Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter in anyway shape or form; I just own the computer I type with and my own little ideas for twisting everything around.

A/N: First let me just say thank you to Martin who got in touch with me and offered to help beta this fic, so hopefully some of you who took it onto yourself to analyse everything wrong with it might stop complaining about it.

Anyway I now have a beta who is willing to look over and fix most of the grammar and spelling mistakes you were all picking on despite the fact that I did state in the first A/N that it was unbetaed, although my A/N is still going to be a spelling and grammar nightmare to some I think.

OK now that my rant is over you can all enjoy chapter 4 while I go back to writing chapter 9… Enjoy.

Chapter 4: Christmas and Talk

A few weeks later Christmas morning dawned brightly, SF rolled over in Tonks bed having spent most of the last few days hiding in shadows to regenerate the damage done to his magic and body, after Tonks had bathed him in light.

"Morning SF and a Merry Christmas." Tonks said softly, lifting her head enough to look over at the black lump, as she thought of him in the morning at the foot of the bed. At the same time her hand rubbed her stomach, as it gave a growl to show she was hungry.

Giving a yawn in return for an answer, SF slowly got to his feet and moved up the bed to lay down along her back, resting his head on her shoulder and gave her a look that clearly said it was time to get up.

Rolling over to face SF fully, Tonks gave a sigh, and made sure the blanket she was under was pulled right up, she didn't want to give SF a free show after all. Because, except for a pair of knickers that had a very good warming charm on them she was naked under the thick blanket. 'Nothing beats the feeling of a fine fur on bare skin, I love it.' She thought, whilst looking at her partner and friend.

"Why don't you head to your special room and do you bit, while I shower and get ready for opening presents. I know I got you something for Christmas this year and also my mother sent something the other day for you, so that's two presents." She said after a few moments of just laying there, whilst she ran her fingers through his fur, which was nice and soft as she had given him a bath the other night.

SF looked up, a little surprised at the thought of their being presents for him in the other room. He quickly jumped down off the bed and headed to the light forest room which Minerva had set up for him to work off energy and also do his business.

Giving a small smile Tonks slowly got up and grabbed a box she had put to one side the other night, before going to bed. She had a little spring in her step as she went to the bathroom, whilst wondering what Minerva was going to say about her choice of outfit for this Christmas day.

A quick shower later saw Tonks standing in front of the bathroom mirror with a towel wrapped around her middle, whilst another one hung around her shoulders which she had just used for drying her short pink hair, which she was now sporting.

Giving a nod of satisfaction at her image, Tonks opened up the box and gave a little smile at the Christmas red outfit inside with undergarments on top. She quickly slipped them on and just as quickly found out that her mother had set up the outfit in such a way that she had no choose but to be her natural body. Because no matter how many times she tapped them with her wand and tried the resizing spell, the outfit wouldn't change.

Giving another sigh, she closed her eyes and let her body return to its natural form, her breasts grew a size or two and her hips felled out a little, whilst her figure seemed to shrink. When she opened her eyes she couldn't help but nod and agree with the last words her mother said to her, just before she signed up to the Auror academy. 'You could be a model dear in your natural form, so why take such a dangerous job?'

Her mother's words seemed to echo in her head for a moment, before she shook it away, she had choosen this job path, because she wanted to help others out of trouble not indorse cloths and other things for young witches, she wanted to show them that a woman could do any job a man could and as the Auror's had so few female agents, that was where she was going to go.

Shaking her head again she picked up the next item in the box, a red vest with a white fluffy fur trim, that ran along the all the edges save the shoulders. Putting it on showed that her mother had made it like the bra, in order to show her natural form to the full, showing enough cleavage to turn heads, but not make her appear too open would be the best word.

Giving a another nod of appreciation at herself in the mirror, she pulled the sleeve's of her top down to her wrists, to find that there was a single loop at the end for her middle finger to thread through to hold them over her wrists, the other end just went over her elbows and was like the vest trimmed in white fur.

Giving another nod at the mirror, Tonks thought she looked rather sexy. She quickly changed her hair to a purer white snow like colour that matched the white fur trim on her clothes; she also lengthened it past her shoulders. Taking a snowflake shaped hair clip, she tied her hair into a short tail at the base of her skull and with another quick thought had also changed her eye colour to that of a crystal ice blue.

Taking a breath after changing her hair and eyes, Tonks picked up the short skirt which was the final item in the box, as the boots and little Santa's hat that went with the outfit, were purchased separately.

She pulled the skirt on and noticed that with the high cut vest and low slung skirt; meant she left her stomach exposed for all to see. In fact, she was showing more of her stomach, than when she ran around the lake of a morning. Shrugging her shoulders and pulled down on the bottom of the skirt, which was the only part on the final item that had the fur trim, the waistband of the skirt had a thick yet also feminine black belt. The skirt which only just managed cover the tops of her thighs; showed a pair of long toned legs.

"There we go, one sexy Santa Clause. I wonder how Minerva is going to react to this outfit. I mean she always stopped me when I was back in school from dressing up at Christmas." Tonks thought, with a small smile on her face, she went back into the bedroom to find that SF wasn't there, which meant he was in the little living room which formed part of the apartment.

Picking up the knee high black boots, which were trimmed with white fur and adorned with a two inch heel, Tonks gave a small breath, and then pulled them on did up the zip that went up the length of the back of them. Concentrating for a moment, she reshaped her legs a little so that they moulded them to the boots.

Giving a herself a final nod of approval, she picked up the normal looking Santa hat and walked into the living room, just in time to see SF jump up onto the couch and paw open a book, whilst also keeping one eye on the presents under the tree, that they had put up and decorated the other day.

Tonks was startled from her thoughts when a House Elf suddenly popped in and left a large meal for the pair of them. This had become a routine over the last few days, with them only showing up in the Great Hall for lunch and dinner, preferring each other's company and the quite of the apartment in which to eat their breakfast.

"What do you think boy?" Tonks asked suddenly, quickly moving to stand in front of the couch and giving a little turn to show off the full effect of the outfit. SF looked at her in surprise at the choice of clothes for Christmas Day; but there was also a little hint of lust at the promise that was held within that outfit. "Looking is fine boy, but no touching." She said to quell the look of desire in his eyes.

SF gave a small bark to show he liked the outfit and then jumped down from the sofa and began to rub up against Tonks'; making sure that she understood his answer. Tonks smiled and bent down enough to kiss him on the forehead, "Come on, let's see what mum got you and me for Christmas, and then there's also my present to you."

Moving to the tree, she got down onto her knees and reached under the tree and reappeared with four presents, two with her name on it and two with SF's, "Here you go boy." She said, handing over the one from her parents, SF pawed at it, opening it quickly. Inside the wrapping paper and the box was a red collar and with bells on it. Tonks smiled at his present and then did a quick switching spell so that his blue Auror collar was now in the box and the red one with bells, was now fitted snugly around his neck.

"There we go and now my present." Tonks said, handing over a larger box then the one her mother had sent. She sat down and began to open her own presents, her father had given her a book of Muggle fighting styles, but, when she opened her mother's, what she saw inside made her eyes widen in shock. She quickly shut the box lid looked up from her present and caught the eye of SF, who had looked up from his own gift of a small triple interlocked bracelet that would fit around one of his paws, all of the bracelets were silver in colour, one had her name engraved on it and another with his, the final one left blank.

Tilting his head to the side in amusement at the light blush that adorned Tonks face, SF moved to her and tried to push her hand away from the box lid, in order to see what had gotten her so worked up; only to be pushed back by Tonks who got to her feet quickly and held the box tight to her chest.

"What is in this box is not for young eyes, I'm not even sure… oh Merlin mum were on earth did you get something like that!?" Tonks said in shock, before quickly heading into the bedroom and putting the box in what they called the bright trunk, this meant that SF couldn't shadow walk into it later and nosey at her present. The reason why the trunk was named so; was because the inside of the trunk was lit up as bright as day and leaving no place for shadows to be cast.

Walking back into the living room Tonks moved over to SF's side and helped him put the three ring bracelet around his front right paw, and them made him walk around a little to see how much nose they made. Only to find that they were very quiet, in fact, it was the bells on his new collar that made all the noise, but then again it wasn't like he would be wearing the collar all the time.

The pair spent the morning just relaxing in their apartment, eating breakfast and just enjoying each other's company. Tonks was going over a large bag she had stashed to one side, the bag filled with a few presents to give out to everyone around lunch time, most of them brought with money from SF's vault. Madam Bones had given him the key the other month, he had only held onto the key long enough to give to Tonks with a message that he trusted her implicitly with his money; and had even approved of her little present give away this Christmas.

At around lunch time Tonks gave a small smile to SF before going over to the large sack, to which she had added a feather light charm to make it easier to transport and an unbreakable charm to stop any chance of damaging the presents inside it. Throwing the sack over one shoulder, she exited the apartment and headed for the Great Hall, SF only a step behind her. He looked up at her when she came to a stop in the shadow of the door, turning around Tonks looked down at him with a smile.

"Mind walking both of us and this sack down to the entry hall boy?" She asked, giving him a little puppy dog look, SF just shook his head and spread his sense out and around the pair. Tonks closed her eyes against the feeling of thousands of fingers ghosting over her body as her world vanished into a world of gray, only the feeling of SF's fur brushing against on her leg, comforted to know that she wasn't lost in this void.

She fought back the urge to cover her sense of nakedness, knowing that it was only her mind thinking overtime whilst in the void of SF's Shadow Walk, as only naturally occurring materials could be felt in this mode of transport and as all of her clothes were made from synthetic cloth, save her undergarments, which were made of silk, she couldn't feel anything.

A few moments had past whilst in the void, before Tonks felt her feet touch solid ground again and the feeling of her clothes settling down against her skin come back. A sigh escaped her lips, she feared that one day she would take that mode of transport and come out the other side nearly naked, which was why she spent that little extra to get real silk or wool cloths in most cases.

Taking a deep breath Tonks leaned back against the wall they had appeared next to, a sigh escaped her lips at the safe arrival, SF just looked at her before huffing and heading into the Great Hall, vanishing back into a shadow before he fully came to the door.

Taking another breath Tonks pushed off from the wall, with the sack once again over her shoulder she moved towards the door, making sure her hat was in place before flicking her wand with her free and hand returning it to the resting place on her hip. She took a deep breath and entered the now open doors calling out for all to hear. "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

Everyone in the Great Hall looked up as one at her entrance, Minerva's eyes widening a little at seeing how much skin Tonks was showing and her choice of clothes, a number of the male students who had stayed behind for the holidays looked at her in surprise and with a little lust; as Hogwarts robes did hide quite a lot on the girls in their year.

All of them how ever sat back down when SF came walking out of a shadow to one side of the Great Hall, shaking his head, he looked over everyone with a glare that clearly said 'back off now or face me'. Minerva made a note of this, as it was classic behaviour of a wolf protecting its mate. 'We have a lot of work on him in the coming months.' She thought to herself.

"Ah, Hello Nymphadora and a Merry Christmas," Albus Dumbledore said with a smile from the head of the solitary table that stood in the centre of the Great Hall. As he spoke, all of the staff and the fifty odd students still in the school for Christmas looked her up and down still in shock at her outfit. "Let me just say that that is a very unusual outfit to wear in this weather and also to a meal, Nymphadora!"

Tonks glared at Albus for a moment, before giving him a dismissive wave with regards to his comment about her clothes. Walking over to a chair near his, she waved her wand over it to and transfigured it in to a replica of a chair Muggle's would use for their Santa Clause shows in their stores. Putting the sack down next to the chair she sat down crossed one leg over the other, "For using my first name when I asked not to be called that name, you get to go last for bonus presents, Headmaster."

Everyone gave a small laugh at the surprised look on Albus' face at being told off like he was a little boy caught peeking at his Christmas presents, a smile formed on his face, however as he nodded in acknowledgement and then re took his seat; before looking over everyone there and said in a voice loud enough for them to hear. "I guess that means that we have a few extra presents to be given out this day, who would you like to go first, Tonks dear?"

Tonks smiled and pushed her chair back so that so that she was able to stand, she pulled down the hem on her skirt a little, before pointing to the small group of first years seated at the far end of the table, "I believe we will start with first years and then work our way up from there, I think Albus."

Albus gave a nod at her suggestion and then smiled a calming smile at the nervous students, as Tonks hadn't been seen much over the last few days and with SF sprawled out next to her seat, didn't help matters either. However, one student, Luna Lovegood came walking forward and then all of a sudden knelt down to pat SF on the head for just a moment, before looking at Tonks with one of her dreamy smiles. Her actions seemed to relax the remainder of the student body.

Tonks smiled and opened up her sack and pulled out a few random presents to look at their tags before putting them back, before finally coming to a stop at a present in light blue wrapping paper. She quickly waved her wand to vanish the tag on it, before handing it over to Luna, "I hope you like it dear, now go enjoy the rest of the meal with your friends."

Luna smiled and opened up her present there, inside the paper was a clear box, within which was a middle class scrying bow used by most people to locate animals and other such things; Luna nodded her thanks, a little shocked that the present was something like this.

Giving another nod, Tonks looked up in time to see Ginny Weasley walking up, with a slightly tired look on her face, her hand moving down to pat SF's head, only to stop when his head snapped up all of a sudden and began to sniff the air wildly. His eyes came to rest on Ginny as she got closer to him, he settled back down, he had clearly caught something on her scent that had gotten his attention for a brief moment, she did however pat him.

"Well you have to be the youngest Weasley? I know your brother Charley quite well; did he get that job in that Dragon range or whatever it was in Romania?" Tonks asked, whilst she looked into her sack and at the same time made a note of how SF was still sniffing the air and staring at Ginny with a slight questioning look.

"Anyway I'm sure I have something in here just for you." Tonks said, poking her head deeper into the sack. She gave a cry of success when she found the box she had ear marked for the only Weasley girl.

Ginny gave a small smile and said a soft thanks, before opening her present finding it to be a diary with a special lock that could be set to her magical signature, so that only she could open it; she also received some clothes that were new and not second hand like of hers were, most of the time.

"Every girl should have her own diary I know I had one when I was your age, now then whose next?" Tonks called out after Ginny, as she moved away nether of them noticing SF following Ginny closely with his eyes, only to go back and lay down at Tonks feet when the girl moved to the other end of the table.

The rest of the first years there for Christmas soon collected their presents, most of them getting new clothes, books or something to help with their studies. Tonks carried on in this manner until she had one Hermione Granger standing in front of her, a small smile formed on her face when Hermione came to a stop in front of her holding the book that she had been reading, whilst watching everyone else walk up to Tonks.

"Ah yes one Hermione Granger, Hogwarts resident bookworm, as some have called you, but frankly I don't see anything wrong with sitting down by the fire with a good book." Hermione looked up at the young Auror, happy at Tonks words, only to lower her eyebrows when Tonks took her head in her hand and began rubbing her cheeks softly with her thumbs. "But I also know the value of true friends and made many in my time here dear and as I understand it you haven't had as much luck, so hopefully this little present well help."

Hermione looked at the package she was handed slowly opening up to find to her surprise a basic witches makeup kit that Lavender and Parvati used as well as a book on some medium level charms, "How is this suppose to help me get friends?"

Tonks gave a small smile and pulled Hermione forward hugging her lightly before sitting back in her chair, "Find some common ground with your dorm mates and trust me those other girls who you sleep in the same room with over the next few years well become some of your closest friends when you leave this place, provided you have treated them right, knowledge is good but friends are so much better."

Hermione nodded at this and slowly went back to her seat looking down at the book and then the makeup kit trying to work out fully what Tonks had meant by common ground.

A good half hour later, Tonks was down to just the staff, these being Minerva, Albus, Snape, Flitwick, Madam Pompfry and finally Professor Sprout; all the other staff members having gone home to their families.

"Now then Madam Pompfry, I thought you might like this." Tonks said pulling up a present and after looking at the label handing over and sat back watching as she opened it in front of everyone present to find that she had got a magical potion storage rack; that held double the number of spaces her current one offered. The school nurse nodded her thanks before sitting back, already working out in her mind which potions she was going to be putting in the rack.

Snape's present was surprisingly a few rare potion ingredients that he had been running low on. Minerva's much to everyone's delight, going on the laughs, was a scratching post, as well as a book on advance Transfiguration that she had read, but hadn't gotten around to buying to add to her collation.

The final few Professors got a book each on their chosen subject; that was thanks to SF shadow jumping into their rooms to find out what books yet, were not part of their collections. After giving professor Flitwick his present, Tonks looked at Albus and seemed to think on something for a moment, "Now Albus according to my little helper here, on your wish list was of all things, was new socks, so let it not be said that Santa doesn't listen to your wishes."

Albus' eyes lit up at this as Tonks came up with two pairs of thick woollen socks, SF gave a small snigger at all of this, which made most of the staff look down at him, Albus included. He was already working out in his head what he could do to try to stop SF from entering his office whenever the wolf wished.

"Why thank you very much for such a thoughtful present Ms. Tonks." Albus said, taking the two pairs of socks and sitting back in his seat, after admiring his socks, he turned to everyone at the table, "Well if that is all why don't you all go enjoy the fresh snow and also enjoy your presents."

Tonks gave a nod at this and leaned back in her seat giving a small smile at SF decided he wanted to be a little closer to her, as he rested his head in her lap, whilst his eyes looked out over everyone there, giving a low growl when he saw that one of the older boys was staring at Tonks again with lust in his eyes.

Tonks rubbed his head to calm him and to let him know that she was aware of the boys' looks, and that she could take care of herself. 'If he tries anything I'll take his eyes out with his own wand and then teach him where to look on a woman and not where he wants to look on them.' She thought as she started to hum a little tune which always seemed to help settle SF that little bit more.

Minerva watched the pair for a moment before moving around and kneeling down to SF's level, looking him over calmly and even replacing Tonks' hand in patting him; he gave a slight nod of the head at the feel her hand running through his fur. "If anything Shadow Fang you are a very fine Wolf, but I think we'll start work on changing you back when the new school year starts up in a week's time."

Tonks nodded in agreement, she wanted to get to know the person under the fur, that and she knew somehow that he would be needed sometime in the future. Because, like a few other people out there she knew that Voldemort would be back some day and when that day came she wanted to be ready to fight for her family and friends with SF at her side.

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A special present to my readers

Auror Profile as taken from the files of Madam Amelia Bones; Head of Law Enforcement and Auror Core.

Name: Shadow Fang (NOTICE: Real name under alpha level security clearances please seek Amelia Bones for clearances.)

Gender: male

Age: 12 years (Note: Age may have changed because of being trapped for so long in Animagus form, research should be done right away)

D.O.B: July 31 1980

Eye Colour: Emerald green

Hair Colour: Black short cut

Height: 3' tall 6' 6" long including tail. (Human size unknown)

Weight: 115kg 230lbs. (Human Weight unknown)

Physical Fitness: Outstanding nothing but muscle and fur bone and teeth (Off the charts on physical fitness test for Auror Academy.)

Spell Knowledge: Very Low level 2/10 for rating on entry test to Auror Academy.

Spell Power: Unknown, ?/10 for rating on entry test to Auror Academy. (Note: Can't be tested as subject can't cast spells at this time)

Special Abilities: All Shadow Wolf powers as stated in the report written by Mrs. Selune Lovegood: Shadow Walk, Shadow Travel, Shadow Manipulation. Seems to have very weak control over the Shadow Manipulation power however, (Note: May need to train up a lot with his Shadow Manipulation power to gain better use of it).

Strengths: Speed and Strength is far greater than any wizard or witch, Stealth master rating, Tracking expert.

Weakness: Bright light or removal of all shadows in a environment well weaken him greatly and may even result in loss of conciseness

Rank: Trainee (Granted level three Auror states in current Mission.)

Next of Kin: Nymphadora Tonks (Partner) Amelia Bones (Boss)

Information

Despite being on his own for a number of years Shadow Fang is proving to be very friendly and willing to learn all that he has missed out on in life, he has bonded closely with Trainee Tonks and is very protective of her as has been observed in the training classes they have been going to together.

Also has been found reading many books within the Academy Library with Trainee Tonks helping him understand all the spells needed for when he is returned to human form; an average of two books being skimmed over per session between the pair.

His temper around Trainee Tonks needs a little work as any male student who approaches her sexually is threatened away if she shows no interest in them or they cross the line in anyway shape or form, two fights have broken out because of this leaving a total of three fellow Trainee's in both cases in the medical wing after both he and Trainee Tonks fought back Shadow Fang having used his Shadow Manipulation powers to take care of one of the attacks while Trainee Tonks took down the other two, all combatants have been punished and no further effect need to be made on this case of assault.

Shadow Fang has remained silent about how he ended up stuck in his Animagus form and only writes that he will tell his story when he is able to speak again and not have to write it all out, he has hinted that it has something to do with the people who he was placed with as a child.

Recommendations

He is to be trained just as hard as Trainee Tonks as there is a lot of potential to become a first class Auror and as such should be trained just as hard as she is to help sharpen his skills, another tutor should also be found on the day he is returned to human form as he is too good to be lost to Hogwarts for the remained of his education years unless he wishes to enter the school as a student and maybe a part time Auror while he finishes his education.

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Another profile done not sure who I'll do next for a profile but if you have anyone you really want just say so and I'll see what I can do.

Also some of you wanted to know if Harry was going to end up with anyone else besides Tonks, the answer is no he'll view them as a part of his pack Tonks well be his only lover while everyone else who comes to be viewed in his park as just pack mates that need protecting should they need it.

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