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When first time Remus met Tonks he was in a fury. He was at Grimmauld place and an order meeting was to start after 30 minutes. Members were yet to come and he was indulging himself with Sirius for past half an hour and temperature of the room as well as his brain was getting high. Sirius was in one of his sullen moods and was blaming the world in general. Remus knew that if he stayed in the room for 5 minutes more he might explode and Remus Lupin never explodes because Remus Lupin was as cool as cucumber man, he was logical and practical, he was not the one to given to the moment of fury. Hence he decided he was in dire need of fresh air, as fresh air as you can get in front of Grimmauld place, before the meeting starts because he need to calm down for it.

He didn't knew why he was getting worked up in first place. It wasn't first time Sirius was ranting, God knew with him being stuck up in the house, he needed to get out all his frustration in open and all he needed was a good listener, which Remus was, thought sometimes, the unfairness of it all, and his own problems caught up with him.

He hastily excused himself and walked as fast as one could without actually calling it running and opened the door with as much as force he could muster so as to transfer his all annoyance in to the door opening and...

...Bang...!

He saw stars for few moments. That was one solid head he thought, when he looked up to see what he had ran into.

What he noticed first was something green, only if his brain was functioning properly at the moment he would have known that the green was indeed somebody's hair. Second thing he noticed was the said head's forehead with a pink little bump and a soft pale hand caressing it. But the third thing which he noticed was what caught his attention most.

Two big brown eyes. Beautiful chocolate color eyes, twinkling and sparkling with little flecks of gold and light brown. They held all the warmth, and reminded him of his favorite Honeydukes chocolate and therefore it was the first time after that second-year-kitten-aww-incident that he ever felt so strong desire to exclaim aww over those eyes. So far he had thought only Sirius gave the best puppy dog eyes, what him being a dog and all, but clearly her eyes surpassed all the puppy dog eyes he had ever seen. Without even knowing who was the owner of those eyes, he knew that he would never be able to say no to those eyes.

When those eyes blinked and he caught himself looking at long eyelashes for a second, he remembered he was staring.

He cleared his throat and pulled himself together so as to bring her full face in focus.

She was beautiful, to say the least.

"Um... Wotcher?" her voice was feminine yet strong.

He blinked.

"How can I help you?" His voice was hoarse, he cleared his throat and blinked. Again.

Where was his mind wandering? Where was his Constantly vigilant common sense? He was staring at a girl, who was standing at the doorstep of Grimmauld place, that Grimmauld which is under the Fidelus charm, and therefore is invisible to other common on goers. Since she obviously can see the place meant she knew the secret and was here for order meeting, now he remembered Moody did mentioned recruiting a new member. And here he was asking 'how can i help you' as if she was some bloody saleswoman. Of course, he should have guessed it at once that she was the new member.

"Sorry, where are my manners, you must be with Alastor right? I must have bumped you rather hard, I am sorry, I didn't saw you coming, here let me heal you. Though, where is Alastor, how did you found out the place?" he was now rambling and had seemed to asked ten question at once without a breath to spare so that she could even answer and what was he babbling? Let me heal you, god, that sounded so corny.

He placed his forefinger on her bruise lightly and through a non verbal spell healed it. The bump was no longer visible and there remained just a pink tinge.

Her eyes widened."You did that without a wand and without uttering a word!" she looked rather impressed.

Come to think of it, why didn't he used a wand? Why was he looking out for a excuse to touch? Why was he showing off to a complete stranger. Though he was rather pleased that she was impressed.

"Ah well, it comes in handy" he said, not wanting to bring more attention to his wandless and non verbal abilities he continued " you didn't mentioned your name? And where is Alastor,by the way? We thought he will be bringing you"

"Well yes, he was bringing me, in fact he even came to my place to pick me up" she said, and he decided that he rather liked her voice "but then started acting all disgusting, he took out that eye of his started plunging and cleaning in a duck pond and it was rather creepy so I decided to just let him do that and apparated here, as i had already seen that note of Dumbledore's" she was animated little creature, rolling her eyes, shaking her head,huffing,doing hand movements at all the right times.

"Duck pond you say? Where did he managed to find a duck pond in the way?"

"Well its near the apparition point of my building. I told him, that it was already dirty but it will serve him right now when he manage to stick duck weed to his eye" there was an evil and mischievous glint in her eye so reminiscent to Sirius's.

No one just left Mad eye Moody mid way. The consequence were always disastrous.

When looked down, now more attentively, he saw she was in ministry Auror robes and beneath were what he could see tiny little black top with patched dark blue jeans.

Ah so she's an auror, interesting, wonder if she know's Sirius is here too and is innocent, or she might just get a right scare seeing a fugitive criminal.

Now that he saw her patched jeans he didn't felt left out. After all his robes were patched too.

He looked up at her and realized that she was staring him with apprehensive appreciating eyes.

"Um who are you,by the way?"

Oh,he had been standing here for past 10 minutes and was constantly chatting with a complete stranger without even knowing her name and without even introducing himself.

"Sorry, I am Remus Lupin" he extended his hand and she shook it vigorously. Though her hands were comparatively smaller than his, she took his hand with equal strength.

"Hello, I am Tonks, just Tonks please, Mad-eye told me about you,in fact he told me about all the members, I am very excited to meet everyone, especially Sirius" she whispered Sirius's name and he deflated visibly.

Here was a woman, who had managed to caught his eye and she was excited to meet Sirius. He must have know, apart from his already existing handsome features, charming behavior that gave him a haughty aura, he has now added 'tragic heroism' to his list of qualities that seem to allure women. Of course she would be excited to meet him. And didn't she just said she knew about him? She probably knew he was a werewolf, anyway. At least she wasn't shying away from him.

"Tonks it is. Pleasure to meet you. Sorry for bumping in you earlier."

"It's alright, I would have managed to bump in empty air, anyway, you see I am very clumsy. I was just going to knock on the door but you knocked me first, perfectly alright, it is." she smiled good naturedly.

"Do you mind if i come in? Its rather cold outside" she said hesitantly.

"Oh! Of course, I was just waiting for Alastor, you see, I thought he might be wondering where you are off too"

Of course he wasn't waiting for Moody, he had forgot to invite her in, and in order to not to appear a complete rude person he came up with the excuse so as to appear that it was his intention all along.

"Fear I might be a Death Eater or Ministry spy, huh? Waiting for Moody therefore? "

He hesitated. He didn't thought his excuse would be back fired "uh... No... no that's not what i meant... " he hastily tried to cover up.

But she laughed for first time and her face glowed along with it "Just kidding, I was"

Just on cue, a crack reverberated and Moody appeared.

He was practically growling and his eyes were in danger of popping out,which was at least possible with him and he was glaring daggers at Tonks . He waited for the explosion.

And indeed it came.

"That was ENTIRELY IRRESPONSIBLE on your part, DISOBEYING orders of your SENIORS and disregarding their commands, you could have stepped in a PERFECT DEATH EATERS TRAP for all you know, horribly underestimating the importance of being CONSTANTLY VIGILANT..."

Moody's voice, or anything as close to as voice that could come out of Moody's throat, was almost enough to awake Mrs. Black but, Tonks remain unfazed, apparently it was daily occurrence.

"Now now Mad-eye, it wasn't me who was locked in their own security protective trunk for a better part of year because of acting fickle vigilance..."

Moody spluttered, and he had never seen Moody spluttering. He gaped at Tonks, he already admired her.

Apparently Moody had recovered from her retort he straightened and said "Fair point, Nymphadora" and walked away stomping his leg, looking smug.

Aha! So her name was Nymphadora... Nymphadora Tonks.. Nymphadora was quite mouthful but no doubt beautiful name, that's why she was probably first dodging his question as to what was her name. Moody was gone and now he was standing with an angry Tonks.

He turned to look at her and raised his eyebrows "So, Nymphadora?"

She flashed her eyes at him and then said sheepishly "Please its Tonks, I go by Tonks. So unless you want to grow your nose hair up to your chin or you are willing to spike pink hairs please call me Tonks" she then smile, so as to not offend him.

He wasn't offended, he was once a marauder and he had respect for all inventive hex, and of all weird named people, he understood the reluctance to once name. Because, a werewolf named Remus Lupin, what was more ironic? Though she indeed had some pixie like quality about her and her parents have named her aptly.

"Sure" he smiled at her "Shall we now move inside? Others members will be arriving soon" and ushered her in.

She has just walked a step towards him that she tripped on her own shoe laces. She was falling, but he couldn't let her fall now, could he? He deftly caught her in her arms and her head collided with his chest.

Merlin, she was determined to knock air from his lungs. First from her those beautiful big chocolate brown eyes and now that solid head of her's.

"Uh,Sorry? Though I warned you I am dead clumsy"she said feebly.

If her being clumsy meant her being in his arms, he loved her clumsiness. Remus wasn't one of those people who get smitten to younger pretty witches at first sight. He had seen fair share of beautiful and pretty witches in his life and so far none of them caught his attention like this particular witch. It wasn't her appearance but there was something very sincere and soulful about those eyes and that smile.

He realized his hands were still on her waist and they suddenly felt warm and removed it hastily.

"It's ok, we all have some quirks, though you might just consider to re tie your laces" he smiled at her and guided her in.

He remained behind her so he could check her out. As soon as he thought those words his eyes widened in horror. Check her out? Merlin he was losing his mind. He was 36 year old and 36 year old men do not check out women. They might appraise them, appreciate them, acknowledge them but checking out sounded too... Lecherous, too obscene, which he was not. Checking out was what road side romeos did. No matter what his current employment status was, he was once a professor, a dignified one.

With this thought he moved from her behind to her beside like a co-worker, co-warrior and hopefully soon to be friend.

He smiled at her.

She smiled back at him.

Oh this was going to be an interesting year.

A:N/ Did you like it? Do tell. I find Remus's wandless and non verbal magic very impressive indeed and I like the idea of him trying to impress her through it.