Nymphadora Tonks pushed open the front door to the small red brick detached house, her heart thumping in her chest and all senses on high alert.

Silence.

"Dora?"

Dora jumped and banged her head on the door.

"REMUS!" she hissed, rubbing her head and pushing through the door. Remus followed her through and quietly closed the door.

"Mum? Dad?" called Dora, shooting Remus mutinous looks which he ignored.

"Maybe they're still in bed" yawned Remus, taking his cloak off.

"It's 10 o'clock in the bloody morning Remus!"

"And? If you hadn't dragged me out of bed this morning, I would not have got up." Remus knew that his calm manner was irritating her in her already anxious state.

Dora raised her wand. "homenum revilioli"

"They're out" Dora seemed to deflate as she sank into the chair in the hall.

"Dora? Are you all right?" Remus crouched down and rubbed her on the shoulders. Dora nodded. Her hair was a dull purple, Remus had known her long enough to tell that the slightly curling strands at the bottom meant she was worried and anxious. "Come on, living room."

He helped her to stand and guided her into the living room. They stood next to the windows and stared out across the messy spread of lawn dotted with patches of bright flowers with a winding gravel path leading to the small huddle of oak trees at the end of the garden. In silence.

Half an hour later, they heard a key turn in the lock and a hubble of voices outside. Dora and Remus jumped up.

"Wait here..." Dora whispered urgently, pushing her boyfriend towards the windows as she ran put to the hall.

Andromeda Tonks entered the house laden with Tesco shopping bags. She stopped when she saw her daughter standing awkwardly in the hall in front of her, causing her husband to walk into her.

"Hello Darling!" exclaimed Andromeda, dropping her bags and folding her only child into her arms. "Why didn't you tell us you were coming, we would have been here!"

"Umm... Spur of the moment?" offered Dora, avoiding her mothers eyes and fidgeting.

Andromeda and Ted's senses were instantly on high alert, they scanned their daughter in one swift movement from years of practice and came to rest on her hair, dull purple and almost corkscrew curly. Uh Oh!

"Ted! Tea!" commanded Andromeda, clapping her hands together then waving her wand at the shopping. Ted rolled his eyes and tried inching between his Wife, his Daughter and the Hall table to get to the kitchen door.

"NO!" Dora practically screamed, flinging herself into his way. Andromeda caught the vase that fell with practiced hands. Both stared at her in surprise. Dora darted between her parents and slipped through the gap of the door.

Ted frowned. Andromeda looked completely thrown. They followed Dora into the living room and say her talking frantically to a man who had his back towards them. Her hair had bypassed lilac and was now a sticking-upright curly silver mop.

"Calm Down." The man was whispering to her. Then he turned around. Andromeda was surprised to see it was Remus again.

"Remus!" she said politely. "Please, sit down. Ted, Tea please."

Dora saw the wide grin spread across her fathers face as he left the room, he had obviously put Remus and the Fuzzy silver hair together and concluded the right answer.

Andromeda sat down on one of the sofas in the living room. Dora sat down opposite then pulled Remus down beside her.

Dora noticed her mothers face was politely serene.

Her father re-entered, levitating the tray in front of him.

Dora waited till he had sat down before she started to speak.

"Mum, Dad –"

"Stop right there Dora, just tell me when?" Ted cut across, putting his arm around his wife's shoulders. He smiled as Dora blushed.

"A few days" Remus answered. "Dumbledore's dead....."

"Don't you dare!" snapped Dora her head whipping up and her hair suddenly and reddy- brown. "You promised..."

Remus bowed his head.

"A few days what?" Andromeda asked, quite oblivious. Dora and Ted shared a smile.

"Dromeda." He took his wife's hand and saw Remus take Dora's at the same time, both knuckles were white as they waited for her reaction. "Dora and Remus are getting married in a few days time."

He saw the light suddenly switch on in her eyes. "Ohhhh" she breathed quietly. Then..

"WHAT!?"

Remus, Dora and Ted all jumped.

"I told you she'd do this." Muttered Remus. Dora just glared at him to be quiet.

"Its not that I don't like you or anything Remus, its just the fact your—" Andromeda gabbled.

"That I'm a werewolf?" Remus asked heavily.

"Goodness no!" Andromeda shook her head violently, her blue clip finally giving up the ghost and allowing her brown waves to fall around her face. "I'm not prejudiced, I was going to say, that you are so much older than her!"

Remus inclined his head. "I tried telling her that."

"But I didn't bloody listen did I? Well get over it Moony. I ain't going anywhere." Dora snapped, her nerves stretched to breaking point. Ted wheezed out a laugh.

"Hasn't changed a bit, still as stubborn as your mother!"

Dora smiled grudgingly as Andromeda hit Ted playfully on the shoulder.

"But would we be us if we weren't?" asked Dora mischievously.

"I doubt very much that you would be here if I hadn't been so stubborn and married your father!" Smiled Andromeda fondly. Everyone laughed. Remus still looked slightly shell shocked, but hey, anybody would if they realised they were marrying Nymphadora Tonks in a few days time... after all, she was quite a handful...

"Good luck Remus." Ted grinned broadly at his new son in law "you're gonna bloody need it!"

Great.

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"Nymphadora Tonks, if you pull that seam out one more time I am going to turn your hair a normal colour and put a spell on it to stay that way!"

And I'll put a full bodybind curse on you just so you shut up.

"Mum, just shut it!" Tonks said irritably. She was bored of her mother's criticisms and just wanted the peace and quiet that being with Remus ensured. "Don't tell me you weren't nervous on your wedding day?"

"Yes I was." Andromeda said softly, attempting to pin her hair up for the fourth time that hour. She had a distant far-away look to her face. "But I was happy as well..."

Tonks shook her head then pulled her wand out from the pocket of her dress.

"Here, let me help." Andromeda let her daughter help with the charms that normally held her hair in.

Andromeda had flyaway brown locks that she hardly managed to control, often the charms the local hairwitch were the only things that managed to keep the bouncy locks under control. Tonks was extremely grateful she hadn't inherited her mother's hair.

There was a tentative knock on the bedroom door, then Ted entered the room.

"It's time to go Dora." He said softly. Dora nodded, then checked her hair one last time in the mirror, pink curls that cascaded softly round her face. She took her father's arm and they left the house.

A standard muggle taxi was waiting outside, the driver chewing at a large baguette. She saw his eyes widen as he saw her. He had obviously never been taxi to a bride with pink hair before.

The muggle registry office had been their only choice. Luckily for them, muggle marriage certificates were acceptable in wizarding society and a simple trip to the Ministry would make it an official wizarding marriage. The registry office wasn't spectacular, a boring red brick house where an old fat man had permission to give weddings.

Tonks envied Bill and Fleur. Mrs Weasley was giving them the full works of a wedding! But then again, as Arthur had pointed out, Molly would have killed them if they hadn't have let her.

The car stopped, door opened, and her little family left the taxi for the building.

Ted stayed with her outside the door as her mother disappeared to find her seat. With an unnoticeable flick of his wand, Ted opened the door and began to bear his only child down the aisle.

Tonks was surprised to see people in the chairs that were either side of her, not lots of people, but people nether the less. She saw a few bright red heads, then Kingsley and her mother and Hagrid was there with Minerva and Filius Flitwick. She smiled.

Then she saw Remus, looking uncomfortable in his borrowed suit, but still with a smile on his face, the smile he saved for her.

And Tonks knew that she could never be happier, yes it wasn't the wedding of her dreams, but she was marrying the man she loved and she, quite frankly, didn't give a damn. Her heightened emotion was making her hair change swiftly, from pink to green, green to blue, blue to red, red to purple. Even the poor fat bloke's face couldn't make her stop, if anything it had her want to laugh!

Ted gave her away, gave her hand to Remus's and then left to sit with his wife, who already had tears softly falling down her face.

"Careful dear," Remus muttered as her turned her to face the minister "Much as I love your hair, he is already suspicious and I think a memory charm will be needed."

Tonks smiled and settled her hair back to the bright bubblegum pink that she had arrived with. She focused with every fibre of her being to listen to what the minister was saying, making sure she said the right things at the right time.

"I now declare you man and wife" the Minister declared with a pompous, satisfied tone to his voice. "You may now kiss the bride"

They didn't need telling twice.

Tonks felt as if her heart would burst! She was married to the man she loved in an off white knee length dress that her mother had put mess-repellent charms onto every inch of, in a muggle registry office with 10 people. It was hardly her dream wedding, but Tonks didn't care, to her it was perfect.

She was Mrs Nymphadora Lupin, and she would be now forever.