A/N: It's not exactly the most original idea but I hope you like it. I originally got the idea from chapter three and the Tonks in my head said to make it a long-ish one….. So I am! Here it is. Oh and I hate disclaimers so you will only get one. I find them pointless because it's a fan site! If you owned it you'd have put your ideas IN it but we don't so we post them here DUH!

Disclaimer: I don't own it! Never have never will, sorry.

Nymphadora Tonks waved her final good bye to her overly loving and much too overly protective parents and put her trunk away as she tripped over the threshold. She blushed catching herself. Her appearance was clearly strange, with long, bubblegum pink hair, ripped jeans, and a band t-shirt.

She walked down the train looking for her friends. She soon found them in a compartment with more then just them in it. She looked at the man who was sitting there talking to her friends. He looked to her to be a handsome seventh year. He had honey-chestnut hair and dark sparkling eyes. He looked the slightest bit old but she didn't mind. 'As long as he isn't a professor right' Tonks thought as she walked into the compartment. Everyone looked up from their conversation to see the pink haired girl.

"Hey Tonks." Charlie said waving her to sit down next to him and across from the handsome man. She tried to be graceful but managed to trip on a bag that was sticking out from UNDER the bench. Next thing she knew there were two muscular tan hands keeping her from the ground and two deep, handsome hazel eyes looking at her currently blue ones.

"Watch your step." He said helping her back to a stable stance.

"I try to but it doesn't work." Tonks joked trying to laugh at her mistake hoping to see a smile on his face. She got one and absorbed it happily into her memory and sat down across from him. Tonk's friend Shayna looked like she was debating between swooning and gagging.

"Tonks this is Professor Lupin." Charlie introduced as Tonks got a sober look on her face. 'Professor? Shit.' She though realizing he had to be like a billion years older then her. She felt her stomach do a summersault thinking 'Why do all the guys I like have to be so unreachable.'

"Professor makes me sound so old." Remus said smiling at all of them. "But yes I am Professor R.J. Lupin." He said looking at the girl.

"How old are you professor?" Tonks asked confused at why he would not like to hear the prestigious title because of age. Then she realized how rude a thing it was to ask and quickly added "If you don't mind me asking."

"Not at all miss….. Tonks was it? I'm twenty seven." He said proudly looking at her gently.

"Just Tonks if you don't mind. And that's pretty young for a teacher." She said, blushing slightly. She mentally made herself tanner, so no one would see her pinking. Unfortunately, her untrained mind made her hair darker also.

"Don't be rude." Charlie hissed. "He's nice and just look at what you've done to him." This statement made Tonks look up to realize that Remus' handsome hazel eyes were the size of saucers.

"A metamorphagus." Lupin muttered quietly.

"Calm down Charlie She didn't offend him she surprised him." Leo Tonk's friend said for the first time he hadn't been glaring jealously at Lupin For stealing the attention of his attractive best friend in the way he wanted to.

"I've always wanted to meet one." Lupin said coming back to his senses and blushing.

"Yeah our little Nym…." Shayna dais before being cut off by a sharp kick to the shin and a glare.

"You mean TONKS, don't you Shayna?" Tonks said with gritted teeth.

"Sorry Tonks." Shayna said rubbing her shin. "Is pretty unique." She finished to the professor.

"So Tonks isn't your real name then?" Remus asked interested. "What is if you don't mine ME asking?" He took a stab at a charming smile and it managed to look so in Tonk's eyes.

"It's umm weird." Tonks said blushing so that it was even visible with tan skin so she gave up and went back to her normal white color.

"So's Mine. Here I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours." By this time the rest of the carriage was amazed at how the conversation had progressed. Shayna wanted to switch places with Tonks. Leo Wanted to Switch places with Lupin and Charlie was just amazed at the irony of a teacher/ student crush.

"All right it's…. Nymphadora." She said rocking back and pulling her knees to her chest covering her face. The three friends in the carriage were amazed and Leo was pissed. It had taken them MONTHS to get Tonks to say her first name and here a professor had gotten it out of her in a matter of seconds.

Tonks braces herself for embarrassment but all that came was a compliment. "Why are you ashamed? It's a beautiful name." Lupin said and she saw a kind and gentle smile fall over his handsome features. She went back to her normal position.

"Really? You think so?" She asked curiously amazed that someone could possibly think that.

"Yeah." Remus said locking eyes with her as a some what electrical shock hit both. Their eye contact was instantly broken and both looked down blushing.

"Hay you owe me your name." Tonks said looking up but never meeting his eyes.

"So I do. Mine is Remus." He said. Tonks Giggled. "Hay." He said a smile still glued to his face.

"I know I'm sorry but I like it." She said. She really did, she thought it was an amazingly handsome name for an amazingly handsome man but it was locked up so tightly inside of her because of the illegality of it all that not even veritus serum could get it out of her.

She looked out the window to see the sun going down. "We should change into out robes." Tonks said pulling out her robe from her bag. She and Shayna got up to go change and she tripped over a bag. Both Lupin and Leo got up instantly to help her but she caught herself and smiled at Remus before they both walked out. When they got back the boys went and soon after the carriage was consumed with meaningless talk until they got to school. It soon slipped out that Remus had been one of the famous marauders to which his response was "I'm glad we're still known for our trickery." Then it got out that he had been in the dark war 7 years ago and that he was going to be her DADA Teacher.

She was now looking forward to DADA more then ever. It had always been one of her favorite classes but now she had a handsome teacher on top of that. Tonks could tell this was going to be a good year.