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Chapter 3: Home Sweet Home

"...Dora can you pass the cream and sugar please?"

"Yes, mother."

Tonks passed the fancy china ware her mother always brought out when entertaining guests for tea and watched as her mother gracefully ladled some sugar and cream into her teacup. Unlike her clumsy self, her mother had neat well-manicured hands and was extremely graceful. Despite being disowned by the Blacks for marrying a muggleborn, Andromeda was every bit a pureblood in her customs and manners, if nothing else. Meanwhile, her dad Ted Tonks was the complete opposite, a joker with his family roots in nothing so glamorous as mining and Manchester though he had a good humour to thank for it.

"So how is your life?"

"Can we not talk about my life, mum, right now? I thought I came over here so we could meet Hermione's boyfriend."

"It takes the train awhile to arrive dear, they both go to Hogwarts together."

"Oh really?" Tonks mimicked her mum's posh voice

Andromeda pretended to not notice her older daughter's snide tone.

"Yes," Andromeda smiled proudly, "Hermione is very excited to introduce him to us. I think he might be a keeper, don't you think so Ted?" she called over to her husband who was laid out on the couch watching the football match on the telly.

"Sure dear, we'll just have to meet him first!" Ted winked and shared a quirky smile with his daughter. Tonks immediately felt glad she wasn't the only in hysteria over Hermione's new boyfriend. They didn't even know who the mystery borfriend was yet. In the background Granny Tonks and Pa Tonks portraits were gossiping non-stop and there was wild speculation on who he could be.

"More cake dear?" Andromeda asked pleasantly as she sliced a iced blueberry cake into thin even slices and poured some tea, before switching subject in that sly way all mothers do, "So Dora, have you started dating again?"

Tonks was in the midst of eating a mouthful of the blueberry cake and getting crumbs all over herself and felt very unladylike than ever under her mother's knowing gaze. "No, mum. Been sort of busy. Between the Order and my day job at the Ministry, I haven't exactly had time to go around looking for blokes," she replied churlishly.

Andromeda laughed, "Well you don't 'go around looking for blokes', Dora! Most of the time, you meet them by accident." she waved an elegant hand in the air, "Surely there is someone at the Ministry or Order who's caught your eye?"

Tonks crossed her arms. "No there isn't. And I'm not supposed to discuss who's in the Order."

Andromeda shrugged "Well I know that Dora, it's all top secret, but you don't have to tell us his name...although we already know who many of the Order members are: Dumbledore, the Weasleys, Mad-Eye, Sirius..." her mother paused to laugh lingeringly, "Of course I can't imagine it would be Sirius who caught your eye!"

Tonks felt her face go red. The only thing worse than discussing her lovelife with her parents was her mother insinuating that she had a thing for a relative. Honestly did they think she was that demented?

"Mum!"

"What? He was quite good looking when he was younger, I wouldn't blame you Dora if you did develop a crush-"

"Mum I am NOT in love with your cousin Sirius!"

"Well then tell us who it is then in the Order that's got you all riled up?"

"There's no one!" Tonks lied through clenched teeth. Because she really didn't feel like telling her mum that the current object of her affection was a werewolf completely indifferent to her, and much older.

"No one at all?" Andromeda raised her eyebrows incredulously, "Surely you must have met at least one-"

"No one's got me riled up mum! God! What is that even supposed to mean?!"

Luckily Ted intervened before her mother's prying questions got too far, "C'mon Andy, give the girl a break! Dora's very busy with her career right now, and we're supposed to be celebrating her advancement in the Order, frankly I for one am very proud." He smiled warmly at his daughter, and Tonks never felt so glad to be her father's daughter but then he added, "Besides we can't expect both our daughters to be settling down at the same time."

"I suppose you're right," Andromeda sighed in disappointment.

Tonks couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Really dad? You think Hermione is settling down?" She couldn't believe how much her parents were overreacting over Hermione's one boyfriend. They acted like she was getting married already. "Hermione's only 17 and this is her first boyfriend, that we know of, she's hardly settling down!"

"Your mother and I met when we were 17."

"So that was like the 1970s!" Tonks said. "No one gets married straight out of school anymore, unless they're pregnant."

Andromeda suddenly put down her cup with a sharp clang.

"Dora why are getting cross?"

"I'm not getting cross."

"Yes, you are," Andromeda insisted, "I'm sorry if you feel that Hermione's news is getting in the way of celebrating your promotion with the Order, but we've already celebrated it. Honestly, we hardly ever get to see Hermione when she's at school and her trip was already planned."

Tonks rolled her eyes. "Believe me mum, I'm really looking forward to meeting Hermione's boyfriend! With all the hype you've built around him, it sounds like he might be the second coming of Merlin!"

They were interrupted by loud knocking on their front door.

Andromeda stood up from her chair and turned to her husband, "Oh my god it's them! The door! Ted go get the door!"

Tonks watched incredulously as her parents stumbled down the hallway to open the front door first. God could they get anymore exaggerated over one boyfriend?! Tonks didn't remember them getting this excited when she'd brought that lanky Hufflepuff with a nose-ring in her fifth year, not that he had been her first boyfriend. She'd always had a string of boy-friends and boyfriends that made her parents slightly uncomfortable. Yet they were blowing a fuse now that Hermione was finally bringing her first boyfriend home!

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Author's note:

Next part: Hello everybody my name is _ _, Hermione's boyfriend! There'll be a slight surprise though! Can you guess what it is? Bonus points if you can guess!

ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT THERE WILL BE TWO VERSIONS OF THIS STORY: THE T RATED STORY HERE ON FANFICTION .NET AND THEN THERE WILL BE THE SLUTTY VERSION WHICH I WILL POST ON ANOTHER SITE. Keep reading it here but when there's a chapter that contains a slutty scene, I will include a link to the uncensored version at the top of that chapter. **Hopefully I won't have to use too many slutty scenes, though I think it is inevitable if she's going to break into Malfoy Manor** Thanks.