Protecting Those We Love
School had started again, Severus had had a terrible summer of course staying at the Black house, even more so when seeing Electra with Sirius and not with him, and she hardly talked to him as well.
Sirius, Electra and Harry though on the other hand had had a great summer together, they had gotten through it without anymore attacks though there had been reports from the order and from the ministry, but none on them personally.
Sirius had gone to Dumbledore on the side to talk to him about Electra, because he was worried about her; he sat in front of his desk while Dumbledore waited patiently for him to talk.
"Its erm...about Electra." Sirius told him.
"Is there something wrong?" Dumbledore asked him.
"Well no...I mean yes...well kind of." Sirius answered. "Its her job, its far to dangerous now, while she's pregnant and especially now that Voldermot has come back and the attacks are becoming more frequent."
"I understand what you're saying Sirius, but I don't understand what you want me to do about it." Dumbledore said kindly.
"I want you to talk to her, she doesn't seem to want to listen to me on this...nor even Remus." Sirius told him. "She'll listen to you, or you could talk to her boss and have him put her on lit duties until afterwards."
Dumbledore smiled at him. "She would understand if you talk to her, calmly...both of you. But I will talk to him and see what I can do, but I am not promising anything."
"Thanks Dumbledore." Sirius said relaxing in the chair. "God I didn't think this would be so stressful, but I didn't think that I would really get a second with her, and to have a family of my own as well."
"You are very lucky Sirius, not many have a second chance in life but your first was stolen from you, so you do deserve it." Dumbledore told him. "Make the most of it while you have it."
"I know, and I am; I think I know better then most that everything can be torn away just like that, but it's not going to happen to me again." Sirius promised him. "I won't let anything happened to any of them."
***
Remus was walking down the corridor with Electra at his side; she smiled at him and linked his arm as he smiled back at her.
"So come on Remus, tell me what happened." Electra asked him.
"I'm sure that you already know." Remus told her, and then stopped suddenly. "Did she say it went back?"
"Remus, please she had a great time, so I wanted to know how it went for you." Electra told him smiling. "She really likes you."
"You think so...did she say that?" Remus asked her smiling back not helping him self.
"How could she not, look at you...you're just brilliant she would be a fool if she didn't." Electra told him linking his arm again as they started to walk again. "What about you though?"
"I do like her, I really do." Remus told her. "But how can I love her, how can she love me? I'm a werewolf a monster."
"Don't be so stupid Remus, you're not a monster." Electra told him kindle. "You're a lovely man, and even you are aloud to fall in love and everything just like the rest of us."
"You're too cared for your own good Electra." Remus told her. "Why have I been fooling myself all these years, I could never have what you have."
Electra stopped him. "Right listen here Remus; you can have everything that me and Sirius have if want it as much as we did. And I know that you do, because I'm your sister. And I know that you like Tonks as well, tell her...she knows what you can become but she still likes you that must say something about her, doesn't it?"
"Electra you make it sound so easy and it isn't, nothing is ever that simple." Remus told her.
Electra smiled at him. "Then make it that simple, tell her how you feel and then its up to her; at least then you can never say that you didn't take the risk."
Remus smiled at her slightly and then stepped around her, Electra followed him at his side waiting for his reply.
"I'll think about it." Remus told her.
"I'll ask her to come round to the school then at the weekend and then you can take her out and talk, or have a cosy night in-together." Electra told him. "Don't worry leave it all to me."
Remus didn't answer her or even look at her; he just looked straight ahead worried; wondering what he had gotten himself into. As they rounded the corner they saw Harry stood outside of his class waiting for them, they all smiled at one another once they saw each other.
"So how was your first day back then?" Remus asked him.
"Not to bad, at least I didn't have Snape...sorry Professor Snape...what ever." Harry answered.
Both Electra and Remus smiled at him.
"So where's Sirius?" Electra asked.
"He went to see Dumbledore." Harry told her, and then turned to Remus. "So are you still going out with Tonks?"
"What, what have they been telling you?" Remus asked him.
"It great...I mean the two of you together...you are still together, Sirius said that you were." Harry told him. "He also said a few other things but I won't repeat them."
"Yeah I can just imagine what the other things would be as well." Remus said smiling to himself.
"Yes they are still seeing each other, and I'm going to try and get Tonks up here at the weekend." Electra told Harry. "Remus hasn't made his mind up yet though, so I made it for him. So do you want anything to eat, we're having dinner in our room tonight why don't you join us."
"Not for me thanks Electra, I have things to do." Remus told her.
"Of course, I'm sire that Tonks would love to hear from you." Electra teased, and then smiled at Harry. "So would you like to join us, you don't have to if you don't want to of course."
"No, I'd love to, thanks." Harry said smiling at her.
"Ok then, we'll see you later then Remus." Electra told him as she turned back round with Harry and went up to her room leaving Remus alone.
Electra and Harry went off up to their room to wait for Sirius; Electra opened the door and let Harry go in first. He sat down on the sofa while Electra went through to the bedroom to take her robes off and shoes, by the time she came back through Sirius had arrived and with a large tray full of food.
"I thought Remus was coming as well, he coming up in a bit?" Sirius asked them, as he laid it out on the table.
"No he's not coming." Electra told him as she sat down next to him.
"He's calling Tonks." Harry said smiling.
"Great, I'm glad that he's finally found someone." Sirius said also smiling, but Electra wasn't. "What you're not and you were the one who set them up?"
"It isn't that, it's Remus himself." Electra told him. "Its like he's afraid of letting anyone in, he wants to. It's just..."
"He's afraid that he'll hurt her." Sirius finished. "I know...but it's different this time because Tonks already knows what he is and she still likes him."
"I know, all we have to do is get Remus to see that as well." Electra agreed.
"I don't get it, well not completely anyway." Harry admitted. "He isn't like that with you two or my dad."
"Well, it's different. We learnt to change so that he wouldn't hurt us...and Electra well she's his sister, and could take out any werewolf that came her way anyway." Sirius said smiling. "That was funny; he couldn't talk for over a week. She hit him over the head with something before we could stop her, and then after he was out cold she turns round and tells us that she knows that it's Remus. I think that was the same year that we started to go out weren't it?"
"Yeah it was, because you gave me the necklace to wined Remus up and then you asked me to dance at that thing we had and it kind of went on from there." Electra answered.
Sirius lead over to Harry and smiled. "Snape wasn't happy at all because he had wanted to dance with her as well...though you should have seen her; well I had never really seen her until then. Yeah I had seen her of course, but she was different, she was a woman and a beautiful one at that. Remus weren't happy of course me going out with his little sister, he was very protective of her, well we all were really we all played a part when she came to Hogwarts of course, we would of all done the same for the other."
Harry thought the whole thing over trying to take it all in, but it was kind of hard because the Snape thing kept coming back up which was confusing him.
"Right, Snape likes Electra...so that wasn't just Lucias Malfoy, he really likes her?" Harry asked.
"Well yeah, that's why...I don't know we didn't think as much about it because we knew that he wouldn't do anything to hurt her." Sirius told him. "Hurt me yeah, but not her...it's not his style. Though Personally I think after what ever they did to him last year that he's lost it, he doesn't even know what's going on...he keeps saying that the two of you have this thing, well that wasn't how he put it, but still."
"That's just...sick." Harry said pulling his face, but Electra didn't say anything about it. "Hey I just had a thought, when are you two going for the scan, you know to see what your having?"
Electra and Sirius looked at one another not completely sure what he was talking about.
"Oh right, they won't do that in the magical world will they." Harry said. "So how do you know what you're having then?"
"Seer's and ruins sometimes work." Electra answered.
Sirius smiled at her. "So is that what you were doing over the summer, I saw you with them out at the house...didn't you used to take it at school or something?"
"Yeah I did." Electra answered. "Do you have twins in your family?"
Sirius almost choked, then looked from Harry to Electra. "Twins?"
"That's what I said didn't I?" Electra said smiling. "I think we have them somewhere in ours, I'll ask Remus about it...though I think it was our Gran she was a twin or her sisters were twins, something like that anyway."
"Oh my god, I'm going to have two children?" Sirius said, and then looked at Harry. "Though it'll be three with Harry, because you'll be like their big brother, looking out for them or cousin what ever you what of course."
"Brother sounds great." Harry said smiling.
"Now don't get ahead of yourself here Sirius, there not always right." Electra told him. "And I couldn't get a reading about the sex, but I think that's because you walked in during. Oh well, it'll be a surprised I don't want to know until then anyway."
***
Remus sat in his office staring at the fire place, debating weather or not to contact Tonks; he wanted to see her of course he did, and after talking with Electra as well. But it kept coming back to the same thing, he didn't want to hurt her, but this was going to hurt her as well. But he thought better like this then as a werewolf.
He stood up and walked over to the fire place and grabbed a handful of Floo Powder and stepped into the fire and went over to her flat.
He stepped out of the fire on the other side, and heard something break; he looked around the room but she wasn't in there so it hadn't been him scaring her. He walked through into the kitchen and there she was stood at the sink, clearing up a broken plate.
"Hi Tonks." Remus said pleasantly.
Tonks swung round dropping the plate again, she blushed brightly matching her bright red hair; and then they both bent down together to clear up the mess. Their hands touched and they both looked at each other, Tonks lent over and kissed him, he aloud himself to kiss her back before he moved away and stood up.
"What's wrong Remus?" Tonks asked him.
Remus turned away for a moment before he turned back round to face her. "Tonks, I've thought about this a lot...and I think it's..."
"Don't you dare." Tonks warned him pointing her wand at him. "Electra told me that you can be like this, but I know what you are, and I don't care no matter what you could say."
"Tonks you don't understand." Remus told her.
"Yes I do, you're running away from your feelings." Tonks told him. "You have that potion, so you'll be fine, and if not Sirius can always come around and keep you company...or I could even learn to change into an animal."
Remus shack his head. "You make it sound so easy and it isn't."
"It is; you just don't want it to be that's all." Tonks told him and then stepped forward. "Remus, I...I think I love you...you can't leave me...because erm I think you feel the same way or you wouldn't be doing this."
Tonks smiled up at him as she stepped even closer and kissed him, she pulled away and he smiled down at her, and pulled her into his arms.
"I have to know, of myself that I can trust you and trust myself with you." Remus told her.
"You can trust me Remus." Tonks told him.
"Well maybe not to get from A to B without falling or breaking something first." Remus teased; she smiled at him and hit him playfully before he kissed her again.
"I'm not going anywhere, and I love you Remus." Tonks told him holding him tightly.
"I...I love you too." Remus told her.
(A/N: I know it didn't tell you anything about who the father was, but it needed to be done, I liked that chapter hoped you all did as well. Thank you for all the reviews you'll find out everything soon enough, but not before I decided but soon.)
School had started again, Severus had had a terrible summer of course staying at the Black house, even more so when seeing Electra with Sirius and not with him, and she hardly talked to him as well.
Sirius, Electra and Harry though on the other hand had had a great summer together, they had gotten through it without anymore attacks though there had been reports from the order and from the ministry, but none on them personally.
Sirius had gone to Dumbledore on the side to talk to him about Electra, because he was worried about her; he sat in front of his desk while Dumbledore waited patiently for him to talk.
"Its erm...about Electra." Sirius told him.
"Is there something wrong?" Dumbledore asked him.
"Well no...I mean yes...well kind of." Sirius answered. "Its her job, its far to dangerous now, while she's pregnant and especially now that Voldermot has come back and the attacks are becoming more frequent."
"I understand what you're saying Sirius, but I don't understand what you want me to do about it." Dumbledore said kindly.
"I want you to talk to her, she doesn't seem to want to listen to me on this...nor even Remus." Sirius told him. "She'll listen to you, or you could talk to her boss and have him put her on lit duties until afterwards."
Dumbledore smiled at him. "She would understand if you talk to her, calmly...both of you. But I will talk to him and see what I can do, but I am not promising anything."
"Thanks Dumbledore." Sirius said relaxing in the chair. "God I didn't think this would be so stressful, but I didn't think that I would really get a second with her, and to have a family of my own as well."
"You are very lucky Sirius, not many have a second chance in life but your first was stolen from you, so you do deserve it." Dumbledore told him. "Make the most of it while you have it."
"I know, and I am; I think I know better then most that everything can be torn away just like that, but it's not going to happen to me again." Sirius promised him. "I won't let anything happened to any of them."
***
Remus was walking down the corridor with Electra at his side; she smiled at him and linked his arm as he smiled back at her.
"So come on Remus, tell me what happened." Electra asked him.
"I'm sure that you already know." Remus told her, and then stopped suddenly. "Did she say it went back?"
"Remus, please she had a great time, so I wanted to know how it went for you." Electra told him smiling. "She really likes you."
"You think so...did she say that?" Remus asked her smiling back not helping him self.
"How could she not, look at you...you're just brilliant she would be a fool if she didn't." Electra told him linking his arm again as they started to walk again. "What about you though?"
"I do like her, I really do." Remus told her. "But how can I love her, how can she love me? I'm a werewolf a monster."
"Don't be so stupid Remus, you're not a monster." Electra told him kindle. "You're a lovely man, and even you are aloud to fall in love and everything just like the rest of us."
"You're too cared for your own good Electra." Remus told her. "Why have I been fooling myself all these years, I could never have what you have."
Electra stopped him. "Right listen here Remus; you can have everything that me and Sirius have if want it as much as we did. And I know that you do, because I'm your sister. And I know that you like Tonks as well, tell her...she knows what you can become but she still likes you that must say something about her, doesn't it?"
"Electra you make it sound so easy and it isn't, nothing is ever that simple." Remus told her.
Electra smiled at him. "Then make it that simple, tell her how you feel and then its up to her; at least then you can never say that you didn't take the risk."
Remus smiled at her slightly and then stepped around her, Electra followed him at his side waiting for his reply.
"I'll think about it." Remus told her.
"I'll ask her to come round to the school then at the weekend and then you can take her out and talk, or have a cosy night in-together." Electra told him. "Don't worry leave it all to me."
Remus didn't answer her or even look at her; he just looked straight ahead worried; wondering what he had gotten himself into. As they rounded the corner they saw Harry stood outside of his class waiting for them, they all smiled at one another once they saw each other.
"So how was your first day back then?" Remus asked him.
"Not to bad, at least I didn't have Snape...sorry Professor Snape...what ever." Harry answered.
Both Electra and Remus smiled at him.
"So where's Sirius?" Electra asked.
"He went to see Dumbledore." Harry told her, and then turned to Remus. "So are you still going out with Tonks?"
"What, what have they been telling you?" Remus asked him.
"It great...I mean the two of you together...you are still together, Sirius said that you were." Harry told him. "He also said a few other things but I won't repeat them."
"Yeah I can just imagine what the other things would be as well." Remus said smiling to himself.
"Yes they are still seeing each other, and I'm going to try and get Tonks up here at the weekend." Electra told Harry. "Remus hasn't made his mind up yet though, so I made it for him. So do you want anything to eat, we're having dinner in our room tonight why don't you join us."
"Not for me thanks Electra, I have things to do." Remus told her.
"Of course, I'm sire that Tonks would love to hear from you." Electra teased, and then smiled at Harry. "So would you like to join us, you don't have to if you don't want to of course."
"No, I'd love to, thanks." Harry said smiling at her.
"Ok then, we'll see you later then Remus." Electra told him as she turned back round with Harry and went up to her room leaving Remus alone.
Electra and Harry went off up to their room to wait for Sirius; Electra opened the door and let Harry go in first. He sat down on the sofa while Electra went through to the bedroom to take her robes off and shoes, by the time she came back through Sirius had arrived and with a large tray full of food.
"I thought Remus was coming as well, he coming up in a bit?" Sirius asked them, as he laid it out on the table.
"No he's not coming." Electra told him as she sat down next to him.
"He's calling Tonks." Harry said smiling.
"Great, I'm glad that he's finally found someone." Sirius said also smiling, but Electra wasn't. "What you're not and you were the one who set them up?"
"It isn't that, it's Remus himself." Electra told him. "Its like he's afraid of letting anyone in, he wants to. It's just..."
"He's afraid that he'll hurt her." Sirius finished. "I know...but it's different this time because Tonks already knows what he is and she still likes him."
"I know, all we have to do is get Remus to see that as well." Electra agreed.
"I don't get it, well not completely anyway." Harry admitted. "He isn't like that with you two or my dad."
"Well, it's different. We learnt to change so that he wouldn't hurt us...and Electra well she's his sister, and could take out any werewolf that came her way anyway." Sirius said smiling. "That was funny; he couldn't talk for over a week. She hit him over the head with something before we could stop her, and then after he was out cold she turns round and tells us that she knows that it's Remus. I think that was the same year that we started to go out weren't it?"
"Yeah it was, because you gave me the necklace to wined Remus up and then you asked me to dance at that thing we had and it kind of went on from there." Electra answered.
Sirius lead over to Harry and smiled. "Snape wasn't happy at all because he had wanted to dance with her as well...though you should have seen her; well I had never really seen her until then. Yeah I had seen her of course, but she was different, she was a woman and a beautiful one at that. Remus weren't happy of course me going out with his little sister, he was very protective of her, well we all were really we all played a part when she came to Hogwarts of course, we would of all done the same for the other."
Harry thought the whole thing over trying to take it all in, but it was kind of hard because the Snape thing kept coming back up which was confusing him.
"Right, Snape likes Electra...so that wasn't just Lucias Malfoy, he really likes her?" Harry asked.
"Well yeah, that's why...I don't know we didn't think as much about it because we knew that he wouldn't do anything to hurt her." Sirius told him. "Hurt me yeah, but not her...it's not his style. Though Personally I think after what ever they did to him last year that he's lost it, he doesn't even know what's going on...he keeps saying that the two of you have this thing, well that wasn't how he put it, but still."
"That's just...sick." Harry said pulling his face, but Electra didn't say anything about it. "Hey I just had a thought, when are you two going for the scan, you know to see what your having?"
Electra and Sirius looked at one another not completely sure what he was talking about.
"Oh right, they won't do that in the magical world will they." Harry said. "So how do you know what you're having then?"
"Seer's and ruins sometimes work." Electra answered.
Sirius smiled at her. "So is that what you were doing over the summer, I saw you with them out at the house...didn't you used to take it at school or something?"
"Yeah I did." Electra answered. "Do you have twins in your family?"
Sirius almost choked, then looked from Harry to Electra. "Twins?"
"That's what I said didn't I?" Electra said smiling. "I think we have them somewhere in ours, I'll ask Remus about it...though I think it was our Gran she was a twin or her sisters were twins, something like that anyway."
"Oh my god, I'm going to have two children?" Sirius said, and then looked at Harry. "Though it'll be three with Harry, because you'll be like their big brother, looking out for them or cousin what ever you what of course."
"Brother sounds great." Harry said smiling.
"Now don't get ahead of yourself here Sirius, there not always right." Electra told him. "And I couldn't get a reading about the sex, but I think that's because you walked in during. Oh well, it'll be a surprised I don't want to know until then anyway."
***
Remus sat in his office staring at the fire place, debating weather or not to contact Tonks; he wanted to see her of course he did, and after talking with Electra as well. But it kept coming back to the same thing, he didn't want to hurt her, but this was going to hurt her as well. But he thought better like this then as a werewolf.
He stood up and walked over to the fire place and grabbed a handful of Floo Powder and stepped into the fire and went over to her flat.
He stepped out of the fire on the other side, and heard something break; he looked around the room but she wasn't in there so it hadn't been him scaring her. He walked through into the kitchen and there she was stood at the sink, clearing up a broken plate.
"Hi Tonks." Remus said pleasantly.
Tonks swung round dropping the plate again, she blushed brightly matching her bright red hair; and then they both bent down together to clear up the mess. Their hands touched and they both looked at each other, Tonks lent over and kissed him, he aloud himself to kiss her back before he moved away and stood up.
"What's wrong Remus?" Tonks asked him.
Remus turned away for a moment before he turned back round to face her. "Tonks, I've thought about this a lot...and I think it's..."
"Don't you dare." Tonks warned him pointing her wand at him. "Electra told me that you can be like this, but I know what you are, and I don't care no matter what you could say."
"Tonks you don't understand." Remus told her.
"Yes I do, you're running away from your feelings." Tonks told him. "You have that potion, so you'll be fine, and if not Sirius can always come around and keep you company...or I could even learn to change into an animal."
Remus shack his head. "You make it sound so easy and it isn't."
"It is; you just don't want it to be that's all." Tonks told him and then stepped forward. "Remus, I...I think I love you...you can't leave me...because erm I think you feel the same way or you wouldn't be doing this."
Tonks smiled up at him as she stepped even closer and kissed him, she pulled away and he smiled down at her, and pulled her into his arms.
"I have to know, of myself that I can trust you and trust myself with you." Remus told her.
"You can trust me Remus." Tonks told him.
"Well maybe not to get from A to B without falling or breaking something first." Remus teased; she smiled at him and hit him playfully before he kissed her again.
"I'm not going anywhere, and I love you Remus." Tonks told him holding him tightly.
"I...I love you too." Remus told her.
(A/N: I know it didn't tell you anything about who the father was, but it needed to be done, I liked that chapter hoped you all did as well. Thank you for all the reviews you'll find out everything soon enough, but not before I decided but soon.)