Hogwart's Online Prompt for Monday 10th January:

"Show me a little respect please, that's all I am asking,"

She took a long shaky breath. "I need to tell you something."

"What is it?" He always enjoyed her company, it gave him warmth and joy-something not every werewolf can have.

Tonks stood up and took out her wand. "It's embarrassing, though." She admitted, and immediately put her wand on the table.

"Come on, you fell flat on your face right in front of my eyes a couple times already." Remus laughed. "What can be more embarrassing?"

'He have no idea' Tonks thought, but she have to admit Remus never fails to bring back her confidence.

"I'm not sure if I'm ready." Tonks mumbled.

"You're always ready for battle."Remus smiled, took Tonks' wand and put it back in her hand.

"Well here goes nothing." Tonks breathed. "Expecto Patronum!" She tried to think about the happiest, most ecstatic moment of her life.

"Woah." Remus backed away as he saw the shape of the Patronus that Tonks was conjuring.

"What do you think?" Tonks seemed like she was enjoying this- either because she succeeded in conjuring a Patronus, or because she felt rather comfortable with the shape change of her Patronus.

"It's- It's-" Remus stammered.

"…It's you." Tonks said it the words, not with disgust, but with love. This was something Remus never experienced a lot before, and more than what he could ask for from one Nymphadora Tonks; her accepting and even liking him for who he was. "Isn't it lovely?" Tonks smiled.

"Stop it." Tonks barely heard him. "Nymphadora Tonks, stop it!" Remus was breathing very heavily by then.

"What?" Tonks lost her focus and the room went dark- or at least darker than before.

"Lovely? You call it lovely?" Remus' eyes were full of questions. "If I could go back and change one thing about my life, I'd probably chose to not be bitten by a werewolf." His words were barely audible, maybe because he never really talked about this topic much.

"Look on the bright side! Without it, you will never be where you are right now." Tonks was just saying the truth, and Remus did see some sense in her words.

"I don't know, Tonks."

"I love you, Remus." Usually, the guys are the ones who express their feelings first, but not this time.

"Tonks, you've gone way too far this time." Remus replied. "I told you millions of times before, I'm just not good enough."

"Don't be too modest." Tonks shook her head.

"What's so modest about saying you're not good enough because you're a werewolf? Because you're different than everyone else and have the potential to kill even the closest people?" His words were dressed in pain. "I cannot be with you. I can't. I- I have to go." Remus picked up his coat and was standing by the door.

"Show me a little respect please, that's all I'm asking." Tonks was desperate.

"I respect you with all my heart, Nymhphadora, but show you respect and put you into a danger contract of a lifetime? Not that." Remus opened the door and found him wrapped in the cold air.

"If you respect me, stay." Tonks pleaded. "And don't call me Nymphadora, Remus. It's Tonks."

"I'm sorry." Remus left, leaving Tonks while in the verge of tears. "I'm so sorry, Tonks."

But Remus knew it already.

He knew that someday, someday he would have to give in.

Eventually.

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