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Author's Note: Same 'verse as the last two, but at a different time and focused on some of the adults.

Submitting Info:
Stacked with: Hogwarts (Term 15); MC4A (Year 4)
Individual Challenges: Tastebuds; La Vie Boheme; Not the Mama; Fix-It Felix (Y); My Favorite Things; Gryffindor MC (x2); Hufflepuff MC; Magical MC; Magical MC; Magical MC (Y); LEO MC; Rowl in Her Grave; Rian-Russo Inversion; Disabled; Shifter MC (x3); Lovely Triangle; Claimed; Ship Sails (x2); Gwen's HP Bribery (Y); Citrus Sale; Go Fluff Yourself; Lunar Era; Old School (Y); In a Flash; Bucket Listing; Two Cakes (Y); Eating Cake (Y); Green Ribbon
House: Slytherin
Assignment No.: Term 15 – Assignment 02
Subject (Task No.): Wandlore (Task#1: Write about a long relationship between two or more characters.)
Other Hogwarts Challenges: Fantastic Beasts [108](Having your personal space invaded); 365 Prompts [256](Lemon Yellow); Scavenger Hunt [63](Yellow/Expecto Patronum/Tea); Auction [D3A4] (Bold)
Other MC4A Challenges: SuB [1A](Ice Cream); AU [3D](Everyone Lives); Ship (Canines)[SpBig (Blanket; Stuffed Toy); SpMed2 (Bed Sharing); SuBig (Ice Cream; Pillow/Cushion); [Bingo] 2A (Sleep Cute)]; Chim [Dextrin](Sweater/Jumper); Garden [Bed Types (Forest/Woods); Tools (Candle); Mixed Bag (Cuddling/Snuggling)]; Fire [x3](Transitional; Zuke the Hini; Hearts Abound); TWT (Genderqueer Sirius Black; Trio Era)[Task#4](Yellow)
Representation(s): Genderqueer Sirius Black/Remus Lupin QPR; Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks; Found Fam; Sleeping Together; BC Use
Primary & Secondary Bonus Challenges: Grease Monkey; In the Trench; Surprise!; Second Verse (Lovely Coconuts; For the Vine; Three's Company; Car in a Tutu; Zucchini Bread; Nontraditional; Found Family; Not a Lamp; Ladylike); Chorus (Odd Feathers; Wabi Sabi; Fizzy Lemonade; Fire Song; Tomorrow's Shade; Larger than Life; Unicorn; Creature Feature)
Tertiary & Generic Bonus Challenges: T3 (Terse; Thimble); SN (Rail; Ameliorate); LiCK (Tansy); FR (Satisfaction; Liberation); O3 (Olivine); CM (Yogin); War (Obstruction); TY (n/a)
Word Count: 827 words

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Roost Mutts
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Tonks rolled her shoulders to relieve the tension trapped there before pushing up the sleeves of her jumper and picking up the lemon yellow mug with the tea she had made. It was one of the herbal blends that Remus favored, all without caffeine, of course, because the man was an absolute monster who could somehow function without it. Tonks loved him dearly, but some things just defied explanation. She was thankful for it at times like this, though, when she had come in from a long and grueling shift and wanted something warm to drink before going to bed. Something with caffeine would have made settling down even harder than it already was from the stress of being an auror while there was an active war happening in their country.

Idly, she flicked her wand at the single candle on the kitchen window sill, dousing the tiny flame that had been flickering there. The darkness in the house meant she could see out to the woods that surrounded the little cottage. There wasn't much to see, not really, but the sight of the trees barely lit by the full moon above them soothed something in her that she hadn't realized had gotten sore. It was peaceful, and since the war had started ramping up, peace was something that was hard to come by.

She didn't know if she was relieved or not that the lack of peace had nothing to do with living with two Marauders for once. She really did love Remus to bits, even if it was a bit of a whirlwind romance between them, and she really didn't regret moving in with him even if that did mean she was also moving in with Sirius and Harini. In fact, she thought it was sweet that the two friends had decided to raise their best friends' daughter together after they had found her again (and Sirius had actually gotten a trial after five years imprisoned in Azakan for the crime he had not committed). She didn't even mind that they had used to date. They had been together in various ways most of their lives and it would have been intrinsically wrong to do anything to separate them now, especially since she had known what they were to each other when she had started dating Remus.

What she did mind was the prank wars that often got entirely out of hand.

Finding out that Sirius had stolen her favorite skirts, dresses, or blouses was almost as annoying.

He never resized them afterwards!

Tonks took a deep breath and let it out slowly. She was supposed to be relaxing. Now was not the time to be thinking about how vexing a certain mutt could be. On impulse, she decided that she deserved a nice treat. Digging into their cold cupboard, she pulled out Sirius' blackberry and lemon sorbet from where he had hidden it behind the bags of frozen broccoli. She ate a few heaping spoonfuls between gulps of her tea.

Exhausted and now thoroughly relaxed, she left the spoon and mug in the sink to be washed in the morning (or whenever one of them got to it) and began the long trek to the second floor where her and Remus' bedroom was. As soon as she reached the top of the stairs, she knew that their bed was going to be extra crowded. The aura of a patronus was strong enough that she was feeling it all the way down the hall from the closed bedroom door.

Her shoulders relaxed even more at the soothing feel of it. That feeling only increased the closer she got to the door. Her eyes started drooping as she turned the knob and pushed the door open. Sure enough, Remus was laying in the middle of the bed on his back with one arm tucked under his pillow and Sirius was snuggled into his side. Sirius had an arm and a leg flung across Remus, as if to pin him to the bed and keep him from escaping. It must have been an extremely rough night already, because she could see the distinctive purple trunk of the stuffed elephant that Harini had gotten Sirius for his birthday the first year she was with him. He only slept with it when he was really missing her.

Tonks enjoyed the view of the pair sleeping for a few moments before she pulled herself away. Mechanically, she stripped down to her boy shorts and camisole. If Sirius was going to invade her bed, then he would just have to deal with her sleeping in what made her comfortable. She crawled into the bed on the opposite side of Remus from her cousin, tugging the blanket up from where it had migrated almost off the bed. Without waking up, Remus moved his arm from under his pillow to curl around her.

Sighing in content, Tonks closed her eyes and fell asleep.