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Chapter Two: The Most Basic Level.

Even though Tonks had protested for an hour that she'd be nothing but a perfect lady, Remus had decided to take the settee anyway, he didn't think it would be proper to share especially with Ginny staying.

It was a little after two, when Remus heard the noise at first it was distant, like it was part of his dream. Then slowly it started to dawn on him that this noise that he was hearing was outside his dream, and that it was coming from one of the bedrooms upstairs. He grabbed his wand from under his pillow only to be met by Ginny on the landing, it seemed that even with the sleeping draught Ginny couldn't sleep through Tonks' screaming.

"What's going on?" He asked angrier than he would have liked.

"It's Tonks, professor, she just started screaming." Ginny answered.

"Go back to bed, I'll go see to Tonks." He smiled reassuringly, Ginny nodded and went back into the room she was staying in.

When he opened her door he found Tonks thrashing about in her sleep, almost as if she were trying to squirm her way out of something. He ran over to her bed and held her arms down either side of her head to try and stop her thrashing about.

"Nymphadora," he said sternly "wake up sweetheart, it's only a dream. Come on, you're going to hurt yourself." Her squirming started to stop and her screams turned into whimpers as she slowly came back into consciousness.

Her eyes fluttered open and she smiled a sad smile "oh Remus it was horrible, I don't think I can be alone tonight please stay with me." she immediately shot up and threw her arms around him.

"Nymphadora," he started uncomfortably "I don't think it's right that I stay the night with you, it's not proper especially with Ginny staying."

Tonks pulled away from him and started to cry "I'm not asking you to do anything, I'm just asking for a cuddle." She titled her head and gave him the look that Sirius had warned him about, her infamous puppy dog eyes. "please," she added.

Remus sighed "On one condition Nymph, you have to tell me what your dream was about."

Tonks shook her head "I can't because if I do you'll just leave me, and I don't want you to leave me."

Remus pulled her closer, "Nym, I wouldn't leave you because of a dream, now tell me and I'll make it better."

Tonks took a steadying breath and told him "You were being tortured by Pettigrew, and I was made to watch, it was awful then the next thing I know I'm in a room and I'm surrounded by werewolves, and behind you all there was a small window and I could see the moon rising and all I can hear you say is 'sorry Nymph, I'm so sorry' but I can't remember the rest". She looked over at him and could see the tears in his eyes. "See your going to leave me."

He shook his head "No, I'm not going to leave you, I just don't like to see you in so much pain, come here." He started to kiss her, "I'll stay the night, but if I stay tonight I just want you to know I don't think I'll ever be able to let you go."

She smiled and cuddled up to him hiding her smirking face in the crook of his neck. "Oh, but maybe it's time the warrior fell for his nymph...what would Calypso say? She managed to seduce Odysseus instantly.

"Seduce isn't the word Dora, she gave him no bloody choice."

Tonks pouted "Aw, what happened to Nymph, I like it when you call me Nymph it makes me feel mischievous."

"I know," he replied "that's what worries me."

The irritated Tonks sighed and settled her self back down and closed her eyes Remus just looked down at her and coughed to get her attention.

Tonks didn't open her eyes "Miss Tonks isn't here right now, but if you leave a message after the snore she'll get back to you when her boyfriend stops being a big lycanthropic tease."

"I won't deny that I'm a Lycanthrope, but I am no tease." He replied seriously as he lay down besides her.

Tonks rolled over on her side to face him and moved cuddle up to him tightly, clinging onto him as if her life depended upon it.

"Hey, what's all this about?" He asked, but he had already guessed her answer.

"The dream, I'm really scared that it might really happens."

He sighed "now you know why, I wouldn't accept us for all those months, why I spent the whole year avoiding you. You have to believe me I was doing it for the best, but I realised hurting you purposely was much worse than the ifs and buts hurting you accidentally ."

Tonks started to cry, and Remus pulled her closer him. "I'm not going anywhere, now I've got you I'm not letting go."

They lay like that for a while neither of them asleep, neither of them able to sleep.

"Nymphadora?" Remus asked "are you awake?"

"Yes Remus, Tonks is awake," came the reply.

"You know, there might be a way to stop me attacking you if we ever get in a situation like that, and I've… turned."

"Really?" She asked, unable to mask her enthusiastic delight.

"Yes, there is but I don't think it's a prudent course of action. You'll get hurt." He replied seriously.

Tonks sat up, and fumbled across the wall for the light switch, once she turned on the light she looked down at him "Explain it to me, I'm not saying we'll definitely go through with it. But it's worth discussing it, even if we dismiss it."

"It is being dismissed Nymphadora, I can't do it to you. I don't know why I said anything."

"Well you did and therefore you are telling me." She said flatly, "the quicker you tell me the quicker I can help you make that decision, remember what we said we'd deal with things together, as a couple."

Remus sat up and put his arm around her, "I know, it's just to recognize you when I am the wolf, to recognize you on the most basic level you'd have to become my life mate."

"So you'd have to bite me, I thought biting in this relationship was a bad thing?" Tonks asked cautiously, but inside her head was racing and fear was definitely creeping in.

Remus nodded, "yes, biting in this relationship would on a normal occasion would be a bad thing. However in this situation I'd have to mark you, make you my own. It's complicated Nymph, I'd get possessive of you close to the full moon, I'd become needy and tactile, and you'd be my mate for the rest of your life. Besides the bite itself will leave a scar. Everybody would know your seeing a Werewolf, it would make life difficult for you at work and in your social life."

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Tonks sighed "The people who make fun, or cause any kind of trouble aren't important Remus, don't you see that me being what I am makes me just as much a creature as you?"

Tonks was scared, nobody had ever wanted to make such a commitment to her before. Even though she loved Remus she wasn't a hundred per cent sure what she was getting herself into. Granted she had studied Werewolves at Hogwarts and during Auror training but to put it mildly it was all completely bias. However she loved him, and she wasn't going to let a deceitful emotion like fear stand in the way of her and love.

Remus scooted closer to her and wrapped his arms around her, "your not a creature, your gift is rare and beautiful, where mine isn't and it will have serious repercussions for you, well for both of us."

Tonks snorted "yeah right, you tell that to horny fourth years who want to turn you into their fantasy, or stupid girls who accuse you of sleeping with their boyfriends. Because I'm a metamorphagus I've been seen as whore and play thing, sometimes both at the same time."

Remus nuzzled her neck planting soft kisses along her jaw "your not a whore, or a play thing just a beautiful woman who needs to be loved."

Tonks sighed with pleasure at the kisses being placed along her jaw, and gasped with surprise as his hand moved towards her hip.

Tonks looked up at him and smiled "keeping you up late at night brings out your naughty side."

Remus shot her a look of mock hurt, "and here I was going for wicked, I will have to double my efforts."

Tonks arched an eye brow, "really, well unfortunately I have seen no real example of wickedness this evening."

"Well," Remus started "we'll just have to see about that." He flipped her over and move where he was on top of her, "how's that?" He asked "wicked enough for you."

Tonks giggled "you do realize where this is going to lead don't you?"

Remus nodded, "yes I do, if it's okay with you that is."

"It's okay with me, but you were having your doubts about this. If you still are having doubts just say."

"No, but I have to know you realize how important this is, not only to me but to us. This is something that we shouldn't do lightly."

"I know," came Tonks' frustrated reply "I'm not taking this lightly, I want this more than anything. I want you no one else". Even though she knew what she was saying was true it was still taking Tonks everything she had to keep from betraying her fear to him.

Remus started to kiss her neck, these kisses turned into gentle nips and bites. He stopped briefly and asked "Are you sure this is what you want?"

Tonks looked up at him, his gaze was so sincere and full of love that she couldn't lie to him "I really don't know Remus, I can't say I understand."

Remus sighed and rolled off of her, and sat up beside where she was lying down. She turned and faced him. "it's not that I don't want to do this, I do, But I'm scared all I need is for you to explain to me and reassure me about what will happen."

Remus stroked her leg and said "You'd be a fool if you weren't scared, and I do owe you a proper explanation of what will happen. Just tell me to stop if you feel uncomfortable at all."

Tonks nodded and she sat herself up next to Remus, his hand now moving to the small of her back.

"Well," he began in his best professors voice "first things first, I would have to bight you fairly hard. Hard enough to break the skin and draw blood."

Tonks winced "okay, I see how would this bite effect me?"

"If your worried you'll turn into a Werewolf then don't be, you won't turn into one. You'll be a bit Wolfish for the first full moon, but all it does in reality is make you recognizable to me when I'm a Werewolf. You won't smell like a human, but you won't smell completely like a like a wolf either. You'll just smell like you belong to me as if you are part of my territory, if that makes any sense. Also you might loose control of your powers, I am sorry but there is no documented evidence of a Werewolf ever mating with a Metamorphous; plus you'll feel fluish and you may possibly become a little more clumsy than usual. "

Tonks sighed, unfortunately the more information Tonks was getting the more nervous she was getting. Nervous that it was the right decision, and whether or not she was the right person for him. She had no worries that he was the right one for her, he was the love of her life and now she understood a little bit more she was ready for this; but the question of the hour was whether Remus was ready to be with her even though he had reassured her that he wouldn't leave her, Tonks still was afraid he'd turn round and say 'I was right, I am too old, too poor and too dangerous for you.'

Tonks decided to use the vocalize her internal drama to him. "Are you sure you want to do this with me, don't you want to wait for someone better?"

Remus looked worried what she had just said was farther than the truth than she could ever imagine, and so he grabbed her in a tight passionate embrace. "There never has been and never will be someone better than you," he kissed her lovingly as if to prove his point. "Now I know you all think of me as some isolated hermit who never as much held a woman's hand let alone go any further than kissing one," Tonks laughed "but that is a lie, probably, well actually no I am certain was started by our ever dear departed Sirius. But what I'm trying to say is that my past loves don't even compare to you, I have never felt ready to do this with anyone before you are the most amazing woman I know." His declaration had been frank and honest, Remus doubted that bringing the women of his past into the conversation. Though it was an odd turn around he mused, previously he had been the one unsure of the relationship, now he was certain that this is what he wanted and he would gladly do anything (within the grounds of common decency) to prove to his Nymph that she was who he wanted. Remus just wanted to be with her completely, he wanted to give her is all.

Tonks was blushing furiously, no man had ever said that before, and it was that rather passionate deceleration which made all her uncertainties disband. She moved closer into the embrace, and nuzzled his neck and said seductively "I would be honored to be your mate."

Remus looked at her cautiously, with a air of doubt in his voice he said "are you sure."

To which Tonks replied smiling "I've never been so sure."

Someone was cooking, Tonks knew that because she could smell bacon. But it wasn't Remus she knew that too because she was currently using his chest as a pillow. So to Nymphadora's sleep addled brain it could only be Ginny, she must have inherited the cooking gene from her mother Tonks thought. Tonks got up retrieved her pajamas which handed up in a rather artistic pool on the bright arm chair that sat in the right hand corner of the room. She quickly retrieved them and then put on her bathrobe wincing a little as the fabric passed the rather raw and tender skin at the base of her neck.

First things first she had to go to the bathroom to check the bite mark, then she'd go give Ginny a row for cooking while on summer holidays and while being a guest. She moved into the tiny en-suite, the cabinet door was open and closed it as she did she caught site of a spider in the doors mirror and she screamed.

Remus rushed into the bathroom wand at the ready and dressed only in his pajama bottoms. He looked over at the terrified Tonks who could only point and say "kill it, kill it!"

When he moved closer to the shower cubicle he saw the spider and laughed. "Nym," he started "you can face Dementors and Death Eaters, but you can't face a harmless house spider?"

Tonks scowled at him "It's not harmless it's evil."

Remus sighed and rolled his eyes and walked over to the shower and got rid of the offending 'evil' spider, as he walked passed Tonks to get to the bedroom window to put the spider he said "I bet your Bogart is a spider."

Tonks followed him to the door frame to make sure he got rid of the offending 'evil' spider. "Nope, it is and probably will always be Maleficent, you know the evil witch from the Muggle Fairy Tale Sleeping Beauty." Remus nodded and she continued "well my dad took me to see it the muggle cinema when I was younger, and well Maleficent traumatized me. Dad thinks it was the whole turning into a dragon thing, never been fond of Dragons not since that in day in the magical zoo whe--"

Her babbling was cut off by Remus who had started kissing her passionately, but when his hand came to rest on her shoulder she winced and pulled back.

He looked at her with concern and asked "are you okay, I didn't hurt you did I?"

Tonks shook her head "It's okay, honestly it's just my shoulder is a bit tender."

Remus flushed and said "I'm sorry. Let me take a look at it, unless you have already you know made sure everything was okay."

Tonks smiled "No, I was about to, but then the spider distracted me."

Remus took Tonks over to the cabinet and brought down the material that was covering her shoulder and gave a low whistle at the site of the mark, he himself had left the previous night.

Tonks turned to him and asked him "is it bad?"

Remus shook his head and answered "No, just looks raw and bit sore, looks a lot worse than it is." He gave her a sad smile.

Tonks nodded and watched him clean up her wound as he worked she noticed a sad expression pass over his face, when he finished he pressed a gentle kiss to her now bandaged shoulder.

Tonks turned to him and smiled, she moved forward to kiss him but he moved away. "What's wrong?" Tonks asked.

"How can you love me, after I did that to you?" He asked.

"Very easily, because you didn't do anything I didn't want you to do. It was our decision, and I don't regret it," she walked up to him and cupped his face in her hands and continued "last night was about love, it was about you and me showing each other that we're ready to commit to one another, you are a wonderful person a kind, smart person and a lot of other adjectives. But if I use them at this particular point in time what I'm saying will loose meaning, but you are worth it and that's why last night happened." She gave him a smile and leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss on the lips.

He smiled and took her hand, "Maybe we should go down to breakfast? It smells like Ginny's been cooking up a storm."

Tonks smiled and squeezed his hand "Ah yes Miss Weasely, cooking while on Summer holiday, and a guest in my home."

Remus laughed "I bet she was only trying to be helpful, to thank you for letting her stay."

"I guess," Tonks replied "But I still don't know why she's here do you have any idea?"

Remus sighed "Yes, I have a idea, but I'm not a hundred per cent certain, so wait in till she tells us something, but I have a fair idea it has something to do with Harry."

Authors Note: Yes I know this is supposed to be a Harry/Ginny story but I did say in my summery that it will be mostly Remus/Nymphadora. I promise you there will be some interaction between Tonks and Ginny in the next chapter, and there will be some Harry and Ginny as well, but this is primarily a fic on how Tonks/Lupin deals with the Harry Ginny relationship .

Please review it makes me believe in all that is good and pure.

Solitary Witch