NTLJ - an outtake/preview [depending on HBP]

I've had a flashback scene, in which Tonks remembers the last time she saw Sirius, sitting on my hard disk since about Christmas! It was meant to appear fairly late on in the story, at a point where the team have finally arrested the criminal in one of their cases; they get the day off, and Tonks decides to use it to go and interview someone who might be able to tell her more about her cousin.

Unfortunately, I realised a little while ago that I really wasn't going to get to this point in the story before July 16th, and that when HBP came out it might well state that nothing like this happened. Since I quite like this scene (sentimentalist that I am) I thought I might as well post it somewhere while it's still a canon possibility! If it still is after reading HBP, then consider this a preview; otherwise, it's probably going to be an outtake.

I don't think it contains any spoilers for the main tale (if you're following this on FictionAlley rather than Chamber of Secrets, it may give clues to what Kingsley was up to, but nothing you probably hadn't already guessed). The setup is basically that Tonks is vacillating about whether to do this, and thinking about various things that have been said to her; and then she has a Sudden Recollection ...

( The last time Tonks met Sirius (c.2000 words) )