thattimeofthemonth | Open RP Post

Hmm. Remus sighed wuietly and nodded. "He didn't understand family or the power it had. It proved his undoing, in the end. He saw family as a weakness." He shook his head, still green hair falling around his face.

"Come on. It's rather beautiful out here in the middle of no where." He gestured with his head before he started to lead Draco across the empty expanse of the moor.

By the time they returned, it was late. They both needed the sleep. "Hopefully Tonks won't be too upset with me."

Draco nodded believing, what Remus had to say was true as his own parents had said the same thing. He eagerly followed Remus along the moor taking in the sight around him. Ir really was quite beautiful.

"Maybe the green hair would help..." Draco smirked. "Even though a lot of it was learning...this is the most fun I've had in a long time... Thank you for that, I needed it."

Giving a small smile, he quietly headed upstairs to his room. He would have liked to shower...but he didn't want to make too much noise. He would just grab one in the morning.

"She'll think the green hair is fantastic," Remus confided, chuckling. That was why he'd left it; no one else would see it besides his wife, son, and his unexpected student, and since it would please her to no end to see, why not? Just until morning.

But he looked back to Draco and dared to reach out, giving his shoulder a squeeze. "You needed a little bit of fun and frankly, so did I. Good for both of us. Have a good night's sleep, Draco." A quick pat, then he went to find his wife.

Luckily for Draco, come morning, the two adult wizards in the house remembered a simple silencing charm on their room.

It surprised Draco when Remus reached out. He didn't pull away, but instead placed his hand on Remus's shoulder in return.

Either way, Draco slept pretty hard and for the first time in a long time had an uninterrupted night's sleep. It wasn't till later in the morning, did he finally wake up. And a while longer before he made himself get up and grab a shower.

He still couldn't help but feel a little disorientated. He had gotten used to waking up early an sleeping in so late had thrown him off a bit. Since he was going to visit his parents today, he dressed in what he was used to. Hearing noise downstairs, he decided to head down.

It was surprisingly Tonks that was awake, with Teddy on her hip, managing her way through breakfast. When she heard someone on the steps, she didn't look up from what she was doing. "Remmy, can you take your son so I can get this done? Also there's a reply back from Kingsley already, over on the counter." She was using her wand in her free hand to flip pancakes and trying to get orange juice poured. The pancakes looked... interesting.

Draco felt his face flush at the obvious mistake. He wasn't quite sure how to point this out with out making it too uncomfortable. Although, he might quitely pass on breakfast and just eat his parents.

"Er...I don't mind holding Teddy," Draco hesitantly offered, his face still red.

Tonks jumped, looking back with wide eyes. Her hair was its typical bubble-gum pink and today, her son matched. "Draco!" Oh! She flushed a bit herself, looking embarrassed. "I'm sorry- I thought-" awkward. She looked down to Teddy and hesitated, but then finally nodded.

"If you would? Getting things together isn't easy when he wants to be up with his Momma." She shifted her weight to offer Teddy out towards Draco.

He gave a shrug. "Don't worry about it. I don't mind helping." As if to emphasize, he reached over and took Teddy in his arms. Seeing the matching pink hair amused him. At least Teddy appeared to be happy seeing him again and Draco went over to the table to sit down.

Tonks watched Draco with Teddy for a few moments, then slowly started to smile before she went back to work. Her little boy sure seemed to like Draco, which relaxed her a touch. "Remus kept you out late last night," she commented, peering closer at a pancake. "He passed out last night even though he didn't want to. Always tries to keep himself awake before the moon, now."

Ever since he'd attacked Harry and his friends... It had deeply upset him.

Admitting, Draco had fun holding Teddy. He enjoyed the fact that Teddy would get to learn who he was with out someone telling him how horrible of a person he was and not to be trusted. Sure he would hear stories later about him...but by then he hoped those wouldn't change his opinion. He liked making faces at Teddy and seeing him crinkle up in a smile or laugh. Or just having him grip his fingers or tug at his shirt.

"He was teaching new tactics and spells...plus it was fun." He answered, finding the conversation awkward.

It wasn't easy for Tonks either, but for her husband, she would try. The corner of her eye kept an eye on Teddy, and it was cute to see her son laughing and giggling at the older. Good.

"He actually fell asleep instead of pacing all night. That.. isn't common. He must have been in a good enough mood to forget for a while. That helped him." She smiled a bit sadly at that. "What did he end up teaching you?"

He frowned a bit. On one hand he was glad to have helped put Remus in a good mood, but at the same time it upset him to learn that this wasn't always the case.

"He took me out to the moores where he showed me defense spells and how to build up on a protective barriers. And then we flew around for a bit. I had managed to turn his hair green and he got mine in Gryffindor colors." He made a face at the last bit.

That made Tonks chuckle. "Ah, so that's why his hair's green. I was wondering..." She was clearly amused about the whole thing.

"It's good to be able to defend yourself well. Sometimes Remus and I still go out and duel, just to keep each other sharp. If you managed to score on him, I'm impressed. He's very crafty."

Though Remus had been testing Draco more as a student instead of another wizard.

"Actually we kept it at a teacher student level. I still made a lot of mistakes last night," Draco admitted despite his pride wanting to not. But if he wanted to earn Tonks's trust he had to. "There is a lot I don't know to what I had been taught."

Tonks hesitated, clearly thinking about her next words, before she cautiously said, "I think that... given you were given the same education as the rest, it shows that there's a fundamental difference in how certain wizards are taught after Hogwarts."

A somewhat polite way of saying that dark wizards were taught differently than light.

It didn't help that he had been learning the dark arts since he was a child. His family had started teaching him right away and on holidays after he went to school. Draco had found it a struggle the night before trying to use light magic after making it a mistake by starting with dark. He secretly preferred the light magic over the dark. Especially with how it was taught.

"I know....thats why I had asked Remus for lessons. I want to leave all of that behind," he said in a soft voice, feeling ashamed of himself.

"He's mighty proud of you for it. I hope you keep that in mind." She took up a plate, dropping her stack of sadly shaped pancakes onto it. "...Hmm. Maybe next time I should try a waffle iron..."

She glanced up towards the ceiling, chewing on her lip. Just then though, Teddy started fussing and Tonks looked back to him. "Breakfast for you, too? Give him here, Draco. Maybe you could see to waking Remus up for breakfast?"

He gave a smalll smile, pleased to hear the compliment from her. With Teddy fussing he then handed him ovee to Tonks. There was a brief confusion on his face at the mention of a waffle iron.

Draco nodded and then headed upstairs and knocked on Remus's door. "Tonks has breakfast ready!"

Tonks settled down to feed Teddy, knowing it wouldn't take very long for him to feed at least, not with how greedily he drank!

But Remus didn't stir at the knock, and there was no answer in return to Draco's call.

He knocked in the door again and after waiting a few minutes, he hestitanly opened the door. He didn't step in but poked his head in. "Remus?" He called out, uncertain if he should step in further.

This wasn't like waking his father up. He knew what to expect and how to get him out of bed.

Remus was still tucked up in bed, but it didn't look like an easy sleep. His fingers were gripping hard to the sheets, his brow tightly furrowed. The hair was still green and a completely disaster around his head, but it looked like he was lost in a nightmare, given his expression and how the sheets were tangled around his legs.

Okay...nightmares were something that Draco didn't know how to handle. Especially with those who had pstd. His father often had them and he knew how to deal with that...but Remus? He bit his lip as he debated in seeking Tonka, whom he was trying to help of just taking the risk and waking him.

Warily, he decided to approach him. "Remus," he called out and hesitantily reached out to tap him on the shoulder. At the same time he braced himself unsure of what to expect.

As soon as Draco touched his shoulder, Remus' eyes snapped opened. His fingers went for the wand at his side table even as his other hand came up, grabbing the front of Draco's shirt. He showed his strength when he jerked Draco around, slamming him up against the wall with the tip of his wand coming to Draco's throat and pressing in.

His eyes didn't even seem clear for several more seconds, glaring hard at Draco's face without even seeing him.

Draco's eyes widened in surprise and pain as he was slammed into the wall with the wand at his throat. He felt the wind knocked out of him. He had half expected something like this would happen...Only Draco had thought he would have time to react. He was surprised with how fast and severe Remus reacted.

He tried to speak, but couldn't with the wand pressed against him. A whimper of fear and pain managed to escape as he tried to break free of Remus's grip.

It took several more seconds, probably felt like minutes for Draco, before suddenly his gaze cleared and he blinked, his expression falling. It went from a battle-hardened wizard to a man who looked utterly confused. Then realization kicked in and his eyes went wide, letting go quickly and stepping back, his wand falling from his fingers to hit the floor with a clatter that made him jump.

He actually started shaking slightly. "Draco," he whispered.

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