Still confused about the situation, the group followed Tonks back to her mother's house with a quick apparation. She and Remus almost knocked them all over trying to get to in the door. When they opened the door, Andromeda Tonks was sitting on the couch with little Teddy curled up in her arm. "MUM!" Tonks rushed over to her mother and child.
"Nymphadora! Remus! You're both alright!" Andromeda cried.
Tonks took the baby from her mother. He had fluffy pink hair and eyes like Remus at the moment. "Looks like someone missed Mummy and Daddy." said Tonks and she handed over Teddy to Remus who was eager to see his son again.
"You know Dora, I'm not too keen on our son having pink hair." Stated Remus. Little Teddy must have sensed what his father was saying and instantly changed his hair to turquoise and wiggled playfully in Remus' arms.
"Tonks…" Harry said quietly.
"Yeah Harry?" she answered, still huddled close to Remus and tickling Teddy's stomach and watching him smile and giggle. "You know I think he looks like you Rem." Tonks looked up at her husband and smiled as if they were the only ones in the room.
"Well I would say he looked more like you Dora," Remus smiled. "But honestly sometimes I'm not really sure what he looks like."Remus and Tonks both chuckled. Now Teddy had green hair and one eye was orange while the other was yellow.
"Erg you were going to tell us what happened … How you weren't actually 'dead'." Harry spoke up louder to get their attention.
"Oh right!" Tonks sat down on the couch behind her, taking Teddy from Remus and settling him on her knee. Remus took the seat next to her. "Sit down and I'll tell you." The rest of them sat some in chairs and some on the floor all as eager to know what happened as little children being told a bedtime story.
"Well you see… one day I was reading this book that Remus had lying about. It was called Romeo & Juliet. Written by some muggle. It was about these kids who were in love but their families despised each other so they came up with a plan to runaway together. Anyways… The girl took a potion that made her appear dead for awhile until her love could find her. Although they didn't have such a happy ending."
"What does that have to do with anything?" Asked Ron as Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Oh, honestly Ronald." Hermione sighed
"Well when I came to fight, I couldn't stand the fact that Remus could be somewhere in the castle dead. So when I found him I remembered how the girl used the potion to appear dead. I mean if a muggle could do it why couldn't I? So I used a spell on Remus and the death eaters passed him thinking he was already killed.
"You did what?!" questioned Remus.
"Just let me finish!" Tonks demanded. "Well I never really used the spell before so I thought either it worked or I just killed my husband." Remus' eyes widened. "When things were getting tough I thought of Teddy and how I couldn't bear for him to never know his mum or dad, so I used the spell on myself ... and the next thing I know were here." Tonks looked around at the awed faces. "I know it was a bit of a cowardly thing to do but I …" She broke out in tears and Remus put his arm around her to comfort her. "I just couldn't let Remus die …I couldn't let them down."
"Dora, look at me." Remus said. "You did a very brave thing. You saved my life and your own. Because of you we are able to watch our son grow up." Tonks smiled and Remus kissed her gently.
"Aww" Ginny and Hermione sighed in unison then looked at the men standing next to them. Ron blushed and Harry moved towards Ginny and gave her a kiss. They knew then that they would move on and the world would somehow keep going.