It was the evening before the new school year began at Hogwarts, and as always Mrs Weasley had all the family over to The Burrow. It was a stressful event attempting to fit the whole family into the small house, however she insisted it happened so all the family could travel to Platform 9 and 3/4 together the next day.
"George!" Mrs Weasley shouted, whilst attempting to carry several plates to a table in the garden, "Can you get these children out of the kitchen, they're an absolute nightmare!" George rolled his eyes and sauntered towards the children's screams and laughter. Immediately, Charlie and Bill jumped up from where they'd been lounged on the grass, desperate to get the newly vacated determination, they barged into each other several times, however both being equally strong, they were getting no where. The children had just finished a game of quidditch and Teddy was walking from the Orchard towards the adults, surrounded by a gaggle of grinning faces, all trying to talk to him at once. Seeing the opportunity, Teddy leaped around Bill and Charlie, who were still trying to tackle each other to the ground, and jumped into the chair.
"You little shit!" shouted Charlie, his clothes all scrunched up from where Bill had grabbed them.
Just at that moment, Mrs Weasley walked over, accompanied by George who had finally managed to remove Roxanne, Fred and James from the kitchen . "Charlie, there are children around, how dare you use that language and at Teddy, who I'm sure had done nothing wrong! Now, come and help me carry these dishes out."
Teddy started laughing, as Molly began walking away and Charlie slowly followed.
"I'll get you back," muttered Charlie, which gained a round of laughter from Bill, Harry, Ginny and Angelina who were sat amused at the whole situation.
Suddenly, a shriek was emmited from the Burrow. Two faces emerged, their blonde hair bouncing everywhere as they ran towards Teddy.
"Hello, Lysander, Lorcan" laughed Teddy, as they ran and jumped onto his knee.
"Do the thing do the thing!" they shrieked in unison, then burst into a fit of giggles.
"Not yet guys, maybe later" He smiled, placing his arm around Lysander to prevent him falling off the arm of the chair.
"You two leave him alone for once!" shouted Luna, walking towards her sons who were now pulling on Teddy's hair. "Come on, get off him!"
The rest of the children, who were scattered around the grass, had become bored and had taken to annoying each other.
"Muuuum, James and Fred keep poking me!" whined Lily, who would happily do anything to get someone in trouble.
"No we're not!" protested James, whilst Fred nodded vigourously.
"Fred pack it in!" Angelina sighed.
The adults continued talking, however the children still wanted entertainment, and found that by annoying each other.
"I know guys, why don't you all hide and I will try and find you! Whoever I find last, wins!" Teddy said enthusiastically, knowing they'd all happily go along with what ever instructions he gave.
Lysander and Lorcan immediately got up and began running away, wanting to win the game. James and Fred began discussing the best hiding places and Lily began to follow, however she was soon sent back, so Albus let her hide with him. Roxanne jumped up and began searching for her cousins, however they weren't in sight, so she went to find a hiding place of her own.
Mrs. Weasley appeared again, sighing with relief when she noticed all the children had disappeared. "Percy and Ron, late as always! I bet it's Ron's fault you know, they blame the kids but it's never them." Ginny and Harry nodded in agreement, whilst smirking at each other. "Thinking about it, Bill, Fleur. Where are your kids?"
Bill shrugged his shoulders "I'm sure they're around somewhere."
"They 'aven't been out all afternoon per'aps I should go and find zem." Fleur added.
"I'll go look for them, I'm sure they're just upstairs somewhere" smiled Teddy reassuringly "Then I suppose I should go and look for the other kids, since they're waiting for me!"
The adults laughed and resumed their chatter, they were used to children going missing from time to time.
Teddy got up from the seat and the fight for the free chair continued again. Laughing, he walked towards The Burrow and began the travel upstairs. There were bags cluttering the hallways and text books everywhere, everyone was supposed to be packed for tomorrow, however that didn't seem likely. After climbing two flights of stairs, Teddy heards voices in the room Bill and Fleur had been given, so he knocked lightly on the door but no one replied.
He slowly pushed open the door, and he found Louis sat on the bed, with a cut on his forehead and tears streaming down his face, being comforted by Dominique and Victoire.
"Hey, Dominique, Tori, whats going on?" Teddy asked, confused more than anything.
Both Dominique and Victoire jumped, they were too absorbed in looking after Louis to noticed he'd entered the room.
"Hey Ted, er it doesn't matter, it's sorted now." Victorie mumbled, "I'll explain later."
"Oh, erm okay. Well they're all wondering where you 3 have been all afternoon so you should probably go downstairs now." Teddy replied, "Oh and have a reason for the cut on Louis' head."
At that comment, Louis pressed his hand to his forehead and began crying again.
"About that, Teddy I don't suppose you could fix it? It's just awkward questions and stuff, you know?" Dominique asked sweetly.
"Fine." Teddy sighed and muttered and incantation which quickly healed the cut. "Now get downstairs, before anyone else appears."
Dominique and Louis jumped off the bed and walked out the door, followed by Victoire however Teddy grabbed her arm before she could leave. Confused why he'd grabbed her, she turned to face him.
"Tori, what was that about?" Teddy asked quietly, clearly concerned.
"I told you it doesn't matter." Victoire responded, beggining to walk again but he stopped her.
"Of course it matters, you've been gone all afternoon and when I finally see you, Louis is sobbing and has a cut on his head. Some how I don't think that comes under the catagory of 'it doesn't matter,' unless I've completely misinterpreted the situation, which I don't think I have."
"Look, Ted. I'll explain later, okay? Don't be an arse about this, I promise I will. It's a long story and people will already be wondering where we are."
"I'm just concerned Tori, okay?"
"I know, sweetie, but it's fine." She smiled and placed her arms around his neck. "I promise."
He rolled his eyes and put his hands on her waist, pulling her closer. "If you say so."
Laughing, she quickly placed her lips on his and then pulled away. "We need to go, before they start questioning where we've been." She grabbed his hand and pulled him through the doorway "Come on Theodore!"
"That's not my name!" He glared, then started to laugh too and followed her towards the garden.
When they arrived back at the garden, the group of people had increased - Louis were sat on the floor, not paying much attention to anything going on around him, Ron and Rolf were having a conversation about quidditch whilst Hermione helped Mrs. Weasley arrange the food on the tables, Percy and Audrey had joined the adults' discussion and Molly and Lucy were engrossed in a conversation with Dominique that no one else was bothering to listen to.
"Hello Teddy," smiled Hermione, still busy organising the plates of food, "Hope you don't mind but Hugo and Rose have joined your game of Hide and Seek, so there's another two people for you to find."
"Oh shit, I forgot I was supposed to be looking for the kids!" Teddy sighed "I should probably get going."
"Language Theodore!" Victoire mocked.
"Tori you shit, how many times do I have to tell you, Theodore isn't my name." He laughed "Anyway, I should probably look for these kids"
"Mhhm, I know." She paused, "I'll help you look, I know all the decent hiding places around here."
The rest of the evening had been relatively quiet, for a party at The Burrow anyway, the usual fights amongst the children had occured, but apart from that it had been very relaxed and a fun ocasion. At 11 'o' clock, only a few people were still awake: Bill and Charlie, who were leant against the kitchen counter drinking Firewhiskey, Teddy and Victoire who were sat on one of the sofas together and were drinking Butterbeer, and Dominique and Molly who were struggling to keep their eyes open but didn't want to go to sleep yet. Bill walked over to Dominique, "Domi, you should go up to bed now, school tomorrow and I'm sure you still have plenty of packing to do."
"Mhhm," Dominque mumbled as she lifted herself from the chair and trudged towards the stairs. "You coming Moll?" Molly silently got up and followed Dominique towards the room they would be sharing for the night.
"I think I'm gonna have to call it a night as well," Bill explained, kissing Victoire on the forehead "Don't be long, you need to be up early because I'm sure you haven't packed a thing either Missy!"
Victoire nodded "Night dad, I'll be up in a minute no doubt!"
Once Bill had disappeared up the stairs, it was just Victoire, Teddy and Charlie left in the living room.
"I s'pose I should sleep too, wouldn't want to be a third wheel would I now?" Charlie smirked. Teddy and Victoire had been dating for almost a month now, they had always been very good friends, but they became a lot closer when they both started working at George's joke shop over the Summer, however they still hadn't told the family, because they knew they'd have constant teasing, plus Bill was extremely protective over his daughter. They were doing their best to be discreet, however those who knew them best, like Charlie, noticed immediately.
"Wh-what do you mean? We aren't- we're just friends." stammered Teddy.
"Bullshit, you might as well have a sign saying 'We're practically fucking but we're pretending we aren't because Bill would murdered me if he knew." Charlie started grinning, this was his pay back for Teddy stealing the chair he wanted.
"Grow up you twat." Teddy mumbled, his hair turning red.
"Aw is ickle Teddy getting all embaressed?" Charlie laughed.
"No!" shouted Teddy defensively.
Victoire started laughing "Your hair's gone red sweetie,"
"Don't you start as well!" he groaned, poking her in her side.
"Anyway, I'll be off. Have fun you two." Charlie began walking upstairs and winked at Teddy.
"I hate him so much!" Teddy complained, his hair slowly turning back to the turquoise blue it had been all evening.
"Aw, don't go all grumpy." Victoire smiled, moving closer towards him and resting her head on his shoulder, now they were alone.
"Shush you," he smiled, tickling her again. "Anyway, tell me where you were all this afternoon?"
Victoire sighed "Fine... Well, you know how Louis is good friends with Scorpious?"
"The Malfoy?"
"Yeah, well obviously our Dad's not to keen on the idea, and neither's his dad, so we got some floo powder and used the fire place in my Mum and Dad's room so he could travel to Malfoy Manor and see Scorpious for a bit and well obviously we had to stay there so we did. But then he got back and had a cut on his head and started crying. It took us ages to find out what had happened."
"Did Malfoy do it to him?" Interupted Teddy.
"No, of course not, he's lovely really and well, he finally told us-"
"And?"
"I will get there, stop interupting!" Victoire glared "Anyway, turns out - and don't you dare tell anyone - that Louis and Scorpious are VERY close friends and well, they were saying bye to each other and they kissed and well Scorpious' father walked in and it didn't go down well apparently because Scorpious just pushed Louis into the fireplace and in doing so Louis cut his head, that's all."
"How long have they been a couple?"
"Oh, well apparently they aren't a couple, it was their first kiss, like they've been really close for a while and it just happened when he was leaving."
"Oh well good for him" Teddy smiled, he liked Louis, he was always quite quiet and managed to distract the other kids from him for a while "I'll have a chat with him tomorrow about it."
"Hopefully that should make him feel better, anyway, I really should sleep now, it's almost midnight and my Dad will kill me if I'm not up in the morning!"
"True." Teddy jumped up and grabbed Victoire's hands to pull her up, "Let's hope we don't wake anyone up or we will be murdered!"
They slowly climbed the stairs, trying to avoid the places where the floor board creaked. Arriving at the room Victoire was sharing with Dominique and Louis, Teddy stopped. "Night Tori, see you in the morning." He gently kissed her.
"Night Ted." she smiled as she attempted to open and close the door to the bedroom quietly.
Teddy climbed another 2 flights of stairs before arriving at the attic where he would be sleeping for the night.