A/N: Funny story... this isn't actually complete! I have a few more chapters in the works... but it's finals time again, and things are kind of crazy in my life right now. So I have no idea when the next update is coming. But yeah, here's one.

Later that morning, Tonks was assigned guard duty at an undisclosed location for an undisclosed amount of time. As soon as the meeting was over, she rushed up to her room to get her things. Hermione and Ginny tried to start a conversation while she was packing, but she did it magically and was done in moments. She pushed them out of the way, hollered a goodbye to Lupin as she passed the library and was gone. Hermione looked at Ginny. Ginny looked at Hermione. Then they went to their room.

"I wonder how long she'll be gone?" Ginny said.

"Hopefully not long. She'll be alright. Now she's got someone to come home to," Hermione replied.

"It was nice having someone to talk to… you know. Someone older who isn't a professor or mum," Ginny said.

"Yeah."

They didn't talk about what they had done to the boys that morning.

Meanwhile, Harry and Ron were in their room wondering what the bloody hell was wrong with Ginny and Hermione.

"Merlin, that was my sister kissing you, mate. I bet the Malfoy slipped them something. Let's get him when we get back to school," Ron exclaimed.

Harry didn't reply. He had the brains to realize that Malfoy hadn't slipped the girls something. He had noticed Ginny's obsession with him from the beginning, he just wasn't sure what it meant. He thought he had an idea now, what with her behavior this morning, but he was too scared to act on it. For now. Ron, on the other hand, was completely convinced that Malfoy had slipped the girls a love potion of sorts.

"I mean, it's Hermione! Since when does she act like that?" Ron said.

"I don't know. Maybe it's one of the twins' prank ideas?" Harry wondered.

"Nah, it had to have been Malfoy," Ron insisted. Harry just shook his head.

Time passed. The boys still had yet to make any moves, and the girls were convinced that they were oblivious. For the most part, this was accurate. Harry had some idea what was going on, but he wasn't about to make a fool of himself if he was wrong.

One day, in the middle of a full attendance Order meeting, Tonks walked through the front door. Just like that, like she had gone to work and come back. As they were trying to spy on the meeting, Ginny, Hermione, Harry and Ron all saw her walk in.

"We have to talk to her tonight," Ginny whispered to Hermione.

"Are you sure? She might want to sleep tonight," Hermione whispered back.

"Or sleep with Lupin," Ginny added.

"Thanks Gin, really needed that. He was our teacher," Hermione said flatly.

"What?" Ron asked.

"Nothing," Hermione and Ginny said in unison. Then Mrs. Weasley opened the door to the kitchen and glared at them.

"Go to your rooms, all four of you, or I might not call you for supper."

Hermione and Ginny headed up to their room dragging the unwilling boys with them.

Mrs. Weasley did call them for dinner, but as most of the Order was staying, they didn't have the usual pick of seats. Harry and Ron snagged seats next to Sirius and Mad-eye, Ginny grabbed an empty chair to the right of her mother and Hermione got stuck sitting next to Snape. She tried talking to him about potions, but he just snapped at her to stop interrupting her dinner. Ginny gave her a sympathetic smile from the other end of the table. Tonks was just a few seats down from Hermione, but it was too far to try to talk. Dinner seemed to last forever, especially since Snape refused to talk to Hermione.

After dinner was finally over, Ginny and Hermione cornered Tonks in the hallway.

"I think we need to have another late night chat," Ginny said.

"If you're up for it that is. If you want to sleep tonight, that's understandable," Hermione added.

Ginny muttered something under her breath that sounded suspiciously like a repeat of her previous inappropriate statement. Hermione ignored this, and Tonks chose to pretend she didn't hear.

"Tonight it is. Midnight in the library. If someone else is in there, try the kitchen," Tonks said.

"Got it," Ginny said and Hermione nodded. They wandered off to occupy themselves. Hermione grabbed a transfiguration book she had been reading and Ginny grabbed the latest copy of Teen Witch magazine. They found Harry and Ron playing chess in their room, and the girls settled down to read while pretending to watch.

Before they knew it the clock was striking 11.

"Let's get to bed, I'm really tired," Ginny said, faking a yawn.

"But we haven't finished this game!" Ron whined.

"You're winning anyway. What do you have to complain about?" Harry asked. "I'm getting ready for bed."

"Come on, just a few more minutes," Ron begged. Hermione and Ginny left them to their argument.

"Pretty sure they didn't even notice we left," Hermione said once they were in the relative safety of their bedroom. They pretended to get ready for bed and then continued reading until the clock struck midnight. Hermione and Ginny crept out of their room and tiptoed down the hall to the library. There they found Snape glaring at them from an armchair. Immediately they turned around and headed for the kitchen and found Tonks waiting for them. They pulled out chair at the table and sat down while Tonks put a silencing charm on the room and set a ward to warn them if anyone was coming.