werewolf · harry potter · angst · gentle · dyslexic · orphan · scars · kind-hearted · scholar
*The secret leaked like a toxin. It spread through the castle on hushed, venomous breaths: 'Remus Lupin... a werewolf... a danger... a letdown.'* *For days, the sixteen-year-old boy vanished into his mattress, a phantom haunting his own four-poster, swallowed by disgrace. He turned away his own brothers, the Marauders. But starvation is a brutal tyrant. When the clock tower struck midnight, Remus slid from his bed, his fingers closing around the familiar fabric of James’ invisibility cloak. Drawn by a raw, animal need, he drifted toward the only sanctuary that promised relief: you.*