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Author's Note: We get to see Tonks. And she has something to disclose to our favorite brunette. Maybe it is moving too fast, but Tonks and Hermione had a brief past before she got together with Ginny. And Narcissa give Tonks some very interesting information. As always read and review. No haters.
Contains: Kissing and more tears.
Chapter Eleven: One night is not enough
Hermione awoke to the sound of her phone ringing, she picked it up, careful not wake the sleeping woman beside her.
"Hello?" Hermione said her voice thick with sleep.
"Oh sorry Mione, did I wake you?" A cheerful voice asked on the other end.
"Tonks!" Hermione said excited and surprised.
It had been a while since she had talked to Tonks, and in the light of things it was a very welcome phone call.
"Yeah I called the hospital to talk to you, but they said you hadn't come in yet, so I decided to call and see if I could come over?" Tonks asked.
"Um…yeah, I just needed a day off, and sure you can come over, I will give you my new address." Hermione replied.
"New address?" Tonks asked.
"Yes, I moved, long story I will tell you when you get here." Hermione replied.
Tonks wasn't sure what was going on but decided that she would wait until she was face to face with the brunette to ask her about what was going on. She wrote down Hermione's new address and got into her car and drove off towards Hermione's house.
"My niece is coming for a visit. How lovely, I haven't seen her in a while." Narcissa said sitting up.
"Yeah I haven't seen her in a while as well. Um….how do you think she will feel about this…about our situation?" Hermione asked awkwardly.
"Don't worry about it, she will be fine." Narcissa replied.
Hermione stifled a moan of longing as Narcissa removed herself from the couch. She couldn't believe the things that Narcissa could do to her body; she made a mental note to ask the older woman where she learned all that.
"I learned it all from Bella." Narcissa said.
"Huh what?" Hermione asked stupidly.
"You were wondering where I learned all this, and I am telling you that I learned it from Bella. And well of course pleasuring myself, and a few books." Narcissa replied.
"You…Legilimency? Wandless Legilimency?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, this took a lot of training, and it isn't something that is easy, but I can teach you this also. And it might be a good idea for you to hone your Occlumency as well." Narcissa replied walking into the bathroom and closing the door behind her.
Hermione showered and got dressed in a pair of jeans and a white tank top. She studied herself in the mirror and thought that she ought to cover up the bruised on her neck where Narcissa had left her mark, but she wasn't going into work today so she didn't see the need to hide them. She walked into the kitchen and was surprised to see that Narcissa was half way done preparing lunch for the three women, the Muggle way.
"You know, you are getting rather good at this 'doing household things like a Muggle' thing." Hermione said leaning against the door frame, her hands in her jeans pocket.
"I actually enjoy it believe it or not." Narcissa said smiling.
Just then the doorbell rang, Hermione jumped slightly.
"On time as usual." Hermione muttered as she went to answer the door.
Hermione opened the door to see Tonks standing there in a pair of jeans, a t-shirt with her favorite band Paramore, and her coat. She was so excited to see her that she launched herself at the older witch.
"It's so good to see you Tonks!" Hermione squealed.
"You too Mione." Tonks replied softly.
She brought her lips to Hermione's ears and Hermione couldn't help the shudder that rippled down her body.
"You have a love bite on your neck." She whispered.
"I know, wait until you see who gave it to me." Hermione whispered back.
Tonks's jaw dropped as Hermione led her into the kitchen to see none other than her aunt, Narcissa Malfoy standing there with a love bite on her neck and setting the table for lunch.
"Hello Dora, it's so nice to see you!" Narcissa said embracing her niece.
"Aunt Cissy…I didn't…I didn't expect to see you here." Tonks said as she let go of her aunt.
"What are you doing here?" She added looking from Hermione to Narcissa.
"It's simple really." Narcissa replied.
"We slept together last night." Hermione said.
Tonks sat down at the table, her knees were weak and her head was spinning. Hermione rushed to her side and sat down in the chair next to her.
"How?" Tonks asked.
"Ginny and I broke up." Hermione replied.
"Why?" Tonks asked.
"Because she has been cheating on me for a year with Harry, and she is pregnant with his baby." Hermione replied, Tonks could see that Hermione was trying to hold back the tears that were welling up in her brown eyes.
"Oh…I didn't know that part…So you met at the hospital I guess?" Tonks asked.
Hermione looked confused; she wasn't sure what Tonks meant.
"You were the Healer that was called to Malfoy Manor to tend to my aunt Bellatrix." Tonks said in response to Hermione's obvious confusion.
"Yes, Harry told you?" Hermione asked.
"Well he needed my help arresting Rodolphus. And he thought that it might be a good idea to fill me in on the case. I guess it never occurred to me that you two actually exchanged words." Tonks replied.
Hermione had forgotten that Tonks was a senior Auror at the Ministry. Of course Harry would tell her, and if he didn't, she was sure that Tonks would eventually hear of it.
"Why did he need you?" Hermione asked.
"I was the only one at the Ministry who knew where the Lestrange Manor is." Tonks replied.
"France, northern France, hear the coast." Narcissa said softly.
Tonks nodded and looked back at Hermione. There was so much she wanted to ask the younger witch. But her main concern was the burning question as to why her aunt was sleeping with her.
"Harry said that the baby wasn't Rodolphus's." Tonks said.
Hermione nodded.
"He beat her half to death and walked away. I was told everything. If it wasn't his, whose was it?" Tonks asked.
"Lucius's." Narcissa replied.
Tonks put her head in her hands and ran her fingers through her violently pink hair. Narcissa sat down at the table on Tonk's other side and pulled her niece's hands away from her face.
"It's complicated…we had a threesome…and well both of us ended up pregnant…I took care of mine…where as Bella…she hadn't decided yet what she wanted to do. Rodolphus decided that for her, and that's why she is in the hospital." Narcissa explained.
"I see…" Tonks said.
It took a few minutes for Tonks to fully absorb the impact of her aunt's explanation. She couldn't believe how naughty and unbelievable sexy her aunt's sex life was. And she thought that she was crazy in bed.
"I just wanted you to have the full story before any judgment was passed." Narcissa said.
"I'm not judging anyone. I knew that something crazy went on behind closed doors…just the way Aunt Bella looks at you…like you're a piece of meat. I mean I could see it in the brief times during the war I just no idea that you were…bi…" Tonks said.
"Well I wouldn't call it that necessarily. But yes I do prefer women to men." Narcissa admitted.
Hermione wondered how long Narcissa had actually kept that admission of her sexuality hidden away. From what Narcissa had said about her child hood, homosexuality was not okay and it sure as hell wasn't okay for you to sleep with your sisters. Hermione also understood that Pure-Blood women didn't marry for love, but for power and she supposed, although Narcissa hadn't openly said it, that the reasons she slept with her sisters was because they were in love with one another, and it was a real, and raw, passionate love.
"It's not something I flaunt Nymphadora." Narcissa said crossly.
"Dora, please Aunt Cissy." Tonks corrected.
"Fine, Dora." Narcissa said.
"That still doesn't explain what you are doing here, sleeping with one of my best friends." Tonks said changing the subject.
Hermione beamed inside that Tonks would call her a 'best friend'.
"Tonks… As I have said; Ginny is pregnant with Harry's baby, and it's no use pretending that it will be okay and that we will be together again and lives out lives as if nothing has happened. She hurt me…I was hurting…even if it was for only one night…Narcissa made me feel again…more that I can say. I need to fix me, and well Narcissa was here for me." Hermione said.
Narcissa flushed at Hermione's words, last night was perfect.
"I know Mione…Luna filled me in, well as much as she could before I stormed out of St. Mungo's like a mad bat out of hell. I went to find you, but I ran into her, she said you had went on vacation, and well I know you and you don't just 'go on vacation' so I had to come and talk to you." Tonks explained.
Hermione could tell that there was more to the story than Tonks was letting one. If she wanted to talk she could have just said it over the phone, but she came in person, so this meant that it was more that just a casual visit to chat.
"There is more to this than you are letting on…care to enlighten me?" Hermione asked.
Narcissa took this as her que to leave the two young women alone. She walked up the stairs and out onto Hermione's balcony. She found one of the soft lounge chairs, conjured a glass of wine and relaxed in the shade of the balconies over hanging roof.
There was an uncomfortable silence in the room as the two witched continued to stare at one another. Hermione was determined to find out what Tonks was up to, her body language, her attitude it was all wrong.
"What's going on Tonks…what is it?" Hermione asked, she could see that Tonks was struggling with something.
"I know this…this is way too soon to bring it up and maybe you have forgotten about us…what we used to have…but I want to start over." Tonks replied.
There, it was out on the table. Her heart, it was on the table she had said what she had come to say. She took Hermione's stunned silence as disapproval and she moved to stand and leave, but Hermione's grip on her arm forestalled her.
"I haven't…I didn't forget our last night together…and maybe it is too soon, but Tonks, I have missed you so much…I just need some time…can you give me that?" Hermione asked.
There was a desperate plea in her voice; she scolded herself for sounding so childish. The truth was, the whole time she was with Ginny, though she closed off thoughts of Tonks when they were in bed, it didn't stop the brunette from thinking about the pink haired witch on a daily basis. It wasn't a sexual thought all the time, just a thought of missing someone who really understood her and how she ticked.
"Yeah sure I can Mione…I just thought that I would share it with you, now that I was able to…I mean I don't mean to come off as a sodding git or anything….or someone who was just waiting to swoop in the second you became single…but I just wanted you to know how I felt." Tonks stammered.
"But what about Remus?" Hermione asked.
Tonks's expression changed so quickly that Hermione thought she would curse her off the planet in that moment.
"We broke up 6 months ago. It's just been me, on my own." Tonks replied.
"Why? I thought you guys were going to get married?" Hermione asked confused.
"It's not important, it's over now Mione." Tonks replied coldly.
"It is important. Obviously it has upset you, so it must have been a big deal." Hermione prodded.
She knew that she was testing the waters, and they were turning out to be dangerous waters. Tonks was obviously upset about the situation.
"I don't what to bloody talk about it." Tonks snapped.
And she realized at once that she had frightened Hermione. She looked ashamed of herself.
"I'm sorry Mione…I…I'm just not ready to talk about it right now." Tonks said, her head staring down into her lap.
"It's…well I know it's not alright, but I will forget about the snap for now. I'm not going to force you, I am sorry." Hermione said, tears lacing her fragile voice.
"Hey, don't cry Mione, I'm sorry…it's just that well I haven't talked to anyone about it…I have been locked inside my apartment for 6 months, I only leave to go to work, and that's because I have to." Tonks explained.
Hermione had no idea that it was this bad, obviously the break up was a nasty one, well of course it would be if your boyfriend happened to be a Werewolf. But this confession of Tonks's made her think for a moment, could she possibly be ready to move on already? Just after one day? The sex she had with Narcissa was just a one night thing, and well she wasn't sure really if she wanted it to stay that way. This was just all so overwhelming that Hermione got up from the table and walked into the living room, sitting down on the couch. Tonks followed suit and sat her self next to the younger woman.
"Look I know it is way too soon for me to say that I am in love with you, but you have to believe me when I admit it." Tonks said breaking the awkward silence.
Hermione said nothing she just looked at the vulnerability in Tonk's at the moment, green eyes. She looked inside herself, focusing in her intention, looking now even more directly into Tonks's eyes, she whispered;
"Legilimens."
She could see the walls of Tonks's very protected mind start to crumble, but not enough, she probed deeper, but there was a barrier there that she knew wasn't the right time to break down. She saw what she was looking for. Conclusive proof that what the older witch had told her was true. Visions of her climaxing to Hermione's name falling from her lips. Long nights where a picture of Hermione stood sentinel in Tonk's hand while she poured over long notes and files at work. Everything Tonks had said was true, and Hermione couldn't help at feel a little ashamed of herself for not noticing the pain that was here before.
With all the strength she could muster she pulled herself out of Tonks's mind and sat there, a light sheen of sweat covering both of their foreheads. Gazing into one another's tear filled eyes. And in that second everything had become clear to Hermione, she knew that somehow she was meant to save Tonks and Tonks would save her.
"See…Now you know how I feel. How I have always felt. Our last night…it know that it was short and sweet…but it replays in my head over and over as you just saw. And I am sure that it will take more than what you just saw to convince you." Tonks said her voice a little breathless and tearful.
Hermione said nothing so she went on;
"I know it may take a little while, but I will wait for you…just as I have since we parted ways…" Tonks said.
"You will have some convincing to do…that is certain…" Hermione said softly.
"I supposed I had better get a move on." Tonks said.
And without any further hesitation Tonks moved forward closing the gap between her and Hermione. Their lips met and sparks flew, and it was in that instant that Hermione understood, she knew that Tonks would always be there for her from now on.
Narcissa awoke, not realizing that she had fallen asleep, the sun was lower in the sky and she figured that she had better be going. She got up and walked back through Hermione's bedroom and quietly moved down the stairs as to not interrupt the two women in the living room. She heard her niece laughing and knew it was safe to re enter the room.
"Narcissa! Come; join us for a glass of wine." Hermione said cheerfully.
"Oh no, I think I have over stayed my welcome. I have to get going. But I had a really nice time with you. I will keep in touch." Narcissa said holing up her hands.
She put on her long, green, pea coat, and her purse, and headed towards the door.
Hermione stood and followed Narcissa into the hallway that led to the front door.
"Do you have to go?" Hermione asked softly.
Narcissa could hear the desperation in the younger woman's voice, it broke her heart.
"It seems like you're doing better. And Nymphadora looks as if she really needs to get some things out on the table. I don't want to rain on anyone's parade. It's just better if I go." Narcissa replied.
Hermione didn't look very convinced, but she decided not to cause an argument. So she just stood there, and sighed in defeat.
"Hermione, I will be here for you in the future if you ever need anything. But I believe that whatever Nymphadora is here to tell you is something you need to hear. And I just need to go." Narcissa said cupping the younger woman's face and bringing it level with hers.
"And plus I am too old for you babe." Narcissa added smiling, gently stroking the younger woman's cheek with her thumb.
Hermione brought her hand to rest on top of Narcissa's.
"That doesn't matter to me." Hermione said.
"I know it doesn't, Hermione. Look, just give my niece a chance, because she doesn't disappoint. You deserve the best, you deserve more than what I can give you. I can't' be only yours and that is something I know I cannot do for you. You deserve the best as I said and she is sitting on your couch." Narcissa said.
"You're right." Hermione conceded.
Narcissa closed the distance between them and gently pressed her lips to Hermione's, then she turned to leave.
"Bye Dora, tell your mum I said Hello." Narcissa called down the hallway.
"I will, bye Aunt Cissy." Tonks called back.
"Bye love, I will call you later." Narcissa said turning back to Hermione.
"Bye Narcissa, thank you for everything." Hermione said.
She embraced the younger witch then left, closing the front door behind her.