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Week 40

Search Party

By Monday morning, the flu I had, had passed and I went to work as normal, however, that night when I got home Charlie was waiting for me. I had sent a note to Dumbledore earlier that morning to tell him that Charlie and I were going to look for Remus in some of the places he had taken me; and Charlie and I will continue to look for Sirius and Remus in this way until we find them. So when I got home and changed my cloths, then Charlie and I proceeded to look for Remus and Sirius starting at the old house that Remus was first sent to. You know the one where he was missing for 8 days and I rescued him from some great evil that he never told me about. So Charlie and I searched the old house from top to bottom for hours and all we found was an old house elf that wasn't much help, and some Deatheater activity. Tonight's expedition took all night and by the time Charlie and I got back home, I crashed on my bed and Charlie apparated home, and told me he would be back Tuesday night.

By Tuesday, I had a clear idea where Charlie and I should go for the next few nights. We went to Remus' apartment tonight to see if he left anything there or maybe any clues of where he went. When Charlie and I got there, we noticed that the whole apartment looked like it had already been searched. There were two notes on the table, both were addressed to me.

The first one said: Tonks, he's not here, I already checked. I'm going to check at his parents' old house in Ayr, Scotland. You should check there after me in case Remus doubles back. – Love Sirius

PS. Thanks for looking for me too.

Ayr, I wonder why his parents lived so far from London. -- I thought

The second note said: stop looking for me. I will hurt you and Sirius. Just trust me. I have to do this. I will always love you my Nymph, now stop looking and go back to work.

I didn't need to see who signed the second note. Sirius was right. Remus was doubling back. Both notes were dated less than a week ago. I ran into the other room to show Charlie how close we were to finding them. So we decided to go to Grimmauld Place to see who was there and then write a note to Dumbledore to tell him that we need another emergency meeting so we can get people searching in a more focused area. So we apparated to Grimmauld Place and found that Mad – Eye Moody was in head of the search and he had several maps of England hang up around the living room. I walked over to Mad – Eye and decided to tell him the information that I knew.

"Hey Mad – Eye. I know two places that Remus or Sirius isn't." I told him.

"Okay, where isn't he?" Mad – Eye asked

"He's not at his apartment and he's not in Canterbury." I told him.

"Why would he be in Canterbury?" Mad – Eye asked me.

"He had a mission there and asked me to help with it." I answered.

"Okay." Mad – Eye answered.

I then walked into the next room and got a piece of parchment from the desk and began to write on it.

Dumbledore,

We need to have a meeting this Friday. I think I know where Remus and Sirius are headed.

Tonks

I folded the parchment and sent Sirius's owl to Dumbledore at Hogwarts and waited for his reply with Charlie.

"What do you think Remus is doing?" Charlie asked

"I think he forgot to cover his tracks during one of his missions and he now has to go back and do something he doesn't want to do; which is why he is trying to distance himself form Sirius and myself." I told Charlie.

By the time I heard back from Dumbledore it was almost midnight, and the letter only had one word on it. It said:

Done.

Then like clockwork, Mad – Eye made an announcement.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Dumbledore has arranged for a meeting for this Friday night at 7, and every week after that until we find Remus and Sirius."

Good, this is just what we need.—I thought

So, after all the excitement at Grimmauld Place, I went home and crashed on the couch in the living room. The next day however, I went to work like normal, sent an owl to Charlie, outlining the next couple days, (going to his family's house in Ayr this Saturday, and going to all the mission spots that Remus was in).

When Wednesday night came along, Charlie and I went to visit the room in the Ministry where Remus was tortured for information regarding the Order of the Phoenix, the location of Greyback, and being a werewolf, and not being registered with the ministry. Yet, once we checked if he had been there, we found that no one had been to the room in the Ministry since we broke Remus out. It was a little disappointing, have this kind of set back, after having such a good night last night.

When I got home, I was defeated. If Charlie and I made it to Ayr, we would have to take a whole entire day to do it, and the only free day we both had was on Saturday. Each day we waited around going to surrounding counties, we wasted time. We should be out there, going after Sirius, making sure we could get to him before the Ministry or Voldemort catches him. I could not handle loosing him to Azkaban again.

Before I went to bed, and owl knocked on my window, and I let it enter. The owl was from the ministry, saying that I was on patrol tomorrow night. And I was being placed in Cambridge, apparently, there have been unusual sightings there, something magical, and since there isn't a large wizarding community there, I was sent to check it out. I suppose Cambridge isn't so bad. I mean, I could look for Remus there. There is an open field there, and Remus and I went there for the werewolf mission, he might be there.

On Thursday, I sent an owl to Charlie cancelling our nightly excursions to find Remus and Sirius. After that I proceeded to get briefed on what was happening at Cambridge, and how I was to proceed, and what I should do, if I get caught by something. All and all, it wasn't all that bad.

When I got to Cambridge, I started my mission by talking to some of the wizards and muggles about the strange things that have been happening here. Most of them had said it was loud howling noises, or weeping at the edges of the trees. So I decided to check out the clearing and the trees just behind the city. I walked for about half a mile and noticed that it looked slightly familiar. It was the place where Remus and I stayed and pretended that we were werewolves. They should have moved to meet Greyback soon. I searched around this area for a little bit to see if I could find any information that could be helpful to the Ministry and to the Order. I stayed there, hanging around Cambridge till a little past 2 in the morning. I then went home, and got a few hours of sleep, before heading off to work on Friday Morning.

When I got to work on Friday morning, I gave a report to Shacklebolt, both the official and the unofficial. Shacklebolt then told me to go home have get some sleep and to come back on Monday morning. So, I took this offer gladly, and went straight home and slept. When I awoke I had 30 minutes to get to the meeting at 7:00pm at Grimmauld Place. I quickly got ready and left. I luckily got there in just enough time to hear Dumbledore say that I had requested the meeting for tonight. I stepped forward and started to say what I had found.

"I suspect that Remus has run away, because he has to cover his tracks from when he was on the werewolf mission. Greyback had asked Remus if he would join him. I suspect that Remus would stay undercover just to make an appearance, and come back once this is done. Sirius, however, I can only assume has picked up Remus' trail and is now following him, and where ever Sirius goes he leaves a note for me telling me where he's been and where he's going. That's all I know at the moment." I said to the crowd.

"That's quite a lot of information Nymphadora." Dumbledore told me. I walked out of the room as the meeting went on. I went up stairs to the room that I normally stayed in and sat down on the bed and started to cry. I had spent the whole entire week looking for Remus who obviously didn't want to be found and it felt like I was wasting Charlie's time, by looking for the man that I loved who broke up with me.

By the time the meeting was done, I had fallen asleep in the bedroom and Charlie had come up and tucked me in. The next morning when I woke up, I got dressed and ran down stairs to the kitchen to meet Charlie's face.

"I want to come with you this morning to Ayr, to see if we can find Remus and Sirius, Tonks." Charlie told me

"You don't have too. Really. I have already taken up enough of your time this week, and I really feel bad about it." I told Charlie.

"I really want to come with you Tonks. Please." He told me one more time.

"Okay, Charlie. You can come to." I told him. With a delighted smile he walked out of the kitchen and grabbed a bag filled with things and set it beside the door, turned to me and said:

"Great, when do we leave?"

"As soon as I eat breakfast." I replied.

So Charlie waited patiently until I ate my toast and had some coffee, then he and I apparated to the outskirts of Ayr so we wouldn't be seen. We walked into town and found a pub, so we went into there to ask around, to see if anyone knows were the Lupin house is. As we went into the pub, we heard a short loud whistle, so Charlie and I stopped, looked around and saw a tree that looked very much out of place. So I decided to walk over and look closer at the tree, and noticed that it had a note on the side of it. It said:

Esplanade, at the far end, last house on the street.

I gave the note to Charlie and we began to walk to the street corner to hail a cab. We finally got a cab and went to Esplanade, to the very last house on the street. The house was gorgeous, and grand. Charlie and I entered the house and started looking around. There were a lot of curtains and secret hiding places.

I wonder why Remus never talked about this place. – I wonder

*Crash *

Charlie and I turned around quickly and ran upstairs to a door that was half closed. We entered and found Sirius taped to a chair along with being gagged.

"Sirius!" I yelled as I ran over to untie him, "Who has done this to you?"

"Remus did. He told me that Greyback has been following him for several weeks, after meeting with him, and he could not endanger everyone at the order so he has to distance himself from us. Tonks, we can't go after him, not any more. He promised to come back, and I think we now have to trust that he will come back, with or without our help. I think he can handle this, Tonks, he has handled things much harder than this." Sirius told Tonks as Charlie was walking around the house.

"Okay, Sirius, I understand." I answered Sirius in a murmured voice.

"Now, I never ever thought I would say this, but let's get back to Grimmauld place. I'm sure there have been new developments at the headquarters." Sirius said in great enthusiasm.

"Not really, after you and Remus went missing, we went out on search parties and things like that. Molly has been worried sick through most of it." I replied dully.

"Thanks Tonks, I feel so much better now." Sirius said.

"No problem." I answered as I walked out of the room and looked for Charlie.

Sirius and I spent about an hour walking through the Lupin's old house, trying to find Charlie. Once we did, we left the house and walked a little ways into the forest. We were talking all the way there about really unimportant things, trying to get Sirius caught up to recent events. When the three of us got into a secluded place in the forest, I bend down and put my arm around Sirius' neck (he was his usual black dog self) and we apparated back to Grimmauld Place. By the time we got there it was just after dinner and Molly still had what the house had for dinner on the stove, staying warm for us. An owl was sent to Hogwarts, informing Dumbledore that Sirius had made it home to Grimmauld Place and was alright, although Remus didn't come with him. In the letter it was explained that Remus was spending sometime with Greyback, because he still had to maintain his cover with the werewolf groups. Dumbledore wrote back that he was coming to Grimmauld Place for the weekend next week so he can get caught up with recent events.

It broke my heart to hear that he was noble and brave like that. I spent a couple hours at Grimmauld Place, than left once Sirius and Charlie fell asleep. There really wasn't much point in me staying at Grimmauld Place for long amounts of time if Remus wasn't here. When I got to my apartment, there was a note lying on my window casing inside my bedroom. I picked it up and laid it on my night stand and went to bed.

Week 41

Complete Boredom

For the whole week I was still quite worried about Remus because it has been well over 2 weeks since I have heard from him. Charlie has told me that he is leaving for Romania again at the end of the week. Sirius has been moping around since we brought him back to Grimmauld Place missing Remus as well. The speed of the week went really slow; Dumbledore has cancelled the search for Remus, and has tried to insure everyone that he would be okay, and once he could send word that he was okay, he would do so.

This week, I did nothing but go to work and come home; Charlie had some things that he had to do around London that he wanted to do alone. At my apartment I spent most of my time working on reports that I had neglected last week, and got started on some that I needed to do this week. The week went by extremely slow so by the time Dumbledore came to Grimmauld Place, I thought I should make an appearance. Remus has been gone for 2 weeks now, and I think I want him back.

Friday night I went to Grimmauld Place at about 6, and Dumbledore came at about 7. For most of the night I stayed in the kitchen with Molly, just talking to her and getting caught up. I asked her about Bill and how Fred, George, Ginny and Ron were making out in school. I almost made it through the whole night not talking to Dumbledore, but when I was about to leave, he walked into the kitchen.

"This just came for you Nymphadora." He said as he handed me a letter.

The letter read:

Dear Nymphadora

I am safely hiding in a secret place. No harm can come to me. Please stop worrying, Sirius says that you have been trying to find me for days now. Please don't worry, I had to do the second part of the mission that Dumbledore sent us on and it was far to dangerous to let you come with me. I know if I had asked you to come with me you would, but I could not subject you to this. Please understand.

Sincerely

RL

I looked up from the letter to Dumbledore, then walked over to him, gave him back the letter and I said:

"This is all your fault that he left to do something this stupid."

And with this statement I went home and stayed there all weekend doing actual work related activities.