"You're Remus Lupin, and you're brave, and you're lonely, and you're self-depreciating, and intelligent, and kind, and golden, and very funny when you think no one's listening, and sad, and you turn into a werewolf once a month, but I don't care, because I love you, stupid. And all that doesn't stop you from being an incredible man and everything I never realized I wanted until I met you. So stop being a git, would you? Because I'm a lot of things too, but I'mnot stupid, and I've let you analyze and pick apart and doubt everything that we've built up until now, but I won't anymore. So get it through your thick skull, Lupin that I'm not going anywhere, except maybe the floor because I trip even more when I'm angry. So just… cut it out." She finishes lamely, because all of the anger as leaked right out of her. How could it stay when he looks so handsome, and so pained, and so everything, when he's leaning against the wall like that?

"I'll try." He whispers, and holds his arms out to her. Her knees are jelly, she can't feel her feet, her heart is thudding much too loudly, and her head feels a little light, but she somehow manages to make the seven steps to him and when she's holding onto him, while he's leaning against the wall, she knows that this is right, and that he's known for a long time, too, but he's just embracing it now, as he's embracing her.

"You're really old, too," she mutters playfully against his shoulder, "we're going to have to do something about your gray hairs."

A/N:

Yeah. Took me all of two minutes. It's not anything special. It just popped into my head and out through my fingers. Reviews would be lovely, but go easy on me, yeah? Thanks a bunch for reading.

Ciao!

Taylor.

Oh, and Disclaimer : If I owned Lupin and Tonks, Teddy would have grown up with parents.

"A man who's pure of heart, and says his prayers by night, may still become a wolf, when the autumn moon is bright." Howl belongs to Florence + the Machine. Go listen to it. It's genius.

4/30/12 – Yeah sorry. There were so many little mistakes that were irking me so I fixed them.