Characters: Nymphadora Tonks and Molly Weasley (open to others) Date: 9 August 1999 Location: The Order safehouse Rating: TBA Summary: Tonks is having difficulty coming to terms with the sudden changes in her life. Status: Incomplete
The past few months had been miserable for Tonks, but the past few weeks had been utter hell. Another child with a man who wasn't just a Death Eater, but whom she was convinced didn't care for her one bit; being forced to move from the safe house and taking Mackenzie with her, away from the safety the Order provided; feeling utterly useless both at work and for the Order. None of it had been pleasant.
But the point that was weighing on her mind the most as she stood in the kitchen, staring into the cupboards to try to find something to eat, was leaving the safe house. She didn't want to, not at all - it'd been her home for years, and Mackenzie had never lived anywhere else. The worst of it was, as far as Tonks was concerned, the fact that it wasn't her choice. It was for her cover, of all things, a cover that was slowly consuming her life, and she feared more than anything that one day she would wake up and it would be Kitty Jameson who was the real person, not Nymphadora Tonks.
So she stood there, staring into the full cabinets, but not really seeing anything. It wasn't safe to move Mackenzie like that, and she no longer had the luxury of coming up with a clever excuse for why she and Mackenzie couldn't move to a location Bill dictated. She could keep putting it off, but in the end, it was a fight she would lose if she wanted to keep her cover. Problem was, she wasn't willing to sacrifice her children's safety in order to do so.