A/N: I would just like to thank all of you who let me know about the screw up on the last chapter "awkward snogs" that's now been rectified. I also wanted to get it out there that this is the SECOND LAST CHAPTER! I'm tossing up finishing my half written epilogue but you can all give me your opinions when the next chapter is up, it's going to be called "With You I Can Sleep" so look out for it. Adieu!

Death is Not Always a Tragedy – Deathly Hallows

Tonks ran. She saw death eaters fighting others and disarmed them where she could but in her mind there was only Remus. She had to find him.

Then she saw him, fighting, as she had known he would be. He smiled at her, that gorgeous happy smile he seemed to reserve for her and Teddy.

"Hello Dora!" He yelled as he flicked his wand at a death eater who fell straight down a staircase.

Tonks made to reply but then a death eater came in her line of vision and she had to focus. She threw everything at the death eater's but for every one she knocked unconscious or killed another stood up to challenge her.

She felt herself tire. She couldn't tire. She had to fight. She had to make it. But her strength was starting to fail her, it couldn't; not now, she had never tired in battle before.

But you've never fought this many, this hard before either. A voice in her head warned her.

"Remus!" She screamed as she finally caved to unforgivable curses and used the killing curse on the man in front of her. "Remus I love you!"

"Isn't this cute?" Bellatrix asked in a high-pitched voice.

The last person Tonks wanted to fight when she was at her worst.

"Crucio!"

"Protego!"

Bellatrix's wand slashed through the air and purple flames came at her.

"Duro!" The flames turned to stone and fell to the ground, shattering.

"Alarte Ascendare!" Tonks yelled throwing Bellatrix back.

"Carpe Retractum!" Tonks tried to dodge the ropes but they easily wound around her body. She had known her hated aunt was more powerful. She had fought anyway.

"I've got you now, niece." Bellatrix said in a murderous voice. "Your son is next."

The hopelessness in Tonks vanished.

The spell did not hit Bellatrix but another death eater behind her.

"Occideret sanguinare" Bellatrix hissed right in Tonk's ear, then the ropes let go of her and she fell to the ground.

Tonks could feel blood steeping steadily from the wound in her stomach and knew that she had lost. But had she really lost? In a way she had won. She would die but her son, he would see a better world. Tonks knew somehow, Harry knew what to do. They would win.

"You will never touch my son." Tonks whispered to Bellatrix who simply laughed madly walking away.

"Dora!"

It was Remus of course.

"I'm alive." She whispered as her husband leaned over he looking close to tears. Relief spread across his face and he smiled at her.

"You'll be okay?" He asked.

"I'll live." She lied. Knowing she lied but not being able to help herself. She couldn't see Remus so unhappy.

Remus started to fade out of view but Tonk's was smiling as the world faded from her sight.

He had no idea that his wife had just died. She looked so at peace, as if asleep. He had somehow forgotten that enemies surrounded him, he had blocked out all sound in worry for his wife.

That is how he did not hear the woman behind him.

"Avada Kedavra!"

Remus' body fell across that of his beloved wife, eyes wide and unseeing.