Stages of Love Challenge: When Remus Met Tonks

[mrstater]

Title: When Remus Met Tonks
Author: mrstater
Rating: PG
Summary: The first meeting of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks, in five ficlets.
Word Count: 2500
Author's Note: Written for the stagesoflove challenge, Exploration of a Relationship Through The Five Senses.

Comments

[shoebox_addict]

OMG, tooooooo cute!! Remus is adorable in love, I loved it!

[mrstater]

Well, they just met so he's not in love yet, but I'm sure it didn't take him very long. Thanks for reading!

[the_elia]

I really want a gingerbread man now.

[mrstater]

Hee. The other day I wrote a fic with doughnuts and wanted them for hours. ;)

[alkcalien]

"the consistency of one of Hagrid's rock cakes and gives Wolfsbane Potion a run for the title of Worst Taste Detectable By the Human Tongue"

Sounds like the crab casserole I made a month or so ago! Remus is such a gentleman to not want to hurt Tonks' feelings by trying so hard not to choke on the gingerbread man.

[mrstater]

Hah! Sorry about your crab casserole, but I know the feeling well of having cooked something wretched. Guess I wrote a realistic description of nasty food. Glad you liked this final piece!

[fantasticjackie]

Ahh, here I am, browsing ff.net and wishing for the last two parts while lamenting that I'll have to wait until tomorrow for the next part, and you have it up here. WOOT!

I think I'm still excited from the fact that they were already here; forget what I read in them. ^_^;

Well, definitely not forget. It's too cute to forget. I loved every moment of them.

I really liked how you had them bantering right off the bat; just having them click like that was... Hee hee... Yay! ^_^

I especially liked how Remus was already flirting with her after only ten minutes. =D

I have to disagree on the whole heightened senses thing, though. I really think that he -would- have heightened senses... As well as grooming issues. XD Even so, I loved how you integrated that into this with having him just be that observant of Tonks as just a regular man. *sigh*

And for the best fuzzies...

"Wretched," he admits, "but I thought you made it, and I did not wish to hurt your feelings

[mrstater]

I have to disagree on the whole heightened senses thing, though. I really think that he -would- have heightened senses... As well as grooming issues.

There's not any evidence one way or the other thus far in canon, and as the only real side effects mentioned in the books are weakness, fatigue, and pain now that he takes Wolfsbane Potion, I fall on the side of him not being at all affected by the wolf traits when he's not transformed.

But anyway, I was wondering if any ff.net/LJers would find these up over here and get a sneak peek. Glad you enjoyed them as a whole. I had a lot of fun exploring their first meeting.

[pamdoove]

I've decided to start from the beginning with your Remus/Tonks stories and I'm loving them so far. It's weird, sometimes I read fanfiction that fits so well into the style of writing and voices of characters that I forget that they aren't actually part of the book, and when I next read a HP book I wonder where that bit has gone, lol. These definately fit into that category! :) I always wish that there's more Remus/Tonks interaction in the books so thank you so much for writing these.

xx

[mrstater]

Aw, that's the best compliment I could ask for! For me, my main goal in fanfic is to try and capture the characters' voices as accurately as possible, so I'm really pleased you feel I've written something cohesive with canon. Thanks very much for your lovely comments. I hope you continue to enjoy my stories!