Old and Broken : Young and Whole

by Ari and Mo

The lives of Remus Lupin and Nmyphadora Tonks were intertwined from the moment they met. Follow the lives of these starcrossed lovers in a world that pushed them apart.

2. Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter.

Chapter 2

One year after my fated meeting with Nymphadora Tonks, I had yet another fated meeting, this with three other boys of my age who would grow to be the men who would change my life forever: James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, and Tonks' mother's cousin, Sirius Black.

I admit, at first I pushed them away. How? How could they accept me once they found out what I really was? And so, I kept that secret from them for many years- too many.

In my first year of life, my parents put me to bed one day a blue-grey-eyed, dark-haired babe, and found me in the morning with brown eyes and hair so light is was nearly white.

"What is that matter with her?" My father told me years later my mother asked everyone she knew. Finally, my folks took me to the very hospital I'd been born on the floor of the long term ward in a year previous, where they assured my parents that nothing was wrong with me; I was indeed actually gifted! I had the gift to be what I wanted to be...or what other people wanted me to be.

James, Sirius and Peter were the best friends a guy could ask for. But sometimes, I admit I wished they were a bit less... troublesome. James and Sirius always seemed to enjoy getting themselves (and Peter, and I) into a mess or picking on Snape, or some first year. I constantly wrestled with my emotions, trying to figure out whether to tell them to stop and just shut up.

I am sorry to say I chose the former.

Of course, it rather frightened our Muggle neighbors. After all, one moment I had a tiny button nose and the next I had one that largely resembled that of a pig. Mum and Dad tried to get me to stay one way, but I was only one year old it did not work too well. But even years later when I could understand, I did not.

James and Sirius' 'Grand Plan of the Year' in our first year at Hogwarts was silly at best. They switched the names on all the classroom doors, which did very little as most of us all knew where we were going. By the time they'd done it we were already halfway through the year.

Near the end of that year, Sirius sent my mother a picture of his new friends: The grinning, handsome James, the shy, squirrelly Peter stood with my mother's cousin. Along with them was a small, quiet-looking boy: Remus Lupin.

A/N: As usual, R+R!