A/N: Answers to reviews firstly, then my Author note…
Charmed Sherwood: Wow… I have so much power. (Evil laugh) You all shouldn't give me this much power… or Chocolate frogs and ice mices. :D I get a sugar high. Well I'm noticing this thread going. Nobody likes that it's been seven years! Well I had to have SOME fort of shock, wouldn't I?
Theparanoidone : I thought that was amusing too. Which is why I did it. :D I really want to put them in a chapter, but I'm not very good at writing them… so sad. Thanks, by the way!
Phenoixtear19: I love cliffhangers. They make me happy because then people leave reviews! So I tend to have a lot of them. :D
Dancer8428: Thank you! Is this soon enough?
IrishIsis: (evil laugh) I say it again, I love this power… (wink) I'm really glad you like Albus because he's going to be sticking around for a while. :D
CroOKed-aura- Well then I like your weird. Thanks for the review!
Real A/N: Well ok, Don't you just hate it when your story hits a brick wall? I do, and for a complete 48 hours I had no idea where this chapter was going… Well I knew exactly where it was going, and well I knew you all wouldn't like it at all! So I tried very hard to make the changes, and well they wouldn't change so… hides behind Remus, who just looks at her oddly… don't kill me?
Paper Moon
Chapter Six- A Deserved Hello…
"The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, of her fickle temper,oft had been told." -Thomas Hood
I.
Tonks rolled her eyes at Moody,
"Really Mad-eye, you've been telling me for years not to keep my wand in my back pocket, and where's your proof?"
Mad-eye Moody regarded her with his one natural eye, "Ellie Grates…"
Tonks raised an eyebrow, "Who's that?"
"Lost her right buttock, when her wand expoloded… in her back pocket." He raised both eyebrows,
Tonks let out a genuine laugh, "Over ten years and all you can come up with is one case… Mad-Eye, I will continue to carry my wand in my back pocket as long as I am a witch." She laughed again as Moody pulled a capped tin tankard and took a sip from it.
"The war is over Mad-eye, that means there isn't a death eater behind every bush."
Moody sent her a wry grin, "You never know what kind of danger lurks around here."
Tonks rolled her eyes good naturedly, and picked up a glass of iced cider. She took a sip, green eyes flashing with amusement, "See no poison…" She lifted the cup to her lips again as Moody's magical eye swiveled into the back of his head.
"Isn't that Lupin?"
Tonks nearly choked on her sip of iced cider.
"Constant vigilance…" Mad-Eye Moody said gruffly, giving her a gental pat on the back. Tonks nodded her thanks, still finding it hard to speak, squeaked,
"Where?"
Moody pointed.
II.
He had been caught. Damn Moody, and that confounded eye. Remus had the idea of jumping and hiding in Molly's blooming flower bush. He eyed the thorns and then thought better of it. So he stood there helplessly as Tonks left Moody and walked over.
She looked grown up without her normally vivid hair, and muggle street clothes, and for some reason it pained him to see her looking, if anything, so old. She wasn't the same girl he had left in the lower commons of the Order Headquarters all those years ago. Where he had always remembered her smile, there lay a frown, and her bright eyes, normally filled with mirth and laughter, were dark and unreadable.
Remus swallowed thickly, knowing it was too late to run and hide. He tried at a confident grin, and said the first thing that came to mind.
"Nice to see you again, Nymph."
Her mouth dropped slightly in utter shock. She glared at him and shook her head,
"I don't believe you…" she muttered almost inaudibly.
Remus opened his mouth to say something, and afterward he wondered exactly what he was going to say. He never had a chance to find out, as Tonks slapped him soundly across the face.
Blinking and dazed, Remus watched the angry young woman storm across her party and out to the front yard. Rubbing his jaw he sighed,
"I guess I deserve that."
III.
Harry's jaw fell, "Well, that's the last thing I expected."
Hermione worried her lower lip, "Ginny you better go catch her."
Ginny just blinked, jaw hanging slightly
"Now, Gin!"
As the red head ran off, Ron looked at his wife and best friend, "Any other brilliant ideas?"
Both Hermione and Harry swatted at him.
Oh I know it short and a cliffiebut, I couldn't go any farther without ruining it. The next chapter will make up for it. I promise. Up tomorrow!
