Chapter 26 Good Mourning

Carina awoke the next mourning to the smell of coffee. She opened her eyes to see Severus sitting by the window dressed to the nines in his teaching apparel. Oh Hogwarts! her mind yelled. She smiled then the events of last night hit her and her smile faultered. "Good mourning Severus." she said hollowly, deciding it would be better to deal with it all later, besides "Teachers Work Week" started today. They would ready the castle a week before all the students arrived. She couldn't help but smile at the memory of Mrs. Weasley chasing the kids around yesterday making them get ready, and Ron Weasley grumbling that they still had a week. Hermione had been ready since she arrived at Grimmauld.

Severus handed her the coffee and rose to leave so she could get ready. He gave a silky chuckle as she dragged herself out of bed, and laughed even harder at her glare. "Good Mourning." he said curtly at the glaring face.

A mumbled "Arogurrm." was all he got as she tripped over the small ottoman that sat by her window.

An hour later he met a cleaned up version of Carina who was wearing typical teaching robes and fiddling with her long hair. "I think I should cut it."

"Cut what?" He asked, then he added in his mind that she sure as heck better not be talking about that gorgeous waist length silken hair.

"My hair." she swished her head making her hair fly around her, he loved it when she did that, the sight of her like that always made him think she had to be some kind of Nymph. And when she walked it flowed around her even when there was no wind, she seemed to make the wind herself. "I think it would make me look older if it were shorter."

"No." he said a little commanding.

"No?" she quirked an eyebrow at him.

"Thats right I said no."

"And why did you say no?"

"Your hair is much too beautiful to cut, it would be tragic, and I like it were it is. If it chooses to keep growing let it."

She laughed at that, then her face shut down as a very haggard Remus opened the door.

"Good mourning Severus." he said looking tiredly at his friend who for some reason scowled back. Then he turned and looked at Carina he made a face of confusion at her closed off look. "Good mourning Carina how was your night?"

A sickening THUD rang through the room, and Carina's eyes widened in shock to see Severus's fist make contact with Remus's face, that snapped to the side with the power of the hit.

"Whats wrong with you Remus!" Severus seethed looking honest to goodness pissed at him.

"Whats wrong with you, that your idea of some kind of sick "Good Mourning"?" Remus cried out shocked at the stinging in the eye.

"Why are you acting like you have any right to just waltz in here after how you acted last night?" Severus growled out, sounding like he was talking to Potter or Weasley.

"ME! Your the one who forgot to give me the potion."Remus voice gave way that he was completely aghast.

As the word potion rang through her ears, Carina, could no longer focus on the two fighting in front of her. And then at least half of the story snapped into place and she ran to Remus and cried out "LAST NIGHT WAS A FULL MOON!"

"Yeah thats why I couldn't come after you, I had to leave."

"I'm so happy last night was a full moon! So happy your a werewolf, I'M SO HAPPY!" She shouted.

"Well this has been a weird mourning."

"Oh the POTION!" Severus looked back and forth from Remus to Carina. "Tonks." he said simply.

They all sat down to breakfast talking over the events of last night. The pieces finally seemed to fall together. "So first she tricked the twins, then she tricked you, pretending to be me." Remus digested all the information wishing now more then ever that the crazed which would forget him.

"Well until we confront her how do we know who we are talking to?" Severus said, as a spy he knew how to plan and how to be thinking ahead.

"I say we should wink at one another, then as a reply we should flip our hair. That way its more of a communication then just little sign." Carina looked at the two, she seemed to have lost them some where. "What?" she asked.

"Whats a hair flip?" Remus asked his crinkled eye brow giving away how confused he was.

"A hair flip, like this." She took her hand and raised it letting the tips of her fingers lightly brush her neck then she tossed her hair with the back of her hand, thus making the hair 'flip'.

"Thats a hair flip?"

"Thats a hair flip."

"That sounds good to me we all have long enough hair, so what if it is Tonks we are talking to?" intoned Severus.

"Then we use the charmed necklaces." Carina looked at the clock.

"Severus we need to floo to Hogwarts."Carina and Severus stood and crossed to the mantle. "Remus, if i do ever bug you please tell me."

Remus stood and walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her, "Carina I'm sorry for what happened, you must know how much you mean to me? Both of you two, your my friends."

They said goodbye and Carina went through the floo, Severus looked at Remus and sneered, "Sorry about the eye." This was said with such flippancy that Remus scoffed.

"Yeah sounds it." Remus said with every ounce of sarcasm he could muster.

A/N I have an ottoman in my room that i trip over aleast 4 times a week lost many a toe nial on that cute sucker, however i will not move mine and niether will Carina. toe nails be danged.

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Genkai Lady- thanks for the review, i suck at editing and i know it and i'm truly sorry it's my weakness, and i know severus is off but not from where my view point is, i think he acts the same way around Carina as he did around Lily, however your point did bring up the fact that i want to write more Professor Snape scenes so thank you.

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