These Wings are made to Fly(Remus)

[Nymphadora Tonks]

"I have no response to that. And I told you. Well, signalled it really. They, um, were killed. Halloween night too. Sad story. But their son is alive." Tonks grinned goofily. She was a goof, who was anyone kidding when they said she wasn't? She understood why he had questions, she would too if someone had told her something as special as being from the future. "Yeah, well my mum has a closed door policy anyway. She hardly lets anyone in after what happened to the people a few miles away. Think that happened when I was five, can't remember really. But, hey, it can't be your fault. If anything, I'm sure something came up and you couldn't." Maybe she had seen actual people in the shadows when she went jogging, she always had the feeling of being watched, rather creepy.

"Let me repeat myself." She smiled clearing her throat and saying with utmost importance, "I don't care. For heaven's sake, I don't if you could kill me at anytime during the full moon. I want to be an auror. And they know how to deal. I don't care. And you honestly think you'll lose me? The girl who could accidentally destroy this place by mispronouncing a spell? Yeah, sorry, not happening. I'm a big girl, can tie my own shoes and everything. I'm sure I will be able to deal. Besides, danger makes things exciting. Adds the sense of urgency to something."

"If it's true, then... Hmm... I don't know. I was going to put something there but I lost it. Fill in the blank! If its true then..." She grinned like she'd done something wrong but had gotten something to make up for it.

[Remus John Lupin]

"They had a son?" Remus ran his hands through his hair, almost like a crazy person pulling out their hair. What the hell had happened? They had died, had a son, and he was off somewhere. Actually he didn't know if he wasn't there for their son afterwards. "Please tell me that I took their son...." Where could he have gone that he wouldn't have taken care of him. And Sirius had left him as well, and Peter, he didn't know what really happened to him. "I'm sorry... I shouldn't be placing so much pressure on you. I-I just... I dunno how all of this could have happened. James, Sirius, Peter and I are so close... W-we promised we would protect each other no matter what happened, and protect our families." He didn't want to overwhelm her, nor did he want this future she was telling him about. Maybe Teddy would know more. He should have a talk with that boy.

"V- Tonks... I-I know you don't care, but I care... Just ignore me, I guess. I've had this conversation with my friends so many times... I don't think I can convince anyone anyways," Remus replied with a sigh and smiling towards her, "Sorry, again. I-I've been told all my life that I could never be close to anyone, but then everyone who has ever known about my... condition has accepted me. It's just... hard to even imagine." Maybe he could be happy with his friends and her, and actually have a family one day. Adopted of course, he might pass on his werewolf genes, which would not be a very good thing, as he would make his own child have to suffer like he did.

"Then... you're the only one I really care about in this way?" Remus replied, "Maybe we could... you know... have a go at the dating thing?"

[Nymphadora Tonks]

"That's what the paper said. Harry Potter, son of Lily and James Potter survives after what is to be believed an attack by you-know-who himself. And the paper said James was found in front hall, and Lily upstairs by her child's crib. I'm guessing James sacrificed himself to save his wife and child. I would've done the same thing, fight to my last breath if it meant my family got away." She tugged at her pony tails. "Don't think so. We were sent home not long after to be kept safe, mum said that as far as she knew he was going to live with muggles in some town. No one knows where but Dumbledore." She shrugged. She tried to help and comfort him, but she didn't know how exactly. "It's alright, ask all you want. You just can't tell anyone anything I've told you. Except for maybe Teddy. And my sister."

"See? No one really cares what you are, it's the man on the inside everyone sees. The one we all love, the one we laugh at-with! Eh heh." Tonks chuckled rubbing the back of her head. "You should be happy about it, it means people actually do care." She smiled and hugged him, "I'd accept you even if you were the worst thing imaginable, because when your human, you have a kind heart. And..." She pointed her wand at the radio in the back of the room, it started to play soft music. "Care to dance? Warning, I step on toes." She winked.

She looked like she was so happy she was going to cry. She nodded violently and hugged him, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!! Heehee!!" She spun around and her hair became a really curly bright pink. This would have earned her the nickname pinky pie pony, from My Little Pony, and then she tripped over her own laces. "Maybe I don't know how to tie my own shoes." She laughed.

[Remus John Lupin]

"Lily's family maybe? She is a muggle born... if she had been given a chance to live then perhaps... no, he wouldn't actually do that, why would Voldemort," Remus said, having slowly been getting used to using the name, as his friends all used it, save Wormtail, and he'd hear it from Lily that not saying his name created even more fear of the man. He feared Voldemort, but he had to seen strong for his friends, and brave to live up to being a Gryffindor. "Which means, that their son survived a killing curse, which takes extraordinary power... Love is the only thing strong enough... They must have protected him somehow." Remus had been well versed in love magic, not potions and all, but about love being so powerful it could stop the killing curse, having talked with Dumbledore about it once when he requested to be taken out, when Dumbledore told him that the love he holds for his friends and his friends for him, would keep him under control if he went out of control one night, refusing Remus's request to leave. "I had to have been dead by that point to let them die like that," Remus said glumly, "I would fight for my family, and my friends are part of my family, until I died, and wouldn't let them die before I did." He always felt he would be the first Marauder to die.

"Others would care, there is a terrible stigma that goes with being what I am. If people found out... I've seen what happened to a werewolf before, they hung him, but he was a perfectly nice person. Even if I was completely deformed, part spider looking person, you would still accept me?" Remus asked, before he laughed a bit, "I don't mind a few stepped on toes." He grabbed her hands, and positioned his hands ready for some dancing, which he didn't do much of, really, just with himself a couple of nights when he decided he might as well learn, as his friends always had him go to the school dances.

"Pink suits you," Remus said with a huge smile, watching her who was very happy, "Just wait 'til my friends hear I actually asked someone out." Remus chuckled as she tripped, catching her against him, and looking at her smiling, but obviously nervous at the same time, being in a relationship with someone he chose, and really liked, and of course, from the future. "I can always tie them for you."

[Nymphadora Tonks]

Tonks gasped as he the name. The name in which her mother knew had corrupted her sister's minds. She looked at him wide eyed, "You, you said his name. You said his name. In my time no one says it. Even if he's gone we all fear he'll come back... Especially knowing my aunt was put in Azkaban because of all that..." She scratched her head. "Love huh? I think any mother would do that to protect her baby. I mean if its something you made, and you loved it so much... There's nothing else to show right there. Love is the only thing you can show.." Tonks blushed and smiled. She wondered if she would ever love anything that much. She kind of felt that way about Remus but she was fourteen she had a long way to go before she could talk about love. "Maybe, or maybe you had no control over what happened.. Maybe it was the full moon and you couldn't stop him.. I'm so sorry." She looked at her toes.

"I would. You could spin webs with your wrists and be someone people weren't sure about, but I'd still be your friend. And girlfriend." She smiled and put her hand on his shoulder. She chuckled. "Not after I'm done with them, you'll wish I'd never danced on your toes." The music was a song about a lullabye. The words were so sweet. It was good for slow dancing to at least. And that was all that mattered right then.
Goodnight my angel,
now it's time to sleep
And still so many things I want to say
Remember all the songs you sang for me
When we went sailing on an emerald bay
And like a boat out on the ocean
I'm rocking you to sleep
The water's dark and deep,
inside this ancient heart
You'll always be a part of me

"Maybe I'll wear pink more often." She smiled. "Just wait till my sister hears about it. I bet you anything she's sitting in the common room waiting for me to get back. She'll just be disappointed because I got the guy for once. And he's really cute and super sweet." She grinned and started to laugh, "I think I might end up getting a tattoo when I'm older. I'm thinkin party balloons on my right hip." She smirked, "No need to tie them for me... I'll just.. Wear lace ups. Or strap boots. Yeah. I wouldn't have to deal with tying them."

[Remus John Lupin]

"O-oh, yeah... I just sort of have gotten used to it. Lily says that not saying his name will just make more fear arise from him, and in war, fear of the enemy is not a good thing, as it hurts the morale of your people," Remus explained, "I plan to become a soldier like my friends against him, join Dumbledore in the fight that is going on, and make a better world for everyone." The four of them already made a pact on their lives that they would join the war effort and win. The war now wasn't like normal wars, but a quiet one, where people died everyday in amounts like normal wars, but battles did not take place normally. Places weren't burned, though Hogsmeade had been burned a year ago, by the Death Eaters, but otherwise it was a silent war that was going on, which some might say was scarier than being in real war like people thought of with battles and such, and others would say was much better than those kinds of war. "So Bellatrix went to Azkaban at least? I always knew she would, if we won the war."

"Love, yeah. According to Dumbledore, I am able to be controlled by those I love, and love me, which can be seen by the fact I never bit or killed by parents, though once Dad nearly died, but I turned back before I could hurt him, at the end of the moon," Remus said without thinking. Not even his friends knew about that incident, but here he was telling Tonks about it, having always felt uncomfortable to talk about some of his transformations. The scariest one he vowed never to tell anyone. It was the one transformation he saw crystal clear, while others faded away, and that time he nearly killed a young muggle woman pregnant with a child, and the father came to her rescue, and Remus nearly hurt them, but his father managed to get him back to his hideout, wiped the muggles' memories, and his parents had been even more fanatical about his security during that time, which was one of the reasons he asked to be withdrawn from Hogwarts, happening the summer after his first year, just before school. "Love, according to Dumbledore, is the most powerful magic in the world, so if... if Lily was given a chance to move aside, which I really doubt, since he never shows mercy, then, that... could... explain... it." But it was stupid, because Voldemort never would, therefore it was wrong.

"Then I could be like Spider-man," Remus joked with a smile. knowing little about the muggle hero,other than he would do what a spider could and he wore a red suit, coming out about a decade ago, a little more, like a dozen years give or take, "We'll have to see." He did know how to heal toes and noses now with his classes from Madame Pomfrey. He watched her and began dancing with her, slowly, watching her eyes as he danced, hoping he could ignore any pain of toe squashing. He was quite content with just looking at her, slowly as the two slowly danced in the spare room in Hogwarts, almost forgetting about all of his problems.

"I would like you anyway you want to look," Remus said returning the smile, "Well, she seems nice, just not you." He didn't want her sister to think he didn't like her, because she seemed perfectly nice, but she wasn't Vul- Tonks, and he knew he liked Tonks a lot. "I think your hip would be lovely whatever you choose," Remus said, blushing at the thought and how badly it sounded, "Y-you know, not th-that... Well, you know what I mean." Remus chuckled at the thought before commented, "Still won't stop you from falling." He still thought it adorable that she was clumsy.

[Nymphadora Tonks]

"Thirteen years and no one says it. We just say You-know-who, or he-who-shall-not-be-named. I know fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself but, he could've kill my father." Tonks looked at the floor. Then gained a determined face and looked up with fire in her eyes, "You're looking at an auror to be. And I will be the best there is. I will only train with the best. I don't like bullies." she said quoting Captian America. They had the comic out right? It was in the eighties is must be out in the seventies. She nodded feircely when he asked. "I thought it was my mother in the paper at first. But no, just turns out auntie got arrested. Another good reason to be an auor. I can keep my family in line."

"It must've been terrifying. What happened when you turned back? Did you run? I would have. I woulda freaked out and ran as far and as fast as I could. But love is a good thing. And there's enough of us who love you. Most as friends. For me a little more." she chuckled. She looked at the floor and started to move her jaw around, "I bet you she was. Dad said it was obvious there was a wider time difference then there should have been before she was killed. But the baby. The baby watched his mother die. And he won't even remember it. He won't know who he is until he's told."

"The Amazing Spider-Man." she chuckled. "Just give you a red and blue spandex suit and your good to go." Every time she stepped on his toes, four times by the end of the chorus, she said sorry. After the fifth time, she said, "I really shouldn't dance. I should just stick to running." she then rested her head on his shoulder. Nothing could ruin it... except for maybe her sister, and maybe Sirius.

"So I could have bright green hair with purple hearts and you'd still like it? Desperate much?" she teased. "Dre-dre is nice, she just doesn't like just being another face. She wants to be a part of something." Okay now she was laughing, "You really are desperate. But I'm only joking about the tattoo. I could give myself one any time I wanted and I could make it move. Not by moving fat though." She smacked him lightly on the shoulder, "Shove off scar face, don't make me untie your shoes and have your walk around like that up and down stairs all day. They really try to keep kids in shape here. I don't think I've ever seen one kid who looks like they're over weight."

[Remus John Lupin]

"I understand, really," Remus replied, "Took them four years to beat it out of me. Well, not really beat it out of me, really... you know what I mean. Thing is, if he's gone, what's to fear? If he comes back, you already know that he can be stopped; plus, coming back from the dead is impossible." Remus was quite sure about that, otherwise his pet caterpillar from when he was a kid would come back to life for him. Well, not only that, but the fact that he had read up on various things, though not much into death really, but with what he knew, it was impossible. "Really?" Remus said his face lighting up happily thinking how she would be a great auror... as long as she became more in control of her balance, "That is amazing. James and Sirius were talking about becoming Aurors eventually, but you know, after Vol- You-Know-Who is defeated, I really would like to teach instead of fight dark witches and wizards." Really, he truly did want to teach, but he wouldn't be allowed. Who in their right mind would hire someone they knew was a werewolf? Hogwarts would be the place to teach, Dumbledore knew, but then again, Dumbledore always was a bit off of his rocker. No. He couldn't get his hopes up. "Really? Can't imagine what you felt for that moment when you thought it was your Mum," Remus said, thinking of how he would feel if he had read something about one of his parents going to Azkaban or St. Mungo's ward for the mentally unstable. The Prophet tended to do that, instead of things that are more important, like Voldemort, or how someone could help, or even anything about Voldemort except the basic procedures, don't enter a house with the dark mark, etc.

"Yeah, I ran as fast as I could. Dad was too scared to follow. Ran right into the forest near our house," Remus explained. He lived secluded by a forest, where if he were to get loose, there was no one besides his parents around that he could attack. People even feared the forests, saying a werewolf lived in the forest, but no one ever died. Luckily. It was a very small cottage, with just four rooms, two bedrooms, one lavatory, and one room for everything else. It wasn't too crowded as it was just the three of them. "Mum ran after me, after checking to make sure Dad was fine. She told me that she loved me, no matter what were to happen, and that she believed in me." His mother was a very kind person, even though lately she seemed to be going a little off the deep end. Remus didn't want to think it, and so he pushed the thought to the back of his mind, so he could pretend nothing was wrong with her. "Thanks... And I love all of you who love me, as friends, and you just a little bit more," Remus echoed the same thoughts with a grin.

"I still don't understand why I never visited him, took him in... We swore... We swore we would protect each other and the ones we love. What was his name?" Remus asked. He knew it wouldn't do any good to know the boy's name. But he wanted to know The Boy Who Lived's name. The son of James Potter and Lily Evans. It would at least make him feel a little bit better knowing a little about the son, and maybe eventually he would find out why he never took the boy in.

"Looks like I've got my Halloween costume picked out," Remus chuckled, feeling her leaning against him, her head on his shoulder. He didn't mind the bruised or broken toes, because right now he was content just being with Vu- Tonks. "I really don't mind, dancing with you is fairly fun, and I'll get more practice on the healing of hurt toes."

"Well, n-no... k-kinda... n-n-no... You see, you're the first one I've really liked like this before... and I don't care about appearance. I care more about you, what's on the inside more than anything," Remus explained, stammering at first. He really did care a tiny bit about appearance, as anyone else would, but she looked dashing just the way she was, and her personality was what created her appearance, so if she really wanted a certain look, at first he might not like it, but since she would like it, he would like it. "I can't say I understand, since I haven't met someone with my own face, but she's special too, and having a face just like someone else shouldn't stop you from just being yourself." He really didn't understand it because he never had to face the situation the twins did, but he could try to apply a little logic of his own to it.

[Nymphadora Tonks]

"Yeah, I know what you mean. Takes forever for people to get me to stop doing something too. I'm stubborn as hell. But that's just the fun isn't it? Teaches you to deal with people though.." Tonks shrugged. "The fear is that we don't know what happened to him. He didn't die. He just disappeared. Not even a sign besides the dark mark that he was there. It terrified the world. The entire wizarding world fears that he didn't die."

She nodded, "Yeah! My dad is an auror. I'm going to be better than him though because I'm a girl. And girls are automatically better at thinking things through quicker. Unless they're me, because I'm just that cool." she chuckled, "Mums cousin an auror, I can't see it. I don't even know him really. I'd like to, but I wouldn't be able to tell him who I was. I only told you because you needed to know the truth. Oh my gosh, that'd be so cute! You as a teacher! You could teach Defense Against the Dark Arts even! Everyone knows that job is cursed anyway."

"Honestly? I was mad, scared and... and... I dunno. Kind of hurt. Then I read the article and realized it was Auntie Bella. She never liked me. Never even met me. But I knew she hated me." Tonks nodded trying to recall the feelings. She'd kind of just shrugged them off as she read the paper. The only bad thing about being in this time was she didn't have any of her daily profets to show. All the truth was there.

"You must have been terrified. But it's okay. Because you have me now, and I'm not afraid. I'll run after you. I want to make sure you stay safe." Tonks mumbled, she didn't really want to be heard but she didn't want to keep that in her head. She'd end up blurting it out if she hadn't muttered it. Everywhere she went in the muggle world that containted muggles, she'd been warned by the other kids that there was evil in the woods. No matter what city, town, or province, no one went in the woods. It was like it was a curse. "Your mum must really love you. I wish I could meet her, she sounds like someone I'd want to be friends with." She closed her eyes. She was starting to get a bit tired, but she had to stay awake. Had to stay awake. "Oh, your just repeating what I said. Either you don't know what to say, or your under the imperious curse. Which is it?" she said with a snort.
"No one really knows where he is besides Dumbledore. And Hagrid. And McGonagall. I think thats all. So I eavse drop on teachers conversations, I need atleast some stealth. But, hey, look at me..." she said looking at him in the eye, "It's not your fault. You-Know-Who is just crazy. His name is Harry. Harry James." There was no harm in telling him the name right? Wouldn't change anything right? She had to hope because she'd just told him the kid's name. If only she had the prophet's report.

"You don't have to dress up as spider-man. We can go as stereo typical witches and wizards. Although I'm not putting on a warty green nose." she shook her head. It wasn't going to happen. Some way, some how, she kicked a chair with her heel and felt a blister form. She tried not to wince, but the back of her shoe was rubbing on it... maybe she could take them off... no shoes would be nice. "Yes because dancing with a health hazard is always fun." she said sarcastically.

Tonks couldn't help but laugh at him, he was just so cute when he did this. "I'm messing with you, don't take it so seriously. You're best friends with Sirius Black, I'm sure you know when he's joking. I'm no different. Same family. Same blood-line. Although I'm half, he's pure." she bit her lip. No one seemed to be able to understand her jokes. She loved to joke, if she wasn't too busy being herself, she'd be a prankster. But being Nymphadora Tonks of Hufflepuff, she had to be her. Honest, loyal, and unafraid of toil. That was her, she wasn't scared to stand up to crazies. "She always gets mistaken for me, but that's why I try to change, so she can get noticed for just being herself. I don't really know what I can do for her." she shrugged.