Andromeda sat with Teddy in her arms, he hadn't settled since Nymphadora had left. He had never been away from her for this long. She hoped that she hadn't startled Lyall with her letter. Remus had told her to write to him, if something happened or if they were attacked. She paced the length of the sitting room, for what felt like the hundredth time. Teddy had clearly picked up on the tension in the air, as his morphing had become less obvious in the last hour or two. He now looked like a miniature version of Remus, but she could see little hints of Ted in him, like his hair and in a certain light she could make out things, like the way his features contorted.

Lyall's letter had arrived a few minutes before Dora's Patronus had. She tried to hold back tears as she remembered what it had said: "Mum, I'm fine, don't worry about me. I'm going to go find Remus. By the time you and Teddy wake up tomorrow, this will all be over. We'll have created a better world for him and everyone else. This is why, I'm doing this. It's my job to make a better world for Teddy, I couldn't just sit back and watch. I'm sorry mum, please don't blame me, for what I have to do. Please give Teddy a goodnight kiss from me. Mum, I love you to the moon and back, I always will." she had also said not to try to contact her. Before she had left, she had promised to kill Bellatrix for her and Sirius or die trying. Andromeda well believed that she would try and that was what scared her the most. Lyall's letter hadn't been over encouraging either, he was another one headed into uncertain danger.

Though tired Andromeda didn't think that she could sleep, even if she tried, plus she didn't want to miss the hourly updates from the Order and Dumbledore's army. It was still too early to tell how many had died so far, or at least that's what the three boys had told her. But Michael, Terry and Anthony had told her that they believed that Fred Weasley was dead. Poor Molly and Arthur, she could remember them from school. Molly had been extremely kind, but she could be fiery too, and Arthur, even then he had been muggle mad. But thanks to Dora, all the Weasley's felt like family. They were the one's she'd wished she'd had when she'd been disowned by her family.

She was surprised when a non-corporeal Patronus appeared in her sitting-room, she had rested her eyes for a moment and she had been woken by the shock of the bright light. Then it spoke to her in a highly emotional voice, she could see that it wasn't a very strong Patronus. "Dora is dead…" Remus paused, Andromeda could hear the pain in his voice. "Bellatrix got her, then Voldemort called his Death Eaters to him…" He didn't even get the chance to finish what he was saying, for at that moment someone in the background had uttered those feared words "Avada Kedavra!" and the Patronus faded from life, just like it's caster. She fell to her knees, screaming, she was completely alone in this world, her husband was gone and now, so was her daughter. She had to be brave for them, for Ted, for Dora, for Remus, for herself and most importantly, for Teddy. He was the only thing she had left now, and it was then, that she vowed to work towards this "better world", of Dora's dreams. She didn't sleep at all after that, she just sat in silence holding onto Teddy as if he was her lifeline.