"What the hell was that noise?" I asked forgetting the argument that we were in the middle of.
"I don't know, stand behind me." Remus said pushing me so I was up against the wall behind him.
"I can look after myself you know Remus, I am an arour." I was sick of him being gentlemanly, I'm not stupid. I might be a bit clumsy, but I can hold my own.
"Shut up Tonks, we have no time for this." I was slightly shocked by the change in his manner; I had never seen this side of him before. We stood there watching in the direction of the noise for what seemed an age.
"Holy Christ." Remus said when he saw what came around the corner. It was a massive snake, like nothing I've ever seen before. Its body was wider than most humans and it just seemed to keep coming around the corner. There seemed to end to the long body, I was suddenly glad I was standing behind Remus.
"Tonks get out of here." Remus said quietly.
"No I'm leaving you alone with this thing." I indicated towards the snake on the floor. The snake thing looked at us for a few second, then the door and turned around and went back around the corner. "That was really weird."
"I know, I wonder why it was here. I've never seen anything like it." Once we had finished out duty we ran back to Dumbledore to tell him what we had seen. As soon as it was all done it suddenly became very uncomfortable between us again.
"Erm right I'm going to go home." I said walking out of the grounds of Hogwarts.
"Why don't you come around to mine and we can sort things out." Remus said quietly.
"No I don't think I can. I wouldn't want Simon to get the wrong idea. Anyway I have two jobs to go to tomorrow, so I need some sleep." Without giving Remus a chance to reply I apparated home and was so glad to be lying down in my own bed, tomorrow was going to be a long day.
I was so tired after the night before that I could barely keep my eyes open. The only thing that kept me going was the thought that I was going to see Simon later, who took me home to his to stay the night for the first time.
"I think it's time for bed, don't you?" He said looking at me mischievously.
"You just might be right." I followed him in to his room. The night we spent together was great; Simon was great. The only problem was that he wasn't Remus. I know it sounds mean, but I was kinda using Simon to make Remus jealous. I had no idea if it was going to work.
Two weeks after the incident with the snake I got an owl to say the Arthur Weasley had been attacked while he was on duty. I couldn't believe it I went to St Mungo's as soon as possible. When I got there Molly was giving out to him for trying to use muggle medicine. I had to laugh, it was such an Arthur thing to do. Molly stop giving out to him as soon as she caught sight of me."
"Hello Tonks." She was slightly flushed in the cheeks.
"Hello Molly, Arthur. How are you doing Arthur?" I looked over to him wrapped in bandages.
"Not too bad, oh apart from when they take the bandages off I keep bleeding." He chuckled to himself. Trust him to be so jolly in a situation like this. I could tell Molly hadn't dealt quite as well with the news.
"Half our family owe our lives to Harry, how can we ever repay him." Molly shook her head.
"I don't think he wants repaying." I said putting an arm around Molly's shoulders. "He loves your family he would do anything for you." Molly just sobbed. I spent an hour at St Mungo's talking to Molly and Arthur. After I left I went straight to Grimmauld Place to see Sirius and check out on how the children were doing.
"Tonks." Hermione and Ginny ran at me and gave me a hug.
"Have you seen dad yet how is he?" Ginny cried on to my arm.
"I saw him before, he is doing much better, you should be able to go and see him tomorrow." I said to her and saw her face lift. Molly had come home and made dinner for everyone. There was a lot more chatter and smiles now that Arthur was all right. Remus wasn't at the dinner table until quite late, he looked even more shabby than normal.
"Tonks, Tonks do the witch nose." Ginny said. I obliged and changed my nose to a roar of rapturous applause from Ron, Harry, Ginny and Hermione.
"I never get tired of that." Ron laughed. They continued with their own conversation, leaving me able to have a conversation with Bill.
"So how's things with the muggle?" He said through a mouthful of food.
"It's going great, he so nice. I just have to figure out when to tell him I'm a witch." I laughed.
"Are you sure that's what you want. Are you sure there isn't a certain werewolf that you're a bit more interested in?" Bill wriggled his eyebrows.
"What! How did you know about that?" I whispered to Bill.
"Well I had an idea, but now you've confirmed it for me. Look if you want Remus then go for him." I looked around hoping that nobody was listening in to the conversation.
"I want to, but he doesn't want me. We slept together and he just left before I even woke up in the morning." Bill looked shocked.
"You two slept together, did Remus keep his socks on." Bill smirked.
"Oh shut up Bill." I said slapping him on the arm. "No he didn't and actually he was bigger than you." I couldn't help laughing at the look on Bill's face when I said that.
"Tonks can I speak to you in the hallway." Remus' voice broke in to the conversation. He was standing behind us. I blushed slightly as I followed him in to the hall, I really hoped that he hadn't heard my last comment.