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A tribute

LupinTonks fan fiction

Author's Note: Reviews are always appreciated.

Author's Note: The song finishes up, but I can still hear it playing through my mind – and I realize it's perfect. It fits them completely.

Chapter 1: Breaking Dawn

The dawn is breaking

A light shining through

You're barely waking

And I'm tangled up in you

Soft golden light filtered through the half-open white curtains. Simple and clean, the little bedroom seems to shimmer under the perfect sunbeams thrown across the floor.

As he blinks blearily, her hair changes from straight and black to a tumbling mass of blonde curls, each strand dipped in the shining morning sun. He rubs his thumb in slow circles at the small of her naked back, and watches the way the light frames her half exposed body in a dusty gold aura. Messy sheets wind their way around the couple's tangled limbs, and he dislodges his arm from the jumble to brush sandy bangs out of his eyes.

"Remus," comes a husky whisper as the blonde head gives a little shake. The man shifts and draws his gaze from the beautiful pinks and oranges melting into a newborn day. Fresh as the breaking dawn, startling violet eyes blink up at him in all innocence and a thin arm draws out from underneath his lean torso. She lifts a small hand to his cheek and pulls him down to meet her.

Good Morning, Darling, she's saying to him. His own arm brings her closer to him and he speaks aloud.

"Morning, Dora." His voice is hoarse, and she smiles against his lips at the sound of it.

Two bodies press together, but their souls meet as one. It was always meant to be that way.

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