For the Ultimate Pairing Drabble Competition (prompt: teddy bear; word count: 537); the Travel Go Challenge (pairing: remustonks; word: angel; mood: hollywood); the If You Dare Challenge (701. Magic Is Back); the Globetrotter Drabble Competition (Cairo, Egypt); the Pairing Set Bootcamp Challenge (8. Remus/Tonks) and the Fantastic Beasts Challenge (Nogtail)

It had all seemed so perfect.

Sure, it had taken her time, but she had finally gotten Remus to cave and date her. He'd even proposed! And then she'd gotten pregnant and it had seemed like everything was okay with the world, even though they were in the middle of a war they seemed to be loosing.

She had Remus and her unborn angel, and that was all she had ever really wanted or needed in her life.

But of course, the fates had never exactly been kind to her, had they?

All the evidence she needed of the fact was there in the broken pieces of her life that were staring at her. Remus had run away, and she had been left shattered, with nothing but a child in her stomach and red and gold teddy bear to show that he had ever been there in the first place.

She should have been angry and raging mad at him, but all she was, was depressed. She should have seen the signs that he was having difficulty coping with everything that had changed in his life. She should have found something to say, some way to soothe him, so that he wouldn't have felt the need to run.

Most women would advise her never to forgive if he did return someday, to hold on to her sadness and feed it with hatred just so he would feel the pain he had put her through, but she knew that if he ever did come back to her, she would hold him tight and never let him go again.

Remus was the love of her life, and she couldn't really care about the pain he put her through. As long as she was in his arms, none of it mattered anyway.

But she doubted he would come back before the end of the war. He was terrified that he was a danger to their child, and she knew that unless she found and convinced him to return, there was almost no chance he would. And she didn't dare venture out of her home while she was pregnant – she was taking no chances with her child – so their reunion would most likely have to wait.

And then – then, somehow, he returned.

It was another normal day for her, stuck at home and wishing he was there, when she heard a tentative knock on the door of her room.

For a moment, she was terrified. Her mother would never knock, not now that Remus was gone, and there was no one else who visited her.

But common sense prevailed – it was hardly likely that a Death Eater would knock before entering.

"Come in," she called out, still careful.

And the door opened, and there he was, standing and staring at her with a sheepish, guilty look on his face.

He opened his mouth to say something – probably to apologise – but…well, it had been so long since she had last seen him that she couldn't help but fling herself upon him.

There was no need for apologies, not when it was him and her.

He was back, and as she pulled his lips to hers, she knew that was all she needed.

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