Left Behind (Kris, Remus)

[Remus Lupin]

Remus held her close and patted her back lightly. He felt this was something she had needed... she needed to let her feelings out. "It doesn't matter now," he said softly. "You're here now, that's all that matters. You may have missed a lot, but at least we have each other now."

[Kris Lupin]

"But I never got to know or say goodbye to Mum." Kris said as her voice shook still.

[Remus Lupin]

"I know," Remus said. "I wish I could do something about that... tell you about her, make you remember... but I can't. Even then, it wouldn't be enough. And it's not fair. I'll never understand why Dad did this."

[Kris Lupin]

"I hate him for it, but I have to talk to him, make him tell me why he ruined our lives." Kris said, she hated breaking down like that but when he told her he loved her it was like the wall holding back her feelings and tears from the past crumbled.

[Remus Lupin]

"I know," Remus said, hugging her again. "Anyway, do you want to keep staying here, with the pack? I know you're not sure where you belong, but they did risk a lot to save you. They're good people, Kris. You just need to come out of your shell a little bit. I know how it is... I used to be the same way. But I'm happy here. At least until we go back to school."

[Kris Lupin]

Kris nodded. "I do want to stay here... even if it's just cause I can be with you..." She gave a small smile. "Besides Karl got hurt from saving me... I don't want to leave and act like that never happened."

[Remus Lupin]

Remus smiled. "Yeah, that's true," he said. "Well, I'm glad. I want to have a chance to get to know you." He stood up. "Hey, want to play a game or something? Like normal kids?"

[Kris Lupin]

"Like we did when we were little?" Kris asked, they use to play tag, imagine they were superheros, great witches and wizards. Think of those times made her smile, Remus had always beat her at that game, well she let him win.

[Remus Lupin]

Remus grinned. "Yeah... that sounds like fun. I wish... I wish I remembered it. I still don't understand why I don't remember. Can you tell me about those days? What it was like when we were kids? What did we do? Were we close? I want to remember, and I feel like, if you tell me... maybe I will remember."

[Kris Lupin]

Kris smiled. "We always played tag and we would play it differently from the way Muggles did it. We would mix playing pretend with tag, but only when one of us wanted to play tag while the other wanted to play pretend." She closed her eyes as she thought back. "I would always go to you when I heard you have a nightmare, our rooms were beside one another. We were so close people thought we were twins." Kris looked at Remus smiling. "They was shocked when they learned I was a year older."

[Remus Lupin]

Remus smiled sadly. "I wish I could remember it. It's like, I feel like there's a whole part of my life that I'm missing. And I want it back." He sighed. "I guess that's how you feel about Mom, right?"

[Kris Lupin]

Kris nodded. "Yeah, I want to remember her, but now when I try to a blank come up. I don't even remember who tucked me in bed at night." Tears started forming in her eyes, she hated her father for ruining their lives.

[Remus Lupin]

Remus reached up and wiped her eyes. "No, don't cry anymore. I don't like seeing you unhappy all the time. Come on, let's do something fun for a change and forget all about Dad and what he did to us."

Suddenly he heard a tapping sound on the window and looked up to see an owl outside. He got up quickly and picked up the bird. After he removed the note, he gave the owl a little scrap of bread, then sent it back outside, closing the window behind him. Then he came back to sit with Kris as he looked at the note. "Hey, it's from Sirius!" he said. "He addressed it to both of us."

[Sirius Black]

Dear Kris and Remus,

I hope this letter finds you both, or at least one of you. I haven't been able to contact anyone all summer because my mum put some kind of charm on the house to prevent me from sending owls. I was only able to send this one because my cousin Andromeda did it for me. Anyway, I wasn't sure where you both were staying for the summer, but I hope you're both doing OK. I will be back at school, so I should see you soon. I miss you, Kris.

Sirius

[Kris Lupin]

Kris leaned close to Remus and read the note, she smiled then began thinking that she couldn't wait for school. "I can't wait to see him."

[Remus Lupin]

Remus smiled, too. "Yeah, me too," he said. "Poor Sirius, it sounds like his mum is almost as bad as our dad! I guess she decided not to let him go to camp. It'll be good to see him when we get to school, though." He folded the letter and handed it to Kris. "So... what do you want to do?"

[Kris Lupin]

Kris took the letter and put it in her pocket. "Would you like to play that game I told you about? All you got to do it pretend you have a wand and say 'taggis'. Or would you rather do something else?"

[Remus Lupin]

Remus nodded. "Yeah, OK. Let's do it. It sounds cool." He took her hand and helped her stand up. "I just want to go tell Skye what we're doing, OK? I'll be right back."

[Kris Lupin]

Kris nodded as she stood up with his help. "Yeah, we wouldn't want her to worry about us." She smiled then leaned against the table to wait.

[Remus Lupin]

Remus grinned, then hurried off to find Skye. When he got to the room where Dawn was staying, he lightly tapped the door, so as not to scare her.