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Andy (chained_maiden) wrote in shards_of_time,
@ 2008-09-20 14:00:00

look at the stars and see how they shine for you
Who: Andromeda, Nymphadora Tonks (Black) and Sirius Black
What: Andy is meeting her daughter
Where: St. Mungos Hospital
Warnings/Status: Pretty low, will change as needed. Started;incomplete

Andromeda didn't quite know what to do with herself. The implications of her daughter being alive again after this last year was just so momentous and amazing but nerve wracking and frightening all in one moment. She was Nymphadora but not her at the same time, she was alive and yet very much dead... Andromeda was torn between relief and disgust at herself but the former won out due to the desire to hold her little girl in her arms again. So with thoughts of a reunion the woman had finally rose from her writing desk and scrambled around her home, taking pictures from their frames, haphazardly dragging a shawl across her shoulders and throwing her hair up into some semblance of order before she'd gotten around to gathering Teddy as she'd said she would do.

She wasn't sure Nymphadora understood who Teddy actually was, but she'd do her best to explain and it would be rather harsh to drop Teddy off with Harry so she could gallivant across London to visit a woman who came from another dimension anyway. Even if she was supposed to be her daughter. So, with a few misgivings but ultimately giving in to the notion Andromeda smoothed out her long skirts and very gently lifted Teddy out of his pin and with a whispered word of soft happiness she apparated with the boy in tow.

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St. Mungos was intimidating on a regular day, it was large and chaotic and oddly overwhelming but even more so now; Andromeda's heart pounded in her chest and she felt weak from her excitement and nervousness and was trying not to run but still looking left and right eagerly for the right door.

And there.

Andromeda paused and exhaled a very slow breath then blinked back her tears. She didn't move, couldn't. She just stared, adjusted Teddy's position on her hip then very slowly pushed the door open.

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pinkonblack
2008-09-20 10:24 pm UTC (link)

"Teddy," said Nymphadora quietly, her brow creasing. "But I thought--"

And that was when her mother explained. Her son. Her son. For the second time in as many minutes, Dora's mouth dropped open. "I have a kid?" she blurted, automatically leaning back a smidge.

Sirius had been right, she realised. In this timeline, she'd spent her time barefoot and pregnant. Brilliant.

Instead of shouting or moving away or any of that, Nymphadora sighed heavily. There was no point in getting upset about it; she hadn't been the one to give birth. She was just a biological match, that was all.

But at the same time, as she looked at that little boy who had her eyes, she realised he was motherless. His mother - Nymphadora Tonks - was dead in this place, and she was the closest thing to a mother he would have. Having grown up without a mother herself, having lost her before any memories had settled, Nymphadora felt something tug inside of her. Maternal instinct, maybe, but whatever it was called, it was strong. She didn't want this little boy to live the life she'd had to live, growing up without a mother.

"Dammit, Sirius," she whispered to herself, annoyed at him for being right about them having children and suddenly very afraid for him as well. Swallowing tightly, she looked at Andromeda, then looked back at Teddy, searching for any signs of Sirius. It was pointless; if he was a Metamorphmagus as well, he wouldn't really look like this.

"Where's his father?" she pressed. "Is he - is he gone, too?"

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chained_maiden
2008-09-20 10:52 pm UTC (link)

Sirius? Andromeda furrowed her brow at that, Sirius hadn't known Dora until a few years ago but she didn't press it, she had to remember that this girl was different so she pushed aside her musings on Sirius. Andy smiled sadly and hesitantly shifted the boy, "Do you want to hold him maybe?" she asked softly, "he's very open and loving, his hair turns blue whenever he gets excited," she explained. But of course the questions would come and now that she'd brought it up she couldn't very well ignore them.

"His father," she said sadly and pressed forward to sit down on the hospital bed beside Nymphadora, carefully bending low to set her grandson on the floor, steadying him on his feet before letting him go to wander around as he would, "both of his parents.. died on the same night last year during the war, May 2nd," she said and took her daughters thin hand into her's, "His father, I thought he'd be here with you, you said you were with your husband," she said and looked around the room as if Lupin would pop out of nowhere. "Remus, he was dueling with a Death-Eater and Dora, well.. Bellatrix, you know Bellatrix? My sister, she.. killed her--you," she finished in a low tone and furrowed her brow, tilting her head to the side very sadly.

"Where do you come from? What was your time like? Was there a war too? I hope not, I always wished for peace but everything was always so chaotic and uncertain."

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pinkonblack
2008-09-20 11:06 pm UTC (link)

Did she want to hold him? Nymphadora pressed her lips together and thought about it. "I'm not very good with kids," she admitted. "But - er, sure, if he wants to be held, that...that'd be nice."

She watched Teddy as her mother spoke, still amazed that he was hers - well, not hers. Andromeda's daughter's, who was dead. But still sort of hers biologically.

Both of his parents were dead, just like hers had been. Nymphadora swallowed tightly, but her eyes snapped up at the very unexpected name. "My husband is here. What do you mean, Remus? Remus Lupin? What does he--" And suddenly she realised what was going on. Her mouth dropped open again, and this time she didn't recover.

"Remus Lupin is Teddy's father?" For a moment, she felt like she was choking. "But he's - are you serious? He was - did she - did I marry him? We had a baby?" Sirius was going to sock him in the jaw next time he saw him, that was for damn sure. "Wait. You're saying Bellatrix killed me? Why would she do that? She's my aunt! She practically helped raise me!"

Nymphadora shook her head, still shocked. "Er, we didn't have a war at all. No - no Death Eaters or Dark Lord or whatever it's all called. I - er, I'm twenty-three, got married at nineteen, I am - was - an Auror, too. Druella raised me, and my parents died when I was a baby. I don't--" She took a deep, unsteady breath. "I don't understand what's going on."

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