Bella of Delphi

\"Remus, don\'t even think about it.\" Sirius smiled at his friend. As he sat down next to him on the couch, Remus still off in a la-la land. Remus turned to his friend, the last two of the marauders.

\"What do you mean, Sirius?\"

\"You know what i mean, she\'s but a child in her state of mind. What some may see as flirtacious she sees as everyday behaivor between herself and an adult.\" sirius laughed at his friend who now had a face of concern.

\"Sirius, I would never even think of such things with her, she is far to pure to be with anyone who resides in this home, let alone in this world. Plus i sincerely doubt that she is looking for nothing more then a friend, after what has happened to her. She hasn\'t even expressed a loss in her emotions. It seems like she\'s so used to it.\" Remus\'s eyes looked up at the top of the stairs, where Bella stood, looking sadly at him, her red lips turning downwards into a pout.

\"I had forgotten my slippers.\" She barely made that sentence out her voice cracking. She just turned and returned down the hallway to her room with Ginny, and Hermione.

\"Damn it, Sirius.\" remus stood and skulked into the kitchen.


Soon everyone in the house was up, bustling around down stairs. Ron and Sirius were intently playing a game of chess, while Harry watched. Remus was in the kicteh having molly fret over the large welt on his neck as Ginny and Hermione prepared a breakfast for themselves, and everyone else.

\"So..\" remus began after Molly finished placing a potion on the welt. \"Has Bella awoken yet?\"

\"She walked around really early this morning, but when she came back in the room she just laid down, and didn\'t make a noise.\" Hermione said.

\"Yeah she just laid there, silently. It was kind of weird. She\'s in there now, just laying there silently.\" Ginny rebuttled.

\"Maybe you should check on her Remus?\" molly suggested. \" I would but my arms are full, and i think Sirius would just fuddle things up if he goes.\"

\"I don\'t know...\"

\"Yes Remus! You have such a lovely way with words.\" Hermione said. Reluctantly Remus stood up and walked up the stairs, Sirius called up to him from his seat across from Ron.

\"Remus, where are ya headin\'?\"

\"To see how Miss Bella is feeling.\" Remus walked down the hallway, and left three soft knocks on the girls door. There was no answer so he knocked again. He slowly opened the door.\"Hello?\" He said softly, as he opened the door all the way he noticed that the beds were all empty. As he looked up he saw her perched on the window sill slouched forward, her chin in her palm, with her fingers slightly between her lips.

\"I\'m not trying to sweep my memories under a rug.\" She said still gazing out the window.

\"I didn\'t mean for it to sound thats how you felt.. I just, i don\'t know. Thought it was very powerful for you to supress those memories, and feelings so well. Looking at you anyone would think you were just like any other child.\"

\"Well, i\'m not a child.\" She turned her face now being craddled by her hands, she let her gaze softly fall onto Remus.

\"I didn\'t mean that either... I\'m sor-\" She climbed off the sill, her footsteps were those like the breeze ever so gently sweeping softly.

\"I\'ve tried for years to sweep what i see under the bed. that si true, but not what i see with my eyes. It\'s what i see in my head.\"

\"I thought you, had yet to see as an oracle?\"

\"Yes well, it\'s not a pleasant gift. To have all questions in life answered, it leads a very lonely exsistence. As we stand now i know how each of these friendships will last, or die. How each of the people in this house will help or hinder. It makes for a very difficult living. So it has been easier to tread through life without aknowledging such thoughts. I don\'t hurt about what my past has been, for both my brother and my parents and Roman knew exactly what was to happen and so did i. I\'ve had years to deal with the fact they would die without their consent before it even happened.\"

\"Bella, that\'s terrible.\"

\"I know, but somehow right now you can\'t seem to stop thinking if i actually do know that you\'re a werewolf. Now you\'re scared to whether or not it will frighten me away from you, but it doesn\'t frighten me at all. I am the earthly link to the fates i know everyones past present and future. It is nothing worth what it seems. I know of all pain and suffering. For all the love and joy and peaceful ecstacy in the world, the pain is what overcomes.\"

\"Physical pain goes away though.\" remus was throughly intruiged by this girl who was still softly gazing into him, reading everything in him. He couldn\'t tear himself away. His thoughts were running rampant, and he knew that all his nastiest dirtiest thoughts were in her pure mind. He couldn\'t cease himself.

\"It\'s the emotional pain... that eats away at your soul.\" Her face had turned cloudy as it reach the recesses of Remu\'s thoughts. Her beautiful eyes had now clouded up to an almost grey color. As she held back her tongue.

\"Please Bella, stop...\" He closed his eyes, feeling a weight drop from his shoulders.

\"I\'m sorry, i can\'t help it sometimes.\"

\"If you know whats going to happen, why do you still do the things that will hurt you, or others?\" He rubbed the back of his neck gently, wincing at the touch.

\"I am just a link to fate, i can not change it entirely. If i don\'t do somethings, others wont happen that need to. If i didn\'t come back to the stairs last night. You wouldn\'t of had a reason to come to me right now. Then i wouldn\'t have been able to share this with you. And in turn you shall share it with Dumbledore when he comes in an hour, while i am in the shower.\"

\"How do you know i won\'t do it?\" Remus knew he would, but he needed her to keep speaking.

\"Because, you know what needs to be said for the better good. Excuse me Remus, i must ready myself for the headmasters return.\" Bella grabbed herself a towel from a shelf in the room. As she reached the door she stopped, she turned and faced him. \" I trust you.\" She smiled and walked into the bathroom.
Just as she had said, while in the shower Dumbledore returned and Remus pulled him aside and revealed the information that she had told him, Dumbledore patiently waited for Bella, and informed her that the Oder would need to know as much as she could tell. She explained how not everything comes at once, and it may take sometime. He understood, she knew what she had to do in order to save both the witching and muggle world. Even if it did pull at the strings of fate.