Tiny little snippet

[lls_mutant]

Just because I utterly amuse myself sometimes, a snippet from the R/S --> R/T fic I'm frantically working on.


"There's something I need to discuss with you, Remus," Molly said as she settled across from him, a glass of milk in her hand.

"Oh?"

"Yes." Molly settled herself across from him. "I've been talking with Tonks."

"How is she?" Remus asked.

Molly snorted. "As if you care! She's told me what's been going on between you two, Remus."

It honestly took him a moment to understand what Molly meant. "In August, you mean?" he asked.

"That's one way to put it! Remus, from what I understand you and Tonks had quite a connection, and then you simply dropped her, with no word in weeks!"

He stared at her blankly.

Molly sighed. "Remus, dear, I know you've been busy, and I have an idea of what Dumbledore's asked you to do. But one letter in a month?"

"Molly, forgive me, but I fail to see what business my correspondence is of yours."

Molly was undeterred. "Tonks has been talking to me quite a bit, Remus. I don't think you realize just how badly she's taking this."

"Tonks has a lot of things on her mind right now," Remus pointed out. "With her duties in Hogwarts and dementors on the loose, I hardly think her love life is a high priority. Besides, not that it is any of your business, but she and I had an understanding."

"So I heard," Molly said acridly, and Remus privately thought Dumbledore was definitely wrong in not putting Molly on the front lines. Determination like that could win wars. "But Remus, Tonks is a young woman. Didn't it ever occur to you that she might take more from it than you intended?"

He shrugged. "That's between her and myself."

"Well, that's just it. You're not letting it be between her and yourself. You've shut her out completely and now she has nowhere to turn. She said you were both happy during that time."

Happy was a relative term, but Remus didn't feel like explaining that to this bossy, intrusive presence at the moment. "Molly, there are reasons- and very good ones- that I am not looking for a commitment at this point in time."

She arched an eyebrow. "Oh?"

He couldn't bring himself to say Sirius's name to her. But there were other reasons. "I can't even pretend I could provide for a wife, Molly. I can barely keep myself fed and clothed."

"So I noticed."

He ignored her. "Tonks is twenty-three, going on twenty-four. I am thirty-seven, going on fifty. And Molly, I am a werewolf."

"She's a bright young woman, Remus. She's aware of that fact."

He sighed. "Never mind." He stood up. "Is Arthur around? There are some things we need to discuss."

"He's probably in the living room with Kingsley." Molly laid a hand on his shoulder. "You can't keep shutting people out just because you're a werewolf, Remus."

"Oh yes? Well Molly, watch me."



In other news, the weather today is simply gorgeous. I mean, perfect blue sky, perfect temperature, no humidity... perfect in every way.

Please God, let it be like this for my sister's wedding!!!! (Of course, it rained on my wedding day and my day was still perfect, so it doesn't REALLY matter. But it's still gorgeous out right now.) But it's weather like this that just makes it impossible to be at all unhappy today, especially since the smell of fall is in the air. I love fall- it's my favorite season by far.

No other posting of substance for the moment. It's just one of those days that I need to turn up "It's a Great Day To Be Alive" by Travis Tritt and be happy :)

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[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

Dude! To me, Sirius was the innocent and sweet one. Lupin is the one who emerges, at three in the morning, with coke under his nose and bloodstains on his shirt. That man is a seedy fucker.

I love him so.