I loooked at the sky, hoping that she would come back unhurt... I wished I had been in pair with her instead of George, though I knew why it not would have been a good idea: I would have sacrificed everything to keep her from harm.

And after what happened to George it was very likely that one of the other ones had been hurt too... ant the risk it her was as big as it was anyone else... Please let her live, I thought. Please let her be all right, I can't stand losing her, she have to be all right...

Then suddenly a broom appeared over us, it landed and two persons staggered off...

"Remus!" she cried, stumbling the few feet between them and collapsed in my arms. And there she finally was, warm, alive, trembling in my embrace, shaken yet unharmed. I tried to speak, yet no words came out; instead I just squeezed her tightly. She's alive, she's all right, she's here... She let go of me and talked to the others, but I did not hear what was said.

When the first dizziyng relief had gone, I almost felt angry at her for making me so worried. I wanted to shout at her, shake her, tell her how scared I had been. But of course I did not, I just asked her why she was so late.

"So what kept you? What happened?"

"Bellatrix. She wants me quite as much as she wants Harry, Remus, she tried very hard to kill me." I heard the slight fear in her voice, yet I was sure no one else did. "I just wish I'd got her, I owe Bellatrix. But we defenitely injured Rodolphus... then we got to Ron's Auntie Mauriel 's and we'd missed our Portkey and she was fussing over us-" I nodded shortly, my throat blocked once again. The thought of Bellatrix always made me feel horrible. She had killed Sirius, and now she had tried to kill Tonks... She seemed determined to take away everyone I loved.

And so next blow came: Mad-Eye had been killed. Everybody was near to paralyzed by the news. Bill said he would go and try to recover the body, and I followed him. I knew I should have stayed to comfort Tonks, but I could not bea to stay in the mourning house.

Then later, when the horrible day finally ended, I lay awake with Tonks fast asleep in my arms. I had failed in consoling her, she had fallen asleep silently crying into my shoulder.

I hugged her thin body and hoped that I never would have to lose her, not see her die... In that moment all doubts I had felt about our marriages seemed ridicouslus.

And then, everything changed again.