Totally just hitting the AUs here.

Official warning: Dark themes, murder, sexual shit, swearing

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Auror Interrogation, 2001

Harry sighed, running a hand over his eyes before putting his glasses back on.

"You shouldn't keep doing that." Tonks commented. "You have bad eyesight, and continuously removing your glasses to rub your eyes- if I wanted to, I could attack you to escape."

"You just sat here, for the last five hours, saying you're not a Death Eater- but saying you could attack me to escape doesn't help that claim."

"Or, I'm saying it as an Ex-Auror." Tonks said. "Besides, I haven't been bound in shackles for hours. You removed them within the first three minutes of us entering the room- clearly you don't think I'll attack you- because let's face it, Chosen One, I can take you down if I wanted to."

"I don't doubt that, considering you were trained by Mad-Eye." Harry commented. "How much of his training have you been using, anyway? Is that how you've been able to take down four Death Eaters?"

"In case you haven't been listening, I've had a wand, Harry."

Harry leaned forward. "That brings up something else I was wondering. Why did you break your wand? And the blood, why the blood, Tonks? Because that was definitely your blood, St Mungo's confirmed it-"

She held up her hand, where a jagged scar ran across her palm. "It was my blood." She confirmed.

"Tonks, what the Bloody Hell?"

"I didn't want to be followed. If I had kept my wand with me, the Order would have come searching. If I broke it, and left it behind, maybe no one would search as hard. And with Dad's habit of hiding money around the house, I haven't had to reveal myself to Gringotts-"

"You're saying you lasted three years off of the money you took from the house when you left?" Harry asked.

"Oh, no." Tonks said. "I went back twice."

"You came back twice, at some point in the last three years, and never thought to tell us you were alive?"

She shook her head. "Nothing in the house gave away that Teddy was safe or that Remus was alive. I was under the impression that Rabastan would have the answers I wanted, and I had to go, Harry. I had to. The last time I went home was before I went after Rabastan."

"How did you survive with little bits of money that you took from the house?" Harry asked.

"I made it work.'' Tonks said quietly. "That stuff isn't important, Harry."

"No, I agree." Harry said, shaking his head. "Tell me about Rabastan, he was killed in May of 2000, am I right?"

She nodded. "I found him in Glasgow, like Rookwood said I would."

May 21, 2000- Glasgow

She didn't bother to trail him, or bother to morph. She watched as another cloaked figure walked away from him and marched right up to him, in the dimly lit street.

"Lestrange!" She yelled, raising her wand.

He turned to her and grinned. "Nymphadora Tonks, isn't it? Or, Lupin, I heard-"

She pointed her wand at his throat. "Where's my son?"

"Why would I waste my time on a mutt like your son?" Rabastan asked, drawing his wand and pointing it at her chest. "Crucio!"

She fell with a scream, which was cut short as he lifted the spell and kicked her in the jaw.

"It must be so difficult. Dead husband, dead son-"

She screamed in anger, grabbing his leg and knocking him down. She placed a knee on his throat, pressing down as hard as she could. "You son of a bitch!" She spat, grabbing him by his hair and smashing his head on the ground. "Where is he?"

She moved her knee only to give him a chance to speak, but instead he spat at her. She slammed a fist down onto his nose, blood pouring out quickly.

"Where's my son?" She demanded again.

"Gone!"

She wrapped a hand around his throat. "Gone where?"

"Back to the Order!"

She stood. "I'll let you leave. The Ministry will catch up with you eventually, and a life time in Azkaban is paradise compared to what you deserve." She said, turning to walk away.

"You dirty bitch-" He spat from behind her. "Avada Ked-"

She spun, releasing the first spell she thought of. "Bombarda!"

It hit Rabastan with explosive force, leaving a crater where his chest had once been. He fell in a pool of blood with a sickening thud. She took a deep breath, waved a wand over herself to vanish any trace of blood and Disapparated.

I keep rereading the story and the notes I have, and I really hope I'm not leaving any inconsistencies behind( with the exception of the Remus' burial mention which I think I covered).

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