Beginnings

[gilpins_tales]

Title: Beginnings
Genre: Drama, general, romance
Rating & Warnings: PG and none, apart from the author being back at the start of OotP.
Word Count: 3265
Summary: She wore a black glittery top over faded jeans and he looked into the young, upturned face which was wide at the brow, pointed at the chin, and the colour of warm ivory. When Remus met

Comments

[riveroad]

Completely and absolutely excellent. Tonks comes off as so delightful and charming that I really want to just smack Remus upside the head and tell him to get a move on! I think what I like most of all is that underneath how light-hearted this is and how funny some of the lines are, the two of them really do deal with the 'werewolf' thing a little bit. It's very nice how they don't have to have a long, drawn out discussion about it and yet, there's some sense of a resolution as well.

Just lovely!!

[gilpins_tales]

Oh, thank you very much!

I'm really pleased you enjoyed this as it was so nice to take them back to the very beginning, even though I know this is an oft-done and imagined scene. I wanted to try and show a spark between them from the off, some sort of chemistry and interest, and it seemed like fun to have them trying to get one over each other with the chocolate business - and the chocolate was also ideal to tie the end in with PoA, which was a bit of a lucky, last minute accident! I was aiming for a first meeting which wakes them both up a bit, has a serious moment or two, and which would make them both think a little afterwards about the other. Which would hopefully lead into the "Don't call me Nymphadora" scene we see in OotP.

Thanks again. Much appreciated.:D

[duck_or_rabbit]

I just read this today and I love it!

First, thank you for writing a first meeting scene between Remus and Dora in which Remus is confident and coy, instead of overly self-conscious of what he considers his short comings, and Dora is clever and cute, instead of already in love with Remus in an unbelievable sort of way.

Second, you write the best Dora, no contest. She is always smart and sexy in your hands. This is so important because Remus would be attracted to a witch who has as much going on on top as she does on the bottom (I've always imagined Dora with a cute little shape). The line You’re not one of those men who says ‘sorry’ all the time, are you? is brilliant because it tells us that Dora has established a taste in men without rolling out a list of her preferred characteristics because who wants to read something that direct? It's a way of explaining that Dora needs a self-confident man, who we know Remus can become when he allows himself to

[gilpins_tales]

Thank you; I'm very pleased you enjoyed it as it was great to write.:D

I was a bit worried as this is such an oft-done and imagined scene that people might think it had been oft-done once too often now and steer a very wide berth, lol. But I wanted to do one to try and reflect the Remus we see at the beginning of OotP, who strikes me as being both very capable and confident, even if there's hidden doubts and all sorts underneath, along with a Tonks who'd make an unexpected impact on him in somewhat similar-style to how she does on Harry. Definitely not love at first sight, but interest as like recognises like. And intrigue

[more_ruthless]

Oh yeah, this one ranks up there as well :-)
Read dozens of times. Love how your Tonks holds her own.
:-)
-LadyRuthless

[gilpin25]

This was the one I wrote after Deathly Hallows came out: everyone seemed to be writing AU or death fics, and I couldn't face doing either of those, somehow. So I thought I'd go back to the beginning (yep, it's my most unimaginative title ever, lol) and remind myself why I loved writing these two so much in the first place. And it did work, which made it another fic I'm fond of, and so I've done another yay! that you enjoyed the Remus and Tonks here as well. I like to imagine there'd have been a spark of attraction/liking between them from the off, and that they'd think about each other a little after this first meeting...

Thank you. :)