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Remus hung his head in his heads. What was he thinking? Dumbledore dead and he was thinking about Tonks? Yet how could he not, after what she had said to him? Did she really mean that she didn't care about what he was, in front of all those people?
He was hiding in an out-of-order bathroom on the second floor. Remus started when he heard an unexplained noise coming out of a toilet. It sounded like laughing.
The ghost of a girl zoomed out of a nearby stall. "There's people crying all over the castle!" she said gleefully.
"That's because Dumbledore's dead!" snapped Remus.
Myrtle looked at him, shocked. "What? But…Dumbledore'll always be here!"
"He was supposed to be! He wasn't supposed to leave!"
Myrtle looked at him. "You know, that's not the only reason there are people crying. Apparently some woman is really upset because she thinks the man she loves will never accept her."
Remus glared at her. "You know nothing about it!"
"Actually I do. She cried her heart out to me about an hour ago. And if I were you I would get up right now and get out of the girls bathroom and go and tell that woman what you feel!" smirked Myrtle.
Right there he decided what he was going to do right then, no matter the consequences. He gulped and stood up. He now headed back to the infirmary.
There she was, sitting in a chair looking forlornly at Fleur dabbing at Bill's wounds tenderly.
Remus cleared his throat. "Can I talk to you for a moment, Tonks?"
Tonks looked up, surprised. His heart jolted when he saw the tear tracks traveling down her face.
"Please, Remus, if you're going to reject me again, just leave me alone. I don't think I can take it again."
"Can't we just go into another room?" begged Remus.
Tonks obliged, and they went into Madam Pomfrey's office (Remus hadn't even known she had one).
"Tonks, I'm so sorry-" he began.
She shook her head. "Not again!"
"No, you're misunderstanding me!" protested Remus. "Let me finish. Tonks, I…I love you, and I'm not afraid to say it anymore."
Tonks's beautiful eyes were wide with surprise. "What are you saying?" she breathed.
"I'm saying that I'm terribly sorry for everything I've said." said Remus. "And I'm saying that I love you and want to be with you as much as I can."
"Do you really mean it?" she whispered.
"As much as I've ever meant anything." said Remus truthfully. "I never want to be away from you, and I want to make you happy, something I've been failing at for quite some time now."
Tonks bit her lip. "That's all I've ever wanted."
And the Marauder part of Remus did something he would never have done without a considerable amount of achohal. He leaned down and kissed her. She kissed back and he wrapped his arms around her. She was so warm and his heart was filled with enough love that he never wanted to let go.
When he let go he could just see James and Sirius in his mind's eye laughing and joking. He smiled. He knew now they lived on in him.
Tonks giggled. "I love you, Remus. And it's about time you knew you loved me too!"
"You make me sound like an idiot, Nymphadora."
"You are an idiot. But I love you all the same. And don't call me that!" said Tonks.
"Can I call you Nymph?" teased Remus.
"No!"
"Ok, then. How about…Dora?"
Tonks rolled her eyes. "It makes me sound like some little girl who speaks Spanish and has a pet monkey."
"Huh?"
Tonks smiled. "Dora's fine."
Remus reached in for another, more heated kiss.
Suddenly the door to the office opened.
"Oh!" said a surprised Molly. "I didn't think-I thought I'd check up-I'm sorry!" she stuttered.
Remus laughed, the tiredness and depression he'd been feeling for almost a year have been lifted.
"It's fine, Molly. It's really fine."
Molly smiled. "It's about time you two got together, you know."
Tonks smirked. "And it's about time you and Fleur started getting along."
Remus pulled Tonks out of Madam Pomfrey's office. Molly smiled again. "I'm so happy for you two."
"I am too." said Tonks happily.
Remus grinned. "You know, I've changed my mind. I'm going to go back in that office."
He pulled her back into the room, where she giggled. "Methinks I detects a trace of the Marauders in thee."
He picked her up and kissed her bridle style. "Methinks you are right."
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Oh, and if any of you do read my the Never Agains of Hogwarts, I'm am writing another one, so be patient!
