The beginning of something beautiful
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AN: Thanks to Vicky again for betaing. Hope you like it and please review.
The day our favourite couple met for the first time was grey and rainy. Remus and Sirius were at Grimmauld Place and cleaned the kitchen extremely thoroughly, so they could have the first meeting of the new Order of Phoenix there this evening and that it is as clean as Molly's own kitchen so she would have no reason to complain. There was still loads to do and Remus got the feeling that every thing they got rid off appeared somewhere else again. Normally cleaning and being in his old childhood home made Sirius a really moody partner but today he seemed quite happy. He wouldn't tell Remus why though.
Remus himself was curious about the new members especially this Auror Mad Eye Moody had been gushing about: he said that she is the best Auror of her generation – and a good 5 years before her.
About half an hour before the meeting Molly, Arthur and Bill Weasley showed up and Molly instantly took over the kitchen and began to make tea and sandwiches. While Remus made small talk with Arthur several others like Minerva McGonnegall, Hestia Jones, Dedalus Diggle, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Mundungus Fletcher arrived. The last one set the painting of Walburga Black off for the first time the evening. As Remus tried to shut her again Mad Eye arrived with his protégée.
Then there was a loud crash and Sirius' mother as well as Mad Eye's shouts about "Constant Vigilance" could be heard. Whoever was responsible for the crash apologized constantly. Finally Remus was able to close the curtains and have a look at the newcomer.
One thing was for sure: He never had seen someone like her before. She seemed quite young with a heart shaped face. Her hair was bubblegum-pink, short and spiky. She wore a ripped jeans and a bright orange t-shirt with some washed-out neon green slogan on it which clashed terrible with her hair. By the look of it she had fallen over the troll leg umbrella stand which she was hugging on the floor while Sirius was laughing his head off.
"Haven't changed at all Dora, have you?" Remus heard Sirius say. "Though you've grown a bit and I really love your hair colour." "It's Tonks, Sirius!" the women on the ground hissed before she got up and threw herself at Sirius, "but it's nice to see you again too!" she added in a teasing tone.
Before Remus could ask anymore questions Snape and Dumbledore arrived and the meeting started. While he at first was glad that Sirius wasn't spending the meeting glaring at Snape and making silly jokes and faces, he soon noticed that the only reason therefore was that Tonks had overtaken his duty and Sirius was too busy to try not to laugh. The same could be said for Bill Weasley who looked as if he'd be laughing wouldn't he be sitting next to his severe mother. Sighing and mumbling something about needing to grow up he tried to take notes and concentrate on what the others had to say. It still annoyed him that this first important meeting was disturbed by such childish behaviour and asked himself why whether Dumbledore nor Molly or Moody said something. Then he saw the twinkle in Dumbledore's eyes and how Mad Eye seemed to search the house for dark creatures with his eye. Molly simply concentrated on the speaker and didn't notice the young witch. Although he was annoyed Remus had to admit that she had guts to do something like this under the eye of Moody.
After the meeting he wanted nothing more than to go upstairs and read a good book but Sirius seemed to have other plans for him. "Moony", he called through the room, "get over here, I got to show you someone!" Next to him was the witch with the pink hair, Tonks, he recalled.
"Moony, this is my cousin Nymphadora Tonks-", "Just Tonks, please!" she interrupted turning from him to Sirius she added: "And if you call me that again you'll wish you were back in Azkaban!" Turning again she smiled at him, shook his hand and said something about nice meeting him. He smiled, told her his name and then began to retreat to his room to read after mumbling an excuse. Normally he would have stayed even though he thought that Nymphadora, no Tonks was a bit childish and probably would only lead on Sirius in his drinking behaviour which never ended good, but it was the night after the full moon and he was not only tired but had also caught a cold.
His only problem was that neither Sirius nor Tonks would listen to him and dragged him to stay, drink and watch them get to know each other again.
At least he knew now why Sirius had been so exited. There weren't many family members he actually liked and meeting one of them really meant a lot to him.
After a few glasses of Firewhiskey Sirius started retelling their Hogwarts adventures and he had to add his correction of the stories or the poor girl probably would have believed all of Sirius crazy tales.
Just as Sirius lounged into a long explanation what he and Prongs had done after a Quidditch game, Remus noted that Tonks didn't look impressed or annoyed but concerned. And she was looking at him. "Are you feeling alright? You look quite pale." she asked him not caring in the slightest about Sirius' extreme pouting as she continued to watch Remus, and completely ignore her cousin.
"I'm fine!", he replied, "Just a bit tired that's all."
"You're sure?" she asked again but this time he didn't have time to answer as Sirius decided to do that for him. "Oh, I'm so sorry I totally forgot! Last night was-"
"Sirius!" he cut him off with slight nod towards Tonks, "It's alright, I'm fine, I swear!"
"What's been last night?" she asked interested. Remus had the uneasy feeling that if she was just a bit like her cousin she wouldn't let the topic slide. The majority of the Order knew about him being a werewolf – about 90% - but he wanted to get to know her better to see if and when he could tell her. As she saw that no one was going to answer her got a thoughtful look and after a few moments asked: "You had a hot date hadn't you and now you are ashamed to admit it!" She looked quite content with her explanation and Remus would have loved if she was keeping on thinking that but the thought that she thought that he had a hot date made him blush and the fact that Sirius started laughing didn't help this. Seeing that she obviously had been wrong, Tonks blushed too which made her actually look pretty cute. ´Huh, where did that thought come from?` he asked himself but soon pushed the thought aside as Sirius had stopped laughing and tried talking again.
"Wished you were the one, eh?" he winked at Tonks who amazingly blushed even more. Embarrassed Remus tried to think of an explanation that had neither to do with dates nor with the full moon.
As he couldn't think of anything better he said: "No, I just couldn't sleep that's all. You know a big dog decided to come in my room and wouldn't let me sleep. "He glared meaningful at Sirius and added: "Anyway I'm off to bed now, good night Nymphadora, Sirius!". Before Tonks could scold him for using her first name, he had left the kitchen.
Lying in his bed he thought about the day and the meeting, but somehow he always ended at the picture of Tonks blushing. Getting annoyed with himself he tried to sleep, but even in his sleep he couldn't get the bubblegum pink witch out of his mind.
