A/N: I've decided to turn this into a drabble collection instead of posting all my drabbles that I've got saved on my computer into different stories. I hope you'll enjoy! Feel free to leave requests, I write anything. And thanks to mew (mew-tsubaki) for betareading.
For the Dribble Drabble thread. Remus & Tonks. Cold fire.
At first, there was only the cold fire that raged through her body when she saw him. It happened so suddenly, she didn't quite know what it meant. Everything on the outside was confusion and denial, but the flames would keep flaring inside of her, unable to stop.
So she decided it was better to keep going, just accept what her mind had created. But she had never expected it to be like this.
It should have been easy, it should have been perfect as soon as she let go. Wasn't it so that everyone told you to jump off that safe and familiar cliff, and that you would land softly?
She didn't do that. Instead it was hard, bone breaking, destroying her and crushing her. Every time his eyes refused to meet hers, every time his mouth turned into an upside-down smile, the fire inside her turned to ice. It wasn't cold—it was freezing.
But suddenly everything changed. And it happened as normal and unannounced as when the sun rose. She didn't want to ask why, in fear of everything disappearing and that he would realize that he'd made a mistake.
So she just smiled. And it felt so good, at last. She knew everything would be fine now, everything.