It was early in the morning the day after Christmas Day and Tonks was sitting alone in her flat, thinking about whether she should leave or not. She knew it could well have been better for everyone if she just left, moved on, forgot about everyone. Especially if she never had to make Remus upset again. She loved him with all her heart, yet he just didn't seem to care.
They had slept together one night and now she was pregnant, yet she hadn't had the heart to tell him. She had booked an abortion for that morning in a muggle hospital. Nobody knew that she was pregnant. She hadn't told anyone. She had wanted to tell Molly and her mum but she knew they would have talked her out of it. She didn't want Remus to be stuck with her just because she had his kid, though.
She sighed, glancing at the clock. It was 6o'clock in the morning, leaving her just enough time to reach the hospital before her appointment at 7.30am. She sighed a little, pulling herself up from her position curled up on the couch and grabbed her coat, pulling it over her shoulders and heading out into the snow covered street beyond her house.
It took her half an hour to reach the hospital and she booked herself in, heading to her room. She glanced out of the window and the nurse left the room briefly. "I'm sorry," Tonks muttered, knowing that what she was doing was wrong. "It's best this way, though," she added as she looked down at her stomach. She heard the door open again then and turned around to see a nurse and a doctor standing there.
"Are you sure you want to go ahead with this?" the doctor asked, seeing the sadness in her eyes.
She nodded in response to his question, "It can't happen any other way," she replied.
The doctor and nurse exchanged glances before nodding themselves as well, "Come this way, then," the nurse said and Tonks followed the two of them down the corridor into a dark room that was clearly the operating theatre. "Lay down on the bed," the nurse said, and Tonks did as she was asked, her heart aching because of what she was doing but she knew there was no other option. If there had been, she would have taken it. But there wasn't.
She felt a needle being injected into her and she turned her head slightly to see the doctor then moving away with the needle in his hand, "It'll all be over soon," he said and then everything went blank.
