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Ch.3 conflicting thoughts and compromising positions

Harry was more than surprised to see Tonks at the door. He was also embarrassed for her to have to see him this way. He knew he had to look horrible, the Dursleys hadn't been feeding him correctly -- like usual. They fed him just enough food to fill a two-year-old. Him being sixteen, on the verge of seventeen, that wasn't near enough food. Yet, it kept him from starving to death. Harry lead Tonks up the stairway to his room, not exactly wanting the Durselys catch him with Tonks -- fearing how they will react when she is gone. When he saw her... she looked amazing. She had dark-green hair, tight muggle pants that were a faded blue color, and a muggle tank-top that was the same color of her jeans, which was short enough to reveal her navel.

When Harry saw her, emotions that he felt when he last saw her had resurfaced. Last year he had just thought that those feelings were just deep happiness for finally being able to get out of this hellhole called the Dursley's home. Now he wasn't exactly for sure... deep down he knew that it was more than raging hormones... it was something that seemed forbidden to him. Right now he wasn't exactly for sure if he should feel happy or extreme dread. He led her into his room and closed the door behind her.

He walked to his bed and sat down beside her, she seemed to be in deep thought. Harry had to admit to himself, she looked extremely beautiful, especially the way the sun was playing across her features. Any man who had the honor to be with her was extremely lucky. Feelings of jealousy and want had come crashing into him, for the life of him he couldn't figure out why -- Deep down he didn't want to know why. Harry knew he had been staring for quite a while, Tonks seemed to have sensed it in some point, and had turned her head to look at him. Her eyes... her eyes were a crystal blue color... breathtakingly beautiful.

"Tonks, what is it that you wanted to see me about... ?" He had to say anything! Anything to break that alluring look she was giving him. Anything to stop himself from leaning across and kissing her right then and there. That seemed to knock her out of her deep thought

"Oh... As you may already know the Order has been trailing you... and even though your owls were saying that you were fine... I needed to check for myself. Especially when I saw your Uncle place those bars over your window. Well now I know... and now that I see how they are treating you, I've assigned myself to stay here with you. They won't mess with you with a full-grown witch here, and I'll make sure they feed you right."

Harry's heart skipped a beat when she said that she's going to stay. Tonks, here in the same house as him… oh how great life will be with her here. What a strange thought. She would be able to help him with this situation. Best of all he would have the luxury of being able to be near her.

"Sure, I would love it for you to stay. Um... but where are you staying...?" Tonks smiled one of the biggest smiles he had ever seen; he didn't fail to notice the glint of mischief in her eye.

"In this room of course, I'm going to have to go to Dumbledore to get a way to do magic without the Ministry thinking that it was you... I'm sure there's ways... " Harry couldn't help but smile at Tonks' enthusiasm.

"Well, I'll have to leave you for a little while, Harry. I'll be back soon... hopefully. But I will be back!" With that Tonks left the room. It looks like this summer won't be such a hellhole after all. With Tonks here it looks like this summer is going to be extremely fun.

The only thing that Harry was worried about was how he was going to act toward her, he already knew that he liked her a lot... he just didn't want to accidentally let something slip, and ruin it all. There was no way that she could like him the way he did her.

'Who would like a skinny little boy?' Sighing out of that depressive thought, Harry got up and started to fix the room up. 'No reason for her to have to live in a pig stein of a room'.

Tonks was more than excited; the static that had ran through body by just sitting next to him. There is no way that she was going to let the Dursley's make his life anymore harder than it already is. Especially now that she has seen him in this horrible condition. Tonks could see some of the life in those eyes of his return when she told him that she was going to live with him.

'I just hope that I don't unintentionally flirt with him... the last thing he needs is to have to deal with me flirting with him. I don't think he'd take it well if he found out someone older than him had an infatuation for him... lust... that's all it is. Yes. Just plain old fashion lust. Nothing more'

'Yeah sure keep telling yourself that'. Groaning out of the complexity of all this, Tonks left the Dursley's home and went back to her 'home'. Using the floo powder that was next to her fireplace she flooed to Dumbledore's office.

Sometime after Harry was nearly done cleaning up his room, he heard the Dursleys came home. The Dursleys were going to kill him when they find out about Tonks coming to live with Harry. Then it dawned on Harry, 'Surely Tonks doesn't expect us to share the same bed... I am so dead' An hour later after the Dursleys had came home, there was a knock at the door. Vernon's loud footsteps were heard, and a deafening yell came, "BOY!"

Harry walked out of his room and downstairs. Vernon looked more furious than Harry had ever seen him. However, seeing Tonks stand there looking as though nothing was wrong calmed Harry. For once since Sirius' death Harry felt some happiness. He couldn't help but smile which of course only mad Vernon more furious.

"Hello Tonks, good to see you again, let me help you with your trunk" Harry was beaming out of joy. All of his worries were forgotten. Not permanently of course, to forget pain like that was impossible. Tonks had a huge trunk behind her, Harry had grabbed one end of the trunk -- expecting it to be extremely heavy and lifted it up, with more force than he had meant to. His hand jerked up with the trunk nearly smacking Uncle Vernon whenever he had accidentally swung it because of its feather lightness.

"Boy, what do you think you're doing?" Harry who was happy beyond measure just simply turned to Vernon wearing the same huge smile

"Tonks is moving in with me. Oh yes, she's also a fully grown witch and completely capable of doing magic out of Hogwarts."

Vernon had gone purple to white in a matter of seconds. Furious to frightened in a matter of milliseconds. Not waiting for him to say anything, Harry helped Tonks bring her trunk into his room. He was in amazement that he had stood up to Uncle Vernon like that. It had felt very refreshing; he didn't want to exactly look weak in front of Tonks.

When they entered Harry's room, Harry put Tonks' trunk at the foot of his bed. Tonks pulled out her wand and conjured another bed, two feet away from Harry's bed. Tonks put a silencing charm around the room and increased the room size a little. Enough to make it larger, but not too much for anyone to notice anything unusual.

"How are you able to do that without the Ministry of Magic expelling me from school?" Tonks looked up from the book she was transfiguring into a chair.

"Oh, I had Dumbledore put a charm on my wand, in a basic sense it sends out a magic signal to the Ministry that its me using magic, and not you. Dumbledore seemed very happy at the idea of me being here."

Harry was sitting on his bed, watching Tonks transfigure another book into another chair, and a CD into a small table. "

Where is your trunk?" Tonks asked Harry, giving him a peculiar look. Harry had been watching

Tonks with a dreamy expression on his face. He was startled out of his little daydream.

"Uh, umm... Oh! My trunk, it's in the cupboard under the stairs," Harry said, his face going red

Tonks had a 'I know what you're thinking' smirk on her face. Which made Harry blush a deeper red and look away so she couldn't see his face. Tonks just chuckled to herself and went down to get the trunk.

Tonks insides were squirming with delight, she had seen that expression on his face when she was working. She already knew where his trunk was, yet she couldn't resist the chance to embarrass him. She even added an extra swing to her hips when she walked out of the room, hearing him groan she snickered to herself.

'Oh Merlin it's so fun to mess with his head. You're messing with his head... and you're enjoying it too... you know its not lust... mood killer'.

She knew it was true. She just didn't want to admit it to herself. Her inner battle ended when she

Opened up the cupboard, performed the charm to make the trunk lighter and brought it back upstairs. Locking the door with a charm. He was still blushing when she got back, but it wasn't as deep as it was before. She moved her trunk beside her bed and placed his trunk beside Harry's bed. Tonks went to the window and transfigured the bars into beetles that promptly fell to the ground and scuttled away on the ground.

"There we go, now Hedwig can get in and out with no problem," Tonks said happily. Tonks went to her trunk and pulled out a small box and placed it on the desk that was transformed from a CD and went back to her trunk and pulled out some plates. Tonks pulled out a roasted chicken out of the box and a rather big bowl that had salad in it.

"Dinner is served," Tonks said with relish, the chicken had a very appetizing smell to it.

Tonks could see the hunger in Harry's eyes and even with all of that hunger he still kept his manners.

Tonks shifted from gazing out at the sky and looking at Harry. It was amazing, those damned Dursleys practically starved and yet he still used manners.

'It's Lust!'... 'Stop trying to fool yourself... Just listen to your heart for once'.

'It's not right, he's younger than me' 'only by six years... soon to be five... ' Her heart had her beat. She tried desperately to find something that would make her stop liking him the way she did, however; nothing came up. 'I will not press myself to him, he doesn't need that'.

'This summer is going to be very interesting'

Harry had enjoyed the meal immensely; he also made sure to use his manners to his fullest, not wanting to seem like a slob to Tonks. He had already embarrassed himself when Tonks had caught him looking at her; his face went slightly red by the memory of it. "Thank you Tonks."

Tonks beamed at him, "It was my pleasure Harry, I'm glad you enjoyed it" Harry smiled even more, "So, Nymphadora, what's next." Harry teased, he knew that Tonks had purposely put that extra swing to her hips when she walked out the door, which had caused him to groan in delight and of pleasure. Payback. Tonks scowled at Harry, she hated that name. Harry chuckled to himself, he knew she was going to get him back, yet he couldn't help it.

"I'll get you for that, Harry. It will be when you least expect it," Tonks said in mock anger. Harry laughed inwardly and acted afraid, laughing harder.

"Oh yes... be afraid... be very afraid. There's nothing like an Aurors wrath, especially my wrath!" Harry was already openly laughing now; it had been a long time since he had laughed this hard. Tonks was laughing as well, "I'm glad that I could make you laugh"

Harry's problems and worries were long forgotten, he was enjoying himself immensely, not once since Tonks had come had he thought of Sirius. Although he knew that he should, he just couldn't help it, Tonks seemed to have an intoxicating effect on him. "Well, Potter. Next you will be taking a shower, you reek. Then, after that we will just have to find something to do" Tonks gave him a suggestive wink. Harry laughed some more, payback time.

"Sure Tonks, as long as you promise to peek" he gave her a suggestive wink. It was Tonks' turn to blush, Harry burst out laughing again and went to get some extra clothes and left the room, chuckling.

'This is going to be a fun summer' Harry beamed inwardly, perhaps it'll be the best summer. After his shower, Harry walked into the room, to see Tonks bending over rummaging through her trunk.

"Pleasant surprise" Tonks gasped and turned around quickly, she was heavily blushing. Harry laughed and sat down on his bed. "Sorry Tonks, I couldn't resist" Of course, he wasn't exactly sorry. Tonks smiled and sat down next to him.

"As long as you enjoyed my rump dear Harry then that's all that counts" Yet again, Harry was

forced to blush, this time heavier than Tonks was. He had enjoyed it immensely when she called him 'My dear Harry' it had caused shivers to run down his spine. 'Suppose the things that we can't have are the sweetest'. Tonks howled with laughter when she got that reaction from him

Harry was chuckling too; his blush was now slowly going away. His mind was racing to try to find a comeback to Tonks, but he just couldn't get anything. He ran his hand through his hair out of frustration, and sighed in defeat. Tonks chuckled some more, and went back to looking through her trunk.

"Hey Tonks if you don't mind me asking, what are you looking for?" Tonks glanced at him and answered, "wizards chess, thought I'd like to play with you"

"Surely it can't be that difficult to find it in that small trunk of yours?" Tonks chuckled a bit, "When I was packing my stuff to get here as fast as possible, I just literally shrunk all of my stuff and threw it in there. The only thing that I took care in putting in there was the food... AH found it" With a flick of her wand the board flew onto the table and the pieces flew and settled themselves onto their correct positions. "What color would you like to be Harry?"

"Black. I've been taught by the infamous Ron Weasley, and I'm confident of my skills." Tonks just smiled evilly and the match had begun as soon as they settled themselves into their respective spots. The pieces were reluctant to even play, they were complaining about being thrown across a room. After about five minutes of coaxing the pieces moved. Harry was slaughtered. Tonks had only lost three pawns.

The only thing Harry had was his king and a pawn. Tonks was playing with him, after she had cleverly pushed him into a corner, she struck. Tonks won by a landslide. Harry didn't even have his dignity left.

Tonks was having the best time in her life, and that was saying a lot. Unlike what she had previous thought, Harry was looking extremely happy. Not once had he frowned or began to brood over his Godfathers death. That was her initial plan of course, to try to get him not to think about Sirius's death. The little flirt wars were especially fun; she hadn't expected him to make her blush like she had. When she had called him 'My dear Harry' she enjoyed it immensely; it felt so... right to call him that.

The chess game was extremely fun as well; Harry played well. The beginning of the game he had a good foot hold. That was of course until he fell for her trap. He lost all of his strategy right there. She laughed triumphantly, and asked for another game. In a matter of hours she had seen those dull lifeless eyes turn back to their original state. She prided herself on that, she was very happy that she could bring back Harry's happiness. The only thing she needed to do was get him well fed. She was going to have to expand the room some more to make a kitchen, so that she could make some food for him and herself for dinner.

After five games of chess Tonks got up and started to expand the room some more, transfiguring some discarded books, and what looked like a broken TV into kitchen appliances. Magically powered of course. Harry had won three of the games; she lost on the second game on purpose to help Harry regain his dignity... bad idea. He came back with a vengeance. She made some frozen pizza, simple yet filling. She wasn't exactly Molly Weasley, that woman could cook up a storm. 'Speaking of Molly I'm going to have to ask her if she could spare some recipes... '

While they were eating the pizza, Harry had asked Tonks some questions about being an Auror, and the difficulty of achieving it. He had his full attention to her and never stopped paying attention to her. After the pizza Harry had yawned, and said goodnight. She watched as he took of his shirt to put on the pajama top. Either too tired or too lazy to put the bottom ones on he climbed into bed. She gasped as she saw his body... he was skinnier than she had thought; most of his ribs were sticking out. She muttered under her breath "Oh Harry..."

Today had been extremely fun. There wasn't one thing she would've changed about it. Although it was relatively early, both of them were tired. Yes indeed, today was definitely one of the best days of Tonks' life. She changed into her nightgown and went to sleep.

That was until Harry started to have nightmares. She had been asleep for a couple of hours until she heard Harry scream and flail on his bed. Tonks had crept onto Harry's bed and held him to herself, wrapping her arms around his chest, and whispering that everything is ok, and she was here. He seemed to calm down, but still wept in his sleep. She never left him; she simply laid there with him and kept whispering into his ear until his nightmares had completely stopped. The last thing she remembered was hearing Harry mutter her name in his sleep.

Authors Note: Horrible mistakes of mine. Thank god I'm revising them! Hope you enjoy them better now.