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With a POP they appeared in a dirty little square on an empty muggle street. As they thought about where they were, a house suddenly appeared between numbers 11 and 13. Tonks took it all in as they approached a large black door with a slightly foreboding knocker. Arthur reached up and gently knocked on the door. Seconds later the door was opened and staring out was none other than Sirius Black.

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Sirius beckoned them in and they followed. Sirius had just shut the door and turned when he was ambushed by the young witch. She flung her arms around his neck and hugged him like there was no tomorrow. After a moment Sirius glanced down. " Um... hello."

Tonks pulled back and smiled up at him. "Oh, i'm sorry! Must have scared you to death to have some strange witch throw herself on you." She closed her emerald eyes and seconds later she opened them and they were a cool grey color.

Sirius had only to glance at the young woman with long black hair and grey eyes to realize who it was. "TONKS!" He puller her into another hug and smiled down at her "Oh, so thats why your hair kept changing colors when you were little. I see that you got your looks from our side of the family, didn't you."

She laughed, "It's good to see you again too, dear cousin. It's been too long, what was it, my eighth birthday? Or was it some where in the winter after i turned eight?"

"Tonks! It happened to be the second week of November after you turned eight." Sirius said in mock indignation.

"Wow, you remember the month? How can you remember something from fifteen years ago?" She said in awe. "I can hardly remember what i ate for breakfast this morning!"

"Well, I-" Sirius started but was cut off by Arthur. "You two can take a walk down memory lane later, but right now the meeting is starting and I'm sure Tonks doesn't want to be late to her first meeting."

The three of them made their way down the steps to the basement kitchen. Arthur walked over to the stove and kissed his wife hello and then took a seat the the long table. Sirius flopped down beside a thin man with light brown hair that was flecked with grey. He glanced up and noticed that Tonks was still standing, glancing around the room awkwardly.

"Oi, Tonks! Come here." Sirius then gestured to an empty seat beside him. Tonks quickly made her way over and sat down. She glanced around the table and picked out faces she recognized. There was Kingsley Shacklebolt, Alastor 'Mad-eye' Moody, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Professor McGonagall, and much to her displeasure, Professor Snape. Everyone else she thought she may have seen, but didn't know their names.

There was a sudden 'pop' as Dumbledore materialized at the head of the table. "Hello everyone. Lets get started. As I'm sure many of you have noticed, we have a new member with us this evening. I'd like to introduce to everyone Nymphadora Tonks."

Tonks winced. "Please, only Tonks."

"Oh, i'm sorry, Let me introduce to everyone, Auror Tonks as she prefers to be called. Many of you may be familiar with Ms. Tonks, but those who aren't i'd like to introduce you. We'll start with, ah, Hestia. Tonks, this is Hestia Jones-" a pink cheeked, dark haired lady smiled. "Elphias Doge" he indicated a silver haired wizard-"Dedalus Diggle"- the wizard doffed his top hat-"Emmeline Vance"- a stately looking witch nodded-"Sturgis Podmore"-he pointed to a square jawed wizard with thich blonde hair- "and Remus Lupin."-the wizard she had noticed earlier sitting beside Sirius smiled.

"Ah, now that the introductions have been made, lets get on with business. Arthur, Sirius, how is Harry coping with his Aunt and Uncle?" Arthur stood and gravely shook his head.

"Not well, Albus, not well at all. Each letter Ron gets is worse and worse. He seems to be getting restless and Molly and I are worried that he may do something reckless if we keep him there much longer." Arthur sighed and shook his head some more as he sat back down.

Sirius nodded in agreement. "All his letters are getting angrier and angrier. He keeps pressing me for answers and each time I don't give them to him the letters get nastier and nastier." He smiled and glanced beside him." I wouldn't be surprised if his next letter doesn't contain words that would make Remus here faint." Remus shot Sirius a dirty look but smiled as well. "And if I were you Arthur, I'd check Ron's letters before he gets them, just incase Harry sends him a cursed letter or something." The table erupted in chuckles and Arthur smiled.

Dumbledore sighed. "We won't be able to keep him there much longer. He's too much like you, Sirius. He won't be submissive for much longer." Sirius smiled at the thought. Dumbledore glanced at his pocket watch."Goodness, look at the time! I really must be off. Meeting adjourned." And with that, he dissapeared with a 'Crack'.

Most of the people began to file out towards the front door, leaving Sirius, Remus, Tonks and the Weasleys in the kitchen. Tonks stood and circled the table. She went over to the stove where Molly Weasley was cooking. "Mrs. Weasley, it's wonderful to see you!" She hugged her for a few moments and then let go.

"Tonks, dear, how many times do I have to tell you, call me Molly!" Tonks smiled but shook her head at the woman.

"Mrs. Weasley, I'll tell you the same thing I told Mr. Weasley; It would be too wierd to suddenly start calling you best friends parents by their first names. I'm sorry, but to me, you'll always be Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. Speaking of which, whats Charlie been up to?"

"Oh, still working with dragons in Romania. He's doing work for the Order as well though." Mrs. Weasley turned to her with a puzzled expression. "You havn't heard from him lately?"

Tonks shook her head. "No, but you tell him that if he doesn't send me a letter soon, i'm sending him a Howler that will make even the dragons blush." This announcement was met by a peal of laughter from Sirius, who was at the table with his chair propped on two legs and his feet up on the table. Unfortunately for him, Molly saw this.

"SIRIUS! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU! FEET OFF THE TABLE!" Molly's screaming made Sirius's chair tip over backwards spilling him onto the floor. The whole room rang with laughter as Sirius scrambled back into his chair. He soon joined in the laughter.

After the laughter had died down, Tonks took the seat across from Sirius. "Sirius, what was so funny about what I said to Molly?" He smiled and let out a bark of laughter.

"You said you would send a Howler that would make a dragon blush. I always told your mother that it wasn't a good idea to you spend so much time with me as a young child."

Molly overheard his statement. "So that's what's wrong with you, Tonks. You spent too much time with him as a child. That explains why every letter we got from the school about Charlie missbehaving had your name in it every other sentence." Molly smiled at the shocked looks on Sirius and Remus's faces and the blush that started to spread over Tonks' cheeks.

Remus was the first to speak. "So, she not only looks like you, but acts like you as well. Are you sure, Padfoot, that she isn't really your long lost baby sister instead of your distant cousin?" Sirius smiled and glanced at Tonks.

"I don't know, she sure does seem to have more Black in her than Tonks. And your right, she does look like me." Tonks looked startled."

"Look like you, I don't look-" Tonks died off as she realized that she had her natural hair and eyes. "OH! Well, this is how I was born looking, but this is how i usually look." With that, she closed her eyes and concentrated. When she heard Remus gasp she opened her eyes and smiled. Her hair was short, spikey and bubble-gum pink. Her eyes were a frosty greyish-green.

"I'm a metamorphmagus. It's bloody helpful too, probably the only reason I passed Auror training. I'm dead clumsy you know, I think today is the first day I've ever went that I didn't fall on my face atleast once." She raised her arms in mock celebration and everyone in the room laughed.

Sirius grinned at her with a look in his eye that made her apprehensive to what was comming. "So, Tonks, what are you going to put in that Howler to poor, unexpecting Charlie?"

Tonks grinned evily. "I think I'll charm it to be loud enough to be heard by the who encampment, so that all of the guys working with him will have something to pick on him about. And then I'm gonna make rude accusations and call him things that very few have ever heard me say."

Sirius laughed. "What things, dear Cousin, will you call him that would make a dragon blush?"

"Sirius, I can't say those kind of things in the same room as my best friend's parents! And besides, you probably have said them all at some point in time and they wouldn't shock you nearly as much as they will the other dragon keepers that work with Charlie. I wish I had some that would shock him, but honestly, why else would my name have been in all of Charlie's letters from Professor McGonagall?"

Sirius let out a bark of laughter and turned back to Tonks. "Well, you better not let Moony hear you say them, he might have a heart attack." Remus turned to them both.

"Oh, please. Sirius, if you havn't said every word she intends to put in that Howler, then I'm a Hippogriff." Remus smiled slyly and Sirius turned to Tonks with a sigh.

"Well, thats probably true you know, Noone could ever out-prank or out-swear a Marauder." Remus and Sirius both smiled.

Molly turned from the stove. "I don't know about that. Tonks and Charlie might could out-swear you, Sirius, and I'd be willing to bet that Fred and George could out-prank you." Sirius snorted in disbelief. But Remus turned to him.

"I don't know, Padfoot," he lowered his voice so that only Tonks and Sirius could hear him. "You've only seen Fred and George around Molly. You didn't teach them for a whole year." Tonks smiled and Sirius chuckled.

Everyone sat in a companionable silence while Molly cooked. Tonks looked at Sirius. It was nice to have him back. She had nearly forgotten how wonderful he was to have around. She glanced over at Remus. So, She thought, This is Remus Lupin. The one Mr. Weasley said was a werewolf. At first, she had been slightly wary of meeting a werewolf, but she descided that Remus Lupin was really a nice man. He seemed to be just as nice and fun loving as Sirius. He's cute, too. Tonks shook herself mentally, she couldn't help but agreeing though, he was very hansome.

It doesn't matter that he's older than me, he's really cute.

NO! I can't think like that. He's my collegue, maybe we can be friends, nothing more.

The other voice in ther head protested, You know you think he's cute.

Tonks mentally shook herself again, but was thankfully distracted by Molly asking her to go upstairs and get the children.

Tonks had just left to go get the Weasley children. Remus couldn't help but smile as he watched her skip happily out of the kitchen. She really is cute.

Remus shook himself. Did I really just think that? No, I can't have, I'm not supposed to think that way. He imagined how soft her short bubble-gum pink hair must be. NO! I'm not supposed to think like that, she's way to younge for me and besides, what would she see in an old, poor werewolf like me?

He was brought back from his thoughts by a comotion that sounded like a heard of elephants crashing down the stairs accompanied by a short, high-pitched squeeling. Molly, Arthur, Sirius and Remus all jumped and ran towards the hall to the foot of the stairs.

They all stared in shock as Tonks disentangled herself from her robes and stood while muttering a few choice words. Molly stared in shock at the disheveled form before her. Sirius burst into uncontrollable laughter, barely managing to keep his balance.

Tonks looked puzzled at the shocked look on Molly's face, over to Sirius rolling on the floor, and back to Molly. "Whats so-"

She was cut off by Sirius. "Oi! When you said you had stuff that would make a dragon blush I didn't really believe you." Tonks realized that she had let a few of those 'choice words' slip when she landed. "Oh look, Moony is blushing! What is it Moony dear? Didn't think such ugly words could come from such a pretty little mouth?"

Remus's blush deepened. "Er-Um- are you okay, Tonks?" This was all the reply he could manage at the time being.

"Lets push you down a staircase and see if your okay! Of course I'm not okay!" She turned on Remus like he had said something offensive. "No, really, lets see how you feel after you've hit your head on every step down and then landed on your bloody bum! And you!"She rounded on Sirius, who was laughing so hard he was crying." Lets see if your laughing after I get through with you, you bloody piece of-" Remus clamped his hand over her mouth after glancing at an utterly shocked Arthur Weasley. But not before Molly snapped out of her initial shock.

"NYMPHADORA TONKS!" Remus felt Tonks freeze."You may be a grown woman now, but that DOES NOT mean that you can go around using such perverse language infront of my entire family!" Remus realized now that all four of the red-headed children stood at the top of the landing, gaping at the scene below. Fred turned to George and whispered something in his ear, then the two both looked at Remus and winked. It was only then that both he and Tonks realized that he was still standing behing her with one hand around her middle and another covering her mouth. Remus jerked away.

"Oh! I'm sorry." He said as both he and Tonks blushed. Tonks turned to Molly and Arthur, then to the children and apologized for saying such rude things. Molly called the children into the kitchen and everyone filed after her.

Tonks heard Arthur whisper to Sirius behind her. "I really wish I could see the look on those poor dragon keepers faces at the Sanctuary when Charlie gets that Howler." Sirius chuckled in reply.

A/N: I Know this chapter isn't all that great, but the original got deleted and this is what Icould remember of it. Of course Its basicly correct, but as we all know, it can never be as good as the original inspiration

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