Chapter 2:

Tonks was having an amazing dream of her and a group of her old school friends at the 1990 Weird Sister's gig in at the magical Waterfront musical bar. They were all at the very front dancing and head banging along to the intense music, when Tonks heard a voice.

"Kaye. Kaye. Come on. It's half 8." The voice seemed oddly familiar. "Breakfast has already started. Class starts in half an hour. Come on. We'll be late."

"KAYE!"

"Holy Shit." Tonks woke with a start. She sat up, very confused. She was in a small single bed that were surrounded by scarlet red curtains. 'What the bloody hell. Where am I?' Tonks thought. She looked up at Hermione frowning down at her and instantly remembered where she was and why.

"Kaye. We're gunna be late to class. Plus, I still haven't got my timetable."

"It's okay. You go ahead without me. I've already got my timetable. If I don't make it to breakfast, I'll probably see you in class, if we're in the same ones." She attempted a smile. Tonks is not a morning person, therefore any kind of human contact before 11 in the morning is not received very well.

"Okay. I'll see you in a while." Hermione called out as she briskly walked to the exit.

Tonks sighed and flopped back in bed. One of the few things she didn't miss about Hogwarts was the early mornings. You would've thought that being an Auror, she would be used to early mornings and late evenings, but she was a girl who enjoyed her sleep. Well at least her morphing abilities, meant she could cut down on her getting ready time. She flattened her hair and stood in front of the mirror to decide the colour and style of her hair for the day. She thought she would go with a pastel purple in a short curly bob today, so she morphed herself quickly, checked herself in the mirror once more, threw her robes on and ran down to the great hall.

As she walked through the doors, most students were already on their way out, so Tonks grabbed a couple of slices of toast and quickly made her way to one of her least favourite classes, Divination. This would be the third year's first lesson and she knew how that would go. Trelawney would probably make a scene and proclaim that she has seen the demise of a student in her class, as she did every year. Tonks' bet was on Harry. In her year, she had been the one that was In 'grave danger', so she spent most of her classes, laughing and messing about with one of her best mates, Charlie Weasley. Soon enough, she arrived underneath Trelawney's attic classroom.

"There's Kaye." Harry pointed over to her.

Tonks walked towards them slowly, dreading the next hour. "Wotcher."

"This class should be good." Ron stated. Tonks couldn't help but snort at that, then regretted it, realising she shouldn't have ever been in divination. They all looked at her in confusion.

"Oh… At my other school it was a whole load of bollocks. I don't believe in it. But that's just me. You might believe in it. Anyway, I guess it all depends on if we have someone who actually knows what their talking about." She explained, knowing full well that they would all hate it and find it as ridiculous as she does.

"You may enter, my dears." Professor Trelawney's voice could be heard, as the attic door swung open magically.

They all groaned as they exited the classroom, only two of the class mates looked happy and interested. Most of the class consisted of Trelawney telling the class of how Harry is in Grave danger and would suffer immensely very soon and for a very long time. Even Hermione had pretty much snorted through the whole class, laughing very loudly at some of the bollocks Trelawney was spilling.

They had Care of Magical Creatures next, with Hagrid next. When Tonks was at Hogwarts as a student, she had ProfessorKettleburn, but she had a very good relationship with Hagrid. In fact she had often spent time in his hut with him and Charlie Weasley, especially when Charlie found out about Hagrid's love of Dragons. She grew quite fond of the half giant and would visit often. So Tonks was quite excited to see him again.

As soon as they arrived outside his hut, they walked straight up to Hagrid.

"Hagrid. How come you never told us?" Ron asked immediately.

"Wanted ta surprise ya'" He replied. "Who's ya new friend then?" He smiled at Tonks.

"This is Kaye, she transferred here this year. She's a metamorphmagus you know, their so rare." Hermione rambled.

"Wotcher." She greeted, then froze. Hagrid knew her. That was her signature greeting. 'SHIT. He's gunna know.' Hagrid froze then smiled at her.

"I've only ever known one other girl like ya, Kaye. She was quite special ya know. Mates with one of ya older brothers Ron. Charlie. They'd visit me sometimes. Great memories with them too. She's an Auror na I think."

Tonks felt very touched that Hagrid thought that of her, and was almost certain that he knew it was her.

"Can I speak to ya alone Kaye for a minute." He asked nicely. "Gotta see what ya knows already."

"Yep. Sure. See you lot in a sec."

They walked around the corner "Tonks. That's ya innit?"

She changed her hair to her signature bright pink as an answer.

"I knew it. How ya bin'? Heard you're an Auror naw. Very proud o' ya." Hagrid smiled down at her, kindly.

"I've been great Hagrid. Look no-one's supposed to know and you and Lupin have already found out. Please keep it to yourself. Especially don't say anything to them three. I'm here to protect Harry, in case Sirius Black makes an appearance." She explained quickly.

"Okay Kiddo."

"Well we better get back. It's so good to see you again Hagrid."

Care of Magical Creatures was great fun for the third years, none of them had ever seen a hippogriff before, well except for Tonks that is. The class was based around how to approach a hippogriff. Harry had been the first to have a go, soon after, Hagrid had the entire class working in groups with a different Hippogriff. A group of Slytherin's that seemed to have a rivalry with Harry and his friends were taunting one of the creatures.

That was when Tonks found out that one of the Slytherin's was a distant relative of her's. Draco Malfoy is the son of Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Black. Narcissa is one of her mother's sisters, who she had only met once or twice when her mother tried to introduce her to her Black side of the family. However Draco hadn't been born back then. She noticed that he had picked up all the wrong traits from their family, arrogance, prejudice and a high opinion of himself.

"Go on Draco." One of his cheerleaders shouted.

"You're not dangerous are you?" He goaded the creature. "Pathetic." Buckbeak tried to snap at Draco and reared onto his back legs. Tonks shot a barrier charm, to try to protect her biological cousin, grudgingly, but was too late. The Hippogriff had already scratched him. Draco was writhing on the floor.

"It's killed me. It's killed me." He screeched. "Bloody great big chicken. My father will hear about this." Hagrid picked him up and dismissed the class and started towards the castle with Draco cradled in his arms, like a small child.

"What was that spell you tried to use Kaye?" Hermione looked at her curiously.

"Oh nothing really, just a protective charm, it works kinda like a shield. Got taught it last year.

The three wondered their way towards the great hall, thinking about the marvellous food they would enjoy for Lunch, once they arrived.

Their last class of the day, was the one Tonks was most looking forward to. Defence against the dark arts. Not only was she very good at, being an Auror, she would see her new friend, Remus Lupin. She walked to the classroom with the other three, only to be told that they would be going to the staffroom, and that it was a practical lesson with no need for their books. The class followed professor Lupin through the corridors towards the staffroom, when they came across Peeves, the poltergeist, who was putting chewing gum in Filches broom cupboard.

"You better take that out Peeves, Filch won't be happy."

"Loony, Loopy Lupin. Now a teacher. Loony, Loopy Lupin." Peeves sang and blew a raspberry.

Remus sighed, pulled out his wand and raised his wand to shoulder height. "Waddiwasi." The gum shot out of the keyhole and straight down Peeves' right nostril. Peeves cursed and flew away from the class.

"Cool Sir!" Dean called, clearly impressed with his teacher.

"Thank you Dean. Now everyone into the Staffroom please." He held open the door.

Waiting till the end, Tonks walked past Remus last.

"You'll have to show me how you did that at some point soon. Could come in handy, that." Tonks said quietly and winked.

The class was on how to get rid of Boggarts. It was a very interesting lesson right from the word go. To start of Remus taught the class the pronunciation of the incantation, without their wands. He then put it all together and got Neville Longbottom to demonstrate. He whispered what he wanted Neville to think of in his ear and opened the cupboard. Out swooped Professor Snape. Neville was clearly terrified of him, his face was an absolute picture, and it was all Tonks could do not to laugh out loud.

"Riddikulus" Neville said clearly. With that, Snape instantly shrank and his clothes became that of an elderly woman, who Tonks guessed was his grandmother. He was wearing a long green cloak, a bright red handbag, a brown dress, with stockings and sensible shoes. The effect was hilarious, and most of the class roared with laughter.

"Alright everybody form a que. We'll try to get through as many people as we can."

Although Tonks knew that she should be at the back, as she doesn't need the education, she couldn't resist getting somewhere near the front. The que slowly trickled forward as the fears of her classmates were revealed to the class. There were the normal ones such as Spiders, Snakes, Mummies and various monsters. Soon enough it was her turn. Every time she had previously encountered one, it turned into her classmates/ other Auror's in training shunning her because they deemed her untrustworthy due to her ability to change her appearance at will.

She confidently took the step up and watched the Boggart transform, knowing she could deal with this now.

Tonks instantly froze at what she saw. Stood in front of her was her aunt Bellatrix and on the floor in front of her was her mum, Andromeda and her dad, Ted.

To her classmates it looked as if all the colour had been sucked out of Tonks, she had unwillingly and unknowingly morphed her hair back to its natural, very curly very dark brown, almost black. Her hair was very almost exactly like Bellatrix's, one of the reasons she never shows her natural hair. She was visibly shaking and hyperventilating. Her eyes had glazed over, it was almost as if she was having a very bad nightmare.

Tonks was in her own world of horror and torment, as she watched her loving parents get tortured in front of her, by her aunt's use of the cruciatus curse. Bellatrix was stood laughing at her sister and brother in law's bodies on the floor, taunting them as they struggled to breathe because of the pain.

Suddenly, Lupin was in front of her and the boggart was changing. She was brought back to reality and realised it was just a boggart. "Class dismissed." Remus called. "Miss Adamson. May I have a word?" The class groaned, but quickly left.

"I'll see you later guys." Tonks said to Harry, Ron and Hermione, who were reluctant to leave their new friend after what they had just seen. The door closed behind them three and Tonks instantly changed back to her normal form, including the bubble-gum pink hair. It was always harder to keep a morph going in emotional moments. Remus turned to her and squeezed her shoulders.

"Thanks." She said, biting back her tears. "I have no idea…" She tried to explain.

"Hey. It's okay." She threw herself around him, seeking comfort. He hesitated for a moment before wrapping his arms around her body, attempting to determine a friendly place to rest his arms, so not to send out the wrong signals. He was sure that he liked the pink haired bombshell that blasted into his world, just yesterday. He was drawn to her presence instantly. It was like they had known each other for years. There was just something he couldn't place about her.

She sniffed, pulling him out of his thoughts.

"Come on. We'll go back to my office."

She nodded and slowly started to switch back to Kaye. It was the hardest to morph in emotional moments, but eventually she managed it. He held the door open for her and waited for her to pass him.

Tonks managed to morph the tears out of her eyes till they reached their destination. Once there she morphed back and her eyes shone from the tears. She had calmed down a little, by now. She slid herself on Remus' desk and tried to act that nothing had happened. She smiled at him.

"Is this where you take all the girls?" She asked with a watery wink.

"You know. You don't have to pretend. I see that what you saw really shook you. It's changed. Right?" He was drawn to her and put his arms around her shoulders in a gentle hug. Tonks nodded in response. She looked up at him. He was staring down at her with kind eyes and a smile to match. She leaned in to him, making herself at home in the hug and rested her head on his shoulder.

Moments of silence passed by in their embrace. Eventually Remus started to move away slowly, still smiling down at her.

"Do you want to talk about it?" He asked her.

"I'm not sure. I don't want you to look at me any differently because of parts of my life." She replied staring at the floor.

"Of course, I wouldn't judge you because of certain parts of your life. I'm certainly not a person who judges people too quickly." Remus re assured her.

"Well… It's not too much of a big deal to be honest and it's not like it's a bloody secret. It's public knowledge. Those people on the floor in my boggart, they were my parents. Andromeda and Ted Tonks..."

"Yes. I knew Andromeda." Remus interrupted Tonks' rambling.

"…Hold up one second. You knew mum. How?" Tonks frowned in confusion.

"Oh. I was friends with one of her cousins." Remus panicked. 'Have I just revealed too much. Is she going to know?'

"Okay… wait. WHICH COUSIN!" Tonks shouted, knowing full well that all of her mother's cousins were on the dark arts side, in fact most being in Azkaban.

"Oh…urm. I was informed not to tell anyone. It wouldn't make me very favourable." Remus caught a glimpse at Tonks, who was glaring at him furiously. "Okay. Fine. Fine. I was friends with Sirius."

"The very same Sirius Black that we're all trying to catch, before he murders Harry Potter?" Tonks looked at him frowning. "Well, he's my cousin. So as long as you're not going to help him into the castle, then I don't think we'll have a problem do you?" She finished.

Remus wasn't expecting her to just accept that he had been best friends with Sirius.

"WAIT! Andy's daughter. Nymph…NYMPHADORA! I knew it! Nymphadora. You know I always liked your name."

"You Shite. How'd you know?" She crossed her arms and frowned. "It's still Tonks to you."

"I babysat you with Sirius, James and Peter when you were about five ish." He smiled at her. She was looking at him, completely shocked.

"You babysat me… when I was five…" She muttered

"You were actually pretty attached to me. Sirius always got a bit angry about that. You know he loved you very much. Never shut about the only part of his family worth anything. He liked the rebels. He would've loved you." Remus said in a sad tone. "You're very much a rebel. Aren't you?" He looked at her, his eyes sparkling from him trying to cover his grief.

"Well maybe just a little." She smiled sadly at the mention of her cousin.

"Yeah, the pink really screams just a little bit rebel." He fingered her brightly coloured hair, looking down at her, coming closer to her, without realising. She blushed at the closeness of him, the apples of her cheeks glowing pink.

"You like a rebel then Remus?" Tonks flirted, looking unabashedly straight at him. Remus seemed to realise that he was very close to the young witch and slowly un-entangled his hands from her hair and stepped back towards his desk chair.

"Well, I can be susceptible to a rebel on occasion." He laughed. "Take a seat Nymphadora." He nodded towards the chair in front of his desk.

"REMUS! It's Tonks! Anyway I'm starved. Shouldn't we head down for Dinner?" She questioned. Remus looked at his watch and nodded, got up from his seat and headed towards the door. Tonks moved to follow him.

"Wait Nympha…" He stopped, noticing her glare. "You need to change. I can't come out of my office with a young, beautiful witch when I came in with a student, now can I?" 'I should not have said that. I should not have said that!' Remus thought to himself, blushing furiously. 'She'll take offense. Or think I'm some old perv. Oh Merlin save me.'

"Aww. Remus. You think I'm beautiful. That's very sweet of you. You know you're not so bad looking yourself." Tonks morphed back to Kaye, winked at him and turned to walk out the door.

AN: I just finished Re reading PoA. I forgot how much I bloody love that one. Professor Lupin, being one of the main reasons. Oh everyone who hasn't already listened to Everybody Talks by Neon Tree's, totally should. I basically listened to it on repeat whilst writing this. I'm trying to quickly pass over the parts that are covered in the books, as I don't want to copy lots of Jo's work into this fic. So I am trying to use it as a guideline. However, there is still lots of overlap due to Tonks' position as Harry's Bodyguard.

I realise that some people may think that Tonks is too strong to be fooled by a Boggart, but I wanted to show that even the strongest of soldiers can be broken by some personal issues. In my mind, Tonks has a huge fear that if Voldermort ever rose again, her family would have a huge target on their backs. I just generally think that this would strike a chord with Tonks.

Thanks to those who reviewed:

jkarr, James Birdsong, G, Guest and Eniluap12.

To Lupinfamily4eva, thanks so much for the support. I had totally forgot about Remus not showing his Corporal Patronus, I will be sure to fix this when I've finished and go through and edit.

To Alicia Olivia Mirza, thanks for the kind words about my little fic

BTW, I've been super busy recently, what with work, college prep and I'm decorating rn, so this has taken a back seat. Seriously, I've been super busy. So sorry for keeping everybody waiting. I'll try to keep on top of it from now on