A/N: The first chapter of this story. I'm done with Mates and now it's time to start anew. I would like to thank the awesome merdarkandtwisty for helping me with this idea! You rock! I hope you all like this chapter. I know it's a long chapter, but I plan on having longer chapters for this story. Don't forget to R&R!

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Lily sat with her friends and cousin on the Hogwarts Express.

"I heard that there's a new Defense teacher, I hope he's good looking," Gina Thomas commented halfway through the journey. Hugo rolled his eyes.

"Girls," he muttered, which earned him a smack alongside the head from his girlfriend Joan Wood.

"What was that, Hugo?" Joan asked.

"Nothing," Hugo said quickly. Lily rolled her eyes at her cousin. He was so whipped.

*At Hogwarts*

It wasn't long before they arrived at Hogwarts. Lily caught sight of Hagrid rounding up the first years.

"Hello Hagrid!" She called with a wave. The half-giant smiled and waved at her.

"`ello Lily, Joan, Hugo." The others waved at their friend before they made their way to the carriages. Once they made it to the Great Hall, they all went to their House tables. Lily, Joan and Hugo made their way over to the Gryffindor table. All three looked up to the staff table, to try and get a glimpse of the new Defense teacher. What the found shocked them.

Teddy Lupin, with his hair turquoise, sat where the Defense teacher normally sat. Lily blushed when he caught her eye and gave her a friendly wink. It was just a wink, Lily. No need to blush like an idiot, Lily thought to herself. Joan gave Lily a knowing look, while Hugo looked at them in confusion.

"I knew he was acting strange lately, but I thought it was because he and Victoire broke up. Dad said he was going on a mission. I can't believe that he quit working as an Auror, I thought he loved that job." Hugo said. Hugo was a lot like Ron, he could be a little thick sometimes. Lily rolled her eyes at him.

"Hugo, you and I both know that Teddy would never quit. He does love his job, but he's always wanted to be a teacher at Hogwarts, just like his Dad. Maybe he's working the school year at Hogwarts and works as an Auror during the summer." Lily subjected. She was a little hurt that Teddy kept this from her; he was her best friend after all. You're best friend, God-brother and crush, Lily thought with a blush.

"Maybe," Hugo said. Just then, Professor Longbottom walked in to the Great Hall with the first years.

After the sorting, Professor McGonagall stood up.

"Attention, please," the whole Great Hall became silent. "Thank you. Welcome back to another year at Hogwarts. We have a few additions to the staff this year. Our Defense against the Dark Arts Professor and head of Hufflepuff house, Professor Davidson has retired. This year, the role of both positions will be taken over by Auror Ted R. Lupin," Teddy stood up and changed his hair color to yellow and black. The Hufflepuff's cheered louder than most of the Great Hall, but Lily was the still loudest. Once the Great Hall calmed down, McGonagall went on. "Our new Potions Master and head of Slytherin house, the youngest potions master in the history of Hogwarts, Professor Albus Severus Potter." Albus suddenly came out of nowhere. The Slytherin's cheered loudly. Albus had only gotten out of Hogwarts last year, but he was at the top of his class in potions. Lily clapped loudly for her brother. McGonagall went on with her speech, but Lily didn't listen to the headmistress talk about the rules. It's not like the rules had changed much since first year.

It wasn't long before the food appeared on the table, and everyone dug in.

"Merlin this is better way than Mum's cooking," Hugo said with food in his mouth. Well it didn't really sound like that, but after years of eating meals with Hugo, Lily knew what he was saying. (Hermione Weasley did not do the cooking, Ron did, but at the end of the summer Ron would get home late because of a big mission or something, which left Hermione to do the cooking)

"Hugo, the food isn't going anywhere. Calm down and stop talking with your mouth full, it's disgusting." Joan scolded her boyfriend. Lily rolled her eyes at the two before her eyes drifted up to the staff table. Teddy and Lily's eyes met. He smiled at her, which would have made her knees go weak if she had been standing. She smiled back before she tore her gaze away from him and back to her food.

It wasn't long before the students were making their way to their common rooms. Lily was talking to her friend when she heard her name. She turned around to see Teddy standing off to the side. "I'll see you in a bit," Lily said. Hugo and Joan shrugged before they grabbed hands and began to walk to Gryffindor tower. Lily quickly made her way over to him.

"You git, why didn't you tell me that you would be teaching at Hogwarts," Teddy chuckled at bit.

"I wanted to surprise you; that is why I didn't tell you." Lily glared at him halfheartedly. Teddy chuckled again before he said, "I'll walk you to Gryffindor tower." Lily rolled her eyes before they began to walk.

"So are you still working as an Auror? I'm pretty sure Dad would have told us if you quit." Lily asked. Teddy smiled.

"I'm still an Auror, I just don't do much more then paper work during the school year unless Harry really needs me. During the Summer I'll be back to working full time." Lily nodded. Soon, too soon for Lily, they made it to the Fat Lady's portrait.

"See you later, Professor," Lily said as Teddy walked away. Teddy winked before he disappeared around the corner. After he was gone, Lily realized that she didn't know the password.

"Password," The Fat Lady asked impatiently.

"Mandrake Root," Lily turned around to see Hugo. She gave her cousin an odd look.

"I'm surprised that you're not in the common room snogging Joan." Lily commented. Hugo rolled his eyes at his cousin before he stepped through the portrait hole, with Lily close behind him.

"I was helping a first year Hufflepuff, she somehow got really far off course, so I told her where to go, and then she saw Teddy and went to ask him, since he is her head of house." Lily smiled. She knew for a fact that Teddy would help the first year out, even if he wasn't her head of house he would have helped her, because that was just the kind of guy he was.

*The Next Day*

During breakfast, Professor Longbottom handed them their classes.

"Oh lovely, we have potions first." Joan muttered. Joan hated potions, yet she was almost as good as Albus when it came to potions, almost. To Albus making a potion was an art; to Joan it was a pain in the arse. She'd rather play a good game of Quidditch then make a potion. (Of course Albus played Quidditch as well when he was in school)

"It's not like we'll have a jerk as a potions master, well actually, Albus can be a jerk, but you get what I mean." Lily said. Hugo laughed while Joan continued to mutter angry words. Lily looked down at her list.

"D.A.D.A. after potions," Lily said brightly. Joan's head snapped up and she gave Lily a knowing smirk.

"I bet you're really happy about that, aren't you Lily," she whispered just loud enough for Lily to hear. Lily blushed and said, "Shut up," quickly. Hugo paid them no mind as he ate his breakfast. The trio finished eating their breakfast before they made their way to the Dungeons. They had class with the Slytherin's, something Lily didn't mind, unless she was paired with Larry Donaldson, a half-blood Slytherin in her year that was obsessed with her. I don't think Albus will pair me up with him, he is the one who threatened him last year, even though I can take care of myself, Lily thought with a scowl.

A little less than half the class was there when Hugo, Lily and Joan made it to the potions classroom. Albus still wasn't there yet, but knowing her brother, Lily knew he would be there right as the bell rang.

Lily had been right, as soon as the bell rang, Albus walked into the room. He wore black and green robes. He wore a determined face as he faced the class, Lily smiled. Albus won't have favorites, she thought with a grin.

"Welcome to my class room. I just want to get a few things straight," Albus began, "I don't care if you're in Slytherin, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff; you misbehave or act like immature children, then I will dock points or give detentions. I won't let you get away with things just because you are in my house; you're related to me," He gave Hugo a look, "or for any other reason. I'm here to teach you the art of potion making, you're here to learn the art of potion making, which means you do your homework and classwork, get it done on time and show me and your fellow schoolmates respect. Understand these rules and you'll do fine. Any questions," Nobody said anything. Albus smirked. "Lovely, now can anyone tell me the difference between Polyjuice potion and Metamorphmagus?" Only four hands shot up, Lily's Hugo's some Slytherin girl and Larry Donaldson.

"Mr. Weasley," Albus called. Hugo took a deep breath.

"Polyjuice is used to change into one person, using hair, a toe nail or anything of that nature. A Metamorphmagus only has to have the mental image in their heads of what they want they want to look like and they change their appearance whenever they feel like it and they can hold it for as long as they want. With Polyjuice you can only turn into the person for a short amount of time and you must make the potion and add the hair or toe nail or whatever."

"Ten points to Gryffindor." And so the class went on. Lily found it a little more difficult than yeas past, but that was to be expected. Albus didn't go back on his word; he was fair and didn't take points away or give points just because of the house or because of relatives. It wasn't long before they left the potions classroom and made their way to D.A.D.A.

As soon as they walked into the classroom, the found Teddy sent up a magical projector. The trio took their normal seats in the middle of the class and waited for the rest of the sixth years Gryffindor's and Ravenclaw's.

"Welcome to Defense against the Dark Arts. As you all know, I'm Professor Ted Remus Lupin. Yes, my father is Remus Lupin and my mother is Nymphadora Tonks," He told them just as two hands shot up into the air. "But, we are not here to talk about that. Today for our first lesson, we will be reviewing werewolves." With a flick of his wand, a picture of a werewolf done by a Muggle artist showed up. Lily, being an artist herself, had to admit that the picture may be a little gruesome, but it was very well drawn and colored.

"This is want Muggles think of when they hear the term, werewolf, and they aren't that far off the mark. Werewolves are known to be very aggressive during and before the full moon. Now," Teddy said as he flicked his wrist again, the picture changing. A wolfish man now stared at them, he was very frightening looking and looked like he wanted to eat the camera man. "Who is this werewolf, and give me all the facts you know about him." Many hands shot up.

"Miss. Potter," Teddy called.

"That's Fenrir Greyback, one of the most feared werewolves in the past two hundred or so years. He liked to bite children to turn them into werewolves. A well know example of this is when he bit Johnny Sims, a Muggle boy from the out skirts of London, and Remus Lupin. Many people say that he developed such a strong liking for blood and human flesh that he turned to cannibalism. He bit children because he wanted them to grow up hating the wizarding world, hating wizards. He joined Voldemort because of this, because Voldemort promised him more victims. Greyback himself was bitten by a werewolf when he was just a young boy." Everyone looked at Lily in awe, which made her blush. Teddy smiled.

"Very good, Miss. Potter. Five points to Gryffindor. Now," again he used his wand to change the picture. Two pictures showed up, one of a werewolf and one of what looked like a normal wolf, but Lily had a feeling that it was an animagus. "What is the difference between a werewolf and an animagus, Miss. Thomas?" Gina put her hand down and blushed.

"Well, an animagus chooses when they want to turn into an animal, the werewolf has no choice but to change during the full moon. When a werewolf is not on the potion and in their right mind, they would kill their best friend, but they will not kill an animagus. An animagus can only be a wizard or witch who wants to change into the animal, a werewolf can be a Muggle or a wizard or witch."

"Very well done, five points to Ravenclaw," the lesson went on. It was one of the most interesting lessons in D.A.D.A. that Lily had ever had, and they were just reviewing. By the end of class, everyone was in high spirits of what was to come in their Defense class.

"For homework you will write a four paragraph essay on either a famous werewolf, the difference between a werewolf and an animagus, or about how to prevent a werewolf attach from happening. I don't want the small groups of sentences that are borderline paragraphs either. It's not due until you're next lesson which is in two days, but I don't want you slacking off and waiting until the day before to get the paper done," He gave the Gryffindor's a look before saying, "Class dismissed."

Lily and her friends began to gather their things. Just as Lily was about to leave the room with Gina, Hugo and Joan for lunch, Teddy said, "Miss. Potter, may I have a word?" She smiled to her friends and told them she would meet them in the Great Hall for lunch in a few moments, before she walked back over to Teddy.

Teddy's hair was its normal turquoise, but today it had a few green streaks through it. He smiled at her, and Lily felt her chest tighten. "So how did I do?" he asked his smile and voice nervous. Lily chuckled.

"You did wonderful Ted. You didn't bore us to sleep with stupid facts that we already knew or make us read from our books the whole time. You let us show you want we knew and you would just add on to it. Very well done in my option," Lily told him with a smile. Teddy smiled sadly, his eyes far away.

"Do you think my Dad would be proud?" he asked her softly. Lily rested her hands atop of his on the desk. She didn't notice until that moment that they were so close. They just stayed there for a bit, looking into each other's eyes. He has such beautiful grey eyes. I'm glad he doesn't change his eye color often, Lily mused. After a while, the spell like state was broken and they both pulled away.

"Yes," Lily whispered softly, "I think your father and mother are very proud of you, Ted." With that she kissed his cheek like she did when she was younger before she left the classroom.

*Teddy: That night*

Teddy took a nice long sip of fire whiskey, ignoring the burning in his throat as he did so. Teddy wasn't one to drink much, but after what happened with Lily he needed a drink.

As of late, he had been having weird dreams about Lily. Dreams that you shouldn't have about your god-sister/Best friend/student who was ten years younger than you! He has also started to develop feelings for her, which is why he took the job in the first place and why he and Vic broke up, because she knew he was in love with someone else, she just didn't know who.

You're one sick bastard, Lupin. She's only sixteen for fucks sake, and you started having these dreams a few months before her sixteenth birthday, Teddy told himself. But you love her, a tiny voice in the back of his head told him. Teddy groaned, and took another sip of fire whiskey. This is going to be a long year, Teddy thought with a sigh. He didn't know how true that statement was.

A/N: Thank you for reading! I hope you like it so far. If you're wondering why I made Albus the potions master, it's because in my head, he's really, really brilliant when it comes to potions, and he was top of his class. So that makes him the youngest potions master in the school's history. Also, in my head, Lily has her father's eyes, so please don't leave a review saying that her eyes are brown, this is a fanfiction, so there. Teddy isn't a werewolf in this one, but he does have wolfish features and gets angry easily before and during the full moon. R&R!

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