "Okay, so what is your name?" 

The child's eyes go wide before saying, "Oh, that was rude of me. My name is Dani. Yours is Moony right? At least that is who Mitera said she was sending me to."

Once again, Remus was surprised that the girl was calling him Moony, "Well, yes that is what my family calls me, but my real name is Remus. You said that your Mitera was sending you to me. What is your Mitera's name?" 

Dani looks at Moony confused, " Mitera's name is Hecate. Do you not recognize me Moony? Papa said that you would and your wolf was nice and cuddly with me last night." 

Moony looked confused before responding, "I do not know anyone named Hecate, and I do not know any children your age either. What is your papa's name Dani?" 

Dani becoming frustrated her response sounding annoyed, "Papa's name is James, Momma's name is Lily and Mitera just adopted me last night, but I can not stay with her so she sent me to you. Uncle Moony are you sure you did not hurt your head earlier?" 

Remus's jaw drops as he finally connects the dots, "Dani," Remus responds with tears in his eyes and a lump in his throat, "Cub, is that you?" 

Dani, surprised by the tears, replies "Finally Uncle Moony, you had me worried." Dani dives across the small space and into her uncle's lap and tackles him with a hug.

"Cub!" Moony responds hugging her tightly, "How are you here? Where have you been? Oh, I have missed you so much cub." 

Dani buries her head into her uncle's neck before replying "I was sent here by Mitera, she said that you, me, and Uncle Tom, were going to travel until I could go to Hogwarts. I was at the Dursley's but I do not like it there. I do not have to go back, do I? I can stay with you, right? They hurt me, Mitera said they killed me and I was only brought back because of Thanatos because I was his Mistress."