Lily covering her mouth realizing who Tonks is to Remus, looking towards James and grabbing Harry's cardigan from the coat rack then bending down to Harry's level "Harry, sweetie let us go for a walk, shall we?"
Looking up at his dad then back to his godfather, then to Uncle Moony shrugging his shoulders "okay as long as my new friend can come with us." Glancing up at Tonks, then asks "How come Uncle Moony's owl is delivering letters to you?"
Like a spell wearing off Tonks suddenly looks down at Harry and then back at Lupin, "Your Uncle Moony and I are friends Harry, I have to unpack and talk to your Uncle Moony and Sirius. I'll go on a walk with you tomorrow, how's that sound?"
Smiling the boy with the round glasses and the scar wraps his arms around Tonk's waist, then walks over to Lily and grabs her hand. Unbeknownst to the child that he could have cut the tension in the room with a knife.
Once Lily and Harry had left and Sirius heard the front door close, he looks at Remus with a look in his eyes that Remus had never seen and then looks to Tonks.
"Why don't we sit down?" suggests James pulling a chair out in front of him at the table. Remus silently sits down not making eye contact with Tonks or Sirius.
Before Tonks moves to sit down, Luperca starts pecking at her arm while she unties the scroll attached to her leg, "I don't have anything for you, Lupers. I left them at my place." She notices Remus as he gets up and walks over to the owl and pulls out of his pocket an owl treat shaped like a mouse.
"Here you go, girl" Remus hands the owl the treat, not taking his eyes off of Tonks and smiling weakly at her then Luperca flies up to Remus' room.
"Lupers?" Sirius asks eying Remus as the werewolf walks back to his seat at the table as Tonks pulls out her seat and trips somehow making her way to sit down.
"I am okay." Tonks chuckles realizing she still had the letter in her hand and sliding the scroll into her robe pocket.
"Why not read the letter to the class?" Sirius questions as Tonks quickly glances at Remus.
"Padfoot, I do not think…." The shabby professor begins until Sirius interprets, "Oh no Moony, do not Padfoot me. She is my cousin's daughter. She is my family. Not your plaything."
Tonks eyes Remus knowing that she was not just his plaything as her hair and cheeks begin to morph to a more reddish shade than Remus had ever seen it. "Excuse me, I am here. I can talk for myself."
"Padfoot, Moony, please. I understand emotions are running high but let's try to discuss this as adults and be rational about this." James continues glancing across the way to Tonks.
"Get out" Sirius calmly replies looking up at Remus, "Get out of this house."
Remus knowing he should have known it would come to this "I will go pack my things."
"Remus, wait" Tonks halts him in his tracks walking out of the room. Looking towards Sirius, "if he goes, I go."
Sirius stands up at this new development and gapes at Tonks, uttering suddenly "he took advantage of you. He took advantage of a child. He took advantage of a helpless student."
"Oh, I was most definitely not helpless. He did not take advantage of me, as I was a more than willing participant." Smiling to herself at the memories. "I am not that eleven-year-old girl anymore. I am a fully-fledged adult who can make her own decisions. You and my mother are the same. You treat me like a child. Remus is the only one who does not treat me as a child."
"Well, that is obvious." Sirius blurts out without thinking about it.
Tonks scoffs as her hair is now fire red. "Unlike my mother and you, who think I cannot make my own decisions, I can. I can make my own decisions about what I want to do with my life including who I fall for."
Remus looks up at her "Who you fall for?" he repeats her words looking around wondering if James and Sirius heard the same words he had.
"Oh, that's rich coming from you, Rem." Tonks answers in disbelief as her chest starts heaving. "Tell me to my face that the last six months have not meant anything to you."
"What happened should not have happened" Remus reiterates their last argument in his office.
"It did though," Tonks answers angrily. "It did, and I am now a fully-fledged adult."
"The last six months?" Sirius inquires at the two arguing in his kitchen looking at James with a wide-eyed expression.
"Tonks, it does not matter. I see now that I was wrong and this cannot continue."
"Then why did you give me Luperca. You do not give someone your owl if you are just friends, Rem." Tonks replies, grabbing her trunk and storming out of the kitchen, then at the doorway asks "Which one will be my room?"
"Third door on the left" James replies before she storms out of the room.
The three men sit in silence for about ten minutes, then Sirius comments "You gave her Luperca? Is that why your owl has been gone for weeks at a time." Remus nods keeping his head on the table. "She also calls you Rem?"
James glares at Sirius, then asks "mate, can I ask you to leave the room for a second. So I can talk to Remus alone."
Sirius rolls his eyes and utters quietly "guess I'll just go to the sitting room."
James moves to sit across from Remus where Sirius was sitting previously. He heard the front door open and close. He knew Lily and Harry were back. They enter the kitchen and Lily looks to Remus, then to James. "Sweetheart, why do you not go play with your dad and Sirius. I am going to talk to your Uncle Moony."
James gets the message and picks Harry up, tickling him as the two exit the room.
"Remus?" Lily asks as Remus' head was still on the table. "How did it go?"
"Disastrously if I may say so myself." The werewolf replies, picking up his head off the table. "To summarize, Sirius freaked out, kicked me out, then Dora told him if I was going, she was going. Then she told me she had fallen for me. I told her there is nothing to discuss. She then stormed out of the room claiming that you do not give someone an owl if you have no feelings for them."
Lily's eyes widen at the last comment. "I did not know you had given her, Luperca."
"Her father was sick about four to five months ago, and she told me she was concerned about the Hogwarts owls making it for urgent updates. So I told her she could use Luperca, eventually, I gave her the owl." Remus explains as he tries to process what just happened.
"Luperca means so much to you. I find it hard to believe you would just give her away to someone who meant nothing to you or just because Nymphadora's…sorry, Tonks' dad was ill." Lily replies not wanting to believe that Remus would just give up his owl.
Remus doesn't respond as Lily gets up and starts waving her wand in the kitchen. Coming back with some tea and Remus' favorite chocolate chip cookies.
Lily trying to find the right moment to ask him this, gaining the courage "Do you have feelings for her?"
"I care about her, Lily" Remus responds nonchalantly sipping his tea.
"Like a student or something more?" Lily further asks pretty sure she knows the answer.
Like a bullet, Remus puts his teacup down, gets up, and walks out of the room.