Strength in Family
Summary: Remus and Tonks got married and have a baby girl. But when a letter arrives one morning Tonks worries that her daughter won't have a normal life.
Chapter 1 Family
"Wake up!" Yelled a little mousy brown haired girl, who was about four years old, as she jumped up and down on the end of her parents bed in her pink pajamas. "Wake up! Mommy! Daddy! Wake up!" The little girl could not seem to get her parents to wake up so she made a large leap landing in between her parents hitting each side causing them to wake.
Her mom sat up with a yawn rubbing her eyes, her bubble gum pink hair standing straight up. "Are you awake yet?" The little girl asked sitting on her knees in between her parents.
"Five more minutes." Her father said turning over.
"Daddy! Wake up!" The little girl yelled lunging on top of her dad.
"Amelia let your dad sleep!" The girls mother said pulling her off her father. Amelia's mom set her in her lap. "How about we give your dad five more minutes to sleep then we'll wake him up and have him make pancakes for breakfast, okay?"
"Yeah!" Amelia yelled and jumped off her mothers lap onto the floor.
"First make sure all your toys are picked up and put away properly."
"Okay, Mommy!" Amelia said and ran out of her parents room.
"Remus, get up! Remus!"
"Nymphadora, it's to early." Remus said turning over.
"Don't call me that, again! It's Tonks! Now get up!" Tonks said getting up off the bed.
"Okay!" Remus said sitting up with a yawn. His graying hair stood on end as he rubbed his head causing which made it look worse then it already did.
Tonks had open the wardrobe and was pulling out different pieces of clothing in search of something. She pulled out a wrinkled shirt and a pair of torn jeans. She dressed quickly before she left the room.
Remus decided that if he didn't get up and go down stairs to make breakfast he'd have to face his wife and daughter. So he rolled out of bed and walked over to the calendar on the wall above the desk. Upon it was all the fazes of the moon and it showed the full moon in a mere two days. He ran his fingers through his hair, again, in frustration. He wished that some one could make the wolfsbane potion for him but since Snape had shown his true colors, Dumbledore had died, Hermione couldn't figure it out, surprisingly, and Slughorn refused to have any part of making something for a werewolf, he could find no one who could make it properly. Which meant in two days he would be spending the full moon in the Shrieking Shack just like when he was at Hogwarts.
Remus walked away from the calendar to the wardrobe were he pulled out his clothes and quickly dressed. As he pulled on his shirt as his daughter rushed into the room. She was jumping up in down, her freshly done, pigtails flying about. "Daddy! Breakfast!" Amelia yelled at her father before grabbing his hand and pulling him towards the door.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Remus said picking up the little girl and taking her down the hall, into the living room. He put her down on the floor and made his way into kitchen. Tonks stood next to the sink with a letter in her hands, the look on her face told Remus that something was wrong. "Tonks, what's wrong?"
"Here, read this!" Tonks answered handing the letter to her husband.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Lupin,
We here at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries wish for you to bring your daughter in for a simply test to determine if she will once a month transform into a werewolf. Please stop by this afternoon so that Healer Brook can do the test. Please be here at three to get the test done, and you will be out within twenty minutes.
From,
Receptionist Porter
"Is this bad?" Remus asked a little confused.
"No, but I mean what if she comes back positive for being a werewolf, then what? She can't go to Hogwarts, because there is no Dumbledore to help her. I mean now that McGonagall is retired no other teacher will make the effort to help her." Tonks said, tears showing in her eyes.
"Don't cry, it'll be okay!" Remus said raping his arms around Tonks. He comforted her as tears silently fell down her face.
"I guess we'll have to wait and find out this afternoon." Tonks said as she broke away from Remus and left the kitchen, with tears still in her eyes.
Remus ran another hand through his messy, graying hair before he started in on breakfast. He was putting the pile of pancakes on the table when his wife and daughter came into the kitchen. It was silent through breakfast and it was half way through clean up that the silence was broken.
"Since we have to go to London any way this afternoon, I thought that we could stop by Diagon Alley, so I can pick some stuff up." Tonks said as she waved her wand so the dishes would dry and put themselves away. She seem to have picked up a knack for house hold spells after being married for almost six years.
"Okay, so why don't we just have lunch in the Leaky Cauldron?"
"Whatever." Tonks said as the final dish put its self away. At that moment a barn owl flew in through the open window above the sink. It dropped a letter of heavy parchment on the counter in front of Tonks. With a sigh she open the letter and began to read. "Damn!"
"What's up?" Remus asked.
"They need me to come in, there's just been a big break in my case. If I make the list of things I need from Diagon Alley, can you pick them up?" Tonks asked her husband.
"Sure," Remus said. Once again there goes our family time because the damn Aurors can't manage half a day without her. Remus thought as Tonks left the kitchen to get her robes and make her list of things she needed.
"I need a book from Flourish and Blotts- 'The American Wizarding World and It's Many Magical Towns', money from Gringotts, new dress robes for everyone, new quill and ink (preferably black), and more floo powder." Tonks said out loud as she made the list. "Think that's everything." Tonks walked over to the wardrobe and pulled out her black robes and pulled them on. She picked up her list and made her way back to the kitchen, having left her wand in there. Once she had pocked it, she went in the living room, and handed the list to Remus who was sitting on the couch next to his daughter with a children's book open on their laps.
Remus read over the list before speaking. "Why does it say dress robes for everyone?" Remus said looking up. "And what's with the book?"
"The book I need for work, there's a town in the states that keep calling about this guy who fits the description of a escaped Death Eater, and the robes are for the Auror Ball. I told you about that last week, it's were they honor the year's best Auror and best Training Auror, and I was invited along with my family." Tonks said placing her hands on her hips. He never listen when she told him about these things.
"Amelia included?"
"Yes."
"Okay, but you'll have to get your new robes later." Remus said pocketing the list.
"I'll get mine on the way home if I have time." Tonks said. She leaned forward and kissed her daughter, then kissed her husband before she apparated out of the house.
"Mommy going to work?" Amelia asked looking at her father.
"Afraid so, but that means that you and I can go shopping and maybe you can get something if your good."
A/N: Thanxs for reading and hoped you like but I won't know unless you review: )