What Happens In the Changing Room by little0bird

Author:little0bird
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-02-24T19:00:00+00:00

TWO – Forgiveness

A/N: I had intended Changing Room to be a one-shot, but given my proclivity for allowing the characters of the HP-verse to do inappropriate things in inappropriate places, I was bound to think of a few other situations. *blush*

*koff* Merry Christmas.

xxxxxx

Tonks restlessly kicked the confining sheet away from her body. She was hot and cranky and immensely tired of being cooped up in the house. She was especially weary of the tension building between her mother and her husband in the past two weeks. It didn't help her hormones were raging so that she felt out of control and cursed herself. She'd asked Remus to come back, but had yet to forgive him for leaving. So he slept in the spare bedroom in deference to her wishes. She mentally kicked herself for that. Tonks glared at the window she couldn't open – correction – wasn't allowed to open lest a stray Death Eater swoop in a kidnap her – and cast yet another Cooling charm on the stifling bedroom. She sighed and swung her feet heavily to the floor as her body demanded the loo once more. The miracle of life someone had called it. Miracle my arse, the Auror snorted to herself. It'll be a bloody miracle if I manage the next three and a half months without strangling someone with my bare hands. She soundly closed the bathroom door, not caring if she woke the rest of the house. Sweat pooled between her breasts and trickled down under the Weird Sisters t-shirt she wore, stretched tightly over her swollen abdomen. Immediate needs seen to, Tonks plucked a facecloth from a shelf and soaked it in cold water, then cast Freezing charm after Freezing charm until it fairly crackled in her hand. She passed it over her face and neck, dipping it briefly under the faded t-shirt.

It wasn't just the sense of feeling overheated in the small house that made her so edgy. Nor was it her mother's need to silently judge Remus, although that didn't help matters much. She missed her father. Christmas didn't quite feel the same without him there singing carols as he puttered around the house, putting up innumerable paper chains, piling crackers on every horizontal surface, decorating their tree with so many different colors and styles of ornaments it bordered on garish. But she loved it. The tree was more sedate this year. Tasteful, her mother would say. But Andromeda had, in a fit of sentimentality, strung strand after strand of fairy lights on the branches. The way Ted had always done.

Tonks eased the bathroom door open, and peered into the corridor. Her parents' bedroom door was closed, but a light shone under the crack of the spare bedroom. Remus would still be awake, plotting something for the Order, hunched over the small wireless, trying to find a Potterwatch broadcast, reading, or writing in his journal. She marveled that he could still function on as little sleep as he got. She tiptoed

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