Chapter 4

Times Like These

Remus was in his office, tearing apart his closet on a quest to find all his old Wizarding things; his wand, spell books, caldron, robes, papers, pictures. Pretty much anything that looked out of this world.

He was waiting for Tonks to get home so they can talk to Jon. He didn't know how bad it was going to be but Anna said that he was based only on what type of music he was listening to. Well Remus knew something, it probably has something to do with Geri. That only made Remus more worried than he already is.

"Aha! Found you" Remus dragged out a large leather trunk. It looked old and warn out with dust bunnies on it. He let the trunk fall to the floor with a thud, letting dust scatter throughout the room and all over him.

There was a knock at the door that made Remus jump. "Honey, what are you up to?" Tonks peaked her head through the door and saw Remus kneeling over his old trunk.

"O wow, haven't seen this thing in a long time" she bent down beside him and brushed the dust off to reveal Remus' name and the Hogwarts Coat of Arms.

"I know. Where's yours?"

"In the attic, buried under all of Jon and Anna's old baby clothes"

Remus opened the trunk to see all of his things still in place. "It's been so long" he picked up his wand and aimed it at the vase of roses on his desk. "Accio, rose"

One of the long stem roses flew into Remus' hands. "For you" he gave it to Tonks, along with a kiss.

"O I almost forgot! Jon wants to talk to us about something"

"Is everything okay?"

"I don't know, he didn't tell me anything, but Anna thinks something is wrong"

"Is he still up?" Tonks asked, looking at the clock on the wall. "it's only 8:00, so he should still be up" Remus took the rose he gave to Tonks and put it back in the vase on his desk.

On the way up to Jon's room, they checked on both Anna and Michael to see that they were fast asleep. They knocked lightly on Jon's door and was greeted by a shaky "Come in"

Jon was pacing back and forth, looking at the ground as he stared off into space, bobbing his head to the beat of the music.

"Jon, we're here. what's on your mind, sweetie?"

"Well, okay.." Jon stopped to look at his parents. "I think you might want to sit down"

"O no.." Tonks looked worriedly at Remus then looked back at Jon. "what happened? Is everything okay? Is it you? Is it Geri?"

"Mum, please! J- just sit down" Jon stuttered. He nervously chewed on his nails as his hands shook. Tonks and Remus took a seat on Jon's bed.

"Okay... Okay!" Jon started to pace the room again.

"Son, what's wrong?" Remus asked, taking hold of Tonks hand only because she was starting to bite her nails.

"Okay.." Jon stopped dead in his tracks. "okay I'll tell you.." he let out a shaky sigh. "Geri's pregnant.."

Silence was a virtue for Jon at the moment, it meant that they were thinking everything through, he wasn't quite ready for yelling yet, so silence was a good thing right now. One thing was for sure, he couldn't bring it to himself to look at his parents.

"Geri has decided to keep the baby.." Jon continued. "and doesn't want me to be apart of the baby's life" he ended with a dismal tone.

Jon took a moment to look at his parents reactions; Tonks was staring at him with her jaw forced to the floor, as Remus stared at the ground.

"Okay.." Tonks spoke up. "I'm sure I can go and talk to Geri's Mother about this.."

"Geri's Mum doesn't know, nor will she because Geri doesn't live with her parents anymore let alone talk to them!" Jon snapped. All his anger from that afternoon till now, was building up inside him and he just needed to get it all out, somehow..

"What do you mean, she doesn't want you to be apart of the baby's life?" Remus asked.

"Just like it sounds. She doesn't want my help; no money, no visits, no nothing!"

"Well I'm going to go have a talk with this young lady!"

"O my God, you don't get it. She doesn't want anything to do with me anymore!"

"Son, I thought we taught you better than this!" Remus fumed in disappointment

"I thought I was ready, she thought so too. I love her, I would make a cool Dad" Jon felt sadness wash over him when he thought about Geri keeping the baby and not letting him be apart of its life. This was his baby too and he has every right to be apart of his child's life. That baby needs a Father and he wasn't just about to abandon this baby like Remus did to this Family for a while.

Jon dried his peaking tears and grabbed his hooded sweater off his bed and walked out of his room.

"Son?" Remus called after him, fallowing him down the stairs with Tonks at his heals.

"Jon?" Tonks called after her Son. "where are you going?" they stopped at the front door.

Jon put his hoodie on and grabbed his car keys. "I'm going over to Geri's" with that, he walked out of the house.

Remus and Tonks stood in front of the door until they heard the car pull out of the driveway.

Tonks let out a exhausting sigh while covering her face with her hands. Remus put a comforting arm around his wife and guided her down to the couch where they sat in silence.

"Mommy!" Michael called from a distant room. It sounded like it was coming from Anna's room. Well whatever it was, he sounded scared.

Tonks and Remus, both got up from the couch and fled to Anna's room. When they entered the room, Michael was standing over Anna's body, tears streaming down his face.

"Michael, what's wrong?" Remus asked, collecting his son in his arms. Tonks went over to Anna to see if she was okay. From the looks of it, Anna was sweating from head to toe and her complexion was fair.

"Remus, she's burning up!" Tonks said in a panicked voice. "her heart pace is abnormal. It's so high!"

Remus put Michael down and walked over to Anna. "Sweetie, wake up" he ran a hand over her forehead to clear the damp hair away from her face.

"Anna!" Tonks called out to her from behind Remus. "I'll get a cold compress" she fled the room, leaving Michael scared out of his mind for his sister.

"Anna, wake up!" Remus lightly shook her and when that didn't work, he lightly tapped her face.

"Here.." Tonks came back, giving the cold cloth to Remus. He took the cloth and started to dab it all over Anna's tedious colored face.

"Anna.. C'mon sweetie, wake up.." Remus threw the cloth down on her bedside table, next to the teacup and put his ear to her chest. Her heart speed was way up there.

Remus had no other choice but to take her to the one place she can be relieved, Hogwarts. He picked her up out of bed and left the room with Tonks and Michael hot at his heals.

"Where are you taking her?" Tonks asked as soon as they got downstairs.

"Hogwarts… where is the floo powder?"

"Got rid of it.."

Remus let out a sigh. "I'll meet you there in a week.." with that, Remus disappeared with Anna in a blink of an eye.

A/N: Yeah I know, I'm bad! MUHAHAHAHAAAA! LOL! For those who want to know or who already know, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire comes out soon! In like 18 more days! Can't wait! Sorry about the long wait and the short chapter. I wanted to be mean and leave you hanging and be baffled by what's to come! HEHE!