Chapter twenty-one 'Honestly you're as stubborn as Harry!'
"Kingsley she's waking up?" Gregory called into the fire at the end of the day as Tonks finally started to stir.
"Where the hell am I?" She asked rubbing her eyes and trying to sit up a bit.
"You're in the Aura's HQ, don't you remember passing out in Kingsley's office when you finally got into work?" Gregory asked coming over to Tonks with a glass of potion and forcing it in her hand so she drank it.
"Err no, not really. What was I doing in his office he never talks to me in there? I mean, it's not as if I'm ever going to make aura of the month now is it?" She mocked just as Kingsley strode into the room.
"I some how doubt it very much Nymphadora Tonks. Now please enlighten me, what the hell's going on with you?" He asked firmly standing ridged and square towards Tonks as Gregory took a back seat to watch in slight amusement. If only he knew how to magic up some popcorn without Kingsley noticing.
"I was hoping you could tell me sir. Gregory said I pasted out, why?" She asked weakly unaware of how cross Kingsley was at the moment.
"You're exhausted Tonks!" He snapped back at her in his only not-so-aggressive way.
"Well, I knew I was getting a bit tired recently but I'm not exhausted." Tonks replied sitting up and rubbing her knee then quickly grabbed her throbbing forehead, this had to be a headache to rival some of Harry's she was sure of it.
"Actually you've burnt out Tonks. Too much work not enough sleep and your body's crashed out completely." Gregory explained.
"Oh. I see!' She mumbled remembering just why one of the reason's she was so tired and hoped to some how conceal it from her boss.
'It's not as if I work any harder than anybody else, I'm not bloody useless ya know!" She snapped defensively.
"Now that I know is not true. You work harder than the rest of the team to keep up and prove you not useless. And at the moment you're burnt out and I might add totally useless, you've been sleeping in here all day."
"I have?" She asked in total disbelief.
"Yes, now do you remember what you were doing after you left work last night?" He asked firmly but thankfully for Tonks's head not quiet so loud.
"Err, bits and pieces. I err, went to the, err, Manky pub for a bit and then I went out for a walk, I think, and then it's all a bit of a blur after that." She explained trying her best to think hard but Kingsley was eying her carefully. The truth was she had been to see Sirius and then the rest of it had been a bit of a very good and exciting blur once she got hold of Remus's book.
"Can the bar tender vouch for you?" He asked knowing full well he was talking about Sirius and it wasn't as if he ever left the place.
"Oh yes, I'm pretty sure he saw me leave, it wasn't busy at the time." Tonks explained meaning she'd gone and had dinner with Sirius and then left quiet sober.
"Well I'll be checking you were there and for now I shall leave it at that, I've got more important things to worry about than you."
"I know, I've buggered up again." Tonks replied feeling this could hardly be it all.
"Yes you have, but I don't want people to know about this, Podmore's already seen you in such a state but I've had words with him. I'm docking next months pay and giving you a few bum assignments for a while and signing you off work till Monday so you can get some rest. Then I want you back, bright eyed and bushy tailed at the farm by seven on Monday morning."
"I guessed the rest but why are you signing me off work?" Tonks asked jumping up behind him but suddenly swaying slightly as she got a sudden head rush and was in danger of fainting again.
"That's why! You need some rest, now can I send you easily back to your mothers or do I have to get Podmore to drag you there by you're your hair?" He asked sarcastically but Tonks knew either way Podmore was going to follow her.
"You can't send me to my mothers, I'm not totally useless ya' know! And she'd go mad when she sees me like this!" Tonks grumbled supporting herself with the wall.
"Oh I'm counting on it! But fine, have it your way then. PODMORE COME HERE!" He bellowed down the hallway to hear sudden quick heavy footsteps.
"Yes sir?" He asked quickly heading into the room.
"Take Tonks home and make sure she stay's there, will you.' He sighed getting ready to leave but before he reached the doorway he turned and added.
'Remember bright eyed and bushy tailed Monday morning." He added with an evil grin leaving Tonks to pull herself together, grab a few things from her locker and head home through the floo network with Podmore.
"You know I think you got off easy." He explained stepping out into Mrs Tonks's overly full kitchen.
"Easy, he's docked my pay for next month and signed me off work. And don't you dare tell me mother why!" She added hearing her mother come in from the garden.
"Hmm, come to give me an explanation then have we, for smashing into my baby seedlings?" She mused in the formidable way mothers do.
"Can you keep her hear Mrs Tonks so I don't have to?" Podmore asked politely smiling to her.
"Why's that?" Mrs Tonks asked firmly standing with a hand on her hips and a trawl in the other one, wand firmly lodged into a ball of black hair at the back of her head.
"She needs her rest and you're the best one to give it to her.' Podmore grinned then whispered in Tonks's ear before turning to leave.
'At least you've got an over affectionate board cousin to scrounge off when you run out of cash. I'll be seeing you soon Tonks." He grinned sarcastically as he left Tonks to her parents.
"Is that my Nymphi I hear crashing around the place?" Ted called from the living room.
"Yes dad it's me." Tonks sighed leading the way to sit down in the living room with both her confused parents.
It didn't take long to explain and after ten minuets she was sent upstairs to bed and told not to come out until she could at least heal her face and change her hair colour back to something shocking and vexingly bright. Andromeda was rather annoyed by the burnt out state Tonks had got herself into but thanks to Ted, she kept her opinions to herself, mostly, well, she could have been worse and a little louder if she tried more.
Three days in bed and Tonks was feeling much better and happily sat down stairs with her dad fully dressed for a late breakfast. Mrs Tonks had gone out into the green house when they heard a knock at the door.
"Go get it will ya, my legs can't be doing with all this jumping around." Her father called in his usual lazy manner. His legs could probably benefit from the walk about but he often just couldn't be bothered and particularly enjoyed playing the bit of the old man.
"Remus what are you doing here?" Tonks asked looking nervous as she held the door open for Lupin to step in.
"Err, Snuffles told me you'd been signed off work for a bit and we were, err, kind of worried about you. He err, wanted me to give you this." He quickly added pulling a brown paper bag out of his pocket and handing it to Tonks.
"Oh he's branched out in to fire whisky buns has he now!" Tonks wondered looking at the little balls of Fire-Whisky buns in a plain metal tub, complete with little hand piped 'eat me' messages on them. Rapping them back up safely Tonks headed back into the living room with Remus limping again behind her.
"Oh hello Remus, I see we haven't quiet frightened you off yet have we." Ted asked politely standing up to shake Lupin's hand.
"No not yet." Remus replied but he felt himself drawn to looking at Tonks more than her father, however he did seem strangely comforted by the fact that this meeting can't really be as bad as the last even if he tried.
"Well I think I might go have a little pester of a walk. See if I can't spot the odd slug in her garden and squish it with me walking stick." Ted added not so subtly leaving the room and closing the door before picking up his cane and exaggerating his limp out into the garden to see his wife.
"You didn't have to come see me, I was just tired that's all." Tonks explained taking a hold of Lupin's arm and pulling him to sit by her on the sofa. He however was clearly holding back still.
"You pasted out cold in his office though?"
"Does everybody know?" Tonks suddenly asked a little frightened by the embarrassment of her tale getting taller and taller as it was past around the order meeting. Molly Weasley wasn't known for playing things down.
"No, Kingsley told Sirius and probably Dumbledore and Sirius told me. He's worried about you. I'm worried about you." He added looking away but Tonks turned his face back to her firmly.
"I'm fine, I just figured ignorance was better than err, well, the truth in this case. You didn't tell Sirius what we were doing did you?" She suddenly wondered.
"Oh god no, he'd go nuts! He thinks you've got flu or something and he's completely unbearable and he's driving me up the wall, like I could stand all the exploding furniture being thrown in my direction if I told him the truth?" Lupin quickly added still feeling a bit on the uncomfortable side.
"I guess, I said I left his house and went for a walk and that I must have been walking all night but can't really remember much." Tonks explained.
"I told him you came to talk to me before work and well he's a bit confused, I tidied up best I could but you wore me out." Lupin explained but Tonks merely grinned glad Remus had finally come to see her. She'd been hoping for it ever since she'd had a bit of nap and had the awful feeling Sirius might have frightened him off.
"Wore you out, I've been signed off work because they think I work too hard." Tonks giggled leaning in closer to Lupin.
"Yeah well you do. You work so hard you could do with a rest even if it's just for a bit." Lupin explained moving a bit closer to Tonks.
"What did you tell Sirius about the room, it was a wreck, you broke the sodding bed?" She whispered with another grin.
"Not much, but I keep eating rare steak it's weird, I have it for breakfast and Sirius always over cooks it." He explained thoughtfully wondering if he should have brought some to eat on the way home. Judging by Ted's explanations he wasn't likely to get it so liberally dealt out in this house hold.
"You do? Oh well, I guess I can understand that, you really were very, err, wolfie weren't you." She grinned in her off-hand still-quiet-tired-way but Lupin had one more thing he had to know before he could relax around Tonks.
"I didn't hurt you did I, like before. I'd hate it if I did, but I'd hate it even more if you didn't tell me." He asked honestly.
"Oh no I feel fine. No tension, no nothing just tired that's all and I don't half have some lovely dreams in the night.' She explained before leaning in very close to Lupin's ear to finish her sentence.
'And I don't half wake up wet though in the morning!" She added gently making all the hair on Lupin's neck stand up on end as she did.
"You shouldn't tease me I'm still prone to randy out burst you know. I spend half me time these days having cold baths to try and cool off." He replied suddenly holding Tonks's back so she couldn't move away from him again. Tonks however was pleased Lupin wanted her near him because she wanted to be near him too. And soon rapped her hands around him for a tight hug, he wanted to smell her warm hair and she wanted him to hold her like he did in the morning after such a brilliant night.
"So you do still like me then, it wasn't all just a one night fling was it?" She asked moving to look him dead in the eye.
"No. Nothing of the sort, I wanted you so much and I still do! And not just for mad all night sex either. Though if your feeling up to it I'm not exactly a busy person at the minuet, Sirius won't let me out much." He gently chuckled but Tonks wanted to kiss him and so she did, despite the curtain into the conservatory was open and her mum and dad were spying on them from down the garden.
"See I told you. Give 'em a bit of room and you might yet get your grandkids yet!" Ted explained glad his little walk had done some good even if he hadn't managed to find any slugs to squish.
"I guess, but she's been so fed up recently. And we've hardly heard anything about him for weeks now, that can't have all changed now can it?" She wondered.
"When has it ever been a smooth and easy road for our daughter, she's hardly the most graceful person in the world knocking everything over at least twice and works with all those men, no wonder she's forgot how to be a girl?" Ted explained sitting down on the stool next to his wife and letting his hand slide round her lovely womanly bottom.
"I guess, but he seems such an old fashioned sort of man. Not at all like my dear sweet Sirius. I wonder what she see's in him, she's always been into fast and dangerous things and he's the total opposite?" Andromeda wondered still a bit skeptical about the whole situation. She was sure she new their Nymphadora better than Ted did and was loathed to be proven wrong by him.
"If our daughter wants to date and fall in love with a nice, cleaver, sensible man that leads a normal safe life and wants to take care of her and is actually frightened of motorbikes, then who are we to complain.' Ted decided firmly, then looking up at his wife with a devilish grin.
'Your mum went nuts when you ran off with a devilishly handsome young man, with fast cars, dangerous motorbikes and a reputation for being a right ladies man didn't she." He grinned but Andromeda had a witty come back all ready and waiting as per usual.
"Yeah and then I came back and married you, a wanna-be Teddy boy with no job and clapped out old banger of a car." She grinned kissing him gently on the cheek.
She was trying her best not to notice Tonks and Lupin's sudden making out on the sofa that seemed to be resulting in her half climbing on top of him and disappearing down and out of eyeshot. They could be up to anything by now and she didn't want to be pushed out her own house by a randy couple on the sofa.
"Are you trying to seduce me Remus?" Tonks suddenly asked with a devilish grin on her face not unlike her fathers.
"Yes, you got a problem with that?" He asked blankly in her ear as he started kissing behind it.
"No course not! Mother might though, if she comes in and finds us in an unsuitable position again, as she puts it." Tonks laughed making Lupin realise just what he was thinking about doing, may not be quiet appropriate for the living room.
"Ok, I'm sitting up now, but err, can you come see me soon. I'm sure we could slip summit in his drink so he gets a good night sleep or something." Lupin grinned sitting up and leaning back so Tonks could rest her head on his chest and curl her legs up.
"That sounds like fun, but for now I think I'll have a little nap. Do you have to rush off anywhere?" She asked sleepily.
"No not really. Padfoot doesn't want me to leave until I've got him another goody bag from your mother.' He replied putting his arm casually around her shoulders and stroking her too familiar black hair.
'You can just go to sleep if you want, I don't mind, I'll sit here quiet happy with you.' He replied softly stroking her hair and watching her face relax as she started to drift off. Lupin sat quietly with her for just over half an hour before Ted and Andromeda came back into the house to check Lupin wasn't shagging her brains out or something again.
At first Andromeda seemed a little surprised to find Tonks with her head in Remus's lap but as soon as she worked out Tonks was actually fast to sleep she seemed to soften a bit and came to sit down with her husband in her own arm chair.
'She err, fell asleep on me." Lupin explained seeing Ted's amused look.
"Oh well at least she's sleeping again. I can't believe she let herself get in such a state, she was so tired when she turned up here, I had to help her get changed." She explained pulling out a bit of knitting from the side of her chair. Thankfully Ted had insisted she didn't nit baby booties in front of Remus, it might make him a bit nervous and really scare him off for good.
"I know but well.' He paused then remembering how highly they thought of Sirius started another topic.
'Sirius sends his love. He wanted me to ask you for another goodie bag. He said he really enjoyed that book you gave him." Lupin explained seeing the older lady's face light up again.
"Oh he did, I'm so pleased. He used to love that book when he was a little boy and of course I'll send you back with some more packing up." She smiled looking back over to Ted who merely rolled his eyes at her starry eyed face.
'Flaming doting mothers!' He grumbled to himself.
"How've you been keeping then Remus?" Ted continued politely.
"Fine I guess, well, as healthy as I'll ever be. It was nice having Harry back for half term recently. He doesn't half brighten the place up."
"I imagine a young man like that would. And I hope some day he'd come with Sirius so we can meet him." Andromeda added.
"I'm sure he'd like that. Both of them." Remus quickly added.
Not long later Remus decided it was best to leave and after helping Tonks up to bed with a watchful eye of her mother he did. He really was tired now and after trying to keep awake decided really, he should go back to Sirius as there was an order meeting later and rumour of Tonks being ill had probably spread by a little help from the dratted Mrs Weasley.
After kicking her out his house Remus decided it was probably best not to leave Sirius alone with anyone else, as recently he became prone to behaving a little bit too honestly in company and Remus was sure it couldn't lead to anything good while Sirius was involved.
Heading into the house to find Sirius just shoving a few chairs around in the dinning room he came bounding in to ask about Tonks and was almost happy when he received his little goody bag from Remus. Unfortunately quiet a few people had already started arriving as they sat down to talk about her, one of which was Mrs Weasley who although wouldn't dare come near them without her husband, was now edging closer to listen in until Sirius firmly got up and slammed the door shut on the gathering meeting and Mrs Weasley.
"So she seems ok though?" Sirius asked quietly looking at Remus who had drifted somewhat.
"What, oh yes. She was worn out still though, I had to carry her back up to bed for Andromeda. She was ever so pleased when I told her you were worried about Tonks and slipped you in another book I think." Remus mumbled blinking firmly to try and keep his eyes open.
"Are you sure you're ok? I only let you go out because I thought the fresh air would do you some good but you still look really weird Moony." Sirius asked keeping his goodie bag safe until he could open it later in the safety of his room.
"Yes I'm fine, stop fussing. I just don't seem to be doing too well this month that's all. Maybe it's coming up to a blue moon or something?" He wondered swaying a little bit in his seat.
"Why don't you just go to bed, I'll tell them what you said if they ask and it'll give me something to do anyway?" He explained gently really quiet worried about his friend, the worst part of it was that Sirius didn't know any werewolf's to ask if Remus was normal of it something really was seriously wrong with him. In all his years of watching werewolf Remus chew on things he'd never seen him behave like this before.
"No chance, what, leave you alone with that women? You'll have the place arguing within minuets. Besides, I'm fine and I'd rather tell Moody myself, he seemed a little worried about her when he came the other day didn't he. Besides, you have no bloody tack Padfoot!" Remus finished firmly standing up and striding into the room despite swaying a little as he did.
Sirius quickly followed and chose to lean in his usual little corner opposite Remus so he could watch every body when he got board. He knew he shouldn't really do this, but as long as he didn't interfere or cause a problem Dumbledore seemed to allowed him.
Tonight it was rather an important meeting as most the inner order had gathered together. He tried his best to follow and listen properly but struggled as he watched Emille Valance in her lovely green blouse and shawl standing opposite with a calm expression and extremely pretty eyes, and then two bodies down Remus, who was looking dodgier by the minuet until towards the end, he missed a direct question.
"Are you ok Remus you seem to be swaying?" Dumbledore asked curiously as Sirius began quietly to move around the edge of the room.
"Yes I'm fine, just, just a bit dizzy that's all." He tried to reply staggering slightly to his left as Moody tried to hold him up.
"Well you certainly don't look it." McGonagall added watching curiously as Sirius managed to grab him round the head as he finally toppled down on the floor with a thud knocking a chair sideways in a lame attempt to support himself up.
"Honestly you're as stubborn as Harry sometimes!" Sirius sighed whacking him round the face to see if he'd fallen unconscious yet. He hadn't.
"I'm not that bad." He tried to grumble before drifting off into his own odd subconscious. Opening the door just behind him Sirius grabbed him by the shoulders and dragged him though the room until Bill moved quickly across to grab his legs and help Sirius hoist his heavy body up onto a sofa.
"God I've gotta stop feeding him steak!" Sirius grumbled carefully pulling a blanket out and rapping it around him warmly in the slightly cold now rarely used room.
"Do you think he will be ok?" Dumbledore asked as Bill returned to his seat and Sirius leaned on the door frame.
"He's been really quiet ill for a while now, but he's too stubborn to admit it!" Sirius sighed quietly.
"As stubborn as Harry?" Dumbledore continued slightly amused by Sirius calm reaction.
"Oh you've got to admit, he aint half as stubborn as his mother sometimes.' At this though, anybody who had spent time with Harry at school smirked and looked away to cover their amusement at Sirius who was also about as stubborn as Harry. Sirius however rubbed his forehead to begin again after Remus.
'Erm yeah, apparently Tonks seemed ok when he went to see her today, but she's still a bit off, that might have more to do with the grilling she got off her mother for being in such a state though." Sirius explained plainly looking across to Dumbledore and ignoring everybody else in the room like he often accidentally seemed to do.
It was only a recent thing that he'd finally remembered how to acknowledge the person he was talking to without coming across as totally blank and to talk to a full room was still a bit of a difficulty for him, he could talk loud enough so other people could hear him he just had a habit of ignoring everyone when they happened to look at him.
"Did Remus say if she would be fit for work on Monday or anything else?" Moody asked butting into the conversation and taking Sirius a little by surprised. He'd forgotten there was anybody else around.
"Yeah, sounds like she'll manage ok. Just needed some rest that was all. Erm, if there isn't anything else, I'd rather stop through here with him for now? I found him rolling down the stairs the other day and I'm beginning to wonder what's up with him."
Sirius explained gesturing behind him and after seeing the nod of agreement from Dumbledore quickly left closing the door and lighting a fire in the great. He knew Remus preferred hotter rooms nearer a full moon and hoped it might help. Failing that he was just going to lounge out and contemplate what might be going on around him with the wonderful possibility of a quick smoke before bed.
"Rolling down the stairs, well that doesn't sound like him. Shall we continue?" Dumbledore wondered turning back to the rest of the group.
"Oi, Remus, are you awake?" Sirius called seeing Remus stirring finally while he munched on his dinner.
"What? Yes I suppose I'm awake. What happened to me?" Lupin asked groggily sitting up and rubbing his eyes a little too roughly so they turned red.
"You past out cold in the middle of an order meeting, don't you remember?"
"No not really. I remember talking to Tonks and then coming here, but after that, I hasn't a clue." He grumbled eyeing Sirius's half eaten dinner a little too avidly.
"Oh well you did, so I left you in hear snoozing. You've been out cold for ages ya know, I was almost thinking about getting worried about you." He explained lounging back in his chair.
"Only almost thinking about it?"
"Well I am a bit slow some times aren't I and unlike Harry, you're usually quiet capable of looking after yourself."
"I err, didn't say owt, err, odd did I?"
"Some rumberling about steak when I tried wafting me dinner under you nose earlier but apart from that, you're been as cold as a door knob.' Sirius eyed his friend carefully as he sat up and yanked the duvet tighter around himself.
'Are you feeling any better?"
"A little, how long have I been asleep?"
"Most the day." Sirius replied casually.
"Err, when's the next full moon, I might have to start taking me potion again soon?" Lupin wondered sure this was normally the case, he was hardly of the manky stuff.
"Yeah you do, arsehole dropped it off last night. I put it in your room. But I think you're about a week off."
"Oh, I was hoping I'd have longer than that. This month's been totally crap. It's totally unfair, even mardy women don't get it this bad at a time of the month I'm sure!" At this Sirius laughed because although he'd never admit it, Lupin was at his prime sometimes like this. When he got about a week off a change he started behaving a bit more irrationally and would say things usually he wouldn't think or dare to, making Sirius feel a little less like the only nutter in the house. Harry tried to assure him he wasn't as long as Kresher was still around but Sirius didn't take this as much of a comfort.
"Arr, there's me little wolfie back. Why don't you go and sulk in the bath for a bit, it'll warm ya up while I bang around and we'll have some steak and chips for dinner later?"
"Don't call me wolfie!" Lupin snapped angrily, he knew Sirius was only trying to wind him up and usually he didn't rise, but that was Tonks pet name for him, and he didn't want Sirius ruining it.
"Oi, seriously go have a bath or something man, you've been dead grouchy recently!" Sirius decided now might not be the best time to wind him up, so in an attempt to save the friendship handed Lupin the rest of his dinner which he obviously seemed to want and left to go read his new book from Andromeda.
"So err, Ginny wants to know how Tonks is doing?"
"She's fine, just a bit tired really. Remus is the one still lounging around the place doing very little."
"Err, isn't that how he normally is?"
"No not exactly, he usually sulks, he's still a bit odd and I can't work it out. He sits around the house with me for days on end and then suddenly comes up with an excuse to go get something and half the time he forgets what he's gone out for."
"Well I'm sure it'll be ok Sirius." Harry yawned leaning into the light more.
"You ok Harry, you're looking ever so pale again. And tired, and thin for that matter?" Sirius added getting Harry a little annoyed.
"Is that all you have to say to me these days, that you think I'm getting a bit thin and pasty again?"
"I'm sorry Harry, but I can't help worrying about you. Maybe it's just the bad light." Sirius decided annoyed Harry was annoyed with him because he was just being remotely responsible and caring.
"I guess but still, I heard you the first time and I'm fine honestly, I'm just a bit on the tired side that's all. Now stop fussing and tell me how Tonks is." Harry complained resting his head more on the wall as it ached away.
"Err, she's fine Harry. Just a bit tired." Sirius repeated sure he wasn't going mad.
"Hmm." Harry mumbled in reply with his eyes half shut.
"What about Lupin, you said he past out cold recently?" Harry wondered still laying his head aside lazily and struggling to keep his eyes open as his head banged away in yet another headache.
"Yeah he's fine. You sure you're ok Harry?" Sirius wondered, clearly Harry seemed so tired he could hardly remember how the conversation was going. Sirius was sure he couldn't be the only one in the world getting a good day's sleep.
"Yes I'm fine, now stop having a go at me Sirius your as bad as Mr Weasley." At this though Sirius was sure Harry meant to say Mrs and not Mr but wasn't sure if it was a good idea to try and correct him. Harry was tired because of something but without getting the chance to have a good look at him Sirius was struggling to understand why.
"Have you got any homework you need to do tonight Harry?" Sirius asked carefully.
"Err, probably. Well just some reading for Dumbledore but other than that nothing particularly difficult I don't think. Well I hope not anyway." Harry replied sitting up more properly now and looking directly at Sirius as best he could.
"I just thought you might want to try and get an early night that's all before Quiddith tomorrow."
"Quidditch?"
"Yes Harry. Well I know you've been working hard this year and I thought maybe a good night's sleep can't do anything but help now can it?" Sirius decided sure Harry would have said something if he was ill, even if he made a big deal about not telling Dumbledore or something daft like that.
"Oh yeah course, Quidditch. That's tomorrow isn't it?" He wondered, but all of a sudden Sirius had the shocking revelation that Harry honestly couldn't remember if it was tomorrow or not. That wasn't very Harry-like he was sure.
"Yeah err, I don't mind if we carry on chatting tomorrow or something, if you want to go get some stuff done before bed." He explained at this though Harry merely yawned and decided maybe bed was a good idea.
"Ok, well I'll come talk to you tomorrow about half seven after dinner. I'll tell you how it went."
"That would be nice, so until tomorrow then?" He asked a little put out by the way things were these days, but still quiet glad Harry thought to come and talk to him regularly.
"Ok bye Sirius." Harry smiled putting the mirror face down on the floor so the connection broke as Sirius did the same.
"Oh, was that Harry you were talking too?" Remus asked finally coming into the room and forcing himself to be bright and chirpy now Sirius was worrying about him so often. Remus was adamant he didn't need worrying about and was glad Sirius had Harry to worry about too.
"Yeah, he seems ever so tired though and almost grouchy sometimes." Sirius mumbled putting the mirror away in his pocket and turning thoughtfully towards Lupin.
"Well it'll have been a hectic day or something. It sounds like he spends all his time doing homework or Quidditch these days and then his lesson's with Dumbledore must be draining for him. Dumbledore said they were quiet difficult some of the time, but still seemed to be coming along quiet nicely."
"I guess." Sirius decided glad Remus was making an effort to talk to him even if like Harry it was painful obvious he was just being humoured for company.
"And besides, if Dumbledore thought he wasn't well or something he would have said or done something about it wouldn't he?" Lupin reassured firmly.
"Oh ok. I just can't help worrying that's all." Sirius grumbled back disappointedly.