wolves (r.lupin + n.tonks)

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"make the most of yourself, for that all there is of you"
-ralph waldo emerson

Remus Lupin sat at the dining table in 12 Grimmauld Place. Members of the Order were due to arrive soon to rescue Harry Potter from the Dursley's household. Remus sighed, his wrinkled forehead showing. Despite being 35 years old, Remus didn't look it. Fenrir Greyback, a death eater and werewolf, attacked Remus during his youth. Unfortunately, Remus was infected with lycanthropy. His smooth skin became wrinkled, he had scars in places he didn't know he had them, and his sandy, brown hair greyed after his monthly transformation. Due to his condition, or his 'furry little problem' as his old friends used to call it, Remus was unsuccessful in getting a job. The Ministry was against having a werewolf as part of their staff. The reason behind this, Remus never knew.

The sound of footsteps grew louder and louder. Remus turned around to see who had arrived first, and saw his old friend Sirius Black walk into the room, a tremendous smile on his face. Fifteen years ago, Sirius was thrown into Azkaban after being accused of the murder of James and Lily Potter, and several muggles. He broke out of Azkaban and followed Harry Potter to Hogwarts. He was believed to be after Harry, but the real reason he broke out was to get revenge on Ron Weasley's rat Scabbers, who was actually Peter Pettigrew in his animagus form. After finding out the truth, Sirius had to go into hiding so he wouldn't get spotted by the Ministry, and be forced to have the Dementor's Kiss placed upon him.

Sirius is a tall, handsome, well-built man with fair skin, long, lustrous, curly black hair and striking grey eyes. He was quite the ladies-man back in his Hogwarts years. After his mother died, 12 Grimmauld Place was left to Sirius. As Sirius couldn't be of much help since he couldn't go outside, he gave his house to Albus Dumbledore as headquarters for the Order of The Phoenix. All Order netting are now held at his house, and some members live there. The Weasley family stay there often as well.

"Why are you so happy?" Remus asked the young man. He wasn't really expected to be happy, since he was having to be stuck in his mother's old house which is riddled with bad memories of when he was a child.
"If you must know, Moony my friend, we have a new member of the Order of The Phoenix!"
Remus wasn't at all surprised that there was a new member. The more the merrier.
"That's great! What's his name?" Remus questioned. Sirius' smile faded for a moment, but then lit up again when a young woman with bubblegum pink hair stumbled into the room.

She had dark twinkling eyes, and a strange sense of fashion. We was wearing dark black emo clothes with bright pink hair. Remus didn't make sense of it, but he didn't mind. She was no older than 25 years old.
"Many apologies Alastor, I'm afraid I'm not the most balanced witch," the girl said.
"HER name is Nymphadora Tonks," Sirius said, emphasising the fact that it was a woman.
"Sirius!" The young girl lunged herself at the man, and wrapped her arms around him, embracing him in a warm hug. Remus noticed that her hair had slightly shifted to orange.
"It feels like it's been forever!" The girl, whose name Remus now knew to be Nymphadora said.

"Yes it has been a while," Sirius replied, breaking the hug. The woman's hair shifted back to bubblegum pink. "Anyway Moony, this is my cousin Nymphadora," Sirius said gleefully. Nymphadora's face dropped, and her hair became a fiery red colour. "Don't call me Nymphadora! I told you to call me Tonks!" The red-head said. Remus wondered how she managed to change her hair colour without a wand.
Sirius put his arms up in defence, and backed away from the young witch. "Fine fine I'll call you Tonks." She shook her head, and her hair became shocking pink again. "Tonks, this is my best friend Remus, Remus this is Tonks, as you know. She's an Auror and a metamorphmagus, hence the changing hair colour," Sirius said, as she changed her hair to a bright turquoise, then to a dark yellow, and morphed her nose into a pig nose.

Remus stood up to shake the witch's hand, but she had other ideas in mind, and gave him a great big hug. Remus was taken aback at first, but then hugged back with as much passion as she did. "Nice to meet you Remus..." she began.
Remus was confused at first as to why she stopped, until Sirius finished her sentence, "Lupin." Remus felt a flush of embarrassment, and felt the heat rise to his cheeks. "Remus Lupin. I like it," Tonks said, her hair still pink, but with a tinge of light red