Beware!!! Deathly Hallows spoilers!!!
Ok, you’ve been warned.
Disclaimer: Tonks and Remus belong to J.K.Rowling.
But since I couldn’t forgive her she paid so little attention to them, I wrote this fic.
(Tell me how could she kill them?! How?!?!)
My first – and, let’s hope, last – attempt to write a serious HP ff.





Promise

The fire within your eyes, this mystic time I’ve known before, once before
The flame within my heart
Agreements made are now realised (...)
The fire making us clear, making us fly, spinning us round and round, spinning us round
Kitaro & Jon Anderson, Agreement



- Remus, if one the Irreversibles*  hits me... – she had to aks him for this. She’d seen too much during her short carrier as an auror. Her colleagues, hit by a curse – no, not a common killing one, not a one killing instantly – their faces distorted by pain... waiting for death as for salvation. And Mad-Eyed, cool and composed, wand in his hand. And tears, flowing down his cheeks a while later. Some curses couldn’t be reversed. One could only shorten their effects.
Lupin kissed his wife’s foreahead.
- Darling, please. Don’t worry now.
- I’m not worrying... – she fell silent for a while. – Remus, promise.
He looked at her and sighed, meeting her resolute gaze. Yeah, right. She was an auror, she’d probably seen more  nasty curses in her life than he. He knew some of them – only heard about them, actually. And he really wanted that to remain unchanged.
- I promise... – his silent voice suddenly gravely serious. – I swear.
She smiled sadly.
- Dora...
- Yes?
- Promise me, too. Promise.
- I swear.
...
They began fighting close to one another, arm in arm, but she soon lost him from sight. Flashes of light were all around. Red, white... and green. Green everywhere. The green of death.
- Dora... – she heard a weak voice from somewhere at her feet.
Remus was lying near. His face grey because of pain. There weren’t a single drop of blood, but Tonks immediately knew that curse. A killing one. Killing slowly and painfully. An Irreversible.
- Dora... – Remus’ voice was a barely audible whisper. He had no strength to talk anymore.
- Av...
Unimaginable suffering in his eyes. His eyes... Good. Warm. Beloved.
- Avada kedavra!
She glanced at her husband for the last time. At his face, calm, as if he’d been sleeping.
She didn’t notice a green ray coming towards her.
Tonks fell onto the floor next to Lupin, still with a small, sad smile on her motionless face.



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* ‘Cause it seemed a bit of a problem... I didn’t mean the Unforgivable Curses. I know JKR never wrote about such curses as Irreversibles, but I think Death Eaters would prefer something more painful than an “usual” Avada.