Title: Illogical
Format and Word Count: Drabble, 100 words
Rating: PG
Prompt: For the rt_challenge August ficathon # 3. “Human Behaviour” ~Bjork
Warning: Takes place at the end of HBP
Summary: There's definitely no logic to human behaviour

 

They leave Hogwarts together that night, walking silently under a starlit sky until they reach Tonks’s room in the Hog’s Head. There they talk, really talk, for the first time about their relationship, and more importantly, they listen.

 

He tells her once more the words she has come to know so well… too old, too poor, too dangerous.

 

He tells her they are in the middle of a war, that they cannot make plans for a future they might not have.

 

“It’s completely illogical,” he tells her, and she smiles, takes her hand in his.

 

“No,” she says. “It’s love.”