I Don't Care, You Amaze Me

by MeetVirginia

"When this is all over... we'll stay together, right? It won't be a secret. We'll buy some run- down cottage with a zillion windows and plant flowers," she'll say. And he'll think, we're going to lose this war, or else wise we're going to die in combat. And even if we won, what would change? I'd still be a werewolf. I'd still be poor and old and people would hate me."

5. Insight

"Harry is coming tomorrow," Lupin says one evening in July.

Tonks, curled up in a large armchair, looks up from her book.

"I know, Remus," she says, folding the corner of the page over.

"Sirius will be excited to see him," he says quietly. She smiles.

"And so will you."

"Of course, but I'm not his godfather."

"No. You only knew him for a year, taught him to cast a patronus, and kept his best interests at heart. Why should you matter?"

Lupin looks up, bemused.

"Heavy sarcasm," Tonks adds for his benefit.

"I got it, thanks."

"Okay," she smiles, "Then our friendship is getting somewhere!"

He smiles back, and they sit in silence for a while, Remus remembering two years back, when he turned into a werewolf and ravaged the grounds.

I almost killed him, he thinks.

"- Besides, you're the one who has spent time with him. You knows he's not James," Tonks interjects into the silence.

Remus stares at the insightful young girl until she meets his gaze with a smile, and says, "What?"

"Nothing," he says quickly.

You're just beautiful, he thinks.

Great, now he thinks I'm some obsessive stalker, sticking my nose into other people's business, she thinks.

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I should be working on a term paper about Leopold II of Belgium. Unfortunately, Remus and Tonks are much more interesting.

In this chapter, I skipped ahead a few weeks. What did you guys think?

I want to try making the next chapter a song fic, may I have song requests?

Also, the title of this story is based on a song. Does anyone know the song?

GAHHHHH- enough questions. I'm back to work.

Thanks for reading!

-Vi