Remus knelt down next to Tonks, who was sitting, with her knees against her chest, beside her father's grave, crying.
Remus looked at her father's grave. It wasn't much; since they were in the middle of war, they had been unable to have a funeral and Remus had dug a hole in the backyard of Andromeda's house, buried Ted, and found a rock that he could use as a tombstone. He looked at the words he had engraved on the rock.
Ted Tonks
Beloved Father and Husband
January 26, 1948-April 5, 1998
The grave had no flowers or any other decoration, seeing as Andromeda still was far too depressed to go outside and actually look at the grave and Tonks had come at here, hoping to get some closure, but wasn't able to do anything but cry. Remus looked at the ground there was a bright yellow sunflower sprouting out of the ground. He picked it.
"'Dora?" said Remus, not expecting her to answer him.
Although she didn't answer him, she, surprisingly, looked up from where she had her face, in between her knees. Her eyes were red and puffy, she had tear tracks on her cheeks, and her hair was a mousy brown. Remus put his thumb to her cheek and wiped off a tear that had just trickled from her eye.
"Your father, wouldn't want this." he said calmly.
Tonks sniffled.
"What would he want then?" Tonks asked, challenging him.
"Not, this." Remus replied. A few seconds passed in silence.
"He'd want, flowers on his grave, he'd want you to worry about, the baby, not him." he said, placing a hand on her stomach.
When, Remus had first heard the news about Tonks, being pregnant, he had left her, only to come back a few weeks later.
"Flowers?" Tonks asked him.
"Yeah." he said, handing her the flower, he had picked. Tonks took it and looked at it for a moment. She placed it next to the rock, used as a tombstone.
"It really takes away the dullness, of his grave, doesn't it?" she said, as her voice cracked.
"Yeah, we can go find some more, if you'd like to?" he asked.
Tonks thought about it for a second.
"Alright, then." she finally replied.
Remus stood up and the held a hand out for her to grab and helped her up. Tonks led Remus to the garden.
The garden was fairly big and had many, brightly colored, flowers. Tonks found a small, very pretty, violet colored, flower. She had also found a few other flowers. Remus had even picked a couple flowers.
"I think, that will be enough." Tonks said.
"Okay." Said Remus. They walked back to Ted's grave.
Tonks looked at the flowers she was holding in her hand, then knelt down and started arranging them, putting some on top of the rock, used as a tombstone and others next to it. Once they were arranged Tonks stood up and looked at Rmus and the two flowers in his hand.
"You can arrange mine." Remus said, holding out the flowers in his hands for her to take.
"No, you can." said Tonks.
Remus knelt down and put a, light, blue flower on the ground next to a green flower she had put on the ground. Then he put a pink flower on top of the rock to the left of a red Petunia she had put. He stood up and stood next to her and held her hand.
Together they stood looking at the grave.
Finally Tonks spoke, "It looks better." Tonks said, with sniffle and holding hands, they both turned around and walked back to the house.
