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Chapter One: Tonks, Snape, and Lupin

Somewhere inside Malfoy Manor an alarm clock went off and Nymphadora Tonks fell out of her borrowed bed.

"Bloody 'ell! What the heck am I doing up this friggin' early?" she asked herself, before checking the calendar on her wall still in her spot on the floor.

"Shit! Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny are coming today!" Tonks began muttering obscene words under her breath as she got up and made her way over to her closet. She threw on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt and then headed out of her room to wake up her Aunt 'Cissa as she called Narcissa.

She thought of how strange it was. Sirius's house had been small and didn't have a yard and Lupin's house hadn't been much better. The HQ of the Order had been moved last year after Sirius had fallen behind the veil. She wondered how Harry was doing with Sirius's supposed death. They couldn't really be sure he was dead after all, but they didn't want to give Harry false hope. But back to the first topic, Malfoy Manor was so much better simply because there was so much more room. Everyone had his/her own room and that was saying something. There were about 50 full-time members of the Order. Usually, only some people could stay at the HQs at all times because there just wasn't enough room and they weren't allowed outside just in case Voldemort would get wind of an area around the HQ and come to find Harry outside. But Malfoy Manor had its own village already protected as well as a Quidditch pitch that the triplets, Pansy, Blaise, Harry, Ron, Ginny, and whoever else wanted too, could play at.

Speaking of Draco, Tonks couldn't believe how much her cousin had changed since he'd met his sisters, Blaise and Pansy too. Over the summer before his 6th year the girls had definitely softened Draco, Blaise, and Pansy up. The three Slytherins had fallen in love with the two girls and everything that came along with them, in this case muggle things, people, and ideas. At least they had taken to the girls family and friends, but their attitudes in general had become much more accepting and they were less inclined to dislike people just because of their heritage. Of course, that didn't mean the Golden Trio and Ginny had noticed. While the rest of the Weasley's had become well acquainted with the new and improved Malfoy family, Blaise, and Pansy, the Trio and Ginny had been kept in the dark about where the new HQ's location.

Just then a door slammed; Tonks was jolted out of her thoughts. Remus Lupin had just stepped out of Narcissa's room wearing a robe with his clothes gripped in his other hand.

"Well," Tonks snickered suggestively, "glad I didn't set my alarm for any earlier! Wouldn't have wanted to interrupt anything- strenuous."

Lupin blushed blood red and said, "You shouldn't make assumptions Nymphadora, especially when you have no idea what you're talking about."

"Don't call me Nymphadora!" Tonks exclaimed with a scowl.

Severus Snape stepped out of his room with no shirt on and Tonks internally groaned. What was it with these people and no clothes? "Lupin. I see you decided to try and pick up from where you left of did you? Did you have to beg Narcissa to give the werewolf another try?" He taunted.

"Go screw yourself, Snape!" Tonks defended Lupin despite having no idea what Snape was talking about. The sexual tension in the room seemed to rise despite Tonks riled tone.

"I think you should be the one doing the screwing," Lupin commented, clearly picking up on the heightened atmosphere.

"REMUS BLOODY LUPIN! HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT WHEN YOU AREN'T EVEN DRESSED!" Tonks yelled, face red from anger and embarrassment.

"I think you'd better put some clothes on Lupin before you go around making sexual suggestions to others," Snape returned calmly regarding Tonks with a curious expression.

Lupin blushed again before stalking off to his room.

"Well," Tonks said uncomfortable shifting her weight from foot to foot.

"As interesting as that was, I'm going to tell the house elves to begin getting breakfast ready," Snape said seemingly unaffected.

"You do that. I'm going to get Aunt 'Cissa," Tonks said brushing past him causing a shiver to run up and down her spine. 'Damn! I need a quick screw if Snape's making me want to have sex!' Tonks thought to herself.

A/N: So I was planning on only revising one chapter a day, but I figured this one was pretty short so it shouldn't take too much effort. I also didn't do much revision to it… Tell me what you think needs some work and I'd be happy to fix it up a bit more. If you haven't read this before and you somehow stumbled up on it I'll tell you that what you just read won't be the main thing in this story. )