Now she felt awful. Tonks hadn't meant to overwhelm him at all. She hurried oer to his side and put her hand on his shoulder, intent on ignoring the questions burning in the back of her mind until he'd calmed down. Then she'd ask someone else. Someone who's feelings she didn't mind hurting all that much. She was pretty sure Myron had said something, so she could talk to him, right? Teddy didn't have to tell her anything.
Then he did, and the soothing circles she'd started to unconsciously rub on his back stilled. "...oh." Well, that explained why he was upset. And the whole being at her mother's a lot. In fact, he was probably at Andromeda's always. Bloody hell. There were only a few brief moments in which Tonks tried to stay upright before sinking to the floor next to her son. Her orphaned son, it seemed now.
"I'm sorry," she told him. She wasn't sure what she was apologizing for. Maybe it was a little of everything. For pushing him to answer her questions, for going off and dying. She didn't know how she died, to be honest. She wasn't going to ask him. The important thing was that she did and clearly that wasn't okay. She needed to think of him.
"I'm here now," she told him, turning her head so she could look at him. "And now that I know, I'll make sure that doesn't happen. Okay? So that way we'll be a family and you can live with me and your father. No cemeteries or grounds. Deal?"