Chapter 2
Knock, knock. Lupin awaked and yawned. 'Who's…' he muttered vaguely.
But the door openend, with a laughing Mrs. Weasley behind it.
'Good morning, Remus,' she smiled. 'Good morning,' he responded, while he trew off his blankets and grasped his jeans and T-shirt. 'Can I-' he begun, but Mrs. Weasley already closed the door. He heard her walking down the stairs. He put on his clothes.
Accidentally, he caught his own reflection in the old-fashioned, small mirror.
A suprised looking man, with light brown hair and delicate features, strared back at him.
Hello, little werewolf, he thought to himself, goodmorning. He saw himself grinning wary. He put on a pair of socks and walked down, to the ground floor.
Rapidly, he smelled that Mrs. Weasley had cooked a sizable British breakfast.
Lupin opened the door. 'Morning, Remus!' said Tonks happily. Her hair had a darker hue than the day before: now it was fuchsia pink. 'Goodmorning,' he replied, and took the plate Mrs. Weasley had gave him. 'Looking forward?' asked Tonks, while she examined him. Lupin took a chair beside her and started to eat. Mrs. Weasley watched them, and already started to do the washing-up. 'Well...' Lupin began, 'to be honest, I do not know. And you?'
'I think I will agree with you,' she smiled.
After breakfast, they dicided to leave. Mrs. Weasley wished them good luck, and hugged them tightly. 'Look after yourself, Remus,' she wispered, while tears were shining in her eyes.
'I will, Molly,' said Lupin. 'Please, don't worry.' Mrs. Weasley nodded and let go of him.
Tonks had caught his eye. She was smiling excitidly at him.
They took their suitcase (they had no idea of how long it would take: Tonks expected that the Ministry would give them futher instructions) and walked out of Grimmauld Place 12.
Because it was to dangerous to Apparate, they took the train to the hospital.
These days, every magical way of travelling was checked out. It was pretty annoying,
but it was better to travel slowely than unsafely.
They said little while travelling per train, both caught in their own thoughts.
But some minutes before arriving, Lupin asked Tonks a question what had been bothering him for a lot of hours. 'Tonks?' he asked slowely, 'how do you think we have to take care of these children?' Tonks looked away from the window she had been gazing through
for a long time. 'I mean,' Lupin continued, 'Molly did not knew exactly either, does she? What does 'have to take care' means? Is it just…you know…' Lupin hesitated a bit.
'...teaching how to deal with their new shape?' It took a few minutes before Tonks answered.
'I think so. What else could be do? But... I mabye expect the Minister to send more bitten children. They all need to hear the exact facts of their... shape.
Who else could it do better than someone with experience? Then you?'
'Thank you,' said Lupin.
Again, there fell silence between them. They stared at each other a few moments, without saying a word. But quickly, the train stopped and they had arrived at their destination.
They took their suitcase and walked through the crowded streets of London.
It was difficult to stay together in these broad, modern and crammed streets.
They even lost each other a few times, but were lucky to find the other quickly, again.
Finally, there was St. Mungo's. Tonks and Lupin walked to the ugly, old fashioned building and stepped through the glass like veil of the window, into the hospital.