A/N i own NOTHING (sits in a corner and sulks)
Here you are beautiful people
It had been 3 days since Tonks and Remus Lupin were rescued. In those 3 days Sirius had only left the room when he was forced to go and take a shower but other than that he ate, slept and waited in there. Poppy had made a few appearances to see how the couple were and either Molly or Minerva were in the room at all times.
An emergency order meeting was called to the library. once every one was gathered in the room Poppy started to explain what they were all doing there.
"Remus is doing really well, he's right on track, his body is at the correct healing stage and i think he will be strong enough to wake in a few more days."
"That's brilliant!" Arthur exclaimed.
"We thought there was something wrong" Bill added.
"Please let me finish" Poppy said and the happy, relieved look on everyone's faces disappeared "Tonks isn't healing right, well actually she isn't healing at all."
"Wait! What! What do you mean?" Sirius stood looking concerned.
"What i mean Mr. Black is that she has exactly the same injuries as the day you brought her back. The bruising is not fading and her cuts are not healing." Poppy stopped explaining for a second.
Molly was sat on a chair next to Dora's bed holding her hand with tears of worry and fear in her eyes. Molly loved Tonks like she loved her own children and the fact that she wasn't getting better scared her to no end. Turning away from Molly, Poppy explained what has been going on. "We have used almost used a full bottle of skele gro; her bones are still broken and two tubs of cream for her bruised; if anything they've gotten darker. i honestly don't no what's going on. I've never seen anything like it before. im doing some research back at the school but so far i have come up with nothing."
"So Dora's not getting better, is she getting any worse?" Mad-Eye's brain was working overtime to figure what was going on.
"No, there is no change for better or worse." Poppy answered "I'm going to go back to the school to do some more research; i will be back in two days to wake Mr. Lupin. If you need me you know where i am."
Poppy disappeared into the fireplace.
"Look i know none of us want to think about this, but what if She doesn't want to get better and wake up." Kingsley stated.
"Are you Serious? Are we talking about the same woman here?" The stress and pain of the past week came flooding out. Sirius started to completely break down "THIS IS NYMPHADORA TONKS, AND AUROR. SHE'S NOT SOME SCHOOL CHILD. SHE A FIGHTER, SHES STRONG" his shouting turned to sobs as he sank to the ground, "she won't give up, she can't, i..i ne..need her, i ne...need them." Molly knelt down and pulled Sirius into her arms, Rocking him side to side she whispered in his ear over and over again,
"shhhh it's ok, their home safe now, everything is going to be ok, they're going to be ok." As Sirius cried into Molly's arms the rest of the order walked out and closed the door. All hoping that Molly was right, that everything was going to be ok.
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The next two days passed slowly, there was no change in Dora's condition and Remus was improving more and more by the day.
It was lunchtime at Grimmauld Place when Poppy walked into the kitchen.
"I'm going to wake Remus up in a few minutes," she told the group of exhausted people, "it will be a lot of strain on his body and mind, so i will only allow some of you in there. Molly, Minerva, Sirius, Mad-Eye and Kingsley, if you will please follow me."
The small group followed Poppy into the library, Kingsley was the last in and closed the door.
"I'm going to warn you all now, this might not work, it all depends on Remus and his state of mind. Now Mr. Black if you wouldn't mind coming over to the other side of the bed, I'm sure Remus will like to see your face when he wakes."
"I'm not sure anyone would like to see that face when they wake up" said Kingsley, trying to lighten the mood of the room a little and everyone let out a small chuckle.
Sirius stands by Remus' bed. Poppy starts to run her wand over his body and a thin wire of light fly's over his body. Poppy pulls her wand away, but nothing has happened. Remus is not awake.
"it didn't work" Sirius said extremely disappointed.
"Just give him a few minutes Mr. Black, Why don't you try talking to him." Sirius reached down for Remus hand.
"Common now Moony its time to wake up." Sirius looked up at poppy who just nodded at him to keep going "Common Moony how much bloody sleep do you need. Open your eyes, so you can talk some sense into your wife over there" Everyone in the room looked over at Dora's bed, she was still covered in cuts, bruises and looked awful "She is being a pain in my ass and you're both worrying us." Sirius felt Remus' fingers in his hand twitch "Common Moony, i no you can hear me, i swear to merlin if you do not wake up now i am going to find your chocolate stash and scoff it all in front of you."
"Lay a h...hand on my st...stash and...i will h...hex you pa...Padfoot" Remus whispered, but the room was so quite everyone heard.
"REMUS!" Molly yelled as fresh tears fell down her face.
"Welcome to the land of the conscious Mr. Lupin, how are you feeling?, are you in any pain?" Poppy said with a massive smile on her face. She had always had a soft spot for the man ever since his first year at Hogwarts.
"Dora p...please tell...me y...you found...her, i...s she o...k?" Remus begged as he tried to move. Sirius rested his hand on Remus' shoulders and pushed him onto the bed.
"Remus you need to stay still for me, you still have a lot of healing to do." Poppy told him in a stern voice.
"No, wh...where's Dora?" Remus splattered still trying to move. Kingsley moved to hold his feet down on the bed.
"Moony do as the woman says" Sirius whispered "she has the pain potions"
"no i do..don't care about pa...pain potions, i n...need to know i...if my wife...is ok"
Molly walked over to the bed, put her hand on his head and stroked his hair trying to get him to calm down.
"Shhhh Dear, Tonk's is doing Ok she is just over there, but you need to calm down, what good would you be to her if you make your injuries worse?"
He stopped fighting realizing that Molly was right. Remus looked towards the other bed and saw his wife on it.
She looked terrible worse than the last time he saw her. Flashes for what Greyback did to her in front of him filled his mind, he started shaking uncontrolled. Remus wasn't sure if it was out of fear of anger. A single tear rolled down the side of his face onto the pillow. He couldn't take his eyes off her.
"Poppy what's going on he's shaking" Sirius panicked "Moony what is it? what's wrong? talk to me!"
"He ra..ra..ra, He hurt her Padfoot" Remus mumbles. Sirius didn't need him to continue. He knew what Remus was talking about.
More tears stained the pillow as Sirius tried to comfort the other marauder.
"We know Moony, shhhh everything's going to be ok, You're both home safe now. Plus you know our Dora, she's a fighter, she'll pull through, she always dose.. She's going to be OK you both are i promise you Moony." As Sirius was talking, Remus could feel the darkness closing in around him again. He tried to fight it. He wanted to be there for Tonks but it was too strong it over took his body, his hand in Sirius' went limp.
"Moony wake up! Poppy what's happening?" Sirius asked the healer worriedly.
"It's ok Mr. Black, I should have warned you about this too, i didn't expect him to stay conscious for long"
"What?"
"Remus is unconscious, i was expecting it. his body is too weak to stay alert for too long and all the struggling he just did. took a lot of energy. He should wake again tomorrow and when he does, we all NEED to keep him calm."
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The sun was rising through the windows bathing the sick couple in its light. Sirius hadn't left the library since Remus fell unconscious and Molly and Minerva were taking it in turns to give potions and apply creams. It was Molly's turn, she finished covering Remus' wounds and went to move over to Tonks. Although she wasn't healing at all they didn't want to stop the attempt at healing her as it might have been helping in some way. Molly cleaning a cut Tonks had on her arm when she noticed the swelling on her broken wrist had gone down. Molly walked over to the fire place, put her head in.
"Poppy i would like you to have a look at something". As soon as Molly pulled herself out the fireplace Poppy walked through. Sirius got up from his chair.
"Molly what's wrong?"
"Look at Tonks' broken wrist" Molly told the confused pair. They both went over to Tonks, Poppy waved her wand over her wrist.
"it's healed?" moving her wand over the rest of Dora's body "and so has one of her ribs. I don't understand" She looked at Molly and Sirius, "How, have you done anything different in the past day than you have in the past 5 days?" molly shook her head. They all sat there thinking. All of a sudden there was a low growl coming from behind them. They all turned round to see Remus waking up. Sirius walked over and took his hand.
"Dora?" Remus whispered.
"no sorry to disappoint you Moony but it's me. it's Padfoot" Sirius told his friend with a small smile.
"Oh" he replied.
"OI! don't sound too pleased to see me Moony" Sirius commented back pretending to sound sad but with a smile on his face.
"Sorry *cough* to dent your ego Padfoot *cough* but i was hoping you were my wife. how is she?" Poppy walked over to stand by Remus' bed.
"i will answer all your questions Remus but first i want you to promise you will stay calm, you won't move from this bed and if i say enough you except it, otherwise i will have to sedate you. Do you understand and agree?" Remus' eyes opened wider in fear he didn't like the way this was going.
"What's wrong your scaring me" Remus said slightly trembling. in all the years Sirius had known Remus, he had never admitted he was scared.
"Do you understand Mr. Lupin" Poppy repeated. He watched Molly sit on the edge of his bed, then to Sirius slope down to the seat by his bed. Remus nodded in agreement.
"Ok. Tonks is ill Remus. Very sick, we were hoping that by this point she would have made a lot more progress".
Molly took over talking.
"you have both been back for 5 days dear and only a few of her broken bones have healed." Molly, Poppy and Sirius watched Remus' reaction. His face paled, breathing got faster and his eyes filled with tears.
"What's going to happen next?" he asked taking a deep breath trying to control his emotions.
"first what we want is for you to concentrate on getting yourself better dear. Let us worry about Dora" Molly patted him on his leg.
"No I want to know what you are going to do about my wife!" if he could have yelled he would have. He couldn't control his emotions anymore.
The tears started to fall and he was finding it harder to breath than it already was.
"Mr. Lupin, remember I said stay calm please. I have a few theories of what is going on with your wife and her condition. Once I have done a little more research I will come and tell you all about them" the other three people in the room were looking at poppy with complete and utter confusion "but until that time comes, I am going to give you a dreamless sleep potion Mr. Lupin, you need all the rest you can get." She took a potion bottle off the side of the table and without even asking Remus she slowly tipped it in his mouth. Once Remus had swallowed the liquid he turned his head to his battered and broken wife and sighed.
"don't worry Remus we won't give up on her, on either of you." Molly tried to erasure Remus. He started to feel even more tired than a minute ago. His eyes started to close, before he drifted off to sleep he said to his wife.
"don't give up on me Nymphadora, I need you." His eyes drifted shut for the last time that day.
As Sirius watched Remus fall asleep a thought popped into his head.
"what is happening with the wolfsbane potion. The full moon Is in 4 days what are we going to do?"
"well I have bill brewing the potion in the kitchen as we speak that should be ready to give him by the time he wakes up but it's going to erase all the progress he has made in the last few days. I was hoping he would be a lot stronger but there is nothing I can do. We will have to move him to the basement and someone will have to stay with him all night but we still have a few days yet so let's concentrate of the matter at hand." poppy finished.
"so what do you think is going on with Dora?" asked Sirius looking shattered.
"well I have a few more books to look through, I will come back and examine her again then I will let you know" poppy walked over to the fireplace quickly and before Molly or Sirius could say anything she was gone.
A/N thankyou all for the reviews I'm having a hard time finishing this soo hmmmmm well I'm getting there, BUT remember the more reviews i get the faster my muse comes back and my fingers connect with my keyboard again ;) *hint hint*
anyway i have to go into hospital for a few days so don't expect anything more chapters till the end of the week sorry but don't fret I'm not giving up on it. Karma is waiting for your reviews
AJ x