A/N: REMUS/TONKS!!! My (julz) third solo story! A brief trip through Remus/Tonks's relationship. WOOT!
An Understatement
The day of Sirius' death, something inside of me snapped and I realized what I've been missing all along.
I've been sitting around, waiting for him. I've been patient. But now that my cousin has died so suddenly, so unexpectedly, I've decided that I've waited far too long. I didn't care about how many times he told me that it was too dangerous to be with, I may get killed because of him, I may not have a life because of him. I didn't care about all that.
I loved him. No matter what the cost, nothing could make me stay away from him. I want him, and I know he wants me. He's scared to become too close to me. That he'll hurt me. I was sick of him telling me that. I was tired of being rejected.
But the day I confronted him, the day I told him that it was now or never, he agreed to marry me because he couldn't stay away any longer, no matter how hard he tried. Everything about me made his heart race, and vice versa.
The day of our wedding, since everything was so dangerous nowadays, we only had a small crowd of people. My parents, Molly and Arthur, Mad Eye, and Kingsley. I wore a white suit, because dresses weren't my thing. Remus wore a beautiful black tuxedo and he looked handsome in it, despite the scars on his face. But they gave him character. Towards the end of the sermon, the priest ask each of us, "Will thou love him/her, comfort him/her, honor him/her, and keep him/her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him/her so long as ye both shall live?" We both answered yes and kissed… for now we were finally joined as one. The two longing halves finally made a whole.
The night I found out I was pregnant, Remus was out doing work for the order. I called my mother over to take care of me. He came home the next morning and once I told him, he flipped. Was the baby going to be a werewolf like him? Once he calmed down, I told him that even if the baby was a werewolf we would still love it.
Nine months later, I gave birth to Teddy Remus Lupin, 7 pounds, 9 ounces. He was healthy. He was not born with the werewolf gene, which relieved Remus very much. He had the ability to change his hair color, which came from yours truly. He was born with a small tuft of turquoise hair. He had chubby little fists that he constantly waved in the air, occasionally bonking Remus and I in the nose.
When Teddy was only a few months old, the Order was called to Hogwarts. Hogwarts, why Hogwarts? Hogwarts went into turmoil after Dumbledore died! But we went anyway. There was a war at Hogwarts.
We fought off Death eaters who came at us from all different directions. Side by side we fought, Remus and I. We never left each other's sight, never letting go of each other's hand. We threw hexes and curses in all different directions, but never hitting each other. But then, a Death Eater threw the Killing Curse at me but Remus dove in front of me. I watched him fall to the ground, as though it was happening in slow motion. I cried and bent over his body, screaming. We were only together for such little time… but then I was hit with the Killing Curse shortly after.
I could be with him once again.
Now, when the priest told us that we'd only keep each other as long as we shall both live and may death do us part… I see that as an understatement.
I join Remus in death and we continue our love for each other. We shall love another for eternity, and we will never be apart…
Fin
