Gemini Black and the Sorcerer's Stone (A HP fan fic)

Chapter 1 *****Edited*****

Chapter 1 *****Edited*****

I woke up to the sound of the other children in the orphanage laughing and running around and a sigh escaped past my lips. Just another summer day like always around here. I just turned eleven a few days ago and I didn't see Remus or Uncle Remy as I started to call him years ago but he was due to return today and I was excited to see him because he was really the only person I considered a friend and that even treated me kindly.

I got up and dressed and the morning passed quickly. Like I always did I stayed away from the other children because they hated me and called me a freak because of the strange things that happened when I got very sad or angry. I remember one time when one of the boys tried to cut my long black curly hair that I love because it reminds me of my mum's long hair from the very little I can remember of her. I got so angry at the boy that he ended up swelling up like a balloon; that was bloody brilliant but rather scary too because I didn't know what was happening.

After lunch, I decided that Remus should be home so I made my way down the road and to his run-down home. Remus wasn't old, he seemed to be in his earlier thirties and he was a kind man. When I was six he saved me from getting beat up from a group of the orphanage bullies and ever since then he's been like a father to me and I look up to him. I've asked him in the past why he doesn't adopt me but when I do I see a sadness in his green eyes and he just changes the subject without answering my question.

Something I find strange is that he always has to go out of town on the full moon and when he comes back he's always tired and he even sometimes is injured. I worry about him greatly because he's the only person in my life that I consider family but he always tells me not to worry about him and that he's fine. I know that he's hiding something from me and it's only a matter of time before I figure out what he's hiding from me and figure out how to help him like he always helps me.

Oh, maybe he's a werewolf and he leaves at the full moon for his change to keep me and other people safe. If werewolves were real that would make sense and it would be something that Remus would do too. He's a kind-hearted man and caring enough to never want to put others in danger and would do whatever he could to keep them safe so he would do whatever he could to keep them safe even if it was from himself. That would be cool if werewolves were real though and he was one; sad but cool.

With a sigh, I knocked on Remus's door and moments later my only friend answered the door and I smiled when he opened the door but frowned when I saw that he was pale and he had a new cut on his already scarred face. When he saw my grey eyes were looking at the new cut that was on his right cheek he gave me an assuring smile and invited me in and I saw that he was also slightly limping and my worry for him grew even more.

"Uncle Remy you need to be more careful on your trips." I said sternly and he chuckled as I sat down at his kitchen table as he poured us some tea. I've been calling him uncle now for years and he never once protested about it for some reason. "Can...can I ask you something about your trips?" He nodded his head hesitantly as he sat down in front of me. "Why do you always leave at the full moon?" He nearly spat out his tea with my question and I giggled and bounced in my seat. "Are you a werewolf?"

"Now what makes you ask that child?" Remus dried the tea from his chin and put his teacup down and put a piece of chocolate into his mouth.

"Well you always leave on the full moon and when you come home you're always really tired and you're sometimes injured." I looked down at the table in worry and sadness and then looked back up at him. "It would be cool if you were though, sad but cool."

"Cool?" He tilted his head with his question.

"Well if werewolves are real then that would mean that all the things that I do would mean that I could be a witch or something like that and not a freak like the gits in the orphanage think." I answered sadly as tears gathered in my eyes. "Oh and then maybe other things could be real too like wizards and dragons and unicorns and other cool things like that. An entire other world that we don't know exists." I looked up at Remus to see him smiling at me. "Maybe that's where my mum and dad are and I could find them and find out why they left me and..."