A/N – Finally, this one is so hard! I'm also trying to do Remus. After that maybe George? Or Fred? Or Percy? Tell me what you think. I want to do all the kind of current characters if you know what I mean. Then the older ones and then the next generation. Let me know if you have any requests or ideas!
Tonks Nymphadora Lupin
Sirius was always her favourite cousin. Even though, technically he was her second cousin. He was the big brother she'd never had. The best friend she desperately wanted. The teacher that taught her the useful stuff. From when she was about 6 to 11, she relied on him for everything. Comfort, advice, stories, support and love. When she thinks about he was there for all the big milestones in her life. Meeting Remus, both as a 7 year old and as a 23 year old. Becoming an Auror, he was there in her mind and in the case she was investigating. She never believed he was guilty, but even so, the day he went to Azkaban she lost him. It was awful and she cried for a good few weeks, before deciding he wouldn't have wanted her to waste her life. When he escaped a small part of her hoped that he might try to see her, but he didn't and even though she knows why, she wishes he had. So after losing him, then finding him, of course she was going to join the organization he gave 13 years of freedom to help. When he died, when she saw him fall through that Veil, she froze for a second. Thank God she was trained to always keep going or she would have been killed on the spot. Instead her hands and feet and mouth kept moving, kept fighting. Her heart and mind collapsed and slid into a dark corner where she could grieve for the person who had saved her from becoming what she wasn't.
She loved her mother but she didn't want to be her. She didn't want to tell her children that they should "go with the crowd because it was safer". She didn't want to show them she loved them by yelling at them when they made a mistake. She wanted to be friends with her kids, wanted to love them and be gentle but firm. She wanted them to come to her with their problems but not be rude to her. On the other hand, if any of her children ever turned out to be like she was as a child, she was pretty sure she'd lock them in a cupboard and call the exterminator.
Her father was always the one that tried to keep peace between her and her mother. Her first thought when she found out he was dead, was that she would never stop fighting with her mother. Then she sat down and cried. Cried for her baby, who he would never know. Cried for her mother, who had loved him with all her heart; who had run away with him. Cried for herself who had never said goodbye. Cried because she didn't want to lose anyone else. Cried because a part of her would have easily given up then if it meant no more death. No more pain. No more crying.
She never forgot about Remus leaving her and the baby. She forgave him completely, but she never forgot. Sometimes when they were lying in bed together, and he had fallen asleep with his arm wrapped around her waist she'd lay awake. Imagining what would have happened if he hadn't come back. She knows he did it because he loves her, because he has so little self-esteem. But it still hurts, that he turned his back and walked away. It's horrible. And she never stopped fearing he would leave again.
Her clumsiness is a part of her. Like her pink hair or her brown eyes. It's a part of her that is completely her, just her. Being a Metamorphous she is really herself, she takes on whatever appearance she feels like. Other traits and characteristics come from her mother or her father, but clumsiness is different. Her mother is articulate and graceful; she is about as far away from clumsy as possible. Her father is gentle and soft, the peacemaker, and he moves to slowly to be clumsy. Both of her parents do, they walk along, taking their time while Tonks races ahead, no doubt heading for trouble. So, in reality she doesn't wish she wasn't clumsy, because it's the only part of her that's always a part of her, that's just her.
Metamorphous are rare and Tonks never met another one in her life. Not that she particularly wanted to. But it was something she wondered about occasionally. She liked being able to use her powers to help a good cause, she wasn't bothered that they put her in danger. Danger was fun. But she never let anyone see her naturally. Not even Remus. She knew he wanted to, and she knew he wouldn't turn away. But she was terrified he would see her scars. The ones she had always tried too hard to hide. They were souvenirs from various accidents, mishaps and attacks. There was one from a stray firework she had let off in her third year. One from a nasty curse that had almost killed her, in her first year of Auror training. Some just from very hard falls, edges of tables, corners of chairs that type of thing. She saw his scars, but she didn't want him to see her as weak. And that's what she thought when she looked at them, that she was weak.
Ginny and Hermione were like little sisters to her. She loved being able to talk to them, in truth she was much closer to their age then the adults, and she definitely felt closer to them. She missed the gossip and the chats she'd had with her roommates in Hogwarts, Auror work didn't leave much time to make new friends. When she rushed past Ginny on her way to find Remus at the Last Battle, she stopped to hug her. She wasn't sure why, but she felt like she needed to. She told Ginny to stay safe and not fight. Then told her to do what she felt was right. She didn't think it was really her right to tell people off for rushing into wars.
When she rushed into Hogwarts, looking for Remus she was terrified. Not for her own life. For the husband she had to find, for the son she might leave behind. When she saw Remus duelling a Death Eater she had renewed hope. She joined him and taking advantage of both their surprise she hit him in the chest with a Stunning spell so strong nothing would wake him up for days. She grabbed Remus's hand and dragged him into a classroom, where she locked the door and barricaded it with every spell she knew. Then she turned to see Remus, who was no longer looking stunned but instead rather angry.
"Tonks! What the hell are you doing here?"
"Well, I'm sorry but I wanted to know if my husband was still alive!
"Where's Teddy?!"
"My mother has him"
The couple stood for a minute, holding hands as if it would make everything better. Then Remus kissed Tonks and made for the door.
"What? Where are you going?
"Tonks, I have to fight. I won't make you go home but I really hope you do. But I have to fight. "
"Then I will too."
They kissed again and both went for the door. When they reached it, Tonks waved her wand and opened it. Remus squeezed her hand and pulled away. Letting go was the hardest thing she had ever done in her life. By a long way. But she did it because she knew he had to fight.
Seeing Remus run towards the battle was awful. Seeing him start to duel was worse. Seeing him wince in pain was so heart-breaking that she ran towards him. She touched his fingertips one last time before she heard a cackle of laughter behind her and felt a gut-wrenching explosion inside her. She fell, her eyes never leaving Remus. The last thing she saw was his frantic face. The last thing she felt was the touch of his fingers on her cheek. The last thing she heard was "I love you."
When she woke up she felt light. She looked at her arms and saw that cuts and bruises had disappeared. She stood up and realised she was naked. No sooner had she thought it robes appeared next to her. She put them on and looked around. She looked around to assess the situation. She was on a hill. She gasped as she realised it was the hill she and Remus had gotten married on. She looked around to see 3 people standing a little way away, looking at her. Two men and a woman. They were too far away to recognize properly. The woman had long red hair and both the men had untidy black hair. She walked up to them and suddenly recognized the man that didn't have his arm around the woman's waist. It was Sirius. She ran to him and hugged him. He introduced the other two as Lily and James Potter. Then he nudged Tonks and she looked around. In the middle of the field was Remus. As he looked over and saw her, his eyes brightened and she felt her knees go weak. They ran to each other and Tonks knew that everything would be ok.
A/N – This one isn't as good as I'd like it to be. I know the speech in 8 is a little weird but I couldn't think of any other way to do it. I know the last one is odd, but I couldn't help myself. I think on all the people that are dead I'll do one like that as the last one. What do you think? Review and let me know!