On a cold winter night Remus went to bed early feeling extremely tired. He had not felt this way since before he had started to take the Wolfsbane potion and Lithium, a muggle drug to keep the monster at bay. Not even after his battle with Grayback had he felt so tired as he did now. He fell into bed and was asleep at once. He was surprised to find himself before Fate once more and wondered if he had failed in his mission. He was doing all he was asked, he had gotten the letters from Mercury and had followed them to a tee. Fate motioned him to take a seat and with a snap of her fingers tea was brought up for two.
"You are not dead you know." Fate began, "you have done so well."
"I thought I would be dead, why am I here then?" Remus asked making himself a cup of tea.
Discover moreApp store optimizationFiction writing toolsMobile app developmentFan merchandiseAnime"There is more you need to know, about Severus and what will happen if he does not have true friends this time around."
"He has Lucius, he was always a good friend." Remus said, "he is not a bad man."
"No he is not, but let me start with the end of the war, he survived." Fate said sadly.
"What how? You said Harry saw him die." Remus said.
"And Severus would have died if not for the potions he took. He was suppose to get free but was captured by a death eater who kept him as his slave for twenty years." Fate said, "I will not go into deals what was done to Severus but I am sure you can guess what happened to him."
"I can, oh God not Severus!" Remus said finding he really did care about Severus as a friend and he did not want him to suffer pain like that. "Who was it that dared do this to him?"
Fate looked over at Remus, she could only tell him so much at this time, if she went too far then things would not turn out right in the end. In time she could tell the werewolf but right now she could not. She had a great burden placed on her. She was a kind and good person and hated to see anyone suffer, she was not cruel or heartless as portrayed. Her true story and history had been distorted and twisted until humans believed she controlled the cosmos and all their doings. It was not so, she was allowed to help here and there a person, a family and rarely when history did not go as it should have she stepped in and was allowed to send one person back and one person only. Humans after all had to fix their own problems to grow and learn and Remus was one of the strongest who could handle going back to fix things.
"When Severus managed to gain his freedom he was out for blood. He believed his captor to be his old friend Lucius Malfoy. Twisted, scarred and broken he had only one thought on his mind, that of revenge."
Discover moreBook Movie TicketsBooksAuthor resourcesStory writing softwareComics"Lucius is a hard man but he would never enslave an old friend or torture or do other things to him." Remus said paling.
"You and I know that but Severus did not, once he got free his captor had disappeared and Severus went at once to Malfoy manor. Lucius was no match for him, he was bound and forced to watch as Severus tortured his family to death, in the end gouging out his eyes and cursing him to die a slow and painful death. Severus was not finished there, he managed to get his hands on muggle weapons and headed to the ministry. For the remaining years of the magical world this was known as the slaughter of the ministry. At the same time the unknown death eater had gone and raised Voldemort from the dead but Severus would not answer his call.
" Severus next headed to Hogwarts, as the students were at dinner he burst in and killed them all. This was called the slaughter of the innocents. He was not done, not by a long shot, when he heard Voldemort was back he stalled his former master trying to kill him yet again by promising to take care of the muggle world. He left England and in a fit of madness and rage managed to get the nations of the world to war against each other causing billions of deaths in two short years. He then spent his time hunting down as much of the magical world as he could. He killed Harry's family and your son fell trying to defend the Weasley family.
Discover moreRead Graphic NovelsFan fiction booksFiction genre guidesCookiesFan fiction forum"Finally the non-magical world found out about the magical world or what was left of it. They blamed and rightly so the magical world and helped destroy anything that was magical they could find. They managed by accident to destroy the last of Voldemort's Horcruxes but it was too late for the magical world. Severus faced off against Voldemort, he was unable to kill him and was killed by him in the end. Harry faced Voldemort one more time and killed him off. He was shot to death two days later and the remainder of the non-magical fought to the last human leaving the world for the remaining goblins, giants, trolls and few house elves. Humankind was finished and done with."
Remus sat back in shock, Severus had to be completely broken, hurting and insane to do what he did. Twenty years of unspeakable horrors would have turned him from a proud and honorable man to an enraged, insane killer. Remus started to cry, his heart was breaking because of the pain Severus had or would have gone through. Knowing pain so well himself he hated to see others in pain and this wounded him to the core. He vowed to be the friend that Severus needed. He dried his eyes and looked up at Fate unshed tears in her eyes.
"How can I help him, let him know I am there for him?" Remus asked.
"Be his friend, this is the fate the world can avoid if you take the effort to be his friend." Fate said.
"I am trying Fate but he shuts me out!" Remus said, "even with all that I do to show him I am no threat he still shuts me out!"
"Go to him, tell him how you feel." Fate said, "he will not turn you away after that."
Remus knew he had to do this, Severus had to know there were those on his side not wanting a thing from him. The room faded and he found himself in bed and it was early morning. He got up, showered shaved and dressed thankful it was a weekend. He went to breakfast and saw Severus there and resolved to speak to him after breakfast. With this in mind he found himself outside Severus's office, he knocked and Severus bid him enter. Remus did and saw Severus look at him with narrowed eyes from where he sat at his desk.
"What do you want Remus?" Severus snarled.
"I wanted to say thank you for all you have done for me and that I have been an utter ass to you in the past." Remus replied.
"What brought this on? You think father Christmas will remember you if you are a good little wolf?" Severus said throwing his quill down to stare at Remus.
"I, I want to put the past behind us, I don't want to be your enemy, I would like to have you as a friend." Remus said.
"No, go away." Severus growled.
He did his best to ignore the werewolf sitting before him, who was starting to annoy him. Bloody nuisance, Black had to put him up to this. He heard sniffing and looked up in shock and saw Remus crying before him. On reflex from years of comforting children Severus got up and walked over to Remus intending on handing him a handkerchief. Remus had other ideas and hugged the taller wizard sobbing into his robes. Severus was shocked and stunned, what had caused this stupid werewolf to do this? He put a hand around the werewolf summoning a calming draught with his other hand, for some reason hexing Remus was the furthest thing from his mind at that time.
"If I say I will be your friend will you stop this nonsense?" Severus snapped.
"Y-yes you promise to be my friend?" Remus asked sniffing.
"Yes I promise." Severus growled, "why you want to be a friend of such as me I will never know."
"You are a good man Severus, and you don't deserve to be alone." Remus said drying his eyes, he was not expecting to break down but after seeing what Severus had been reduced to in that other horrible time. "I promise to be a very good friend to you."
"Fine now clean yourself up," Severus said narrowing his eyes. "Remus you are not homosexual are you?"
"What Merlin no I know who is though…" Remus said, "kind of hard for him to hide it. I just want to be your friend, please?"
"I am mad to say yes, I really am, you nearly ate me!" Severus growled, "but I will keep my word and allow you to be my friend."
"Thank you Severus, I promise to be the best friend and a loyal one there for you." Remus said.
"I need a drink, coming?" Severus asked.
"Of course Severus."
It was the beginning of healing for both wizards and Fate smiled down on this. She knew Remus could handle the truth of the future that had gone wrong and she had been right. She could see Severus was already doing better due to this friendship, though mortal humans might not see it she could see a glow in his eyes that had not been there before. There was hope for the future and she was glad she was allowed to help these poor broken souls below. She smiled and headed outside to tend to some flowers before her next task.
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Justin Wilkes ran a hand through his thick red hair and sighed refusing to look at the calendar. It didn't do any good, he knew what time of year it was and it made him sad. Yet what could he do about it? He had to leave his family to keep them safe, he was a squib and his family had been too close to him. When his cousin's wife's brothers had tried to defend him Voldemort had gone after them ending in their deaths. After that he changed his name, and fled fully into the muggle world leaving behind a false trail that led everyone to believe he was an accountant. That was as far from the truth as it could get, Justin Wilkes, formerly Thomas Justin Weasley was a part of her majesties MI-5, the order of the phoenix office.
Right now his job was interesting to say the least. He was a teacher at a private school and his job was simple on paper, to work with several relations of muggleborn students particularly one young boy. It was in fact a frustrating yet rewarding job. As it was Christmas break at that school he was now here catching up on what had been going on as of late. It seemed there was real hope that the phoenix office was making progress with the main part of the magical world here in England.
The name was not a coincidence, MI-5 was trying, as it had for years to get Albus Dumbledore on their side as he was a far better contact than any in the magical ministry. Yet when their contact in the magical world connected to him had been thrown in Azkaban (and it had come out he had not had a trial) that lead went cold. Now he was out and free and Wilkes was wondering if he would be interested in helping once more. He knew there were still very real threats in the magical world that her majesty was not happy about and if he could not get some of them to help then the word was to bring them back into line if the threat crossed over into the non-magical world again.
"Thinking of your family?" A tall man with graying brown hair and green eyes asked coming to sit on his desk.
"Yes Allen, but it is too dangerous for me to go back, two people I care about died because of me." Wilkes said. "That and the news that Sirius Black is free and innocent to boot gives me hope at least."
"They have a werewolf, Remus Lupin who has been working with the headmaster of Hogwarts Dumbledore, seems he is the one we really need to be working with as he has the trust of Dumbledore."
"Good, let me know how it turns out, I will be at my flat over Christmas." Justin replied.
"Well you cannot be alone on Christmas, it's not right, you come home with me." Allen York said. "The bottle is not your friend this time of year and you know it."
"Fine I will come." Wilkes said.
Wilkes followed his good friend of these past years, when he had cut off contact with his family York had taken him in and did his best to make sure he was not alone. Justin fought down the guilt he felt at not telling his own family where he was but he knew the Weasleys were far safer without him around. He was sure they did not talk about him and if that was the case then the magical world was far safer for that. He knew how families who not only protected their squib relations but refused to abandon them were treated by death eaters first hand. If he had left years before he had he was sure Molly's brothers would not have had to fight to the death to allow him a chance to escape (not that he had a choice with a portkey forced on him) and live. He would stay away from them to keep them safe, it was the least he could do for the Prewett twins dying for him after all.
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As I have stated before here and in my profile I don't do slash. That being said Fate knows what she is doing giving Remus what he needs to do his job bit by bit. To have a proud strong man tortured and kept as a slave for decades like Severus would drive him over the edge. He would want revenge and is strong enough of a wizard to destroy quite a lot of humankind.
For Remus to learn of his fate as it were would make him feel horrible and going to him to be a friend would not be out of line. I don't see Severus out of character accepting his friendship, he has seen Remus work hard to keep the school secure and work with him in making the Wolfsbane even better. So seeing Remus break down because he wanted to be his friend I think he would try to make a friendship work.
As for Wilkes, he is the squib cousin the Weasleys don't talk about. They like muggles but refuse to have anything to do with a squib relation? I don't think so, I think the squib relation would leave the family to protect them as I had Wilkes do.