This is for the Letters from Heaven challenge on the HPFC forum. I don't own any characters in this… Enjoy!

Bella darling,

I just can't let it go. Despite it all: the Longbottoms, all the Muggles and Muggle-borns, everyone you've ever killed or tortured, Ted, Nymphadora, me; I just can't help but love you.

I have only one question: why? Why did you do it? Why join Him? Was family pride that important to you that you'd disown everyone you ever loved? It can't have been worth over a decade in Azkaban, can it?

And Ted and Nymphadora are my family. Why did you take them away from me? For years, they were my entire life. And Nymphadora had just had her baby. Teddy. You've orphaned an innocent child, but I can't get angry.

You're still my sister, no matter what happens and what you choose to believe. And you left me. I've always looked up to you, always needed you, and you abandoned me when I needed you most. You tortured me, used the Cruciatus on your own sister. But I was okay; pain becomes nothing when your heart is broken. You were already far gone by then, so I can't really blame you.

Did you ever regret doing all that you did? Or maybe wish you could take it back?

Your sister, now and forever

Andromeda

Andromeda Tonks threw the letter on the small bonfire in her backyard. She still didn't feel comfortable going out in public, not with the whole wizarding world clamoring for her story: how she was raising her orphaned grandson, whose mother was killed by her own aunt: Andromeda's sister.

Still, she mourned. She mourned her daughter and husband, it's true. But she also mourned her sister, the woman whose total devotion had led to all their deaths.

Andromeda watched solemnly as the smoke spiraled upward and the letter charred around the edges. Then the letter fell out of the fire, completely unsinged. She picked up the parchment and started to throw it back into the fire when something caught her eye.

My dear Andromeda…