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[cursebreaker_]

Bill Weasley stands in the living room of the Burrow, very handsomely dressed, yet looking slightly nervous. He has a bouquet of flowers in one hand, and keeps looking at the watch on his other wrist. He has no reason to be nervous, he tells himself. He's gone out with many girls before, and this date will be the same as usual, right? Wrong.

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[metamorphette]

Tonks Apparates into the yard of the Burrow, not far outside the fence, and takes a moment to straighten herself out. Conjuring up a small hand mirror out of a leaf picked up from the ground, she nervously checks and re-checks her appearance, with the usual primping and adjustments one might expect of someone moments away from a date - although, the adjustments in hair length, nose shape, eye colour, are rather more extreme bits of primping than most. Finally, apparently, satisfied with her reflection, she transfigures the mirror back into the leaf it had been - gives a guilty start when it somehow fails to oblige, and becomes a very surprised looking snail, instead - and marches up to the gate, through said gate (rather painfully literally so, banging her knee on it with a resigned expression), and up to the door.

It takes her nearly as long to lift her hand and rap on the door as it did to leave off primping in front of the leaf-mirror-snail.

Knock, knock.

[which_is_which]

She probably didn't expect the twins to answer, but that's the Burrow for you. Everyone is into everybody else's business. While Bill was busy being nervous in the living room, they happened to be coming down the stairs, and heard the knock on the door.

George opened the door, and Fred peered out. "Oh! Hello, Tonks. Bill's been expecting you." He grinned.

George waved to her, as well. "Come on in!"

Luckily, they weren't teasing her about Bill. Yet.

[metamorphette]

"Am I to expect the rest of the family just inside, preparing to jump out at me like you two?" Tonks asked, stepping inside and matching the twins grin for grin - despite her words, their light-hearted friendliness did go rather a ways to calming her nerves.

[cursebreaker_]

Bill, having heard the commotion at the front door, stepped out from the living room and immediately broke into a huge grin. "Tonks, I see you've survived the terrors." He said, ruffling the twins' hair, to their dismay. "I'm just about ready to go. How about you?"