Oh my god. I love it! The title! The clever reworking of the old storyline into new canon! Following up on the leather jacket business! I'd actually thought of Remus and Tonks as a bit of a lost cause in the original, so it was really exciting to see you turn that on its head and make them...work, I guess. : )
"No, no, just carrying them, though I did drop a few things when I ran into them. You know me, bloody useless rubber arms."
"I know you," he said.
But that was the Tonks most people knew, the one who was so nervous, so eager to prove she knew what she was doing that she could barely balance on a broomstick. Like when Mad-Eye was watching. She'd got so comfortable with Remus though that he barely thought of her that way anymore. He saw it again now, saw her grace disappear with the post-coital calm. She sat up and put on Remus' jacket, not to enjoy the feel of it but to cover up her chest. She hunched her shoulders forward.
"They may or may not also have noticed that I was already wearing his hair and his eyes."
And that...sums up pretty much everything I meant to say about Tonks but never managed to do. Fabulous job!
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"No, no, just carrying them, though I did drop a few things when I ran into them. You know me, bloody useless rubber arms."
"I know you," he said.
But that was the Tonks most people knew, the one who was so nervous, so eager to prove she knew what she was doing that she could barely balance on a broomstick. Like when Mad-Eye was watching. She'd got so comfortable with Remus though that he barely thought of her that way anymore. He saw it again now, saw her grace disappear with the post-coital calm. She sat up and put on Remus' jacket, not to enjoy the feel of it but to cover up her chest. She hunched her shoulders forward.
"They may or may not also have noticed that I was already wearing his hair and his eyes."
And that...sums up pretty much everything I meant to say about Tonks but never managed to do. Fabulous job!