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Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood in front of Lupin's door wondering what to do. He had thrashed around all night and they all speculated what had happened with Tonks. She had not come back to Grimmauld Place.
"You don't suppose they broke up do you?" Ron asked, concerned. Harry and Hermione shook their heads.
"I doubt it," Hermione said, "I think we should go in there. He's probably hurt."
Harry reached out and opened the door and the stale metallic smell of blood stuck their noses. Remus Lupin's clothes were strewn about the floor in strips with flecks of blood on them. Hermione gasped as they saw their former professor on the floor in a crumpled heap. His breath was slow and labored.
"Professor Lupin!" Harry exclaimed as he heaved the weak man onto the bed with the help of Ron.
"I'm going to go get some healing potion," Hermione briskly said. She strode from the room; her foot steps echoing down the hall.
"What happened?" Ron asked Lupin. Remus sighed heavily and his eyes fluttered. He grabbed the front of Harry's shirt.
"She... took her..." He wheezed, "Tonks... she took Tonks... Andromeda..." Lupin's grip slackened and he fell back.
"Ron - Harry, start peeling off his clothes," Hermione said as she entered the room with a potion bottle full of orange liquid. The three teens began to carefully take the remenants of the wolf's clothes. Occasionally, he would flinch; they were causing him pain. Hermione began to siphen off the dried blood with her wand as Harry dabbed at the wounds with the healing potion.
"This is not good," Ron said grimly. Without Tonks, Lupin was going to sent into a tailspin; she was the only thing keeping him sane. Harry, Ron, and Hermione didn't know what exactly had happened with Tonks, but they knew it was not good.
"You're going to have to let me go eventually," Tonks said to her mother, folding her arms. Andromeda gave a shrill mocking laugh.
"That may be, but as of now, I am not letting my only child give birth to a werewolf child," Andromeda said as she ushered Tonks into her bedroom.
"What are you planning on doing?" Tonks said trying to keep her defiant composure, but faltering. She did not want her mother to make her have an abortion. Andromeda smirked slightly.
"It's nothing that drastic, my child," she said, knowing exactly what Tonks was thinking, "I want the best for you, and that doesn't include a halfbreed baby."
"Mother," Tonks said stiffly, "Why are you doing this? The best for me is being with Remus!" Even as she said it, Tonks felt a bit childish.
"Nymphadora," Andromeda said, "Have a good night sleep." She closed Tonks' door with a snap. Tonks was in shock and denial; in a few short hours she had been taken from the man she loved and put in captivity by her own mother! Tonks flopped on the bed and rested her hand on her stomach.
"I'll be home soon, Remus, I'll be home soon."
Hermione, Ron, and Harry had managed to clean up Lupin and convinced him to drink some tea. He was pale and shaking as if he were in a very cold room.
"Professor, what happened?" Hermione asked gently. Lupin set his tea on the kitchen table; he rested his head in his hands.
"Andromeda took Tonks," he said, barely legible.
"Why?" Harry and Ron gasped. Tears seeped from Remus' hands.
"Because I am not human," he said looking up at Ron, Hermione, and Harry with red eyes and a tear streaked face.