Author's Note:

This one's a bit longer than the others, hope you don't mind ^_^ If you have time please do check out my other RemusxTonks fan fiction too called Swallow the Sun. I hope you enjoy and review if you can. Thank you they are greatly appreciated. ^_^

Chapter 03 – Discreet

It was another stormy night outside, raining and thundering for the past seven days. Grimmauld Place never seemed more miserable, more colorless and dead. The Order meeting was that night and Remus had been the earliest there, taking his usual seat in the back where he could clearly see the door. Sirius sat beside him, and soon the others began to file in.

He folded his arms as his eyes searched the slowly approaching crowd for that one girl, that young Auror with brilliant pink hair that contrasted so much with the dread and black of Grimmauld Place. Remus was looking for Tonks, keeping his gazes discreet. When Mad-Eye filed in and he still didn't see Tonks, he sat up, his neck craning a bit to try to see if she was possibly hiding somewhere.

No, she wasn't hiding, she just tripped, and her hair wasn't pink that night, it was blue, a soft and subtle baby blue. He was surprise he didn't hear that, the thud and the discreet curses over the troll leg umbrella stand she would always fall over. He smiled a little, wanting to help her up but she was already bouncing on her feet. He then looked across from him, seeing an empty seat right there, and another down beside Mad-Eye. Chances are she'd sit beside Mad-Eye, her mentor, but Remus still hoped on a whim that she'd sit across from him.

When she sat down in that empty chair across from him, he smiled. He was conscious of himself and gave her a discreet smile, happy to see her colorful self and her grin that she returned at him. Tonks made a silly face as she rubbed her knee.

"I don't think baby blue's my color. I tripped more than usual tonight," she sighed.

He chuckled and was stunned at the sweet, gazing look in her eyes as she watched him. Remus cleared his throat with subtlety as he smiled again, his smirk plastered onto his face with her. "It looks great, subtle and soft," he voiced.

"Soft," she nodded. Tonks then wrinkled her nose and closed her eyes, morphing her hair into a pink color, a soft, subtle, and warm baby pink, different from her usual brilliant and rebellious rocker chick pink. "How about this?" she asked him. "Soft and subtle?" she smiled.

Remus nodded and smiled. Until he looked down, he didn't even realize that his hand and hers were millimeters away from touching across the table. He looked up again and found that his wandering eyes had been lost in her gentle hazel. They were trapped in each other's gaze, spell bound, and probably grinning like fools. For the first time in his life, Remus didn't care.

"How was your day then? Anymore bruises we should put ice on?" he asked her.

She nodded with a childish look in her eyes, still not breaking their spell. "So many."

He couldn't help but touch her fingers with his and he felt a little shock in her eyes, but she smiled again, pleasantly, and her fingers stayed in contact with his. "I'll get some ice for you after the meeting then."

"Thank you, Remus," she smiled. He liked her voice when she said that, it sounded nice.

"Psst," came Sirius' playful intrusion. "Remus you're drooling," Sirius grinned.

He replied to the man with an elbow in the gut while his eyes never left Tonks' spell.