I Don't Care, You Amaze Me

by MeetVirginia

"When this is all over... we'll stay together, right? It won't be a secret. We'll buy some run- down cottage with a zillion windows and plant flowers," she'll say. And he'll think, we're going to lose this war, or else wise we're going to die in combat. And even if we won, what would change? I'd still be a werewolf. I'd still be poor and old and people would hate me."

1. Introductions

Written for the Romantic Drabble Challenge by HedwigBlack.

Disclaimer: I'm not J.K Rowling. :/

"Pleased to meet you, Nymphadora."

"Pleased to meet you, werewolf."

He stands there for a second, hurt, but his expression doesn't change.

"Don't call me Nymphadora. It's Tonks," she informs him.

He forces a smile. "Nice to meet you, Tonks."

"Nice to meet you, Remus Lupin," she says. "Merlin, I've just made an irrevocable ass of myself, haven't I? In my head you called me Nymphadora, so I called you werewolf. Then you said 'Don't call me werewolf', and I said 'Don't call me Nymphadora. May we try again?"

He shrugs.