Line of Love
After an Order meeting and dinner Tonks stays to talk to Sirius. Since it's late she decides to spend the night at Grimmauld place. She's sleeping on a camp bed in one of the sitting rooms, since the house is so full.
Chapter 1
It's late at night and everyone's in bed after an Order meeting and dinner. Ginny had gone upstairs but couldn't sleep. She had crept back down to the kitchen. She decided she would write a letter to one of her friends from school, who she promised she'd write and never had. She sat down at the long kitchen table, shivering because the fire was almost out.
She had been writing for about twenty minutes when she heard someone enter the kitchen. She turned around to find Tonks standing in the doorway in an oversized old t-shirt that fit her like a nightgown. Her hair was as brilliantly pink as always. Ginny blushed and turned back to her letter.
"I was just getting something to drink." Tonks said as she walked over to the kitchen counter to pour herself some pumpkin juice.
But Ginny hardly heard her because she was still admiring the image of Tonks' shapely legs and thighs showing from underneath her sleep shirt. Stop! She thought to herself. This is Tonks you're thinking about. She's been like a big sister to you. Still Ginny couldn't help the fact that she was having some very un-sisterly feelings for the bubblegum pink haired woman.
"So, who are you writing to?" asked Tonks as she took a seat across from Ginny at the table.
"Oh, just a friend from school." Ginny said as she forced herself to look up at Tonks' face. She hoped that Tonks couldn't see what Ginny was thinking about her, and hoped her face wasn't as flushed as it felt like it was.
"Oh, I thought maybe you were writing to a secret boyfriend." Tonks said with a sly smile.
"Oh… no. Don't have one of those." As Ginny said this she thought, for a moment, she saw a flicker of relief pass over Tonks' face. No, she told herself, she was seeing what she wanted to see.
Tonks smiled, "Well that's good, you're far too young to have a boyfriend."
Ginny's heart sank, of course Tonks though she was too young, she was always "too young". When would everyone stop treating her like a baby?
Tonks must have been able to read Ginny's feelings on her face because she immediately looked sorry she had said that.
"I'm sorry," she said looking truly apologetic. "I know you're tired of everyone treating you like a four year old."
"I am." Ginny replied angrily. "I'm tired of everyone thinking I'm too young to know what's going on. Too young to think that I have my own valid thoughts and feelings!" She had stood up from the table, angrily, without even being aware of what she was doing.
"I'm sorry." Tonks said again. "I should know better. It was only a couple of years ago that I was your age. I know exactly how it feels." She then fixed her gaze on Ginny as if she were staring straight into Ginny's mind, reading every though. Ginny blushed again and broke the gaze by sitting back down and looking at her half finished letter.
Tonks broke the silence saying, "Well, its really late we should both go to sleep." Ginny nodded and gathered up her parchment and quill, while Tonks put the goblet she had been drinking out of, back on the counter.
They both reached the doorway at the same time. They paused to look at each other. "It all gets better." Tonks said as she reached forward to give Ginny a hug. When Tonks' skin touched hers it was as if an electric current passed them, and the warmth spread to the rest of Ginny's body. She wondered if Tonks had felt it too. Tonks broke the hug much too soon and led the way upstairs. Ginny said good night to Tonks at the door to the sitting room and continued on to the bedroom she was sharing with Hermione.
As she lay in bed, she felt wide awake. She kept replaying what happened in the kitchen over and over again, especially the hug. She couldn't help but dissect every little thing that had happened down stairs. She wondered again if Tonks had any idea how she felt.