disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, just Arabella. Finally finished exams, so updates should be coming in pretty fast. At least a couple days in between, unless I go out of country or something like that.

And just one question. I was talking to my mom the other day about this story and she asked me what would have happened if Kassandra was still alive and I just started thinking about that.

I wrote down a couple ideas for that and I was wondering if you guys would like to see a short AU of this AU where Kassandra lived. Or if you want to see another one, like a gender switch for Arabella and Harry. Tell me what you think!

Anyways, hope you like this chapter!

Wedding of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks

Arabella was standing in the guest room of Andromeda and Ted Tonks' home, getting ready for a wedding. She smoothened out the front of her blue dress, trying to at least smile at herself. The dress itself was quite simple. It was a dark blue colour, but not navy, and had a thin gold strap around the middle as a belt and long sleeves. Her shoes were a dark blue as well.

She guessed that it never really hit her that Remus and Nymph were getting married. It just seemed to foreign for Arabella about getting married when there is a war going on. Bill and Fleur were still going ahead with their in a couple weeks' time.

The door of the guest room opened quietly and Andromeda Tonks walked in. She wore a simple dark purple dress with her light brown hair put into a bun. She smiled softly at Arabella.

'Well, the colour suits you,' said Andromeda, flattening the wrinkles at the front. 'Do you want me to do your hair?'

'No, it's okay,' said Arabella. Her dark brown hair was loose, though a bit tangled.

'Well, at least let me comb it,' said Andy, looking a little appalled at her hair. 'It's been such a long time since I've combed your hair.'

Grimacing, Arabella sat down quietly on the chair in front of the dressing table as Andy picked up the brush and began. They stayed like that in silence as Andromeda let the brush weed out knots while Arabella tried not to wince from pain.

'I can't believe how much you've grown,' said Andy softly. 'I missed this. It's been such a long time…'

'I know,' said Arabella. The pain started to decrease.

Andromeda stopped combing Arabella's hair and set the brush onto of the table. Arabella stood up and looked at her aunt. She looked similar to Bellatrix Lestrange, but when you look closer, they were completely different. She had a lighter shade of brown hair and softer eyes.

Andromeda cupped Arabella's cheek softly before kissing the other and hugging her tightly. She sniffled and her arms shook. Arabella patted her back and held her tightly.

'I just can't believe she's getting married,' whispered Andromeda. 'She's so young, and…'

'And what?' asked Arabella, her arms stiffened. If it had something to do with Remus, Arabella was going to blow a casket.

'There's a war going on,' said Andromeda, letting go of Arabella and taking a seat on the bed. She didn't dare cry, though tears wheeled up in her eyes.

'They love each other,' said Arabella, shrugging.

Andromeda let out a shaky laugh. 'Love,' she said softly with a smile. 'I suppose they are, aren't they? I remember being that that.'

'What was it like?' Arabella asked, smiling at her.

'Oh, horrible,' Andy said with a smile. 'You think you have your whole life figured out, but then this stupid person walks into your life, he smiles, you smile and all of a sudden, your life isn't yours anymore.'

Arabella snorted. 'Yeah, sounds horrible.'

They looked at each other for a moment before laughing.

'What about you?' Andromeda asked. 'You in love with that Potter boy?'

'Yeah,' said Arabella sighing. 'It is horrible.'

'Oh, I doubt that,' Andy rolled her eyes.

'For me it is,' said Arabella. 'For years, it was just me, Remus, Mad-Eye, and you guys, and I was okay with it. Remember that time I tried to make friends with the neighbour boy?'

'Yeah, you were what? Five? Six?'

'I was six,' said Arabella nodding. 'His name was… I think it was Neil, something around that. I don't remember much about him, but… we played in the park for weeks and I liked him and he liked me, you know. Said that I was his best friend. I even kissed him on the cheek. You know how it is when you're young. Kissing on the cheek was the biggest of all deals. But his mother didn't like that. She didn't like me at all. Remus never understood why she was so prejudice against a six year old. It made no sense to him. I knew why. Couple weeks before my seventh birthday, she took Neil and moved away. I don't know where, they just… left.

'Then I met Nikola,' said Arabella, shaking her head. 'Nikola Stefanov, and he was pretty darn good looking too. He had glossy black hair with these curls that just sort of fell on his face in a very graceful way. And he had these dark eyes – I couldn't tell whether or not they were brown or black – you could just get sucked into them. And he was tall, and I'm talking tall, tall.'

'He sounds handsome,' said Andromeda, smiling at her. There was a knock on the door and Nymph walked inside wearing her undergarments with her white dress in her hands. She was going in her natural form today with short light brown hair and dark grey eyes.

'I hope you're not planning on walking down the aisle like that,' snipped Andromeda.

Nymph threw her a dark look. 'I just need help with the zip.'

'Fine,' said Andromeda, sighing. 'Go on, Ara, tell me about this handsome boy.'

'What handsome boy?' Nymph asked, stepping into her dress as Andromeda began to zip her up.

'Nikola,' said Arabella softly. 'Well, he was certainly something. He used to smirk a lot and he kissed my hand a lot, as well. I went to the Yule Ball with him. Complete arse, if I ever saw one.'

'What did you do to him, then?' asked Nymph, her eyes gleaming with mischief.

'Punched him in the stomach and make him choke on some soap,' said Arabella as Andy and Nymph laughed.

'Yes, well, we're right,' said Andy, taking a seat on the bed again. 'Love is horrible.'

'Wait, what?' said Nymph, looking a bit outraged at the two of them. 'Love is not horrible.'

'Yes it is,' said Andromeda and Arabella, the former with a smile and the latter with a nod.

Andy's view on love varied. Ted brought her out of her shell and was definitely the love of her life. And she had a double meaning to certain words. When she says horrible, she really means wonderful. It took Arabella a long time to figure that out.

'How can you say that?' Nymph asked Arabella. 'I get why you said it,' she said to her mother. 'You have some code word thing,' she flailed her hands about. 'But you,' she nearly rounded off on Arabella, 'how can you say that? You have Harry.'

'So?' Arabella asked. 'Yeah, I love Harry, so? Love is horrible, it is. For years it was just the three of us, Ted, Mad-Eye, and Remus for me, you know. I only needed you guys and that was fine for me. I had gotten used to other people's perception of me and who I was capable of being. I had gotten used to people calling me the next Death Eater. I was fine; I really was… but then…'

'Harry,' Andromeda said softly with a knowing smile.

'Yeah, Harry,' Arabella sighed. 'He's my stupid person, you know. He smiled at me one day and… it was different. Oh god, who would have guessed that it was his stupid smile that got to me? First two years of being friends with him, I didn't tell him about… well, anything to do with what happened. And he… he just… there was something…'

'He made you fell more alive,' Nymph finished for her, sighing. She stared out into space, as though understanding herself.

'He made me feel something, that's for sure,' said Arabella.

And the three ladies in the room sighed.

There was a knock on the door and Ted popped his head in.

'You do know the wedding is going to start, right?' he asked them.

Arabella got up and walked out the door, stopping to kiss Ted on the cheek before adjourning downstairs, grabbing the small bouquet and ring off the kitchen counter, and out the backyard, where she found Remus, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Mad-Eye Moody, Mr Weasley, Ron, and Ginny.

Arabella barely had time to say anything to her friends, knowing that the bride was going to be coming soon. She merely smiled at them.

It was a small wedding with Kingsley officiating it himself. There were a couple chairs set out for them to sit in. Mr Weasley, Mad-Eye and Kingsley were talking to Remus and stopped once they saw Arabella walk towards them.

'She's coming,' she told them. They all took their places and Arabella smiled at Remus before fixing his tie.

'Nervous?' she asked, beaming up at him.

Remus didn't say anything, but gave a shaky nod.

'Okay, then,' said Arabella as she stood on the bride's side the door to the backyard opened again.

Arabella sighed at the sight of Nymph while Remus looked as though he was put on some sort of a spell where the only two people in the world that mattered were him and Nymphadora Tonks. She was wearing a simple white dress and glowed as Ted and Andromeda walked her down the aisle towards Remus. When they had reached him, Ted shook Remus's hand while Andromeda kissed Nymph's cheek.

Remus and Nymph looked at each other and barely acknowledge Kingsley standing there.

'Friends and Family,' Kingsley began, looking at all of them with a big smile, 'we are gathered here today to witness and celebrate the union of Remus John Lupin and Nymphadora Isla Tonks in marriage. Remus and Tonks – today you enter here as individuals, but you will leave here as husband and wife, blending your lives, expanding your family ties, and embarking upon one of the grandest adventures of human interaction – marriage. Today, the story of your life together begins. And all those here present to witness and celebrate your love and commitment today are eager to be a part of the story yet to be told.'

Arabella glanced around, grinning towards Ron and Ginny. Mrs Weasley, Bill and Fleur were probably still busy planning their wedding and couldn't come and Fred and George were probably at work right now. She turned back to couple while her mind wondered away. She thought back to the time spent Harry, all those moments spent with him, whether it was this year or the one before. But the one memory that she kept going to was the ones spent in the empty classroom.

'May you always need on another, not to fill an emptiness, but to help each other know your fullness. May you want one another, but not out of lack. May you embrace one another, but not encircle one another. May you succeed in all important ways with each other, and not fail in the little graces. May you have happiness, and may you find it in making one another happy. May you have love, and may you find it in loving one another.'

In the front row, Andromeda was quietly sobbing into a handkerchief while Arabella whipped away the tears that flowed down her face.

'Do you, Remus John Lupin, take Nymphadora Isla Tonks, to be your partner in life and sharing your path, equal in love, a mirror for true self, promising to honor and cherish, through good time and bad, until death do you part?'

'I do,' said Remus as Nymph beamed up at her.

'Do you Nymphadora Isla Tonks, take Remus John Lupin to be your –?'

'Yes,' said Nymph and everyone let out a laugh.

'I didn't –'

'Don't care, I do,' said Nymph, smiling at Remus. 'I, Nymphadora Isla Tonks, take Remus John Lupin as my husband. I acknowledge my love and respect for you and invite you to share my life as I hope to share yours. I promise always to recognize you as an equal and always to be conscious of your development as well as my own. I shall seek through kindness and understanding to achieve with you the life we have envisioned.'

'Well then –'

'And in the presence of our family and friends,' said Remus, ignoring Kingsley, who sighed, 'I promise to love you unconditionally, to support you in your goals, to honor and respect you, to laugh with you and cry with you, and to cherish you for as long as we both shall live. In sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow, I vow to be your faithful partner for now until my last dying breath.'

Arabella and Andromeda let out a strange, high-pitched sound, but nobody paid them any attention. Andromeda was now sobbing loudly while Arabella tried to compose herself. Ginny also had tears flowing down her face.

Arabella never knew that those two could be so beautiful together with their words. She swallowed a lump in her throat. She never really thought about getting married before. It never really occurred to her. It always seemed as though she never would get to that point in her life. She figured that somehow she would end up dead before walking down the aisle.

But watching Remus and Nymph gave Arabella ideas. It would be outside and it would be during winter. There would be snow covering the grass and her white dress would blend in with the snow. Remus would walk her down the aisle with Nymph, Hermione and Ginny standing up there with her. Remus, Andromeda, Ted and Mrs Weasley would all be crying in the front row while Fred and George would be in the back making fun of them and whistling at her and her husband, who had bright green eyes.

'Well, do we have the rings?' Kingsley asked.

He, Remus and Nymph turned towards Arabella, who pretended to look clueless.

'I was supposed to get the rings?' she asked, looking shocked. 'Why didn't you tell me?'

Nymphadora looked as though she wanted to take out her wand right now and hex her into oblivion. Remus knew what Arabella was doing and laughed a little. Arabella laughed with him before taking the rings out from the bouquet and passing them to Nymph, who still looked murderous. Everybody else laughed as well while Remus shook his head at her tactics.

'Repeat after me,' said Kingsley, smiling. 'With this ring, I accept you as my wife, now and for all time.'

'With this ring,' said Remus, putting the ring on Nymph's finger, 'I accept you as my wife, now and for all time.'

'With this ring,' said Nymph, doing the same to Remus, 'I accept you as my husband, now and for all time.'

'Family and Friends, I present to you, for the first time, Mr and Mrs Lupin! You man kiss your bride!'

Everyone clapped while Ron wolf-whistled when Remus and Nymphadora embraced each other and shared a passionate kiss. Andromeda continued to cry while Arabella, whose face was covered with tears, laughed and clapped. Ginny was crying as well, but had a smile on her face and hugged Ron's right arm.

'To conclude this ceremony, will the designated witnesses please come forward and sign their names on the certificate of marriage.'

Light background music started to play as Arabella and Moody stepped towards Kingsley to sign their names. Kingsley signed first, then Arabella and Moody.

Married at the Tonks' residence by Kingsley Nathaniel Shacklebolt.

This marriage was solemnized between us, Remus John Lupin and Nymphadora Isla Tonks in the presence of us, Arabella Kassandra Black and Alastor Gleeson Moody.

Everyone went to go and congratulate Remus and Nymph. Once Arabella was done, she snuck up behind Ron and gave him a big hug.

'Good to see you too,' said Ron, hugging her before Ginny embraced her as well.

'Where's Mrs Weasley?' she asked them.

'Busy with the wedding,' said Ginny. 'Fred and George are busy at the shop. Beautiful, wasn't it?'

'Oh, it really was,' said Arabella, sighing wistfully.

Mr Weasley, after hugging Remus and then Arabella, collected his kids and went back to the Burrow, where they had to get Bill and Fleur's wedding ready. Kingsley soon followed, heading back to his own home. Moody sat on the steps to the house, waiting for Arabella.

Andromeda and Ted had Nymph to themselves while Remus was all Arabella's.

Arabella immediately brought him into a hug, sobbing quietly into his dress robes. Remus rubbed her back, trying to soothe her down.

'I can't believe you're married,' Arabella mumbled into his dress robes. 'Just… promise me something, okay? Please, just promise me…'

'Sure, sure,' said Remus softly.

'Just… I know you're going to have a life with Nymph and have kids and all of that, but just don't forget me or leave me, you know? Promise to come visit me every once in a while.'

Remus gently cupped her cheeks and wiped the tears from her face and smiled at her.

'Remember what I told you last year? You're my kid as well and you will always have your old room when you want to come and visit.'

Arabella smiled and hugged him again.

'I'm so happy for you,' she whispered as Andromeda and Ted approached them while Nymph talked to Moody.

Arabella let go of him while Andromeda hugged him and Ted shook his hands.

'If you hurt her, I'll kill you,' Ted warned him, trying to crush Remus's hand with the handshake.

'Trust me, I'll kill him first,' said Arabella, warning him as well.

Arabella and Ted smiled innocently at each other as Nymph and Moody draw nearer to them as well. Arabella and Nymph hugged each other before all five of them walked towards the edge of the premises, ready to send the newlyweds off.

With one last goodbye, Remus and Nymph held hands before Apparating in front of their eyes and away. Andromeda and Ted walked back to the house, holding hands and walking close together while Arabella and Moody followed closely behind, silently.

Once Arabella got the little things she brought for the wedding, she hugged and kissed Andromeda and Ted on the check before Apparating to Grimmauld Place.

Arabella knew she was safe because she was with Moody. They appeared a couple steps away from Grimmauld Place and he immediately took out his wand and pointed it towards the steps.

Hermione Granger was sitting on the steps with her hands clutching her bag. She looked towards them when they appeared and didn't seem fazed by the wand being pointed at her. Arabella looked at her closely and saw that her eyes were red. She was certainly not expecting Hermione to be here at all, but something about Hermione was a bit off putting.

'Hermione Jean Granger,' she said quietly, standing up. 'And when we were in our second year, you, Arabella, nearly snapped to Fred when he called you Bella and then you told me what happened that day.'

'It's her,' Arabella told Moody, who nodded and walked inside the house while Arabella and Hermione stayed outside.

'Shouldn't we –?' Hermione began.

'Give him a minute,' said Arabella while Moody took care of the security measures. 'Are you okay?'

Hermione merely nodded. Arabella didn't like her being quiet. It was odd to see Hermione like this.

Once Moody gave them the thumbs up, they entered the house. Hermione immediately went upstairs to go to bed while Arabella said goodbye to Moody.

'I'll come back to pick you and Granger up in a two days,' said Moody. 'We'll go to the Weasleys and I'll tell you the plan there.'

'What plan?' Arabella asked.

'The plan to get Potter to the Burrow safely,' he said. 'We'll tell you, Granger and everything soon. After that, we prepare and get Potter. Be ready to go to the Burrow. Pack the kit and every single thing you need.'

'Alright then,' said Arabella, nodding as Moody stepped out of the house and Apparated to his house.

Arabella closed the door and quickly walked up the stairs to tell Hermione the news. Practically running in a dress wasn't the best idea, but she wanted to talk to Hermione first. Arabella stood outside the room Hermione slept in over the summer and pushed the door open.

Hermione was standing in the middle of the room, staring at the wall. She turned around when Arabella opened the door and walked inside. Her eyes were red and she was crying. She was clutching a scarf in her hands and her lips were trembling as she began to cry.

Arabella immediately ran to Hermione as she fell to her knees. She hugged her from behind as Hermione continued to cry her heart out. She kept mumbling something through her thick tears, but Arabella couldn't understand. All she needed to do right now was be there for her girl.

Thank you for reading. Isla was the name of one of the Blacks that got disowned because she married a Muggle named Bob Hitchens. And I just picked Nathaniel as Kingsley's middle name. Tell me what you think and about the question I asked you at the top!