Tonk's couldn't help but watch in horror as the massive werewolf closed in on her, her eyes frozen open with fear and dread. Coming from a tiny window high above, golden, sparkling rays of dawn reached his feet and he stopped.
Slowly, his hulking form diminished in the growing sun. His long arms and legs shortened, his claws reverted to hands. She watched in amazement as the beasts' snout shrank, and his fearsome muzzle became a softly lined mouth. His fierce yellow eyes turned hazel. His wild fur changed into skin, his hair became light brown, with dignified streaks of silver.
She nearly dissolved in relief. Remus Lupin, exhausted, stumbled to the ground before her.
On the dirty cement floor behind them, she watched with awe as the sunlight transformed the body of the bloody, broken lycanthrope back into Greyback, clearly dead.
"Remus!" She evoked his name in a strangled cry before falling to her knees, deep alleviation collapsing her.
He recovered at her call and managed to stand up and limp over to her cell. He freed the lock with a wave of his wand. He was at her side immediately, pulling her up and landing a crashing, desperate kiss on her beautiful mouth before disapperating them both to St. Mungo's.
A short while later at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries...
Registered, Remus held her hand and could not look away from her as healers tended to her, bustling all around.
The sterile, white environment of the hospital room did nothing to calm him.
"Has she been..?" He demanded.
"No, sir. She's not been bitten."
Relief washed over his tired, blood stained face. Then a sharp concern returned as quickly. "Has she been..?"
"No sir. She's not been violated either. Just some bumps and scrapes and a bit of dehydration. She'll be ready to go home tonight. Now as for you, sir," the healer asked weary and tentative, as he'd already rejected previous attempts at help, feeling it would detract attention from her.
"I'm fine," he asserted stubbornly, despite the bone-deep pain that racked his limbs, and the oozing lacerations that covered him.
"Please Remus, let them look at you," Tonks admonished weakly from her bed.
He relented to her plea.
"Fine. But I'm not leaving her."
"We can do it in the same room, sir"
"Fine."
AN- Ya, I know it's short, more to come. Can't promise another speedy update, but at least you know Remus is ok. Review please. The joy of getting reviews thrills me to no end.