London
The flames in the fireplace of the kitchen of the Tonks family home turned green suddenly. This did not alarm Ted who stood in the kitchen the back turned to the chimney, surely it was Andromeda coming home from work.
"Honey did you think about getting me the eggs I need them for the quiche." He asked without looking.
"Ted I knew we were on good terms but don't you think that your wife would get jealous if you have a pet name for me?" Sirius asked jokingly.
Ted froze up. He had feared that day. Magical Britain's most wanted had come to his house to trim the family tree as Andromeda had once called it. Luckily they had taken precautions. With a small motion of his wand, that he until now had used to cut vegetables into slices, he activated the wards his house held and incapacitated everyone who didn't have the name Tonks. Within seconds Sirius was bound, disarmed and pinned against the wall upside down. As Ted allowed himself to take a breath and try to calm down fully trusting the wards to work, two things happened.
Firstly his wife arrived home and the first thing she saw was her husband standing in front of her spread eagle cousin hanging upside down. (AN:I would have been very upset if I came home to that scene.)
Secondly the solely on Ted focused Sirius started talking.
"You might not know it, but I got cleared of all chargesfully. The American ministry took me to an integration room where I had to swallow a few drops of veritaserum and then got asked a few pointy questions. They only needed an hour to clean up the mess the British ministry or as I came to call them the bag full of monkeys had made. I am fully cleared in front of the world. The only country not accepting that is Britain. Since that day I am a citizen of the American magical community. Heck I have been living with Remus the cub her parents and their family in the same mansion for the last few years."
"It seems that you are delusional James and Lily are dead." Andromeda stated, startling her husband, while remembering the pet name her cousin had for his godchild.
"Of course they are, but they are not the child's parents. And I am really lucky that no one is listening in into this otherwise the oath on my magic would probably kill me. So I would rather ask you, to make an oath of nondisclosure, for my oath of me being a good guy, not a murderer and not the betrayer of the Potters. Do we have a deal?" Sirius asked coyly.
Andromeda was seriously doubting the sanity of her cousin. He behaved like a total loon. He was hanging head down from the wall and making demands like he was in control of the situation. "What is your game here? I can't pinpoint what you are playing at. And why are you so cool? We could call the Aurors and you would be arrested instantly."
"Oh that's easy. You can't do anything. Even if you would fetch the Aurors I would be released within a day, if not on the order of the Minister then on the Prime Ministers the Queens and the order of the ICW. I was proven innocent in the states as I had just told you. And the only thing you would have done would have been losing the chance of a lifetime." Sirius smirked.
"Swear your oath and I swear mine." Andromeda stated after pondering the question for a short amount of time.
"I swear on my life and magic that everything I tell you in this conversation is true. I swear furthermore that I will neither harm you Andromeda Tonks nor your family and that I have not been the secret keeper of the Potters and that I have not betrayed them. So I say it so mote it be." Sirius intoned and the oath was accepted.
"I Andromeda Tonks swear on my life and magic that I will not disclose the things that are subject of this conversation to anyone without your consent and I will try my best to keep the conversation a secret. So I say it so mote it be."
"I Theodore Tonks swear on my life and magic that I will not disclose the things that are subject of this conversation to anyone without your consent and I will try my best to keep the conversation a secret. So I say it so mote it be." Both of them swore.
"As you are now considered trustworthy I can tell you the truth about what happened 9 years ago. You might have heard that Dumbledore or as I nowadays call him Dumbledork, has lost all his international pull. That is because the girl he set up to be the Potters daughter actually was not an orphan like he told Lilly, James, Moony and me, but the child of two of the most influential people of the muggle world, which he had abducted. As the parents had found out about the location of their child, a day after the death of Voldemort and nearly a year after the child's abduction, despite them doing everything in their might to find the child they asked a group of the most dangerous, but kindest people on the world to save their daughter. The group had a magical member that took down Dumbledork's wards within seconds and they collected the daughter. Dumbledork's fried turkey club arrived including Moony to apprehend them and were taken down as fast as the wards. They started to interrogate the apprehended members and found the gaps in Dumbledorks story about me being the Potters' betrayer. The friends of Marhta's parents pulled me out of the prison and exonerated me in front of the ICW. The Parents of Martha forgave me for my role in Martha's life, up to that point and saw that Moony and I really loved the girl like our own daughter. After we swore oaths we were allowed to have a role in Martha's life. The reason why I came here is that the girl has shown Metamorphmagus abilities. I came to you to ask if you and your daughter would consider moving to us and let Nymphadora teach Martha. Your daughter would get an incredibly talented tutor which is basically a legend. She would be more than capable to teach your daughter to Newt level and beyond. She has already agreed to teach your daughter in addition to Martha. Additionally you both would not have to suffer the bigotry of Britain jobs for an experienced Healer like you are easy to get and better paid to."
"Sounds a little too good to be true. Who is the teacher we were walking about? And where would we go to?" Andromeda asked.
"She asked me to make it a guessing game, who she is and keep it secret from Nymphadora altogether. She wants to see the surprise in her eyes. But the first clue is that she will not be found in neither Great Wizards of the Twentieth Century nor Great Wizards of the Nineteenth Century. The county we are going to is America. At least if you agree." Sirius said.
"If she isn't in either of those she can't be that important." Ted said. "And America is awfully far away."
"Oh she is important she is just not in that specific book. She is in a whole lot of other books though." Sirius smirked.
"I can't think of someone. Can I get the next clue?" Andromeda asked as she was getting into the game.
"Well her nickname is the Enchantress." Sirius said after a short thinking pause cursing himself of not thinking of a better clue.
"That doesn't help at all. Is that because of her style of magic or because of her looks? That leaves open far too many options." Andromeda complained.
"Ok how about… No you can't know that. Well I have to use the obvious ones now don't I? Homer wrote about her." He sighed.
Suddenly it dawned Andromeda who exactly her cousin talked about. "It can't be her? Isn't she dead for centuries?"
"Nope she is still alive and kicking and hot as hell too." Sirius smirked.
"So am I summing it up correctly? You are offering us to get our daughter the one of the best teachers possible a better paid job and better living conditions if we pack up our things and leave Britain and get our daughter to teach the only other living Metamorphmagus in the world how to use her powers? Did I get that right?" Andromeda asked brushing her cousins attitude asside.
"Basically yes. So what do you say?" Sirius asked hopefully.
"I think I am good with it. If you can help us with a place to live at interim. You can give us a day to pack and a day to organize everything and we can go. Luckily Nymphadora's school has not started yet." Andromeda said waiting for an affirmation from her husband.
"I don't think that's going to be a problem." Sirius grinned.
"Why so?" Ted asked.
"You are a Muggleborn Ted you should know the family Martha belongs to. Does the name Wayne Enterprises ring a bell? Not that I am saying you should know all the Muggles on the world but that special corporation should be a name for you." Sirius asked sarcastically.
"Yeah that name rings a bell. I remember that a few years back the owner of the company publically told that he was married to Wonder Woman the same day he said his daughter got abdu….. Oh. Dumbledore abducted Wonder Woman's daughter didn't he?" Ted asked.
"Yes he did. As she got her hands on him, she threw him over the whole street right into a trash bin." Sirius said laughing out loud. "By the way as I have proven trustworthy how about taking me down from here? My whole blood is in my head and I am getting dizzy."
"Who is this Wonder Woman?" Andromeda asked, ignoring her cousin's pleas, thinking he deserved a little more.
"Oh in the Muggle world there are people with powers that go beyond what a human is capable. Wonder Woman for example is able to lift several tons, can fly is nearly indestructible, a few hundred years old and a proper Amazon." Ted explained his wife who looked at him unbelievingly.
"Such people exist? And the purebloods bigots still think they are the biggest, meanest and strongest?" She asked astonished.
"Oh and that's not everything. There is this guy, I think he is called the Flash he is fast enough to pluck your wand from your hand before you've uttered the first letter of a spell. He is supposed to be faster than the speed of light." Sirius explained struggling to get out of the spell.
"Don't think I am dumb now but how fast is that?" Andromeda asked.
"About 300 million meters per second I think." Ted said.
"That is fast." She stated a bit unbelieving. "Back to the arrangements can you come over in two days and bring us over to wherever we have to go?" She asked.
"If you get me down I can make all arrangements. Now please, please with cherries on top let me down." He begged.
She did, they said their goodbyes and Sirius left the parents to explain their teenage daughter why they had to move. A few minutes and a bunch of fireplaces later and he arrived back at Wayne Manor, where he reported that everything went brilliant leaving out the embarrassing parts and did the appropriate paperwork for an international untraceable portkey.
Two days later
A very miffed Nymphadora Tonks stood in their now furniture-free kitchen waiting with her family for her oh so brilliant cousin who had organized their moving for 3 o´clock in the morning. Annoyed she asked her mother. "So you still won't tell me who my new teacher is that is supposed to teach me all subjects to beyond Newt level?"
"Nope she specifically asked not to tell you and women of her caliber are not to be taken lightly." Her father smirked. As he said that the fireplace burned green and Sirius Black appeared.
"Oh how young Nymphadora has grown. I remem….." Sirius started before he yelped as he got a kick onto his shin.
"No one calls me Nymphadora." She plainly stated.
"Oh I see you will come along quite easily with the ladies of the house, they like to torture me too." He said while hopping on his good leg. "So everything packed and ready to go?" He asked. He received three nods and therefore pulled out a rope and ordered the group to get a hold onto it. After gut twisting ten seconds they were disposed at the front stairs of Wayne Manor, of which nearly nothing was visible because it was the middle of the night and the spots were switched of, to save energy. "Welcome to Wayne Manor I am sorry to present it to you at midnight but the portkey office didn't offer me any other free times. So you will be able to catch a few more hours of sleep before you will meet the other inhabitants. I will show you to your rooms." He said while opening the doors and leading them into a spectacular entranceway which could easily rival any pureblood household, as her mother stated repeatedly. They were shown to a set of rooms that continued the luxury and went to bed again, to compensate for the stolen hours of nightly sleep.
The next morning
Then next morning Nymphadora was woken by a weight on her chest and stomach. Fearing that she had a delayed reaction to the international portkey she sat up abruptly, head-butting the girl that sat right on her chest.
"OW! What is the matter with you? Why did you head-butt me?" The girl asked.
"What is wrong with me? Better question what is wrong with you? You don't just walk into someone else's room and sit on their chest while they are sleeping." Nymphadora shouted.
"I wanted to wake you for breakfast. Your Mum told me to use any force necessary to wake you up. I am sorry that I startled you." The girl answered timidly, while changing her hair color.
Adding up one and one Nymphadora said. "Oh you must be Martha. Hi I am Tonks I am here to teach you how to use your Metamorph ability."
"Tonks is your family name not your first name silly. Your mother told me your first name. It is Nym….." Martha started until she got stopped by a hand clasping over her mouth.
"First rule with me never call me that name. Just Tonks, I absolutely hate that other name." She stated clearly.
"How about Nymmie?" "No!" "Nym?" "NO" "Dora?" "NO!" That went on for about five minutes until Martha had used any possible and some impossible options. They finally settled on Martha being allowed to call her Nym, as the rascal wouldn't stop.
The two girls went down for breakfast in the kitchen where they were greeted by the heavenly smell of Alfred's pancakes and quite a big group of people. She was introduced to all of them by the energetic ten year old. (AN: I am not summing up who sat there. Just assume it's the whole bat-family and this stories additions to it.) As they arrived at the final person Nymphadora was sure that the woman also had to be a Metamorphmagus because of her purple hair and turquoise eyes, but she stood corrected. In retrospective why would they need her if there was another Metamorphmagus around? Martha introduced her too.
"Nym this is our teacher and tutor."
"Hello glad to see you."
"You too, I hope you are really as good as they say. I intend to become an Auror after I finished school and I need top grades for that." Nymphadora stated.
"I think we can mange that. I doubt there will be one of your silly little police wand weavers that will be able to match you if you have finished my tutoring."Said the woman, irritating the young witch extremely. Why did the Woman say wand weaver and not just wizard?
"Of course you will be able to do that Circe is the best." Martha stated proudly.
"Circe spelled the same as the Circe?" Nymphadora asked mockingly.
"Well why should my name be spelled different than my name?" The enchantress asked coyly. This statement caused Nymphadora's mouth to be opened in an cartoonish manner.