Disclaimer: I do not own 'Harry Potter'
A/N: A short story about Tonks. Written a year ago. Hope you like it.
All mistakes are mine.
Blue dress
The dress of the periwinkle's color lies in an old, wood wardrobe, between many different of the similar color. All of them lie neatly. Every dress is a different story and every is a different memory.
The smallest baby blue dress lies on the left side of wardrobe. This one, Nymphadora liked least. When she was a four-year old girl with honey colored hair, mother put in on her and she tied girl's gold locks with light blue bows. Everyone was saying, she looked like an angel. But Tonks never was an angel.
Slightly bigger dress lies behind. Nymphadora was seven years old and fully aware, she changed the color of her hair into dark brown. Mother wasn't pleased with that. But cyanish dress looked good as well with old hair as with the new ones and azure bows kept her locks in place. Her family and friends kept saying she looked as a young lady. But a clumsy Nymphadora didn't like this dress either. And she never felt like a lady. Never.
When Tonks was ten years old, she met Weasley's brothers – Charlie and Bill. And again, she was wearing a dress. This time, it was colored in indigo. That day little girl hated her mother. She felt pure, but evanescent childish hateress, because how she could take her on a visit to two boys in a dress. No way! Girl fully aware of her act, jumped into the mud with her new friends. Her mother wasn't happy.
An ultramarine dress lies behind two previous dresses. Tonks tried to protest, but still she was made to wear this one on the day of her first journey to Hogwart. She felt like an idiot between all those kids wearing normal, Muggles clothes. Alas, her bag was fully packed with dresses. But she worked out how to not be seen in them. She was rescued by a black school robe which she put on in the train. On that day, Nymphadora started to hate dresses completely.
A long, cobalt-blue dress lies behind others in wardrobe. A gift from her mother for graduation. Nymphadora was supposed to wear this on her ball on the last day of school. But Tonks didn't do that and her mother almost got a heart attack, because her daughter wore dark blue jeans and midnight blue t-shirt. It was time when Andromeda Tonks understood that her child hated dresses.
Next years didn't bring any blue dress. Nymphadora tried to avoid shops with that kind of clothes. Just like somewhere between dresses was hidden boggart waiting to jump on her when she came to close.
Tonks preferred jeans and loose jumpers. She could fight while wearing them, and while wearing dress she felt helpless.
There is one more dress in the wardrobe. One more powder blue dress. This one is loved by Nymphadora. She wore it once. She wanted to. She bought it with pleasure, she got it for him. For Lupin. He loved her wearing dresses and he liked blue color. She changed her mind for him and choose her weeding dress to be blue. She did that to make him happy. Yes, this dress was Tonks' most favorite one.
There is one more dress. But no in the wardrobe. It's hidden deep in the ground. A dead body's wearing it – a Tonks' body is wearing it. In this iceberg dress she's going to be with Lupin forever. In this dress she's going to watch her son¸ observe him changing his hair into blue. She would never mind wearing dress again, because it wouldn't matter again.
~The end~
Like it? Hate it? Please let me know what you think.