Hey people I'm back. Hopefully this chapter won't be that short or rushed. Sorry again about that. Ok I just wanted to clarify that this part of the story is taking place during the fifth book. Now unfortunately, I don't remember everything about the fifth book and I don't know where my book is. So I'm kind of going to have to improvise. I'll go from what I know and such. For instance in this chapter Tonks is going to visit Grimmauld Place and Remus is going to be there and…

Wait wait, I'm not going to give it away. Ok we're moving on now.

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A/N Okie dokie we're moving to the story. Now, I currently have five reviews, and I really don't want to go on until that number boosts to twelve. So on your way out hit the submit button and give me a shout out! OK I'm done now! Ok so when her mum explains tonks name I don't know if it's correct, but her I'm trying to make it interesting.

Tonks finished her mac'n'cheese, it was delicious; as it always had been. It was getting late, she had some paperwork to do, and she was rather tired, and had a big day at the ministry the next day, so she needed rest. She climbed out of bed, grabbed her bowl and headed downstairs to the kitchen. As she reached the landing between the two flights of stairs she heard her mum's sweet voice. She was talking to her dad.

"Ted, I'm sorry that I can't be that much help to you. I'm not very familiar with muggle diseases." Ted didn't give an answer; he was sound asleep. Tonks was going to continue down the stairs, but then she heard her mother's voice again.

"You know Ted, I know you can't hear me, but I just need to talk to you, and I guess sometimes it's better to talk when you're not awake. I'm worried about Nymphadora. This war against the Dark Lord is getting worse by the day. Now I don't know that much about it, but from what Nymphadora says it's incredibly dangerous. To make matters worse I think she's hiding something from us Ted. I don't know what it is, but something's telling me she's hiding something big from us. I know if you were awake you'd tell me to trust her, and if she is hiding something wait and let her tell us, and that I worry to much, and I dunno, maybe you're right. Well, I'll let you sleep, the couch isn't as comfortable as the bed, but you're already asleep and I don't want to get sick with a disease that I don't know how to treat. Goodnight, darling; I love you." Her mum got up and headed into the kitchen to get her before bed cup of tea. She did the same thing every night since Tonks could remember. In fact one of her first clear memories was sitting on her mum's lap while she drank her before bed cup of tea. She was sitting on her mum's lap in the sitting room on the sofa when she first found out she was a metomorphagus. Yupp, that tea was tradition it kept the world going round.

After her mum disappeared into the kitchen Tonks followed. "Hey, mum," She said as she placed her bowl in the sink and began to wash it off."

"Hello Nymphadora," Andromeda, Tonks's mum replied.

"Mum, please I've asked you don't call me Nymphadora, call me Tonks."

"I gave you the name, Nymphadora, the day you were born. It hurts me that you don't want to be called by it. Why don't you like it anyway?"

"I dunno," Tonks said as she began to dry the bowl with a rag. "It's just, I dunno, it's weird and different…"

"Aren't you different and unique?"

" And no one can ever remember how to pronounce it, and Tonks is just so much easier to pronounce. Plus mum, I'm an auror. I'm tough and smart, and Nymphadora is such a girly name, Tonks just sounds better."

"Look at you, more like your father every day," Andromeda said as she watched Tonks dry the bowl. Ted always did things in the muggle ways he was accustomed to."

"Would you like some tea?"

"Yeah sure," Tonks said.

"You know Nymphadora," Andromeda said as she was pouring tea "I gave you your name for a reason."

"Yeah I know."

"But do you know what that reason is?"

"No, not really."

"Well sit down drink your tea and I'll tell you."

"Mum, really I want to, but I have work to do for the office, and I've got meetings tomorrow and stuff."

"I know, but I want to tell you why you have the name you do."

"Alright."

"Well, the day you were born we really didn't have a set name for you. You were born early so we didn't get as much as we thought we would. We thought about simply naming you Dora…"

"Well that would have been ok."

"Hush please. Then when I first saw you I noticed that the little hair you had was rapidly changing colors and I realized that you were a metomorphagus. Then I thought what about Nymphadora. It was a name I had thought of as a child and suddenly I remembered it and couldn't have fit more perfectly."

"So you gave me my name because you remembered making it up as a child?"

"No, no. I realized it couldn't have fit more perfectly. You were different, you were unique." She took a sip of her tea. "You know Nymphs are from Greek Mythology." Tonks just tilted her head; she was confused on how her mum knew that.

"You're looking at the woman who was top in her year in muggle studies at Hogwarts. Anyway, in Greek mythology nymphs were like fairies. They were unpredictable, a little scary, and beautiful. Nymph is also an insect that goes through a metamorphosis. You know metamorphosis is a striking alteration in appearance. So your name is really you. No other name would fit. You go through appearances; you're unpredictable, beautiful, and sometimes quite scary. No other name would fit you but Nymphadora. So that's how you got your name. Now, I'm off to bed, you go work on your ministry stuff. Goodnight Nymphadora."

"Sweet dreams mum."

Tonks finished her tea washed out her cup, the muggle way, and headed off to bed. She changed into her pajamas and brushed out her now purple hair. "Purple is the color of mystery," she thought. "This whole deal is so mysterious, I'm so confused."

A/N Ok I'm back! Aren't you glad to hear from me again! OK now I have to say the facts that I got about color were from a google search on "meanings of colors." I used to many different sites to list them all. The information I got about nymphs were from and thought I let you know. Ok so the next chapter should be out by tomorrow. It could be out by tonight, but I'd have to update my other two stories super fast so I don't think it's going to happen. Anyway please rate and review. I'm not planning on updating until I get my number up to twelve reviews, and who knows I might update two or three chapters in one day if I could get that number up to twenty! Thanks! Clicky the button and give me a shout out!