teach me a little something [mtonks,ntonks]

[MADELINE TONKS]

tick tick tick went the clock in one of her classrooms, as Madeline sad quietly at her seat untill class was over, she looked down at her paper and started to work on her homework. Madeline was a girl who kept to herself and did what she was told. she looked around the classroom with her head still down, she looked back down at her paper. Professor Binn the history of magic teacher, signalled us that it was time to leave "finally" madeline said to herself as she walked out of the classroom and towards teh hufflepuff common room.

Madeline said the password for her common room and walked in, she saw it packed with students, she raised a brow and sat down on the couch looking around the room. she smiled a few of the younger students as she stood up and walked up to the girls dorm rooms, she put down her books and grabbed her colths and changed out of her uniform and fixed her eyes.

Madeline finished getting into her regular cloths and headed back down to the common room as she over head people talking about sex and other things she was not famillier with. she sighed and sat down back on the couch and closed her eyes as she listened to the convasation that was going on around her. "she did what?" she yelled as she looked at the people who were talking naughty, "sorry" she said as she watched them walk out of the common room as was no pretty much by herself.

minutes have past and she saw her cousin tonks walk in "Tonks!" she yelled as she jumped to her feet. "Dora can you teach me" she said as she walked up to her, looked around the room and whispered "teach me about naughty stuff please" she said as she pouted she needed to learn about it sooner or later, and she would rather learn it from someone she is close with rather than strangers.

[NYMPHADORA TONKS]

Just a normal day, and nothing out of the ordinary, that's what today was. Well, at least as normal as things could get at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Sure, Tonks had watched ghosts disappear through walls, and people whizz about on brooms; but that's what ordinary was like here. So when she entered the Hufflepuff common room to a low hum of constant chatter, it was pretty much what she'd expected to find. Of course, it didn't last for long; these things never do, for the next thing that happened was something Tonks couldn't have expected. The yell of her name wasn't the strange part, the request which followed is what really caught Tonks of her guard.

Eyes wide in shock, Tonks stood dumbfounded for a few moments as she took it in. "I... errr, well" She fumbled with her sleeve as she shuffled from one foot to the other. "I'm not sure it's really my place to tell you... you could write to your mum, or err... the nurse! Yes, the nurse; although we hate the nurse - don't trust anything she tells you! Althoooough, I hear she is quite the prude so this topic would make her uncomfortable and I'd quite enjoy watching her squirm... Come on, we're taking you to the nurse!"
Minutes later, once she'd finished her babbling, she grabbed Maddie by the arm and began to drag her out the Common Room door.

They were half way down the corridor, when Tonks came to a sudden halt. An idea had occured. A far greater idea than watching Nurse Tyler's embarassment, that was for sure. She turned slowly on the spot, and a devious gleam sparkled in her eyes. "A far better plan have I! Yes, I know the perfect person to see!" She spun once more to face her original direction and pulled Maddie along, this time at a faster pace.

[MADELINE TONKS]

"but the nurse won't tell me, she will laugh at me!" Maddie said to her dearest cousin and followed her anyways and sighed "why do you hate her?" she added in as she did not quite no why her cousin hated her. "also why won't you tell me your my cousin its your job, you know my mum will not" she said and let out a laugh still getting pulled by her cousin that she loved. Maddie rolled her eyes as they reached the nurses area.

"shes busy lets go" Maddie said as she didn't want anyone else to know she had a problem and didn't know things she should have known by now. Maddie bit her lip as she saw nurse tyler walk towards her "can we please just.." Maddie said as nurse tyler showed up "oh hello" she said and looked at Dora. "i hate you for this" she said in a quite voice.

[NYMPHADORA TONKS]

Tonks continued to pull Maddie along, despite her complaints. "Why do I hate her? Why don't you? I mean, she did try and poison me if you will remember. Plus, she touched Slughorn's hair... his perfect, sacred hair. It's just something you don't do, an unspoken law!" Minutes or days could have passed, and still Tonks continued to talk about just why touching Slughorn's hair should be a punishable crime.

Suddenly she halted, and turned to face her cousin. She place a hand on both Maddie's shoulders and looked her square in the eye. "I could tell you, and I would tell you... but wouldn't it be better hearing it from someone with... with more experience? That's why I've brought you here-" She looked around, and suddenly became confused. She wondered just how she ended up at the Nurse's office when she was certain she had changed direction. In the end, she shook it off and was about to leave when the witch herself appeared. Nurse Tyler looked quite shocked to see Tonks, of all people, come to see her. The nurse was just about to speak, when Tonks cut her off. "Look at this - this poor, young, innocent girl is practically BEGGING me not to bring her to you. Look at this face" At this point, Tonks turned Madeline's face so she was looking at Nurse Tyler. "Pure terror. It's such a crying shame that pupils are afraid to come to you. I thought Nurse's were supposed to be approachable? Well! I for one will not stand for this, I am going straight to Dumbledore! Come on, Maddie." She turned on her heels, and marched away pulling Maddie along with her, in what she hoped was a dramatic exit.

[MADELINE TONKS]

Madeline rolled her eyes as she didn't say much, she looked at nurse Tyler who she felt was going to make fun of her "no tonks no" she tugged on her shirt as she ran off when she said dumbledore "please not him he will laugh at me" she said and pouted as she knew Tonks was doing this on purpose, just to embarrise her "why you doing this to me is it because i'm sheltered" she said as she was still getting pulled along by her dear cousin. she put her free hand on her head and nodded "why did i even bother" she said as she tugged on tonks arm once again.

Dora and Madeline still made thier way towards dumbledores office she tried so hard to get away, they both reached it as she rolled her eyes "dora i asked you to teach me not a professor or the headmaster" she said as she looked at her and crossed her arms "now everyone is going to make fun of me because i don't know naughty things"

[NYMPHADORA TONKS]

Tonks let out something that was somewhere between a laugh and a squeal. Somehow, Maddie seemed to be getting the wrong end of whatever Tonks was saying. She really had to start explaining things better, she noted to herself. "Don't be disgusting, Maddie! I wouldn't ask Dumbledore to explain... that stuff. He's like, 200 years old! Ohmy goodness... now I'm picturing it, and I'd only just convinced my mum to stop sending me to a pyschologist too!" Tonks shuddered, as she tried to shake off the images that were now flooding her brain. "You're lucky you're so sheltered, I'm not going to be able to sleep for weeks! No, Dumbledore is not that man to open your eyes. We're going to Slughorn for that, silly!" Slughorn was probably one of the only forces strong enough to push out any unpleasant thoughts Maddie had unintentionally placed in her mind.

Tonks and Maddie reached the stone Gargoyle that she knew was the entrance to Dumbledore's office. "Ah, here we are. Dumbledore's office. I still need to complain about Nurse Tyler, I don't want her to think I'm bluffing now."

No matter how hard she tried, she never seemed to be able to guess Dumbledore's password, so today she didn't even bother. Instead she skipped straight to the inevitable, and knocked hard all over the gargoyle and it's surrounding wall, shouting as she done so. "Professor! Professsor Dumbledore! Helllooooo!!! Professor, it's me, Tonks! PROFESSOR!" After endless yells and knocks, Tonks recognised her failure. "He never answers me any more." She huffed. "I can't even approach him at meal times... I think he's put a restraining order on me, you know. There's only one thing for it." Out of her bag, she pulled a quill and a piece of parchment and began to scribble;

17th September, 1976.

Professor Dumbledore, I came by but you seemed to have missed me again.
Like my last however many visits, I come with a complaint.
Nurse Tyler is unapproachable, which in my opinion makes her a poor nurse.
My poor, lovely, innocent cousin is too afraid to talk to her! It's probably because she tried to poison me - Like I told you previously, I have no allergies!
Please accept our official written complaint.
Signed N. Tonks and

"Here, sign this. Then we can get back on task to our original mission." Tonks said as she passed Maddie the quill.

[MADELINE TONKS]

"oh no we are not i repeat we are not going to slughorn for that such thing, i know you love him and all but he does not need to know about this, its embarcing" she said looking down as she watched her cousin bang on his door "i want to know about these things dora, i'm getting to that age, but first i have to stop thinking boys are icky" she said as she crossed her arms and looked away for a moment. in reality she didn't think all boys were icky she like one particular boy herb he is the only one she ever really talked too and ever really thought about.

madeline came back into reality as her cousin was trying to get her to sign this "whats this i was not paying any attention" she said to her cousin who had wrote a letter. Maddie took it out of her cousins hands for a moment and read it. Maddie rasied a brow and looked at tonks "oh alright, i guess i'll sign it just for you" she said and took the quill from tonks hands and put Maddie T right next to N tonks. she handed it back to tonks. "now lets go, before he finds out what we really are doing" she snapped at her cousin in a playful way.

[NYMPHADORA TONKS]

Tonks happily stared at the piece of parchment which Maddie had now signed. Two signatures were more powerful than one, she thought, and there was no way whatsoever, not even the smallest possiblility, that anybody would think Tonks had peer pressured her cousin into signing. Nope, this was sure to get Nurse Tyler in trouble. She'd have to be sent away for some training on people-skills, at the very least.

Confident with her success, Tonks addressed Maddie's previous protests. "But Slughorn is the perfect person to ask about this! He won't laugh at you... much... fine, fine! We'll pretend I'm the one who needs the advice. I know what you're thinking, I'm such a great cousin!" Sure that Maddie would agree with this, she started dragging her, this time, to Slughorn's office down in the dungeons.

After moments of walking in silence, Tonks began to speak once more. "Surely you don't think all boys are icky?" she said thoughtfully, more as a rheatorical question than anything. "You can't think Slughorn is icky? Or Re... other boys are icky? All I'm saying is, you can't think everyone is icky?" She raised an eyebrow at her cousin. Maddie was young, yes, but Tonks was certain that there had be someone she thought was okay - even if it was someone famous.

[MADELINE TONKS]

Maddie looked at tonks and shrugged as they were still on there way to slughorns "well.. most boys are" she said and looked around to see if Herb was around "theres this one boy i like" she said as she looked at her favorite cousin. "he's a nice guy and i am totally swooning over him, but you see, he doesn't know i don't know things" she said and looked away as she blushed alittle she knew Dora would laugh at her or make fun of her.

Maddie kept quite for a while as they arrived at slughorns office "well looks like hes busy lets go" she said as she started to walk away from Tonks alittle bit as she was nervous. she did like slughorn he was a good teachers he just didn't want to him to judge her.

[NYMPHADORA TONKS]

"Awwwwwwww, you do!? That's too cute, do I know him?" It took Tonks a few moments to click that she was being patronizing, and that her cousin was fifthteen, not five. So instead of being annoying, and older-cousinly-like; she took on the casual attitude that Maddie seemed to have while talking about the topic. "That doesn't matter though, because A. You're about to learn, and 2, no, B. if he's nice, he really won't care." Tonks put her arm around Maddie's shoulders and gave her a comforting squeeze.

At last, they arrived at Slughorn's office. She grabbed hold of the door handle, and let her hand linger there - knowing that at some point, Slughorn would have had to of touched it - until, finally, she gave it a turn. Locked. Tonks wasn't surprised. Slughorn had to lock it, because Alice had stolen things from there far too many times. Not big things of course, just small things like goblets he had drunk out of, or half eaten sandwiches...

"Hey!" Tonks called to Maddie, as she caught her by the wrist and pulled her back. "Just because it's locked, it doesn't mean he's not in." She stared at the door, while she tried to decide their next move. She could try to unlock it, though Slughorn had been making his locks a lot more difficult lately, and he'd even started charming them so that whenever someone failed to unlock his door, they'd grow hairy moles, or something equally hideous. Tonks wasn't even sure if Professor's were allowed to do that, but she certainly wasn't about to get Professor Slughorn into trouble for it! Her second option was to bang on the door, until he answered, and that was the option she took. "Professor Slughorn! Open up! It's me, Sunshine... I mean, Tonks! Hellooooooo... anyone home?" she yelled, whilst knocking repeatedly. "He must not be able to hear me, you try shouting Mads."