So here is a slightly shorter chapter after a much longer one in the last update. The next one is going to be a fair amount longer than this one so enjoy this short but sweet chapter. Please do leave a review as I love love love hearing your opinions and thoughts on my stories :)

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The Purple Black

"Mum!" Andromeda Lupin screamed as she ran down the grand staircase of Lestrange Manor, her red hair flowing behind her.

"Oh come on, Andy!" Teddy laughed from the top of the staircase, hurrying after her "It was a joke!"

"It is not funny!" the girl snapped back as she stopped to turn and glare at her older brother.

"Oh come on, you morphed it right back!" Teddy tried and failed to stop himself laughing as stared at his sisters furious face.

"That is not the point!" Andromeda screamed.

"What on earth is going on?" Nymphadora asked as she stormed down the corridor to the two squabbling children.

"Mum!" Andromeda cried as she ran to the woman, hugging her around the middle as she shot another glare at her brother "Teddy tricked me into eating something that made my tongue explode."

"Oh come on, it did not explode." Teddy sighed.

"What did you do, Teddy?" Nymphadora sighed as she stroked her daughters hair.

The boy hesitated as he watched his father walk up behind his mother, looking slightly embarrassed as he mumbled at his feet "I tricked her into eating a ton-tongue toffee."

Remus sighed "Teddy, that wasn't very nice now was it? Where did you even get those?"

"George sent me them—didn't say what they were but it came with a note saying 'For your inner Marauder'—so I thought I'd test them out." Teddy sighed as he folded his arms.

"Teddy that could have been anything!" Nymphadora yelled in annoyance before she knelt down in front of her daughter, taking her chin in her hand as she opened her mouth, inspecting her tongue.

"It didn't feel good." Andromeda sniffed as she poked her tongue out.

"Well I don't think George would have sent him anything too dangerous." Remus sighed before his wife shot him a look, shaking his head "Teddy, your sister is not your test subject."

Andromeda sniffed as she hugged her mother again, clearly playing on her innocent little girl routine as she hid her smirk at her brother being told off. Nymphadora sighed as she kissed her head "Well you look fine."

"Well what if I was stuck with a giant tongue!" Andromeda gasped, looking up at her mother in horror "I can not go to Hogwarts with a tongue the size of an extremely large snake!"

"You're fine, Andromeda." Remus sighed before he looked to his son "But you need to apologise."

Teddy groaned before he looked to his sister "Sorry, okay?"

"Edward Rodolphus Lupin you say sorry like you mean it or you'll be spending the last few days of the summer holidays in your bedroom." Nymphadora warned her son, morphing her hair red to add more meaning.

"Okay!" Teddy sighed before he walked up to his sister "Sorry, Andy . . . Hug?"

Andromeda slowly pulled away from her mother, watching as her hair went back to purple, with a sigh she nodded and went to her brother and hugged him. The two embraced for a moment before Teddy yelled in pain and jumped back, his hair pure white. Teddy stared at his sister in shock as she giggled. Remus frowned in confusion, walking over to his son as he tried to see what had happened. It was at that moment that Nymphadora figured it out. Her hair was red with meaning now as she grabbed her daughter's wrist, spinning her to face her as she forced her to face her.

"Where did you learn that!?" Nymphadora demanded.

"I—I—" Andromeda stared wide-eyed.

"Where did you learn that?" Nymphadora asked again.

"Dora—" Remus went to speak though he quickly stopped as his wife shot him a look.

Andromeda went to look to her father though was quickly stopped as she was pulled to look back at her furious mother "I—I learned it in a book."

Nymphadora stared into her eyes, knowing the girl wasn't telling her a lie as she discovered what book she was talking about with some minor legilimeny "What were you doing in my study?"

"I—I w—wanted to learn about y—your f—family." The girl stuttered as she held back tears.

Dora stared at the girl for a few moments before she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding, her hair turning back to her mothers black hair "Then ask, Andy." Dora hugged her for a moment before she pulled away, straightening up "Go to your room, you can't use spells like that."

"But you were going to take me shopping with Aunt Cissa!" Andromeda cried, tears streaming down her face.

"I'll take you tomorrow—if you behave for the rest of the day." Dora forced herself not to give in the the girls cries "Now go think about what you've done."

Andromeda stared at her for a moment before she ran to her room crying. Nymphadora stared after her until she was interrupted by her uncle calling her name. She winced as she turned to face the man "What?"

Rabastan frowned slightly before he held his hands up in surrender "What's wrong?"

"Dora?" Remus asked as Dora ignored her uncle, it wasn't until she looked down at her still scared son that she sighed and walked over to the boy.

"Heya Teddy," Dora sighed as she drew her wand, pressing her wand into the place where Andromeda had touched him, sending a cooling healing spell through the boy "that better?" Dora smiled slightly as the boy nodded "Go on, go lay down for a bit." She kissed her head as the boy nodded and walked off to his room.

"She didn't, did she?" Rabastan asked, more curious that shocked.

"Do what?" Remus asked with a sigh of frustration.

"I—It's a small Cruciatus." Dora winced as she looked to her husband "I must have forgot to lock my study one night and she got to one of mum's old books." She shook her head as Remus went to intergect "It's not a bad one, Pure Blood parents do it to their kids all the time, it doesn't even really hurt—just shocks you."

"She performed an illegal curse, Dora." Remus argued, shocked at the womans blasé attitude of the magnitude of the spell.

"I know . . ." Dora sighed.

Rabastan chuckled "Seems like someone is taking after—"

"Don't you dare!" Dora yelled as she pointed her wand at her Uncle "Don't you dare say his name!"

"Woah, Dora." Rabastan sighed as he shook his head "I was going to say Nanny. I wouldn't dare mention that bastards name . . . Besides, he had a crap crucio."

Dora glared at the man for a moment before she stormed off, ignoring Rabastan's cries. It wasn't until Remus caught up with her as she was turning a corner and took her arm that she dared stop. He turned the witch to face him, her face covered in fresh tear tracks as her hair slowly turned a mousey brown.

"Hey," Remus frowned as he pulled his wife in for a hug, stroking her hair "Andromeda is nothing like him, she's you through and through."

"I—I know." Dora sniffed as she let her husband embrace her.

"Then what's wrong, Dora?" Remus sighed, kissing her head.

"I'm a terrible mother." Dora cried, clinging to his robes.

"Don't be silly." Remus kissed his wifes head as he looked down, taking the woman's face in both of his hands "You are an amazing mother."

"No I'm not!" Dora cried "I'm a terrible terrible mother and a worse person and I should have been sent to Azkaban!"

"No!" Remus cried, taking Dora's hand as he took her into the main sitting room, sitting her down on the couch before he went over to the mantelpiece.

"What are you doing?" Dora sighed as she tried to stop her tears, failing miserably as she pulled a tissue out of the box on the side, wiping her tears away.

"Look." Remus took one of Dora's hands in his as he placed a photo frame in the other. Dora let out a small whimper as she looked down at the two laughing children on her lap, Andromeda still only a year old as her brother giggled with his arms on his mothers shoulders. "You are an amazing mother, you made two beautiful children and they are perfect. Kids misbehave, that's all."

"Oh." Dora sighed "They are so adorable . . . I love them."

Remus stared at the woman in confusion before he smiled slightly "And they love you."

"Remus . . ." Dora sniffed as she hugged the picture in one arm, pulling her husband to sit on the couch next to her with her other hand "W—Why were you so scared when I was pregnant with Teddy—I know the whole werewolf thing but you can only be a werewolf if you're bit."

"That's not proven, Dora." Remus sighed "One child is not enough proof." The man frowned as the girl cried again "Dora, what's wrong?" Remus stroked the hair out of her face.

"Please don't leave me." Dora cried.

"What—" Remus stopped short as he realised why the woman was acting so erratically "Are you—?"

Dora nodded, crying "It's not going to be a werewolf, Remus! I don't care what you say! But I need you! I—" Dora was cut short as her husband pulled her close, kissing her fiercely, leaving the girl panting in shock as he pulled away with a wide grin on his face.

"Oh Dora." Remus laughed as he pulled Dora onto his lap, kissing her cheek as he wrapped an arm around her, placing his hand on her stomach "How far . . .?"

"A—About a month I guess . . ." Dora sniffed before she looked to her husband with a small cautious smile "So . . . It's okay?"

"Dora," Remus sighed "it's great. I did wonder why you had started stealing my chocolate supply."

"It's always chocolate . . ." Dora shook her head.

"Because chocolate is delicious." Remus laughed, kissing his wife through her giggles.

"When do we tell the kids?" Dora sighed, resting her head on Remus' shoulder.

"Wait until Christmas break." Remus murmured as he closed his eyes in contentment, hugging his wife closely "Let's not take away from Andromeda's excitement for her first term. By the time they're back you'll be around four months, we'll be able to tell them if they're having a sister or a brother. Think of it as a Christmas present."

Dora laughed as she nodded in agreement, laughter that soon turned into quietened giggles as Remus Lupin kissed her repeatedly. Dora wrapped her arms around the man's neck, the two celebrating the impending arrival of their youngest child in a mess of giggles and a severe lack of clothes.