Disclaimer: Sure I don't own the world and characters of the Harry Potter books. They all belong to J.K. Rowling who wrote the books and thereby gave me the opportunity to use them for my own imagination. But of course I'm only writing this for fun and not for any other (material) gain.

She was roaming through empty corridors. There was nothing else to do in the empty prison of Azkaban. There was no way for her to contact the outer world and no other way to get out. Some prisoners, who were left behind by the Death Eaters, were shouting at her, begging her to free them.

Tonks stopped at one of them as she recognised him as Stan Shunspike. He was staring at her silently through the bars. She stared back, just because she didn't have any other thing to do.

'Do you know what's going on out there?' Stan Shunspike asked.

Tonks just nodded.

'What is it then? What happened?'

'All the Death Eaters escaped.' she answered.

Stan gasped for breath, 'You mean all the followers of Y-you-know-who are free again!'

Tonks walked on, leaving him to mutter on to the air. She felt empty now that her mission was taken out of her hands and either failed or succeeded. If her plans had gone well, she would have been back with the Death Eaters and waiting for new orders by now. And without those orders she was wandering around aimless.

She got to some stairs and started climbing them. The stairs ended into another passageway, this one had several doors. Hoping for a way out, she tried the door in the middle. As it opened she saw it lead to a control room. Hoping for some way of getting out, she pushed the door further open.

The room was crammed with Dark Detectors, placed to control the prisoners. They were adapted to warn the guards whenever a prisoner was at a place he wasn't supposed to be. Most of them were still howling or ringing; the prisoners were now very much on a place they weren't supposed to be. Several guards were lying near the door now, some of them dead, others paralyzed. Apparently they had been running for the door, warned by the Detectors, as the prisoners had come bursting in and attacked them.

Carefully, Tonks stepped over the bodies and looked around. She heard a high-pitched shriek, as if a bomb was falling, it even drew out the other noises of the Dark Detectors. Startled she looked around. Under the owl pipe in the corner, a medium large, black owl with big dark eyes was sitting on a stick.

Quickly she made her way to the animal, it shrieked again, making her cover her ears quickly. The owl looked at her expectantly. Tonks grabbed a pen and paper from a nearby desk, then she hesitated. 'Who am I going to write to?' She could write to her Master, but what could he do for her in this position? There was no way for any of his followers to get to Azkaban with probably the entire ministry at guard now, except as a prisoner. She could write to the ministry itself, she was still Auror Tonks and no one knew of her actions so far, did they? She thought feverishly about anyone still alive who could betray her.

Suddenly her decision was taken out of her hands as she heard loud noises on the lowest floors. Running footsteps and shouts, someone had finally thought of having a look in Azkaban. Tonks stood very still, waiting as the footsteps got louder. She saw Aurors run up the stairs, stop dead and stare at her. Then, before she knew what was going on they had surrounded her, their wands high. Kingsley Shacklebolt made a step forwards.

'Tonks? What's going on in here? The guard in the reception told us…'

'Of course, the guard!' She mentally slapped herself for her stupidity. She had only paralyzed him and he had seen her turn from Scrimgeour to herself, after that he had seen all the Death Eaters escape. The Aurors had probably undone the spell and overheard him.

'…imperius?' Shacklebolt was now talking to an other Auror who looked at her confused.

'If so, we mustn't lift it, she might give us important information. When the imperius is lifted…'

He stopped abruptly as the pink-haired woman they were surrounding suddenly collapsed to the floor.

'Tonks!' Shacklebolt hurried towards her, forgetting all safety procedures. Worried, he bowed over, turned her around and saw that she was blinking with her eyes, confused.

'Kingsley?' Tonks looked around with surprise. 'What am I doing here? I…' her voice trailed away. Kingsley looked at the other Auror, who nodded in understanding.

'Don't you remember how you got here?' He asked. Tonks shook her head. Kingsley sighed, 'What's the last thing you remember?'

'I…I was at home.' Her voice trembled, she was obviously worn-out. 'I was just going to bed when someone knocked on my door. I asked who it was, Romulus answered. When I opened the door he…he was there with Greyback and two others.' She seemed to think for a while, frowning in concentration or in anger. 'They overpowered me and everything went dark. When I woke up I was in a cave and…and…' Tonks looked scared at the memory of it, 'Voldemort was there.'

The Aurors were trained not to fear the name Voldemort but some of them winced nevertheless at the sound it. Kingsley gave them an irritated look, 'Tell us what happened Nymphadora, come on.' he said encouragingly.

She was whispering now, 'He tried an imperius curse on me…but I managed to resist it. Then he used the crucio… It went on like this several times I guess and then…then everything is blurry. I remember some thing about having to go to Azkaban…' she stopped and looked around once more. 'Are we in Azkaban right now?'

Kingsley made an impatient movement, 'Yes we are. Now what else do you remember?'

Suddenly Tonks burst out in tears 'I-I don't know.' she stammered. Kingsley was taken aback, he had never seen a colleague cry and Tonks never was the person to shed tears either. He kneeled next to her and pulled her close, muttering comforting words. She sobbed into his shoulder but it didn't last very long. She pulled back and whipped her eyes, 'I'm sorry.' she whispered.

'All the Death Eaters escaped.' Kingsley informed her. The next moment he wished he hadn't said anything as tears formed in her eyes again.

'Is that my fault?' she asked.

'We are not sure yet.' he briskly answered.

Then, the Auror Dingerly came bursting through the door, 'Sir! We…We found Auror Moody, in one of the hearing rooms.' He was panting heavily. 'Sir, he's dead!'

Kingsley saw the look of fear on Tonks' face and he also knew what she feared. 'Bring me towards him.' he ordered.

A/N: Well I hope this satisfied your needs. I realise the story get a bit slow here but I'm sure you will forgive me for that and review ;)