Author's Note: Just so all are aware, I have messed with Tonks birth year to match the timeline that matches the storyline. I know I shouldn't have but it's too late now to go back. In canon, Tonks was born in late 1973 or 1972. I adjusted her birth year to be late 1970 to 1971. This is a flashback chapter, in the present it is early July 1988.
Empty DADA Classroom, Hogwarts, January 1988
"Professor Lupin, just one more time" Tonks pleads, pulling back strands of her pink hair from her sweaty face. "I need to perfect this."
"We have been at this for two hours now. I think tracking me is going to have to wait." the teacher replies to her "We should take a break till our next lesson."
"Wrong-doing wizards and witches are not going to stop because I need a break" Tonks mutters under her breath hoping that her Defense Against the Dark Arts professor would not hear her.
"I think that shady wizards do need to eat and sleep once in a while plus you'll know I am very good at tracking" Remus answers knowing he was not supposed to hear her muttering.
"How did you hear that?" Tonks exclaims pulling her robe back over her shoulders and her Hufflepuff tie she had taken off due to the heat emanating from her body.
"I have a keen sense of hearing also" the unknown werewolf answers trying not to chuckle standing back up from where he was sitting on the desk. "How about we come to a compromise? It is nine o'clock, let us take a break. Then we can start back up in a half-hour."
Tonks considers this, then nods her head sitting down putting her wand back in her robe, sighing as she changes up her hair to now a neon blue color.
"Want a cup?" she hears from behind her, looking to the back of the classroom as the shabby professor walks towards her with a teapot in one hand and two teacups in the other. She nods as he hands her the cup and pours the hot liquid from a somewhat neglected looking teapot. "Penny for your thoughts, Ms. Tonks?"
Smiling, she shakes her head, putting the cup to her mouth. "I hate to admit it, but I think you were right."
Lupin sits down across from her after putting the teapot to the side pretending he did not see how tired she was "about what?"
"How I needed a break and we should stop" Tonks admits knowing he would bask in the glory of always seeming to be able to read her. "Can I ask you a question not related to DADA?"
Tonks had been taking extra lessons with Professor Lupin since she mentioned to Professor Sprout how she was concerned with her stealth and tracking part of her assessment to become an Auror. She and Lupin had practiced once to twice a week since the start of the school year. They had started to take about a half-hour breaks before she would leave.
"Yes, I do not see why not" the professor answers
"Why do we seem to be doing this?" Tonks asks curiously referring to their weekly talks. "Not that I mind, I enjoy them."
"I was under the impression that it was at your request to have these extra sessions," Lupin answers, oblivious to what Tonks was trying to get at. Tonks was always a curious girl, and he did not want to lie to her.
"No, I mean these talks." Tonks tries not to smile up at him. Ever since they had first started these after-sessions talks as Tonks began to call them, she had started to admire her DADA professor. The word she was looking for was not admired. Tonks knew it was a crush. He was handsome and the scars on his face did not deter at all from his good looks.
He looks down at his hands before answering "I enjoy these talks. I enjoy getting to know you." Gulping his tea "I want to get to know all of my students more."
"Alright then, how do you spend your free time?" Tonks asks, trying not to let the awkwardness of her question fill the air too much.
"I enjoy walking outside on the grounds. When I am away from school, I enjoy time with good friends. Mostly reading by the light of the fireplace."
"Why am I not surprised?" Tonks chuckles, emptying her last of the tea and helping herself to more as she attempts to grab the teapot from the other empty desk, the hot tea spills all over the floor and her cup falls to the ground with a crash.
The teacher pulls out his wand and with a whisper, Repairo the teapot, and the broken cup are as good as new.
"Shit" Tonks whispers as a strong hand grabs her arm to pull her up off the floor "I am such a klutz. This is why I need as much help as I can with the stealth and tracking portion of the Auror assessment."
He does not say anything as he helps her to her feet and looks straight at those gorgeous eyes she first noticed about the scarred man. Suddenly, he moves towards her and his lips are on hers.
His body reacts first to the contact, it is as if her lips are asking if this is okay. Knowing that this is not something he should be doing, let alone with a student, she kisses him back. It is not an intense kiss but a slow hesitant kiss, a kiss that they know should not happen.
He breaks away first, not because he wants to but because his mind takes over and knows this is wrong. She is a student, a very capable student who he knows will become a capable auror. "I think that is it for today. I have a prior engagement and will not be able to meet with you next week. I will see the following week, then."
Tonks nods still trying to process what just happened. He made first contact but she kissed her professor. How could she be so stupid? Her entire Hogwarts education could be thrown down the drain because of one stupid thought that sparked an action because of his gorgeous dark eyes.. There was no way she was imagining. He had first initiated it . Grabbing her jacket, she exits the room, her mind reeling.
After she had gotten back to the Hufflepuff common room and plopped down in the big chair in front of the fireplace, she felt her lips with her fingers. The kiss had tasted like honey she noted. Over on the other side of the castle, Remus Lupin lay awake fully clothed trying to comprehend one, what he was going to teach his next lesson and two, why he enjoyed kissing Nymphadora Tonks so much.