Chapter One: Prolog: The News

Rating: Pg. 13

Authors Note: If the prolog isn't that great, I warn you the story will get better. It is one thing I am actually proud of. It is also told from many sides. It will be told from Remus's point of view as well as from many others. I'm sorry if that confuses you. It just works out a lot better that way.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter world; I just choose to live there from time to time.

Chapter Summary: Introductions to a whole lot of new characters. Lily and James's wedding, and Remus finding something out he didn't want to know. Please read and review, this story is in bad need of it.

Prolog: The News

The wedding was perfect, the guest fabulous, the bride and groom were madly in love. It couldn't have been better. Lily Evans was beautiful in her wedding dress. She was the picture of the blushing bride. Her bright red hair matched perfectly with her dress and her eyes shined with happiness. Remus didn't care about that though. He was too busy making fun of his best friend James Potter who seemed very nervous.

"Come on you're already married what is there to be nervous about?" he asked him.

"Well, what if she changes her mind in a few years and wants a divorce?" James replied.

"She won't, she loves you," Sirius assured him.

"All right then," James sighed and walked out onto the floor to dance with his bride.

They seemed to be the happiest couple in the room. Well, almost, there was one couple happier than them. It was their old potions master and his wife. His daughter Katrina was Lily's best friend and they were invited. They were the most loving couple the others had ever seen. Lily had even told them that she wished her and James ended up like them. They had laughed and said every couple has a different kind of happiness. Their own daughter was proof of that.

Katrina Santos-Snape was the most outspoken woman ever out there. The first day she met her husband she had refused to sit by him because he was so ugly. He was in the same year as her. They were in potions and Katrina had refused so badly that her father, who had spoiled her up until then, had almost sent her home. She had met Lily on the train to the school in first year. They hadn't been the best of friends from the beginning. It took them finding something that they had in common to smooth out the barriers. In this case it was the love of Elton John's Music. (A.N. sorry I had to put that in their cause I'm a big Elton John fan) That had gotten it to where they talked about anything from school work to boys. It was then that Katrina had admitted her crush on Severus Snape.

Lily had been shocked at first but she didn't mind it. She had been dating Remus at the time. As time past there was only one group more popular than the Marauders at Hogwarts. That was Lily and Katrina's group. It had more people in it also. There was Narcissa Black, cousin to the most notorious Marauder Sirius Black, there was Isabella Renaldy, muggle-born girlfriend of Sirius Black. Then there was Alice Sanders, girlfriend of Frank Longbottom. Isabella was friends with Lily longer than Katrina was.

Although she and Katrina had grown up down the street from one another they barely had anything in common. Isabella was the most quiet of the five in their group. She was the one stuck in Stephen King novels. He was the only muggle writer her boyfriend knew about also. So that's the summary of some of the people at the wedding. The rest was family and friends.

Well besides Narcissa Black-Malfoy's boyfriend Mundungus Fletcher. Theirs was a tragic story. When she came to school Narcissa, knew she was to be forced into marriage with Lucius Malfoy and until then she was fine with it. She hadn't expected to fall in love while in her seventh year though. She knew that if she did she would be putting herself and her boyfriend in danger.

She met Mundungus in her first year, but she didn't have any real feelings for him until her seventh when they fell in love. She tried to call of her wedding but Lucius told her if she did then he would make her and Mundungus pay. So she married him like she was supposed to, she just didn't marry him as a virgin. There was one problem with this though. She gave herself to Mundungus the night before her wedding day. That was four- months ago. Now she was four-months pregnant. It was either her husbands or Mundungus, she was hoping for the latter.

Then there was Claudia Mason, Remus's fiancée. She had grown up down the street from his aunt so he saw her every summer. He had really started to like her the summer after his fifth year when he and Narcissa had broken up after him getting threatened by Lucius. They had started dating that summer and now were engaged. She was four-month pregnant with a little boy. That was what was funny to Remus the only ones out of Lily's group who weren't pregnant were Lily and Alice. Isabella was just as far along as Claudia. Sirius was a nervous wreck.

The last person who walked into the reception was Cora Warrington and her boyfriend Jai. Jai was invited by Narcissa. He was the only member of Lucius's family she liked. He was the only one with a heart. She loved him like a brother. His girlfriend Cora was a wonderful person too, though very strange. She was a lot like Katrina though, the only thing different was that she hated Severus Snape with the power of ten thousand suns.

Cora Warrington was extremely pretty for a fourteen-year old girl. She had mid-length brown hair, soft blue-green eyes, and she had a perfect complexion. She was about five foot three also. The only person who didn't smile when she walked in was Snape. Even Remus was happy to see her. This girl was a female version of Sirius. When she made a plan she pulled it of seamlessly, and never got caught. When he saw her, Sirius immediately walked over and started talking about pranks he would like to pull on Snape during the reception; she smiled and shook her head.

"Today is Lily's day, you have your whole life to pull pranks on the man, let her have her day."

"Damn," he replied.

The rest of the day went just as well until it was time to go, but for some reason Remus didn't want to go. He had the horrible sense that it was the last time they were going to be that happy in a while.

(6 Years Later)

Remus Lupin woke up in the hospital bed with a shock. He hadn't been able to sleep since he had awoken from his coma six-months ago. He had been in the hospital for a year now and wondered why his wife had never come to visit. At first he only knew he had a wife because the ring on his hand. Now he could remember every little thing about her. The way her smile had lit up a room, the sent of flowers that always seemed to follow her, and the dark brown shade of her eyes. Claudia Marie Mason was her name and they had been married for five years. They had married when their son was nine months old; a half a year before Lily and James Potter's deaths.

The first memory that had come to him oddly enough wasn't about her, it was about their son.

He had just woken up from the coma when the doctors had asked him if he remembered anything about his life. Well of course he hadn't. They asked if the tattoo on his arm stood for anything. At first he thought they meant the one with letters and numbers and he went to look at it.

Then they said they already knew what that one stood for, so he looked at the one on his other arm; the tattoo with the name Trey Remus Lupin as its inscription. Instantly his mind took him to a light blue room with little pictures painted on the wall and a man leaning down over a crib to pick up a little boy. That's when he knew that he was a father and vowed to remember all he can that way he can see that little boy again; and now he can. This was his last day in the hospital. They were releasing him at noon. All his wounds were healed and he had his memory back. Now he just needed to find his wife and son. They were his world, especially Trey. He had a feeling a year without his dad had been very hard on the boy and he didn't want that pain to last.

About four hours later, Remus Lupin was packing his stuff and walking out of the hospital. He stuck out his wand hand and waited for the Knight Bus. He didn't have to wait long, five seconds later he heard it pull up and when he climbed on it he gave them the address to the old house him and Claudia lived in. When he knocked on the door though someone he didn't recognize answered it.

"May I help you," the woman asked.

"Um I'm looking for a Claudia Lupin and her little boy," he told her.

"Really, they moved out almost a year ago," the woman said.

"Do you have any idea where she moved to," he asked her.

"No sir, I have no clue." She answered.

"Thanks for trying to help," he said before walking away.

Remus had no idea where to go next. It's like Claudia had moved without a trace on purpose. He tried the next best place. He parents house. He walked up the lane on the Sicily coast toward their house and knocked on the door. He needed to get his answers, too long he had been away from his wife and son.

He knocked and waited for an answer. When her mother opened the door she, looked like she'd seen a ghost.

"Hello Mrs. Mason can I come in," he asked.

"Of . . . Of course come on in." She stuttered and stepped aside to let him in.

Remus walked into the house and sat down on the couch. He looked at his mother-in law with confusion written all over his features.

"Do you have any idea where Claudia is," he asked.

"Um Remus where have you been for the last year?" she asked.

"You guys didn't know?" He asked her.

"We were told you were dead," she said in shock.

"What I was in the hospital for the past year. Half of it was in a coma and the rest trying to get my memory back," he explained to her.

"Well then there is something you need to know about Claudia." She started.

"And what's that," he asked her.

"Well, she's . . . well. She's remarried." Her mother explained.

"What!"

Remus couldn't believe it. First his wife thinks he's dead and now, she isn't even his wife anymore. This couldn't be happening. They were perfect for each other. That's what he thought anyway. How was he going to break this to Trey when he finds out he's alive? He's only five years old. He is too young to understand divorce. He may not even understand what death is yet.

"Remus, I am really sorry," She said.

They sat in silence for a few minutes without even looking at each other. When Mrs. Mason did look at him, he could see the pity in her eyes.

He couldn't take her look of pity anymore. He needed to talk to Claudia.

"Where is she staying," he asked.

"Just about a mile away, Remus calm down. Take a few minutes to get your thoughts straight before you go over there. Claudia thought you were dead."

"I know. I need to see my son and find out what's going to happen to us. I know there is nothing that can be down. She's in love with someone else. But seeing as I'm still alive her marriage isn't legal and she and I need to divorce so she can remarry," as he said this Remus felt a hollow feeling in the pit of his stomach.

He had never thought him and Claudia would come to this. They both had said when they were little they didn't believe in divorce. It was for the best though. He had to give her the chance with her new husband. If she married him, she was obviously in love with him. Claudia's mother looked at him with sadness in her eyes.

"I'm sorry it had to come to this Remus," she whispered before giving him the address. "Just watch out for Roberto, he is very protective of his wife, if he thinks your causing pain, emotional or physical to her, he will not be too happy."

"I can understand that," Remus said, taking the address and standing up to leave.

Remus drove up to the house holding back the feeling of sickness in his stomach. He knew it would be hard for him to force his voice to sound normal while in there. He didn't want her to feel guilty for moving on so quickly.

He knocked on the door and once again waited for an answer. This time it was a man that answered the door.

"Yes," he said.

Remus guessed that his was Roberto Claudia's new husband.

"Is Claudia here," Remus asked.

"Yes, hold on," he said.

"Claudia honey, someone is here to see you," He yelled.

A few seconds later Claudia came to the door. When she saw him, her face turned as white as her mothers.

"Remus!" She gasped out.

Her husband looked at her in confusion and back at Remus.

"Remus, as in your dead husband Remus," he asked.

"That would be me, Claudia can I talk to you?" He asked her.

Claudia merely nodded in shock and led him into the living room. Roberto being able to since this would be a private conversation left them alone and walked in to other room.

"I thought you were dead," she said.

"So I've heard, he replied dryly.

"How did you find me?" she asked.

"Your mother," he said dryly.

"I thought so, Remus this is a huge surprise, we were all told that you were dead. No human could have survived that blast," she said.

"Well one did," he told her.

"What are we going to do then, we're still married, and that means I have to tell Roberto that our marriage isn't legal," Claudia said desperately.

"Tell him your supposed dead husband wasn't dead, and will give you a divorce if you want one," Remus told her.

"Remus, I never wanted this to happen," Claudia said, tears forming in her eyes.

"Well, if you were able to find love so soon, then it was obvious we weren't meant to be, we'll just have to make it through a divorce Claudia," Remus said more calmly than he thought he should have been able to.

"Well, at least we can still be friends right, we should be able to get along for Trey, we really don't have anything we should be mad at each other about, right?" she said looking at him.

"No, nothing is wrong with us, now can I see my little boy," he asked.

"Umm, he's at Roberto's sisters, he loves his aunt Rosemarie," she told him.

"Then can I see him tomorrow?" he asked her.

"Of course, I'll call Rosemarie tonight and make sure he is here in the morning," Claudia said.

"Thanks, but I have to go right now, I need to find a job," he told her standing up.

"Alright, we'll talk more tomorrow," she said leading him to the door.

"Yeah," he said. "Bye Claudia."

"Bye Remus," she told him.

After Remus walked out, Claudia shut the door and leaned against it. She couldn't believe this, her husband back, this couldn't be happening. Remus was a great guy, and she never wanted him to die, but as soon as she really got over him, he comes back. This was so hard to deal with.

Roberto walked in and looked at her as she stood there.

"Claudia, are you okay honey," he asked.

"Yeah, just a little shocked," she told him.

"Are you sure this is okay, you visiting with him, you shouldn't be stressed out, especially in your condition," he told her putting his hand on her stomach.

"I'm fine and so isn't the baby, and Remus needs to see Trey, his whole world revolves around that boy," Claudia said smiling.

"Are you sure your okay," he asked.

"Quit worrying, I'm fine, I just need to digest the idea that my husband returned from the dead," she said.

"Alright," he replied.

Claudia hugged her husband with her thoughts racing. How was she ever going to get back to how things were with Roberto if she was never really married to him?

After his visit with Claudia, Remus took a trip down to the beach to clear his mind. He couldn't believe that in a few months he would be officially divorced. He closed his eyes and let the tears finally fall. He was not a man who cried easily. In fact, the last time he remembered crying was in the end of his seventh year when Voldemort had killed his parents.

The reason why he was in the hospital was ironically connected to that very wizard. He was helping out Alastor Moody on a case when a band of old death eaters had cursed the place and through him towards a wall. The next thing he knew he was waking up in St. Mungo's hospital without any memory of whom he was or how he got there. Remus dried his tears and got back onto the street. He called the Knight Bus one more time and went to the Leaky Cauldron. Tom gave him a room and he went upstairs. This was going to be where he would be staying until he could afford something better.

When he got in the in the room he lay down on the bed and looked at the ceiling. It felt as if the world was suddenly falling apart. At twenty three years old, he was going to be a divorced man, with a four year old son who had believed him dead for a full year. How could have things gone so badly when they had suddenly been looking up? After the war with Voldemort it had been extremely hard to get a job, and when he finally found one it almost killed him. That's the way it goes when you're a werewolf though, you get a job that most people won't take, either their dangerous, or they don't pay enough. Remus closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep, this had been one tiring day.

More than a hundred miles away in France the next morning seventeen-year-old Cora Warrington was getting ready to go to her first class at Beauxbatons Academy of Witch Craft and Wizardry. It was going to be an English class that was set up that way they could communicate with the students from Hogwarts. Not that she needed any help in that thanks to her friends from when she was a teenager, well a younger teenager. She walked into the classroom for the surprise of her life.

"Katrina," she gasped out.

The Spanish face of Katrina Santos-Snape smiled back at her.

"Hello Cora," she said.

The rest of the class went by in a blur. She was shocked to have her old friend teaching her. It was so weird. Katrina didn't seem to be the type to teach but she was pretty good at it. At least better than the teachers that just drone on and on and on, Katrina added spice and fun to the class. Especially when they found out what her husband looked like. At the end of the class Katrina called Cora up to her desk and looked at her.

"How have you been, Cora," she asked.

"Good," she said. "Why?"

"Just asking, how's Jai?"

"Don't ask me, we broke up last year," she said bitterly.

"What! I thought you guys were in love," Katrina exclaimed.

"So didn't I, but we broke up when he graduated." She explained.

"I'm sorry," Katrina said.

"That's okay,"

Cora walked out of the classroom and to her next class. Her heart feeling heavier than it has in weeks, why did Katrina have to bring up Jai? All this while in a small room a man with an equally broken heart was filling out divorce papers, feeling as if his world was crashing down around him. He only hoped that one day his heart will be healed and his life would be as full as it was when he had his wife and child in it. At least he still had his child; he wouldn't be able to stand it if he lost Trey. Trey was the most important thing in the world to him.

A few months later, Remus's divorce with Claudia was settled. She was six months pregnant by time the divorce was finalized. Trey had been put under joint custody. Claudia would get him for the school year, and then on the summer vacations he would go to his dad's. When he went to Hogwarts he would spend half the summer with his mom, the other half with his dad.

It would be like that for years, and then something would happen when Trey was thirteen that would rock them all. The only problem was, they didn't know whether it was for the good or the bad.

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(A.N. I'm sorry if this wasn't as great as you hoped it would be. It will get better. I'm promise. PLEASE REVIEW, I LOVE REVIEWS) This is the edited version, I hope you guys like it more than you liked the original, I know I do.

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