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."

7. Indigo

He returns to Grimmauld Place four and a half months later, collapsing on the faded couch one night.

Sirius owls her, and Tonks rushes over the next morning.

"I got you this," she says, holding out a strip of paper. "It's a Being certificate, as opposed to a Beast one. I read up on werewolves, and the prejudice – It's absolutely awful! That hag Umbridge passed the Anti- Werewolf legislation in the Beast department, where the Werewolf Registry is, but Werewolf Support Services is in the Being department, and I have a mate there, and I had to forge a few signatures, and it doesn't change much, but-"

"It changes Tonks, I mean, tons! It changes tons," he says, taking the certificate from her and examining it. "I don't know what to say."

"You could accept my apology," she ploys.

"I accept it!" He says, pulling her into his arms and burying his nose in her bright indigo hair.

"Merry Christmas Eve Day, Lupin," she mutters.

"I missed you," he responds.

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okay, I've uploaded this chapter like eight times by accident.

I keep finding typos!

sorry!