Chapter Six

DC: I don't own Harry Potter. But I do own Anna-Christine!

The six of them left the house, leaving a note to Mrs. Weasley. Remus had Anna-Christine in a stroller, and everyone else followed. They stopped first at the Ministry to see Rita Skeeter.

Remus made a successful, to the point, story with Rita. With, of course, with Hermione's help. They know that she won't try anything funny.

After that, the six of them went to Remus's burnt down house. Ginny volunteered to watch Anna-Christine as the others went inside. Everything was black and ashy. Most of Remus and Tonks's muggle things were burned, but a lot of the magical things weren't.

"I guess your magical items had fire proof spells on them." Hermione whispered, as she picked up some pictures.

Harry and Ron were doing the same. "A lot of pictures were saved." Ron said. "And look! Here's a picture of Tonks! Looks a little burned around the edges though…"

Remus came over and looked at the picture. It was a picture of Tonks and someone else, but it was halfway eaten by the fire. He set it in the box full of things they saved. After going through the living room they traveled around the house.

They saved some pans from the kitchen. They actually saved a lot of their clothes in the closet. Somehow the fire didn't reach there. They saved some old magical books, and others that were decent enough to save.

By the time they were finished, they had five boxes of salvageable items. Ginny looked in each box. "Wow that's a lot."

"Most of it is magical stuff." Ron said a little bit too loudly. Hermione elbowed him.

"Ron! We are in a muggle neighborhood! They could be listening."

Remus nodded. He picked up Anna-Christine from the little muggle stroller. "They are very nosy." He said quietly. "Who's up for lunch? I do have enough I think."

Everyone contributed to lunch with any extra money they had. They went back to the Burrow to drop off the boxes, then went to Diagon Alley, and had lunch at a little place down there. While they were there, Remus fed Anna-Christine and changed her diaper. Well…Hermione and Ginny helped him. He still wasn't used to it, and he felt really embarrassed.

After all that they went to St. Mungo's. By now Tonks was allowed to have visitors there. But there was even better news.

When they reached her room Tonks was fully dressed and was getting ready to leave. She turned and saw Remus.

"You're allowed to leave?" Remus asked.

"Well yes." Tonks replied. "At least I hope so, because the Healer did say I could just sign the leaving sheets then I'll be done! Oh! Hello to everyone! Where's Anna?"

It was Ron's turn to push the stroller, so he pushed it up to Tonks. Tonks smiled and lifted her out. "How's my little girl doing this afternoon?"

"Are you feeling any better Tonks?" Harry asked.

"I'm feeling much better! And I'll feel even better when we go house shopping today!" Tonks said, cradling Anna-Christine in her arms. She saw the look on Remus's face. "And you can't say anything about it Remus! I feel recharged and ready to go."

Remus was going to ask and see if she was healthy enough, but after that remark he couldn't stop her. So all seven of them left the room and Tonks signed out. She felt free for the first time in awhile.

They went back to the Burrow. Mrs. Weasley was in the kitchen staring on dinner already. She told them they'd be eating outside today, because it was starting to get really crowded. When she spotted Tonks, she went over and gave her a hug.

"How are you feeling, dear?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"Much better, thanks." Tonks said. "And kind of hungry… Hospital food isn't the best."

Mrs. Weasley laughed. "Well, when dinner is ready, you can eat all you like!"

Remus and Tonks took a break in the living room. The two boys went outside to get stuff from the vegetable garden, while the two girls were in the kitchen helping with dinner. Tonks held Anna-Christine in her lap, with her head on Remus's shoulder.

"So what house do you want? I hear the Ministry will pay for it." Tonks said.

"Well it won't need to be that big." Remus said. "With it only being the three of us…"

There was a little moment of silence, before Remus went on. "Why don't we look in the prophet? They're bound to have something."

Remus got up and grabbed the Daily Prophet from the table. He went back and looked for the houses.

"Ooh! This'll mean we can buy a house, and not rent one!" Tonks said. "I can paint it now!"

Remus stopped looking for a moment. "I though you didn't like that kind of stuff."

"Well I've been having a sudden urge to do it ever since we got married. But we couldn't because it wasn't really our house." Tonks said. "You know. We should get one that's really expensive, just to tick the Ministry off."

Remus laughed, and started to look again. There were several houses for sale. He picked up his wand and circled the ones they liked.

"Dinner is almost ready." Mrs. Weasley yelled from the kitchen. "Remus, dear, could you help with the table?"

Tonks took Anna-Christine to her room to feed, while Remus went to the kitchen to help with the table. They had a fun filled dinner. They talked mostly about what they think will happen now that everything has came to peace. Well, it was mostly starting their lives, finding jobs, maybe even starting families.

"Who knows what the future will bring." Tonks added, as they were clearing everything up. "All I know is that I'm spending it with the one I love."

Remus gave her a quick kiss on the cheek, and carried more dishes to the sink. Life wasn't bad. Not bad at all.

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Megumi: Boy has it been a long time since I updated this story...

Yeah so how is everyone? I started school, and such...and such...yeah...

Well...

Love to all, Good and Evil!

Megumi