This chapter is written by Funshine Tonks:D All sentences in italics are J.K. Rowling's own work, put into Tonks' point of view.
A few years later (as I had just turned 21) I started Auror training, with my mentor Mad-Eye Moody. He told me a few weeks after I had fully qualified (after a really long interview because apparently I was 'acting suspicious') that there was a group called the 'Order of the phoenix' and he would be happy if I joined, so I agreed and today is the day of the first meeting. I was more excited about seeing Sirius again, I haven't really seen anyone since James and Lily died, and Sirius was accused for Peter's doing. Me and Mad-Eye were currently hiding in a bush, because apparently there were suspicious muggles lingering around the entrance, did I mention that only he can see these muggles? So we waited for about 30 or 40 minutes, in that time I was able pick every piece of dust off my wand, while Mad-Eye was watching 'the suspicious muggles'. I was finally able to convince him that there were no suspicious muggles and that I couldn't see them. So we were finally able to go inside.
"Who are you and what is your business here?" Came an unfamiliar voice.
"Mad-Eye Moody and Nymphadora Tonks here for the order of the phoenix meeting." Moody answered gruffly, pushing the owner of the voice against the wall (who I later learned to be Arthur Weasley), while his wooden leg landed on everyone's foot, including mine.
"Dammit! Mad-Eye! That bloody hurt!" I mumbled, trying my best to make sure I was behind him, not in his way.
"Tigress!" Came Sirius' voice, I saw him come out of the shadows of what looks like to be a sitting room. Merlin, Azkaban can do things to people's appearance!
"Padfoot!" I said, while he pulled me into a big (and uncomfortably tight) bear hug.
"How've you been? Moony's here! In the kitchen." He said, I know he caught my cheeks blushing like mad.
"Did I hear Tigress?" Came a soft, sweet voice.
"You did!" answered Sirius pushing me up to him. Why am I suddenly a foot smaller than the both of them?
"Tonks!" Remus said, (also) pulling me into a bear hug, but this time it wasn't uncomfortable at all, "So is our relationship still going?"
"Only if you want it." I replied while he still held me in the hug.
"I take that as yes." He said, kissing the top of my currently pink/purple shoulder length hair. I could see Sirius gleaming like an idiot, on the other side of Remus. I shot him a death glare, I know he's going to spread it throughout the whole house if I don't get to him first. We broke apart.
"I'll be back!" I said simply. I grabbed Sirius in a death grip, by his hair and pulled him into what I suspected as a sitting room.
"What?" He said innocently, much like I do.
"If you dare spread around the whole house about me and Remus I will hex you into obliviation!" I said threatingly, as I pointed my wand at his head; he knows bloody well that I'm a fully qualified Auror, fresh out of training. And that I can do whatever I want, to him.
"Fine! Fine!" He said in defense. He probably remembers the time in school when I hexed him into, temporary obliviation… I laugh quietly at the thought. I held him there for a while, that is until Dumbledore arrived. I quickly put away my wand and let Sirius go, so Dumbledore wouldn't know I was holding Padfoot hostage. Me and Sirius walked into the kitchen and the meeting started. I wasn't paying much attention, the meeting was pretty boring, and long. When we got out, Mrs. Weasley introduced to her 6 kids (apparently her son named Charlie was in Romania studying dragons…Cool!) and Hermione. Me, Ginny and Hermione got along really well, maybe a sleepover is needed. I'm somewhat afraid of Fred and George, I have a feeling I'm going to get embarrassed greatly in front of everyone, 'cause of them… And Bill was pretty nice, he was a year older than me, so I may've seen him around school. After I had met the family I headed up to my room.
"Hey Tonks!" Ginny shouted, "Do you want to spend the night in me and Hermione's room?"
"Sure!" I said happily.
"Well c'mon!" Hermione said, popping up behind Ginny. I ran up the stairs…big mistake, I tripped over the top stair and fell. "Merlin! Tonks are you ok?" Hermione said, having somewhat of a freak attack.
"I'm fine!" I said brushing off my black skinny jeans and shirt. The three of us continued into their room. We separated into 3 different areas, me on the loveseat and Hermione and Ginny on their beds.
"So tell us about yourself" Ginny said, somewhat randomly.
"Well I'm dead clumsy, an Auror, I'm 21, former resident of the Gryffindor house, I was best friends with the Marau- James, Lily, Remus and Sirius, I am an animagus and…oh yeah! I'm a metamorphmagus!" I said, I had purposely left out Peter. Hermione seemed to gasp after I said metamorphmagus. Ginny seemed more surprised with the animagus part.
"You're a Metamorphmagus?" Hermione said, surprised.
"Yup!" I said proudly.
"Can you show us?" Hermione asked. I changed my hair from my shoulder length purple pink to a long curly blonde. Hermione, once again, gasped.
"That was bloody brilliant!" Ginny exclaimed. "What's your animagus form?"
"Tigress" I answered.
"Can you show us?" Ginny asked. I tuned into my signature animagus form and nudged against Hermione's hand, she looked terrified, but I understand, how many times in a life time does a Tigress nudge your hand? I laughed, which came out as a growl, which scared the poor witch even more, but Ginny was amazed and cracking up on the bed at the older witch's reaction.
"Hermione, it's Tonks! Your acting like it's a real Tigress!" Ginny said in between laughs. I nodded approvingly, which made Ginny laugh even more. Hermione's tenseness relaxed a bit. I morphed back, which is when Hermione relaxed completely.
"Tonks, tha-that was scary!" Hermione said, her flushed face now returning its natural color. I laughed, I couldn't help, I probably shouldn't be laughing that I just about gave Hermione Granger a heart attack, but it was so funny! And Ginny certainly agreed. After everyone settled down we continued our conversation.
"So tell me about yourselves." I said, still giggling a bit.
"Well… I'm the first girl in the Weasley family for Merlin knows how many generations. I'm in my 4th year Hogwarts, Gryffindor house. I'm 14 and… that's about it!" Ginny said, "Your turn, 'Mione!"
"I'm in my 5th year at Hogwarts, Gryffindor house, I'm 15, muggleborn, and…that's it!" Hermione finished.
"So what'cha wanna do?" I finally asked.
"Truth or dare?" Ginny asked, with a mischievous glint in her eye.
"Sure!" I said enthusiastically.
"Sure…" Hermione said, somewhat unsure.
"Truth or dare, Tonks?" Ginny asked me.
"Truth!" I replied, wasn't going to pick dare until I have an idea on what they would have me do.
"Are you related to Sirius? If so, how?" Ginny asked curiously. I let out a sigh of relief. Ginny caught this, "You won't be so lucky next time! I can tell you fancy someone!" Ginny said threatingly. I blushed, madly, Ginny smiled, mischievously.
"Yes, he is my 2nd cousin once removed or something like that, through my mother's family, she's his cousin." I said in one long, breath.
"ok…" Ginny said, acting as if she's gathering important information, "So you're a Black?"
"Yes, technically, but according to the family, no, my mother was burned off the Black family tree." I replied. Ginny nodded approvingly.
"Truth or dare, 'Mione?" I asked, the bushy haired witch. I knew her answer, for a Gryffindor; she wasn't very daring at all.
"Truth!" She replied instantly. Ginny whispered in my ear, Hermione had a terrified look on her face.
"Do you fancy Viktor Kru- VIKTOR KRUM? The Bulgarian Quidditch Player?" I was (clearly) extremely surprised, who knew a Ravencl- I mean Gryffindor like her knew Viktor Krum? I mean seriously how many people can get to know Viktor Krum?
"Yes, that Viktor Krum," Hermione replied, in between giggles, "but no I don't fancy him, we're just pen pals, I only went with him to the Yule ball because he asked." She replied still giggling at what I suppose was my reaction.
"Wow…" I muttered, still surprised. Hermione was still giggling like mad. Was my reaction really that stupid?
"Truth or dare, Ginny?" Hermione asked Ginny.
"Dare!" The red headed Gryffindor said bravely.
"I dare you to run around the house shouting that you fancy Harry Potter!" Hermione said, who knew a girl like her was capable of such an evil dare?
"ok!" Ginny said simply. I high fived Hermione, Ginny shot us a death glare. For the next 10 minutes (this house is huge!) all you could hear is "I fancy Harry Potter! I fancy Harry Potter!" and so on. Me and Hermione were on the floor by now, laughing our heads off. Ginny walked in, red faced and she looked like she was gonna kill me and Hermione on the spot. I now know what kind of dares they are capable of, so maybe I wasn't going to pick dare…
"I'm going to kill you two!" She said threatingly. I knew it! "Truth or Dare, Tonks?" She muttered.
"Truth" I replied.
"I warned you… Who do you fancy? And are you dating this guy?" Ginny said. Crap! I forgot what she told me!
"Remus Lupin, yes…" I muttered.
"You're dating Professor Lupin?" Hermione asked, expecting someone like Kingsley to be my guy.
"What do you mean 'professor'?" I asked I had no idea he taught.
"Well he taught our defense against the dark arts class in our third year, but then he quite 'cause of his condition. He was basically a second father to Harry." Hermione replied, "and he was one of the creators of the Marauders map, hold on, were you a creator of the map, too? There's a Marauder called Tigress on there and well your animagus form-"
"Yes." I interrupted her.
"Cool!" Ginny said, wide eyed.
Ron popped his head in the door, "Dinner." We went downstairs for dinner, I did my animal noses and funny faces and no one seemed to be able to keep their food in their mouth. After dinner me, Hermione and Ginny feel asleep sprawled on the floor. The next morning (or night, whichever you want to call it) I woke up from being dragged out of Hermione and Ginny's room.
"Remus? It's nearly 12 in the morning!" I said realizing who I was being dragged by.
"Advance guard? Ring a bell?" He said, somewhat annoyed. I learned from experience that Remus is not a morning person; it's like waking a sleeping dragon. So I wasn't going to go off on him 'cause he woke me. Sirius is a different story…
"Oh yeah!" I said, now remembering. I had signed up to go pick up Harry from his aunt and uncle's. I even sent out a letter via muggle post telling the Dursleys that they had been short listed for the all England best kept suburban lawn compotation and the prize giving was tonight. Nobody knew about that… "I'll go get dressed!" I said as I broke free from his grasp and ran down the hall. I came down stairs a few minutes later in my combat boots, patched boot cut jeans, a black Weird Sisters shirt, and my signature long, black, button down coat. We left not too long after. Don't mean to brag but I'm a pretty good flyer.
"How much longer?" I shouted to mad eye after about an hour of flying in 40 degree weather. I know we were flying to Surrey, but was it really that far away?
"Shut it Nymphadora!" He shouted back at me. Remus gave me a 'Don't-you-dare-do-it'. look I growled under my breath. If only I could erase that name from everyone's minds. We finally arrived after 2 hours of freezing cold flying. I think we scared the poor kid half to death; he looked shocked to see all of us (7 people) in his living room.
"Prof-professor moody, what are you all doing here?" Harry stammered.
"I don't know so much as Professor, but-" Moody wasn't help he looked like he was just scaring the kid even more.
"Wotcher, Harry!" I chirped, "We're here to take you to headquarters!"
"headquarters? Wha-"He was cut off.
"Not here Nymphadora!" Moody scolded me.
"Don't call Nymphadora!" I scolded him back, I could feel the roots of my hair turning red. I could see out of the corners of my eye that Harry's eyes had gotten wide.
"Do you need help packing?" I asked, innocently.
"Er-Sure" He replied, "My room's up here" I followed him upstairs.
"These muggles are clean, aren't they?" I asked, he nodded. "It's a bit unnatural…" I said looking at the perfectly clean, white walls. Harry was rather tall and inch or two shorter than me, but then again, according to Sirius, I'm short.
"This is all my Hogwarts stuff…" He said pulling up a loose floor board revealing about a 3 foot hole full of Hogwarts stuff. So we started just pulling everything out putting it er- above ground.
"Hold on, Harry!" I said. I pulled out my wand, "pack!" Books, clothes, telescope, and scales all soared into the air and flew pell-mell into the trunk.
"It's not very neat…" I said walking over and looking down at the jumble inside. "My mum's got this knack of getting stuff to fit in neatly-she even gets the socks to fold themselves-but I've never mastered how she does it- it's kind of flick-"
I flicked my wand hopefully; one of Harry's socks gave a feeble sort of wiggle and flopped back on top of the mess within.
"Ah, well at least it's all in!" I said, closing the trunk of the lid. "I hate this color…" I sad pulling at a lock of pale pink hair. Blue, Blue, Blue with pink highlights! I thought to myself, I felt the roots of my hair changing.
"Whoa! How'd you do that?" Harry asked, clearly surprised
"I'm a metamorphmagus!" I said, noticing his slight confusion, "it means I can change my appearance at will!"
"That's wicked!" Harry said.
"I know!" I said flipping my hair back in somewhat of a prissy imitation, we both started laughing.
The ride was long and cold, Mad-Eye wanted to 'hold back', but don't worry I stopped him from doing it. We got back to headquarters around 3:00 am. So we all just went to bed, I went back to the loveseat in Hermione and Ginny's room, and fell asleep.