Healing Hearts

(or breaking ones at this point.)

by Shuen

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This is a rewrite of the previous chapter, people, because I realized that the last one was out of canon about Harry not going to stay at the Dursleys'. So I tweaked it a bit. Sorry to disappoint you if u were waiting for chapter 3, but gotta slog! My finals are up in 51 days! Gahhhh!

Disclaimer: I'm not going to write one for every chapter coz if I did, it'll take wayyyy too much time to think up interesting ones. So if you want to sue me, go ahead. The only person who'll get any profit is your lawyer.

People, PLEASE help me. Will someone tell me how to get the italics and bold and underline and stuff? Coz writing thoughts without them is a tad tough.

And sorry for taking so long to update!

Jakia: YAYYYYY! My very first reviewer! Say, have I seen you in FictionAlley? In the Cookie Jar?

Midnight Dove: What will happen? Read on!

Three People trying to write: LOL! I like yr name! I DID check up your stories; in fact I reviewed, I think, but I can't remember which one… And I promise, I'll try to stick as closely to the book as possible. If you find something that is OC, tell me, k?

Rockchick1232: Thanks!

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And now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls please give a warm round of applause to my ingenious plot bunny, YUKKI! She's the one that comes up with the little gems of jokes later and to the Three? She's the one that came up with the idea for a Remus/Tonks fic. Yukki, everyone!

"Hi, everyone! Sorry I'm so late!" Tonks bubble cheerfully after. "Oh, hi, Remus! Are you waiting for me? Are they all inside already?" She was bounding halfway across the room before she realized how empty and quiet the house was apart from the shrieks of Mrs. Black. (Stinking blood traitors!)

"Remus? Why is it so quiet? Where's everyone? And why do you LOOK like that? Remus? Oy, Remus!" she shouted, waving a hand in front of his disbelieving face. (Lowest scum!)

"T..tonks?! W..what are you doing here? And…and…" Remus looked at Tonks, stunned into silence. Is…is that the Tonks that was there when…when…How can she be so HAPPY? (Betrayers!)

"Remus! REMUS!" Tonks' shout startled him out of his stupor. "Are you all right? You look…dazed. And…there IS a meeting today right?" (Defilers!)

"Meeting? WHAT meeting? Tonks, are YOU all right. The Order hasn't had a meeting since…since…Oh Merlin, Tonks, TONKS WHAT IN THE WORLD DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING??!!"

Tonks had started to yank of his robes.

"What. (Leggo!) Does. (Engggg) It. Look. Like? Ooof!" She fell back with a thud on to the carpet, Remus having won the tug-of-war. "Clean your robes of course! They're filthy! If there's no meeting, I might as well do something useful since I've got the whole day off. And how do you expect me to clean them if they aren't off you?"

"You…you…I…I…"

"Oh!" Tonks' eyes grew wide as she realized what he thought she had been doing. "You…OH!" (A/N: I think most of you get it. I hope.) An outraged expression flashed across her face and her hair flamed fire-red. She opened her mouth to yell…and burst into peals of laughter.

Unfortunately, Remus didn't find it so amusing.

"Nymphadora Tonks." Remus enunciated each word coldly and carefully. "You have outstayed you welcome in this house. Get out. NOW."

"Remus…WHAT?" (Stinking traitors!)

"You heard me. Out. Now." (Yes! Go! All of you!)

"SHUT UP!" they screamed at the portrait simultaneously. Miraculously, it fell silent.

"And just who gave you the right to do that? This is SIRIUS'S house. And, I'm not leaving!"

"Well, Sirius left the house to me in his… will and since he's…he's… DEAD! HE'S DEAD! OR HAVE YOUFORGOTTEN THAT? YOU WERE THERE TONKS! YOU SAW HIM DIE! OR DON'T YOU CARE?!" (WHAT? THE LAST BLACK IS DEAD?)

"REMUS! Of COURSE I care. How can y…" (Silence from the stunned portrait.)

"Well, you don't SEEM to! I don't believe that you do at all!"

"How DARE you say that! EveryDAY I remember him. He was my COUSIN and he died fighting Bellatrix, whom I was supposed to fight. HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?"

She stormed to the door and flung it open, forgetting all about Apparation.

Then she turned back and hissed. "I. Am. Never. Going. To. Talk. To. You. Again. LUP- *mphff lmph* BAH!" Just as she was about to step out, a familiar snow-white owl that was circling outside flew in, looking very relieved.

"Hedwig!" gasped Remus, eliciting curious stares from Muggles on the street.

"Hedwig?" Tonks promptly forgot her vow.

"Yes," Remus muttered, shooting glances at fast gathering crowd. " And Tonks, go out or come in, but for goodness sake, close the DOOR!"

"Oh. Right." She blushed as red as her hair. But Remus, didn't hear, busy, untying the roll of parchment from Hedwig's leg.

"It's addressed to us!"

"Us? Who us?"

"How many other people do you see here?" he drawled sarcastically. Before she could retort, he continued in a different tone. "Now, let's see what Harry has to say that can't wait the few days till term ends and totally flouts all Dumbledore's rules." He skimmed through the letter. And SCREAMED.

"WHAT?????!!!!"

"Remus? Remus! What? What happened to Harry?!"

For an answer, he merely threw the letter to her and sank back into his chair.

Remus, (and Tonks after Remus)

           Ron here actually, since Harry refuses to do anything at all. Dumbledore's just told us the good news! We're going to stay at you-know-where for the hols! Harry's a bit angry at Dumbledore for making him go back, but D was adamant. So, no go.  My mom, dad and Ginny are coming along too, so it'll just be like last hols. Fred and George are staying at their shop since with Christmas crowd, everything's doing so well and they need to mind the store.. Charlie said he might turn up, but Bill said that he's er… tied up in Egypt.

So that was the first part. Here's the SECOND piece of good news: Tonks is staying with us too! Hermy (who just whacked me) says it's so that you won't get bored to death when my parents are out for the Order. Send Hedwig on to her with this after you've finished, okay? See ya soon!

Ron              

Hermione (NOT Hermy)

Harry (this is Ron again by the way. sigh)

Tonks sank into another chair.

"Oh…no. Oh, no, no, NO!!!!!! I am NOT staying with you for a full 3 months!"

"The feeling's mutual, you know."

"WELL! We'll just have to owl Dumbledore then. I'm sure Molly is FULLY capable of dealing with YOU."

"Why you…" he growled before checking himself. "Fine. Whatever. I'll send Hedwig back with a letter to Dumbledore. I AM Harry's guardian now. Now, GO!"

"Fine!"

BAM! And for the third time in two hours, Mrs. Black started yelling again. (Murderers!)

"Oh noooooo…" he groaned, face in his hands. "Arrgh. What a handful, eh, Hedwig?"

She just gave him a disdainful hoot and went on preening her feathers after throwing a dirty look at the portrait.

"Snooty owl," he muttered, rummaging in the mess on the table for parchment and a quill.

Ron,

           This is Remus…

A/N: I have a distinctly uneasy feeling that this chapter was not good at all. But since I wanted to post this on ASAP, and this was the best I could do tonight. (I've got a Biology test tomorrow on photosynthesis. What for, I have no idea)I think both of them are slightly out of character (OOC IS it's acronym, right?) and the fight was a bit flat after Hedwig came. But this wasn't written in one full stretch, but is made up of bits and pieces all over my notebook that I wrote during Maths. And though I wanted to make the fight longer, I couldn't think of anything for them to say. (My plot bunny wanted them to say things like: "Well, you've got pink hair!" and "So what? Yours is brown!"    o.0    sorry, Yukks.)

Okay, I've crapped my part now, reviews PLEASE! (Flame if you wish, I don't mind. JUST SAY SOMETHING! To let me know that people actually READ this. Of course, I would prefer constructive criticism.  :D)