It was 7 A.M… It had to be. The sun was beginning to rise over the rooftops of the many houses in the city of London casting an annoying glow and waking up the inhabitants of the comfortable homes littering the streets, but irritating the living daylights out of Nymphadora Tonks, who had an all-nighter shift guarding various rooms at the Ministry of Magic with Kingsley Shacklebolt. The night was very draining because she wasn't very used to pulling all-nighters.
Apparating to Number 12 Grimmauld Place, Tonks put a hand to her eyes and cursed the sun for being "too damn bright" because she was anything but. Two weeks ago, she moved into Number 12 because she was tired of living alone and knew the company of Sirius and Lupin there would make her feel better. Tonks had been letting on in small pieces that she had fancied Remus, but he would not let her in due to his "condition." There were a few spats about her not caring about him being a werewolf and that it only happened once a month, but he would not change his mind and firmly told her so. She did not want to think about him right now because all that was on her mind was a nice comfortable bed with a pink crocheted blanket in a nice spacious room right below the attic. Walking into the house, she was greeted by the smell of morning coffee and two people talking in the kitchen and knowing who they were, went to go say hello before she headed off to bed.
"Wotcher," the young Auror greeted, trying to stifle a yawn.
"You look horrible Nymphadora," smiled Sirius Black looking casual and relaxed, messing around with his "favorite cousin" knowing well she did not like the name and would be irritated from her shift. He was also commenting on the fact that her hair was half pink on the left side and half purple on the right side which was new to the two of them, only she did not know it yet. Lupin was sitting across from his best friend, drinking the coffee that was so aromatic, looking a little tired himself, but also in a relaxed mood.
"What have I said about calling me that awful name!" yelled 'Nymphadora' as her hair turned from her tired pink and purple combination to a bright red as her eyes turned the same color, a glare appearing on her face.
"Sorry," apologized Sirius with a smile still on his face. Tonks's hair returned to its dual-colored phase as she poured herself some coffee and sat down next to Sirius.
"How was your night?" questioned Remus after taking a sip.
"Oh great!" replied Tonks sarcastically. "I sang that new Weird Sister's song about twenty six times, can't remember the name of it, but the lyrics are stuck in my head for life, Kingsley and I know a lot of random trivia about one another and I found a Knut," she finished, pulling the bronze coin out of her pocket and throwing it on the table."
"Better to be uneventful, then full of tragedy," suggested Lupin running a hand through his ruffled hair and then getting up. "I have some business to attend to, so I will see you two later," he told and then walked away.
"You know that stuffs going to keep you up now, don't you?" wondered Sirius, seeing her sipping the coffee absentmindedly lingering on the spot where Lupin had just left from.
Snapping back to reality, Tonks told her cousin, knowing this was his own special brew of strong coffee, "I'm so tired, not even this is going to keep me up," as she drank the last of it and put down her cup.
"You know your hair is half and half, don't you?" questioned Sirius. Tonks pulled two strands, one from each side of her head, glanced at them both and sighed, letting them go.
"This always happens when I'm exhausted," whined Tonks as she made her way to her room.
As soon as Tonks reached the room, she didn't change out of her black robes, but just fell onto the bed and closed her eyes. What was bothering her was the fact that although her night was uneventful, her mind was working overtime. Thoughts of Lupin filtered their way into her brain when she took a few short breaks around 1 A.M. to get some air outside and saw that the moon was almost full. He was going to be transforming tonight and would be spending a long and painful night in the Shrieking Shack. A while back, Lupin decided with the rumors still flying around about the Shrieking Shack being filled with ghosts, nobody would dare go near it, so he decided he would apparate there as evening was falling and spend his night there out of the way from any humans. He wouldn't even think about transforming at Grimmauld Place because that would just be destructive. With a shortage on some of the ingredients and no shortcuts to make up for those shortages on the Wolfsbane Potion, a couple of previous month's transformations were painful and just heartbreaking for Tonks when she saw him return to the house injured and ill-looking.
Two months ago, the young woman was visiting the house (she did that a lot before she moved in) when she walked by Lupin's room and noticed he was all banged up from the previous night when he was suffering his werewolf state, so with the flick of her wand, a bunch of bandages fell onto the bed in a small pile and started to bandage up her friend. Even though a spell could have done the bandaging for her, she was not very good with healing spells so she just completed the task manually so there wouldn't be an accident and she also did not want to wake him up. By the time Lupin woke up, Tonks was gone and he wondered who patched him up, but no one come forward so he just guessed it was Tonks, but did not say anything.
After a while, Tonks heard small voices and knew there was an Order meeting. Looking at a small Green clock on the wall, it read 9:00 A.M.
"Damn you Sirius," Nymphadora told the ceiling, seeing she had not been sleeping for about two hours now. Now though, she knew what to drink the next time she had an all-nighter.
Tonight, she thought, was the night she was going to see Lupin at his most dangerous and awful time, although nobody was going to know about it.
So…what do you think?
I thought the movie needed more Tonks, Lupin and Sirius. The woman who played Bellatrix LeStrange was really good though.
Anyway, I read a bunch of RLNT and decided to try my own. Tell me what you think!
