AN: Harry Potter belongs to the ever so wonderful JK Rowling, I am just borrowing Lupin and Tonks for a little while.

The Battle of Hogwarts was growing ever bleaker by the second. Nymphadora Tonks and Remus Lupin had just rendered an unknown death eater unconscious when they heard the mournful cry of Mrs. Weasley and Ron Weasley.

"One of them is dead Tonks…how much longer can we keep on going like this?" Remus whispered sadly.

Tonks grabbed the front of Lupin's robes and pulled him close."Until we defeat Voldemort! Remus, Harry is out there somewhere, doing what he has to do and we have to count on him! We are doing this for him, and for Teddy back at Mum's. He cannot live in a world controlled by that…thing, he just can't!"

"You are right Tonks. We will keep on fighting until the end. I just hope the battle is over before there are many more casualties." Lupin looked dejectedly over the battlefield, covered in the dead and dying of both sides. Their tender moment was interrupted when a flash of green passed by Tonks' ear. They turned, and saw Bellatrix Lestrange laughing maniacally at them. They turned, preparing to duel her, both with a reason to kill her; Lupin lost his best friend at her hand, Tonks her cousin and a desire to rid a stain on her family tree. She was ashamed to be related to a death eater, especially one with such influence.

Curses were launched, and subsequently blocked by each of the three parties. However, Tonks was shoved from behind by a Death Eater running past her, and fell, leaving Lupin unguarded. Bellatrix seized the opportunity, and cried Sectumsepra! It was not her usual curse, but she wanted to watch the wolf bleed out first. It was the perfect hit, straight in the chest. He crumpled down like a rag doll and stayed there, in shock. Tonks got up, saw what had happened and ran to his side. She ripped off portions of her robes and pushed them onto the wounds. It wasn't enough, she used every medical spell she knew but nothing happened.

"Remus please hold on, please just hold on. I'll figure something out, we'll stop the bleeding honey, just hold on. Stand up, let me get you out of here. Please Remus, you need to stay alive for Teddy." Tears were pouring down Tonks' cheeks and onto the improvised bandages.

"Tonks, no. You must leave me now, continue fighting. There is no hope for me, you are Teddy's only parent now. Forget about me…find someone more worthy of your beauty…your brains…" Lupin was struggling to speak. His face was growing paler as the seconds ticked by, and the wounds were getting deeper. Tonks had ripped away his blood soaked robes and the bandages, leaving his chest bare. She could see the muscles under his skin and his chestplate, cracked open by the curse. His heart was showing, beating fainter and fainter. Tonks was pulling bandages from her wand, and wrapping them tightly around the wounds, pressing as hard as she could.

"Don't speak like that Remus! We are going to go home together and we will be a family. You're the only man I'll ever want, I will never remarry because you are not going to die!"

Lupin smiled weakly. "You will always be the stubborn girl I fell in love with…I am so sorry it took me so long to accept your love…I love you…" Remus closed his eyes and fell silent.

Tonks screamed, and started shaking him violently. "Remus, wake up! I can't live without you…Remus, please don't leave me. Please….please come back…you can't leave Teddy…Remus please…" Tonks sobbed, and tried bring him back to life with sparks from her wand. It didn't work. She set her wand down and lay her head on his blood, torn up chest and listened for a heartbeat that wasn't there. There was no more bloody seeping from the wounds, it had all bled out of him and lay in a puddle all around him.

Tonks had lost all will to fight. She couldn't bring herself to think of Teddy, all she could think of is her dead husband. She stayed still, with her head remaining on her chest, oblivious to all the fighting around her, and thought about their relationship. Their first real date, dinner alone at her parents house. Remus had cooked them French onion soup and a fresh loaf of bread. She had decided then that he would be the chef of the family, she had no culinary skill whatsoever. Then their wedding…only her parents and Mad-Eye were in attendance. Their kiss was filled with such passion, it was a moment she felt would last forever. She knew he worried that he would make her an outcast, but she did not care. She was with the man she loved, and if it meant her fellow wizards would find her loathsome, so be it. She would travel to the end of the world for him, and she knew he would do the same.

The first time they met flashed in her mind. What a silly girl she was, merely twenty-two at the time and being brought to the Order by Mad-Eye.

"Hello handsome." Tonks giggled as she held out her hand to the wizard in front of her. The man wore shabby robes, his hair was light brown and on the long side, though streaked with grey. He looked exhausted, but he had the deepest brown eyes she had ever seen.

"It's not everyday I receive such a compliment, and even rarer to receive one from a girl with pink hair. My name is Remus Lupin, and what is the name of the pleasant witch in front of me?"

Tonks giggled again. "Nymphadora Tonks but if you call me Nymphadora I will have to hurt you. It's Tonks."

"I wouldn't want any more additions to the collection of scars I already have, so Tonks it is."

Tonks had found out he was a werewolf soon after they had met. She acted casual, and told him that she wasn't offended by his presence in the order, and knew that his misfortune was important but that was inconsequential to her that evening, when she went upstairs and sobbed for hours without end. She didn't cry for herself, but she cried for him and all the pain and cruelty he would have faced in his life. She was known as a cheerful girl, one who was never upset, so she had cast a charm on her door so nobody heard her. That was the night she realized she was in love with him.

They became rather good friends, and when she woke up in St. Mungo's after her duel with Bellatrix, Tonks decided she would tell him how she felt for him. She was sure he would reciprocate, he was unmarried, had no girlfriend and he must want to get married. But he refused her, point blank, by telling her she deserved someone more worthy of her, who was a whole man. They would never be anything more than friends. Tonks had begged him to reconsider, he told her it wouldn't happen. She told him to leave her room, and after that her hair turned brown. It wouldn't change that year, and her patronus changed into the form of a werewolf. Those in the Order knew she was pining away for him, but Lupin would not budge. At least, not until Bill was attacked by Greyback. That night, after they had left the Hospital Wing, they walked to the Whomping Willow together, pressed the knob, and went to the shrieking shack. Together, in the dark room, in the bed that had not been used for years, they made love for the first time. A year of passion, and of pain left the two of them that night, and from that night on, their bodies and their souls were intertwined forever.

Tonks lay silently to the side of Lupin, holding his cold hand, and whispering her thoughts to herself. Tears were still running down her face, and she was waiting for her time to come. A Death Eater would see that she was still alive soon, and she would be killed. The moment was all she looked forward to, she wanted the everlasting peace of death, and eternity with her husband.

Bellatrix walked back to where Lupin's body lay, and saw that Tonks was still alive. She had not been finished off by anyone yet, so she took the pleasure of doing so herself. With a great cry, she yelled Avada Kedavra, and Tonks quietly died holding the love of her life. And that is how they found them; two soul mates lying together, and it was clear that not even their deaths could keep them apart.

Fin.