we are a low word count, any level of experience rp set in harry's 3rd year at hogwarts. students and adults alike are welcome! given we are set fairly early in the series, everything that happens from this point on will be up to us! perhaps sirius black will be cleared and peter arrested, or perhaps something darker lurks in the shadows...
“I haven’t paid anywhere near how much I should. The world took my friends from me, collecting on my debt, and I don’t want you to next, or her. Or our parents. The world will keep coming after everything I have until there is no more to take before finally taking me. Maybe I’ll turn you next or kill Rose. Or maim a student and be hunted down by your fellow employees for something I couldn’t control. The way I live isn’t because its nice or I enjoy it – its to protect everyone and myself from… the beast within.”
Looking to her, his eyes were shining with… what looked like hope. “I care about you, Dora, a lot. I owe this world so much for the happiness in my school years. I’ll pay for this happiness with you too. I’m… just afraid the price will be more than I can pay. I don’t want to bring you down, or Rose, with me.”
Post by Nymphadora Tonks on Jul 17, 2018 18:47:12 GMT
Tonks sighed softly. There was no arguing through this, plus Madam Pomfrey would come through and shoe her away any minute now and she didn't want to be chased off quite yet. She had to admit, though, that the little glimmer of light in his eyes then, of hope, tells her that he wasn't completely buying he said himself, so she just let it go. "Well, you know what the say, with fear, comes courage and..." she places her hand over where that note is tucked away. "If I'm as smart as they say I am, I believe you've given me that courage here. And I'll keep it safe. You can trust me on that."
She smile at him, learning forward to press her forehead against his, her eyes closeing as she hummed contently, when her eyes opened again, they shone with love. "And I care about you too, a lot, Remus." Both hand came up to cup his face as she pressed her lips to his softly, but firmly, pouring every drop of her love, her hope and her faith in him, into it."
She knew their relationship was going to be a long road and tough. But her love, regardless of how new it was, was tougher.
Accepting the kiss with a small smile, he hummed happily against her lips before reaching up and taking one of her hands gently and placing a hand over it while the other hand was under it.
“We should… make sure certain things happen now that we’re… you know,” He didn’t want to actually say it or it would be so much more real, and while he wanted that, he was also afraid of it. “I… well, I was thinking we could have dinner after I’m out, perhaps at the Three Broomsticks? I have some money saved up.” Waggling his eyebrows he laughed softly. “And… well, I’d prefer not to have any… kissing or touching happen in front of the students. There’s… got to be a separation between my work and personal life. And I’d rather not have a bunch of rumors going around about their professor snogging the ministry official.”
Post by Nymphadora Tonks on Jul 17, 2018 21:12:00 GMT
For some awful reason, her brain auto finished that with 'alive'. She shook the thought from her mind and finished it correctly with 'alone' and she giggled. "We can have dinner however you want, as long as some sort of dessert is involved."
A sultry wink before she sat back from him, still grinning. "Okay, okay, yes Professor. No inappropriate conduct on school grounds. I get the message, 'Behave, Dora'."
She really was bad at behaving, especially when it came to Remus. "But we don't have to rush, either. We have the rest of our lives."
A little shook on that part where your brain finished that with 'alive' are ya there, Tonks?
“Dinner would be incomplete without desse – “ And then he realized she didn’t mean chocolate. It took him several moments to process exactly what had just happened before he decided he would just continue on and pretend that didn’t happen and that she did mean chocolate. Good job Remus. Master of deflection.
“Well, not necessarily on school grounds, just in front of the students. When we’re alone on school grounds… well that’s free game.” He gives her a wink. That felt awkward. He wasn’t used to things like that, and honestly it was a bit scary to think he could actually be happy. Happiness scared him. What was wrong with him? Everything. Everything was wrong with him.
Post by Nymphadora Tonks on Jul 18, 2018 16:29:07 GMT
Instantly her eyes lit up mischievously at his wink, moving to settle on the edge of the bed and taking his hand up, twining her fingers with his. "Alone on school grounds, you say?"
Why in Merlin's name did this feel like some sort of almost forbidden teacher-student relationship? Sure, he was a teacher here, but she was only working here. Merlin's pants. Regardless, her heart thudded against her chest anyway, and a sly smile made its way onto her lips.
"So, where would you prefer then?"
She waggled an eyebrow, encouraging this line of conversation.
Remus was very much out of his depth in this situation. Sure, he’d heard stories from Sirius and the others, but mostly Sirius, about girls and the fun things one could do with them. But he hadn’t ever really experienced it before. He was very unsure of what he was supposed to do, or what was too much, what was too little. He wanted to make her happy, but he was worried he would make a fool of himself.
“W-Well, anywhere really, as long as it is private, yeah? Th-There’s a lot of passages, there’s… well my bedroom connected to my office… Classrooms that can be locked.”
Post by Nymphadora Tonks on Jul 18, 2018 17:13:53 GMT
To be honest, she wasn't too sure what she was doing either, but she wasn't gonna let him know that. Rose had told her someone needed to be in control of the situation and both of them knew Remus wasn't gonna do that. So it was up to her to lead this. Dora smiled, she knew there had to be a bonus to dating one of Hogwarts most notorious pranksters - or at least, the best friend of one of them - and Marauder. She scooted closer to him, placing she held on her hip before looking at him, a sultry look in her gaze, her tongue darting to wet her bottom lip.
"I must say, those all sound fantastic, you'll have to show me soon."
She was quite right he was very much not likely to take control. He was too afraid to really do anything without her permission, scared of overstepping his bounds, pushing things too far, for her, or for him. He didn’t trust himself to respect his own boundaries. Emotions… tended to do things to people. And at least for him it felt like that.
“Anytime I have free,” He nods looking at her with a twinkle in his eyes. “First I have to get out of here. Heal up.” He leaned up kissing her lips for just a moment, having been unable to resist the temptation.
Post by Nymphadora Tonks on Jul 19, 2018 23:47:53 GMT
"Right-o, healing," she said, instantly pull her thoughts from dangerous territory. She honestly couldn't help it, she was just so... a soft sigh escaped her lips as she looked up at. Slow and steady wins the race, as they say. "Need you one hundred per cent, student to teach, people to take out on dates, you know, all that."
She grinned, pulling away and standing, "well if you need anything else, you know how to find me. I'll leave you be to heal."
Another fleeting kiss, with a brief touch of fingertips to his cheek, before turning and leaving the hospital wing, hips swaying....... and then a sudden crash and a screech of "Miss Tonks! What are you doing?!" "Sorry, sorry! I didn't see it there!" "Just go, before you make a huge mess...."
He watched her leave with a small smile seeing her obviously trying to seduce him with those hips except… it was that crash that made him laugh and fall deeper in the pit. Oh dear, he was in trouble. He couldn’t help but watch, unable to take his eyes off of her. He was smiling bigger than life and…
Quickly turning away to control himself he picked up his book again, taking the Muffiliato off, and starting to read again, glancing up a couple times at the door where she had left. He was pretty excited, scared… and hopeful at the same time.
