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Chapter 2

Tonks' stirring in the bed woke Remus, the slight twitch of her hand jolting him into consciousness. His eyes flew open to look at, could he say the woman he loved? The healer woman was standing next to the bed where Tonks lay squirming around.

"Hello sleeping beauty," she smiled at him. "Don't worry, it's the last effects of the spell wearing off."

Tonks jerked and almost fell on top of Remus who gently pushed her back onto the bed. She lay still again. Pushing the hair out of her face, Remus could see her nose wrinkle up and her eyebrows crease, he traced his fingers over the cute wrinkles she made and whispered to her, "You can't do that, wait till you're better."

Remus took a sharp intake of breath when he realised she had opened her eyes and was looking directly at him.

"Well it's about time Missy, this young gentleman has been very worried about you," the healer said before walking off to give them some privacy.

"Hi," Remus said removing his hand from her face and looking quite embarrassed.

"Hi," she said back, equally embarrassed. "What happened?"

"What do you remember?"

"Fighting that Lestrange woman, she blasted me with some spell-or-other, not much after that," she frowned.

"Well, you fell down to the bottom of the steps; that was quite a way. Bellatrix Lestrange went on to fight Sirius, the prophesy smashed while Neville Longbottom and Harry were trying to escape, Dumbledore turned up and rounded up the last of the Death Eaters then went after Harry who was chasing Lestrange into the Atrium. In the end, You-Know-Who was once again scared away by Dumbledore, we got you out and to St Mungo's, the children are back at Hogwarts and the Death Eaters are in Azkaban for the moment."

"So not much then?" she joked earning her a smile from Remus, even if it didn't last long. "What's wrong?"

"Um, well while he was fighting Lestrange, Sirius fell through the archway in the death room," he said quietly.

"No, he can't have!" she said accusingly. "Don't lie to me. He, I mean, no!"

"Nymph, he did okay?" Lupin said grabbing her arms. "He's gone, but you still have everyone else in the Order, we're here for you," he sighed. "I'm here for you," he said quietly looking her directly in the eye.

He could see the tears building up in those beautiful grey eyes as she leant into his chest and sobbed. "Don't you dare leave me as well!"

"I won't," he whispered closing his arms around her back, letting the tears flow from his eyes as well and kissing the top of her head.

When Tonks' breathing had evened out and she was no longer sobbing, Remus lowered her back onto the bed and pulled the blanket around her more. He placed a kiss on her forehead and went back to his chair to sleep.

Remus woke to the noises of people bustling around and hushing each other. He cracked open an eye and came face to face with Mad Eye Moody, which is not the first thing you want to see when you wake up in the morning!

"This ones awake," the ex-Auror cried. "How you doing Lupin?"

"Okay, what are you lot doing here?" he asked as he saw Mr & Mrs Weasley, the twins, Bill and Kingsley Shacklebolt surrounding the bed and his chair.

"Come to take you and Tonks home," Molly smiled. "You've been prescribed lots of sleep and food."

"But I'm fine," he said struggling against Moody to get out of his chair.

"You stay there boy, you can get up when we are ready to leave," he said while his false eye span around in its socket. "You slept right through some mad person coming into the ward and singing 'There's a Hole in my Cauldron', that has to tell you something."

"So I was tired, I'm fine now and where is Tonks?" he demanded.

"I'm right here," she said walking back into the room wearing a tight pink t-shirt and a pair of tatty jeans, with the prick of a healer he had met briefly the day before. "Went to get a drink and met…sorry what was your name again?"

Any jealousy he had been feeling seemed to evaporate as the healer turned a deep shade of crimson and muttered something about having to go and see a man about a gnome.

"You sure know how to get rid of 'em Tonks," Fred laughed.

"Well you know it's a very useful skill. Had to make the most of my talents," she grinned before looking into Remus' eyes and blushing a little.

Mrs Weasley smiled then started rounding up people. "Okay, lets get going," she grabbed Lupin and Tonks by their arms and dragged them forward knowing that the rest would follow.

They arrived back at number twelve, Grimmauld Place at around eleven o'clock. Mrs Weasley went straight to the kitchen and made some drinks, the rest of the rabble followed.

"How do you feel Tonks?" Molly asked when they were all sat around the large table.

"Fine," she replied quietly. "I guess. It just feels weird without Sirius," voicing the thoughts of everyone in the room.

"Yes, it is, but we'll get through it," Arthur said. "He was a good man and will be greatly missed, now that his charges have been cleared and the public know the truth."

After a while of talking, Tonks excused herself to go to bed because she was tired, half an hour later Remus went to look for her to see if she wanted anything to eat. He found her sitting on the drawing room floor facing the tapestry with the family tree on. He hovered in the doorway trying not to disturb her as she angrily shot sparks at Bellatrix Lestrange's face on the tree. She shot Lucius Malfoy and his wife and son, then went on to other relatives she didn't care for.

Remus gave a false cough and knocked on the door.

"What?" she snapped before seeing who it was. "Oh, sorry."

"No need to apologise to me," he said walking over to her and crouching down. "Just don't point that thing at me."

Her cheeks were tearstained and her eyes were red, her tears must have blurred her vision because there were holes all over the wall opposite.

"I could kill her," she said through gritted teeth.

"I reckon you'd have to join the queue first," he smiled slightly. "Look about yesterday, I didn't mean, I, I thought…"

Tonks placed a finger over his mouth and smiled. "Did I say I minded?"

She leant into him and covered his lips with her own, her finger slowly tracing the outline of his jaw. Remus brought his hands up and around the back of her, pulling her closer to deepen the kiss. After a while Lupin pulled back gasping for breath.

"Nymph, I didn't know you felt like that."

"I didn't know you did," she laughed. "What a pair?"

"Yeah, we are," he let out a yawn. "So maybe I am still a bit tired." "Me too," Tonks said yawning. "Bed?"

"Sure," he smiled and pulled her up with him, they made their way to the room that Lupin had adopted and fell asleep in each other's arms.

"Where have they got to?" Molly asked flopping into a chair.

"Don't worry Molly, they are both sound asleep," Alistair Moody said, his glass eye spinning back to face the woman.

"Well they have been through a lot," she said taking a sip of her drink.

"Yes they have, they are also grown people who can look after themselves mum," Bill said.

"Come off it Bill," George laughed.

"Yeah, mum would try and mother Dumbledore if he let her," Fred added.

"They may be adults, but everyone can do with some motherly love every now and then," Molly huffed trying to defend her place in the Order hierarchy of status.

"I don't think they need motherly love right now Molly," Moody said. "They just need each other."

"They aren't in bed together are they?" Fred asked.

"Now, I didn't say that…"

"But you meant it," George cut in.

"I…"

"They aren't?" Molly asked.

"Okay, they are, but they are asleep," the old man growled.

"About, bloody, time!"

"Arthur!" Molly cried.

Two days later they were all crowded into Kings Cross Station with the rest of the families of the students at Hogwarts, patiently waiting for the train to pull in and the children to emerge through the barrier.

"You shouldn't have tried to do it yet, the healers said wait a couple of days," Lupin was saying to Tonks who was quietly pleased with her now bright pink hair.

"Stop fussing, you're getting worse than Molly!" she whispered before kissing him on the cheek. "Anyway, it has been a couple of days."

"I prefer your normal colour," Remus muttered, his voice being drowned out by Mrs Weasley lecturing the twins.

"I don't know where you got the money for the joke shop but you don't have to spend your profits on new jackets, ones that cost heaven knows how much! You're brother will be jealous no doubt and ask for one, how am I supposed to affo…Ron, Ginny!" she cried running forward to hug her two youngest, the conversation with the twins forgotten.

Remus smiled and pulled Nymphadora forward to great the new arrivals together, somehow everything would be alright in the end.

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