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  "Why are you awake?" Juno asked, seeing Janna's face through the open window, her wand's light obstructing her face.

   "Why are you awake and sneaking about?" Janna questioned back, hearing Orion and Jake slide down the buttresses.

   "We're not sneaking about, Black," Jake held up the map and cloak "we were coming to see you"

   "No!" Janna yelped, the three boys frowned at her, she flicked her wand "go away! I'm fine, honestly"

Without hesitation Juno came to the window on the buttress' wall ledge "Janna, did a spell backfire?"

   "No..."

   "Then what?" Juno leaned onto the window, only seeing Janna's silhouette of corkscrew hair and skinny frame.

After a pause Janna lowered her voice "Just come on, quickly you three"

So the boys did as Janna said, they scrambled into the hospital wing through the window quickly pulling Juno up since he was too short to get up by himself. The three boys sat on the bed, Janna had covered her face in her hair, with her wand on the bed, still illuminating the small area and silhouetting her face.

   "I don't want you to ask questions about this, alright?" The boys nodded to Janna's request "a charm did backfire, a dark one, I can't tell you which or else you'll ask more" Janna felt her lie was stable enough, she paused, breathing in before pushing back her hair.

In the light of her wand Janna's face was red over her nose to the right side of her chin, she had a black eye that was bloodshot to a point that the white was nearly black. The boys stayed silent, seeing Janna so beaten up. She breathed in pulling down her left sleeve "I can trust you with these?"

The boys nodded, Janna smiled softly, her tired eyes watering as she peeled the bandage off her arm to show a jagged line of stitches running diagonally on her forearm "I nearly broke my two bones there, Pomfey said it'll leave a mark." Janna pursed her lips, reapplying the bandage tightly.

Lifting her shirt at the side, she winced as her skin moved on her side where there was another patch of bandages, this time the fabric patch was bigger "this one'll stay, it's really gnarly so look away if you don't like pus"

The three boys still watched Janna as she peeled off the bandage, her face contorting as she peeled the bandage off the five long jagged lines in her skin, the blood was thick and coagulated but still not dry, her face puckered as she looked down at it with the bandage at her back "That's gross" Janna murmured..

   "Are you alright?" Juno asked, Janna smiled at him as he watched her wounds.

   "Yeah, I just didn't want to hide this from you three—"

   "Whatever it is we're all in it together, Janna" Jake interrupted Janna, she smiled softly before looking back at the wound and then taking the bandage's corner to cover the blood.

   "Thanks," Janna's face lifted as it puckered she patted the corners onto her skin "I have a new friend now" Janna titled her head to Fawkes, a bit more feathered with red downy feathers, who was sleeping in a nest of blankets "his name is Fawkes, he's a Phoenix"

   "So he cried on some of your wounds?" Juno inquired, Janna nodded, her nose now pinker.

   "Are ya alrigh'?" Orion asked, Janna nodded again but more quickly "naw, are ya alrigh'"

   "No" Janna looked at her hands, the fingertips still bruised from her nails turning into claws "I just..." Janna paused, she hated lying to the boys "I just heard Greyback's nearby, th-that's why Potter isn't here, he's leading the Aurors to hunt Greyback"

   "I hope my parents put more laws down to keep werewolves from hurting people, you know, that's the only thing we would agree with" Jake said.

   "Werewolves can't help it, some just do it because they want to hurt people, they enjoy hurting..." Janna felt a ball rise in her throat "however not all werewolves want to hurt people, they actually hide, that's why we don't know about them."

They sat in silence, the words still echoing off the walls, finally Juno leaned to Janna, he wrapped his arms over her, making sure to not hurt the wound on her right side, Jake then Orion did the same, Janna's eyes felt hot and itchy, she wiped the back of her hand on her eye, feeling a ball in her throat that choked her as she looked over their backs, she just saw the face of Greyback watching her in the shimmer of a mirror. She shut her eyes.

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Soon the next day Janna was let free, late that previous night the boys left via the window then down using summoned ropes, Juno took his time leaving. Janna limped down the corridor in front of the hospital wing, wrapped tightly in the cloak Orion gave her and three jumpers, she went down the steps to the nearest portrait where Snuffles was asleep on a yellow Victorian sofa.

   "Sirius" she whispered, tapping the painting, The black dog's ear only lifted slightly "Sirius!"

The dog jumped away, his body jerking before he lifted his large head "Janna?" Snuffles came closer to Janna "How are you? Are you alright?"

   "Sirius, I want to talk to you all, I need to ask some questions, since it's now the weekend and I want to do some searching—"

Janna's eyes widened as Sirius sprouted from the dog in the frame "go to the clearing, Fawkes will show you back" he looked at Janna's face "you didn't do too badly fighting Greyback like that"

Janna chuckled softly, feeling the ache of the wound on her side "you think so? Sirius, he was so big"

   "Exactly so... You got out of a very dangerous situation, well done" Sirius beamed, Janna smiled, she heard someone walking down the corridor so she looked in the direction to the hospital wing door then back at Sirius "I'll see you at the clearing, Snuffles"

   "See you there, Janna" Sirius then shifted into Snuffles and galloped down the corridor, possibly to the clearing.

    "Janna?" A voice asked from behind, Janna turned to see Potter watching her at the bottom of the steps "Thank goodness you're alright"

   "Yeah" Janna crossed her arms over her stomach, tangling her fingers together, she began rocking on her toes.

   "McGonagall told me what you said about catching Greyback..." Potter said, Janna pursed her lips nodding, looking down to the flagstone.

   "You're not going to be able to catch him nor cage him for long..." Janna looked up at the bespectacled man, his face now dreamer with the beard growing wilder "is that a grey hair?"

Potter slapped a hand to his cheek "where?" Janna chuckled and pointed to her chin to mimic where the grey hair was "bloody hell, it's all this worrying about you" he teased.

   "I'm worried about you too, Harry, you should know that Greyback is very good at manipulating, I would watch out for Jackdaw and other handlers of my case." Janna breathed in "I've heard of what they do to werewolves they catch, it's awful" Janna held her forearm where the gash was, looking down at it she said "I've noticed that the laws have became stricter since 'ninety-eight, laws don't apply to Greyback, he's better off trying to catch me..." Janna smiled vaguely, looking up "He won't be able to take me, even if he gets me to shift and run around I'll always find my way back..." Janna paused, remembering the first time she got out at the Winslow's "...like pigeons, you know, they always come back to their homes" she looked up at the roof "this place is my home now"

   "Hold on," Potter blinked, moving towards Janna, looking concerned "you got out of the house?"

Janna nodded, looking back down "a few times, the first time I got lost after wandering around the suburb... I ended up at Curlew, it was about thirty kilometres from the house, I got back before the sun rose just by following...—well... something..." She shrugged "instinct, I guess. I don't think anyone would have recorded things like that with werewolves, you know... the stigma and all would scare them away"

   "I know a magizooligst who would love to study you, she's written a good few books and proved quite a few theoretical animals to be true, I tell you, she will be able to prove the myth wrong of werewolves being dangerous and all" Potter nodded, Janna smiled softly.

   "That'd  be nice" Janna laughed "being investigated for my good" she breathed shakily.

Potter strode up to Janna, he wrapped his arms tightly around Janna's weak shoulders "I was worried about you, Janna, McGonagall told me you actually fought Greyback."

   "I didn't really fight him, I was tossed around mostly, he nearly took me away but if it weren't for Fawkes... I'd probably not be here" Janna returned the hug with her long arms curling around his cloak "thanks Harry... Just for being here"

   "You're welcome" Potter hugged Janna tightly.