Remus chewed his lips and jammed his hands into his pockets, meandering into his and Dora’s bedroom, for he knew that was where she would be. The last month had not been the best for either of them, if he was to be honest. He had left her for a few days around the time of his transformation, the…
Tonks was folding the laundry that sat like a mountain on top of their bed. She would use magic to fold the clothes, but she could never really figure out the folding spell. If she still lived on her own she wouldn’t of had a care in the world how her clothes came out, but since Remus liked every thing nice and tidy she attempted to make things a bit neater.
She stopped folding at Remus’ remark, it was almost like he could read her mind, for she had been thinking the same thing for awhile now, but didn’t know how Remus would react…after all their marriage had not been the most sturdy ever since the accident months ago and then the bloody fight with Lucius that almost sent Tonks to her death. She had been careless and reckless and for the first time realized that she would have to grow up fully now. But it wasn’t just her, Remus would disappear for a whole day, not just around transformation time and Tonks would roll over in the night to find an empty space next to her. She would look out the window and see him sitting on the beach just staring off into the ocean.
“I think that would be best, get back to the way things were” she sat on the bed. ”Any place you have in mind?”
He was vaguely surprised at how quickly she accepted his suggestion. Usually it was a myriad of questions, mostly revolving around where they would be able to leave Teddy for the x amount of days or weeks that they wanted to go away and the last few times, it hadn’t got much further than that, so he hadn’t really bothered forward thinking about a destination. He usually let her choose anyway.
“I don’t know. Somewhere warm at least” he muttered with a vague smudge of humour. She liked warmer places, whereas he was more for cultured destinations such as Berlin and Prague; art galleries and the like. “You know I don’t mind” Remus paused. “The Maldives?” he was partly being sarcastic, partly serious, wondering if she’d take up the offer.
“The Maldives sound fine” she said with a smile. She knew when Remus was trying to drop her hints, but he was always to shy to come out with an exact answer on things. Tonks looked around the room “Did you have an idea when we should go? I’ll need to contact mum and dad and see if they can take Teddy, but with mum not working or doing anything I don’t see it was a huge problem” Tonks smiled at him.
Frankly Tonks didn’t care where the two of them went as long as they were together. They didn’t the alone one on one time as just a the earth needed the sun to survive.
He started a little in surprise, not having thought that she would take up his suggestion and instead choose somewhere even more exotic and far fetched. “Oh” he mumbled, “I suppose at her earliest convenience, if possible” he suggested with a small smile. They needed this. The time alone, without Teddy for a while, without the rest of her family. (Remus was sometimes thankful that he was not in contact with any of his own relatives, merlin knew what dramas would go on to enfold them if he was).
Remus lifted a hand and trailed his fingers down her cheek, caressing her skin, letting himself linger over her features. He sometimes wondered what she’d look like if she was not a metamorphmagus. Tall, short, skinny, curvy, black hair, blonde hair.. He had harboured a notion for a while now, of asking her to imagine it for herself, and then show him; but he had never voiced it.
“This should be nice” he murmured.
Remus chewed his lips and jammed his hands into his pockets, meandering into his and Dora’s bedroom, for he knew that was where she would be. The last month had not been the best for either of them, if he was to be honest. He had left her for a few days around the time of his transformation, the…
Tonks was folding the laundry that sat like a mountain on top of their bed. She would use magic to fold the clothes, but she could never really figure out the folding spell. If she still lived on her own she wouldn’t of had a care in the world how her clothes came out, but since Remus liked every thing nice and tidy she attempted to make things a bit neater.
She stopped folding at Remus’ remark, it was almost like he could read her mind, for she had been thinking the same thing for awhile now, but didn’t know how Remus would react…after all their marriage had not been the most sturdy ever since the accident months ago and then the bloody fight with Lucius that almost sent Tonks to her death. She had been careless and reckless and for the first time realized that she would have to grow up fully now. But it wasn’t just her, Remus would disappear for a whole day, not just around transformation time and Tonks would roll over in the night to find an empty space next to her. She would look out the window and see him sitting on the beach just staring off into the ocean.
“I think that would be best, get back to the way things were” she sat on the bed. ”Any place you have in mind?”
He was vaguely surprised at how quickly she accepted his suggestion. Usually it was a myriad of questions, mostly revolving around where they would be able to leave Teddy for the x amount of days or weeks that they wanted to go away and the last few times, it hadn’t got much further than that, so he hadn’t really bothered forward thinking about a destination. He usually let her choose anyway.
“I don’t know. Somewhere warm at least” he muttered with a vague smudge of humour. She liked warmer places, whereas he was more for cultured destinations such as Berlin and Prague; art galleries and the like. “You know I don’t mind” Remus paused. “The Maldives?” he was partly being sarcastic, partly serious, wondering if she’d take up the offer.
- Confession: this is how I pictured Mags when I read Catching Fire:
good i’m not the only one
(Source: sundaystorms, via bellatrix-eltanin-lestrange)
Remus chewed his lips and jammed his hands into his pockets, meandering into his and Dora’s bedroom, for he knew that was where she would be. The last month had not been the best for either of them, if he was to be honest. He had left her for a few days around the time of his transformation, the old fear that he would hurt her as he had once done before had resurfaced and he wanted to make sure it wouldn’t happen. She, of course, had worried; despite his constant reassurances of “I’ll be fine, it’s not like I haven’t done it before,” but she had, and her nerves hadn’t been in exactly the best state after that bas-
No.
He gritted his teeth. If he thought about it any further, the forthcoming full moon would result in his going along to a certain house and taking great satisfaction in stripping someone’s bones of their cumbersome flesh. He sighed.
“We need some time away” he announced, quite suddenly and with determination, in a tone that foretold no argument. “I don’t have a care where we go, as long as its away from here, without Teddy; somewhere we can relax.”
(In case anyone from RP is wondering what this post is, it is picking up from about 2 months ago when Lucius dropped Tonks’ body off in the Shrieking Shack)
Tonks rolled over on her back looking at the cobwebbed ceiling. Where was she? She didn’t have the faintest…
Tonks bit her lip as Remus apparated with her limp broken body. The pain was almost as bad if not worse as when Lucius actually broke her ribs and arm. When they finally apparated back to their house, Tonks let her tears come out completely, she didn’t care anymore. If anyone was going to see Tonks weak she wanted it to be Remus. “Remus it hurts, everything hurts.” She clung to his shirt with her good hand and arm.
“I know, believe you me. I know” he muttered, gently placing her onto their bed. He knew and understood. Being ripped to bits every bloody month did tend to give someone a high pain tolerance, a threshold that a normal person probably wouldn’t have, but it didn’t mean he didn’t understand what it felt like. He pressed his lips to her forehead and left the room to where he knew she kept the potions. They were within easy reach in the bathroom cupboard. Remus grabbed the ones he thought he could possibly need and went back to the bedroom.
“I should rip his bloody head off” he muttered, trying to keep the snarl out of his tone as he tended to her, hands perfectly steady.
“Yes fine you can do that later just make the pain go away” Tonks was full on sobbing now. She did not care how weak she was right now, if any one was going to see her like this it wanted in to be Remus. She had been hurt in battles before, but not like this. Not to mention the humility that she went through as well. The one person she wanted to be one step ahead of on everything was Lucius, but instead he had won the battle and she wasn’t even quick enough to fight back.
She also hated how this was not the first time Remus had to save her, she ad been stupid like this before, but she always shrugged it off, but this time she was the closest to death then she had ever been and it finally hit her. All the times Remus told her to stop dueling for no reason and being stupid, it was all making sense now. ”Remus I’m so sorry” She sobbed.
He bit down on his lip and gently guided her to sit for a moment, placing a small measure of pain killing potion to her lips and tipping it back, waiting patiently until she had drank it all before he set about dealing with the worst of her injuries.
He stopped a second and brushed back a lock of hair from her face,”Don’t be silly. Nothing to be sorry for. You just focus on getting better, eh?” he leant down and let his lips linger on her forehead for a moment before drawing back
Tonks’ hands grabbed the front of Remus’ shirt. The potion had helped with a lot of the pain physically, but mentally she was still a mess. ”Please don’t leave me, just lie with me until I full asleep” She was desperate not to be left alone, not in this much pain. She really wanted to hold Teddy as well, but he couldn’t see her like this ever.
Remus paused, dragged a hand through his hair and then nodded,”All right.” He gently unhooked her fingers from the front of his shirt and bent down to unlace his shoes, toeing them off and placing them neatly by the side of the bed. He gently sat next to her, careful not to jostle her too much and stroked her hair. Remus lowered his head and whispered into her ear,”I’m going nowhere, I swear.”
