Author's Note:

Remus doesn't want to admit what he is feeling. He is stubborn. Also, I remember some of the questions the kids asked when I was in Rome about the Roman art work and the more sexual graffiti so, I thought it would be fun to have Harry ask the same ones. Hope you enjoy this chapter.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the lyrics to 'Dream On' those belong to Aerosmith.

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CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN:

The One Where Tonks Turns Seventeen

Remus crossed his arms in front of him as Harry headed up the stairs and Sirius sat their luggage in the living room, taking a seat on the chesterfield. "I think it was a good trip for the both of you. Did you have a good time?"

"It was much needed. I needed a little break from here and just wanted to go out and see something new and explore and being there with Harry was positively hilarious. Harry was full of questions too, which was fun." He grinned as he remembered. "Do you remember what is on the walls of Pompeii?"

Remus looked puzzled for a moment. "On the walls? You mean the graffiti? What about it, Sirius?"

"Let me rephrase that," Sirius said with a grin as he remembered Harry's questions. "On the walls in the brothels of Pompeii?"

Remus still looked puzzled. "Well, there were depictions of the different sex acts. Some historians believe it was for the customers to choose how they wanted to be serviced by the prostitutes."

"Yes."

"What about it, Sirius?"

Sirius simply grinned. "Harry was full of questions, Moony," he said with a laugh. "You should have seen the face of the Muggle tour guide when Harry asked why anyone would want to stick their prick into someone else's mouth."

Remus flushed red. "Oh, Merlin!"

Sirius laughed, his eyes twinkling. "Then he wanted to know why the woman was on her hands and knees with a man kneeling behind her."

"Oh, Merlin, Sirius, what did you say? Why didn't you cover his eyes?"

Sirius grinned, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. "I told him that sex was for grownups and that when he was older I would explain in detail what those meant. He asked me how much older so, I told him that when he had the desire to kiss a girl or a boy, then we would talk. His response to that was a resounding 'eww.'"

Remus chuckled now. "Oh, God, Padfoot, the thought of giving him the sex talk…"

Sirius shrugged. "I think it will be fun."

"Only you would ever consider that fun," Remus said in exasperation.

Sirius grinned widely. "No, think about it, Moony. He'll be at that awkward stage and he'll be completely mortified by us discussing it with him. And you know that I have every intention of making it the most detailed talk in the history of detailed talks."

Remus rolled his eyes. "I'm afraid to ask."

Sirius smirked. "I want him to be fully prepared, Moony. I plan on not only telling him what goes where, but safe sex obviously as well as how to properly please his partner. I want him to know about oral and about orgasms and about masturbation and about positions. As the god of sex, my godson should benefit from my great knowledge and expertise and therefore become a sex god himself when it is his time."

Remus simply stared at him. "I have no words."

"Remus, Remus, Remus, if my young progeny is not aware of how good it is to pleasure one's partner or how good it feels to be pleasured, then my own experiences were for naught! Other than for my own pleasures that is." He wiggled his eyebrows. "And I enjoyed every single one of them immensely."

Remus shook his head. "And how old is Harry going to be when you give him this information? Remember, it was in second year when you had your first sexual encounter."

"Yes, but I was thirteen, Harry has a later birthday and will mature later. I would think anyway. And I don't know, I guess probably around second or third year. When I start to notice him looking at girls I guess, or boys, or showing any sign of any sexual interest, I suppose."

Remus grinned at him. "As long as you have it all figured out."

"I do, mostly," he said with a smirk. "So, what did you get up too while we were gone? Any interesting shags?"

Remus laughed and shook his head. "No. I haven't been with anyone since my thirtieth and there isn't anyone I am interested in at the moment," he added, stubbornly shoving thoughts of Nymphadora aside. "I played with Marauder and I spent some time in the garden. I did some reading. I relaxed. It was peaceful and kind of nice to spend some time alone actually. I did run into Hagrid in Diagon Alley and we had a drink at The Leaky Cauldron. He got a new puppy, another boar-hound. He's named him Fang. He's only four months old and was the runt of the litter."

Sirius smiled. "That sounds nice and good for Hagrid."

"Also, I dipped into your vault to buy these," Remus said, grabbing the envelope off of the coffee table in the living room and passing it across to him. "I saw the ad in the Muggle newspaper and I knew that you would be disappointed if you didn't get tickets. I'll pay you back for my own one, but I thought we could take Harry as part of his birthday present."

Sirius opened the envelope in interest and his eyes widened in surprise as he looked at the three tickets there. "Concert tickets?" His grin widened. "Aerosmith? Excellent, Remus! Harry's first real concert!"

"It's what I was thinking," Remus said with a smile. "I know how much you love them and their new album. When I saw that they were performing in Dublin in August, I figured I couldn't pass it up."

Sirius immediately hurried over to the wireless record player, digging through the albums on the shelf until he came across their first album Aerosmith and slipping it into place smiling as the music began.

"Godric, I remember the first time I heard them back in sixth year."

"Lily was playing it in the common room, wasn't she?"

Sirius nodded. "She was. I think Mary had gotten her the album."

Remus grinned as they both thought back to that day.

Sirius, Remus, James, and Peter stepped into the Gryffindor common room just as Lily, Mary, and Marlene were swaying in the centre of the room and belting out the words to a song that they had never heard before.

"Sing with me, sing for the years! Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears! Sing with me, just for today! Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you awa—ayyyy! Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year! Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears; sing with me, just for today. Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away. Dream on. Dream on. Dream on. Dream until your dreams come true. Dream on. Dream on. Dream on. Dream on until your dreams come true. Dream on. Dream on. Dream on. Dream on. Dream on. Dream on. Dream onnnnnnnnnnn!"

At the final note, Marlene was holding her bottle of butterbeer like a microphone and practically screeching on the final notes.

Lily was singing loudly, very badly and off key, but clearly enjoying herself immensely.

"Yo, Evans!" James called out, moving to the wireless to check it out. "Who is this?"

"Aerosmith," Marlene told him, smiling. "Aren't they brilliant? They're from America."

James looked at the album in interest. "I like this one, I like the beat."

Lily pointed her wand at the record player and played back 'Dream On.' "The words to this one are just so beautiful," she said, grinning when Mary took her hand and spun her. "Half my life is books, written pages; live and learn from fools and from sages." Mary spun her out and Lily laughed when she found herself in Sirius' arms. "Hi, Black."

"Hi, Evans," he said with a grin, spinning her out and then back into his arms, dipping her and kissing her forehead, making her laugh.

"Didn't know you were such a great dancer," she said with a grin.

Sirius spun her out and she spun directly into James, her hands landing on his chest to steady herself. "I took lessons."

James grinned at her, taking her hands in his as he led her into the next steps. "We both did." He spun her in a circle and back into his arms. "They aren't The Beatles, but I like this Aerosmith."

Lily smiled at him, resigning herself to dance with him. "Mary's brother introduced her to the music over Christmas break. She was anxious to share it with us. They're pretty great. But I prefer The Beatles too."

James beamed at her. "See, Evans, we're made for each other."

Lily rolled her eyes and turned back to look at Sirius. "Why did you spin me into him?"

Marlene laughed. "Oh poor, Lily; being forced to dance with the sexiest bloke in school."

Peter laughed, holding his hand out to Mary who accepted and joined the dancing. "Don't say that, Marly, you know who's going to take immediate offence."

"Hey!" Sirius exclaimed, grabbing Marlene and tugging her into his arms as Peter only nodded at Sirius as if to say, see. "That privilege belongs to you, McKinnon, being that you are in MY arms!"

She laughed and looped her arms around his neck. "Oh, my apologies. But who is the star of the Gryffindor Quidditch team?"

"You?"

She grinned and pat Sirius on the cheek. "Good boy."

James spun Lily out and back up against him as the song changed. "Don't worry McKinnon, if his ego gets any bigger he won't be able to fit through the portrait hole."

"Is that why you brewed Shrinking Solution in Potions today?" Lily asked him, a smirk on her lips. "So you could make it up to your dorm?"

James smirked back at her. "Nah, I brewed that so I could shrink the bits of the Slytherins by putting it in their soap. You should have seen the look on Rosier's face when he came out of the locker room, hands over his crotch and pale as can be. To be honest, I was surprised they could get any smaller in the first place."

Lily rolled her eyes. "Potter! I am a prefect and will have to punish you for that!"

James grinned at her. "Only if you saw it."

Lily opened her mouth to protest and then she sighed. He was completely right. She hadn't witnessed it happening nor had she seen the Slytherins take the potion. She smirked up at him. "How small did they shrink?"

James wiggled his pinky finger. "About half of my finger I imagine; I worked hard on that potion."

Lily grinned widely. "I am not amused."

James grinned back at her. "Sure you're not, Evans." He dipped her back. "A gentlemen might take this opportunity to lean in for a kiss. What do you say, Evans?"

"Kiss me and I'll break your nose, Potter."

James tugged her back up and licked his lips. "Might be worth it."

Lily pushed him away, rolling her eyes. "Mary, start the album over. I want to listen from the beginning while I edit my Potions essay."

"I'll read yours over, Lily," Remus offered, opening his own book bag. "Do you think you could look over mine as well?"

"Of course, Remus," she said with a smile, her hips still swaying to the beat of the music as she took a seat on the chesterfield.

Sirius plopped down next to Lily with a smile. "Can we play some Queen afterwards? I really like them."

James nodded, moving to tug out his own potions essay. "I vote on The Rolling Stones or Pink Floyd. Listening to some Dark Side of the Moon sounds great at the moment."

Lily smiled at him. "That can definitely be arranged on one condition."

James' eyebrow rose. "Which is?"

"You read over my Transfiguration essay for me?"

James simply grinned. "Deal."

"Lily introduced us to most of the music I've grown to love," Sirius said with a grin. "Jamie showed me The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin. Lily showed me Queen, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, The Kinks, The Who… and remember when Mary came back in seventh year absolutely in love with that American surfer group, The Beach Boys?"

Remus laughed, grinning at the memory. "I do. And the more Muggle music we listened to, the more King and Deanna would insist on blaring Charmed that all witch rock group? King was in love with the female lead, had her poster by his bed?"

Sirius grinned at the memory. "Ooh yeah, Chelsea Saddle, that curvy blonde, she was sexy. Deanna loved that vampire band too, The Immortal Souls. She used to play that one song over and over again, do you remember? It went something like, 'when you see me creeping up in the night, you know I just want a good fight with you, with you. When you see me holding you close, kissing your skin and missing you most, with you, with you. I am the dark to your light, I am the thing in the night, I am the dark lover to you, to you.'"

Remus grinned, the song coming to him now. "I am the lover you crave in the night; I'm here to tell you it will all be all right, I am the lover you crave in the night, I am your dark soul and I want you tonight!' Merlin, she played it at least a hundred times."

"I think she wanted that vampire more than she let on," Sirius said with a grin. "They were a great band though, until the drummer got killed by Death Eaters."

Remus nodded. "Yeah, they were pretty great. And that rock group from Dublin, what were they called, The Shamrock Sams; four members all named Sam."

"Oh, yeah they were great! The drummer, that hot brunette with the big brown eyes, I had her poster next to my bed."

Remus rolled his eyes as he remembered. "I know. You used to leave your curtains open while you looked at it."

Sirius grinned. "I wasn't just looking at it."

Remus stared at his friend in annoyance. "I know."

Sirius laughed, grinning at the memories. "No, honestly, Moony, these tickets are great! Aerosmith is a great band for Harry's first concert and I'd love to see them live myself. He'll love it. Thanks, Moony."

Remus grinned. "You're welcome."

~ ASC ~

April turned into May and then May into June and Andromeda and Ted invited Sirius, Harry, and Remus over for Nymphadora's big seventeenth birthday bash. Since her seventeenth birthday had actually fallen on the eighteenth of May, this was just to celebrate, but he knew how much she was looking forward to it. Remus hadn't set eyes on her since New Years's Eve, but he was convinced that his mind had made her out to be much prettier than she actually was. After all, he had been in hormone hell over the holidays, his werewolf tendencies had caused him to overreact.

Or so he had told himself over and over again for the last six months when she continued to creep up in his dreams and in his fantasies.

But one look at her in the tight blue sundress that cupped her round bottom and blue high heels that made her legs look like they went up to her ears had him thinking otherwise as his blood hummed and immediately pooled to attention between his thighs. Especially, when she took one step in those heels and tumbled forwards. Remus caught her, his hands on the curve of her hips and she blushed.

"Remus, I'm so sorry! I told Mum that I would never be able to walk in these things, but she insisted!"

Remus smiled warmly at her. "You look beautiful in them."

Tonks blushed deeper. "Thanks."

Remus noticed that she didn't take off the heels, but she still stumbled in them pretty regularly.

"Tonks, Happy Birthday!" Sirius said, standing up to hug his cousin, laughing when she stumbled towards him in her heels. "My, my, you must be beating the boys back at school. You sure grew up pretty, kid."

She grinned up at him. "Thanks. Dad says that I look more and more like Mum every day, but Mum says that she would never be caught dead with such pink hair."

Sirius laughed and ruffled his hands through her shoulder-length pink layers. "I like it. You rock the colour well. So, still have that boyfriend?"

Tonks rolled her eyes, blushing a bit as she attempted to fix her hair. "After you told Connor at New Years that if he even so much as thought about touching me anywhere that you would transfigure him into a dung beetle and then step on him — why would I ever tell you if I did?"

Sirius grinned at her. "Tonks, he was pawing at you. I was merely looking out for your best interest."

"Maybe I wanted him to paw at me."

Sirius' mouth dropped open. "Nymphadora!"

"Don't call me that!"

"You can't just…" Sirius exclaimed, his eyes bulging. "You can't just let any bloke paw at you."

Tonks smirked at him as she sipped the punch in her hand. "I don't let just any bloke paw at me. It's the nineties, Sirius, I think I can make my own choices."

Sirius grinned at Remus, who was watching them with amusement. "Are you listening to this, Rem? She wanted that prat to paw at her? He didn't even have any skill."

She smiled. "Which I only found out by letting him try." She pat her hand on Sirius' cheek. "Don't worry, cousin, I can take care of myself."

"I'm sure you can, love, but let's not take away all my fun. Some boy hurts you, I want to know about it."

Tonks grinned and kissed his cheek. "Thanks, Sirius."

Sirius shook his head as he watched her hurry off to hug a friend. "When the hell did she grow up, eh?"

Remus only made a non-committal sound in response.

"Seriously though, I see anyone pawing at her like that again, I might have to make that threat happen. She's a gorgeous young woman now. She's officially an adult today." He paled as he looked at his friend. "Merlin, do you think that she's still a virgin?"

Remus choked on his punch. "S-Sirius!"

Sirius shrugged, grinning widely. "Well, it's more than a fair question. I sure as hell wasn't at seventeen and the way she said… I'm not going to think about it. Nope, not thinking about it."

That would make two of them, Remus thought. He definitely didn't need to be thinking about that.

A few of Tonks' friends from school had arrived, interrupting their conversation, including Charlie Weasley, but not the boyfriend Connor, who she apparently had broken up with a few months back. Her new boyfriend, a Ravenclaw named Jonathan Pepper, arrived with Charlie. He slipped his arm around Tonks' waist, leaning in to kiss her neck and she blushed.

Remus' hands fisted in his pockets.

Andromeda made her a giant rainbow cake in the shape of the number seventeen and Tonks blew out the candles happily.

Music played and everyone was dancing and having a great time. Tonks and Jonathan were dancing closely, his hands sat on her hips, his mouth by her ear as she kept her arms wrapped around his neck while they swayed. Remus tried not to watch her, but the sway of her hips in the blue dress, her long bare legs and her sweet laugh made it hard for him not too. He imagined it was him holding her close like that; that tight body pressed up against his, the perky breasts against his chest as she swayed and pushed against him. He swallowed when he realized that he was hard again and desperately tried to think of something else.

Andromeda and Ted decided to head inside for the night around nine thirty, leaving Tonks alone with her friends and Sirius nodded.

"We're going to get going, too. I just have to pull Harry off of the dance floor. The kid is having an absolute blast."

Andromeda laughed as she watched Harry dance around the teenagers, smiling sweetly at them as they danced with him. He was definitely enjoying himself.

Remus said goodbye and made his way over to the refreshments table, taking a long drink of the punch there and jolting when he turned to find Tonks standing directly in front of him.

"You're leaving?"

He nodded, drinking the punch again. "It's late, us old folks need to head home."

Tonks rolled her eyes and grinned at him. "You're not old, Remus."

He smiled. "Old enough. Happy Birthday, Dora," he said, cupping her cheek and kissing her forehead. "I hope seventeen is very sweet for you."

Remus turned to head into the house, surprised when her hand touched his arm and it sent an immediate reaction to his groin.

"You were watching me on the dance floor," Tonks said.

Remus felt his blood pressure rise.

He closed his eyes. "I was just seeing that you were having fun with your friends the way a young girl like yourself should be. And making sure that boyfriend of yours is treating you right. Like Sirius said, we don't want you to get hurt."

Tonks rolled her eyes. "I'm a grown woman, I can take care of myself."

Remus simply smiled. "Not so grown yet, Nymphadora. Have a good birthday."

He stopped himself from leaning in to kiss her cheek again by shoving his hands into his pockets, willing himself not to touch her before he headed out to the Apparition point to head home.

She was a grown woman now he realized and even more beautiful than she had been the last time that he had laid eyes on her. He covered his face with his hands. He needed to stop thinking about her. She wasn't for him and he could never possibly deserve anyone so beautiful and pure as she was.

He was a monster, he thought once more, taking a seat on his sofa. He was a monster and he wasn't even remotely worthy of someone like her.

He hoped this Pepper was.

~ ASC ~

Remus spent the next two days alone at his house playing the piano and sitting in solitude. He didn't go anywhere. He just contemplated what he was going to do about his naughty thoughts for Nymphadora and hating himself for them. When had she grown up into such a deliciously tempting young woman? He wasn't sure, but he knew that his feelings were more than wrong. He was thirty and she was seventeen. He ought to be castrated for his thoughts alone, he thought bitterly.

He spent the next two weeks in lessons with Harry. He only stayed for dinner twice and didn't speak much about anything. Sirius had questioned him about it, but he had dismissed his friend. If Sirius ever found out what he was thinking… Remus shivered in horror. That was his little cousin.

He'd just finished making lunch for himself and Harry that afternoon when the backdoor opened.

"Perfect timing, little Prongs, lunch is served," he said with a smile, turning and jolting when he saw Tonks standing there instead of Harry.

She was in short jean shorts, yards of leg showing and a silver halter top that left her belly button ring gleaming and showing him that her perky breasts were most definitely not being contained in a bra.

She smiled at him. "Lunch sounds great, Remus." She slipped into a chair at the table.

Remus swallowed slowly. "Can you ask Harry to come in?"

Tonks smiled. "Of course."

She yelled out the backdoor for Harry and took her seat at the table again.

Harry came in almost immediately, hugging Tonks when he saw her. "Hi! Are you here to play with me?"

Tonks grinned at him. "Maybe. If Professor Lupin here lets you have a break after lunch?"

"Please, Uncle Moony!" Harry asked, his eyes pleading. "Tonks has been at school for-EVER!"

Remus smiled. "Sure, Harry. After lunch. Go wash up."

Harry skipped off to head upstairs to wash his hands. Remus placed a plate with a sandwich and some fruits and vegetables in front of Tonks.

"He loves it when you come over and play with him. I think he views you as a bit of a big sister to him," Remus told her, holding up a pitcher of pumpkin juice in gesture.

Tonks smiled at him, her grey eyes following him around the kitchen. "He's an easy kid to love. I enjoy coming over and spending time with him. He's my little brother as much as I'm his older sister. Plus, coming here means I get to see you."

Remus handed her the glass of pumpkin juice without a word and swallowed slowly. "Oh? Why would you want to see me?"

Tonks simply grinned and took a drink of her juice. "You're fun to be around."

He offered her a small smile. "Where's your boyfriend these days?"

"Jon? He's visiting his grandparents in Paris this week. But next week I'm going to stay with him and his parents for a bit," she told him with a smile. "I've missed having him around every day."

Remus nodded. Staying with her boyfriend, there was a thought he immensely didn't like. When Harry came back downstairs, Tonks spent the next thirty minutes regaling Harry and Remus with some of the pranks she had gotten away with at Hogwarts that year; including transforming into Filch and giving a few of her classmates detentions. She let Harry lead her outside afterwards and she followed him up the rock wall and into the treehouse as he insisted they play on the pirate ship.

Remus watched them through the window. Looking wasn't a crime he told himself as his eyes followed her long legs as she wrapped them around the pole and slid down into the treehouse. The image had him hardening as he imagined just what else those legs could wrap around and he hurriedly turned back to the dishes in the sink, soaping up the plates with gusto.

The sound of her laugh, had his gaze turning back to the window and he watched as she sat in the tire swing and let Harry push her. She was a child, he told himself. A child who was still full of childish delight and was here playing with Harry. Touching her would be more than wrong; it would be breaking all of the rules.

He had never liked rules, he thought.

Remus closed his eyes again. Sirius would kill him. That was reason enough. He would never betray his best friend like that. He needed to get her out of his mind.

Harry was wrestling with Marauder now and Remus jolted when he realized that she was walking back towards the house. Remus quickly went back to the dishes, his ears reddening as he realized that he'd been watching her for over half an hour and had only washed one plate. He set his wand to do the task and he hurried into the sunroom, shuffling papers on the desk in an attempt to look busy.

The sound of her clearing her throat from the doorway had him looking up. "Hello, Nymphadora, is Harry all right?"

Tonks smiled at him. "Harry's fine. He's decided to play with Marauder now," she said as she stepped into the room.

Remus nodded and moved the papers in his hand over to the file on the other side of the desk. "Good, good. Well, you should head home then. Harry and I must be getting back to our studies."

Tonks merely strolled over and took a seat on his desk, crossing her legs. She reached over and picked up a quill, twirling it between her fingers. "I don't have much going on today. Maybe I'll hang out and see what you're teaching."

"No," Remus said, sternly. "You'll only distract Harry."

She smirked at him from under her long purple lashes. "I'll distract Harry? Are you sure?" she asked, her eyes trailing down his light blue dress shirt, partly unbuttoned and untucked over his worn blue jeans. She hopped off of the desk and took a step towards him, grinning when he took a step back, trapping himself between her and the blackboard. "What's going on, Remus? You're acting strange?"

Remus swallowed slowly, his eyes on her lips and then he closed his eyes. "No, I'm fine. I just have a lot of work to do. You should go." He carefully pushed her away from him and hurried over to the desk, shuffling papers in an attempt to look busy.

Tonks merely raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure that you're all right?"

"I'm fine. It was nice to see you, Nymphadora."

She smiled at him and stood on her toes to kiss his cheek. "See you around."

When she left the room, his hands fisted at his sides again.

No matter what he had told himself over and over again, she was definitely not a child anymore.

It was going to be a long summer, he thought, as his cheek burned from where her lips had touched him.

A very long summer.