[1998] Horrible News || Frandy
Andromeda couldn’t leave her home for a few days, every time she opened her eyes she saw the empty space on her bed, as she just closed her eyes and let her mind go back to sleep; back to that place where Ted was alive and the war hadn’t take him away; where she could talk to him and feel his warmth and funny/clumsy side still be with her, and not the hole that was left after his departure.
That’s how she spend her days after the news, part of her hoped that the radio was wrong, that he escaped and they mixed him up with the other runaways, but hour after hour that hope died.
She didn’t plan of getting out of bed, she couldn’t bring herself to do another thing but to lay in bed until sleep or death took her, when Dora called her; her daughter had fake contraction, they hurt, they felt horrible, but the scare put Andromeda back on a track she didn’t feel was hers anymore; be there for her family, even if Dora had remus now, she had also lost her father and she needed her mother as much as she needed her husband.
That day she realised something, it was the day she usually visited Frank, Ted would be home earlier from work to sty with Dora, and Remus would be back by dinner so she could hop to Mungo’s. but today Ted wouldn’t arrive...
She had made Nymphadora promise that she would send her a patronus if something was wrong, that she would call owl or anything if the baby was in distress, and reluctantly she left the Tonks’ home to go to Mungo’s.
Did Frank heard? had someone put the radio for him? or they only read The Daily Prophet? either way she had promise to be a good friend and help Frank, and Ted would’ve hated for her to break that promise.
She moved to his room and looked at him, wanting more than anything that he could move a lot more so she could wrap her in a warm hug and tell her it was all a bad dream. However she would take what she could get, even if it was a tearful conversation with the Gryffindor.
“Hi,” she managed to say quietly.