Playing Cupid
Severus looked at Remus when he seemed really down about Tonks talking to Kingsley and he felt as though they really should be together. After all, he thought that they were both equally annoying and it would stop them breeding with normal people if nothing else.
"Remus, if you care that much about who she's with, why don't you just ask her out?" Severus asked, thinking that if he got them together, Minerva may like him more for being such a good friend to someone who had never really been particularly nice to him.
"Severus, she wouldn't go out with me! I'm a werewolf, I'm fourteen years older than her and I don't even have enough money to look after myself, let alone looking after her as well." Remus sighed, a sad look in his eyes as he looked away from Severus.
"You don't know that, Remus," Severus replied, even though he was thinking the same thing. Tonks was a young successful Auror who deserved an awful lot better than a werewolf with no money but from the way they were always together, Severus was sure she did like him.
Remus didn't even bother to respond to what Severus had said because he could see no reason that Tonks would ever like him in that way. He just sat down heavily on the chair where Minerva had been sitting previously and stared at the ceiling.
Severus rolled his eyes, got up and walked out of the room to get away from the rather depressed Remus. He decided to return to the kitchen to seek out some firewhisky as he had finished his previous drink. Tonks was also there getting herself a bottle of firewhisky as well and Severus had to avoid looking directly at her in order to retain his eyesight.
"Wotcher, Severus," she said to him, passing him a bottle of the firewhisky and opening her own bottle almost simultaneously.
"Miss Tonks…" Severus said, using his usual way of greeting her.
"Have you seen Remus?" she asked before taking a sip out of her bottle of firewhisky. Her hair turned a brighter shade of pink when she said his name and Severus scowled at her for her choice of hair colour for the second time that day.
"Yes, the last time I saw him he was sitting by himself staring at the ceiling in the living room," he replied, a slight smirk on his face at the thought of Remus being lonely for once, the same way he had been the whole time he had been at school because of him and his friends.
Tonks' expression changed when he said that he was staring at the ceiling by himself and she said "Is he alright? It's not like him to do that…"
"How am I supposed to know? Maybe you should go and talk to him," Severus replied, guessing that it would probably be best if he told her himself. He wasn't sure if he would talk to her about it but the only way to get him to talk to her was for them to be together in the first place.
Tonks nodded and immediately disappeared into the living room and Severus decided to try and find Kingsley to find out what Tonks had actually said to him. He noticed him standing on the other side of the kitchen with Minerva and he felt his heart beat speed up considerably.
He took a few deep breathes to steady his heart beat before approaching them and standing beside them, "Kingsley, Minerva," he said, nodding to them both.
