Tonks flopped back on her narrow bed with a heavy sigh. That was it. It was, she was so tired she actually checked the silly Micky Mouse alarm clock her dad got her ages ago and insisted she bring with her, seven o'clock on Friday night. Seven o'clock. On a Friday night. Her first week was officially over. Wow. One full week. One full week of being an Auror. A brand new, Probationary Auror but an Auror all the same. She had been an Auror for a whole week. Wow. And still hadn't got used to the start time, the silly clock still startling her awake without fail every day. It was annoying. Sure, she had early starts at the Academy but in her final year it was only on the mornings Moody was actively teaching her (the man was an infuriatingly early bird, actually she wasn't even sure if he slept. He was too paranoid for that), other classes and tutorials and practices she could schedule herself and she sure as well didn't schedule things first thing in the morning if she could help it. Which, okay, sounded great but only really resulted in one morning in which nothing happened until midday and another where things didn't start until half ten. Both of which allowed her to sleep in a little more so she counted that as a win. But now she wasn't going to get that. Every day was going to be an early start. Great. Maybe only one of the downsides.
Somehow, she had expected to feel different after a full week? Well, sure, she felt exhausted and her brain was swimming with the number of rules and regulations that had been shoved down her throat, but that wasn't what she had meant by feeling different. She didn't even know what she had thought she would feel after just one week. More accomplished, maybe? More like an adult (because three years of the Academy hadn't made her feel like one, sometimes it actually managed to make her feel more stupid than when she was in school but whatever)? She wasn't sure she had been feeling any of those things.
And yes, it hadn't been glamourous at all. She had known that (even if she had had a teeny tiny hope that it would be) but it was a hell of a lot more forms than she ever thought possible. So much stuff for HR, it was mad. They definitely knew everything about her by now. And she had read so many legal things that she was pretty sire she could become a solicitor if she wanted a job change.
But even with all that mundane stuff, she never felt so wide-eyed before except the first time she had arrived at Hogwarts way back in her first year. There had been so much to take in then and it was the same now. Okay, maybe her surrounding didn't look as impressive as a castle but there was still so much to take in. It wasn't like she had spent a lot of time in the Ministry of Magic except for the stupid Balls her parents had brought her to as a child and those were never held anywhere near the offices. And her mum and dad were a Solicitor and Healer respectively, neither of them had offices in the Ministry of Magic. She hadn't known about the spelled windows, for example, those were pretty cool though Wednesday's very still and calm day had been very weird. Unnatural even. But apparently, they sometimes got tornadoes which sounded far more exciting even though apparently, they tended to be glitches in the enchantment.
But that was just the corridors in the Ministry of Magic as a whole. Then there was the DMLE. The Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Oh, how grand did that sound? Oh, sure, technically it was even more boring than the corridors, being a load of offices and cubicles but that didn't matter to her. Those cubicles and offices and even meeting rooms (she had forgotten to mention the meeting rooms) were going to be where she became an Auror.
Well, technically she was already an Auror. A Probationary one and all but she still was one. But she hadn't experienced being one yet, did that make sense? Probably not. She was exhausted and definitely not thinking straight.
Paperwork, reports, case files. There was an awful lot of reading when you were being an Auror. Almost too much but that was just because they weren't trusted to do anything yet. They still had things to learn, somehow. And that was fine. Everything was fine. She wasn't stupid enough to expect excitement when she started. That was silly.
And okay, maybe the person who she had been assigned to learn from had said, "Great, I get the freak," but she didn't really count that as a bad thing. She supposed that she was kind of weird to people. That was fine. She was used to that sort of attitude, you know? It was nothing new. She could live with it. Would it be nice to do without it? Of course. But that wasn't going to happen any time soon so she was just going to have to live with it. Whining and complaining wasn't going you get her anywhere except make her feel like crap. Which she didn't want so she wasn't going to focus on it. Too much.
It would be better if she was busy so she could just ignore his attitude but it wasn't like there was anything happening for them. There was a bunch of Aurors out for the World Cup which apparently was boring as hell if the complaints she heard from people reporting back were anything to go by. Apparently, it involved doing endless patrols around fields while everyone else had fun which did sound like it sucked. One of the Aurors reporting back had even made it a point to come over to bunch of them and said very sarcastically that this was the most fun he'd had all year.
She hadn't been sure why Aurors had had to be the ones to patrol it but she was thankful that she hadn't been the one to ask. Mainwaring had ended up asking and got a very scathing "Events like the World Cup are at high risk for terrorist activity, are you an idiot?" in response. So, at least she wasn't thought of as the idiot. The klutz, probably, but not the idiot. She felt like being known as the klutz was better at this point.
The World Cup would be over tomorrow. Because of exams and everything she hadn't even realised that it was on, was that bad? Sure, she liked watching Quidditch as much as anyone else, had played for her House and all that and yeah, being at the World Cup would be cool but she wasn't that into it, you know? She preferred more local matches anyway. Becoming an Auror was far more important. So, yeah, she had kind of forgotten about the World Cup.
But back to how that would affect the Office. There would be more people, hopefully more going on and maybe, just maybe, she would be able to do something that wasn't just learning rules and regulations.