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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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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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