Epilogue:

Tonks woke Remus eventually, but only after taking in the moment, taking in all that had just occurred. Remus woke quite confused. When he asked what had happened, who had knocked him out, Tonks just said it was her jealous lover, but not to worry because she took care of it. Remus just laughed, thinking that it was a mugger.

Tonks mood was considerably brightened after that day. She turned Wormtail into the Ministry. He was imprisoned in Azkaban. She then testified in support of Draco, seeing that he had helped save her life, which, consequently helped bring down Voldemort. While some of Draco's offenses could be overlooked, some could not. He was given a few months in Azkaban as well as a year doing work in a Muggle orphanage.

One day, a month later a rectangular shaped package came to Tonks' desk. She looked up from her paper work curiously. A grubby piece of parchment accompanied it. She slowly unrolled it. It was a short note.

I thought you could use this. –S

Tonks grinned and opened the package. She suddenly burst out laughing, earning her strange looks from her colleagues. He had sent her a thesaurus. Inside several articles had been marked.

greasy: adj: dirty, filthy, oily, smeared with grease… ambiguous, cagey, casuistic, casuistical, cunning, deceptive, devious, dissembling, elusive, elusory, equivocating, false, fugitive…

bastard: n: rascal, scoundrel, blackguard, villain, knave, cad… bastard, boor, clown, creep, curl, dog, louse, lout, maggot, rake, rogue, sleazeball, slimebucket, stinker, worm

Tonks calmed herself, but was still grinning madly. Next time she saw him, the greasy bastard, she would be sure to call him a 'smeared with grease equivocating stinker.'

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A/N: That's it! It's over and done! Eight or so months of working on it and it's done! I hope there is no disappointment in the ending because I down right refuse to have Snape confess his undying love for Tonks and then they run off and get married and have a bunch of kids to reveal that Snape really has a softer side. I won't do it!

As for all my grammatical and spelling errors throughout the story; I apologize once again. I may someday do further editing, but I wouldn't put my money on it, not even a penny.

However, now that it is done and through, I would like some suggestions on how to make it better so that I can put new ideas to use in my other stories (or in the unlikely further editing).

Finally and most importantly, I would like to thank many people. First, everyone who read my story: Thank you, I hope you enjoyed it. Second, to everyone who reviewed: Thank you, your comments and suggestions were much appriciated. Third, to everyone who put my on their favorites and alerts: thank you for brightening my day. Last, to those who recommended my story on other sites and put it on C2: thank you for spreading the word.

Thank you!

---Perplexity

PS: In a shameless piece of self-promotion, I have a few other stories:

Deviated World: A Remus Lupin sort-of-time-travel story.

Voldemort's Seventieth: A short piece on Voldemort's first real birthday party.

Notoriety: Features Mr. Ludo Bagman.

The Noose: A short song-fiction involving Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy.

The Collaborator: A Tonks fiction featuring time-travel, Voldemort and Igor Karkaroff.