Fourth chapter, sorry it took me so long to update:)
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"What do you want?" Tonks asked, reaching into her pocket for her wand.
"To finish you off." She replied, a grin spreading across her face.
Before Tonks had time to react, a white light flew out of Camilla's wand and sent her flying backwards, she just managed to let out a scream before being smashed into the wall. Her whole body ached and she could see her white shirt being stained with blood, she was covered in cuts.
"W-what did you do?!" She asked weakly.
"Just a little spell I learned from home." She replied laughing.
Then Tonks felt like she was being poked with red hot pokers, and she started to scream in agony. She saw Camilla running away. With the last of the strength she managed to scream. "LILY! SIRIUS! REMUS! JAMES!" Hopefully one of the four would hear her scream and come and help her. She saw everything going black and she heard someone scream and then a boy whispered "Dora" softly in her ear before she passed out.
She woke up in the Hospital Wing and saw four people sat around her.
"Tonks! Thank goodness you're okay!" Lily cried, giving her a hug.
"I-I'm fine, what happened?" She asked.
"Well, someone hit you with a spell, I'm not sure what it was. Anyways, whoever did it ran away, we heard you scream our names so we ran out of the hall, to see what happened. We found you lying on the ground unconscious and you were covered in blood. It was horrible." Lily said, tears gathering in her eyes.
"Camilla." Tonks groaned.
"Who's Camilla?" Lupin asked.
"The girl who hit me with that spell. She has it in for me." Tonks replied, sitting up. "How long have I been unconscious?" She asked.
"A day." Sirius replied. "But Madam Pomfrey said you could leave tomorrow."
"Oh, okay." She replied.
"Anyways, we're really sorry Tonks, but James and I have detention with McGonagall, we'll come and see you tomorrow." Sirius explained, and saying their goodbyes, they both left.
"Yeah, sorry but I have to go too Tonks. Prefect duties. I'll come and visit tomorrow too. Bye." She gave Tonks a hug, grabbed her bag and left the Hospital Wing.
It was just her and Remus. Alone. 'I like him, he's a friend.' she thought to herself. 'I don't like him that way, I can't. Yet there's something so trusting in his eyes. Maybe I do like him, but there's no way he likes me.' she told herself this over and over again in her head until it finally stuck.
"Madam Pomfrey said that she healed all your cuts. You just to rest." Lupin said, looking straight at her.
"That's good, I can't wait to be out of here. Hospitals scare me." Tonks said, smiling at him. "Before I passed out, I heard someone call me Dora, was it you?" She asked, her face turning pink.
"Yeah, that was me. I don't like calling you Tonks, there isn't anything wrong with your first name."
"You and my mother would get on great." She joked. "I'll tell you what, you can call me Dora if I can call you Loopy."
"I suppose." He said before laughing.
"So Loopy, what have I missed while I've been in here?" She asked.
"Not a lot Dora, James and Sirius for talking. Today hasn't been very exciting."
They both sat in a comfortable silence for a couple of minutes before Lupin started to look through his bag.
"Here." He said handing her something. "This fell out of your bag yesterday."
She looked at the item and recognised it as a small plush teddy bear.
"Thank you," She said. "My parents gave it to me when I was small, and I used to take it everywhere with me. I guess its just a comforter." She gave his arm a squeeze as a way of saying thank you again.
"I'd better go, I have a ton of homework. We'll all come and visit you tomorrow. Bye Dora." He said, smiling at her.
"Bye Loopy!" She said, giving him a mischievous grin, then she stuck out her tongue.
He gave her a quick wave and hurried out of the Hospital Wing.
Madam Pomfrey hurried out of her office minutes later and shoved a bottle of dreamless sleeping potion down her throat. Immediately after taking the potion she started to feel woozy, and within minutes she was fast asleep.
She awoke the next morning, feel a lot better than she had in a while. She looked around the room and saw Madam Pomfrey fussing over another student lying in the bed next to her. She looked over to see who it was and it wasn't who she had expected.
"Loopy?" She said, feeling utterly confused. She had only seen him last night and he was fine. He said he was going to do homework.
She quietly got out of bed and went to stand next to his bedside.
"Loopy?" She whispered again, not wanting to believe what she was seeing.
He looked tired and worn out. He had a few cuts on his face, but apart from that he looked fine.
She watched him sleeping for a long time, waiting for him to wake up. Two hours later, he slowly opened his eyes.
"Hey sleepy head." She joked, beaming at him.
"Morning." He replied, his voice was hoarse.
"What happened to you?" She asked.
"Fell down the stairs." He replied, climbing out of bed.
"Happens to me all the time." She laughed, picking up her bag. "Are you going to the Great Hall?"
"Yeah I am." Said Lupin.
"Great. I'll come with you." She replied.
"Okay Dora. Lets go." He mocked, he left the Hospital Wing with Tonks not far behind him.
They entered the Great Hall and saw everyone eating their breakfast. She saw Lily sitting with her friends from Gryffindor and Sirius and James sitting together. Lupin went and joined them, and Tonks made her way over to speak to Lily. Lily noticed her walking towards her and made extra room so she could sit down.
"Tonks!" She exclaimed. "I thought we were going to come and see you at lunch time." said Lily, filling Tonks's plate with food.
"I had to get out of there, hospitals give me the creeps." picking up her fork, Tonks began to eat.
"I can understand that." Lily replied. "Oh, by the way I want you to meet some friends of mine. Tonks, this is Danielle, Sarah and Claire." She pointed to three girls who gave Tonks a friendly smile.
"Hi, nice to meet you all." She said, giving all a kind smile in return.
"Hey Tonks! We are going to have the ultimate sleepover on Saturday after we've been shopping. You have to come!" Danielle said cheerfully.
"Okay, can't wait." She replied.
"We're all going to class," said Claire. "Want to come with us?"
"Okay." She picked up her bag, and the four of them started to leave the Great Hall. She noticed Camilla sitting staring at Tonks, she was laughing at what she did yesterday. It was too much for her to take.
"YOU!" She screamed, stomping towards Camilla. "YOU COULD HAVE KILLED ME! AND YOU'VE STILL GOT THE NERVE TO SIT AND LAUGH AT ME!" Camilla stood up, looking half-amused, half-annoyed.
She was about to respond, but was cut off with Tonks's fist hitting her face. She stumbled backwards a bit, blood trickling from her mouth. She swung her hand round and the Great Hall was filled with the sound of a hand hitting skin. Tonks was livid, and not thinking about what she was doing, pounced on Camilla. She pulled her hair and punched her again, she had completely lashed out. She had lost control she was about to strike another punch when she felt three girls trying to restrain her. She managed to fight them off, but wasn't so lucky when she felt three stronger set of hands pull her off of Camilla and restrained her from moving.
"Dora!" Lupin exclaimed. "Calm down!"
She let herself relax for a moment, and felt herself getting calmer by the second. Camilla had run off by the time she was completely calm. The three boys had loosened their grip, but still kept a small hold of her.
"Bloody hell Tonks! I didn't know you could hit that hard." Sirius said, letting go of her. "I have to say I'm proud."
She laughed nervously, and turned round to Lily.
"Lily, I'm really sorry. I just lost control, she was just sitting laughing at me. I know that you're a prefect, so I don't blame you if you give me a detention." said Tonks, hoping she hadn't ruined a friendship already.
"I'm not going to give you a detention Tonks, like you said, she provoked you. It wouldn't be fair to give you a detention and not give her a detention too. I know you're sorry too." She added.
"Lillies! I'm shocked! You actually didn't give someone a detention." James said sarcastically.
"Don't call me Lillies." She said through gritted teeth. "We'd better be going to class." The four girls left the Great Hall and made their way to their morning class.
The next few days were a blur for Tonks, and it finally drew up to Friday night. She packed her things for the sleepover that night. So she wouldn't be rushing about the next morning. After lots of tripping over clothes and bumping into furniture. After a busy night, Tonks was glad to put her head down onto her pillow and fall asleep.
