A/N: Hi everyone! I'm back...MUHAAHHAAA! Okay, that was weird. Anyway thanks for the reviews and hopefully you like the new chapter.

Disclaimer: Lie: I own Harry Potter. Truth: I don't own Harry Potter, I just love JKR's wonderful world.

Chapter 3

CRASH!

Nymphadora Tonks had once again tripped over the unusually ugly troll's leg umbrella stand.

"Shit!" she mumbled before Mrs. Black started screaming her usual set of insults;

"YOU SHAPE SHIFTING FREAK! HOW DARE YOU BEFOUL THE HOUSE OF MY FATHERS-"

"Are you okay?" a familiar, gentle voice asked. Tonks looked up from the floor and saw Remus smiling at her and offering a hand to help her up. And so, Remus Lupin had once againhelped Nymphadora Tonks up.

"Thanks" she muttered, her face flushed scarlet red. After silencing Mrs. Black the two of them started wander to the kitchen, chatting avidly.

"Really, I'm serious, that umbrella stand is from hell! It has to be cursed, I can't be so clumsy that I trip over it every bloody time I enter to the house-"

Remus watched Tonks talk with small smile playing on his lips. She had been in the Order over week now and the two of them had become fast friends, (The result of sitting almost every night at Grimmauld Place's kitchen with Sirius drinking hot chocolate or butterbeer or -usually in Sirius case- firewhiskey and talking about everything between the heaven and earth.) which he appreciated very much. He was amazed how she lit up every room she walked (or rather crashed) into and how easy it was be with her. Even telling her that he was werewolf had been easy; she had not run away screaming or even flinched. She had just smiled reassuringly at him and stated cheekily 'So, then we're both shape shifting freaks, aren't we?'

They had now reached the kitchen and were sitting in the table drinking tea. The conversation had just changed from 'How damn good chocolate is'-topic to their other favourite subject 'The schooltime pranks', when Moody bustled into kitchen.

"Kingsley cannot do tonight's shift. Would you two take it?" he grumbled.

"Which shift are you talking about?" Remus asked.

"Potter needs guards from ten p.m. to five in the morning. Then Hestia takes over."

"Yes, we can do it!" Tonks at once, enthusiastically. She had not yet got any 'Potter tailing shift'.

"I'm going to see Harry Potter!" She grinned at Remus. He chuckled to her enthusiasm.

"Like you know, usually we don't need two people in this job, but I thought if you don't have anything else, Lupin, you could show around the place to her." said Mad-Eye.

"That's fine. It was at ten p.m., right?" Remus said. Moody grumbled in agreement and then stomped out the kitchen.

"We have still an hour to nine..." Remus said checking his watch. "Would you like another cup of tea?"

Tonks nodded, smiling.

...OOOOOOOOOO...

"I'm sorry that Harry isn't visible tonight. I think he'd gone bed early or something" Remus said to the woman with whom he was sitting under the invisible cloak.

"Ah, it's nothing... It was little silly from me to be so eager to see him. It's not like he's some animal in the zoo that people are staring at, right?" Tonks said, her deep brown eyes twinkling at him.

"Besides, I get to know him some day. Sooner or later Dumbledore has to let him to Grimmauld Place. Sirius's puppy eyes have to affect him eventually"

Both of them chuckled.

"What he's like? Harry, I mean" Tonks asked.

Remus pondered the question for a moment. Then he said, looking at the dark window that he knew was Harry's:

"Well, like Sirius says he reminds a lot James. But he's got much Lily in him too. A perfect mix of his parents, I would say" He paused. Then he said little apologetic tone:

"Oh, I'm sorry. I compare Harry to Lily and James, though you didin't know them-"

"I have heard so many stories about your schooldays that it feels like I knew them" Tonks said gently.

"Well, then you know what I'm talking about" Remus said, smiling "Anyway, Harry is a great boy. It was a joy to teach him. And he's very talented. I was astounded when he learned conjure a proper Patronus."

"You taught him to conjure a Patronus? And he was- what thirteen? Wow" Tonks said with admiration "I didin't learn conjure it properly until in Auror training"

"What form your Patronus takes?" Remus asked with interest.

"I'll show you" Tonks said, grinning. She checked that street was empty and houses dark. When there weren't any curious muggle eyes looking, she flicked her wand and silvery creature erupted from it and started hover over the Dursley's perfectly neat lawn.

"Well, that's a very incisive form" Remus mused, chuckling. The silvery chameleon twirled a couple more times around the garden and then disappeared.

"Yeah, I agree" Tonks said "So, now it's your turn."

Remus waved his wand and soon there was a silvern tawny owl wheeling in the summer night sky.

"It's beautiful" she said watching the owl fly.

"Thanks" he said and they smiled to each other.

Rest of the night went as peacefully as the beginning. They talked, laughed and teased each other. And when the clock came five in the morning and Hestia came to release them, Remus and Tonks knew many new little facts and things about one another.

A/N: Sorry about the ending...It sounds little stupid...

Anyhow I must say that I didin't invent that Tonks's Patronus is a chameoleon, I just found it very incisive ;) Thanks for whoever invented that!

By the way for the people who likes random facts: Patronus in finnish is "suojelius".

Well, reviews are welcome... See you in next chapter!

- Rottana