No Time for Ducking, Chapter Five

[godricgal]

Title: No Time for Ducking, Chapter Five
Author: godricgal
Summary: It's early days in Remus' and Tonks' budding relationship. Just how serious is it? With their respective responsibilities to the Order, will they find the time for their relationship to move forward?
Rating and warnings: R for mildly explicit sexual content
Author's Notes: Many, many thanks

Comments

[katyhasclogs]

Lovely, so lovely.

I really like your take on the relationship and the emphasis on how naturally it all develops. It creates a lovely understated type of romance.

I love the pink hotel too, it's a pity they can't stay longer since it sounds like such a lovely place and they do need a bit of a holiday...

Anyway, great work, I really enjoyed it, and I look forward to more Ducking fics. :)

[godricgal]

Thank you, Katy!

It is really great to know that people have enjoyed this take on the relationship because I really was indulging myself in writing it. ;) I do like the idea of everything coming together for them in a very easy way, which makes the HBP year so much harder for the both of them, but explains the way Tonks' takes it at the same time.

If I'd continued writing in this 'verse in one long chaptered fic, I fear I might never have got them out of the pink hotel and they may well have found an excuse to stay an extra day. ;)

Again, thank you very much. :)

[gilpin25]

That was a lovely and memorable conclusion to their relationship which has built so very steadily - and so very naturally, which is one of my favourite things about it - over the course of your story

[godricgal]

Thank you very much! I'm chuffed to bits that you think it has been a natural progression because they've both thought that rather a lot and I hoped it hadn't been hammered in too much!

I really didn't want to deal with the W-word issue in this fic because it doesn't matter to either of them at this point. Up until HBP, I've never really seen Remus as particularly tetchy or downbeat about it, so I don't see it as an issue at this point in the relationship. So I think you're right, that when it comes to HBP, that blind trust that I've tried to write in will be key in the hurt that ensues.

Thank you so much for such kind words, it's really so encouraging, and I've got my fingers crossed that some helpful prompts will come my way very shortly. :)

[belladonna1986]

I just read the whole story in one go and it was incredibly romantic and lovely!

I love the built up in their reltionship, as well as the tenderness between Remus and Tonks, they are so cute and lovely together *sigh*

I look forward to more of this fic-verse, especially their first meeting :D

Well done!

[godricgal]

Thank you very much! It's great to know that from reading it in one go you could see the build up because it's been such a very long time in the writing and while my aims haven't change, my approach may well have.

Hopefully it won't be too long before I have another fic out, but there's a certain event at a certain community that may get in the way in the short term.

Thanks for reading and again for letting me know you enjoyed it. :)

[pinkhairedauror]

Ohh very nice! I love the way you've put in what they are and what this means to both of them... healing for him, feeling whole, for example. Or how, with just trailing her fingers over things, and her enthusiasm, Tonks' 'live life to the fullest' shines through...

And how much they love each other.

Absolutely lovely, I enjoyed it very much, and thank you for sharing it!

[godricgal]

Thank you very much! I'm so pleased to hear you enjoyed the fic and thanks for pointing out the little bits that you enjoyed, it's very good to hear. :)

[tegdoh]

Just wanted to pop in and say I've really enjoyed this fic. My favorite has to be part I, with the inadvertent slipping of the "L" word - sweet and very romantic. I'm looking forward to more stories in this 'verse.

btw, mind if I friend you?

[godricgal]

Oh, thank you very much, I do appreciate you dropping me a line. I'm glad you enjoyed the blurting of the L-word, that came as a suprise to me as well as Remus and Tonks! Good to know you're looking forward to more - there might just be something coming up at Meta. ;)

Please do friend me! :)