Each day in February, 2006, the rt_challenge team at LiveJournal posted a "prompt"--a bit of poetry, a word, a picture, anything--to inspire a short piece about Remus and Tonks.  Here are mine.  Check out the others, too!   Just click on the tags at the top of any entry to see all the entries for that particular prompt.
All pictures and prompts come through RT_Challenge, 2006.
R_T Challenge
February, 2006

Prompt

My entry

1.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
- Robert Frost

What They Expect
Drabble--Tonks knows what she actually wants in a man.

2.

Falling
Drabble--Tonks and high heels... it's a scary thought.

3.

I wish I'd only look
And didn't have to touch
I wish I'd only smell this
And didn't have to taste
How can I ignore?
This is sex without touching
I'm going to explore
I'm only into this to
Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.
- "Enjoy," Bjork

Morning
Drabble--She doesn't want wake him up quite yet.

4.

Fortune Cookies

Fortune Cookies
Poem--After a date in a Chinese restaurant, Tonks and Remus read their fortunes.

5.

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands
- [somewhere i have never travelled], e.e. cummings

Slipping
Ficlet--Remus is badly injured, and listens to voices around him.

6.

Gens Lupina
Remus and Tonks's children plan an anniversary surprise.

7.

Pretzel

Pretzel War
Ficlet-ish sort of thing, 335 words; Remus is playing with his food.

8.

Maybe I have been here before
I know this room,
I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
-Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley

Cathedral
Ficlet--After Dumbledore's funeral, Remus visits a familiar place.

9.

Choir

No Need To Be Alone
Ficlet--Lonely at Christmas, Tonks re-visits a childhood haunt.

10.

Everything
After Remus is bitten, his parents wonder what the future holds for him.

11.

When every wound has been reopened
And in this world of give and take you must have faith
And the distance to your dreams stretch beyond reach
Don?t lay down and die
'Cause I see in you
More than you?ll ever know
And I ask you why
You question the strength inside
And you need to know
How it feels to be alive
- One Day Remains, by Alter Bridge

She Stays The Same
Drabble--Remus is awed by Tonks.

12.

Shoes

Shoe Haiku
It's a poem. About shoes.

13.

Souvenirs
Triple drabble--Remus tells Tonks about his travels in search of a cure.

14.

Priceless

Part of the Family
While planning her wedding, Tonks gets a letter from a concerned relative.

15.

Passing
Drabble--At an anniversary dinner, Tonks decides to stick to water.

16.

I'm watching from the wall
As in the streets we fight
This world all gone to war
All I need is you tonight
And I draw a line
To your heart today
To your heart from mine
A line to keep us safe
- One Line, PJ Harvey

Almost Gone
Ficlet --Tonks dreams of war.

17.

Bitten Apple

Knowledge
Double drabble--Tonks deals with a transformed Remus.

18.

Your slim frame
Your eager eyes and your wild mane
Oh they keep me where I belong
All wrapped up in wrong
You?re to blame
For wasted words of sad refrain
Oh let them take me where they may
Believe me when I say
I will be your accident if you will be my ambulance
And I will be your screech and crash if you will be my crutch and cast
And I will be your one more time if you will be my one last chance
oh fall for me
- Ambulance by TV on the Radio

Last Chance
Ficlet --Arthur tries to talk sense into Remus.

19.

Intercepted
Drabble--During a Potions class, Snape intercepts Tonks's correspondence.

20.

Change

Spare Change
Ficlet--Remus gets a nasty shock while talking to Tonks.

21.

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
(from The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot)

Breakfast In Bed
Ficlet --The morning after their wedding, Remus wakes Tonks with breakfast in bed.

22.

In the Driver's Seat
Remus has never imagined himself driving a Muggle American car.

23.

Crash

Clapping for the Lightning
Ficlet--A thunderstorm awakens Remus and Tonks's daughter, and Tonks watches Remus play with her..

24.

Leaving
Remus dreams a conversation with Sirius.

25.

In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon
- The Killing Moon, Echo and the Bunnymen

The Killing Moon
Ficlet --A weakened Remus faces his last transformation.

26.

Quiet

Kyrielle for Lovers Separated
Poem--Images of separation.

27.

The Most Haunted Dwelling In Britain, Part One: Remus (Early)
The Marauders pay third-year Remus a visit at the Shrieking Shack, and try to read the messages in a crystal ball..

28.

But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men
(from The Listeners by Walter de la Mare)

The Most Haunted Dwelling In Britain, Part Two: Tonks (Late)
After "The Killing Moon," Tonks is alone in the Shrieking Shack for the first time.

Harry Potter Story
Short Stuff
Each day in February, 2006, the rt_challenge team at LiveJournal posted a "prompt"--a bit of poetry, a word, a picture, anything--to inspire a short piece about Remus and Tonks.  Here are mine.  Check out the others, too!   Just click on the tags at the top of any entry to see all the entries for that particular prompt.
All pictures and prompts come through RT_Challenge, 2006.