you're nobody until somebody loves you
A HariPo drabble collection
by mew-tsubaki
- ^-^3
She felt like a consolation prize.
It wasn't their age gap that was the issue, nor their opposite personalities. It was their being complete strangers. By the time she entered Remus' life properly, as more than just "Sirius' little cousin," he had lived a full life already and then some. He was on his second war while she was on her first.
But work and loss combined began to shrink that distance. Camaraderie became friendship became confidant.
"Consolation" was no longer a dirty word in Tonks' book. It could morph—like her!—into something else entirely.
It was a beginning.