A/N: I was hoping this'd get more reviews...anyways, I took a bit of a different turn with this chapter. I didn't want to take it at first, but I figured if I didn't, the fic would die faster. Drop me a line! PLEASE!

"Oh my god," Remus muttered. He didn't have his wand with him.

Tonks was shaking. Remus turned to her. "Do you mind getting your wand out again, please?" he asked.

Tonks nodded. "Yes, but my jacket has, like, fifteen pockets in it…I forgot where I'd put it after I got the boggart!" Tonks began feeling around her jacket, which was more like a black trench coat with countless pockets inside and outside. Remus grabbed her hands and shook his head.

"I think I'd be best if we made a run for the house," Remus said, yanking Tonks to her feet. Tonks howled in pain as she tightened her grip on Remus' hand. Remus and Tonks bolted then the opposite way, towards the house. The sky was now completely black, and neither of them could see where they were going. Remus purposely ran slowly so Tonks could stay slightly ahead of him. He looked behind him. The dementor was in active pursuit of them. That wasn't good. Unless a dementor was sent from Azkaban to track down an escaped prisoner, it normally wouldn't pursue anyone innocent.

Tonks used her free hand to search her trench coat for her wand. Where did she hide the damn thing?

Tonks panted like a dog as her heart raced. She could feel the chilly air the dementor was bringing with him. He was getting closer. Tonks began feeling down. Strange, negative thoughts began invading and echoing in her head.

Remus Lupin doesn't love you…

He only proposed because you were nagging him…

He's delaying the wedding because he knows all it will accomplish is tying him down to you against his will…

He'll never be happy with you…

Tonks screamed. Remus didn't look too calm himself. She wondered what he was thinking, or rather, what the dementor was making him think.

Tonks let go of Remus' hand after a few more seconds of running so she could search for her wand quicker. She patted herself all over. Finally, she found her wand and turned around with it. But as she turned, the wand flew out of her hand (she should have been gripping it tighter). But what was worse, it seemed as if Remus had fallen behind.

Screaming, Tonks looked around for signs of Remus. First she dove to her knees (painfully) and patted around for her wand. Where was it, and had it been tossed far? Tonks scrambled on the ground like an animal. The grass at her hands was getting frosty. She knew Remus was going to be in serious trouble if she didn't find her wand quickly.

Tonks suddenly felt a long stick of wood. Without thinking, she grabbed is and sprung to her feet (again, painfully). She saw the dementor's shadow from about 50 feet away. Tonks screamed. Remus had been caught. He was lying on his back, his arms spread apart, his face cringing and wincing as the dementor began sucking away at him.

Tonks took a deep breath, She knew that she was safer from the dementor than Remus, as Remus had more tragedy in his past than she. Tonks ran as fast as she could at the dementor, yelling "EXPECTO PATRONUM!"

Nothing at all. Tonks realized that she wasn't holding her wand, but just an ordinary stick. Tonks turned on her heel and ran as the dementor looked up from her. Now the dementor wanted her? Grrrrreeat. Tonks hated being a spaz.

Tonks suddenly tripped again over another stone. As she looked up after she landed, she saw her wand right in front of her face. Tonks reached out for it and grabbed it. Keeping close to the ground and scampering over to Remus' inert body, she rose her wand up at the sky.

Remus slowly opened his eyes and moaned. Looking up, he could see Tonks pointing up at the dementor hovering over them. Tonks looked down at him nervously and then back up. Her hand was warm against his cheek.

Again, Tonks shouted, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" This time, a huge light burst from her wand, and Tonks' hand began shaking. Remus squinted at the light but still stared up, unable to move or so anything else. Suddenly, a huge bright werewolf leapt out of the tip of the wand and flew in circles around Tonks' head. It was beautiful. Just like Remus' Patronus, only a bit smaller. A She-wolf. Tonks' face was focused on whatever happy thought she was concentrating on. The dementor was blown away senselessly in seconds, and Remus watched as the she-wolf dissolved. The forest was dark, but safe again.

Remus moaned. "I'm going to be alright," he said.

Tonks nodded. "Now I have to get YOU back to the house," she said, laughing lightly at the irony. "Actually, I think we should wait until you get a little bit of your strength back and you can walk on your own."

Remus smiled. "Agreed."

A moment of classic awkward silence ensued. Tonks wiped a bead of sweat off Remus' face as he slowly felt the blood in his veins warm and run faster again. Tonks sighed. "I don't have any chocolate with me…"

"No, it's alright, I'll survive this one," Remus said, breathing deeply. "That was a nice Patronus there, looks familiar," he said. Tonks grinned. Color was returning to Remus' face. "What do you think of when you make it?"

Tonks gave Remus a shocked look. "ExCUSE me?"

Remus wanted to slap himself. He laughed a little bit. "I mean, the Patronus. What do you think about when you make the PATRONUS…? It must have been a powerful thought in order to produce one like that. I've never seen one like it."

"Oh," Tonks said quietly, shaking her head. She thought a moment. "You."

"Hm?"

"I think about the day when you got down on one knee and proposed to me…how I felt my heart stop and how I thought I was going to have a heart attack right then and there. And…and how I thought that if I did, I wouldn't mind."

Remus bit his lower lip. "What?" asked Tonks.

"You're boggart is me too…me telling you off."

"Um, yeah, it's only been like that for about a year," confessed Tonks. "Before then it was usually a banshee."

Remus nodded.

"Can you make it?" asked Tonks, trying to sit him up. Remus shook his head.

"No, not yet," Remus begged. "I think it's safe. Why don't you go back to the house and get some chocolate and some water?" asked Remus.

"Okay, I'll leave my wand here with you, in case it comes back" Tonks said. "I promise I'll be right back…"

Tonks kissed Remus lightly on the cheek, laid her wand on Remus chest and stood up, running off into the woods as fast as she could with a crappy knee.

Meanwhile, Remus lied on the ground trying to keep relaxed so he could gain enough energy to move. As he looked at the full moon over his head, Remus felt a smile cross his face. Maybe this night wasn't going to be so bad after all. Maybe after tonight, he and Tonks would be closer to each other than ever.

Then, he felt the world melt again. Another vision was coming.

"Mmmmm-Hmmmm…"

Remus was now sitting on his and Tonks's bed in his robe. Tonks, in a nightgown, carried thei child around the room, humming a lullaby and trying to get him to fall asleep. He was nearly asleep already. He looked only a month old. He was faceless, but his hair was bright yellow, the color of the sun in the middle of summer. Remus felt himself stand up silently and sneak up behind Tonks, kissing her bare shoulder as she walked slowly and silently towards the baby's crib, which sat in a corner of the room.

Remus sighed, a wave of pleasure overcoming him. He never felt like he belonged anywhere more. He never felt this way. So satisfied, so happy. Damned if he was a werewolf. He was a proud papa, with the most beautiful girl on earth as his child's mother.

Suddenly, Remus heard panting and quick footsteps. Andromeda appeared in the door. Remus, while still in the scene, felt himself stepping backward and being isolated as Tonks talked with her mother.

"The Order is meeting in front of Hogwarts," Andromeda informed. Remus felt himself sigh woefully. "There's a battle…the Death Eaters are closing in on the grounds and they need everyone there…"

Tonks shook her head. "Teddy…what about Teddy…?"

"Oh, you're not going, Dora. No way in hell are you setting foot near that battle. But Remus…" Andromeda looked up at Remus.

Tonks turned around. "Oh no…no, Remus, you're staying here too…with me…"

"You're better at defensive spells than anyone else in the Order," said Andromeda. "They'd be in deep water without every person possible armed and ready at the front."

Remus felt the anxious eyes of Tonks and Andromeda staring him down, waiting for his answer. Teddy cooed in Tonks' arms.

Remus felt himself leave the scene as Tonks and Andromeda continued to stare at him.

Tonks could see the lights from her house in the distance as she ran cautiously, nursing her wounded knee. The night wasn't doing her any favors either. She was afraid she was going to trip again. If hadn't left her wand with Remus, she'd have light.

Suddenly Tonks stopped. She sensed something wasn't right. She needed to be quieter. Who was behind her? Because somebody was…

"R…Remus?" Tonks asked quietly. "Are you coming after all…?"

Tonks turned around, but it wasn't Remus behind her.

Tonks felt herself behind grabbed. She flailed and fought, but whoever had just grabbed her had a tight grip. She felt a warm, moist breath hit her neck as her attacker spoke.

"Well, if it isn't little Nymphie!"

Tonks shuddered as she recognized her Aunt Bellatrix.

"I'm unarmed! Lemme go, Aunt Bella!"

"You're no relative of mine," hissed Bellatrix. "You're coming with me!"

"What do you want with me?!" Tonks writhed and fought, but the Patronus had drained a lot of her energy.

"I want to see your breathless body tumbling over and over in the air amid green flames…" Bellatrix hissed.

Tonks tried to scream, but Bellatrix covered her mouth.

"Calm down, Nymphie! Trust me, if I were doing this for my own pleasure, you'd have been dead four minutes ago…but I'm here for the Dark Lord's purpose as well as my own. First, we take care of some sloppy business that you got yourself into. I'm going to kill two owls with one shot…where's your half-breed bedmate, Remus Lupin?" asked Bellatrix.

Tonks didn't speak.

"I knew you wouldn't speak…I also know what can cure that in a heartbeat…" Bellatrix threw Tonks to the ground.

"Do whatever the hell you want. I'd die for Remus, so be prepared," Tonks warned. "You're just damn lucky I don't have my wand with me!"

Bellatrix grinned, chuckled, and licked her lips. This was her favorite part. She pointed her wand at Tonks, who bravely sat still and didn't move.

"CRUCIO!"