Give Her Time

Chapter 9 – A Little, Tiny Something Something


Ginny leaned on Remus\' shoulder as they sat and watched the squid do laps in the calm water of the lake. The sun was close to setting, and the grounds were quiet tonight.

\"Remus?\" she asked as they watched the squid lazily swim through the still water.

\"Yea Gin?\" he asked. Even though they\'d only been walking by the lake for the past week or so, Remus found it was quickly his favorite time of the day. Ginny was relaxing and her conversational skills put him at ease. It had nothing to do with the fact that she would often touch his arm, or lean against him like she was now. Nothing at all.

\"Does it hurt? Your transformation - during the full moon, I mean,\" she asked, looking up at the nearly full moon. She knew the next day, he would be locked in his rooms to transform, and her heart ached at the thought that he might be in pain.

\"Well, it use to. But Severus\' improvement on the potion has really cut down on that. It\'s more like a full body sneeze. Not something you look forward to, but not awful either. Why?\" he asked. Not many people asked him direct questions about his condition.

\"I\'m glad.\" she replied. \"I wasn\'t sure, and thinking that you might be in pain during the transformation upset me. Pain isn\'t exactly something you want your friends experiencing,\" she added ruefully.

\"Awww, Gin,\" he winked at her. \"Were you getting your knickers in a twist over the though of poor ol\' me getting hurt?\"

\"Well, someone has to care for your poor old self,\" she grinned back. \"These forced transformations must not be easy on your body and you aren\'t getting any younger you know\" she teased.

\"My poor old body? You\'ve been looking?\" Remus winked at her as he stood up and offered her his hand. The sun was heavy in the horizon and as soon as it set, the chill would set it.

\"You won\'t let me,\" Ginny pouted as she took is offered hand and stood up.

Remus stopped for a second before saying carefully, \"You don\'t remember. Not my fault you don\'t remember...\"

\"You\'re right, I blame the whiskey. But I remember the important things.\" She smiled at him, pulling on his arm to get him walking again
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\"Oh? And what \'important\' things do you remember?\" he asked, grinning and following along.

\"I remember you taking me into your arms to bring me to the room,\" she said. \"And I remember you staying with me while I was upset.\"

Remus nodded. \"Yes - I remember that too. Anything else?\"

\"I remember a very wonderful kiss,\" Ginny added, grinning.

\"Nahh... You think you remember a very wonderful kiss. But you\'re really just making it up because you can\'t admit you\'re a lush who blacks out. You don\'t even remember me dipping your toes in chocolate and sucking them!\" Remus declared.

\"Alright, you caught me. But considering you were stuck without clothes and a wand, I\'m going have to call you on the chocolate thing,\" Ginny replied, and started to grin mischievously. \"But iming ing you walking as naked as a jaybird to the kitchen to get some chocolate is a rather amusing.\" She snorted. \"What if you ran into either Harry or Draco?\"

Remus winked at her, but then his expression became more serious. \"Speaking of Harry and Draco... Have you spoken with either or them?\" Remus asked. She’s tossed the letters Harry had been spending her daily, and hexed Draco when he\'d shown up at her door the morning after the blow up. It occurred to him to never get Ginny mad, because she didn\'t even need a bucket to carry a grudge around.

\"Well, I am running out of my favorite revenge hexes without using them twice. Maybe I should ask the twins for some help\" she mused. \"What do you think?\"
Remus sighed and shook his head.

\"Gin, you have to let it go. They weren\'t trying to embarrass you or anything-\"

\"I know Remus. I\'m just letting them stew for a bit. I\'ve forgiven them; after all, the end result was good,\" she grinned. \"I was planning on going for a visit soon.\"

\"Ah - stewing is good I guess. And according to Harry, you gave them a little reminder of your anger. And by little...,” Remus trailed off into a chuckle.

Ginny burst into laughter. She’d almost forgotten the jinx she’d thrown at Draco before storming out. “Ah yes. I found that little diddy just before the twins moved out. They kept using me to test new jokes, and I couldn’t get them to stop; the jinx basically works like this: what was once large is now small. If you point it at a person’s head, their head shrinks to a tennis ball on their shoulders. If you point it at their hand, it becomes a tiny doll hand on the end of their arm…,” she trailed off trying to control her laughter.

“And if you point it at your best friends’ husbands’ male bits?” Remus asked with grin.

“Then it becomes so tiny that neither of them will even be able to tell if it’s hard or not!” Ginny cackled.

“Oh Gin! That’s too mean!” Remus asketweetween his chuckles. “But when does it wear off? I’m assuming it does since the twins seem normal now.”

“It’ll wear off in a few weeks. There is, of course, a counter-jinx, but I refuse to tell them, and Hermione agreed with me that they didn\'t deserve to know, so she won’t be telling them either,” Ginny said smiling at the tall man next to her. He was smiling sweetly at her, and her heart was dancing in her chest.

“Not to change the subject of you shrinking male bits, but you never answered my other question... What else did you remember about my old body?\" he winked at her and they laughed as they walked into the castle.


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\"Ginny?\" called Madam Pomfrey. She was looking over a clipboard which had their schedules for the next week on it.

\"Yes?\" Ginny replied. \"I\'m over by the potions cabinet.\"
Ginny heard the older woman walk over and glanced up. Poppy was frowning and Ginny started to get nervous.

\"Is something wrong? You look upset.\" Ginny asked, hoping she hadn\'t done anything wrong.

\"What? Oh no dear. I was just looking at the schedule. It appears you have been assigned by Severus to help monitor Remus during the full moon for the next week.\"

\"Oh,\" Ginny replied, pausing a second at this news. \"What will I have to do?\"

\"Apparently monitor his heart rate for an hour after he takes the potion and make notes on any change in his behavior. And Severus has also noted in the chart that he thinks blood pressure should be toretored - apparently Remus was very agitated with Hermione last month when she gave him the potion on the first night,\" Poppy said, reading and flipping to another page.

\"And, you will need to bring him his meals, making note of everything you bring and everything he actually eats,\" Poppy said, nodding.

\"Alright, that\'s not ablemblem,\" Ginny smiled to reassure Poppy. l fil finally have some extra time alone with Remus, she thought excitedly. No hurried meals and walks.
Poppy raised her eyebrow and nodded briefly.

Ginny turned back to the cabinet and resumed stocking, humming happily under her breath in anticipation of the coming week.

\"Take the chart with you. You\'ll start in the morning. even though he only changes three days a month, he is confined for five. The first is for preparing and the last is for regrouping. It\'s hard on his body to do that three times a month, every month,\" the older woman as she dropped the chart into Ginny\'s hand and walked over to her desk to go through more paper work. When Ginny had starting studying to be a medi-witch, she\'d not been prepared for the sheer amount of paper work involved.

Ginny looked in dismay at the papers but set them down and turned back to the cabinet to resume stocking, humming happily under her breath in anticipation of the coming week.


Day One

Ginny held the trey in one hand while she opened the door to the room Remus stayed in during his confinement. It was a large room, with a full sized bed near the far wall and sofa with low table against the wall closest to the door. Shelves of books covered the wall opposite the sofa. It suddenly occurred to Ginny how bored he must get during the day.

\"Hallo Remus! I brought you three eggs, easy side up, one rasher of bacon, eight ounces of Orange Juice, and two pieces of toast, lightly butter,\" Ginny said, reading off her chart.

Remus blinked at Ginny before saying, \"That sounds fine, I suppose. Can I have a cup of tea?\"

\"Coming right up,\" Ginny said as she made another note on the chart. \"What type exactly and what do you have in your tea? Still Earl Grey and one lump?\"

\"Umm, yeah. Gin, what in the world are you doing?\" he asked, confusion written all over his face.

\"I\'ve been assigned to monitor your transformation this week,\" she replied, her movements coming to a halt. \"Didn\'t anybody tell you?\"

\"Of course not. Why would anybody tell me I need to be monitored. What do they think is about to happen?\" Remus said, as he started to pace in front of the small sofa Ginny jotted a note about his pacing and then looked back up at him.

\"They just want to make sure everything is fine with the new potion. I just need to monitor your reactions; take your blood pressure and heart rate. It’s nothing to be concerned about,\" she added, trying to put him at ease.

\"I don\'t like it,\" he stated, not even looking at her. It wasn\'t that he didn\'t want to spend more time with her... it was that he did want to spend more time with her. He wanted to lay her dowd...d... \"Gin, this isn\'t a good idea. You should get somebody else,\" he said in his calmest voice.

\"Why?\" She replied, slightly hurt. \"I figured this would be a great chance to spend some time together, and anyway, there is nobody else available to watch you. You are stuck with me whether you like it or not.\" Why wouldn\'t he want to spend time with me, she thought. They had been having a wonderful time since the beginning of the school year.

\"Just take my vitals, Ginny,\" He muttered, resigned to his fate. Ginny smiled sunnily at
him, hoping to improve his mood as she went about taking her readings.

Once she finished, she looked at him and said \"I will be here later to drop off your lunch and take the reading again, and back again at dinner, alright?\"

\"Yeah,\" he muttered and grabbed a book from the table next to him. \"See ya\' later Ginny.\"

Ginny frowned at his attitude, but figured maybe this was what Severus meant when he mentioned an odd reaction to the potion. \"Bye!\" she called out as she walked out the door.

Remus watched the door close behind her. This was going to be the longest five days of his life. Ginny was the object of his affection, and while he could control himself for the most part, his resistance to her was at an all time low at this time of the month. And of course, that potion he was going to need to take tonight... Oh Gods!

Ginny sat in her office at the infirmary, writing notes in Remus\' chart. Patient is agitated at medi-witch. Patient shows normal vitals and ate none of his breakfast. Pre-potion was taken at 8:34am, and patient was reading as medi-witch left. Will monitor food levels and vitals. Suggest course of calming potion may be added to medication course in future.

Ginny flicked her pen idly. What else might be pertinent....? Patient tried to ask for a replacement of current attending medi-witch. Did not seem so concerned with actual monitoring, only of medi-witch in question. Suggestions would be welcome.

She sealed the chart with a privacy charm and duplication charm before attaching it to the infirmaries delivery owl. \"Take this to Severus Snape please. Thanks\" Ginny said, offering the owl a small treat. The duplication charm would allow Severus to see her notes in her copy of the charm instantly, and allow him to comment on his copy with her seeing his notes instantly. Otherwise, they would wear the poor school owls out going back and forth.


Remus looked up from his book as Ginny stepped quietly in. She put her chart down and placed the trey down in front of him. \"Cold cut sandwich with extra mustard, no onions, cheese, alivelives. Pumpkin juice, chilled, and a cookie, chocolate chip.,\" Ginny rattled off.

Without another word, she leaned forward with her wand and said, \"fervens numerus penitus, minuo numerus penitus, fervens numerus penitus,\" in quick succession. Then she sat opposite him and started writing in his chart. Without glancing up she said in a perfectly clinical voice, \"Please eat while I\'m here. I need to write down what you eat and how much.\"

Remus winced at her tone of voice, but then his mind wandered off to the though of her playing nurse to him in a totally different situation...No! He couldn\'t think like that. \"Ginny, this really isn\'t necessary,\" he stated. \"I am fineherehere are no problems with the potion.\"

Ginny pursed her lips in the best \'Don’t mess with me you bugger\' expression she could make and made another note. She looked up and saw him still watching her. \"Eat your food Remus,\" she said and curled her foot up under her as she added more to his chart.

Remus sighed resignedly and started to eat his sandwich. \"So, what are you writing exactly?\" he asked curiously, hoping to draw her out a bit.

She looked up and said, \"Notes.\"

Remus gave her an irritated look. \"And what exactly would those notes say?\" he prodded.

\"They say things like...patient shows no signs of having been taught any manners, and patient should go jump in the lake when he next takes a walk around said lake, because currently assigned med-witch will push him in if he doesn\'t,\" Ginny said with a straight face.

Remus grinned in spite of himself. \"I guess I deserved that, didn\'t I?\" he laughed. \"I\'m sorry Ginny; I just prefer to be notified when people take an interest in my transformations. This isn\'t a time that I normally like to have an audience.\" Well, that wasn\'t quite the truth, but it was close enough.

Ginny kept her face down but looked up through her eyelashes, \"Go on... I think you forgot to tell me how much you were looking forward to spending time with me.\"

Remus held his hands up in a surrendering gesture. \"And I\'m very happy that this will give us extra time to spend together,\" he said as he smiled at her. I\'ll just be very happy if I can keep control of myself, he thought as he grimaced inwardly.

Ginny returned to notes and said, \"Patient has returned to pervious good humors. Disregard earlier request for castration,\" she looked up and winked at Remus.


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Carrying in a trey heavily laden, Ginny dropped her chart before placing the trey full of food in front of Remus.

Ginny picked up her chart and placed it in the chair before shrugging out of her medi-witch robes. She was wearing a light blue short sleeve sweater and a long flowing skirt with tiny flowers on it.

Remus surveyed all the food and looked up at Ginny. \"I know I\'m a male and we are known for eating large amounts, but I am not that hungry.\"

\"Some of that\'s for me you big goof,\" Ginny grinned at him. She sat down next to him and did her measuring spells of his vitals before asking, \"Unless you\'d rather I not dine with you...?\"

\"I should have asked before assuming you\'d be up for company,\" she said, her cheeks turning pink

\"No, I would love for you to dine with me. Miss my company at the head table do you?\" he teased.

\"Of course I was. Now, drink your potion before you eat,\" she said handing him the vial of purple steaming goodness.

\"Umm, I\'d rather wait after dinner,\" Remus panicked, searching for a good excuse. The potion caused him to become aroused, but he hadn\'t worked up the courage to tell Severus yet. He wasn\'t sure if he would be able to control himself if he took the potion before dinner. \"The potion has a horrible taste, and I would rather it not destroy my enjoyment of dinner.\"

\"I understand...,\"Ginny said trailing off as she leafed through her chart. \"But Severus says right here - must take on empty stomach under directions. So... don\'t be a baby. I might even have a lollipop for you, if you don\'t fuss too much,\" Ginny said, reaching over to her robes and pulling one out of her pocket. She always had lollipops.

\"Alright, you win,\" Remus said, drinking the potion in one gulp, realizing he didn\'t have much choice. When it came to her job, Ginny was a stickler It didn\'t take long; a minute later he felt as if the room temperature had risen ten degrees. Ginny was waving a lollipop in front of his face, smirking. Oh gods, he though, I could do much better things to her with my tongue instead of wasting it on the lollipop.

Ginny unwrapped the lollipop and offered it to Remus. He shook his head, so she shrugged and stuck it in her mouth. \"If you don\'t want your treat, I’ll have it then.\"
As she started talking, Remus watched as her tongue swirled over the lollipop. He had no idea what she was saying; all he could think of was how it would feel to have that tongue flicking the head of his cock. He mentally shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts and bring his attention back to her voice.

He could feel the flush creep up his neck, and Ginny noticed it, too.

\"Are you okay?\" she asked, putting the lollipop on the food trey before grabbing her wand.

I\'m fine,\" Remus choked out.

“minuo numerus penitus - Merlin’s Bread, Remus! Your blood pressure is through the roof and...\" she put the back of her hand against his forehead before saying, \"You\'re burning up!\"

\"It\'s nothing,\" Remus forced himself to say clearly. He was not going to have her find out about thee efe effect; it would be humiliating.

\"Remus Lupin! You will tell me right now what is going on. Her demanding tone proved to he his undoing. He had always loved a woman who would stand up to him, and seeing as how he was already attracted to Ginny, well... She was only an arms reach away; he reached out and kissed her hard.

Ginny responded instantly. She dropped the clipboard and molded her body to his. Her fingers threaded through his thick hair and opened her mouth, flicking her tongue against his lips.

Her tongue demanding entrance brought his back to reality, and he stopped as soon as he had startrealrealizing with horror what he had done. He\'d lost control. \"Get out!\" he yelled. \"I told you - you shouldn\'t be around me.\"

\"What?\" asked Ginny, coming out of a daze.

\"OUT!\" Remus roared. \"Hurry!\"

Ginny blinked, trying to surface quickly from the wonderful sensations flowing through her. \"Fine!\" she yelled as the tears pricked at her eyes. She grabbed her chart and stalked out.

\"Oh gods\", he whispered shakily after she ran out. That was too close, he though as he noticed that she had left her robes. He reached out and grabbed them, noticing that her vanilla and strawberry sent clung to them. I hope she doesn\'t hold a gr, he, he thought as he finally gave in. There was only so much a man could take, he thought as he unsnapped his pants.


The Latin may be off, but it’s a good try with a Latin dictionary =-)

minuo: to draw blood, let blood, to bleed (someone).
penitus: (adverb) accurately, thoroughly, wholly, entirely
numerus: total, category, class, number
fervens : glowing, hot, heated /(character) heated, fiery
pectus: pectoris : heart, breast
pectus numerus penitus – heart number accurately
minuo numerus penitus – blood number accurately
fervens numerus penitus – heated number accurately

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\"I wasn\'t completely honest with Severus about the side effects of the potion.\" he said, his head bent, staring the floor.

She wrote down the reaction on her scroll, and looked up in surprise

\"What’s the matter Remus?\" she moved to sit next to him, holding his hand, and monitoring his heart rate with her free hand.

\"It\'s nothing bad...I swear!\" he stammered. \'s r's really nothing to be worried about.\"

\"Remus, in the minute I\'ve been sitting here, your heart rate has soared to over 130 bmp

\"You tell me right now, or I will have Severus maertiertiserum and dose you,” Ginny started caressing his back, trying to calm him down.

Remus pressed Ginny against the sofa, pinning her hips to the cushion with his own. \"Does this answer your question, Ginny?\" he murmured as he nipped at her throat

Ginny swallowed a moan.

Remus heard the moan and felt the fire sizzle in his blood. He pressed his cock as hard as he could against her and started rocking back and forth, not caring at the moment if she enjoyed it, or even if she wanted it to continue.

He pulled at both of her hands and held them tightly out to the side of her body as he continued to have his way with her, even if it was through clothing.

The small voice in the back of Remus\' mind was screaming that this was wrong on many levels, not the least of which was he had no idea if Ginny wanted him like this. As that small voice became louder and started to overwhelm his desire, he heard a sound come from Ginny which was the sweetest thing he\'d ever heard.

He\'d decreased his grinding pressure and was about to release her completely when she wrapped her legs around his waist and moaned, \'Harder!\" into the quiet room.

Remus was never one to ignore a lady\'s request so he gathered her into his and and placed her on his lap. His hand rested on her hips, helping to move her in the rhythm he wanted.

She clutched at his back, quietly making demands which turned him on even more.
\"Harder!\", \"Faster!\", \"Right There!\" Ginny whispered into his ear as she adjusted herself on his lap. She rotated her hips, getting be fri friction for herself and before Remus knew what hit him, he came inside his loose robe.

Ginny must have noticed because she stopped and looked at him with a questioning expression on her face.

\"Oh. Okay...,\" Ginny was obviously not saying what they both where thinking, ‘That\'s it?’


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