A/n: Phew another chapter done... :) Again a little darkish chapter but just because of the Carrows' twisty vile natures...

Tonks had seen some serious dark magic in her time as an auror. However, today was the first time she had felt absolutely disgusted at the things she had heard. How could someone be so sick and insane to think that it was okay to experiment on little children? Tonks thought of small children as old as Teddy, kidnapped and forced to drink odd potions that split their being in two, but whatever she was feeling was nothing compared to how Harry looked. Where his face looked nauseated, his whole body exuded murderous rage.

"Harry listen, let me go in there and complete the investigation. This is too personal for you and I think it may not be a good idea for you to be in there right now and…" Tonks trailed off.

Harry started as if he had just realized that Tonks was also in the room with him. "No, I will go too. I need to know. I- I need to," Harry's face was contorted in pain and misery. He looked rather pale and sickly in the light emanating from a nearby oil lamp. Tonks wanted to comfort him, but she knew there was no amount of comfort one could have given to Harry right now that would make him feel any better. Perhaps, the only comfort would be to ensure the perpetrators' doom.

"Harry, I still think it is inadvisable that you should continue questioning them. We can watch the recording later. It is too much, too soon." Tonks kept her voice calm and gentle. However, the truth was that Tonks wanted to go in there and break the Carrows' necks. Ginny had done nothing to deserve this fate. She had been just a child herself.

There was only one thing left to be done, because Ginny deserved justice, and there was only one thing that could truly give her that: No one should be succumbed to such a fate in the future.

"Harry trust me, I'll find out what happened to Ginny," Tonks told Harry with determination in her voice. "They will not harm any more people. Ever!"

Harry expression was blank. He still looked really sickly, pale and rather week, as if trying to get up would drain all his energy. Harry jerked his head in a curt nod without looking at her, and Tonks took that as a cue. She patted his shoulder and left the room.

Outside, Tonks found a very horrified Hermione. "Tonks, is Harry okay?" Tonks shook her head and saw horror mingle with sadness on the younger woman's face.

"He is- He is shaken," Tonks did not know what else to add to that, but Hermione seemed to understand and got up from beside the dustbin. She waved her wand and vanished its contents.

"Tonks, I don't feel up to this task," Hermione began looking like she was about to faint.

"Hermione, I understand that whatever we were expecting it was not that, but we can't just let our emotions get in the way right now. We need to find out what happened to Ginny and what happened to all the other victims of their atrocious crimes. We also need to figure out a course of action, immediately." Tonks felt determination in her veins. She was going to wrap up this case as soon as possible. Ginny deserved justice. No, Harry deserved justice.

Realization had slapped her on the face. The dead were gone and worldly justice could do nothing for them. Justice was for the living. What did Remus's spirit care if all the death eaters were rounded up or not, if werewolves were given jobs or not? Remus's spirit was somewhere else, beyond the mundane system of crime and punishment. The justice was for her, Tonks, and their son, Teddy, so they could live in a world that was a little safer and a little fairer than before. When they would die, they would move on too. The only Ginny that could benefit from this justice was the Ginny that was a part of them, the Ginny that lived in their hearts. The Ginny that had gone did not care for justice, just like Remus did not.

"Harry deserves justice, Hermione. You deserve justice. The parents of those poor children deserve justice," Tonks whispered and saw tears in Hermione's eyes. She gave a small nod and summoned some parchment and a quill.

"Okay, so we need to know five things," Hermione began. "One, how did they get the dementors to kiss their counterparts in Azkaban? Two, what were they doing after Voldemort's defeat? Three, what did they mean to achieve by producing their doppelgangers? Four, exactly how many people they used and killed during their experimentation? Five," and here Hermione's voice cracked slightly. "How and why did they kill Ginny?" Hermione had neatly laid out all her questions on the parchment.

Tonks thought of anything else that needed to be asked, but she could not think of more to add to Hermione's list. She nodded and summoned two more vials of Veritaserum. Both the women took a deep breath and moved towards Room 101 to face two of the most twisted criminals they had ever encountered, including the likes of Lord Voldemort.

Tonks swung the door open and tried to pounce on the twin Carrows. However, she tripped on her own two feet and almost fell face first on the floor. Two strong hands steadied her and prevented that from happening. Despite what she had just seen and heard, despite the sickening atmosphere that suffocated her, Tonks couldn't help but feel her heart flutter a little. Harry…

"I promise I'll sit in the corner and I won't do anything to them," Harry cast a look full of loathing and disgust at the benches. "I cannot sit in another room while you…" He trailed off.

Tonks wanted to hug him and tell him everything would be alright. She wanted to take his hand and lead him out of the room, so he would not have to hear anymore. However, one look at his determined expression told her that all of her words would fall on deaf ears.

She nodded at him and took more dignified steps towards the culprits. She stunned the twin Carrows just as a very white-faced Hermione came in. Her hands were shaking as she organized her parchment and quill. She held up her wand as Tonks positioned the vials of Veritaserum on Alecto Carrow's mouth. Hermione pointed her wand at the culprit and as Alecto came back to her senses, Tonks had poured the content of the vial down her throat. Amycus Carrow followed right after.

The soulless Carrows slumped back further into their bench as Hermione cleared her throat. Silver mist began dancing in the room as Tonks replaced the "No Magic Brew" in a corner of the room. Hermione glanced down at her parchment and then in her strongest voice asked, "Alecto and Amycus Carrow, how did you manage to order the dementors to kiss your counterparts in Azkaban?"

Alecto Carrow cackled maniacally, "We didn't."

Hermione became flustered and Tonks noticed Harry clench his fist angrily in his seat in the corner.

"You mean to say, you know nothing about how your counterparts came to be kissed in Azkaban?" Tonks asked with venom and disbelief evident in her voice.

"No, can't say we do, colourful," Alecto laughed. Tonks checked the labels on her vials once again and exchanged a look with Hermione, who gestured towards her to let her handle this.

"Okay. What were your activities after Lord Voldemort was defeated in the Battle of Hogwarts?" Hermione pressed on.

"Lo's of things Mudblood," Amycus smiled dreamily at Hermione and Tonks saw Harry stir in his seat. "We knew that we couldn't go prancing about Diagon Alley or Knockturn Alley, now could we? We were suppose' to be nice and lock'd up in Azkaban under 'em Dementors, right? So we started doing business with 'em Muggles. Disgusting li'l things they were too, but useful. Not complete animals as we though' before.

"We found a club in London where we met Chris, he was a smuggler of drugs into Europe from South America or summat like that. I had a few contacts of my own in France, Germany and Ireland for dealers in dark objects. So I sent 'em a couple o' owls and struck a deal with Chris to trade some of our stuff along with his loot on the way back.

"Work'd out pretty good. We was even getting in deeper with their crowd, practically leading 'em now. They was never paid in gold before, imagine? Hungry little pigs they were, when they saw how gold started to rain on 'em.

"We weren't hurting nobody either! That Potter and blood traitor shouldn't have interrupted our meeting. We was planning to leave the country with the gold and start someplace new, 'coz the Muggle Police had caught some trail of Chris's loot. Stupid dolt, he was. I told 'im to lemme or Alecto hide his ship before it sailed. But no, they didn't trust magic. Tricks they called it. Stupid low breed bastard!"

"What sort of "stuff" were you smuggling out of England and into France, Germany and Ireland?" Hermione asked curiously.

"All sorts of things," Alecto said dismissively. "Cursed jewelry: Imperius rings, Death bangles, Sickness Earrings, etcetera. etcetera; potions: Draught of Living Death mostly and some books on Illegal Magic. We weren't killing anybody now were we? Europe has stricter rules than England, so it is hard to come by some of these things there. We were just giving them an opportunity to buy." Alecto Carrow shrugged.

Tonks and Hermione shared a very disgusted look and Hermione continued with her questioning.

"What did you want to achieve with your Doppelgangers? What was your main aim?"

Alecto Carrow's expression became rather insolent as she answered, "What do you mean what was our main aim? Our main aim was to succeed in turning into Doppelgangers. No one had been able to do this before us. I know what you lot think of us Death Eaters. We weren't stupid, you know. The Dark Lord chose us for a reason. We want to learn too. We wanted to achieve things too. When I was in school, I came across this book, "How can a Wizard be in two places at once?" It had a complete chapter on magic that was still being tested or magic that was too dangerous to be tested further. I always wondered why? So I thought, we should try testing the things others thought couldn't be tested."

"We got there too, didn't we?" Amycus added. However, it seemed that Alecto was in a world of her own at that moment. She seemed to be in a trance much deeper than one induced by Veritaserum. Hermione looked absolutely white with shock. Tonks understood her reaction all too well. Apparently, Alecto Carrow shared an academic streak with Hermione, but Hermione would never hurt children in her pursuit for knowledge. That made all the difference in the world.

"Right, so," Hermione cleared her throat once more. "Please, list the name and the status, dead or alive, of the people you used in your experimentations. Please, also mention the fate of the doubles you created."

"Apart from us, they are all dead, Mudblood," Alecto said dispassionately. "Ginny Weasley's good side lived, but Potter shouted something about her being all dead and gone. We don't know any names apart from hers. We used nameless boys and girls. The were Muggles."

"That does not mean they were disposable!" Hermione shrieked, but Tonks put a hand on her shoulder to silence her.

"Are you absolutely certain you don't know any names?" Tonks asked again.

"No," Alecto and Amycus Carrow denied in unison.

"Do you remember their faces?" Tonks was thinking of getting someone to make sketches that may be matched with any photographs that the Muggle Police may have of missing children.

"They were so many," Alecto scrunched up her face in thought. "We never paid much attention to their faces."

Tonks thought, perhaps, memory magic would help. Perhaps, a pensieve?

"Tonks, I think their memories would be fuzzy," Hermione seemed to be thinking on similar lines. "We could try but only vivid memories work in the pensieve: things that we are likely to remember clearly. Failed experiments don't make for memorable events, and I don't know if I really want to see Ginny being tormented. She was the final experiment, right?"

Tonks heard a shuddering sigh from where Harry was sitting. Tonks wanted to strangle the Carrows. What about the poor mothers who were still wondering where their children had gone? But would they really want to know what had happened to them? Was knowing that they were tortured and murdered better than not knowing at all? Damn the Carrows! Damn them!

"Okay. How and why did you kill Ginny Weasley?" Tonks was brought out of her reverie when she heard Hermione's last question. She had been dreading this question since the moment Harry had asked to be seated in the room with them.

"We told you, didn't we?" Amycus said. "We killed her as a sacrifice to create Alecto's double. She was the carrier."

"No, I mean why did you kill the second Ginny Weasley three months ago," Hermione was growing impatient. Tonks had a right mind to go and ask Rosemary and Tabius to check their potions again. May be the Veritaserum was growing old.

"We had nothing to do with that," Alecto said and Amycus nodded.

"Liars!" Harry shouted from the corner. His face was red with fury and his hands were shaking. However, he remained seated.

"Harry," Hermione said gently. "They are under the influence of Veritaserum, they cannot lie. Also, we took added precaution…" Hermione would have carried on her reassurance if Alecto Carrow had not interrupted her.

"We did not kill the second Ginny Weasley, Potter. We had reason to kill her, yes. She knew our secret, but she hadn't said anything since she left Hogwarts. Why would we take the risk to try and kill someone, who had not been a threat, when we had so little time to get out of the country to try and get away from the damned police? Why would we risk that the Ministry knew we were out there, for a small chance that they may be told by Ginny Weasley that we may be out there? Who is being stupid now? You or us?" Alecto cackled again, but not with humor or mirth. There was something else there. Tonks wondered with disgust if she felt under-appreciated for her achievements? Maybe we are not applauding her successes enough.

All of sudden, Harry's visit to her apartment on the night of Ginny's disappearance came back to her. Ginny had suspected that there was something going on between her and Harry. May be Ginny had not been bluffing as Harry suspected. Tonks felt horribly guilty. If only she had not come between them, may be Ginny would be alive today. Despite all that had happened to her, Ginny had saved her life during The Battle of Hogwarts. She may not have saved Remus's wife, but she did save Teddy's mother.

Tears welled up in Tonk's eyes as she considered how Ginny used to always be smiling and cheery. It was all fake, Tonks always knew. Only that broken Ginny who had told her that she wished she had saved Fred instead of her was the real Ginny. The Ginny who wished she had died with Fred that night was the real Ginny. The Ginny who had lost a part of herself to the Carrows, who had been raped and tortured by them, was the real Ginny. She had killed her by coming between her and the only thing that kept her real anymore, Harry, because the Ginny that loved Harry was the real Ginny.

Unfortunately, the Tonks that loved Harry was also the real Tonks.

A/n2: Okay so I lied, this is not the chapter you know how Ginny died. I split this chapter into two parts to increase the suspense and all... Muwahahahaha... :P :P Also, the chapter was getting ridiculously long with too much going on. Stay tuned to find out what happened to her. Also LOADS more Harry/Tonks in the next two chapters... :)