So, i'd like to point out that I didn't purposely make this chapter 19 years later. It just happened that the point that I needed the story to fast forward to was 19 years later haha

Anyway, please read, enjoy and review!

19 Years later

Nymphadora Tonks was content. Her life had not exactly been easy the last year; after her cousin dying and Remus Lupin supposedly having a death wish as he tried to infiltrate the werewolf camps. That was not forgetting the death of Albus Dumbledore. The year had definitely been tiring to say the least, though as she laid in her bed she was more than content. She smiled as she felt the warmth of Remus Lupin pressing into her back, spooning into her.

A smile passed her lips as Remus placed a kiss on her head, she squeezed his hand that had made its way into her own.

"Wotcher sleepy head . . ." Dora whispered, shifting in the bed to turn to her handsome werewolf.

Remus smiled slightly in return, leaning forwards and placing a gentle kiss on the metamorphmagus' forehead "Morning Dora . . ."

Nymphadora Tonks giggled as she laced her arms around Remus' middle, kissing him on the lips. Their mouths crashed against each other for a few moments before Remus pulled away with a woeful sigh.

"Dora . . . We need to get ready . . ." Remus placed a gentle kiss on the pink haired witches nose before he forced himself out of bed, summoning his clothes off of the floor from the night before.

With a groan Dora turned over, pulling the blankets over her head "No thank you, Remus."

Lupin rolled his eyes before he took the top of the blankets from the girls hands, pulling them down enough to see the mischievous grin on her face. She sat up in the bed, wrapping her arms around the old werewolfs neck as she attempted to pull him back onto the bed.

"Come on, Remus . . . We could stay in bed all day . . . Just me and you." She smirked, an expression that made her look exactly like her deranged Aunt. Though no-one would dare mention it Nymphadora Tonks did look alarmingly like Bellatrix Lestrange when she wasn't morphing away every other facial feature. Lupin knew it was simply because her own mother looked the near spitting image of the Death Eater and Tonks had definitely inherited the Black good looks from her.

Remus took the young witches hands in his own, kissing them gently as he brought them to his lips "Nymphadora-"

"Don't call me Nymphadora." Dora narrowed her eyes, the glare yet again reminding Remus of her Black roots.

He sighed, kissing her head before he pulled away "Sorry, Dora . . . We have to be at your parents house in half an hour."

Tonks' eyes widened as she shot up from the bed "Shit."

Remus couldn't help but chuckle slightly as he watched her trip over a stray bra on the floor, picking it up as she righted herself and putting it back on. He couldn't help but admire her beauty as she stood there in nothing but a pair of lace knickers and a bra. He looked at every curve and mark on her body, the young Auror had her fair share of scars just as the old werewolf did. Though Remus had never truly looked at each individual mark on her body until now. He slowly walked over to her as his gaze caught a look at the ragged looking scar on her lower back. There was something different about that scar and it wasn't until her felt her tense under his touch as he traced it with the pad of thumb that he realised why it looked so strange compared to the rest.

The scar wasn't just an old cut . . . it was an engraving. The scar were the messily written characters 'B.L'.

". . . Is that . . .?" Remus asked quietly, he knew he didn't need to mention the first time he had ever met Nymphadora Tonks.

It was like a strictly guarded secret between the people that had been there the day that Nymphadora was rescued from the grips of her deranged Aunt as a child. It was a painful memory for her, he knew. Remus hadn't seen Dora for years after he had safely delivered her back to her parents, he had been rather preoccupied with trying to bring Sirius Black back out of his depression at the death of Mairead and answering the flurry of questions from the ministry when the truth of the attack came out. The whole matter was ofcourse never a secret, when such a tragedy happened to a five year old in the midst of a war any journalist worth their salt tried to throw it across the papers. Though the whole incident had seemed long forgotten now and anyone who knew Nymphadora Tonks knew that you never mentioned the whole affair to her. Ever. Sirius had been the same.

Nymphadora nodded slightly, the pink from her hair tinged darker and darker until it was black as she remembered "Yes . . . Courtesy of my lovely Auntie Bellatrix . . . Mum tried to get rid of it but . . . you just can't. It's cursed to remain a scar."

The pair stayed in silence for a few moments before Remus wrapped his arms around Dora, pulling her towards him as he leant down and placed a gentle kiss on her neck "I'm sorry . . ."

Dora let out a sharp huff as she leant back into the wizard, uncaring of her state of undress "What have you got to be sorry for?"

"That we didn't get to you sooner . . ." he sighed "That you didn't have to go through that . . ."

Nymphadora twisted in his arms until she was facing him. She cupped his face in her hands as she looked deeply into his eyes "Remus Lupin, it is not your fault. You saved me." She kissed him on the lips gently "Stop punishing yourself for things that aren't your fault."

Remus frowned slightly as he rested his forehead against her own "I love you, Nymphadora Tonks."

The giggle that came out of her was like music to her ears "I love you too, Remus Lupin." She kissed him attentively for a few moments before she pulled away with a wink, summoning a dress that her mother would approve of "Now get dressed."

That was the first time that Nymphadora Tonks talked to anybody about what had happened at Lestrange Manor, not even as a child would she talk to the ministry about the specifics of her torment. She truly trusted and loved Remus Lupin.

I hope you all enjoyed the story, I will be going back at one point to edit it, perhaps add some new bits to old chapters but I'll make sure to add another chapter at the end to notify everyone if I do any major changes to chapters-at the moment its just SPAG edits. Thank you so much for reading my story and I hope you enjoyed it! Please do drop me a review.

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