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Her heart was wrenched from her chest as she watched him fall. "Remus!" She screamed, the sound inhuman even to her own ears. Nymphadora had always been strong but at the sight of her husband dead on the ground she broke. Sobs were jerked from her chest of their own volition and she couldn't even tell if she was breathing anymore.
She took a breath to steady herself. She was an auror goddamn it, nothing broke her. She angrily brushed away the tears that wouldn't stop streaming down her face and whirled around in blind rage, firing spells at anything that moved.
Everything was blurred, she didn't even care who her spells hit anymore because he was gone. Her warm, loving, prankster, werewolf: the love of her life. But he lived on in their son. Teddy. Some sense came back to her as she remembered her son. The tears came faster, what kind of mother forgets about her child? She turned, just barely avoiding a killing curse and saw her.
Her deranged Aunt was standing in front of her, wand pointed at her throat. A cruel, unfeeling smile forced itself onto Nymphadora's face as she regarded the woman in front of her. "Auntie Bella, come to play?" Bellatrix's eyes lit up in delight. "I told your mother that mudblood would ruin her life and look what happened. He's dead and her dear Nymphadora is about to go the same way." She mocked.
Tonks snarled, hair turning fiery red. "Don't call me Nymphadora." And then they were fighting. She had never been in a more intense duel in her life. She shot spells at her Aunt with a reckless abandon she had never known before. Bellatrix's face hardened and she increased the speed and number of her spells
The world around them faded until all Tonks knew was the fight. She had trained under Moody, if she went down she would go down with a fight. The cutting spell severed some of Bellatrix's hair, inches away from her eye. The mad witch cackled, "Is that the best you can do, Dora?" Tonks shook at the nickname and the reminder it brought. She saw red and began slashing her spells, trying to hurt the witch in front of her as much as she could.
Bellatrix responded in kind and the air crackled around them from the force and amount of spells they sent at each other. Somehow she found herself some feet away from where they had started. She laughed humourlessly. "Is that all you've got? Don't tell me you've gone soft Auntie Bella." As she spoke her shield charm disintegrated, leaving her unprotected. "Avada Kedavra!"
She froze as the jet of green light sailed towards her. Her thoughts turned to her little boy. I'm so sorry Teddy bear, she thought in the seconds before it hit her. I wasn't strong enough to fight the pain. Please forgive me. The force of the spell knocked her backwards and she tumbled down beside her fallen husband. She reached her hand towards his, the image of him lying there the last thing she would ever see. She spoke his name with her last breath. "Remus."
