I do not own any part of the Harry Potter Series. The characters and places used all belong to J.K Rowling.


Glittering Moon

It was nearing the end of July, as Remus Lupin found himself at the familiar home of his best friend, Sirius Black. He knocked lightly at the door, obviously not to interrupt Mrs. Black who positioned herself on Sirius' wall in the hallway. Remus had learned one too many times not to wake her from her sleep upon her portrait or he would regret it for the rest of the day, he thought he had endured enough verbal abuse of being a werewolf for the rest of his life. However strikingly Mrs. Black awoke from her light sleep to know immediately who was out the door.

"Filthy Half-Bloods and creatures alike, disturbing my peaceful..."

"Quiet you old hag!" snapped Sirius at his mother's portrait as he headed to the front door to open it widely for his old friend who had not come to visit him in a while.

"Sirius! It's been a couple of days! How have you been?" asked Lupin obviously ignoring what the portrait was screaming at him, he had gotten used to it by now.

"It has been a couple of days too long my dear friend please come in, I have to go feed Buckbeak so make yourself at home." Sirius smiled wildly, as he joyfully walked away humming to himself a melodic tune, he obviously loved company since he has been back from Azkaban.

Remus slowly made his way down the hallway limping slightly, the full moon had passed two days before, so his newly scarred flesh stung at the touch of things and he was extremely worn out and incapable of doing much.

Sirius came back down from the creaky steps, and finally had the time to give his friend a good look and his mouth hung open a bit.

"Moony, to say this nicely, you look like shit."

"I appreciate your thoughtfulness Sirius..."

"What have you been doing to yourself mate?"

"I think it's more like what haven't I been doing to myself, the full moon is taking a toll on me as you can tell, I'm starting to get too old for this." Remus replied.

"You can never be too old, just look at me, I act like a twelve year old, come sit in the kitchen I'll make you some tea." Sirius pranced to the kitchen and used his wand to conjure a teapot and it started to steam immediately, a teacup also came from nowhere and filled itself, Sirius then took the cup, looked at the sitting Remus and sighed while handing him the cup.

"Why the long face Padfoot?"asked Remus.

"I worry about you mate, for once I believe you need a little fun in your life, both of us, I think we have wasted too much time on other things..."Sirius looked at all his friend's speckled gray in his brown hair and his scars we're so deep that he flinched a little when he saw them.

"We don't have too much time to have fun especially now, we have to pick up Harry in two weeks and the Order is gathering here tomorrow for it's meeting."Remus sighed at what he said because his life is the Order and he is just too busy dealing with other things than taking care of himself.

"Why don't you stay here?Just as long as you need to rest, just like old times in the dorm room."Sirius' eyebrows seem to rise up and down a few times implying that he was going to act as mischievous as possible.

At this, Remus laughed quite loudly, the shadows of his face seemed to linger away and Sirius finally saw the kid in him.

"It's settled than old friend! Come stay, we both need company that is for certain. Plus, you can help me feed Buckbeak! Good times are in store, we need to celebrate."

"Wait, Sirius! I think it's not such a good idea..."

"Pish Posh, wait here I'm getting some Firewhisky." Sirius didn't even hear him finish his sentence as he glided up the stairs to lighten the mood. Suddenly, the door was being knocked on again. This time Remus was fast enough to close the curtain on the portrait, he moved quite fast for a person who was limping before. He reached the door and saw a bright young witch with pink spiky hair and a heart-shaped face stare at him with bewilderment.

"Wotcher! Have you seen Sirius by any chance? I must have a word."said the young witch hurriedly.

"Well yes, he's inside if you would like to wait for him to come down."Remus replied, he had thought this was probably an old flame of his waiting to kick him between the legs for leaving her. He had been in attendance through many of these encounters before, but this girl seemed different, she was a bit younger in age but seemed quite mature, which was the opposite of his friend.

Before he could muster the word mature in his head, the young witch seemed to trip on an umbrella stand but Remus was moving quite fast today which he was impressing himself and got hold of her around her waist and noticed what he had done and started to turn a bright pink. The young witch seemed to notice this and felt unusually comfortable being caught by someone she just met, however nobody ever had the reflexes to catch her, she would just end up face first upon the floor so she was grateful.

"Nice catch stranger, but care to let go of me?" She seemed to notice he held on a few seconds too long.

"No...I mean yes of course sorry, my apologies."He again turned a bright pink as he thought over what he said.

"Don't worry about it but thanks for catching me, you have great reflexes for a person Sirius' age, I guess you have an animal instinct..."

"You can say that..."Remus replied slowly, he thought she read him like a book. However his eyes glanced quickly to Sirius coming back down the stairs with the Firewhisky in his hand, hopefully he hadn't seen what had just happened.

"My, my, my Moony! What in the name of hell are you doing to my cousin?Sirius' eyebrows were quickly going up and down again and Remus rolled his eyes but he seemed surprised that she was his cousin, they looked nothing alike except they both had deep brown eyes that glistened brightly at the sight of light.

"Sirius! I've missed you, it's been so long." She jumped into his arms as he tried to balance a bottle of Firewhisky and a tall and not so thin witch around his arms.

"Tonks my dear, coming unannounced as always, it's been fifteen long years I'm assuming, come me and Moony were just about to celebrate." She finally let go of him and examined the bottle to make sure it was still intact and gave out a wide smile.

"Moony? Nickname I'm assuming?" She turned her head toward the man wearing the shabby clothing and she cocked her head to the side as if she was examining him.

"Yes it is actually, Sirius came up with it in our fifth year, but I would rather be called by my real name."He said matter-of-factly.

"So what is your real name then stranger?" He had turned bright pink again because it looked like she was looking right through him.

"My apologies,"he held out a hand for her to shake"My name is Remus Lupin and yours? I just can't call you Sirius' cousin every time I talk to you..."

She had pouted because she didn't even have a chance to give her name but she shook his hand and gave a nice little smile and said" You can call me Tonks, just Tonks."She noticed he gave her a little grin and noticed he had a really charming smile and saw a quick wit answer coming.

"So just Tonks...do you have a first name?"Sirius let out a gasp because he knew she had never liked her first name and he held his breath. However Remus knew he would get an answer as quick witted as his.

"As a matter-of-factly I do have a first name but that is none of your concern, everyone calls me Tonks."Remus cocked one eyebrow and let out a half smile, a bit surprised that she could be so respectful and so rude at the same time, now he started to be reminded of Sirius.

"As you wish Ms. Tonks, it is a pleasure to meet you."Remus slightly bowed his head and led out a hand to the kitchen." I'm sure you and Sirius need to catch up on a lot of things, do not worry however I won't bother you two."

"Thank you Remus, but I would like your company in the kitchen as well, the more the merrier." As all three of them were heading to the kitchen Tonks had whispered "Such a gentleman." And moved her head pointing in Remus' direction and Sirius replied with a bit of disbelief." Yes, he is the proper one, the smarter one, the wiser one but who cares I'm more fun..."

Well, there's my first chapter, there are more to come...I hope you've all enjoyed it as much I have written it. If you have any comments, don't be afraid to let me know.