Meanwhile
Teddy clung on to Remus, not letting Greyback leave his sight, and Remus did the same, protectively holding Teddy in his arms.¨
"It must be hard for you Lupin." This was directed to the older Lupin in the room, and Greyback continued while he slowly approached the two on the bed. "A kid, living in a world that's going do be disgusted by him… The son of a werewolf." He smirked, even if he wasn't transformed, he had something wolf-like over himself. The way he showed his teeth made Teddy shiver.
"But Lupin, I can take the boy, you won't have to worry, he'll be fine with me." Greyback was almost right in front of them now.
"Over my dead body, you will never get him." Remus said in a low, threatening voice, glaring at the man, who was one of the persons who had destroyed Remus's life.
This comment made Greyback laugh, a horrible, raspy laugh, with no happiness.
"Well, how do you want me to look at that, because for me and little Teddy here, you already are dead, but if you mean now… right now… that is something that I would like to arrange."
He made an attempt to jump on Remus, who quickly pushed Teddy away, but then they heard an explosion and an angry growl.
Ten minutes earlier.
Tonks had just come back with the younger Remus, seeing the other marauders still sitting on the couch, were they had left them.
She felt better now after her talk with Remus, now she could understand a little better, but it wasn't really an excuse, she thought.
"Are you ok, cuz?" Sirius asked her when he walked up to her, putting an arm around her shoulders and squeezed them gently.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just man trouble."
"I know." He laughed, she noticed now how she had missed the sound of that, and then he continued. "Moony can really be a pain in the butt sometimes, but he is our pain in the butt."
"Yes, he is, and that's one of the things I love about him. But sometimes he cares too much about others."
"But put it like this, he cares about you, and one way or another you are going to have a nice little boy." He smiled, but then got a mocked frown on his face. "And you should now that I can't get that I'm not the godfather, what's up with that!?"
She hugged him, not knowing what to tell him, but then they heard a scream from the dormitory.
"That was Teddy!" Tonks could feel the panic bubble inside her, could that be a death eater, what if something happen to Remus and Teddy.
She grabbed Sirius hand and dragged him to the stairs, James followed closely after them.
But when they got to the door they could only hear Remus soothingly talking to Teddy, in a very daddy-like voice.
"Can you hear that, isn't that so sweet?" She hissed at the other two, who put there wands back in their back pockets. "They have obviously never meet Mad-Eye." Tonks thought, still relived that it only seemed to be a nightmare Teddy had had.
Then they could hear another voice, raspy and cold, saying something about father and son, and Tonks realised that this was the voice of Fenrir Greyback. And he was going to hurt the two peole that meant the most to her, even if she hadn't meet Teddy before, hadn't known that he was going to excist, but that didn't matter. What matter was that the people there inside were her family. And no one would hurt them, if they didn't have a very strong death wish.
Then she heard him start to talk about killing them and this made an anger rise inside of her, anger she had never felt before.
She got her wand and with a wave with it the door was blasted into little pieces and Tonks entered it, furious.
"Step away from them, Greyback" She spat at him, and in the shock he actually moved, but then found himself and started towards her, smirking yet again.
"And what is mrs. Lupin going to do about it? Do you want me to kill you before the rest of your pitiful family?"
