RP: Tonks and Remus Who: Tonks and Remus Where: Hogwarts, Defence classroom When: 22 March, 2025, after classes Rating/Warnings: N/A Summary: Tonks wonders if it's possible to start this all again.
She always enjoyed the shifts she worked patrolling the castle. The students reminded her a lot of herself, both then and now. Gangly and unfamiliar with their bodies. Socially awkward and likely to say silly things. You could never anticipate the things that would come out of students' mouths, or the reactions of their friends.
She chuckled at a pair of young girls giggling over a boy just ahead, and wondered if they really had any idea about the things they were saying. They were too young to know about snogging and shagging, weren't they? Merlin, these kids grew too fast.
The day certainly passed quickly this way, though. She made her way through the halls, through common areas, walked a circle around the pitch, returning to the corridors between classes to monitor the areas where students would be.
It gave her plenty of time to think, days like these. Thinking about Ted, and the rocky start their new 'relationship' had had. She'd only remembered the baby she'd held, and it had been difficult accepting him as an adult with a life that she hadn't been a part of.
Thinking about Remus and the definitely rocky path they'd stepped onto. She'd been pushy. He'd been wary. Of course he had been, what else? He didn't know her. Not like she'd known him. And it wasn't even him, it was the man he'd become in some other life. In the life she'd had, that was now a past that wouldn't ever be his future.
What? Tonks shook her head, suddenly amused at herself and the convoluted thoughts in her head.
Maybe we could start this all over again. She wondered if it was possible, or sensible, and then wondered when her feet had brought her here, to the Defence classroom. A trickle of students exited the classroom, giving her an odd look on their way by, and she chuckled as they hurried down the corridor with arms linked and whispers between them.
Tonks looked through into the classroom, spotting Remus immediately, and managed a smile. "Afternoon, you..."