Firstly, thank you (about a million times over!) for a truly amazing comment! I'm actually quite overwhelmed by it. *big hugs* *and smiles* :)

I owe this Tonks to the original author, who draws her really beautifully: in fact, part of my problem was transmuting a lovely, poetic piece into a grounded story without bruising its wings, so speak. I felt the relationship would probably have been very much as it was in the original, but with some rather harsh realism breaking through, as in real life. :(

So I had a wonderful time writing this, bringing Remus and Tonks together and taking the original to a logical next step. The dressing-gown especially stuck in my mind, so I'm so glad it worked for you in the remix.