The rest of the week was research and rewriting her theory. Then writing a list of possible out comes to look for. Saturday she went shopping in the muggle side of London to get the supplies she would need. She reduced them down to fit in here bag and went home. She did leave her last purchase out. Walking home she found Remus sitting on the front porch.
'Trying to spy on me?' she laughed.
'Uh not just making sure you got home.' as he got up and reached for her bag. 'Gone all this time and only this bag?' trying to peek in the bag.
'If you only knew.' with a wiggle of her eye brows. 'You can look in this bag, here.' handing him the bag. It was full of supplies, more pens, notebook and a clipboard.
Sunday morning Ginny was over bright and early. They had breakfast and headed down stairs. Hermione turned and put a caterwauling charm on the stairs in case Remus tried to peek. That will stop him. They went over the plans, Ginny agreed this would help. They spent the day working. Winky had popped sandwiches down at some point in the day. The caterwauling charm went off just as they were finishing up.
'You really don't want me peeking.'
'Well what are you doing now? peeking?' she yelled up the stairs.
'No, I have only stepped on the first step to tell you dinner will be ready in 10 minutes and would have time to clean up... So get up here before I continue torturing everyone in the house by coming down the rest of the stairs.' Laughing as he turned and slammed the door shut.
They came up a few minutes later all clean and ready to eat, both talking about the room with the vaguest of comments.
'Oh that would look good there and this here.' Ginny said giggling at the look on Remus's face. The twins had come over for poker night. The boys thought it might help give Remus something to do. They all had fun luckily they were only playing for sweets Ron was out early. Ginny did well though, she had a nice big pile when she stopped playing and let Ron take over and loosing spectacularly in five hands.
Monday Ginny and Hermione finished the room just after lunch. Remus was now really interested in to what had been done to his room. He did try to peek once, as soon as his hand touch the doorknob it started to scream 'sneak' over and over until Hermione came to turn it off. Ginny went home to get cleaned up Harry was taking her on a date. Hermione finished up her lists of questions.
'Well get a good nights sleep we start tomorrow. I will be writing everything I do down and we will see if it helps. Tomorrow and Wednesday and Thursday will be easy as I have already tried them. Fridays is recovery day. Last month you woke ate and then got up. We had time to take notes, slept for 6 hours. We are really just testing the environment this time. To see if recovery time and ease of recovery is affected.' looking down her list. She had kept the meat the same just changing some of the cuts and adding the porter house instead of the rump roast.
Thursday night she walked down to the basement while Remus was spending time with Teddy. She curled up in the big green chair with her blanket that had survived two cycles so far, it had received a small tear, but that had been fixed. She was writing her observation down as Remus walked in.
'Hermione, Wow is this even the same room?' as he slowly turned to take in all of the changes. I love it I hope I don't ruin it tonight.' as he walked around looking at everything. Hermione got up wrapping herself in the blanket and followed him telling of all the new additions her and Ginny had done in the two days working. Smoothed and softened walls to prevent scrapes and bruises, freshly painted walls, a new dog bed and blankets, a new oversized chair and footstool, a tray table next to the chair so he could eat there, in the corner they had placed a tree stump and mulch around it for his private business. Even added green shag carpet, they had made the window bigger and put a vent in so he could smell the outside.
'We had Luna come over and paint the murals for you; she thought the yellow would be bright and cheery. And the outdoor painting might make you feel at ease. I hope you like it? If you don't I can change it.' she finished with a whisper.
'Oh Mione I absolutely love it, Tonks never put this much effort in to my cycles and she asked to be a part of my life. It just got dropped into your lap and you took off running, in a good direction. I didn't even have to ask for help. Thank you.' he pulled her in for a hug and ended up kissing her. 'I'm sorry Mione I shouldn't have done that.' turning looking embarrassed, she grabbed his arm.
'Do you like me in that way Remus? Because I do like you in that way and would like to try.' pulling him around and looking up in to his eyes, 'Yes, I want you!' she reached up and kissed him, then she threw the blanket on the chair and left. Locking the door and putting the wards up. She got her chair and sat to observe the events of a well-supplied room. He undressed putting his clothes away, turning his back to her and continued to look at the room finding the bowl with his choice of goat leg or a turkey neck. She saw the twitch, signaling the start of the change. His ankles lengthened, hair sprouted and his face grew. He did race around this time but just not as frantic to escape, he did hit the door but as Hermione had place a bouncing charm up, he just rolled off without leaving a mark this time. He did pace for an hour as if uneasy but some calmness. He went over and chose the turkey neck and took it over to the bed. Laid down to chew on it after finishing it he fell asleep for a short spell. He woke to get some water and the other bone and paced to find a good spot to chew on it, catching the smell of the outdoors. He crawled into the big chair and pulled Hermione's blanket over him and watched out the window as he chewed the bone, he soon fell back to sleep. Hermione spent the night writing up her theories she noticed him changing back. She asked for his tray, as she unlocked his door the tray appeared at her side. She thanked Winky for her help and went in to place the tray next to him, trying not to wake him.
'Hey.' as he stretched. 'Good Morning, beautiful.'
'Do you mind?' pointing to the space on the footstool.
'No, I feel great, please sit.' as he tucked in to his breakfast.
'Wow the changes made a big difference. You did race around a bit.'
'Nice padding charm, I rolled right off the door.' winking at her.
'Which bone did you like best?'
'Um liked both so either next time.' he said cracking his eggs in to the mug and swallowing them down in one gulp.
'So the color ok? mural? change anything?'
'Color is fine, love the mural, and no changes at this time, might get rid of the tree but for now no.'
'Well, we didn't know what your bathroom schedule was and you never know from night to night if you need to make a midnight run.'
'True, so it will probably stay.' as he cleaned his plate sorry I shouldn't lick it clean.'
Remus don't start apologizing for what is normal for you. I might ask not to lick plates if we have company over, ok?' giggling and getting up. Do you need to rest more?'
'Nope I'm good to go might need a nap later but for now good.' following her over to his clothes with the blanket wrapped around him. 'And the fresh scent helped too. So add 'To tame a savage beast give him his favorite scent.' wiggling his eyebrows as Hermione blushed. They went upstairs so Hermione could get her breakfast. They went into the library to finish up some last minute notes. Hermine had fallen asleep. Remus looked over and just sighed hoping she was telling the truth and wanting to try to have a relationship, because even as hard as it was to keep Tonks, Hermione still wanted him after dealing with three of his cycles and she wanted to help not just live with 'his furry little problem' but make it easier on all. He got up and moved her down so she could get a good nap and he conjured the blanket from down stairs for her, she would wake up with his scent wrapped around her.
