Author's Note:
Just a warning, this story has big Deathly Hallows spoilers. I suppose you would also call it AU. But I really wanted to write this story, if only for my own peace of mind. This first chapter is a little odd but bear with me please. Hope you enjoy it! Feel free to maybe leave a review…
Many thanks to my good friend Girl Scout for looking over this for me, (not to mention the help she has been dealing with the grief that several deaths in the seventh book left me with). Girl Scout, you are a much better friend then I deserve.
Seen And Unforeseen
Prologue- Seen And Unforeseen:
Tombstones littered the green field, some tall and some short but all the same depressing grey color. The sky above, continuing with the color scheme, was also grey. It wasn't raining, however, it looked as though it might start to at any second.
Two figures remained standing over a spot where two freshly dug graves indicated a double burial had just taken place. Not even the many flowers and tokens left by the people who had attended the burial could do anything to make the scene appear cheerful, or anything close to it.
"I just can't believe that she's… that they're…" Ginny Weasley found herself unable to say the word 'dead' or even 'gone'. And still as she knelt by the side-by-side headstones Ginny still didn't want to believe that Nymphadora Tonks and Remus Lupin had died. Her companion knew all too clearly what she was thinking.
"It's not fair," Harry Potter said in a tight voice. He was not looking at the graves, rather he was peering off in the distance. Following his gaze, Ginny saw Tonks' mother who was holding a small chubby baby in her arms. It was Tonks and Remus' infant son, Teddy.
The baby's hair was a mousy brown, silently reminding both of them of the shade that Tonks' hair had turned when she had been at her most miserable. Ginny felt fresh tears at the sight, but she fought them back.
"They're waiting for us," she managed to say looking back sadly at the crowd of mourners. There had been many funerals this week, but the sight of everyone in their mourning clothes was still a painful reminder of the many losses that they had sustained in the fight against Voldemort.
"Yeah," Harry agreed reluctantly.
He knelt down, whispering something that Ginny couldn't make out to his father's friend. Copying Harry she knelt down next to him, touching the marker for Tonks' grave as she spoke.
"I miss you Tonks," she breathed.
Harry and Ginny stood up slowly, walking hand in hand now. They didn't speak, both still thinking of the couple, and the pain that death left behind.
At that moment in a rather unremarkable house not too far away from where the graves and the mourners were gathered Nymphadora Tonks opened her eyes.