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Tonks had just arrived at Remus Lupin's house. She was there because she was one of the only single people in the order, and because of this, didn't have anyone that she should be spending quality time with. She just hoped that this wasn't another attempt to get her and Remus together. It was really annoying both of them lately because every plot seemed to end in disaster.

She had just given Remus his newest batch of Wolfsbane potion and they were sitting down, just about to drink their tea, when an owl started tapping on the kitchen window.

Remus went to get it and came back reading the letter with a slight frown on his face. "It's from Albus. He wants us to go to Hogwarts ASAP. He didn't say why."

"You think that someone made it up or something?" Tonks asked him warily.

"I don't know…it's possible though. I don't think that anyone would want us to go to Hogwarts, so it should be fairly safe. Its Albus's signature and I don't think that anyone could forge it."

"Well I think we should apperate. It will be a lot faster than anything else." Tonks said.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Remus asked, shifting slightly in his seat. "You do remember that I'm a werewolf, so I can't apperate, don't you? If I remember correctly, last time you tried to do side-along apperation with me we got stuck in the Shrieking Shack with only our underwear on. I don't know about you, but I was fairly embarrassed about that."

"That was another one of Molly's attempts to get us together. I had nothing to do with it. Besides, I have been practicing and I'm sure that I can do it properly now." Tonks said hastily.

"That's what you said last time. What about the time that we both ended up in the middle of a river in a rainforest, huh?"

"That wasn't my fault either. That was Fred and George. They did a really bad job of that plot, too. You'd think they would think that they would check their co-ordinations better than that." Tonks replied, trying to bail herself out of trouble.

"And the time that-"

"Okay, okay, I get it! But none of that was my fault. I really have been practicing." Tonks said pleadingly.

"Fine! But if we get stuck in the wrong place I'm going to blame you." Remus closed his eyes and prayed to whatever deity that was listening that they would end up in the right place as he felt the familiar tug of apperation. When he felt his feet come into contact with the ground once more he slowly opened his eyes and looked around himself and barely held back a scream of annoyance.

"We're defiantly not in Europe anymore, judging from the sandy beach, the palm trees and the ocean." Tonks said, stating the blindingly obvious.

"Nah, you think?" Remus asked sarcastically "This is just great! We're supposed to be going to Hogwarts, no doubt for something important, too, and we're stuck in the middle of nowhere. It's entirely your fault, you realise? We should have made a portkey or waited for someone to come and bring us one, but you had to try to apperate both of us at the same time!"

Tonks turned around trying to hide her tears from Remus. "I'm sorry, okay! I didn't ask to be so clumsy and stupid! It's not my fault! I can do side-along apperation with anyone but you."

Remus, being a werewolf and having more a sensitive sense of smell than a normal human, could tell that she was really beating herself up over this. She probably had been for quiet some time, by the sound of her. "Tonks, I'm really sorry about what I said. It was really insensitive of me. I didn't think of anyone but myself, when this is affecting you more than it is me. Not many witches and wizards can do side-along apperation, and it's a remarkable achievement for you to be able to do it at all." He put his arms around her waist and gently pulled her backwards into his chest "And for the record, I don't think you're stupid, and if you weren't a bit clumsy then you wouldn't be the same person."

"Really?" Tonks asked, turning her head around to look him in the face.

"Really, really." He answered, smiling down at her. He was almost overwhelmed with a desire to kiss her, but stopped himself, because he knew that there was no way that she could ever like him. Apart from the fact that he was a werewolf, he was also way too old for her.

"You should get out your wand and conjure us some food and a shelter of some sort if we're going to be here for a while." Tonks said, breaking the silence .

"Why don't you get out your wand?" Remus asked her.

"Erm…well, about that. I had it in my hand when we apperated and it's not there now. I think I may have dropped it when we apperated." Tonks said nervously.

Remus searched his pockets and couldn't manage to find his wand anywhere. "Damn, I can't find my wand either."

"What are we going to do without any wands?" Tonks wailed.

"Well, I'll try to climb one of those coconut trees over there and see if there's anything ripe on them…can you go into the bush over there and see if you can find us any firewood?"

"Sure, but is it really a good idea for you to be climbing the trees? They look pretty high." Tonks asked sounding worried.

Remus was shocked at just how much Tonks seemed to care about him. No body had ever cared about him that much before. "Don't worry about me. Super-human werewolf strength and all that sort of stuff. I'll be fine."

"Well, if you're sure…I'll see if I can find some berries in the bush, too. That way we can have a few things to eat." She walked off in the direction of the bushes.

"I just hope that she doesn't pick poisonous berries or something." Remus muttered to himself when she had gone far enough away so that she wouldn't hear him. He walked over to the nearest coconut tree that had some ripe looking fruit on it and started to climb.

A few hours later they had managed to get a fire going and were eating coconuts and some semi-edible looking pinks berries that Tonks had managed to find in the bushes.

"Are you sure that these berries aren't poisonous?" Remus asked cautiously. "They look like something that would be in a potion of some sort. I don't know where, but I've seen them somewhere."

"I'm sure they are fine. I've seen them in a cook book of mum's or something like that."

"This is getting boring. We should do something." Remus said after a long silence.

"We could play 20 questions." Tonks suggested brightly.

"Ok, that sounds good. You can go first." Remus offered.

"Cool. How about we try to find out who the other person likes?" Tonks said with a grin.

Remus groaned. He didn't want her to find out who he liked-it would be too embarrassing. He would just have to beat her at her own game, then.

"I'm going to regret doing this, but fine." Remus said, running a hand through his hair.

"First Question. Why do you like this person so much?"

"I like her because she's smart and funny. She's not up herself like a lot of people I know. What she lacks in confidence, she makes up in enthusiasm. She's just a really great person to be around." Remus found himself answering honestly. It surprised him that he had answered so truthfully, when he didn't even want to admit that he liked her to himself.

"Must be a really special person, then." Tonks replied. She had to try not to sound jealous. It was good that Remus liked someone, and when she found out who it was she would make sure that whoever it was, if they liked him back, would care about him as much as he seemed to care about them. If she couldn't have him for herself then she would make sure that he was happy.

"She is. It's your turn to answer that question now." Remus said.

"Um…well he's kind and sweet, and always puts other people before himself. He's a great friend and I don't know what I would do without him." Unknown to Remus, Tonks was also mentally bashing her head into a brick wall for telling him more than she had meant to. She had just found the words being pulled from her without having anything to do with it, although every one was entirely true.

"Sounds like this person is really special, too." Remus said, not daring to even hope that it was him

"You could say that. Next question. Would you ever tell this person that you like them, and if yes what, would you say?"

"I don't think that I would, because there is next to no way that she could ever like me the way that I like her. I mean, I'm a werewolf, who could ever like me? Not to mention the fact that I'm too old for this person." Once again, he had said more than he had meant to. Damn! She was sure to guess now.

"I don't think that I would ever tell this person because I think that he likes someone else. I couldn't stand to have our friendship broken just because I like him. Besides, I don't see why anyone would like me. I'm so clumsy. I always knock things over or do things wrong. No-one could ever like me."

"I'm sure that someone could like you. You're a really fun person to be around, surely someone can see that." Remus said trying not to say too much again.

"Not the person that I want." Tonks replied sadly.

Two hours later they were still playing 20 questions. Tonks had finally figured out who Remus liked. She couldn't believe it. She should have guessed it earlier, but she didn't want to get her hopes up then have the shot down again when she realised that it wasn't who she thought.

"Next question." Remus said, pulling her out of her daze.

"Oh…um." Tonks thought for a minute. She had asked that many questions over the last few hours that she couldn't remember what she had asked and what she hadn't. There were also some questions that she wanted to ask but didn't want to have to answer. She decided to be brave. "What would you do if I did this?" she leaned over to him and kissed him on the mouth.

Remus was so shocked that she was kissing him that he didn't respond at first. He had just started to kiss her back when she pulled away.

She looked into his face as though searching for something, although what, Remus wasn't sure. "I think I would do this." He replied, pulling her head back towards him and bringing their mouths together.

A few minutes and one massive snogging session later they broke apart. "I think you win the prize for best question." Remus told Tonks when he got his breathing back under control. He kissed her lightly on the tip of her nose.

"Only if you get the prize for the best answer to a question." Tonks replied, snuggling into his chest.

"I suppose that could work…what do I get?" Remus agreed quickly.

"An 'all that you can snog, snogging session' with me?" she asked cheekily.

"You know what, I think I like that idea. We should get started on that right now." Remus pulled her into him for another kiss. They were both so rapped up in their kissing that they failed to realise that they were being transported by a portkey of some sort, and were now in the middle of The Three Broomsticks. They only broke apart when they heard cheering and wolf whistles, not to mention clapping that almost deafened them, coming from the crowd in the pub.

They turned towards everyone with a blush. "This was another set-up, wasn't it?" remus, glaring at Molly and the Weasley twins, who were usually the main offenders.

"Who was the mastermind behind the plot this time?" Tonks asked in exasperation.

Everyone looked at each other and then, all at exactly the same time, every last person in the pub pointed towards the fireplace where Minerva McGonagall was sitting on the lap of one Severus Snape, who was smirking at both Tonks and Remus.

He waved at them. "The reason that no one else could plan something that would get the two of you together was that they were all Gryffindor's. It's Slytherin's that you need when you want to make up a fail proof plan."

Everyone laughed at that, even Remus and Tonks when they had gotten over their embarrassment.

"Everyone owes us 20 galleons now!" Fred and George shouted together.

"You were taking bets?" Remus asked, only slightly shocked. These were the Weasley twins, after all.

"How could we not?" Fred asked at the same time that George said "We always take bets when it comes to you two."

"What are those?" Ginny asked, seeing the berries in their hands.

"We found them in the bushes on the island we got stuck on." They both answered at the same time.

"You didn't eat them, did you?" Severus asked them with a grin on his face.

They both nodded. "Those are Verita Berries. They are the key ingredient in making Veritasirum. They contain a powerful chemical that causes anyone that consumes them to tell the truth." Severus told them, still smirking. Everyone else started to laugh once more.

"That's why I kept telling you more than I meant to!" Tonks and Remus exclaimed at the same time.

They both looked at each other, shrugged and continued with their snogging.

Fin

Tonks is trying to apperate herself and Remus to the Burrow. But instead she lands them on a tropical island that seems to be uninhabited. They are very bored so they decide to play 20 questions to figure out who each other likes. Near the end Tonks has figured out that it is her Remus likes, so for her question she says:

"What would you do if I did this." and kisses him.

"I would probably do this." Remus replies and he kisses her back.

Just as they begin to kiss they are transported to somewhere with a big crowd. Everyone cheers when they see Tonks and Remus snogging.

They both ask who set them up.

Fred and George tell everyone that they owe the 20 galleons.

Everybody points to Severus, who is sitting with Minerva on his lap.