Into The Book

16

~~~~~Becca's Pov~~~~~

So it's really awkward. No one is saying anything. They're all staring soberly at the table top. It's quite depressing but then again it's their dad who's in peril. Stupid snake. Never thought I'd say/think that.
Thank God Molly's here. Though if I remember correctly she should have sent a letter before... Oh she did, must have missed that.
"Bec, you okay?" Conrad asks shaking my shoulder slightly
"Yeah. Are you?"
"Yeah. Want to go practice shifting for a bit?"
"Yeah. I'd like that?"
Smiling we both slip at of the still tense kitchen and into his room where we lock the door and close the curtain.
"So what are you shifting into first?" i ask unsure of what to choose.
"How about we shift into our hawks, since we both shift into them?" Conrad proposes, Nodding my agreement we shift together.
I look at Conrad in his hawk form and he looks majestic, light brown feathers, dark brown almost black sun on the top of his right wing and almost golden beak and talons. Then his blue eyes catch me looking and he stretches out his wings and hits me gently with them.

-----Conrad's Pov-----

Rebecca is her hawk form is stunning, her russt brown feathers perfectly matching her hair with purple and red streaks flowing across her wings and back. She has a small white cresant-moon on the top of her left wing and her eyes a dark blue today contrast nicely with her almost sliver beak and talons. I catch her eye and spread my wings accidently hitting her. She makes me so flustered, it's a pain. "Are you okay?" i ask forgetting we're birds and not able to talk.
"I'm fine but why did you hit me?" she answers
"I didn't mean to, I was just spreading my wings."
"Oh okay. Hey we can talk to each other like this." she says excitedly making me laugh at her behaviour. When I blink next I'm no longer sat next to a hawk but a small wolf cub with fur the same as the hawks feathers and the same moon on the left shoulder blade and piercing blue eyes. It's Rebecca. I shifted back to my human form and pick up the small cub before proceeding downstairs once more. As I walk down the stairs Becca snuggles closer and makes a humming sound.
"Conrad where's Rebecca?" Molly asks when I enter the kitchen, i look to Sirius for help seen we've only decided to register our hawk forms and told no one other than him, Remus and each other of the others.
"Erm...well she...er..." i stutter trying to think of an excuse "She's probably gone to get some air Molly, you know she hates it when one of us are hurt." Sirius says saving me "Oh of course the poor girl she worries herself too much. Would you like something to eat Conrad, dear?" Molly asks me
"Please Mrs Weasley." i say sitting next to Padfoot patting Becca's head softly. "Thanks for that. I thought they'd all be gone. I'm used to just us." i whisper to Padfoot gratefully
"Don't mention it. She looks cute like that."
"Don't let her hear you say that, she'll have your head off." we laugh quietly both patting the cub softly.

----Becca's Pov ----
Conrad scoops me up in my wolf cub form and cradles me as he walks back to the kitchen. The steady pace he's walking lulls me to near sleep so I snuggle closer and the warmth sends me into a peaceful slumber.
When I wake up I'm back upstairs and Conrad is asleep next to me. I decided to leave him asleep since he looks so sweet when asleep so quickly and quietly I slip off the bed and shift to my snake and slither down to the kitchen hidden by the shadows once there i see a figure sat slouched over the table, still in the shadows I move closer to see... Lupin!
Morphing to human I step out of the shadows "Remus?" i say softly "Are you okay?"
Remus jumps slightly, I must have startled him, "Oh Becky it's just you. I didn't see or hear the door open and you enter." he says sighing then wincing. Oh Remus. "You're hurt." i state accusingly. "No. No I'm fine."
"Don't lie to me, Remus Lupin. You are hurt and do not deny it to the people who care for you." i hiss walking around the table and bobbing down so I'm looking up at him. I hear him sigh softly again.
"Fine. Fine. It's nothing. I swear I'm still battered from the last full moon. By the way Becky, thank you."
"For what Remus?"
"For telling me straight. No one has done so probably since James and Lily."
I smile but then it hits me, he called me Becky. I can feel my tears in the corner of my eyes. I try not to show it and focus on checking Remus' wounds. But that's the weird thing with tears, and most things and things, the harder you try to hold them off the harder and quicker they come. Strong but gentle scarred hands fold over mine pulling me up so I was standing then I was wrapped in a tight hug where the dams broke and my shoulders shook with the tsunami of tears tearing down my cheeks.
"Shh, it's okay. You're okay. What's wrong? What did I do?" Remus asks and comforts me while processing to cradle me in his lap.
"I'm s-s-sor-ry. It's j-ust no-one's called me B-ecky in a while and I m-iss my family." i sob into Remus' chest.
"Hey its okay. It's okay to miss them. Completely normal sweetheart."
I smile a weak smile and nod in thanks.
We sit like that for sometime before Remus breaks the silence. "I need to talk to about something. Well you and Conrad but well Dumbuldore thinks you two need to be adopted. I was thinking would you like it if I adopt you?" he explains then sheepishly asks at the end.
"Really?"
He nods
"Yes. I'd love that Remus!" I hug him tightly
"Okay. I'll sort that out in the morning cub but for now bed!" he orders sounding relieved
Smirking i walk to the door and turning i say "Yes... Dad" then i run laughing.