Written For:

- Day 41 of 366 Days of Writing Challenge: Flying Lesson

- The Emotion Challenge: Nervous

Pairings/Characters: Andromeda, Tonks

Word Count: 219


Flying Lesson

As long as you can make a promise not to break my little heart.

"Mum, please will you teach me how to fly today?" a seven year old Nymphadora begged, hanging onto the back of Andromeda's robes. "It's a nice day and everything. You can't make anymore excuses!"

Andromeda resisted the urge to snigger. It was true: she had been thinking up an excuse every time Nymphadora had requested a flying lesson. She had blamed the bad weather, her poor eyesight, a lack of flying abilities to teach with—but it seemed that Nymphadora wasn't taking no for an answer.

It wasn't that Andromeda didn't want to teach Nymphadora how to fly. She did, but she was terribly nervous. She already spent most of her life living in fear, terrified that her older sister was going to swoop in and snatch Nymphadora right out of her hands. Sending her seven year old twenty feet into the sky—well, that didn't bear thinking about.

Nymphadora looked up at her mother with large, pleading eyes. The young girl knew what she was doing; the puppy dog eyes never failed with Andromeda.

"Oh, fine," Andromeda huffed finally, grabbing her cloak from the bannister as they passed. "But you're not going more than ten feet off the ground until your father is home!"