For Ashmoon from the Patronous Magazine, for Christmas 2010
Used to be on my profile, but I decided to publish it so people don't necessarily have to read it every time they see my profile.
Anyhow, enjoy!
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It's cold, very cold. Nymphadora Tonks shudders on the sofa in the living room of Remus Lupin, her fiancée. "Are you very cold?" he asks her, smiling faintly. She opens her mouth to speak, but all the werewolf hears are her teeth chattering. He chuckles amiably. "Let me go get us a mug of hot cocoa and some fur blankets." Tonks nods, and the wizard goes in to the adjoining room, coming back with what he promised her. "Thank you, Rem," she says, kissing him playfully on his very red and very cold nose.
They snuggle comfortably under the blankets, and Tonks' gaze wonders towards the windows, from where she can see snow falling peacefully without a sound.
"Winter's delightful, isn't it, my dear?" comments Remus as he kisses his fiancée's forehead. "Yes, it is. I can't believe it's already Christmas tomorrow," she adds. "I know," he replies, "it seems like yesterday that we were fighting Death Eaters somewhere." "War is tough. But let's not talk about that now. Can we not talk about something happier?"
The wizard smiles mischievousely, and points a finger at the plant above them on the ceiling. "Why not use our lips for another purpose?"
It's magic when their lips join. At that moment they know that they are made for each other.