Cherish

Chapter One: Prologue

"We have to stop meeting like this Mr. Potter." Professor Tonks had said this after a rather lengthy snogging session with her boyfriend since that summer, Harry Potter.

"I know Professor, but I just had to kiss you. I mean we don't get to see each other like this very much at school, and a boy has his needs. I know we need to keep it quiet until I'm of age, but I just want to shout it to the tops of the rooftops that I'm in love. I love you Tonks, and I can wait til next year to make it official to the public." He kissed her again, and smiled as she blushed a bit.

"I know, and I feel the same way Harry. Now don't you have a class that your supposed to be in right now?" She looked at him with a mischievous grin on her face. She was definitely in love with Harry, and she couldn't wait til next summer either.

"Oh shit, your right love, I got to get down to potions." He gave her a set of his patented puppy dog eyes, that he knew that she couldn't resist. "Can you write me a note explaining that you needed to see me about something please."

She laughed at his antics, for he knew that he didn't need to do that to get her to do almost anything. "Of course Harry, here." She wrote out a small not for Severus and handed it to him, then watched him run off to the dungeons after giving her another good-bye kiss. She was watching his retreating figure then walked back out of her office. She was thinking about how they had gotten together over the last summer and smiling.

Flashback

Harry had been sitting in his bedroom at #4 Privet Drive contemplating what he did wrong to get Sirius killed. He knew that everyone was going to say that it wasn't his fault, but he knew better. If he had just listened to his best friend Hermione Granger, and checked more thoroughly, that he would have found that he was still safe at home, and then he would still be alive. He was thinking and sitting in the window sill, when he heard the doorbell ring downstairs. When he looked down through the window, he was to late, for the person was already in the house. "Seems like Uncle Vernon must have been expecting company, for they were let in rather quickly. I better not go down there, for I don't want to incur the wrath of my Uncle." Harry was going back to his summer homework, when he heard his Uncle yell up to him.

"Boy get down here now. I don't want to have to yell up to you another time, so get your ass down here."

Harry was curious as to why he was being summoned downstairs when they were having company. He didn't question it much, just grabbed his wand and hid it up his sleeve as he went downstairs. "Constant Vigilance Harry, wouldn't want Moody to get mad at you for not being prepared." When he went downstairs, he was a bit surprised at what he saw. He saw the person that he had fantasies about, but didn't think that it could be possible for her to return the feelings for him, for he was so much younger than her. "Tonks, what brings you here today?"

"Wotcher Harry. I just came to pick you up for the rest of the summer. Now go get packed and hurry up about it." She was in normal colored hair, for her at least, this day, and talking nicely with the Dursleys, who seemed to find the young Metamorph fascinating.

"Ok Tonks, thank you for coming and getting me." Harry went upstairs and quickly packed his trunk and put Hedwig in her cage. "Sorry girl, I would just have you fly to where we're going, but I don't know where that is yet."

Hedwig gave him a affectionate nip of his fingers, and hooted softly as he picked up her cage and his trunk. After making sure that he didn't miss anything, he went downstairs to where Tonks was waiting for him. "Ok Tonks, I'm ready. Where are we going anyway, burrow or you know where?"

"Neither actually Harry, you are to stay with me this summer. Albus, in his infinite wisdom thinks that we could help each other get over Sirius's death together. Don't worry, I have a nice place and plenty of rooms, so you don't have to worry about me biting, that is unless you want me to." She winked at Harry, as she laughed a bit at his blush. She knew that he had fantasized about her ever since he had met her. She had to admit she has had some interesting fantasies about him also. She knew that there was only 7 years difference between them, and in the wizardring world, that wasn't that much. She wasn't going to force anything, but if something came up during this summer, she wasn't going to fight it either. She also knew that they would have to keep it secret from everyone until he reached 17, but that shouldn't be a problem, as long as his raging hormones would keep calm when he saw her everyday at school the next year, for she was teaching the DADA class for the next couple of years.

Harry's jaw hit the floor at what she had just said. Keep yourself together Harry, this is Tonks, and she was just teasing you in her way. You know that your out of her league. Just enjoy being her roommate for the summer, and hopefully you can get used to cold showers after a while. He smiled and looked at her seeing that she was waiting for him, he went over to her and after saying good-bye to his relatives, they disappeared and reappeared in a rather spacious apartment. "Wow, nice place Tonks, which one is my room?" Harry actually liked this place, it seems that she lived on the beach somewhere near the ocean."

"This way Harry, and thank you for the compliment. It isn't much, but it gets me by." She laughed at the look on his face. She didn't want to let him know that she had just gotten this place this summer, so that they could be away from the hustle and bustle of London. "Your right next to me, and you can go get settled in while I fix us some lunch. Why don't you write your friends to let them know where you are, and that you are alright now." She smiled at the reaction she got when she suggested that. "Yes this is going to be one interesting summer, thank you Albus for suggesting this. We will get through the death of Sirius quickly, then we will start to have some fun this summer." She whispered this as she went into the kitchen to start on lunch.

Harry had just went into his room, which he found quite easily, and started unpacking when he noticed a door leading out of his room. He went to check it out, and found that it led into a rather large bathroom. He also noticed that there was another door on the opposite wall which he didn't know where it led, so he thought he would ask Tonks about it sometime. He put it in the back of his mind, and went back to write letters to his friends. Ron and Hermione letting them know that he was staying at Tonk's place on the beach for the summer to mourn Sirius. He also wrote that he would write them again about whether or not he would make it to the Burrow anytime this summer, and that he hoped that they were doing good. He then went out to the kitchen to where Tonks was getting lunch ready. "Lunch ready yet Tonks?"

"Almost ready Harry, why don't you go and get us a couple of drinks out of the fridge, and set the table for lunch. We will be eating in a couple of minutes." She said this and pointed to the fridge where the drinks were.

Harry went to the fridge, and got out a couple of cokes, then went back to setting the table. As he got done, Tonks was just setting lunch on the table. "So Tonks, what are the plans for today? Maybe a little sunning on the beach as we get over Sirius, and get on with out lives?" Harry smiled at her one of his award winning lopsided grins, and laughed a bit at her blush.

"I don't know Harry, but we do need to mourn him, then we will be able to start with the fun. The sooner we get done mourning, the sooner we can have fun. I got an idea, and now please don't tell Dumbledore what we are going to do. Go get a bottle of fire whiskey from the fridge, and put those cokes back. We will mourn properly, and while we're at it, we will be getting pissed." She smiled as Harry did as she suggested and got the bottle and a couple of glasses.

"To Sirius." Harry raised his glass to Tonks in memory of there lost friend and family.

"To Sirius." Tonks clinked her glass with Harry, and they sat there talking about fond memories of Sirius, and what they knew of his childhood while getting quite pissed.

Neither of them knew how it happened, but later they would thank the gods that it did. When they woke up the next morning, they were both in the same bed naked and Harry was feeling fulfilled. When Harry woke up first and saw that he had a weight on his arm he put his glasses on, and looked to his right and smiled at the person who was laying there with him. "Well I better wake her up, and hope that she doesn't think that this was a mistake." He shook her a bit while calling her name.

Tonks came out of the interesting dream that she was having that had Harry calling her name. "Tonks, come on Tonks. Wake up sleepy head, we need to get up." She smiled and went to stretch her arms above her head and found that there was something that she had one wrapped around, a warm something.

She woke up quickly, and then noticed the state of undress they were in. She shook her head, hoping that he wouldn't be mad at her for this. "Is that you Harry?" She looked over at the man of her dreams laying there with an amused smirk on his face as he looked down at her face.

"Yes it's me Tonks. Now we should get up and dressed so that we could discuss what happened last night. Now if you would like to talk or have some more fun, that's up to you." He smiled at his older lover, and thought that he had glimpsed a look of happiness cross her face. He also gave out a small laugh when she ran her hand along his muscular chest.

"Sounds like fun to me Harry, are you sure that you want to be with an older woman like me? I mean, I am like 7 years older than you, and we will have to keep this secret all through the next school year until you turn 17 next summer. It is going to be hard, but not as hard as it would be if I wasn't at the school teaching the next couple of years. Maybe we can get together from time to time to have some snog time." She then smiled at Harry, and started following her hands down his body, and they didn't leave the bedroom until well after lunch time.

The rest of the summer was spent having fun on the beach and just being a bright young couple in love. Tonks went around in a younger form of herself so that they wouldn't get any weird stares. They passed their nights away in each others arms, with Harry learning the intricate ways to please his new love. Tonks learned that Harry was mostly a easily trained young man, and was pleasantly pleased with her well endowed young lover. She was thanking the gods for youthful energy and stamina.

END FLASHBACK

Tonks was smiling again as her next class came into the room. She was holding something back from Harry, but wasn't sure how to tell him, but she decided to tell him that night. She was beginning to look like she couldn't keep it from him for much longer. Tonks and Harry were going to be parents in about 6 months. She was going to be able to hide it with spells, but she knew that they were going to have to tell the headmaster about their relationship, and she was worried for her job, and what the old man would think.

A/N: Ok, this is the next story in my collection, I hope you like it. Please let me know what you think in your reviews, and I hope that it will be a good one. I promise that the chapters will each be this long at least, which means over 2000 words long. This is my second shot at a Honks story, and I promise that this will be finished. Please read and review. —Donald