Welcome to my life (Open)

[Nymphadora Tonks]

Nymphadora Tonks, a fourth year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, was going down to the Hogwarts lawns for a jog. At least, this was her goal. She saw something that she couldn't remember if it had been there before. She walked over to it and tried to movie it, it wouldn't budge. Next thing she new she felt sick and was on the ground. She looked around. Her vibrant fuchia hair was sure to get her in trouble if any one noticed she was out side. She sat up and flopped back down. She was afriad she might actually puke if she stood up. After laying in the grass for a while, she finally pulled herself up and dusted herself off. She shrugged at a stain on her knee, it would wash off.

She started walking toward the entrance when she saw a few kids she'd never seen around before. Who were they? She followed them some what and tried to get close enough to hear what they were saying. Well, they're Gryffindors. Maybe I just didn't know all the Gryffindors like I thought I did. Lets introduce myself. she said. In her mind she was moving, but out side of it, she was rooted to the spot looking like a petrified cat.

[Remus John Lupin]

It was the full moon, and Remus had to be very careful, but it wouldn't start affecting him until later tonight. Sure he felt the high emotions, reflexes, and the extreme tiredness that was always there before the moon and after the moon, but he just needed to get through the day. That was all he needed to do, right? His friends were with him, yes, and they were by the lake, laughing at a joke James just told, when he looked back and saw her.

She was a beautiful young woman, who looked lost, and scared. Slowly, Remus sneaked away from his friends, and hurried over to the girl. "Are you ok?" Remus asked the young girl, surprised at her hair color being so loud. "Are you lost?" Oh she was beautiful. He couldn't take his eyes off of her. There was just something about her that made him feel so... he didn't know what to call it.

[Nymphadora Tonks]

Tonks took a step back and brought a hand up to her chest. One of them had come to talk to her. A lowly fourth year girl who was disgraced by her mother's side of the family, being talked to by the cutest guy she'd ever met. Her breathing was a bit hollow. For some reason, she wanted to jump into his arms and never leave. She didn't know why though.

"Uh huh." she managed. She was a bit confused. Uh huh, that's all you can muster? Come on Tonks, use your words! she shouted at herself. "Not lost, just confused. What year is it? I seem to have forgotten..." she had to check. She'd heard rumors about kids randomly disappearing off the grounds, never to be seen again. Now the question was, were they actually true?

[Remus John Lupin]

Remus smiled brightly at the young girl, still memorized by how she looked, and when she talked, the feeling grew a bit stronger. What was up with this young woman? Remus was confused when she asked the year, because he had been asked that once before with a new-coming Gryffindor who reminded him of James, a lot. Remus was actually quite nervous right now, but felt extremely comfortable around the young woman at the same time.

"The year? It's 1975," Remus replied now confused himself of how on earth someone could forget the year. He figured that since it just turned the new year she may have just forgotten it. "I'm Remus Lupin; it's a pleasure to meet you."

[Nymphadora Tonks]

Tonks smiled. He was actually willing to help her out. 1975, that would make her mother around twenty. And she was only one. She took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Now she had to come up with a fake name. One that didn't really exist in this time period. She moved her hair behind her ear showing the few piercings she'd gotten thanks to her dad.

"Thanks, sorry I had a brain bubble. She looked so short, even as a fourth year. Most people were taller but she'd gotten her dads genes. She was naturally short. "Dora Vulpe. Please call me Vulpe. I don't like the name Dora. The pleasures all mine Remus." Her smile reached her eyes. Now she understood what her dad had meant when he said she was so cute that someday someone would think the same.

[Remus John Lupin]

Remus had an odd nagging feeling that she was hiding something, but he was not one to judge. If it was important, she'd tell him, depending on how well they would get to know each other. Remus was not a stranger to secrets that needed to be kept and therefore would not even address this to her until she felt comfortable to reveal it.

"It's really fine," Remus said beaming at her. Sure, she was short, but he didn't really care about height. She was beautiful as it was. "Dora's a very beautiful name though... It means gift, if I'm not mistaken, and you really do seem like a wonderful gift." Wait, what? That just sounded awkward and terribly structured. He wondered if James and Sirius even noticed his absence. If they did, they were probably leaving him alone because he was actually talking with a girl.

[Nymphadora Tonks]

Tonks' turned a bright shade of red. Her throat closed up and she had a hard time breathing. She swallowed and was fighting the urge to hug him. Then she gave in. She wrapped her arms around him then pulled back. She hadn't meant to do that, at all. Now things would be awkward. She smiled again and started rubbing her hair.

"Yeah, it does. My last name means little fox. I'm a bit timid like a fox so I chose that over Dora." She nodded. She started to back away again till she ran into another person. She was being surrounded. There was no way to escape. She looked behind her. She'd run into a tree. "Nice job, princess." She scolded herself.

[Remus John Lupin]

Needless to say that Remus was so very surprised when she hugged him, but at the same time, it felt really nice to have a hug from her. He wouldn't tell the Marauders that thought, because then they would be hugging him like crazy. Marauder group hugs were always awkward to him. But this hug wasn't really. As soon as she pulled away, he wanted to pull her back. And he nearly did, but resisted the temptation for now.

"I see. I suppose I'll call you Vulpe," Remus stated with a small nervous chuckle. He was still beaming when she ran into the tree behind her. He chuckled, knowing that she thought it was awkward with the hug. But, while normally it would be with others, it wasn't really for him, for a reason he didn't know. "But later, I'll have to call you Dora, because I am sure you'll get married, and you'll no longer be a Vulpe." He chuckling, moving slightly closer to her, though he was very cautious. It wasn't like he was totally against dating, but he had to be careful when it happened. "You really are a pretty lady."

[Nymphadora Tonks]

Her hair turned bubble gum pink with out her noticing it. Now she knew she was going to do something stupid. To her, pink was her clumsy hour. She pressed herself against the tree trying not to look like she was twelve, but being a metamorphagus and all, it was really hard to keep track of it all. She had to stay distant, she wasn't from this time. She could do something stupid and end up changing history. She bit her nail thinking that if she stood still she wouldn't fall. She prayed it worked.

Her face almost looked like a tomato. She had never heard of a Remus Lupin back in her time, maybe he wasn't so important to history after all? "No no, even then I'll be Vulpe. I'll always be Vulpe." She slid to the side when he drew closer. She had to keep to herself, or at least try to. She almost whimpered when he called her pretty. She tried to take a step and ended up twisting her ankle and landing on her face. She sat up and grabbed her foot. That cleared her head a bit. "You're not half bad yourself," she smiled trying to hide the fact that she was at a loss for words

[Remus John Lupin]

What had just happened? Did her hair really turn that pink color? He was sure it was different just before. He racked his brain trying to figure out what exactly had happened, when he recalled a small mention in one of his books of a Metamorphagus, someone who could change their appearance. He was going to studying more magical powers later, and so he didn't know very much about the Metamorphagi.

"I suppose I'll just have to stick with Vulpe then," Remus replied, though thinking that her name was great, both names. He stopped moving towards her, but when she fell, he rushed forward, wanting to help her. "Are you ok?" He asked quickly. His face went red when she commented on him not being half-bad, really it was everything piling up until he finally broke into a huge blush. "You don't have to lie." He knew he was just a scarred up guy who no one really could find attractive, at least that's what he thought everyone thought.

[Nymphadora Tonks]

"I'm fine, this happens at least twice every day." Tonks grunted. "Just help me up, and repair my foot. My mum can, but she's not here and she's not going to come when she's busy." She held a hand out for him to help her. Then he told her she didn't have to lie. "I'm not lying. I don't lie, I don't about a lot of things. I'm not lying now." She said trying to look at his face. She hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary really. So what if he had scars, she still thought he was cute.

She tossed her hair and started to pull herself up using his hand. Till she fell down again. She shook her head. Standing wasn't going to be an option in this case. She motioned for him to sit down too. Might as well, it was easier than being asked all kinds of questions in the hospital wing. She sat with one foot out and one leg in and picked at the grass.

[Remus John Lupin]

"I don't know any healing spells yet; I would love to be able to help," Remus replied, and then offered his hand to help her up. When she took it, and fell again, Remus sighed, but chuckled slightly at the same time. "I suppose. I just don't know how anyone could like my shabbiness." He was very self-conscious about himself. He never thought anyone could really like how he looked. Even his friends when they first met were so very surprised at his appearance and barely spoke to him until he fixed their plan.

"Vulpe... Are you.... a Metamorphagus?" Remus asked as he sat down with her, not bothering to look over at his friends, who had taken notice already about his company of this lovely woman. They were probably joking about it already. It wasn't like they were together, they had just met for pete's sake!

[Nymphadora Tonks]

"Oh you're killing me." Tonks shook her head. "How do you no know any healing spells? I learned one because it sounded weird." She kept picking at the ground. She looked over at the rest of the group over by the lake. Two were lounging about the other looked timid and mouse-like. "Are they your friends?" She asked serenely. "You should be proud of how you look. How you look kinda makes who you are." She said holding his chin lightly. She looked at the scars on his face and saw a few go down his neck. She decided not to ask. It would be more polite.

"All my life. I don't really have a handle on it though. It likes to be red when I feel normal. Clumsy is pink, nervous is green, and all my emotions have a color." She shook her head, "Most people make fun, no ones really said its cool. Kinda stings each time. I don't really have any friends, I have Charles. But he's always going on about dragons."

[Remus John Lupin]

"Well, I dunno any! Madame Pomfrey takes care of it! I mean, I was planning on studying healing spells when I was older, just like a few other things after I finish my Animagi and Nymph research," Remus said in defense feeling bad he couldn't help. Maybe if he could bring her to the Hospital Wing. Madame Pomfrey always helped him after a full moon. She never would refuse a young girl like Dora here. "Yeah," Remus replied looking over to his friends, "They're probably going to have a field day over me talking with you... Normally, I help someone in need before slinking off back to them." He loved his friends, but he hated when he even just talked with a girl they were always thinking they were secretly dating, and joke that they would see him and the girl in a broom closet in the near future. "I'm not really... proud of who I am," Remus said before he scooted away, feeling stupid he had admitted it, "J-Just ignore that... I am proud of who I am, just not what I am." Oh he was going to confuse her. Why did he have to say the stupidest things?

"Hey, I think it's cool. Sirius, Sirius Black my friend, was talking about how he was recently sent a letter about his second cousin, she turns one at some point this year. She's a Metamorphagus too, I think," Remus said, remembering how Sirius very occasionally was able to contact his cousin Andromeda Tonks, and how he was saying he wanted to babysit the little girl at some point, "Well, if you want, you could consider me a friend?" He half suggested and half asked the last part, expecting rejection.

[Nymphadora Tonks]

"Episkey! Use episkey!" She wanted to beat him over the head with her fist for a moment. But she couldn't do that. It would send a bad signal. "Why would you study nymphs? All you need to know is that there are water, tree, fire and air nymphs." She shook her head and flopped back into the grass. It was easier to lay down then hold herself up.

"Well, they're probably thinking it'll happen here in a second. They're staring." She nodded in their direction. They looked expectant, like they'd made bets on what was going to happen. "You should be glad you're cute, because you are horribly confusing." She shook her head and laughed.

"Well, maybe she'll be perky and have hair as loud as mine." Tonks smiled and clapped her hands, "I'll do that." She chuckled.