Prologue
The rain came down in sheets making everything outside the circle of light the porch lantern provided, dim and hard to make out. Nymphadora Tonks sat within the perimeter of the lit up porch, a gurgling and cooing baby Teddy on her knee. Tonks ran her fingers through her sons hair; now a dark shade of indigo, just like the sky outside.
The baby's mother leaned over her child shielding them both in a curtain of her currently long hair. When she sat up her locks matched the baby's smoky blue.
Teddy's mouth formed a perfect o as he looked as his mother. Then his eyes got bid and he screwed up his face, he was about to start crying, not recognizing this new woman above him that could not be his mom. Tonks hastily turned her hair back to its previous color, a dark maroon with flecks of bright pink.
The baby giggled historically and reached his hands up to his mother. Tonks swooped down then tickling him all over. Teddy laughed even harder thrashing around trying to pry his mother's hands off with his own chubby ones.
Tonks abruptly stopped then. Her ears morphed to a large black bat's.
"Bellatrix" she hissed. Standing up and running over to the edge of the porch railing. Realized she still had a giggling Teddy in her arms. And ran back to the rocking chair she had been sitting, and propped him up.
"Nymphadora" sang a woman from the darkness.
"Why are you here?"
"What kind of auntie would I be if I didn't come and visit the baaby" the speaker stepped out of the shadows her tendrils of dark hair seeming to blend into the surrounding night.
"It's not like you've been the perfect relative." Tonks scoft. "I have a hard time believing you're here on a friendly visit."
"oh no no, I'm not the bad relative." Bellatrix cackled "When's the last you payed your aunt Bella a visit?" Tonks opened her mouth as if to answer her aunt's question, but Bellatrix answered for her "NEVER!" Bellatrix shook her head in a fit of anger.
"You had to go off and Marry that wolf and a tame one at that. And then you have… have… that" she point a long bony finger at the squirming baby. Tonks backed up protectively over her child.
Teddy then started to wail, his hair turning even darker.
"See, he doesn't like you either" Bellatrix sneered.
"I don't think he like maniacs"
"Do gooder"
"Evil doer"
"Muggle lover"
"Murderer"
"BACKSTABER!"
"I am not-" but Tonks never got to finish her sentence.
"Petrificus Totalis"
Tonks' body sized up her arms snapped to her sides, her legs glued together. She managed to yell "REMUS!" before her mouth clamped closed.
Tonks could hear movement from inside the house, but before her husband could come out and save the situation, Bellatrix ran up the stairs. She snatched up the helpless baby from his seat and disappeared, right as the screen door opened.
