short story about Tonks' last moments ... randomly came to my head!
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I DONT OWN HARRY POTTER!
I know these fast, heavy breaths are my last. The quickened beating of my pounding heart as it reaches it last beat fills my ears, drowning out the terrible screams that echoed all around the broken castle. I'm sad to die, scared to die, to die and leave my son to grow up in this cruel world alone. But that is why I must. To give him a chance of a happy life, a free life. Where he can walk into the street without the constant companion of death looming over his shoulder. My end may have been tragic, if I had not something to die for….but I do. The protection of your round new-born face is all that matters to me as I lay thinking my last thoughts. My aunt as vanished, knowing that her spell would do its job. After all she had more people to kill now her niece was gone. My tired weary eyes fall upon the cold form of the man I love, as dead as I will be soon, and tears found their way to my eyes, to my cheeks. He's dead, your father. He left me again. After he promised he wouldn't, he left me again. I felt my heart rip from my body as I watched his own hit the floor, dead long before contact. Hurt, pain, loss. I couldn't feel anything else and as I turned upon the witch who, by blood and nothing more, was my aunt. I wanted revenge. It burnt as the feeling seared through my body filling my every thought and tinting the world blood red. This is where it left me, lying on my back in a mess of dust and blood waiting for my life to come to a close. I wish death would hurry up and claim my body for waiting was painful. Every bad memory came flooding back. Every row with him, the deaths I'd seen, and the times he left. Each made my body weaker and weaker. I couldn't help but wonder if anyone would ever find our body's, having taken shelter in one of Hogwarts many secret passages. I didn't dwell to long upon this, I could hear the shouts and screams and the footsteps of people thundering past literally running for their lives again. I could feel people's terror coming off them in waves and I prayed for their safety. Each breath was becoming harder and harder, as if the air was running out of oxygen. I reach for his cold hand and take it in my own caressing the cold skin on the back of it. Tears trickled down my face as I realised that I would never see you grow up, never teach you to walk, never hear your first word spoken , never play witness to your first day of school. I felt my heart crack and shatter, screaming out protests as it slowed.
"I'm sorry my darling "I whisper to the wind knowing that no one could hear me. Especially not you. A shiver ran through my body and a shuddering gasp left my mouth, and I moved no more. I was gone. Forever.
Miles away, tucked up in his warm safe cot; Teddy Lupin awoke with a cry.
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