"Sirius, hi!" Excalimed Remus.
"Hi mate, how was studying?" He asked.
"Good, great, it was fine." Remus tripped over his words.
"Why so jumpy?" Sirius narrowed his eyes.
'Okay Remus, time to give it up, you've been busted!' He thought. "I fancy Tonks!" He blurted out quickly.
He was not prepaired for Sirius' reaction in the slightest. His eyed widend and his mouth dropped open. "Yo-you fancy Tonks?"
"Oh, you didn't know?" He asked backing up slightly.
"Well how the bloody hell was I supposed to know, you've only just told me now?!"
Remus swallowed, "Sirius keep your voice down! You'll wake everyone up!" He whispered, "And its not like I can help fancying her, do you know how wrong it feels to like someone thirteen years younger than me?! Oh Merlin but I like her so much it almost hurts, Sirius!"
Sirius stared at him, "You know I stayed up waiting for you so we could discuss Tonks actually, but I didn't think you'd come out and say this!" He whispered back. They were silent for a whle just looking at eachother, Remus was sure Sirius would walk over to him any minuet now and punch his two front teeth out. "Does she like you?" He asked it almost sounded like he was reluctant to ask.
Remus frowned, "I'm fairly sure she does yes, but that's beside the point, I can't like her! I can't! She's just a little girl in this time!"
"Tell me Remus, do you fancy the Tonks that is currently residing in the 7th year girls dorm or the one that is in London?" Asked Sirius.
Remus sighed, "Siriu-"
"Which?" He cut him off.
"The one in the seventh year girls dorm obviously." He said rolling his eyes.
"Well then your wrong, she's not a little girl, if her trip here has thought me anything it's that she is far from that little girl." Sirius told him.
Remus pondered this for a few minuets, "I don't know what to do. I know in my head she is seventeen but I can see her as an innocent little four year old too, it makes liking her seem wrong."
"Remus, she is anything but innocent, and you like the seventeen year old her, the her she grows up to be, not who she is now mate, it's not wrong."
"Why are you being so nice? I just told you that I fancy your baby cousin."
Sirius chuckled, "Well I figure your need more protecting against her more than she does from you. Your a good guy Remus, but she is a bad girl. Be careful what ever you decide to do." He told him climbing into bed.
Remus tought over his words, 'he said it wasn't wrong, he practically gave me his blessing. And he was waiting up to discuss her with me, he must of known that this would happen... wai,t he didn't.' "Sirius?" Remus called out.
"Yeah?" he asked sleepily.
"What did you want to talk to me about before I toldyou I fancied Tonks?"
"Oh yeah, I have a sneaking suspition that wormtail likes her too, I'm not too worried about it tough, he doesn't even stand a chance." Sirius chuckled.
"Peter likes her?" asked Remus jeliousy over her once again flairing up inside of him.
"Yeah, I think so mate, but don't worry, between you and him there is no compitition!"
That didn't do much to put Remus at ease at all.
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Tonks snuck into the boys dorm before they got up the next morning and jumped on Charlie bed. "Wh-"
Tonks place her hand on Charlie's mouth to stop him from screaming. "Shhhh, get up, get dressed and come down to the common room." She whispered.
Tonks took her hand off Charlie's mouth and creeped out of the dorm and back down to the common room. She waited for ten minuets for Charlie to come down.
"What's wrong Tonks?" He asked, looking concerned.
"Nothing, I just think we should have a Tonks/Charile bonding day, we haven't really spent any time without the four amegos for a while and I miss you." She said.
Charlie looked slightly relieved, "Alright, bonding day it is."
"Great, lets go pig out at breakfast!" She said brightly.
They walked down to breakfast and true to Tonks word pigged out. Tonks was on her fifth peice of bacon by the time te maraudes came down to breakfast.
"How come you didn't wait?" asked Sirius.
Tonks shrugged, "Got hungery I guess."
"Yeah and we haven't really had much time to talk things over lately." Charlie added.
Tonks looked up at him and smiled.
"How was studying last night? Ready for your test?" asked James sitting down and steeling a peice of bacon from Tonks' plate.
"Hey, I was gonna eat that!" She exclaimed dodging his question.
James shrugged, "So studying?"
"What?" She asked playing dumb. 'Oh Merlin Tonks, could you be more obvious?' She thought to herself. Charlie was looking at her suspiciously, 'He definitly knows something's up.'
"How was studying?" He asked slowly.
Tonks frowned, "Very... informitive." She said with a look at Remus, he was looking at her too. She broke eye-contact with him and bit off a chunk of toast that was on her plate.
"That's good, you'll have no problem with your test then." Said James oblivious.
"Yeah Tonks don't even worry about it you'll do great!" Said Peter.
She looked over at him, he was once again staring at her! 'Does he have something wrong with him?' "Thanks Peter." She said looking away.
"We'd better get to class before we're late." Said Charlie standing up. Tonks looked at him, "Good luck in your test, try not to think about it too much and anywaay if you do fail, what's the worst they're going to do? They can't owl your parents!" She smiled a bit, "we'll talk later."
Tonks nodded, "Right see you later." She said as she and Remus went in the oppiste direction to get to their class.
They walked in silence, Tonks because she really didn't feel like talking to him right now and Remus because he didn't know what to say. They walked into the classroom and took their seats. Still silent. The teacher gave out the tests. Silence. The told them not to talk for the duration of the test. Tey both let out a relieved breath, at least now they had a reason not to talk.
It was fifteen minuets into the test and Tonks was almost finished, she had miraculously covered most of the exam last year in sixth year. She was at least a five questions ahead of Remus, not that that suprised her, they had been studying the wrong things last night.
Remus was having trouble concentrating, he kept looking over at tonks, she had a habbit of bitting her lip or poking her tounge out just a little bit when she was thinking really hard about something, it was reall quite distracting. It didn't help that they hadn't gotten nearly enough studying done last night to get as far as the chaptres the test was based on. He looked down at his page and willed himself to concentrate.
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Everyone had just finished dinner and were standing up to leave, Tonks walked over to Charlie. "Wanna take a walk?" She asked him.
"Yes actually I do." He told her. "I'll see you later." He told the rest of the boys and walked outside with Tonks.
They walked down to the lake and began walking around it in a circle.
"So, do you want to tell me what's wrong with you or do you want me to guess?" Asked Charlie.
Tonks sighed, "I fancy Remus."
Charlie frowned, "Then why have you been so cold to him today?"
Tonks sighed even louder, "because he kissed me last night."
Now Charlie was really confused, "And that's a bad thing?"
"No that's a fantastic thing, he's a great kisser!"
"Then why so gloomy?" He asked.
"Because after we kissed he went on this big rant on how wrong it was and that I'm just a child and he's like thirteen years older than me."
"Thats stupid, he's the same age as you!"
"I know! But Merlin forbid you try and tell him that!" She exclaimed.
"So what are you going to do?" He asked.
"I am going out tonight, and you are comming with me."
He cocked an eyebrow, "I am?"
"Yes, you don't want me to go out on my own do you? This week has been so stressful, we need a night out!"
"What about classes tomorrow?" He asked.
Tonks smirked, "I asked Professor Slughorn if I could brew a potion to make you less tired just to see if I could do it, lets just say he thought it was a great idea and I nicked some of it."
Charlie smiled, "You my friend are a genius!"
"I know, I know. So meet me in the common room at about twelve tonight."
"Alright. Its starting to get kinda chilly, lets go inside."
Tonks nodded.
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It was twelve fifteen and Tonks was waiting for Charlie in the common room, 'He is sure taking his sweet ass time!' She thought.
Five minuets later he came down the stairs, "What took you so long?" She asked.
"Sorry it took a while to get my shirt, it was at the very bottom of my trunk and I had to be quiet." He apologized.
He was dressed in jeans and a dressy shirt, Tonks was wearing an exremley short skirt with fishnet tightes and a lowcut top.
"Wow, you look great!" he complimented.
"You too, ready to go?"
"Yeah, we have to be careful though,we don't have the crystal ball this time." He said refering to the crystal ball they stole from the divination room in third year. They origionally took it to see if Professor Trelawney would be able to 'tell' if it was gone. She didn't. They had however found a much more useful purpose for the crystal ball. Tonks put a spell on it so it would show them any corridor in Hogwarts they desired to see. They used it to see if anybody was comming wen they snuck out at night.
"Yeah I know wish we had it with us!" She said climbing out the portrait hole. They didn't notice the portrait didn't close when they swung it back.
They made it to the witch statue witout being caught went through it and on down to honeydukes basement, still not noticing the people following them.
Once they got to honeydukes basement they apparated out into hogsmeded and made their way to the only nightclub in town.
Remus, James, Sirius and Peter were ten minuets behind them, they didn't want them to hear their footsteps in the narrow corridor leading to the basement so they gave them a headstart. They made their way to the nightclub also, they made it just inside the door, just about slipping under the doormans nose under the invisibility cloak. It didn't take too long to find Tonks and Charlie. The vivid read hair and mellow blue contrasted with each other and stood out like a sore thumb.
James gasped, Sirius eyes nearly popped out of his head, Peter squealed and Remus jaw dropped at what they saw. Tonks and Charlie we grinding together on the dancefloor.
"Is that even legeal?" Asked James.
"I don't know but it certainly shouldn't be!" Stated Sirius.
Remus was silent.
They watched as another guy joined into the dance behind Tonks.
"Oh my!" Peter excailmed.
They watched them for the net hour or so, until they hadleft the club and once again followed behind them.
Tonks stepped in front of Charlie while they were walking and kissed him. Charlie kissed her back. Remus clenched his fists, Sirius noticed and patted his back.
Charlie broke away from the kiss, "Tonks, you don't want this."
Tonks looked into his eyes, "Don't I?"
"No, you don't, you think this will make it easier, but it won't, it will confuse you. You know what you want, and it's not me." He told her gentley.
Tonks hugged him around his waist in a friendly hug, he hugged her to him, "I want my mum." She mumbled.
Charlie chuckled, "that's not exactly what I ment but yeah, your mum might e able to help you out with this a little better than I can."
"I miss her." She mumbled, the weight of their situation finally sinking in after so long. She hugged Charlie tighter.
He leaned his chin ontop of her head. She barley came upto his chin in height yet she held so much power over him, over a lot of people. She was such a strong person, it wasn't often she let herself be vulnerable, "I know, me too." He sighed, "we'd better get back up to the castle." He said.
"No, wanna hug!" She mumbled turning her head from the side to bury it into his cheast.
He chuckled, "We can hug in the castle! Aren't you freezing your practically naked."
"Fine." she said breaking the hug. She moved away and apparated into honydukes basement.
Shaking is head in amusement Charlie aparated into the basement too.
The marauders followed them five minuets later.
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