McGonagall dived behind a bookshelf as Snape twisted around as good as he could with his arms still wrapped around Tonks.
Pulling out his wand and aiming it at Snape, Rookwood sneered "Well, well, what's going on here ?"
Snape removed his hands from Tonks, who stepped in front of Snape.
"Oh don't look at me like that" snapped Tonks, and Rookwood's sneer immediately left his face. If the Dark Lord wanted her to stay in one piece, then Rookwood wouldn't be able to curse her . Haha.
"If you have a problem with me getting within a mile of another man, I have news for you. Especially when that man is trying to be considerate, I would have thought you'd show him some respect, that is of course, assuming that you care about how I feel" Tonks went on, enjoying the shocked looks she was getting form both men, wondering if McGonagall was having a cardiac arrest.
"Oh no" Rookwood attempted " I - I care - I was just - just surprised"
"I am not an object" Tonks continued on " That you can just own"
"N-no" stuttered Rookwood "of course not - I - I didn't-"
But he was interrupted by a knock on door.
"Hide" hissed Tonks, hoping he wouldn't attempt to hide behind the bookshelf that McGonagall was already behind.
Fortunately, Rookwood went into the vacated bathroom, just in time, as Percy ran into the room. Percy fell to his knees and crawled along the carpet.
"Please call them off, I'll do anything" Percy wheezed.
"What ?" asked Tonks confused.
"There he is" Fred and George stormed in.
"AAH. Please. Have mercy" begged Percy.
McGonagall took this new distraction as the perfect moment to run out of the room without being noticed.
"Colin Creevy tests our joke shop items. When he showed up late for an appointment, he said he couldn't tell us why. Like that ever stopped us, so we put a truth serum in his pumpkin juice and found out about that Weasel" Fred said angrily, pointing towards Percy who was shaking on the ground.
"No, I didn't, I never-" Percy gasped.
Tonks was beginning to feel sorry for him. "Before you strangle him, can I say a few last words ?"
Fred and George nodded.
Tonks leaned down to Percy's ear. "If I call them off, will you promise never to come near me again - I don't want to think about what happened ever again"
Percy thought for a moment then vigorously nodded his head.
"Fred, George, may I see you outside for a moment ?"
They nodded their heads. George looked back at Percy " don't try to run off now".
Once they were outside, Tonks explained to them that there was no need to strangle Percy, instead she was making him suffer far worse already. They shrugged their shoulders, but left anyway. Tonks then sent Percy off, who was eager to leave the rooms and find a new pair of pants - Fred and George really scared him this time.
Tonks did some thinking for a moment. Rookwood in bathroom, Snape's here, McGonagall's gone. Right. Back to the matter at hand.
Rookwood had emerged form the bathroom and was in a heated discussion with Snape, which Tonks listened to through the door.
"The Dark Lord will not be pleased when he discover's she really doesn't like me, and he has no way of getting ministry information. You'll be the one that pays, you were here, you could have prevented this" hissed Rookwood.
'Oh great. Me and my ideas are going to get the three of us killed. The Dark Lord is a Legilimens as well, he'll know I don't like Rookwood... Oh great and the order will loose the only double agent we have. A double agent, according to McGonagall that fancies you. Oh great. Way to go Tonks. Buy some time, let Dumbledore figure it out later... Think, think, think '
Tonks stepped in the room. " you're right, Rookwood, I don't like you anymore -"
"Say your prayers" sniggered Rookwood.
"- I like Severus" Tonks said, closing her eyes, waiting for the worst.
' oh please don't kill me '
"You what ?" snapped Rookwood.
Seeing that she wasn't about to me cursed to bits, Tonks continued. "I like Snape. If the Dark Lord want's any ministry info, you'll have to keep Severus alive. Anything Snape want's to know about the ministry, I'll tell him."
"You've got to be joking" said Rookwood, who suddenly grabbed his left forearm. "We'll see about this" and with that, he disappeared into the flames of the fire.
Tonks turned around to face Snape.