Nymphandora covered her head with a pillow. Even with her fingers in her ears, she could still hear the baby screaming. She was never going to sleep with all this noise. She got up from bed and walked down to the corridor, fingers still in her ears. She stood in the doorway of her parents room. Her mother was standing by the window bouncing the baby in her arms. Her father was sat on the bed with his head in his hands. Ted looked up and noticed his daughter in the doorway. He got up and grabbed her hand, leading her back down the corridor. He tucked her into bed.

"Why doesn't she stop crying?" asked Nymphandora quietly. Ted sighed.

"She's just not used to it here, munchkin," replied Ted. "She misses her family."

"Are her family with the angels now?"

Ted smiled sadly at his daughter's innocence.

"Yes, munchkin."

"Because of You-know-who?" whispered Nymphandora, looking up at her father with her big eyes.

"Yes, but that's over now. No one else is going to get hurt," assured Ted. Nymphandora nodded quietly. Ted bent down and kissed his daughter on the head and left the room. He shut the door. He waved his wand over his daughter's bedroom door.

"Sonum prohibere," said Ted, stopping sound from keeping her awake.

He walked back to his wife and slumped on the bed. Dumbledore had arrived with the child five days ago, explaining the situation with Sirius. He was still in shock. Of course, Andromeda had insisted the little girl stayed with them instead of going off to her cousin Walburga. At the time, Ted had agreed, it was what was best for the child after all. But the

only time the child had stopped wailing was when she had exhausted herself enough to fall asleep. The girl was refusing to eat too. Ted and his wife had gotten almost no sleep between them

"Dromeda, we can't carry on like this," groaned Ted.

"What do you expect us to do Ted?" snapped Andromeda. "I refuse to hand her over to that woman." She placed the toddler in Ted's lap and marched out of the room.

Teddy cuddled the wailing girl into his chest.

"C'mon little one. Please settle down," pleaded Ted, rubbing circles on the girl's back. "I know you miss them, but you're making it pretty hard for us to take care of you."

The toddler's sobs slowed.

"Da-dee?" sniffed Amelia.

"No sweetie, Daddy isn't here."

"When he back?"

Teddy gulped. "He's gone away, he's not coming back," he said, gently. This earned more wailing from the little girl. This continued for another half hour before she had fallen asleep. Ted placed Amelia in a large cot at the foot of the bed. He found his wife sat at the kitchen table. She got up and slid her arms around his waist.

"I'm sorry for snapping," croaked Andromeda, her voice muffled by Ted's jumper. Ted kissed his wife on the top of the head.

"It's fine, Dromeda."

Ted sat at the table. The kettle came to a boil and Andromeda poured two cups of tea.

"She asked for Sirius," commented Ted, sadly. Andromeda sighed and passed a cup over to her husband. She returned to her seat opposite Ted.

"I don't know what we're going to do if she doesn't start settling down. She keeps refusing food."

"We'll have to talk to Dumbledore."

Remus turned left down long road. He checked the address on the parchment once more. He had received an owl from Dumbledore the day before, suggesting that he should join him in visiting an 'old friend'. He suspected that his old headteacher had an ulterior motive but he trusted him, and so had apparated close. He turned another corner and spotted Dumbledore. Dumbledore greeted him with a wide smile. They continued up the road, until Dumbledore walked up a path to a small cottage. Remus followed closely behind. Dumbledore rapped his knuckles on the door. The door opened to reveal an extremely exhausted looking Ted Tonks. The sound of a child crying filled their ears. Remus glanced at Dumbledore but was too eager to follow Ted inside to question him.

"I didn't know you would be bringing Remus along, Albus," mentioned Ted, leading the men into the kitchen.

Andromeda was sat at the kitchen table, trying to feed Amelia, who was wailing and pushing away the spoon, flicking the food all over Andromeda.

"Hey, hey! What's all this fuss for?" cried Remus, crossing the room and lifting Amelia out of the high chair.

"Unca Moo-nee," bawled Amelia into Remus' shoulder. Remus hugged her into his chest with one hand on the back of her head.

"Shh, come one now, big girl," he soothed, rocking her back and forth. Amelia stopped crying and relaxed into Remus' embrace.

Ted raised his eyebrows and breathed out heavily.

"How on earth did you do that? We've been trying for days to get her to settle for days!"

Remus just shrugged and kissed the little girl on the top of her head. Amelia closed her eyes and promptly fell asleep against Remus' shoulder.

"Someone's exhausted. Where's the cot?" asked Remus.

"In our room. Here, i'll take her," gestured Andromeda, lifting the baby from Remus. As soon as Andromeda had picked the little girl up, Amelia woke up and started bawling again.

"MOO-NEE!" she screamed, trying to fight her way back over to Remus. Remus took her from Andromeda and Amelia quickly calmed down.

"I can't believe it. She's been crying for days! She hasn't been sleeping properly, or eating. And then you just waltz in here and she's like an angel for you!" exasperated Ted

Remus frowned. It wasn't like Amelia to act like that. She had always been so good, sleeping through the night.

"I don't know what to tell you Ted, she's probably just fussing because she's somewhere new with people she doesn't know."

Andromeda huffed.

"I didn't mean any offence Andromeda," assured Remus. "I just mean that she's practically spent her entire life with the same five people. She's bound to be agitated without anyone she knows around."

Dumbledore kept quiet and watched the scene unfold. Like he had predicted, the girl was immediately at ease with Remus.

"It might be prudent for the child to stay with someone more familiar during such a confusing time," suggested Dumbledore. Remus looked at the man and frowned.

"You can't possibly be suggesting that she stays with me," questioned Remus.

"You are one of Amelia's godfathers, are you not?"

Dumbledore knew perfectly well that Sirius had chosen both James and Remus to be Amelia's godfathers instead of her having a godmother.

"Yes, but there's just a little problem with her staying with me," stuttered Remix.

"Oh i'm sure Ted and Andromeda could help out for a few nights a month," mused Dumbledore. "Andromeda, why don't you show Remus where Amelia's things are and help him pack them up?"

Andromeda frowned but showed Remus down the hallway.

"Are you sure about this Albus?" whispered Ted quietly.

"I think it'll be good for the both of them."