Tonks yawned, throwing her book at Sirius.

"Come on, we have to figure out how to do this hair thing."

Sirius pushed his hair out of his eyes. It was 3am, and they were still up trying to figure out how on earth they were going to turn Remus' hair rainbow colours. Why did Tonks have to write something so hard to do?

"Cant we just put muggle dye in his shampoo?" Sirius groaned.

"No!"

"Why not?"

"Because that stuff would have to stay in his hair for half an hour! Remus is a guy. His whole shower is less than five minutes…"

"You count how long he's in for? Waiting till he comes out so you can catch him half nude?"

Tonks rolled her eyes, a red tinge rising on her cheeks. "Sure… at least he has a shower." She eyed Sirius' hair.

"Hey, I shower... occasionally."

"Sure you do…"

Sirius shifted uncomfortably in his kitchen seat. "So the shampoo wont work… can we put it in his food?"

"Not the dye…"

Sirius sighed. "Looks like we'll have to pass on this one then. I'm stuck for ideas."

"Hang up… have you considered potions yet? There is a colour change one, I'm sure!"

"I have now… and I'm sure there is too. But how are we going to get it in him?"

Tonks thought for a moment. "Chocolate."

"Chocolate?" Sirius asked sceptically.

"Chocolate."

"But what does chocolate have to do with anything?" Sirius asked, confused. Tonks perched lithely on the edge of the table, opposite Sirius.

"Well, you know Remus. He's a junkie. So, we get some of that colour change stuff in some wicked crazy colours, and put a different colour in each square."

"Won't he taste it?"

Tonks shrugged. "Get chocolate flavoured stuff. I'm sure you can."

"Okay, but how are we going to get him to eat the chocolate? I suppose if we just leave it in the cupboard he'll eat it…" Sirius mused.

"But someone else might as well. And I don't plan on trying to explain to Molly when her hair turns into a rainbow."

"True… so how? An apology gift?"

"Not from you."

Sirius snorted. Obviously not! But you could… I hear the two of you had a nice time the other night..."

Tonks reddened. "What did Amber tell you?"

"That you snogged his face off, pretty much." Sirius smirked.

"I did not snog his face off!"

"But you still snogged him."

"It's a free country. I can snog him if I want to."

"Of course you can. So you can just do it again and apologise for our stupid behaviour. Say you want a clean slate, that sort of crap."

"He's not going to fall for that."

"Make him. Use your girly charm." Sirius batted his eyelashes.

"If you stop doing that I will."

"Deal!"

It was with a heavy heart that Tonks walked up to Remus' room the next afternoon. She felt kind of bad for him- he'd freaked enough when they'd cut his hair off. But still, she did get to snog him again… and he wasn't too bad at that.

She knocked lightly on the door.

"Come in." Remus sounded tired. She flung the door open, bouncing in and sitting on his bed.

"Wotcher Remus!"

He ran a hand over his face. "What do you want?" he groaned.

Tonks looked taken aback. "Well, I was going to apologize for being a right git lately, but obviously you'd rather I didn't…"

"No- I'm sorry… I just haven't had a lot of sleep recently. Too busy thinking about after Christmas." He made a face.

"Oh, right… well, I really wanted to say sorry, I feel like such a prick after the other day… so I'm sorry. Sirius probably isn't, but I am. Here. I got you some chocolate. Honeydukes best."

"Oh, um… thanks. He sat down next to her, holding the block of chocolate and turning it over in his hands.

"I'll miss you while you're away." Tonks said quietly.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah." She smiled. "But don't worry, I'm getting you a great present, you won't be able to forget me while you're away."

"How horrible is it?"

"It's not horrible at all! It's a sweetie, you'll love it!"

"What sort of present are we talking about?"

Tonks shrugged, standing up. "The nice sort."

"That sounds scary." Remus stood too, still staring at the chocolate.

"Remus?"

"Yeah?" he looked up, only to find that Tonks was much too close…

"Happy Christmas."

And she kissed him. There was a clunk as the block of chocolate fell to the ground.

"Oops… sorry dear!"

They broke apart as the door slammed shut behind a mop of red hair.

"Err… well; don't forget your chocolate, yeah?"

"Oh, no. I might have some now… you want any?"

Tonks shook her head, smiling. Her head was still spinning. "No… you have it. See you tomorrow… have a good Christmas Eve."

Tonks practically floated out of the room.

"Someone had a good snog." Sirius smirked as she met him in the study.

"Yeah…"

"That good huh?" Sirius asked, his smirk growing wider at her vacant expression. Tonks shook her head.

"Sorry. But yes, it was pretty damn good." She smirked back. "And I don't think we have long to wait."

"Does it change colour by itself or does it need to be activated?"

Tonks pulled a small flask out of her pocket, reading the small print on the label. "It's a cheapie, so I think it'll need to be activated… it's especially for pranks you see… yes, activation required, and there's the spell…"

"So when do you want to do that?" Sirius asked.

"Give him time to eat the stuff, Sirius. Maybe half an hour? We can look at puppies in the meantime!"

"Did you go round the pounds and get some pictures?"

"Yup. I thought these five were pretty cute." She shoved a small pile of photos under Sirius' nose. He flicked through them. Raising an eyebrow, he held one up.

"This is an Irish wolfhound. Don't you think that would be a rather stupid move at this point?"

"Oh, right… I s'pose it would be…" Tonks said, scratching her head. "Me and Amber thought he was cute. Guess he gets big though..."

"Very big."

"Oh."

"This Chihuahua could be good… its nice and fluffy, and I like the black, brown and white more than these brown ones… and that white one just creeps me out. Its eyes are huge!"

Tonks giggled. "Isn't it cute though?"

"No, decidedly not."

"So you want that one then?"

"I think it would be best…"

"Shall I get it now, or wait till after?"

"Might as well go now, it gets you out of trouble… he wont suspect you if you were out the whole time."

"Very true… well, ill go get her than!" Tonks stopped by the door. "Oh, and Sirius? I do hope you're not picking her cause you want a shag."

Sirius' jaw dropped. "That's…. no! No, that's over the line Tonks! Over the line!" he called as she jumped down the stairs.

"What was that about?" Remus asked, sticking his head out the door. "I heard her say shag, and then you started yelling. I've never known you to turn down a shag before." Remus grinned. Sirius made a face.

"You'll understand tomorrow, don't you worry." Glaring, Sirius huffed off to his room.

Soon after Tonks came back, carrying a big cardboard box. She had put a silencing charm on the Chihuahua, so Remus wouldn't guess what it was, but she still didn't want him to see her carrying it up.

Quickly, she dropped the box on Sirius' bed. "Her name's Poppy. Don't you get too friendly while I'm away." She smirked, winking. Sirius growled.

Skipping, Tonks whistled her way along the hall, making as much noise as possible. Remus quickly stuck his head out.

"Err… what are you doing?"

"Not much, really… ooh!" she tripped over her own foot, and threw her arms around Remus' neck to stop herself from falling. Grinning into his shirt, she muttered the activation charm.

"Dora, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine…" She smiled, glancing at his hair, which was getting brighter and brighter by the second. Standing back, she admired her handy work. "Well, I gotta go wrap your present…"

"Oh. Right. Well… bye."

Tonks waved, heading back for Sirius' room. She loved how awkward Remus was acting now that they'd snogged…

"Did you do it?" Sirius asked eagerly, scratching Poppy behind the ears. She yapped, but no sound came out.

Tonks nodded. "Wait for it…"

Soon enough, they heard a strangled yell from down the hall. Dropping Poppy on the bed, they rushed out into the hall, when Remus burst out of his room, grabbing fistfuls of his hair- he looked quite deranged. All the kids had come down to look as well.

"YOU!" Remus pointed a shaking finger at Sirius. "Why? Look what you've done!"

"Nice work, Sirius." George commented.

"I do like how it's stripped like a rainbow too." Fred added.

"This is the worst year ever, Sirius! Why me? Why? What did I do to deserve this?"

Sirius sighed. "Well, its more the fact you exist, if you know what I mean… you're just too fun to poke fun at!"

Growling, Remus lunged.

Bill arrived in the nick of time, holding Remus back. "Calm down, mate… I'm sure it'll wash out… wont it?" He looked at Sirius, who shook his head gleefully. Remus lunged again.

"I've always known he was mental." Tonks muttered to Harry, who was grinning beside her. "I've known it for years."

It was a rather red eyed and sulky Remus who greeted them in the morning, muttering "Happy Christmas," without looking at them.

Frowning, Tonks put her large wrapped box on the table. "I'm only going to give this to you if you cheer up. I'll find you a cure, don't worry!"

"But I'm supposed to go to the colony in a few days… I cant go like this! They'll all think I have… issues!"

"You do have issues." Sirius muttered.

Tonks waved this comment off. "I'll find something. Now cheer up, so I can give you your present!"

Remus gave a forced smile. "Fine, I'm happy. I want to give you one first though…" He handed her a small velvet box.

"Proposing Moony?" Sirius asked eagerly. "I'm arranging your bachelor party!"

Remus blushed. "No."

"Oh, Remus…" Tonks held up the silver chain, watching the small crystal wolf glitter in the light. "Its beautiful! Thank you so much, I love it!"

"S'ok." Remus mumbled.

"Well, you better open yours now, its not as good, really…"

Remus lifted the lid, and was greeted with a wet lick on the nose.

"This is Poppy." Sirius informed him. "Happy Christmas!"

Remus held the Chihuahua at arms length, watching it wag its tail happily.

"Tonks, I do hope you realise what a disgusting and disturbing joke that was last night. That was way over the line."

Tonks smiled sweetly. "I can apply it to you too, you know."

A/N: sorry I took so long to update!! Honestly I am, but I get such bad writers block on this fic. I know that's a crap excuse… thanks to everyone who made me get off my ass and write this though! *showers with cookies* please review, I promise ill update faster… not that that should be hard, lol.

Tonks xox