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Remus stared at Tonks in shock.
"What?!" he asked.
"I want you to...turn me into a...I want to be like you," she said firmly.
Remus jumped off of her and started pacing in front of the couch. Tonks sat up and looked at him fearfully.
"I don't want you to have to be alone anymore! This way I can always be with you!" she cried, pleading with him.
He stopped pacing and stared at her, not believing what she was saying.
"How can you...why would someone ever...DAMNIT! Everything was going so well! Why did you have to go and ruin it?!" When Remus said 'ruin it' he kicked the coffee table, breaking it in half.
"HEY! Don't take it out on my furniture! It's me you're mad at! Even though I don't see why!" Tonks yelled as she stood from the couch. She was highly upset that he went as far as to break her possessions.
"Well, I can't really hit you can I?!" Remus turned and looked her in the eye. Tonks took a step back. She had never seen him this mad before. It seemed as if the wolf inside was coming out for a sneak peek.
"By all means, hit me Remus. If that's really what you want to do right now. Come on. Hit me." Tonks said egging Remus on. She didn't honestly believe he would act on his anger.
Remus whipped out his wand and pointed it at her chest. Tonks' mouth fell open in shock, and she fumbled to grab her own wand for a second, but then, remembering her training as an Auror, she had her wand raised before Remus could blink.
Remus glared at Tonks, and stormed past her to the doorway. He wrenched open the door, and stepped out onto the mat laid out in front of the door. Without a backwards glance at Tonks, he slammed the door shut.
Tonks took a second to gather her bearings, and ran to the door after him. She pulled it open to find Remus still standing in the hallway, and it seemed as if he was contemplating his next move. Tonks hesitantly stepped towards him.
"Remus, I don't see what the problem i-" Tonks began in a small voice before she was cut off by Remus.
"You don't see what the problem is?!" Remus yelled. "Merlin Tonks! You're asking me to curse you for the rest of your life. I will not do that to anyone. I'm scum to so many witches and wizards because of this...this..." he struggled to find the right word to explain his condition that he found to be so unbearable.
"Don't! You are nothing even remotely CLOSE to scum, and anyone who thinks you are...well...they just don't matter do they?" Tonks said simply.
"But they do Tonks. Especially when they're the ones deciding my future." Remus said answering her question.
"It's MY future as well Remus! I'm with you, so we're in this together." She reached out to him, to comfort him in anyway she possibly could. But just before she touched him, he stepped further away from her door into the hallway.
He looked over at her with pleading eyes. "I won't turn you into what I am Nymphadora. I would never wish this on anyone else, and if you can't be happy with me any other way...well...then I just don't know what else to do..." And with that, he turned on the spot and Disapparated with a POP!
Tonks felt her lungs closing in on her, and her breathing came out in short gasps. She turned and walked inside her apartment. As soon as her door was closed, she felt her knees give-way, and crumbled to the ground. She pulled her knees up to her chest and hugged them to her body. Her eyes welled up with tears which leaked over onto her face, and then rolled down onto the floor. She had just lost the love of her life. He was all she had, all she had ever wanted. But he was gone now, and he was not coming back.
She didn't even know how long she had been laying on the floor when the anger hit her. She was just trying to make him happy, make it so he wouldn't have to be alone on those lonely nights that he spent locked up within his basement. She thought he would be touched by how much she cared for him. But no, he had to go and scream at her. If he truly cared for her, then he would've seen how much she was willing to sacrifice for him.
And besides, that floppy-wanded-dementor-buggerer had broken her coffee table! And he had only replied that he couldn't hit her when she said something about it! That bloody thing was expensive!
Tonks ripped herself off the floor, and stormed into her bedroom. She spotted the shirt that Remus had left at her apartment and aimed her wand at it.
"INCENDIO!" she screamed.
The shirt burst into flames, and Tonks turned angrily. With a loud POP! she was gone.
Remus Apparated into the living room of his dingy house. He took one look around the room and was immediately reminded of those precious minutes he had spend in the room with Tonks. As these thoughts flooded his mind, he became even angrier. He stormed down the hall to his tiny kitchen and sat at the small wooden table in the corner.
He placed his head in his hands and sighed heavily. His day had certainly not gone as he had expected it to.
'She's a bloody fool. Thinking that this is all fun and games.' he thought. 'It's nothing of the sort, obviously.'
The sadness that had first engulfed Tonks did not hit Remus at all. The anger from the argument was still pulsing within his veins, and he could not seem to calm himself down. He rose for his small table, and walked to the cupboard that he kept his firewhiskey in. He conjured a small shot glass and poured the liquid into it. He was not a heavy drinker, but occasionally, he would have a drink or two to clear his mind.
After drinking a few shots, Remus decided that moping around his house was going to accomplish nothing, and with a loud POP! he had disappeared.
Tonks Apparated into a pitch black room, and almost thought she had gone to the wrong place.
"Bloody hell," she whispered into the dark. She hadn't realized how late it was. Tonks heard a small groan, and shuffling coming from somewhere to her left.
"Lumos," someone muttered on her right.
A small orb of light appeared directly in front of a bushy haired girls face. Just as the girl was opening her mouth to scream, Tonks rushed over to her, and covered her mouth.
"Shhh!" She said as quietly as she could. She could feel the girl struggling against her, trying to pull Tonks' hand from her mouth. She felt the mouth part underneath her hand, and sharp teeth were soon digging their way into the palm of her hand.
"OUCH! Hermione you prat! It's me! Tonks!" she whispered, pulling her hand off the younger girls mouth.
"Tonks?" Hermione whispered, "What're you...? Wait..prove it's really you." The girl demanded of her.
Tonks screwed up her face, and her nose changed into a pig snout. She knew that was Hermione's favorite nose of hers.
Hermione smiled, but her expression soon turned to worried, as she took in Tonks' disheveled appearance. Her hair was in disarray, and her make-up on her face was smudged everywhere. "Did something...is everything...Remus...?" her questions faded off while she waited for an answer from Tonks. She became even more worried as the silence grew on.
Tonks finally took a deep breath and said, "Remus and I are no longer together. We...broke up."
Hermione gasped and jumped up to embrace Tonks. "Wha-What happened?" she questioned. "You two seemed so...lovey-dovey just...earlier in fact."
Tonks sighed. "It's a really long story Hermione."
"Well I've got time," Hermione replied shortly. She sat back on her bed and pulled Tonks down to sit beside her. There was some grumbling from the bed across from them, and a figure sat up in the bed.
"I might as well join in the conversation, too since I'm awake now," Ginny said yawning slightly. Her hair was flying in every direction, and her eyes were just barely open.
Tonks giggled. "You wake up rough, huh Gin?"
"I don't know what you're talking about Tonks. I wake up the easiest in the family." Ginny said curtly.
Tonks looked incredulously at her, but decided against saying anything. She shrugged her shoulders and turned to face Hermione. The younger girl was staring at her with worry still in her eyes.
"Go on, tell us what happened," Hermione urged.
Tonks looked between the two girls who were both waiting to hear what had happened between her and her boyfriend, and felt her heart swell with happiness, even with the events that had taken place just a few short hours ago. She had shown up in their room, unannounced so very late at night, and they weren't even angry with her.
'This is the true meaning of friendship,' she thought to herself as she sighed and prepared to relieve the argument that had happened with her and Remus.
Remus appeared in a bedroom with walls that were covered in Gryfindor banners, and bikini-clad muggle girls. Remus approached the bed in the middle of the room very cautiously. He knew how his best friend would react to a surprise visitor in the middle of the night.
He pulled out his wand and muttered, "Petrificus Totalus," just as Sirius' eyes popped open.
Sirius' eyes went wild looking around the room for whoever had hexed him. Remus sat beside his best friend on the bed, and said, "Sirius, it's me, Moony. I need to talk. Tonks and I just broke up, and I have no clue what to do."
Sirius' eyes halted their search for his attacker and focused on the blurred body next to him. Remus turned to Sirius, and said the counter-curse to the Full-Body Bind.
"Give a bloke a bloody heart attack, mate." Sirius said slightly out of breath.
"Sorry," Remus chuckled. "I just remembered how you always used to react to being woken up back at Hogwarts, Padfoot. Prongs was never too happy when it was his turn to wake you up for class. He always walked away with some sort of rash all over his body. We could never figure out what it was..." Remus trailed off, deep in thought about his school years.
After a minute, Sirius grabbed his friend's shoulder and shook him gently. "Hello! Earth to Moony!" he said teasingly.
Remus jerked his head up and looked over at his friend. It didn't take long for Sirius to notice he had tears swimming in his eyes.
"Moony, wha-"
"She asked me to bite her Padfoot! And she didn't mean it in the kinky way! She wants to become what I am! I won't do that to her! I just won't. I care for her to much to subject her to this life." He sounded pathetic, like a child begging for a toy that his mother refused to buy him.
"Of course not Moony. How...how did this all happen?" Sirius asked with a serious look on his face. He did not like seeing his life-long friend so upset, especially not over a girl. Remus was always the strong one in the group that did not mess around with girls, so he was less likely to be hurt by them. Seeing him like this, crying over his cousin, was certainly something new to Sirius.
"We had just gotten back from Diagon Alley, and we were laying on her couch when she brought it up. Everything escalated, and I ended up storming out of her apartment, and going home. I don't know what to do Padfoot. If she expects me to...to..." he shuddered at the thought of Tonks turning into a werewolf. "I can't be with her if that's what she wants Sirius, I just can't."
Sirius listened intently to the words that had just come out of Remus' mouth, and sighed.
"Well Moony, it seems as though she's willing to do anything to be with you..maybe it's not..." his sentence was cut short by the look that Remus was giving him. "I was only going to say that it's not the smartest thing for her to say, knowing how touchy you are with your...furry little problem. But she's only trying to be closer to you, mate. She really loves you, I can see it in the way that she looks at you."
"I know Padfoot. I love her, too. It's only been a few hours, and I'm miserable without her."
"Maybe you should try talking to her. Talking, not arguing." Sirius suggested.
"I don't think that would be best right now," Remus replied. "We just need some time apart."
"Well mate," Sirius began, "you know I'm always here for you if you need me."
"I know Padfoot, and I really appreciate this. I would be highly ticked if someone had hexed me while I was sleeping only to complain about their relationship problems."
Sirius chuckled and said "What are best friends for?"
A/N: I promised an update today..well I sortof did haha. But here it is. This chapter wasn't that fun to write, but it had to happen right? Their relationship can't be perfect, and we needed to show some struggles they went through. Anyways, my partner probably already started on her chapter since she got to read this last night, I'm not really sure..I fell asleep while we were talking haha. I have the next few days off work (after today of course) so as soon as she gets her chappie done, I'll update super fast. BUT thanks for reading, and thank you to our reviewer yesterday. We really appreciate it, and we're glad you're enjoying the story. To everyone else, PLEASE review as well!!
