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."

14. The Future

They rarely talk about the future.

"When this is all over..." Tonks will always start.

And he'll think, really, this war is just beginning.

"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 it; people would hate me.

But he doesn't say any of this out loud, because if he did, surely she'd see sense and leave him. Already, he knows it's wrong, wrong to hold her in his arms like this.

Late at night, he lets her talk herself to sleep, and then he only holds her tighter.