Day 26: Getting Married

I apologize for getting this up an entire day late. And I know it's short...argh... weddings are just an entirely different universe for me, and I didn't know how to write it.

slenderpanda597: As always, thanks so much! Snape is Snape.

If I owned Harry Potter I would probably know how to write a wedding. Or it would be from Harry's perspective so I would just make him get distracted or knock him out or something and not have to deal with it.

"Remus, you make me lose my mind. Some days you make me want to rip out my hair, curl up in a ball and be alone forever. Other days you make me smile so much my jaw hurts, but it is the loveliest sort of pain. Had I never met you, I probably would have been fine never meeting you—but I wouldn't have known what I was missing. With you I am able to laugh my very loudest, cry my very hardest, and just generally put my all into whatever I do. With you I feel more alive. So now that I've met you, I don't want to let you go. In the beginning I thought I was being ridiculous. I thought you were some far away creature, all brain and rugged charm and I would never have any hold over you. Then I started to notice that you were more than I could ever imagine. You are so proud of your ability to sneak around and go un-punished for your mischief. But you are also your own harshest judge. You never seem to think you are good enough for anything, not even me who continues to want you more and more every day. It felt like a rather hopeless situation, and to anyone who knows me, it takes a lot for me to give up. Then I realized that you were catching me each time I fell—and I fall a lot. So I thought, he must care about me, at least a little bit. So I kept at it, I kept waiting. And I'm glad I did, because here we are, standing at the altar."

Here she heard some appreciative laughter and crying from their gathered family and friends. She had almost forgotten they were there. All she could see were his eyes, burning into hers in the most aching sort of way.

"Nymphadora," he started. She coughed in annoyance. She heard Charlie chuckle uproariously. He must be drunk all ready. "I am poor, I am dangerous and I am nearly ancient compared to you." She restrained herself from grabbing his hand and pronouncing them married before he continued his foolishness. "Still you make me feel like the richest man. You are the strong and unrelenting and it makes me try harder so I feel like I can be closer to your equal. At the same time, I feel like a schoolboy with you, because there is nothing more amusing than dragging you into trouble with me. You laugh in the face of adversity, and your laughter is the most contagious thing that I forget all else when I hear it. Your laughter blocks out all the other noises, even the doubts which have plague me in my darkest moments. I hope that somehow I can continue to make you laugh, because then I would be the happiest man for the rest of my life."

Tonks' eyes felt wet, but she was grinning ear to ear. The presiding wizard was saying something, but it was all background noise to the thumping of her heart. "Come here you," she said, as she wrapped her arms around his neck, his hands held her waist, and they kissed for the first time as husband and wife.

Again, a thousand apologies. I'll try to get the next one up soon.

It's a birthday one.