Chapter 1: Tonks's Crush

Wotcher Harry,

I'm outside on babysitting duty, can we go for a walk? I'm just at the front gate.

Tonks

To say Harry was surprised by the letter didn't even cover it, for starters Hedwig brought it and other than Ron, Hermione and Hagrid she wouldn't carry mail for anybody else, then the fact that it was Tonks that had sent it, THE Tonks, the object of Harry's desires for the past year, he had only gone out with Cho because he didn't think he had a chance with Tonks.

He made his way down the stairs and made towards the front door, "BOY" he couldn't catch a break really could he "WHERE do you think YOUR going?"

"For a walk with a friend" Harry deadpanned.

"You don't have any normal friends, you better not be meeting up with a freak" Vernon threatened.

"I'm afraid I am uncle, you remember Tonks, the witch from Kings Cross, the one with the pink hair."

"Oh no your not that FREAK isn't coming anywhere near MY house."

"Sorry, uncle but she's at the gate under an invisibility cloak, she won't leave until I go out there."

"Fine but any funny business..."

Harry cut him off "if you don't stop it with the threats I'm afraid I'm going to have to tell her your neglecting me and then Mad-eye would be paying you a visit, by the way, did you notice the leg he was missing? The death eater that cut that off was beaten to death with it."

Vernon paled and stormed off.

Harry made his way to the gate with a huge grin on his face and set off towards the park with Tonks.

"Wotcher Harry, what's with the grin." she asked.

He told Tonks of his lie about Mad-eye's leg and they shared a laugh over it.

"So what's with the walk Tonks, any reason, Dumbledore's orders? Just bored?"

Tonks turned to Harry and he noticed a slight blush.

"Nah, Dumbledore would probably flip if he knew what I doing right now."

"He's forbidden you from talking to me?"

"Not really, he just said to give you your space so you can mourn properly for Sirius, but I want to get to know you..." she blushed a bit more when she realized what she had let slip "...better."

"Erm, OK."

Tonks decided that she wasn't going to beat around the bush and just told Harry the truth.

"Look Harry, I have a huge crush on you and I know it wrong because I'm 21 and your 15 but I really want get to know you, and your 16 in a three weeks so its not that big of a age gap really" she rattled off really quickly.

Tonks blushed and Harry noticed that her hair blushed with her, this pulled him out of his current stupor at what he'd heard and he chuckled.

Tonks looked crushed, "I know I'm older Harry, and that you could have any girl you want but theres no need to laugh at me" she said as she tuned to walk away.

"No Tonks I wasn't laughing at that, when you blush your hair matches your cheeks" he smiled and stammered slightly "I...I like...y…you too" his blush was better than any Weasley blush.

"Harry is it possible for us to have a relationship?" she asked shyly.

To say Harry was gobsmacked wouldn't cover it.

"WHAT? Really? I mean your amazingly beautiful, funny, loyal, an auror, you could have any bloke you want"

She laughed "That's just it, I've haven't gone out with anyone since my fifth year in Hogwarts, all my boyfriends just asked me to change so I wanted to wait for the right guy" she finished sadly.

"Well then there idiots, you're pretty as you are" he said confidently until he realized what he had said, he turned away and blushed.

Tonks smiled brightly and asked, "So, was that a yes?"

"Well I'd like to try things out between us but aren't you worried about the age difference?"

"Nope couldn't give half a rats ass, I'm immature and your over mature so really it works it's self out."

And with that Tonks pulled Harry into a searing kiss, they could both feel a surge of magic and the kiss seemed to last several sunlit days until Harry broke it, because of lack of air.

"Wow" the said in unison then both smiled and just sat in the blanket in the park with Tonks leaning into Harry talking about them and getting to know each other.

"So what bouts of accidental magic did you perform before Hogwarts?" Harry inquired.

"Hmm…when I was four Sirius was teasing me and I turned his hair pink, when I was six I summoned a cookie jar to me and when was seven I discovered I was a metamorph when I made my hair grow when Sirius wanted to play hairdresser."

Harry recounted his childhood tales of magic but was stopped when he got to the story of his hair growing longer.

"Harry can we go back to your bedroom?"

"Err...don't you think where getting a bit ahead of ourselves there Tonks."

She blushed a swatted his arm, "I need to check something and I need to use magic to do it."

"OK, sure."

They got up and cleared away the blanked Tonks had conjured for them, and then started walking back towards Privet Drive.

When they got there she shot her patronus out the window. When Harry looked at her questioningly she told him, "telling the Ministry I'm here so that you don't get any notices for underage magic."

"OK, Harry I'm going to perform a spell on you, it won't hurt and I'll tell you what it does once I'm finished."

She waved her wand in a complex fashion and muttered something under her breath and a blue light shot towards Harry, it took a bout 5 seconds when Harry glowed pink for Tonks to smile the most dazzling smile she ever had and start jumping up and down waving her arms about.

"Harry, your a metamorph!"

"What? No I'm not."

"Oh yes you are! I'm so excited I never thought I'd meet another one."

"Harry I have to go tell Dumbledore, err…should I tell him about us?"

"Will you get in trouble, cause if you will I'm not worth it."

"Shut up Harry of 'cause your worth it, anyway it has sod all to do with him, worst he can do is stop putting me on guard duty and then I'll just be here more often cause I'll spend all my free time here." she said with a smile.

She pulled Harry into a goodbye kiss grinned and said "You have no idea how long I've been waiting to do that." then disapparated.