Sad, Beautiful, Tragic ~ f.g.w

𝟏𝟖. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝.

When the arrived back to the hospital wing, Snape was making a loud fuss over the fact that Sirius had been missing. He bursted in, yelling at Harry and Maia. Fudge scolded him for the "nonsense" he was speaking of, while Madam Pomfrey ended up kicking him out for the stress he might cause to her patients.

The next morning, classes were as good as over, all of the students would go home soon. Maia would find Astoria in the common room after she left the hospital wing. When she saw her, she was bombarded with questions.

"Oh my god?! Are you okay?! You never came back last night! What happened to your arm?! Were you attacked by Professor Lupin?!" Astoria panted.

"Wait- Attacked by Lupin? How do you-"

"Professor Snape. He told all of Slytherin house earlier." Astoria sighed. "So you were attacked by him? I thought he was your godfather!"

"Snape. That greasy haired git." Maia thought to herself.

"It doesn't matter what happened- I'm fine." Maia scoffed.

"Okay- Whatever..." Astoria still sounded concerned. She walked with Maia to the Great Hall. Eyeing her every so often. She seemed off... but in a good way? "What's got you so giddy, Maia?"

Maia knew she couldn't tell Astoria what was actually up. Even though she trusted her with her life, she couldn't let it get out to anyone. Maia had to be quick to make up an excuse.

"Uhm- Its ah- Fred..?" Maia tilted her head.

Astoria grinned, "I could get used to that."

"I thought you were disappointed in me-"

"Yeah well- I thought it was a small attraction at that time." Astoria nodded.

"What- you think it's more than that?" Maia asked, sitting down at the Slytherin table.

Astoria winked, before Draco started speaking.

"What happened to your arm, cousin?"

Maia snickered, "A werewolf attacked me."

Draco scoffed, "Yeah- right! You're quite dramatic sometimes."

Maia scoffed in return. "You are something else, Draco."

After breakfast, Maia felt it was only necessary to go see Remus. However, walking into his office, she was met with something she had not expected.

"You've been sacked?" she startled him a bit, walking in without a peep.

"Maia... oh dear..." he eyed the sling around her arm. "I- I'm so sorry, love."

"Don't- don't apologize. It's fine. You weren't you." she insisted, stepping closer to him.

"To answer your question- I have not been sacked. I resigned." he nodded.

"You can't! You're the best teacher we've had in a while, Uncle Moony!" Maia insisted, walking to his desk, eyeing all of his trunks.

"Maia- everyone knows. If I stay- just imagine the outrage with parents- and then the Ministry-"

"Screw the Ministry!" she hugged him with her good arm, pulling him into a tight embrace, he wrapped his arms around her in response. "Don't leave. Please, Uncle Moony."

"Maia... I'd love to. Trust me. Getting to know you this year has been everything to me. But we both know, I can't." he mumbled into her hair, placing a soft kiss on her hair.

She sighed, slowly pulling out of the hug. "Can you promise you'll write to me? Promise you'll stay in my life?"

"Maia. I would love nothing more." he smiled. "We'll see each other again. I promise."

Maia thought back to her father's words, as he had said the same thing. She smiled back.

"I love you, Uncle Moony."

"I love you too, Maia."

As Maia realized there was nothing else should could do to convince him to stay, she opened her mouth to speak, not even knowing what was going to come out. "Thank you."

"Thank you?" Remus raised his eyebrows.

"For everything. Everything you've done for me."

"Maia- I told you, we'll see each other again. This is not the end. This is not a goodbye." he reassured her.

"I know. I know." she doubted him a bit, not knowing whether it was smart or not to believe him. "I should go-" she smiled sadly. "Got to start- uh- packing up my own stuff- y'know?" she chuckled pathetically.

He half-smiled at her. "Stay safe for me, Maia. Okay?"

She nodded in response, giving a small wave, before leaving his office.

Maia wiped a single tear away. It felt like her life had all come together and fall apart in less than 24 hours. Sure, she was happy that her father is innocent, but will she ever get to have her father? Will he forever be a man on the run? This whole time she had felt better because she still had Remus. but now he was leaving as well. Now, she would be forced to go back to the Malfoy's. Yes, she had Narcissa, but that only meant so much. She would still have to deal with the bullshit pureblood ideologies of her Uncle Lucius.

Maia made her way to the dungeons swiftly, not wanting to face her fellow students and their theories on what happened the night before. When she finally got to her destination, she muttered the password without even looking up.

"Maia?" there was that voice again.

"Fred? What are you doing out here?" Maia looked up, tucking her hair out of her face.

"I- I was waiting for you." he half smiled.

"Oh." was all she managed to say.

"Are you okay?" he placed his hand on her shoulder, tilting his head a bit.

"I'm fine, Fred." she inhaled, pushing back the tears again.

"Okay- I just wanted to know if we could talk-"

"I'll write to you. You'll write back, yes?" she asked.

He nodded, "Yeah- of course... Maia, what is this?" he gestured between the two of them.

She sighed. "Only time will tell, Weasley." she mumbled the password again, stepping into the Slytherin common room.

"Time- right." he looked up at her. "You'll write?"

She smiled, "Already established, Fred. I'll see you later." she motioned for him to go, chuckling a bit. "Leave, before the wrong person sees you here and you get jumped... or whatever..."

"Hey! I could take them!" he crossed his arms.

"Yes, well- I'd rather not test that theory!" she laughed. "Bye Fred!"

"Bye, M." he smiled contently, as she closed the way into the common room.

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A/N and the end of prisoner of azkaban! like i said, this chapter is indeed shorter. but I have lots of plans for goblet of fire and im very excited to write them! will definitely get more into fred and maia's relationship in the next act and there will be some drama surrounding it tehe, and of course triwizard tournament, yule ball, return of voldy and all that jazz. do stick around :)

I hope you all are doing well <3