[Written 7/29/2005 for hp100 on lj, Challenge No. 117, "Omens, Portents, and Visions." It also has a fantastic remix/sequel on AO3 by gladdecease called "Love Tarot (The Ten Years Later Remix)."]
The Muggle sign reads, "Fortunes Told! Futures Read!" Tonks enters on a whim. The woman is pleasant, business-like, and quickly Tonks spills: The crush, her insecurities, the impossibility of the situation.
"Romance, then? Cut," the woman says, having shuffled while Tonks babbled; a card is drawn. "The Moon. Things hidden, deception, misinformation, from others and yourself. An affinity for night, diving in deep waters... always on guard, and torn between the nature of wolf and dog."
"...what's that got to do with me and Charlie?" Tonks replies, bewildered.
"Don't count on anything," the woman says, sympathetically smirking. Teenagers! she thought.