"Under The Last Blue Moon"
A/N: Odds are, this will be my last chapter fic for a while (I need a break). But I needed to get this down because my plot bunny commanded me. A full length Lupin/Tonks with some DH spoilers involved. I hope this turns out REALLY good, because the entire fic I going to cover the span of one night. Enjoy, review, the usual.
Summary: They say that during a blue moon, a werewolf is given a reprieve from transformation and can walk under the full moon as a human, but still at a terrible cost. No one knows how, but during a blue moon, a werewolf is given the power of a Seer, and given visions throughout the night that can be either good…or bad. But one thing is for absolute certain: a werewolf will wake up after the blue moon knowing things he wishes he'd never known.
Tonks loved sitting on the roof of her mother's house and writing in her diary. She'd been doing it for summers upon summers since she was a little girl. And being 28 years old made her no less likely to spend an after-dinner hour just sitting, staring into the twilight sky, writing about her thoughts an feeling, or something just writing what the sky told her to write. Nobody knew that she ever went up there. Not her parents, nor her friends, not even her fiancé, Remus Lupin.
Tonks sighed with satisfaction as she thought about her Remus. She was finally getting everything she ever wanted. Having been secretly obsessed with Remus since he rejoined the Order of the Phoenix, Tonks had pursued him and made every attempt possible to gain his attention. Of course, Tonks being the biggest spaz on the face of the Earth, found this difficult. At first, she tried to show her friendliness towards children. She 'adopted' Ginny Weasley as a little sister and bonded with her, always showing off for her and hoping Remus was laughing too (she caught him a few times laughing when she made a pig nose, bit more often he was looking elsewhere in the room). Later, she tried a more active approach. She asked him out many, many times during the summer months the summer before Dumbledore died. But every time, Remus told her the same thing. He was too old, too poor, and too dangerous. Blah. Blah. Blah.
So Tonks fell into a bit of a depression, thinking that Remus' low self esteem would ruin her chances of ever being with him. Then, as fate would have it, Bill Weasley was bitten by Fenrir Greyback. His own fiancé, Fleur Delacoeur, had stayed beside him and still wanted to marry him. Tonks used this to corner Remus so he couldn't use lycanthropy as an excuse. With some persuasion from Molly Weasley and her mother, Andromeda, Tonks finally found herself in a relationship with Remus Lupin, the man she'd chased after for years. Almost as soon as they got together, Remus proposed that they marry. Tonks was elated. She still was, and he'd proposed three days ago.
Tonks never really understood what attracted her to Remus. Certainly not his looks. He looked a good 20 years older than he was, his hair was graying and shaggy, hanging in front of his face a bit. He wasn't buff or muscular. He always had scars on his face, and as soon as they healed over, he'd have another full moon and another batch of scars to recover from. He wasn't overly tall. But…Tonks had seen something in his soul that she just couldn't resist. He was a very gentle man for being a werewolf. His passive, introverted, and quiet disposition seemed to oppose her own outgoing, outspoken, aggressive, extroverted persona. She was young and full of life, while he was gaining in years and barely had any energy left. Tonks was a leader. Remus followed. Maybe opposites attracted after all.
Tonks pointed her wand at her diary and unlocked it with her own personal spell that no one else knew about. Then she got out a quill and thought for a moment. The sun was about to disappear from the sky. The moon would appear shortly thereafter. Tonks lit her wand and set it beside her so there'd be some light to write by.
June 30, 1997
It's been a rather warm week, or perhaps that's just me. After all, I've never felt so alive, so in love…
How true. Tonks rarely had boyfriends, especially with being an Auror and an Order member. In Hogwarts, she'd had the occasional boy ask her out on a date. But nobody had ever gone beyond a first kiss.
Hearing Remus downstairs in the house talking with Dad and Mum makes it feel like we're already married. While he doesn't think so, but Mummy and Dad love Remus and don't care any more than I do that he is a werewolf. It sounds like a family is talking down there.
Right now, Remus, Ted, and Andromeda were sitting in the den having coffee and just talking. Tonks tried to listen in on their conversation…
"So, are you marrying anytime soon?"
"I think the sooner the better. What with the war, you never know if you'll have a chance later on, Remus."
"I suppose, but then again, what if there IS another chance? A better chance?"
"Again, no day but today, right?"
"I'm willing to bet if you told Dora that you were going to get married tomorrow morning, she'd be up at 3 in the morning!"
Ted was right. Tonks smiled and nodded. The sooner the better. She couldn't wait to be a wife.
I hope we don't wait too long to take the vows. I can barely wait for next month when I go to pick up Harry Potter. How can ANYONE, least of all Remus, think I can wait until next year or beyond to get married?
Tonks sighed, looking at her chicken-scratch writing. The words seemed to dip below the lines. Usually, that meant Tonks sensed things weren't going to go the way the words said they would. The thought of it made Tonks' hair turn deep blue.
She closed her diary and set it aside with her quill, and fell back onto the roof, just to lounge and look at the purple sky. Soon the moon, the one thing Remus hated more than anything, would rise into the sky and light the night. Tonks loved the moon. It wasn't as intense and show-offy like the sun, but it still filled her blood with warmth, knowing that even at night, there was a light watching over her. Remus never had a chance to see that in the moon, for even when it wasn't full, it tormented him and reminded him of the pain it inflicted on him once a month. Tonks giggled to herself, recalling once how she'd teased Remus with it, calling lycanthropy his 'period.' Remus had gotten very embarrassed, Tonks ended up apologizing for it.
Tonks closed her eyes and let herself listen to the sounds in the house. Ted had turned on the TV, and Andromeda and Remus always let Ted be in charge of the Muggle picture-box. Ted was explaining some sitcom that Tonks had already seen.
When she opened her eyes, she saw the faint moon begin to rise. Tonks shot up and gasped. The moon was full.
And Remus had forgotten his Wolfsbane.
Tonks, leaving her diary and quill on the roof, armed herself and jumped off the roof into the window directly below. Once inside, she scrambled downstairs and pointed her wand at Remus. He didn't look worried or in any stage of transformation at all.
"Remus, you didn't take your wolfsbane," Tonks warned. "The moon's full tonight!"
Andromeda looked worryingly at Ted. Remus stood up and held up a hand.
"Tonight's a blue moon," Remus said. Tonks slowly lowered her wand.
"What's that mean?" she asked.
"A werewolf is spared his transformation during a blue moon," said Remus. "It's the one time someone like me could walk outside and see it from a human eye."
Tonks put her wand away.
Remus looked at his fiancée, her hair turning purple. He smiled, seeing how relieved she was.
Suddenly, Remus felt very hot. The world around him fell away. Here it came…the punishment for being spared a transformation…
"Remus, I'm pregnant."
Tonks looked a little concerned, her hair a duller shade of pink than normally. Remus felt himself standing up from a sitting position (wasn't he already standing?).
Remsu felt himself talk, but he wasn't saying anything. Yet he heard the words escape his mouth… "Pregnant?"
Tonks nodded. "Yes, we're having a baby!"
"No, we can't!" Remus felt himself say. Tonks' expression changed quickly.
"Wait…what?"
"How could we do this? This is…a baby…this is—"
Suddenly, the second world melted before him, and Remus felt himself fall back into the previous atmosphere. Tonks' hair was back to purple. She had just put her wand away. The sitcom was on TV that Ted Tonks liked. His first vision of the blue moon.
"Dora, we need to go for a walk…" Remus said softly, extending his hand. Tonks looked briefly at Andromeda, who nodded. She took his hand and walked with him out into the night.