I Dreamt Of You (Wolfstar)

chapter 2

Sirius slowly became aware of his body again and after a moment could mostly make out hushed voices talking nearby. His limbs felt weighed down by heaviness and his head hurt.

"His body has been abused for so long that I don't think he'll ever grow to full size." A gentle voice was saying.

"I know, but at least most of the damage can be healed magically. I don't know why Madame Pomfrey hadn't done something about it before this, but I plan on finding out." A harsher voice replied.

Still not really registering the situation, Sirius groaned and tried to sit up. He needed to get up before his father got angry with him for lazing around again. Burning fire exploded throughout his back and a gasp of pain escaped him. His vision was a little blurry and everything seemed to be spinning, but he ignored it and pushed himself up.

Remus was by his side in an instant. "Sirius! You're not well enough to get up yet." the tall boy insisted, gently pressing on his shoulders.

Sirius' muddled mind finally registered the fact that he wasn't at Grimmauld place and he unconsciously relaxed a little. He looked at Remus for a moment, still slightly confused as to why the other boy was acting so protective all of a sudden, but listened to him, laying back down.

Once he was settled back against the pillows, Sirius finally looked around at his surroundings. To his surprise, Lynal Lupin was also in the room, sitting in a gold and white embroidered armchair nearby. He had seemingly been playing chess with Remus before Sirius had woken up and disrupted their game. The Lupin patriarch was looking at him now and had a softer look on his face than Sirius had ever witnessed before.

"I'm glad you're awake, Sirius. You collapsed because of food deprivation and stress." Mr Lupin said quietly.

Sirius noticed for the first time that it was light outside. "How long have I been unconscious?" he asked uncertainly.

The Lupins's exchanged a look before Mr Lupin replied, "About eight hours. I suspect your body needed the sleep and once you were out, you stayed that way until you could rest properly."

Sirius blinked and then asked, "Why did you come to the rest of my family? No, wait, how did you even know where I was?"

***

Remus was not about to admit he had asked his father to illegally look at some Ministry paperwork and decided to ease him into the creature inheritance issue instead.

"Well, actually, have you been having any weird dreams lately?" Remus sidetracked.

"No, not rea- oh, actually yeah, there was this one dream..." Sirius said, a strange look on his face. "Yeah, I have..." he trailed off.

"Was there a bright light and a face?" He asked.

"How do you know that?" Sirius exclaimed, looking extremely confused.

Remus decided that dancing around the subject wasn't worth the stress it would give his mate and said, "Well, I had the same dream last night. I know you have lots of questions you want to ask, but please wait until I finish." He added hastily when Sirius opened his mouth again.

Running a hand through his hair, the werewolf thought for a moment. "I might as well give you some background," he concluded. "A long time ago, a few species of magical creatures gifted certain wizarding families with special powers or like myself get bitten by a werewolf. Inheriting these powers can give you extra magic, transformative powers not too unlike animagus in a way, and a mate. The last is what you really need to know at the moment. We are mates, but soulmates too. We have a soul bond, which means we can feel each other's emotions and sometimes can trade thoughts. This probably won't happen for a while. Also, since I am a dominant werewolf, you will be a submissive creature."

Remus'father cleared his throat and added, "We will be going to Gringotts as soon as you are physically well enough to make the journey. The goblins can help us figure out what inheritance you have and also if you have any other inheritances of a property, money, or item sort. Not that you wouldn't have any, seeing as you're from the general wizarding population's least favourite pureblood family, I'm sure some old witches and wizards from the sacred twenty eight dumped their stuff on you." The last bit was mentioned in a very sarcastic tone, not unlike what Remus might hear from his Godfather Felix, and the young honey brown haired boy was quite amused.

***

Sirius was feeling slightly overwhelmed with all the new information and really wanted some time alone to sort everything out in his mind. He played with the corner of the blanket covering him for a moment, trying to form the right words to articulate this.

Thankfully, Remus seemed to sense what he was trying to say and mentioned casually, "I'm sure you would like some time alone to process, so in the meantime I will go find some food for you to eat."

Mr Lupin had summoned a house elf while his son was talking and they had vanished again, taking the chess set with them. Standing up, Lynal nodded in farewell as he followed Remus out of the room.