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8: Remus Lupin - N.M. Part One

Warning! This is part one of two, and is a slight angst I guess, but of course there's a happy ending. There's also a sizable age gap between Remus and (y/n), but I don't want ANY hurtful comments.

House: Hufflepuff

 Remus Lupin and I had been together for about five months, us having both fell for each other long before that but due to particular circumstances, people would've looked down on a relationship between the two of us - not because he was a werewolf, but because when we first met and when we fell for each other, I was a student and he was a professor.

During my last year of Hogwarts, Remus came to our school to replace the now indisposed Lockhart as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor, and it was during my very first class with him that I fell for him. Over time my feelings just got worse and worse, especially as the pair of us became so close that he considered me a friend outside of class. One day I ended up loosing control and I confessed to him, spilling out all of my emotions only to have him turn me away. I knew that rejection was inevitable, after all despite me being eighteen he was a teacher and I was a student.

I ended up avoiding him after my confession, even skipping his classes until one evening he caught me by surprise, stopping me in an empty corridor and admitting that he felt the same way about me. After we spent the night together, we realised that we'd have to keep our relationship a secret until I graduated, if not a fair while after to prevent us from being suspicious, however with the end of my year at Hogwarts came Remus' resignation, so we both left Hogwarts at the same time, us able to officially be together.

Nothing made me happier, as we were now an official couple living together in his small apartment that he had apologised for numerous times. He pointed out that as a werewolf it was difficult for him to find work to pay for a grander place, but I assured him that as long as I was with him I would be happy.

Life together was perfect, for the most part. There were many occasions, particularly around a full moon, when he'd believe I deserved better. He'd say that he was too old and too poor for me, that he was too much trouble and not worth dealing with. Every time he said such words it hurt, not only because I didn't care about any of that but because I thought he was trying to push me away. Often after these fights we'd spend a while in silence before finally my repeated 'I don't care!'s got through to him and he apologised.

Thankfully however a fight like that hadn't occurred in a while, and I thought maybe he had finally realised just how much I loved him, and how I didn't care that he was thirty-five and that I was nineteen. I was happy with him and I wanted him to accept that.

The pair of us were in our shared apartment, it being late and after a particularly steamy session, I was now laid naked upon his bare chest, his fingers running through my hair as I listened to his heartbeat. "So, you ready to meet Sirius tomorrow?"

Remus had told me everything about Sirius Black and his other old Hogwarts friends. He told me about Sirius' innocence and about how he was framed by another one of their close friends, Peter Pettigrew. I remembered the story very well, each detail being just as shocking as the next: James and Lily Potter being targeted by Voldemort, Pettigrew having turned to the dark side, the revelation of Pettigrew being the Potters Secret Keeper as opposed to Sirius. Remus was incredibly emotional whilst telling me the story, understandably of course but I comforted him throughout him telling me.

Remus assured me of Sirius' innocence, but of course Sirius still being a wanted man meant he had to go into hiding. He had sent a letter to Remus, signing it off with his high school nickname 'Padfoot', giving Remus his location and teasing Remus about me. "Yeah, he seems like one hell of a character," I chuckled, remembering his letter.