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Chapter One: You're cute when you're frustrated!

Nymphadora Tonks and Remus Lupin were sitting at a table in LouAnna's restaurant, talking and looking into each other's eyes. They had just finished dinner and were getting ready to leave. Tonks' hair was a bright red that matched her rainbow and black striped robes. Remus' hair was graying at the top and his robes were as tattered as ever. Tonks spoke. "I just realized that I've never been to your flat before. Can we go?" Remus' face fell.

"I don't think you'd want to see it," he mumbled.

"Of course I would," she said gently, massaging his hand.

"Oh, well, alright," he said, still looking skeptical.

Remus winced as he paid the tab and they got up and left. They decided to walk for a while down the streets of Hogsmeade before they Disapparated.

They turned up at a shabby, beaten up door at the end of a deserted hallway. He blushed and opened the door. Tonks stifled a gasp.

His "flat" was a closet sized room with a cot in one corner and a bookshelf on the wall filled with books. There was a toilet in the corner and a sink next to a small table with one chair. Remus spoke first. "I understand if you want to leave. Just go now please so I can be spared the agony of being in your presence," he said not meeting her eyes.

Tonks turned around, grabbed his hands, pulled him roughly to his feet and stared at him hard. "If you think that seeing a grungy place like this is going to make me stop loving you then I should leave, right now. I love you and if you can't trust me when I say that, there is no future for us," she kissed him hard. He deepened it. Tonks pulled away quickly.

"Just promise me you won't think or say silly things like that again. It makes me think that you think I'm just a young tart with no feelings. I thought you loved me."

Remus ran his fingers through her short, spiky hair. "I don't know what else to call it, Tonks," he hugged her deeply. He let go and they sat down on his cot.

"I know you are a very independent man, Remus. But I simply can't bear to see you live like this! It would tear me apart. So… would you like to live with me in my flat?" she said the last part very fast.

What did Remus say in response? I could never impose upon you like that? No. He blushed and said, "Would we sleep in the same room?"

Tonks laughed and said "Unless you want to sleep in the bathtub; yes," she smiled her dazzling smile.

"Well I suppose I could consider it," he said cautiously.

She threw herself at him and showered his face with kisses. "I'll-" kiss, kiss "-take-" kiss, kiss "-that as a yes," she said all in one breath. She pushed him over and began kissing his neck. Then she got up, for she feared what could happen if she kept going.

"Er… well, we should get your stuff together, shouldn't we?" she said. Remus got out his wand. Tonks grabbed his hand.

"I've finally gotten the hang of getting the socks to fold themselves; I want to try it out," she said.

She moved her arm in a sweeping motion across the room; which was hard seeing as her arm kept colliding with the walls. She finally got it, though and the socks folded themselves but none of them were in the right pairs. "Aw, bloody hell!" she said angrily.

"You're cute when you're frustrated, you know that?" said Remus, draping his arm around her shoulder. Tonks' frustration vanished. She smiled.

"Well we'd better get going," Tonks said. "Oh, and I hope you don't mind a mess."

"I wouldn't mind a hog sty if it meant getting to live with you," he kissed her on the lips gently.

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