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Tweak says, "I say!"

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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chained_maiden
2008-09-20 11:28 pm UTC (link)

Andromeda wasn't doing a very good job at this explaining business, here she was tossing out names and a bunch of information that really just would have been better left unsaid until a later time... and then there was Nymphadora's reaction, it was akin to how Andromeda herself had felt when Dora had announced her engagement to Lupin. She didn't say this of course but quietly stuffed her misgivings about this whole situation away.

She'd spent half a life time listening with a strained patience to her younger sister's disbelieving and irritating way of talking and that skill helped her now while she tried to think of a way to help Dora make some sense out of this mess. Okay, so start again, go back to the beginning and try to explain in a manner that wouldn't keep shocking her. Just use the information already given, right? Andromeda shook her head and sighed.

"Oh! Fantastic, that's mostly true for my Dora too, except my mother disowned me when I left them for Ted, I haven't spoken to my family since I was nineteen, but you.. You, Dora became an Auror too. She married Remus against Ted's and my better wishes but she was so happy to do it, despite his condition, to be light about it." She hated the resentment in her tone when she said that, but it was part of the old bias.. the Black way of thinking. "Oh this is hopeless, I can't relate an entire history to you, you didn't live this life... It's selfish of me to think you'd comprehend it all and be fine with it. Tell me about yourself then, I'm.. I want to know. You're married, been married.. Who is your husband? How did my mother treat you?"

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pinkonblack
2008-09-20 11:58 pm UTC (link)

Nymphadora was relieved to hear that much of it was the same for Andromeda's daughter. Maybe it wouldn't be too much of a transition for everyone else then, if they didn't expect her to be someone she wasn't. Mostly, at least. The Lupin thing was something they'd have to work on.

"What, you mean the werewolf thing?" She shrugged. She'd never seen what the big deal was either - as long as he had Wolfsbane, there was no problem. "Can't see why anyone would have an issue with it. But, er, right. Does Teddy have that...issue, too?" She eyed the little boy, almost like if she looked hard enough, she'd be able to tell.

"Oh, er, you might not like that part," she said almost absently, still eyeing the little boy. "Sirius, he's my husband. So when I say Nymphadora Black, I mean that's my married name. I went by Tonks before that officially, though everyone just called me Nymphadora Black anyhow. It was a bit confusing, now that I think on it." She frowned, then glanced at Andromeda again. "So, er, Sirius and I didn't get hitched here then? Instead it's - Lupin?" She shook her head. "Sirius is going to kill him. But Druella - she was brilliant. I mean, strict, sure, but brilliant."

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chained_maiden
2008-09-21 12:26 am UTC (link)

"What!" it came out of her mouth unbidden and she almost regretted the tone of it, almost. Her eyes flashed and she did indeed look very much like her sister in that moment, fierce and dangerous in her disbelief. "Sirius?" she hissed, "my cousin? He's.. he's twice your age!" she insisted, shocked, horrified really. She slid off the bed and backed a pace away, staring at her would-be-daughter in utter disbelief. Her cousin? She felt faint really, but she couldn't get too upset, not when Dora hadn't refused Teddy so openly. "Oh I'm going to--" she faded off and shook her head, trying to bring herself around to a calm state of mind.

Andromeda exhaled briefly and touched her fingers to her temple to rub away the ache of stress, "No, no Sirius didn't know about you, Dora, in this lifetime, he was--he went to Azkaban about the time he turned twenty-two... he was in there for some twelve years. He died about.. three years ago. Bellatrix seemed to want to do the family in because she got him too, apparently," she said evenly and looked at her daughter.

She didn't mind Sirius dying suddenly, better dead than married to her daughter. She was going to beat him senseless.

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pinkonblack
2008-09-21 12:34 am UTC (link)

Nymphadora's eyebrows shot up at her mother's reaction. Not that it was anything strange or unexpected - they'd gotten all sorts of shite about it from various places when they'd gotten married in the first place. But somehow her own mother reacting this way hurt.

"Right," she mumbled, and as subtly as she could she managed to pull out her journal and scribble a few quick notes to Sirius, hoping he was paying attention. When it became apparent he was, she breathed a small sigh of relief and hoped to hell he'd get over here. "You're not going to do anything, because we got over the whole cousins thing ages ago, and it doesn't matter. His parents were second cousins, and that's what we are." Her eyes flashed almost dangerously as she said this, her protectiveness out in plain sight. Once upon a time this woman might've been her mother and that little boy might've been her kid, but in her world, Sirius was her husband, and that wasn't a faery tale.

"Brilliant, your Bellatrix is a maniac," she grumbled, glancing at the door and trying to will it to open. Where was he?

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srsly_sirius
2008-09-21 12:49 am UTC (link)

Shit. Sirius had often thought about how much Andromeda would have wanted to kill him for marrying her daughter, but...she hadn't been alive, and he loved her and took care of her, so what was the problem, really? He treated her a lot better than anyone else could. She should have no complaints. Right?

He practically ran back to the room, not because he was eager to die, but because Dora needed him. And he might have been interested in th her kid. He hesitated outside it for a moment, unsure of himself and the situation, but plucked up his courage and walked in in Sirius-like fashion: like he owned the place.

"Andie!" he exclaimed, a bit forced, but hopefully she wouldn't be able to tell that. But some of it was genuine; she'd been his favourite cousin, back in the day, and he hadn't seen her in what, twenty-one, twenty-two years? She was dead in his time like he was apparently dead in hers. He stepped forward to hug her.

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