Warning: For those of you that have not read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, DO NOT READ THIS STORY! If you have, this is about Tonks and what her new Patronus is. Now, I know that it doesn't say exactly what her new Patronus is, but I can make a pretty good guess.
A/N: This is a Tonks/Lupin story, told from Tonks' POV.
Disclaimer: No of the characters are mine, not even the Patronus. J.K. Rowling owns them all. I just own the plotline of this one-shot.
Now on with the story:
I walked along the edge of Hogsmeade village, ever watchful for Death Eaters or dementors. I shuddered at the thought. Dementors turned everything around them into freezing darkness, and with the recent death of Sirius, an encounter with them would be too much to bear. I held my wand aloft, lighting the way so I didn't trip over anything, and seeing how clumsy I was, it was a good thing I did. I almost fell when my foot snagged on a root. I caught myself and hurried on, hoping that my shift would be over soon. Dumbledore had tightened the security measures around Hogwarts and Hogsmeade, now that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named had risen again. As the mist rolled in, I began to feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up, a warning that something was wrong. I began to feel cold, and darkness enveloped me, having nothing to do with the approaching night. I held my lit wand aloft, and the one thing I had dreaded seeing came gliding towards me. Dementors. There were only two of them, but already I was feeling the effects of their presence. Sirius's face flashed before my eyes, and I saw him falling into the veil, the same stricken look on his face as he had in my dreams…I closed my eyes and did the only thing that could protect me from these soul-sucking demons. I pointed my wand at the two of them and yelled, "Expecto Patronum!" Even with my eyes closed, I could see the flash of dazzling silver light that was my Patronus. I watched as my Patronus ran the two dementors down, forcing them to flee. Looking at my silver Patronus, I frowned, puzzled. My Patronus didn't have this shape, or at least, it didn't the last time I had preformed this charm. But where else could it have come from? I watched as the dementors swooped away, thwarted for the moment, and looked up as my Patronus came over to me. I met its eyes and gasped. I had seen those silver eyes before, and that shape. The eyes that looked at me I had never seen before in silver, but I had seen them in gray. The shape was so familiar…I stretched out my hand to the wolf Patronus, almost expecting it to come to me as another wolf had when I visited him in his wolf-like state. My wolf Patronus stared at me, and the eyes where so like the other wolf's that I crouched down and stretched out a hand, whispering involuntarily, "Remus…" The silver wolf stared at me one last time, and then faded into the mist that was again rolling over the land as night came with it.
It was then that I realized I loved him, as I watched the silver wisps of my wolf Patronus faded in to the night air.
I stood up, wanting the wolf to reappear, for it to comfort me as Remus had when I visited him when he was in his wolf form. But my Patronus was gone until I summoned it again.
I heard the carriage approaching, and knowing it was Severus, I went to greet him and Harry, not really ready to mention that my Patronus had changed, even if I knew what it meant.
Ok, so I know that that probably wasn't the best Tonks/Lupin fanfiction ever, but hey, be nice, its only my first HP fanfiction and my first fanfiction of this ship.
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Purple Eyed Cat
