Virtue
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Chapter One
"No!"
"Stop!"
"You can't do this!"
Nymphadora Tonks gasped, sitting straight up in her bed. The image of the ebony haired woman came to mind, and she surpressed a scream.
Satsuna Black had been her favorite cousin, a best friend, a great teacher, and... She'd always managed to smile, no matter how bad things got.
And things always got bad for Satsuna. Trouble seemed to follow her like a shadow. She was Sirius' sister, his best friend, almost exactly like him in traits, and yet she'd been put in Slytherin. The only reason she was never looked down apon was because she was stronger than any of the Slytherins, weather they were three years ahead of her or in her year.
The only times Nymphadora had actually seen her cry were when Remus showed up bruised and battered after a full moon or a fight, and when Serena Lupin had been killed.
Nymphadora had been too young to understand Serena's death at the time, and Satsuna tried to hide the tears from her. Nymphadora would never forget the lesson Remus gave her after the funeral, or when she saw Remus holding Satsuna's battered body after she jumped off the roof of the Lupin home.
Nymphadora rolled onto her side, staring at her hands. Satsuna had been killed when Nymphadora had been nine. She hadn't even started her first year when the Black family had lost the woman.
Sirius lost it after that. It was no wonder that they suspected him more than most. He'd come from the Black Clan, after all, a family that had been under Voldermort's control for generations.
Nymphadora had heard Remus up late one night, talking to Sirius.
"Wonder what Umbra would say, knowing her favorite brother had been in Azakaban."
Sirius had smiled at this, as Nymphadora recalled. He'd run a hand through his hair, staring at the fire.
"She'd probably beat me into oblivion. But knowing Satsuna, she'd most likely be proud that I managed to keep sane."
Satsuna had been an unregistered animagi, she'd been changing into a wolf and back since before they'd started Hogwarts.
"You thinking about her again?" Nymphadora smiled to herself, looking at Serena as she perched herself on the window. Remus couldn't even figure out how she and Sirius had returned to life.
"I suppose everyone thinks about her every now and then." Nymphadora whispered back. Serena nodded, staring out the window. Serena looked exactly like the pictures Sirius and Remus had shown her of the young Lupin witch.
"The nightmares still haven't stopped?" Serena asked, hugging a knee to her chest as her other leg swung in a half circle.
Nymphadora began to shake her head then remembered that Serena couldn't see her. "No, they haven't."
"We'll have to see if Molly can do anything about that." Serena said, before turning her head to Nymphadora and smiling. "Go back to sleep, nightmares usually only attack once a night."
Nymphadora was shocked at how much Serena sounded like a little girl talking to her baby sister, but lay back and closed her eyes.