Remy and his dads arrived on Sunday to move onto campus. The old apartments down in the dungeons were ready. They had a private potions lab attached. Remy was happy to return. They arrived early in the day and no one saw them. Remy wanted to surprise his friends at dinner. Draco was the only one who knew they were coming back. The new teacher was to be announced that night as well. Remy knew his friends would be shocked to hear Severus was teaching. Remy could not wait to see his dad trying to teach. He knew deep down he would be Professor Snape a year after graduation. There was no way his Papa would ever last longer then that. He loved his Papa dearly but the man did not have the patience of a teacher in him.

He smiled when they entered into their new sitting room. "I know Spinner's End is no where near big but living here will be a change."

Severus kissed his son on the head. "You lived in dorms for years. It should not be that big of a change for you. Besides you will have a private room."

He would have in fact been in a sixth year prefect room of his own but here he would have his own bathroom unlike a prefect. He was surprised to find while new the furnishings here were made to look like home for them to feel more comfortable. Three walls were bookcases except for the entrance to the hallways, as they were in the dungeons and did not have any windows of course. The lone wall without the mahogany bookcases had a number of pictures of Remy with his dads, friends and family all over the wall. Harry knew it was made in coloring and set up to feel like the lounge back home but it just made him feel more homesick.

Knowing his son's mind Remus kissed his head. "Why don't you go check your new bedroom? I am told it is the last door on the left."

Remy nodded and headed down the hall "Thanks."

There was an office for Remus next to his and the entrance to the potions lab across from that. Severus' office was for student to come to and was situated between the private potions lab and the classroom so he did not actually have to go into the hall at any time. The door across from Remy's room was his dads. He was expecting since they had his school things sent to find them unpacked. He did but he found more. Draco sat smiling on the bed with Dragon curled up in his lap. Remy had his old cat brought since no one but the elves would be at home any more. The grouchy cat did not seem to have had trouble settling into life there.

Draco pulled him down into a long passionate kiss. "I am so happy your dads decided to take the jobs and you will be here full time."

Remy sunk down with him on the bed. "You do realize Draco that my dads are right through that door."

Draco smirked. "You do realize I was made prefect after you left school and you are still a lion."

They had never got past a kiss before but they both knew they were starting to get to that point in their relationship as of late. Remy knew there were younger students who did it in the alcoves. He and Draco had always held back from going further. But now that they were approaching seventeen and had been going out for years, neither could deny that they were very close to wanting to take that next step, if not there already.

Remy ran his mouth down his boyfriend's neck. "I think maybe we should start getting me settled in here or I am sure my dads will get some kind of show from us."

Draco reluctantly agreed. "I might be hurt about you wanting to make sure your right books were brought but I agree. I do not want my Uncles to walk in on us."

Laughing Remy admitted how odd sometimes it sounded. They both called their future in laws their Aunt and Uncle, or in Draco's case Uncles. But they would not have it any other way. The fact that they had been family first just made it more special for the both of them. Their parents had once been concerned it would make things harder if it did not work out. Bu they had quickly realized that the boys early on before they saw they were soul mates, would still be fiends if they had broken up with each other. They had been best friends for too long before for them to allow something like this to break them apart.

Remy looked around the room. "I am actually relieved that this looks nothing like my room at home."

Draco helped him put some of his books away for it was not all unpacked yet. "Definitely not. Your bedroom back home is so filled with natural light."

The room had a huge canopy bed done in Gryffindor colors with his trunk at the end and a wall of bookcases. There was a desk and since it was in the dungeons he had a fireplace and there were two armchairs in front of it. There was a spell on the wardrobe that looked like the view from his old dorm room of the quidditch pitch but it was not the same as a real window. His bedroom at home had been such a perfect nursery as it had such wonderful light, his dads had always told him.

Severus stuck his head in the door. "Should we be worried that our nephew snuck into our son's bedroom? The painting just told us we had a visitor."

Draco hugged his Uncle and godfather. "No Uncle Sev. Sorry I just knew Remy would be happy to have me here after having to leave your house again."

Kissing his godson on the head Severus assured him he had only been joking. They had been pleased he had come. He too had noticed his son's reaction. Minerva had likely thought making the rooms look like their house which she had seen before would help them make them feel more at home. And with time it likely would. But right now Remy was dealing with the fact that once again the danger of the world had driven him from the safety of the place he had called home all of his life. They kept reminding him even when married and a dad he would be welcome back there but it would never be the same.

Remus popped his head in as well. "Draco you are welcome to join us for lunch. We are to make our grand entrance at dinner time tonight."

Draco smiled and accepted the invitation. "No one knows I swear. I have had quite the hard time keeping it from Susan and the others though."

That brought a smile back for Remy who was excited to see his friends more often then in the past. It would be different being here seven days a week. He was going to be doing ancient runes and he planned on helping Ewan with his classes as had been the initial plan before Remy was only at school three days a week. Remy's father and Uncle would be there often as well. The order and the ministry were going to have people on campus and school until Albus was caught. They knew that the school wards were the strongest out there but there was still a slight concern that Albus might know a way in o he would trick people into doing his dirty work.

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It was only a few days after Tonks had woken up. Alastor was with her almost every night after work but that evening he was at the office later then usual. He had asked her cousin Regulus to go and see her. He knew one or both of her parents would be there and there was guard detail of course but he still was worried. He would not really relax until she was released from the hospital and she go to Potter Castle. She had argued against it more then once since she had woken up but her fiancé and her cousins and parents were not taking no for an answer. They wanted her as safe as possible. She could be her stubborn auror self when she was back to work.

Regulus had gone for coffee as Andromeda was sitting by her daughter and was surprised when he saw one of the guards. "What are you doing down here?"

The man was stunned. "I should ask you the same thing sir. You told me to go get you and Mrs Tonks something to drink. You said you had the room."

Realizing that someone was there disguised as him and going into panic mode Regulus raced back towards the room. Alastor would kill him if anything happened to his fiance but he was not sure he would need the man to kill him. He had sworn to be watching over his cousin. Not that he could have known someone would come in looking like him. But the guilt and all of the other emotions were running through his mind. His adrenaline was pumping as he entered the room. He looked like he was sanding in front of the mirror. There was a pillow in the man's hand and he could see there was a body that was lying on the floor.

The man was not fast enough and Regulus sent a stunner at him and turned to the guard. "Send word to the ministry. Get Alastor and a detachment here now."

The man bowed his head. "I will have a doctor sent in right away as well."

Making sure his double was in magic binds he raced across the room to the bed where his cousin was. Her oxygen from her nose had been removed and the monitoring spells had been turned off so they would not alert the doctors. He reached down and felt her pulse and was relieved to see that the man had not got to Tonks. He could see even without medical training that she had been unconscious for she was sedated as she was most nights.

A doctor came into the room. "One of the guards told us that she had been attacked. How is she?"

Regulus moved from the bed side remembering Andromeda suddenly with a sickening pang. "She was not touched but her mother....."

He knelt down next to his cousin who he saw was not as lucky as her daughter. He knew it was bad when he saw the blood all over the floor. He prayed desperately she was okay but before he could check for a pulse he noticed that while she had sustained at least two other wounds, she had her throat slit. She had likely been dead before she had even hit the floor, the blood from a major gush to an artery along her leg. He knew she had been taken by surprise as her wand had not even been out.

Alastor came racing into the room as he had bee on his way from work already. "How is she Reg? I have been told that someone looking like you....."

Regulus looked up. "Tonks is okay but Andromeda has been killed. Her throat was slit."

He had not meant it to be like that but he had not realized Ted was in the doorway until it was too late. He had definitely wanted to tell the man in a better way that his wife of nearly thirty years had been murdered at their daughter's bed side. Ted fainted with the news and would have hit the ground but one of the other aurors had caught him from behind and helped to direct him into a chair.

Regulus looked at Alastor as the body was seen too. "I have a feeling that there is a spy in your office some where. Someone knew I was going to be here."

Moody paled and nodded. "I am going to make arrangements for Tonks to be moved tonight to the castle. I don't even know how I am going to tell her the news."

They both looked at Tonks and knew that she would blame herself. She was like Remy in that way. She would blame herself for things that were not her fault. Remy would have guilt too when he heard his Aunt Annie had been killed. He would blame himself for every death in this new war. He had always been close to Tonks and her parents and Regulus knew his nephew would be hit hard with the news of her death. He would have waited but it would hit the news soon and he would rather him hear the news from someone he was close to, then in the newspaper.

Moody looked at the attacker who was being moved away and who they could see the spell was removed from. "I guess we do not need to ask who the spy was."

Regulus recognized a rookie from their department. "We should still watch more carefully, if there was one there is a chance there is more. You need to move her."

They knew that if Albus had one rookie in the department there was a good chance there was more. There were many recent graduates from school who were in the ministy now. There was no telling how many of the man's former students had turned to him. Moody recognized the man as a Slytherin student who had graduated two yeas before and who both of his parents had got the kiss as Death Eaters though his older brother had fought on their side and this kid not at all.

Regulus headed for the doors. "I will make a report or what ever when I get back. My nephew should hear this from me and not in the paper."

Moody nodded. "I will inform your brother and the Malfoys who are all in Potter Castle. I will be arranging to take her up there as soon as possible."

He knew that Sirius and the others would be shaken. Narcissa and her sister were of course very close. But Remy would need him right now. He could have gone for his brother first and taken Sirius but there would have been too many questions. He knew that Sirius would likely end up at school anyways as soon as Moody brought Tonks and her dad and he knew that his son would be in need of him.

Regulus shook his head before he apparated. "The first week of the war and he has already lost a family member. This is going to be so much worse then Voldemort."

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Remy smiled when he walked into the Great Hall with Draco and his dads. He could see the shock on everyone's faces. The headmistress had just made the announcement of the new potions professor and DADA tutor. Though those who knew Severus were shocked it was Remy who drew most eyes. Chloe as well as his friends from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw all scrambled from their seats and ran to his side Hermione and Susan and Luna all buried him in hugs but the others were soon to follow. Remy felt good being able to hug his sister in public. It was definitely a nice change for this year.

Neville clapped him on the back. "We are so glad to have you back. This is cool. We knew you wee coming back in the fall but full time and now?"

Remy smiled and nodded. "Papa and Dad could not turn down the job offers and since we had to be at the castle or here, it jus made sense for us to return now."

Draco was getting a number of looks for they all knew he had not told anyone. There was no way he had not known that his boyfriend was coming back to school. He shrugged and said he was not going to break a promise to his boyfriend to keep his mouth shut. Besides he loved the look of shock and delight in the faces when they had seen him come into the room. They were celebrating his return when another person came in that brought down the mood.

Remy turned to see his Uncle come in and he was shocked. "Hey Uncle Reg, I did not know you were coming for a visit. I was the one suppose to make the surprise."

Reg hugged him but shared a look with his dads. "Sorry to interrupt your reunion but I need to talk to you and your dads for a bit."

He was shocked but he followed his Uncle into the staff room. Remy knew something was wrong. But nothing prepared him for the news. When he heard about his Aunt's death he nearly fainted. He had seen many die during the war but this was his first person he loved and cared about. He sagged against his Uncle's arms and Draco who had been brought in with them, was crying in Severus' arms.

Remy was muffled for he had his head buried against his Uncle. "Why? I don't get why they attacked her. She was not even in the order."

Regulus kissed his head. "The man went after Tonks to likely finish the job Albus started. Andromeda got in the way. I am sorry; I got there too late to save her."

They all knew that he would be leaving together. They had been at school days only but there was no doubt thy would head for the castle. Remy wanted his father as well badly and Draco needed his parents. The boys were both shaken to the core by the news.

Remy was sobbing. "It is my fault. My Aunt is dead because of me. If I just let Albus hand me over, this would all be over and no one else would die."

Remus held his son from behind. "No. The entire world would be facing death. Your sister defeated Voldemort because of your aid. None of this is your fault. None."

Held in the arm of his father and Uncle Remy just cried. Both men wished that they could convince Remy there were right but they knew it would not be easy. The guilt he felt over the ministry attack was nothing compared to this. There may have been more deaths then but this was someone he knew and loved personally.