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Chapter Five: Remus's Father
Remus went to Madame Pomfrey and asked, "Is the shack finished yet?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Lupin." answered Madame Pomfrey, "It won't be finished till the next few months. The Headmaster wishes you to go home for your transformation, he will asign a Portkey for you and your sister will be coming with you to help your parents take care of you." She led him to Dumbledore's office where Sylvia and Dumbledore were waiting for him with a tin can on his desk.
"Thank you, Poppy. I will take it from here." Dumbledore said softly and Madame Pomfrey left the office for the Hospital Wing.
"Sylvia, Remus, I will need you to stay in your home for the next few weeks. While you're there, I wish you to follow the directions I give you; you will not leave your home after dark and anything unusual happening in or near your home, I wish for you to send me an owl and I will send a guard for you. Understand?" Sylvia and Remus nodded and Dumbledore said, "Very well, now, when I count to three, I wish for you to hold onto this can tightly. Understand?" They nodded again and held onto the can as tight as they could.
"One, two..." Remus held his breath, bracing himself, "
three." A sick sensation happened in Remus's stomach as he and Sylvia left Dumbledore's office, next moment, they landed hard on the ground outside of their house. Their mother hurried outside to meet them and said, "Hurry inside, before a muggle sees." Remus, Sylvia, and their mother ran inside the house and Remus hurried through the house so he could get to the shed outside.
Remus and Sylvia never saw their father for two days until on the third days a few hours before Remus's transformation when he was running towards the shed, on his way he accidently ran into his father. Remus's father was holding a bottle of firewiskey and was shouting drunkenly at Remus, "Watch where you're going you little prat!"
"Sorry, father." Remus said scared, "I really didn't mean to..." he cut off when he looked down at his father's other hand and saw that it was heavily bandaged.
"What are you looking at you nosy little excuse of a son?" Remus's father snarled as he put down the bottle he was holding and with one swift movement hit Remus hard in the face. Remus kneeled on the floor and his father kicked his side and walked away from him, ignoring his son's sobbing. Remus's mother came into the room, kneeled beside Remus, and hugged him. Sylvia made Remus some tea and came back into the room to help her mother comfort him.
"I hate him." Remus struggled to say between sobs.
"I'm sorry, Remus. He's always been like that for a few years because of his drunken rages."
"Why can't we leave him?" asked Sylvia as she wiped Remus's tears away with her hankerchief, "We could be free."
"But where would we go?" asked their mother, "Your father will always know where we are even if You-Know-Who and his followers couldn't find us." She and Sylvia helped Remus up and they led him to the shed. They were careful to stay away from Mr. Lupin when he was drinking.
I'm sorry that I had you waiting for a post like this.
I hope you don't hate me