Hello luv... A Harry Potter Fan Fiction

chpt 14

"Remus, Minerva I hadn't realised that I’d left the door open." Dumbledore looked shocked. Lupin's face was like a storm cloud and Minerva's wasn't much better. "Remus, I..." I tried to explain myself but he turned and walked out. I attempted to run after him but a wand appeared at my throat. "You are staying here, traitor." McGonagall looked ready to explode with rage but there was sadness in her face as well.  Dumbledore stood between us and she lowered her wand. "She is not a traitor Minerva; in fact she is our greatest ally, now please excuse my abruptness but could you move?" She looked confused but stepped to the right; I literally sprinted after Remus not waiting for Dumbledore to further explain things to Minerva.

When I had caught up with him I could see only his outline. He was shivering in the winter air and trembling in the frosty rain, but he kept walking. I tried calling out to him. "Remus please, just listen to me." He wouldn't stop. "Please hear me out." I tried again, but as before I got no response. We reached the very edge of the forest and the rain had picked up, my clothes and hair were drenched through and I could only just keep him in view. "Remus quit being childish and STOP!" I shouted the last word even louder over the sound of the rain pelting the ground. That made him stop walking and he turned around to face me. "So what are you saying?" He yelled back. I could make out tears running down his cheeks from this distance. "You think that it’s childish of me to be angry because it turns out that my best friend has betrayed me and a man I considered my brother, to marry a monster? I think that you deserve nothing more than someone like him; I would ask however how exactly you planned to kill us. How you planned to murder all your friends by making an alliance with Voldemort, and then give in to his every twisted whim like some loyal puppy." He would have carried on his tirade but I punched him in the face hard enough to make him stagger backwards a few feet. It was bad enough that he didn't trust me anymore but to accuse me of betraying Sirius- no I would not hear it. 

"Listen to me, dog," I spat in a deadly flat voice. "I have done many things in my life that I am not proud of but I am no traitor." I paused and moved in closer till I could smell him. "I hate that...thing." I spat the word, "and to even consider betraying Sirius, even though you doubt his innocence, would kill me. I may not be human, and I may not be perfect like my family, but I am sure that I will not willingly join Voldemort." I paused again, the rain thrummed. "Yes I am betrothed to him, but I hate him. My father forced me into it and the documents were written in my tortured screams. I cannot refuse him because I am bound to him by ties greater than can be made in words; I belong to him Remus... But I can never love him." I was breathing heavily and I could see the mist made by our breath in the cold light. I stood there hoping that he would place his arms around me and say that it was alright and everything would be okay but he just stood there like a statue. After what must have been ten minutes he spoke.

"I need to think." He whispered and walked off leaving me standing in the rain, I dropped to my knees with a slosh as I made impact with the mud, my hands fell into my lap and I knelt there in the rain and freezing mud, crying like a broken-hearted child until Minerva and Dumbledore found me.