Title: Missing Persons
Author: Evilremmy
Theme: The Five Senses - No. 4 Smell
Pairing: Remus Lupin/Fenrir Greyback
Rating: G
AN: Late again. *snore*
At seventeen, Remus smells like a strong, active adult. He is leaving school soon; but Fenrir goes to visit him at Christmas, when Sirius and James have gone to the Potters’ for Christmas, and Pettigrew has crawled off home. Remus is spending Christmas alone…but for the first time in many years, Christmas is a full moon.
On Christmas Eve, Remus makes his way out to the Whomping Willow alone, and climbs down the tunnel, wrapped as he is in his ragged brown cloak. Fenrir is already waiting for him in the hut - he had the intelligence this time to go before the moon rose.
When Remus closes and locks the door, Fenrir creeps from the shadows and unlocks it, pushing it open wide enough for a wolf to push it with his nose; he makes his way deep into a dark corner and curls up to sleep, waiting for the moon.
She wakes him with a stab of pain in his back. Rather than cry out, he moans softly. Transformation is a pleasure for him…though there is such incredible pain, he considers it a blessing. He enjoys the pain, because it tells him what he is becoming.
Tail, fur, long nose, changing teeth, ears shifting vertically, changing shape. There is a dull moment when he can see nothing, hear nothing and smell nothing - and then there is an explosion of colour, sound and smell. The most impressive is the scent - he can smell the room, he can smell Remus, he can smell other animals; strange animals, and other humans.
But the strongest smell by far is Remus; the scent of the young greyback is everywhere. He has left his mark on every part of this house…and Fenrir leaves his own before he begins to chase the scent of the young wolf.
First they fight. Then they lick each other’s wounds. Then they head out to follow the smells of the night…
Remus Lupin is missing for eight days before a bedraggled young man finally finds his way back to the village of Hogsmeade.