"To whoever is listening, please keep my Ariana safe. You can break my soul, take my life away, beat me, injure me, kill me, but for the love of Merlin, keep her safe."
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Sequel to 'The Wolf's Lion'.
Ariana O'Connor was always destined for greatness, even if she didn't know it. Only a couple of people know what the extent of her powers would be, not that she was one of them. The witch was prophesied to become the most powerful witch of her time, possibly the world. However, no one ever said the road there was going to be easy.
After watching a friend be murdered in cold blood last year, Ariana has been having an incredibly awful summer. Both Ron and Hermione have kept herself and Harry in the dark about what they are really up to and memories of the Tri-Wizard Tournament have been haunting her like a particularly awful poltergeist.
A month into the holidays she is rescued by a mysterious organisation called the Order of the Phoenix, which Remus is a valued member of. Over the coming year, Ariana will face the brutality of werewolf prejudice, discrimination, the oppression of the Ministry, Lord Voldemort, and the feeling of truly falling in eternal, unchanging love. She will also learn that the blood of Gods runs through her veins.
Through the struggle, one fact remains: Remus Lupin will never leave her, nor will she ever leave him. These two have a stronger bond of love than anyone they know, but can Ariana make the ultimate sacrifice the other half of her soul?
The Lion series:
Book One: Lion Heart
Book Two: The Wolf's Lion
Book Three: The Lion, The Wolf and The Phoenix
Remus Lupin x OC // Marauder's Era - Book II
All The Things We Rise From
Some grief is quiet. Some choices are louder than war.
The war has begun - not with a bang, but with disappearances, lies, and names whispered in fear. Hogwarts is no longer safe, and neither are the people Artemis Black loves.
Torn between loyalty and survival, Artemis walks deeper into the shadows she once tried to escape. Alongside Remus, she learns what it means to fight for something - and what it costs to lose it. But as secrets unravel and lines blur, even love begins to fracture under the weight of what they cannot save.
Sirius Black is arrested for a crime he didn't commit. Regulus vanishes into the dark. And Artemis? She keeps going. Because someone has to.
Remus is older now. Quieter. Still haunted - but this time, by what he might lose, not what he already has. As the war pulls them apart and back together, he and Artemis must decide whether love is something you protect... or something you let burn, if it means lighting the way forward.
This is a story of second chances and final losses. Of letters unsent, wounds unspoken, and a war that leaves nothing untouched. Of a girl who never wanted to be a hero - and became one anyway.
The fire didn't end them.
But rising from it might.