Chapter twenty four - 'Oh sod it, I can knock him out later!'
"Ah good, it appears Moody's managed to get a message to Kingsley and he's brought along some of the auras." Dumbledore explained, as the hunched figures stood out in the deserted scrap of moorland, with the wind howling and not a single living person for miles around.
"Try not to be too difficult Sirius, if one of em, you know. They were just doing there job, they weren't to know you were innocent!" Lupin muttered quietly from under his old worn traveling cloak pulled up high to keep the cold out. He'd had very little time to get to know Sirius recently but now the order was being reassembled he had the oddest hope they'd be friends again, just for Harry and his father's sake. Sirius though could clearly see that Remus was almost the exact same nitwit he was from before his spell in Azkaban, it disappointed him a bit to see his friend so shabby but at least it made Remus easy to understand, he was after all only more of the same.
"I'll keep me temper seen as Snape's not joining us." Sirius grumbled quietly back from under his heavy hood. His voice hadn't got used to use yet and still croaked and grumbled regularly with his moods. But despite the heavy air, he was feeling far more useful to Harry now than ever before in one of his caves and despite the fact that no would could tell, he was actually in a good mood today.
"Good, you came to look after Harry remember!' Lupin added firmly but quietly continued. Sirius merely rolled his eyes at this and Lupin knew it, although as he always did thought it was best ignored.
'How is he anyway?"
"Pissed off and won't admit it. Hate's been stuck at the Dursley's and he'd hardly been there a weekend. Boy hates there, that's why he won't talk to me about it ever." Sirius grumbled but had softened now he thought about his godson. Not that anybody else could tell he wasn't completely empty, crying, happy or just constipated by his expressions.
"Come in close we have a few more to wait for and then I shall begin." Dumbledore explained as the new aura's finally reached a closer distance and started to move in to an arch around Dumbledore and McGonagall.
Sirius however was suddenly aware by how one of the aura's seemed to be watching him closely under there trademark blank-none descript robes. At a glance they all looked male, strong and indistinguishable apart from the slight height differences. He was about to take offence when the others started to lower there hoods at Dumbledore's request, now the last three figures expected were moving out from behind the far off trees towards them. Sirius was obliged to follow with a nudge from Remus that Sirius felt was completely unnecessary but also chose to ignore and was surprised to notice just how many curious faces he saw around and actually recognised even if they did all look older.
"Is that Sirius Black over there?" They heard a heavy voice wonder only bothering with half a whisper.
"He is here at my request Podmore." Dumbledore put in quickly having expected more than a little distaste to Sirius's presence at first. He however was sure Sirius had an important part to play in Harry's life and was intended to include him as often as he could. You never can be quiet sure how useful some people are in a group like this until the time came for them to show it.
"You mean that twat's been given me the run around for nearly a year now and now he's standing right before me, plain as wood and I can't do a thing about it?" He grumbled seeming more annoyed at the situation than Sirius himself.
"Pretty much." Sirius half smiled moving closer with Remus and curious to see how the other side were, he'd gotten quiet good at getting away from aura's having had more than one little run in over the last few years.
"Bloody worlds gone nuts! I suppose you either innocent or got a very good tongue on ya!"
"Innocent as always." Sirius grumbled back not yet taking the time to check the other aura's faces, this one seemed to be showing a great danger of punching Sirius just to make him self feel better.
"Fucking hell, Tonks you seen this?" He turned to his companion who'd only just moved into Sirius's eye line. His fist thought was, 'wow I recognise that name', then to 'I wonder if Ted had any other relatives' and finally to his voiced thought.
"Bloody hell, that you under there Nymphadora?" At this though it was clearly confirmed as the only young woman around, flinched at the sound of her own name.
Sirius however, despite his odd appearance seemed even odder as he strode over towards her still in his dirty stolen boots and half torn off Azkaban robes just visible under his cloak, to actually very affectionately, hug the dark wizard catcher like he could have done it yesterday.
"Don't call me that, Snuffles." She snapped back hugging him warmly despite the smell and quickly letting go to take yet another long look at him.
"How's ya mother?" Sirius continued sure Order meetings before were never going to be this much fun.
"God is that all you've got to say to me, after all these years. How's me flaming mother!" She complained frowning slightly around the mouth which only seemed to increase Sirius's pleasure in seeing the daughter of his favourite relative.
"Well my first thought was you can't be that old yet. You were just a little brat last I saw and then me second thought, was maybe you're ya mother."
"Na I'm me. And I'm not a brat and she's fine. Very worried about you though, drove me bloody barmy when ya got out, I've never seen me mother so hysterical, I mean don't get me wrong she's still completely nuts but I've just not seen her like that before!" She sighed, at this there was a slight nodding agreement from Podmore, that Sirius at least, didn't appreciate.
"What ya doing here anyway?" Sirius wondered aware he might seem a little out of place standing where he was but nobody had said anything yet and he just didn't care anyway, this was his Nymphi and they'll be dammed if anyone tried to stop him from chatting with her.
"Moody brought me. You?" She replied casually breaking all the rules concerning polite conversation with a wanted murderous raving lunatic.
"Still Harry's godfather aren't I.' Sirius explained brightly at his choice of introducing himself.
'And I was hoping for summet other than rats for dinner! Remus promised me some chicken, can't pass up a cooked chicken now can I?" He chuckled but his voice sounded a little more like a coughing fit than a chuckle, this took Tonks by surprise to see Sirius looking so bad, she hadn't seen him before, but if this was Sirius two years out of Azkaban she worried about what state he must have been in.
He looked hungry and gaunt, like his face had long since lost the use of smiling, his eyes glared out at things and started them down and his voice sounded strained and empty, like it was taking all of his energy to come across as at least human to Tonks. She knew better than to let it show much but anyone watching could see the sight of Sirius was giving her in particular some discomfort even if it was maxed by the conformation that he was indeed innocent and someone else knew it for sure.
"Seriously?" Podmore butted in again.
"Yeah course, why else would I come?" Sirius wondered, sure he didn't remember laughing at this aura when they dragged him off. But he did laugh at quiet a few so couldn't be completely sure.
"Just didn't think you would still be that's all. Got a lovely mug shot of ya' on me wall!" He added with still half a grin of disbelief.
"Ahh, Arthur I'm glad you could come." Dumbledore began as Sirius moved back over to stand with Remus and whisper who Tonks and her mother were, while Arthur greeted Dumbledore with two younger figures in toe.
"I hope we aren't late." He began pleasantly.
"We were just waiting for you." Dumbledore explained leading the way back to the centre and nearer to Sirius and Remus.
"Molly wants to be of some help too, but she decided to remain at home tonight with our younger four, what with the twins and all we decided it wouldn't be a good idea to both leave the house for an entire evening." He explained standing firmly as Hagrid moved over.
"That's understandable." He half chuckled to McGonagall.
"But these are my eldest boys, Bill and Charlie, they wanted to come when I told them about the order. Unfortunately though, Percy has decided to take a different root and shant be joining us." Arthur explained starting off the introductions as he gestured to each shockingly red hair son in turn.
"That is regrettable, but not unexpected given our last correspondence.' Dumbledore half sighed also before turning towards Moody and the aura's, it was going to be a very long night for him after having had a very long day.
'Moody I see you've been busy since we last spoke."
"Yes I have, but we need all we can get. You know Kingsley, he's got captain's job now, this is Podmroe, Smithson, Jaquin and Wheatley. And then those are fresh farmers just qualified in' last two years. Daniels, King, Tonks, Tolling, Wood and Walton. Good lads all of 'em and should prove 'emselves useful."
"Oi!" Tonks snapped quickly, always determined to point out that women were just as good as aura's as men, if not better in most cases. All she had to do now was find more opportunity's where she was better than the other men.
"Cept' Tonks course." He added with a low growl as Sirius started to suppress what in many previous years ago, would have been a loud snort of laughter but was now barely a snuffle.
"Thank-you Moody."
"I recon we can get hold of some more given a bit of time to check em' out properly." Moody growled pleased with his handy work, even Tonks he was sure would prove herself useful some time soon.
"For those who are unaware this is Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, Hestia Jones and Elphias Doge, Mr and Mrs Welconies. And of course Minerva and Hagrid are to my left. Now I shall begin by telling you what Harry Potter has told me from the end of last year. You are aware I believe that Voldermort is back and if he is gathering his supporters already it is only a matter of time now, so we must do the same and be prepared his next move as I am not entirely sure what it will be."
Dumbledore continued to talk well into the night and explain exactly what had happened over this last year and exactly what he felt needed to be done.
Charlie was never going to forget that first night at the order meeting, the things he heard were things he never dreamed possible and to know Harry had so clearly been stuck in the middle of it all for a year was disturbing to say the least. Voldermort was back and Podmroe was right, the world had turned upside down and gone nuts that night. When it was almost over, Charlie wasn't sure what to do, what to say, how useful he could possibly be and so resorted to standing by his brother silently watching on as of all things he found himself talking to a convict, a werewolf, an ex-aura and a new aura who was the strangest thing of all. He never expected most the things that happened that night but she was the oddest of all, a young, rather attractive women, that seemed to be driving him barmy every time he thought about her after that night.
"I gather you're Ron Weasley's father. You should be very proud of him." Sirius croaked firmly after shaking Mr Weasley's hand who, after hearing so much from Ron about him was eager to see for himself what the convict was like, even Hermione was exceptionally pleased with him as Harry's godfather.
"I am. He seems very pleased with you for Harry's sake and I don't mind admitting he is very dear to our family. It's a pleasure to meet you at last."
"He mentions you every now and then. Sez you're always very nice to him. Feed him a lot and take good care of him when he comes to stay an stuff. You and you're wife."
"Oh well thank-you, she is wiling to take him away from his aunts and move him more permanently in to our family if only Dumbledore would allow it. To be honest whenever he comes to stay she's never too keen on letting him go again. He's a very nice lad, and always trying to be helpful unlike my lot."
"Oi." Charlie couldn't help putting in as his father gestured over to his rather untidy and unhelpful son's. Out of all of them Charlie was well known to be the least domesticated. Bill however nudged his back and the outraged past by un-noticed.
"He has reason's for keeping Harry there. We can't go against them." Lupin put in quickly before Sirius had any chance to let his anger roll out in any way shape or form, about how much he hated leaving Harry to go live with his hateful aunt. For a long time Remus merely believed that Dumbledore knew best, even now he believed Dumbledore knew best but if ever he was to have made a mistake it would be the lack of any other options for Harry other than his aunt.
"I know, I know. I often have to remind her and Ron. But he is always welcome, but oh my, he looked ever so miserable when we left him in London with his uncle this summer."
"I know, he won't admit how bad it is, but I'm worried what sort of a mess he'll be in the next time I get to see him." Sirius continued blankly and rather coldly for the Weasley's to understand him.
"I'm afraid I've never seen him so depressed. Nor has Ron but I'm sure he will be ok. It's intolerable to watch him suffer these days I must say but I suppose you already know that."
"Has Ron mentioned him recently? It is a pain to write these days and I was just wondering." Sirius wondered aloud accidentally.
"Oh Harry never seems to put anything remotely down on paper from what I can tell. His letters are always full of Hogwarts and Hermione from whatever I see of them. Ron is never so pleased with them though, he must see something in letters that I can't." Sirius paused for a moment looking at the muddy ground, Harry was probably quiet capable of conveying his misery to his friends without actually telling them. Sirius whished more than anything that some day, preferably soon he would be close enough to see the same from him. To be close enough to Harry as a person to be able to see his pain and fix it for him. With the current state of things though Sirius was highly suspicious that this wouldn't happen any time soon and consequently he went back in to his bad mood.
"I guess you had no idea Ron was coming to see me? And I'm sorry for breaking his leg, it wasn't what I meant to do. I was after the fucking rat!" Sirius began again after a few moments silence. He'd been thinking all day about ways to talk to this man, as he was determined if nothing else to find out about the Weasley family that Harry seemed to adore being with more than anyone else.
"Not a clue. I knew he'd met you and was disappointed somewhat after warning Harry several times not to go looking for you whatever he heard, but in the end I'm just glad you aren't what you appeared to be and pleased Ron had the courage to stay with Harry and help you out."
"No-one is more pleased by that than I am. Trust me, the couple of idiots have no idea how close to danger and not just because of Remus here. I could hardly sleep for weeks for worrying about what sort of trouble they'd get themselves into next and along came this bloody tournament! Hermione was supposed to be sensible and fussy like Remus here, but she seems very..." At this Sirius wasn't quite sure what it was about Hermione that seemed so odd. She had all the attributes of being a bookish sort of nit wit and yet she seemed capable of more than just holding her own.
"Balls-ie!" Charlie quickly put in to be helpful, he knew what Sirius meant by Hermione being odd, she wasn't like any of the girls he got in to bed with. And after seeing her take on the twins and win he had to admit he had quite a bit of respect for her.
"Yes. I thought she'd be more girly." He grumbled not thinking that Remus would be offended by being referred to as a dangerous creature of the forest so lightly. He wasn't the most dangerous thing at the school he was sure. Bill and his father though weren't quiet sure what this balls-ness meant, it was just a nonsense word Charlie often came out with when he couldn't think of proper English. Tonks however was rather surprised at the younger red-head, clearly it was taking all of his effort not to behave like an entertaining jerk and as she pondered about him, Remus finally noticed the thoughtful smile on her face.
"I agree. They've ended up in that forest far too many times and I'm sure I only ever get half the story from Ron." Arthur sighed more and more pleased about Sirius, every second longer they stood there. It wasn't long after though that it was the Weasley's turn to split off and head home leaving Sirius and Remus to lay low again for the night and then see about retaking the old Black Family home as the new order headquarters once Dumbledore was properly prepared to be the secret keeper.
Charlie had after that night a boring few days. He'd deliberately moved things around with work so he could be around for the first wave of order meetings which seemed to be happening in stages every few days. Not everybody turned up to every meeting as Dumbledore was only calling on the select people he whished to talk to when necessary. Luckily he stuck with Bill most the time and didn't have to say much as their father had already done it on another private conversation before so his job usually ended up being to listen and remember things so far. Once they realised that he had at least been through some of the aura tests, Charlie got the feeling that many of the aura's, particularly the older one's, viewed him as potential cannon fodder and this put him off being around them without Bill.
It was over a fortnight later though when he found himself lazing back against the bar with a drink in one hand and a slightly annoyed face that his friend had stood him up tonight. It wasn't really his fault, he'd been called to swap shifts with someone else that night and rather than going directly home, empty handed he figured he might as well have a drink. He was now on his third though when all of a sudden, in walked that aura girl he hadn't stopped thinking about for a few days now looking to buy a drink next to him.
At first he was going to say hello but quickly took a sip of his beer when he remember what Bill had said about not talking to anybody outside the order in case it aroused suspicion about how they met.
"It's ok you can talk to me here. I'm off duty now." She smiled sipping on her pint and puling up a stool.
"Oh well, hello then." Charlie replied mentally slapping himself for coming out with such a crap opening sentence, girls always noticed a crap opening sentence, if you don't get them hooked within the first thirty seconds you can never get the to truly like you.
"So do you often come in here?"
"No, I was supposed to be meeting a friend and they've stood me up." Charlie continued taking a silent deep breath.
'Stupid, I shouldn't be nervous, I talk to fit birds all the time.' He mumbled at himself while gulping on his pint more to pass time.
"Stood up by a girl that's not good." She laughed quietly looking around subtly at who else was in ear shot.
"Na just someone from school I used to know. I don't get stood up by girls, ever!" He added more cockily as he got half way down his drink in another two gulps.
"Ah, don't ever get stood up by girls. Well you must be quiet the charmer then. Unless of course you've got some steady girlfriend hiding at home that would never let ya stand her up?"
"Na no girlfriend. That's more of a Bill thing." He added with a cheeky grin.
"Ah so he's the calm boring one and you're the party animal standing around in an old man's pub drinking on his own."
"Err, well I wouldn't call him boring, he's not exactly an angel, just better at hiding it that's all and we've already covered that I was stood up so no need to mock my loneliness in an old man's pub. The beer is actually rather reasonable priced!"
"Ah so you're a couple of rebels then that drive your poor father barmy." Tonks smiled again entertained by his blatant cockiness.
"Yeah well I think we've been surpassed by the twins now." He added leaning in closer out of habit.
"Yeah I've heard about some of your brothers antics. But rumour has it you were nearly as bad."
"Yeah I suppose, but hey, just causing a bit of a mess, I have more of a really annoying curious nature than them, gets me in to all sorts of bother." He added with a bit of a laugh.
"Come on, I'll get ya another drink and we can sit down over there. It's nice to have a chance to talk to someone who isn't a bolding, middle aged man of some description." She smiled gesturing over towards a seat and leaning over the bar to by four drinks. Two pints and two glass's of Jack Daniels.
"So do you come in here often?" Charlie asked leaning sideways while he dropped his jacket in the space next to him in the little leather booth.
"Every now and then. It's some times on my way home from work so I drop in every now and then for a drink to calm down before bed."
"I guess, it's very busy where you work these days."
"It's always very busy. One thing or another needs seeing to and so when your sign up it's a case of long hours and very little sleep until you finally drop off one day. The training alone is enough to kill you but to keep going at that high pace day in day out is really hard."
"How'd you manage it? Not that I've got anything against women they are, I agree just as good as anybody else, but I'm sure your in a minority."
"I am, which is one of the reason's why I tried out. It was suggested while I was at school in my last year because of my err, particular special talent."
"Special talent?" Charlie wondered raising an eye brow curiously now. That dam curiosity had kicked in and there was no way he wasn't going to find out about it some time.
"Yeah well, I can't really explain it here.' She began leaning in closer to Charlie and deliberately enlarging her breasts ever so subtly so he'd make a point of noticing them all of a sudden.
'It been a muggle pub and all. But maybe later I'll show ya." She finished sitting up properly again and smiling before downing her glass and starting on her beer.
The evening continued much as Charlie wanted and exactly as Tonks dictated. They got through several rounds of drinks and moved through a variety of different topics until the bell was tolled for the bar to close and they started their way out the pub and down the road laughing quietly together. Reaching the end of the alleyway Tonks turned to Charlie as he swayed a bit with the alcohol and grabbed his shoulder as they started to calm down in the fresh air.
"Wow, I'd never thought someone as fun as you would be in your pro-err-ffession?"
"Yeah well you're full of surprises too. Did you really get away with sleeping with that women on the morning of her wedding?"
"Yep, helped her into her dress and everything!" Charlie laughed back leaning deliberately up close to her so he could hold on to her arms.
"Wow, so you must sleep with a lot of women then?" She laughed quietly leaning forward on to Charlie's shoulders as they staggered slightly towards the back wall of the pub they'd just left.
"Yeah well more than some. I'm just not that much of a settler person and I can't help being fit. Just like you." He chuckled before gulping slightly as he felt his body pushed slowly against the wall by a very cheeky looking black haired witch.
"Did you say you have a flat round here?" She grinned.
"Yeah. You wanna see it?" He asked carefully gauging the situation as best he could, but his cock's curiosity was kicking in too much now and not just his own.
"Maybe in the morning. Is it far?" She continued glad she'd been spitting her shots in to a bottle of beer half the night to stop herself from getting too drunk.
"No, not too far, just a couple of streets. I'm a bit too drunk to apperate though, it's never been a specialty of mine to be honest."
"That's ok, we can walk or err, stagger." She laughed taking him by the arm and deliberately tripping slightly on the grate.
They managed it all the way through the back streets quietly to the block of flats Charlie had been living in these past few months. Tonks had laughed as best she could every time Charlie slipped on the curbs crossing the roads without falling over herself and what with his cheeky manner and the warm night, by the time they'd stumbled up the deserted stairs trying not to wake the neighbors she was actually rather giddy and not particularly looking forward to knocking him out once they were inside.
It was a standard tactic, get someone a bit drunk, chat them up to find out what they were like. Offer to walk them home and laugh and joke all the way, then once they were in and possibly even drinking again, put them in a sleep and leave them till morning. By which time you've refilled through there things, got as much information as possible and left without any trace other than a blurred hazy memory.
"So err, this is you then, 12B?" She laughed leaning against the wall as Charlie foraged around in search of the correct order of keys.
After finding out exactly what was out there ready and waiting in the world. Bill had made a point of securing there flats better but the only problem for Charlie was, his was a bit too secure and he sometimes struggled to remember which key went in which barely visible lock.
"Yeah this is me, when I can find the bloody key hole!" He grumbled finally getting the third lock undone.
"Well I could break the door down for ya!" Tonks laughed surprised by how often she found her eyes checking him out from behind.
"Na got it now. Do you want to come in?" He asked a little timidly pushing the door open a jar and turning around to face Tonks and her smiling face.
"Yes." She replied firmly grabbing hold of his neck and pushing her lips up close for kiss as they stumbled backwards into the flat.
"Hmm. Nice." Charlie mumbled after flicking his wand so the door sealed it-self while Tonks started yanking her jacket off still kissing his face softly.
"You're ever so soft ya' know?"
"Thanks." Was all he managed as she pushed his jacket off too dropping them to the floor and pushing her feet out of her shoes roughly.
"Did you enjoy tonight?" She mumbled letting his hands wander slightly around her back to pull her in closer.
"Hmm, might enjoy the rest of it more though. Your ever so pretty." He mumbled back moving around to kiss her neck softly as Tonks fumbled for her wand.
'No, no, no, Tonks! Just coz he's fit! You really shouldn't get involve! Just do it, knock him out and do what you came for.'
'Oh god but he's so good at it. I've been so board recently. And it's not as if I have to tell anybody. I could just lie, it's not hard, I have to do it all the time with other jobs.'
'He's just a job Tonks. Don't get involved knock him out and dump him on the bed.' She was struggling to force herself to do her job and because she'd delayed, her wand was still in her pocket and her hands were drifting up his chest to start fumbling with the button's on his shirt while he still kissed her softly on the neck.
'Oh sod it, I can knock him out later.' She finally decided giving in to her annoying hormones and yanking his shirt open so it started to fall to the floor.
"Bed?" He suddenly asked as she smiled at his although pale and freckly chest she couldn't help but think 'qwaur, he must work out a lot!' as he started yanking at the bottom of her t-shirt till it rode up suitably for him to cop a feel.
"Hmm." She mumbled back.
"Potion?"
"Sorry, not got any?" She mumbled, as his shoes too came off now and she found her waist being pulled firmly against something very warm and very hard.
"I have, wait here a sec.' He explained looking around the room a moment.
'Do you want a drink?" He asked politely heading over towards one of the two doors leading out the room.
"I'm ok." She smiled back as he disappeared through the door obviously to do some probably much needed tidying judging by the junk left laying around the main body of the living room come kitchen. Tonks could hardly complain, her flat was just as bad and at least his didn't smell of damp. In a few moments after she'd had a quick look around he came back out to find her not far from the door smiling.
"Sorry but you really didn't want to go in there until I'd put a few things away." He grinned grabbing hold of her waist eagerly again before continuing to kiss her, something that didn't seem to want to stop. It didn't take long before Tonks herself was undoing his trousers first, stepping out of her own and finding the vest top-bra being yanked over her head as she was the one to push him down on the bed.
'The things I have to do for the order!' She found herself thinking as his soft purposeful lips started down to her still enlarged breasts and his strong young hands drifted to his favourite place of a woman.
'God he wasn't kidding, he must have sex a lot if he's this quick to find what I like.'
'Randy twat!'
But Tonks wasn't the only one talking to herself while they suddenly seemed to roll up close and start frolicking with each other. Neither had said a word since they'd got into the room but it was clear they both knew what they were doing. Charlie however, after rejoicing in just how wonderful Tonks looked under her clothes, and then rejoicing even more in the fact that he'd soon worked out she wasn't the sort to fake it, kept shouting at himself in his head.
'Oh bollocks Bill's gonna kill me! Oh bollocks Bill's gonna kill me when he finds out I've shagged an order member! Fuck her legs are nice!' This only repeated itself a few times in his head as she'd starting doing things to him that just made everything else melt away into a blur when it was done well.
"Want more?" He mumbled retuning to her ear now the pair was about as turned on as they were ever going to get.
"Had any potion?" Tonks mumbled back deliberately rubbing the small of his back where he seemed to like it and gasp every now and then.
"Hmm." He mumbled back trying his best not to groan as he found his body nearly melting with pressure.
'What's the matter with me, she's just a fit bird? Don't fall to pieces now and come too soon.' Charlie groaned in his head looking longingly into her eyes as she pulled him closer with a heavy deep throated sigh.
'Oh come on what more of a hint do you need than that. I'm not gonna do all the bloody work here.' She grumbled to herself before finally Charlie rolled his body slowly on top kissing all the time and pushed himself quickly down and in to rock clumsily at first back and forth until he finally worked out how she wanted to do it and set the rhythm going.
'Oh God, oh god, oh god, she's so bloody fit how the hell can I hold it back! No, not yet, don't come yet, she'll think me bloody crap!' He heaved inadvertently following orders and moving quicker as Tonks wanted.
'Oh god I haven't had sex in far too long!' She decided, now Charlie had stopped fumberling and got going properly the way she liked.
'Why does he look like that though, am I no good, has it been that long that I'm bloody crap in bed.' She suddenly wondered seeing Charlie's odd expression and closed eyes. The reality was he was pushing back the embarrassment of blowing his top so soon but unfortunately, his randy young male body wasn't doing a very good job of it. Seconds later he pushed his body down and groaned loudly.
After a couple of moments rest though he rolled his head back off the pillow and turned to Tonks to see her smiling at him.
"I'm sorry I was so quick. I couldn't help it, you had me turned on for too long."
"I know, well don't worry about it. Err, want to go again?" She wondered carefully covering her annoyance that men were always so bloody useless and needed breaks so often in bed. Plus the fact that some how THEY always managed to make YOUR fault that THEY came too soon!
"Err ok, just a sec, I need a drink of water." Charlie replied back laying out the bed a bit and flicking his wand so a glass of water appeared. Sipping a bit he rolled back into bed properly and had another go.
Within a couple of hours though, Tonks was snoozing gently next to Charlie's sleeping body, wondering if she could possibly get up and poke around his flat yet without waking him and after having sex, the guilt factor was in danger of kicking in now.
'Yeah I gotta do me job.' She finally decided. Climbing out of bed slowly she fished out her knickers and his t-shirt before creeping into the living room to retrieve her jacket. Finding the little bottle of liquid she crept back to the bed next to him and after kissing him gently on the lips poured a few drops down his throat so he'd sleep on for hours. Then, finding all her clothes she had a quick wash, got dressed properly, made herself a cup of tea and started digging through his draws for a diary.
After making a copy of everything she found remotely useful she slipped them all in a bag and started cleaning up after herself. There wasn't much to do, she'd only had a bit of toast and a cup of tea but true to her profession, she made sure the only signs of her being here were on the intimate spots of Charlie's body and let herself out.
The next time Charlie got to see Tonks was several days later at an order meeting, where she slipped in late with Podmore and left early with Kinglsey to do a job. He'd smiled weakly at her but she'd barely caught his eye back before disappearing without a word to anyone but looking rather serious. He couldn't help it, he was constantly thinking about her and couldn't help but feel disappointed every time he walked into a room and she wasn't there smiling at him.
It was pathetic really, how many women had he had one night stands with after a few weeks of knowing them and then not bothered to get in touch with them after. And here he was sat in Bill's flat miserable and grumpy because some lass he'd slept with hadn't bothered to get back in touch and he had no idea where she lived or anything. You couldn't just mail a love letter to the middle of order HQ and expect to get a welcomed reception.
"Oh come on Charlie. What the hell's the matter with you? All you've done is sulk and mope about the place for days now." Bill complained, sitting down on the sofa next to him with a magazine.
"I'm not moping!" Charlie snapped back, a bit too viciously for his idiotic young nature to ever be considered normal.
"Seriously chill boy. What's the matter with you? You're all miserable and it's not like you." He continued giving up on the magazine to read and held it like a prop so Charlie wouldn't think he was being pestered too much.
"It's just this girl that's all." Charlie half groaned before flopping sideways in his seat and burying his face in the cushion to keep his facial expression hidden from Bill. Unfortunately, Bill seemed to read Charlie better than his father could now, after Arthur had finally decided that he probably didn't want to know certain things about his son's and what they may or may not get up to when he wasn't around.
"What, did you catch something? Don't you think by now you should have learned to be more careful about where you stick your sodding..." Bill complained always skeptical by the amount of women Charlie seemed to get through, as despite the bravado and jokes, Bill suspected that it was probably quiet a few more than he seemed to let on.
"No! Honestly how thick do you think I am? You make out like I have no sodding self control"
"Well you don't Charlie!" Was the mumbled reply he got as his brother attempted to look like he'd read a passage of the page and flicked it over.
"It's just not worked out how I expected that's all."
"Well I can't say you haven't been warned. Have a one night stand with some girl who thinks it's more than it is and you'll end up with problem's." Bill decided it was probably nothing very much judging by the way Charlie seemed to be just tired and a probably a little worried by some of the things they'd been told about in the last few weeks and left it at that.
'Oh crap is that all I am. Some randy bloke she picked up in a bar and had a one night stand with, and then I've just been ditched coz I'm no good. I know I was quick that first time but still, it picked up afterwards didn't it? I was much better after that and she enjoyed it. She must have had a good time too, but then, did she just fake it and I was too drunk to tell the difference? Oh man this is crazy!' Charlie grumbled as he laid out in his bed trying to soak up any smell Tonks had left on his now stale sheets, when all of a sudden he decided that he'd go out and try a bar or something tomorrow night before heading home to Bill's.
"If ya get back before us then you've got a key haven't ya!" Bill asked pulling his coat on in the hallway of the railway pub.
"Yeah, I'll probably be out quiet late though like usual. Err, what time you getting back?" Charlie sighed fiddling with his hair in the mirror.
"Oh really, really late. Might even end up being about dawn. If it gets to be that late though I might just stop over at Tom's." Bill decided as the group of hungry bank employee's waited outside for him to catch up.
"Oh ok. Well see you tomorrow some time."
"You sure your gonna be ok on ya own? I mean you can come along if ya want."
"No, its ok, I'm waiting for someone anyway." Charlie replied pushing him out the door and grabbing his own coat the minuet he was sure Bill was quiet a far way down the road on a search for food with his work mates.
He knew it was a lame plan, hanging around the pubs Tonks had mentioned in the hopes of seeing her again, but it was the best he could do. Failing that he was just going to get completely wasted back at Bill's and probably end up looking at porn until dawn.
At first Charlie was just having a drink in a pub and then moving quickly on but after three or four he decided that really the wasted and porn plan was looking like the best he was going to get tonight. But wondering over towards the toilets he suddenly met Tonks herself coming out the ladies and couldn't help but brighten up inside at seeing her, and then feel sick and uncomfortable because she probably wasn't interested in him much.
"Oh hello there." She smiled then took him gently by the arm to move him slowly in to one corner.
"Hello, how've you been?" Charlie half mumbled feeling a little bit sick after so many Jack Daniels. He was only drinking them because she had and really he didn't like the taste that much.
"Wretched, I've ended up working nearly double shifts every day and this is the first chance I've had to do something other than sleep and work."
"Oh." Charlie wondered, not sure what to say and not sure if really his moping and miserable uselessness was really worth the effort. If she'd been out catching dark wizards all week and hadn't had the time to speak to him, then it was no wonder he'd been put aside for the time being.
"I'm sorry I just left you, but I got called in to work and you looked so peaceful like that, sleeping away like a little baby." She smiled moving in closer to whisper in his ear. This only served to turn Charlie on a bit and make his heart race while his mind felt extremely guilty with his moping, if Bill had felt the need to comment on it then it must have been bad.
"Yeah well, I should really get some more rest these days. But Bill's floor is bloody awful sometimes." Charlie sighed not sure what Bill had to do with anything.
"Oh, your stopping at Bill's then?" She wondered casually sliding her hand on to his arm a bit and leaning back against the door absentmindedly.
"Err, yeah well me flat's got mice again, so I've put a bomb out for twenty four hours and I was just gonna sleep at his for a few days until the smells gone."
"Is he out then tonight?" Tonks continued sliding her hand up to his neck and pulling down for a quick kiss.
"Probably till dawn. Why?" He gulped back as two lips found his again for a really slow kiss that seemed to be turning his knees to jelly.
"Well this is the first night off I've had in far too long and I can either hang around a boring old man's pub, with the other men from work or you could entertain me again?" She whispered lingering deliberately on his ear.
"Entertain you?" He asked nervously.
"Yeah, like before. I have to go off early again to work in the morning but if you're up for it, I could do with some, shall we call it 'stress relief' for a few hours." She grinned as Charlie finally pulled himself together enough to kiss her neck properly.
"That sounds like fun shall we go then?" He quickly whispered back.
"Yeah out the back though." She grinned grabbing him by the hand, pulling her jacket closer around herself and half dragged him towards the back door.
Pulling him in for a quick kiss before they headed out in to the cold Charlie thought all his Christmas's had come at once when he suddenly found himself been hugged up to close to, on the far too long walk back to Bill's flat. Quickly locking the door shut again Tonks pushed him straight into the spare room where a mattress had been laid out on the floor for Charlie to sleep on.
They'd barely got into the room when Charlie started yanking at clothes left right and centre to get Tonks and himself naked enough to lay on the very low bed where he got a bit over enthusiastic about making out with her. He was determined to prove he was good in bed, as in his own way, he felt sure that was the only way he was going to be able to convince her to date him properly. He was even going to settle for half-hearted dating what with this annoying nutty wizard running about the place and wanted to kill everyone left right and center, ruining his once so brilliant social life.
Tonks was rather surprised by Charlie being so intent on pleasing her and decided that something was different although she couldn't decided what, but after he'd started disappearing head first under the sheets she wasn't really sure what to think anymore and ended up just groaning instead.
Getting up as planned Tonks waited for Charlie to be asleep and started sneaking around in his t-shirt to find anything that would constitute a necessary understanding of Bill. Making copies she slipped them into her little bag and dropping it on the floor as she climbed back into bed. Charlie was completely oblivious to her being gone from his side while he slept when he woke up half an hour later to see her pulling her vest top back on.
"No don't go." He half whined pulling her back into bed next to him.
"I wasn't going to go yet, I was just a bit cold that's all." She explained laying back next to him as two freckly arms rapped back around her.
"Then I'll keep you warm." He decided rapping his arms around her and rolling back on top.
"Charlie its four in the morning, go back to sleep." Tonks half chuckled as he started absentmindedly kissing her cheeks and neck.
"Or seen as we've had a little sleep I could start again." He grinned cheekily only to receive a very naughty laugh.
"Ok, why don't we stay under the sheets though coz it's quiet cold out of bed."
"Ok.' He agreed pulling them around so he'd completely covered her in either his own warm body or suitable thick sheets.
'Do you remember when you first started talking to me in the pub?" Charlie asked leaning across to kiss at her neck softly and run his hand back down her stomach.
"Yeah, course."
"Well what was that special talent you had that got you into the arua program?"
"Oh that, well actually it's rather fun sometimes. I'm a metophoragus."
"Oh, they're really rare aren't they?"
"Yeah but me and mum are just a bit odd. Do you want to have a look?" She decided sitting up a bit under the sheet with Charlie who was still really aroused kissing at her neck whenever he could get the chance.
"Oh ok. So can you do anything then?"
"Yeah I can make anything bigger, smaller, different colour, different shape. It's useful really because unlike Pollyjuice potion, I can look really different really quickly and it's undetectable."
"Such as?" Charlie wondered letting his hand slide gently up to slide around her breasts. Tonks however closed her eyes and concentrated so they literally grew two cup sizes in a few seconds right before Charlie's eyes.
"What ya think?" She asked admiring her bouncy handy work by wobbling them up and down a bit.
"Very nice. But I liked them as they were. However, I can make things bigger too and it doesn't involve magic."
"Oh really, well I thought that had more to do with me than anything you've done?" Tonks laughed pushing herself up closer to him for a kiss as they started to lay back down.
Within a few minuets they were having sex again and Charlie for once felt up to a bit of conversation as he did so, not much but he was determined to try.
"Is that why you always have different coloured hair then?" He wondered slowly trying not to falter as he spoke.
"Yeah, but it's not just making things bigger, I can make things smaller too?" She grinned kissing Charlie's face and then winked. Closing her eyes she concentrated hard and let her body contract tight around him.
"Oh god, you're so tight!" He groaned scrunching his eyes up and carrying on in bliss.
"Too tight?" Tonks whispered feeling the urge to groan soon too.
"No, ogh, ace, gonna, come!" He whispered back grinning madly as he rested his head down to groan in sweet release in to her shoulder.
"I don't know if Charlie's back yet?" Bill explained pulling out three keys to start undoing the locks.
"Oh well, do you know what time he'll be back?"
"Can't say but if I can't get this lock undone then he must be in because it'll be dead locked from inside." Bill explained trying the last lock to find that yes, it was dead locked and he'd have to knock.
"What was that?" Tonks whispered quietly sitting up.
"Bollocks Bill's home, he wants me to let him in." Charlie groaned sitting up and looking around the room for something to wear that wasn't Tonks's lacy black knickers. He was partial to wearing them if he thought it would turn Tonks on more again, but didn't think Bill would really appreciate it properly.
"Oh well, you'd best let him in. Err, Charlie I know it's nice and all being with you but if anybody finds out I'm sleeping with someone out the order like this, then it'll erm, complicate things." She explained quickly.
"Oh well, wait here, get dressed again and I'll try and push him in his room long enough to sneak you out. He's probably a bit drunk and stuff and it should be quiet easy. If he's come home then he must be out of money and judging by what he can usually put away, he may think you're a little green fairy or something." Charlie explained with a slightly odd expression that made Tonks wonder how often Bill though Charlie was a little green fairy and why a little green fairy in the first place.
"Ok, I'll wait here but he sounds a bit impatient." Tonks replied getting up and closing the door behind him as Charlie quickly grabbed his dressing gown before reaching the door.
"Bill, I was err, what are you doing here?" Charlie wondered pink in the cheeks and looking over to see his mum and dad standing either side of him.
"We needed to talk to you both. Harry's been attacked by Dementors." Mr Weasley explained quickly coming into the room with his wife and looking very serious.
"Oh, is he ok?" Charlie half yawned out crossing his arms tightly over his chest to keep the gown shut, it didn't usually bother him who saw him naked but tonight was rather cold for his birthday suit.
"Yes well, he's fine now as far as we know. But he used magic and I need your help to help Dumbledore clear the mess up a bit. The ministry's really after him and it's not the first time he's done magic."
"Oh well ok. But do you need me now?" Charlie asked carefully as his mother was inspecting the tidiness of the living room.
"Yes Charlie now!" Mr Weasley snapped not sure why this son wasn't always as helpful as the one's either side of him in age..
"Well I was just checking dad, I was kind-of in the middle of something." Charlie stumbled out slowly trying to avoid eye contact with anyone particularly Bill.
"What do you mean?" Bill asked wearily looking around for a sight of someone else's healed shoes and possibly a mini skirt of even two thrown off in a hurry given Charlie's past history.
"Oh Charlie, did we wake you. You look all pink in the face and ever so tried. Why don't you come sit down dear and I'll make you a spot of breakfast?"
"No mother I'm fine, but I kind-of need to..?" He trailed off looking longingly at the door.
"Charlie, go and get rid of her!" Bill snapped recognising why he had pink cheeks, probably nothing on under his dressing gown and that washed out longing look. His father however merely sighed in his odd disappointed way and moved his wife over towards the sofa.
"Well how was I too know you were coming round?' He grumbled heading back to the spare room.
'It's me bloody mother and dad out there. And they need me to go do something for the order."
"What?" Tonks asked seriously pulling her boots on and almost ready to go do whatever was necessary.
"It's Harry, he was attacked by a couple of dementor's, sounds like he fought back and the ministry are going to clobber him for being underage." Charlie explained fishing out his underwear and yanking his trousers on.
"Oh, is he ok."
"Yeah I think so. Well mum would be far worse if something had happened to him. Err, how you gonna get out of here, Bill doesn't know it's you and he wants you err, gone?" Charlie explained looking around for a t-shirt now.
"Well give us a sec, I'll make me self look like a bit of a tart and walk out the front door, they won't recognise it's me." She explained seriously pulling out her wand and transfiguring her clothes. Concentrating hard she gave herself bigger hips, still large breasts and huge main of long blond hair to hide her very different face under.
"Wow you look, well, very different!"
"This is my tart's outfit. Do you think it works?" She asked with an honest smile as she bent down in her rather short skirt to change her boots into little pink pumps and her small work bag into a dainty useless handbag. Charlie was really struggling not to look now and failing quiet miserably as Tonks bent down in front of him seemingly oblivious to what might be on display.
"Hell yeah, you look absolutely gorges. Not that you don't always." He added with a cocky grin.
"Now it's time to go. I'll be in touch soon but don't you dare tell anyone about me, just say my name's Terri or something." She explained firmly with a kiss on the cheek for his good behavior.
"Oh ok. Let me go first and stay close." Leading the way across the room to see a rather confused mother looking back at her, Tonks smiled in a stupid girly way and slipped out the front door with Charlie.
"Right, bye then, I'll see you some time." She grinned looking far more serious now before heading down the corridor in what Charlie decided was a brilliantly tight skirt, before he headed back in to see his rather pissed off older brother and a very confused and slightly upset mother.
"Charlie you twat, what did you bring her here for?" Bill grumbled, whacking his little brother round the back of the head as hard as he dare in front of his dad.
"I dunno, I was horny and a bit drunk. And you said you'd be out for ages." He complained pulling his t-shirt on to cover the lipstick on his shoulder that he'd just noticed in the mirror.
"Honestly I can't leave you anywhere! And you best have kept out the bathroom." Bill snapped sitting down next to his father to sit with a rather smug face as his mother moved over towards his little brother.
"Of course I did. And don't look at me like that mother, it's not exactly surprising I might bring a girl back to me room!"
"And here I was being nice because I thought you were under the weather. Now go and have a shower Charles and wash that little strumpets muck off, I can see it all over your neck." She snapped bitterly before heading down to sit on the spare seat with a disgusted look on her face that wouldn't be removed until Charlie had had a good scrubbing.
It didn't take long, five minuets and Charlie was out the shower rubbing his hair dry and pulling on some cleaner clothes to be inspected by his mother.