Tonks had been rehearsing for this moment since the news just broke. How do you tell someone that not one of their best friends had gone missing, but two? When Merlin knew where the third one even was? Well obviously Lupin must have known about what happened, the Prophet had spared no time in getting the news out. But how do you face someone after that? They could have sent someone else, anyone else, but now Tonks truly didn't know who to turn to. Lily had been her mentor, her idol. The one person she could trust without question, invincible in her own right. And now she was gone. With the DMLE obviously faltering and her beloved cousin nowhere to be found, Lupin was the only person she could go to.
When he opened the door she looked to him for a minute, startled. Before she could ask if he had been attacked himself she remembered their run in at the shoppe. It had been a full moon. He'd spent the night transforming, alone and by himself, and now she was going to have to tell him another one of his best friends had gone missing. God damnit.
Tonks swallowed, hard, "Did you... Have you heard?"