Hello!

So I really shouldn't be starting anything new because I need to work on No, Seriously (if you haven't read it you should really check it out, I'm very proud of it so far) but this is for the Pride and Prejudice Challenge on HPFC and Ronks is my OTP, so I shall do my best to do this pairing justice.

Let's just all cross our fingers and hope for the best.

Remus Lupin took a sip of tea.

He enjoyed tea, chamomile to be precise, mostly for its connection to his childhood. His mother had always made him chamomile tea. It was also helping him calm his nerves. This was the first Order meeting, and a new member was being brought in by Mad-Eye.

This was probably why Mad-Eye was late.

"She's my cousin, actually," Sirius told him. "Or my cousin's kid. Nymphadora. Except I think she hates that name, haven't seen her since she was this tiny little thing with pink hair. She's a Metamorphmagus, apparently."

Remus nodded distantly, only half hearing Sirius. "How old is she?"

"Twenty-two, about, I think. That makes me thirteen when she was born, if my memory serves me correctly. Yeah, we got this stupid flowery birth announcement and you guys teased me about it, asked if I had a secret admirer or something."

Remus chortled politely, but there was a quiver in his laugh. How would this Nymphadora react to having to work alongside a werewolf?

Heaven only knew.

Then came the sound of the door opening, (a quiet sound so Walburga wouldn't start screaming again) and he glanced up apprehensively.

Mad-Eye came in first.

"Here, Remus, mind helping Tonks out? She's having some issues with her coat, it's stuck in the door and I figured you'd be the one to get it out. You're good with that."

Mad-Eye's motives seemed crystal clear to Remus. The old wizard wanted Tonks to see him in a good light, trying to help with something that couldn't possibly happen (how the hell can you get a coat stuck in a door?) before she found out he was a werewolf. But since when had that made any difference?

Remus got up reluctantly, still holding the cup of chamomile tea, and walked uncertainly into the hallway, where he was met with a surprising sight.

A figure with seaweed-green hair was tugging at a gorgeous gray coat with its sleeve stuck in the door. She pulled too hard, there was a ripping sound, and she catapulted backward into Remus with a shriek of surprise.

"Oh damn, I'm so sorry!" she blurted in a whisper, turning around and staring up at Remus guiltily with large violet eyes. "I didn't mean to-"

"Here. Let me repair your coat." Remus opened the door carefully, letting the sleeve fall to the ground, before tapping the grey coat and saying, "Reparo."

The sleeve zoomed to the coat, good as new, and Remus handed the girl the coat and shut the door.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Remus Lupin," he commented. "I like your coat."

The girl-Tonks-rolled her eyes at him and smirked. "Yeah, I'm going to rip everything in this house apart by accident. I'm like that."

She had eyes the color of cinnamon with little flecks of pink, and Remus suddenly noticed that the ends of her hair were blue and the edges of her coat had purple paint splattered over them.

She seemed to be indecisive of the color.

"You're a rainbow," Remus stated with a smile.

Tonks grinned at him. "I get that a lot."

Both of them laughed, and then Remus realized that she was still leaning against him. He jumped back hastily, his head connecting with the portrait. He hated to make a bad impression...

"MUDBLOODS AND FILTHY HALF-BREEDS! CONTAMINATING THE HOUSE OF BLACK!"

Remus swore softly as Sirius came charging out.

"SHUT UP!" he roared, flicking his wand and obscuring the portrait of Walburga Black from view with the old, moth-eaten curtains before turning with a grin to Tonks and sweeping her into a hug. "Excellent, Nymphie's here! Let's have some fun!"

Tonks laughed, her hair turning from green to a neon yellow before settling on green again. "Don't scare me like that, you bugger!"

Sirius smirked. "You know you love me, Nymphadora T-"

Tonks shoved him. "Don't you dare call me that, you idiot!"

"Hah, I'm a bugger, an idiot, what else?"

"A dog?" suggested Remus mildly.

Sirius stared at his friend, startled, before letting out a short bark of laughter. "Right, yeah, I forgot how well you know me, Moony."

"Moony?" asked Tonks curiously. "Is that because of your...condition?"

She asked it quietly, cautiously, as if treading lightly. As if trying not to hurt his feelings.

Had she already known?

"Well, ah, er," hedged Remus awkwardly.

Tonks nodded thoughtfully. "Yes, I expect it is." And then, "It's not your fault that you're a werewolf." She groaned. "Oh Merlin, that sounds so insensitive, I'm so sorry. You know what I mean, right? I mean that the werewolf and you are two different people…wolves...beings? Whatever. You and the werewolf-oh damn, I mean you and the wolf-or would it be you and the werewolf?" Remus was laughing very hard at this point. To be honest, it was harder than he had laughed in years.

Tonks grinned. "My stupidity doesn't usually garner such an explosive reaction."

"Is...she...really related...to...you?" wheezed Remus.

Sirius smirked. "I know. I'm one of a kind."

"No...Tonks is...better."

"Hey!"

Tonks was the one with the smirk at that point. "Shall we go and commence with the meeting?"

"Come with me, fair lady," teased Sirius lightly, and Remus was even more amused when Tonks became taller, more slender, with long golden hair and large blue eyes.

"That fair enough for you, Riri?"

"Don't-how do you-never call me that in front of Moony!"

"So away from Moony is okay?" Tonks shot back playfully, and Remus laughed again. There was something quite remarkable about this witch that he could not yet place.

Hope you liked the first chapter! I'll probably be a little slow updating, though.

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-The Eclectic Bookworm