Hey there everyone. Yes, I know, I should be working on HPNB, but then I was inspired by the season and all these plot bunnies started popping into my head. I don't think this one came out very good, or very Christmasy, but I did my best. Hopefully there will be another tomorrow, as I want all twelve chapters finished and posted by Christmas.

Anyway, here is Victoire's chapter, please read and enjoy. I promise better chapters in the future!

~Robin


Chapter 1:

Christmas Eve with the Delacours or A Truly Excellent Christmas Present

If not for Teddy steadying her, Victoire most definitely would have fallen out of the floo when they stopped spinning and were spit out into the entry hall, which was decorated with tinsel and wreathes for Christmas, of the Delacour Estate, or 'Chez Delacour,' as it was more often called by the people who lived and visited there.

Teddy grabbed her shoulders and grinned down at her. "Thanks for that, Teddy," Victoire said, looking relieved, and slightly nervous.

"Your welcome," Teddy said. "You're covered in soot though."

Victoire looked down at herself and yelped, taking her wand out of the holster in her boot and silently performing a charm to remove all of the soot from both herself and Teddy.

"Hey, sis, you want to give that wand a wave over here too?" Louis asked, stepping smoothly out of the fireplace, soot resting on his hair and shirt. Victoire obliged, waving her wand over her brother before putting it away.

Next out came her mother, then Niki, and finally her father, who muttered a spell to lock the floo going into their house behind him. Fleur cleaned the rest of them off with a quick flick of her wand before there was a crack and a house-elf appeared next to them. "Hello," he said in flawless English. "If you would follow me, Madame et Monsieur Delacour are waiting in the parlor for you."

Teddy looked at Victoire and bent to whisper in her ear. "This is a lot different than going to see Grandma Molly and Grandpa Arthur."

"It's only this formal right at the beginning. The house-elves insist on keeping the appearance to outsiders formal so this is how they bring everybody to meet Mami and Papi. After we've been 'announced' everything will be more like at the Burrow, although not exactly the same."

Teddy nodded. He had met her Grandparents before, of course, but the last time had been at Gabrielle's wedding when he was ten, which was almost ten years ago. And that hadn't been at their home, of course, but at the chapel and hall where the wedding and reception had been.

They walked down the wide hallway just a short ways until they reached a double wide entry to a nice parlor, where four people were already sitting and speaking in rapid french.

"Monsieur, Madame, the rest of your guests have arrived," the house elf announced, bowing and waving the group in before disapparating away with a pop.

"Fleur, ma cherie! Eet 'as been too long," Madame Delacour exclaimed, standing up and kissing Fleur on each cheek.

Even at her age she was a very beautiful woman, being half veela. Her rotund husband stood after her. He was the first to notice Teddy. "And who eez zis young man?" he asked, gesturing towards Teddy.

"Papi, this is my boyfriend, mon copain, Teddy," Victoire said, stepping forward and dragging Teddy up with her.

"Ah, oui, I remember now. Ze last time we saw you, you must have been only zis 'igh," Monsieur Delacour said, chuckling as he gestured to a point around his waist, considerably lower than Teddy's.

"It's a pleasure to meet you again," Teddy said, holding out his hand to shake. The two men shook hands before Madame Delacour swept down on Teddy, planting light kisses on both of his cheeks. He blushed profusely.

Greetings were finished and the large group sat down as the house elf served them all coffee and pastries. Victoire started talking to Gabrielle, who was her godmother, and her husband, Andrew, who had been born in England, but moved to France when he was very young, in rapid French. Madame Delacour swept her daughter and her two younger grandchildren into conversation, leaving the men to talk to Teddy.

"So, Teddy, you are Victoire's age, non?" Monsieur Delacour asked.

"Oh, no, I'm nineteen. I actually graduated two years ago," Teddy replied easily.

"Ah, and what do you do?" the older man asked.

"Well, my first year I spent learning how to become an animagus along with other advanced Transfiguration. I'm a metamorphmagus, so it's always been a very interesting topic for me. This year I started teaching at Hogwarts," he explained quickly.

"So you teach Victoire?" Monsieur Delacour questioned.

Teddy bit his lip, hoping that he didn't think that the two of them dating was inappropriate. "That would be correct," he answered nervously. He saw Bill laughing behind his hand. A similar line of questioning had gone on the first time Teddy had gone to Shell Cottage after he and Victoire had begun dating, despite having known the oldest Weasley brother for his entire life.

"Tell me zen, eez she a good student? I hear all of zese scores... OWL's? But I do not know what zey mean," he said, almost conspiratorially.

"Oh, she's an excellent student. She's Head Girl this year. Her best subject's charms. In fact, I heard from Professor Flitwick, the charms teacher, that he was considering asking her to help with his first-year class later this year," Teddy said proudly, finishing the last part in a whisper so that Victoire wouldn't hear.

"I'm glad to hear zat," Monsieur Delacour finished.

The group continued talking for a little while longer before dinner was announced and they made their way to the dining room. The meal was delicious, although as it was French, that would be expected. They were renowned for their cuisine after all.

After dinner the group split in two. Bill, Fleur, and the Delacours retired back to the sitting room, while Teddy, Victoire, Gabrielle, Andrew, Niki, and Louis all went to the kitchen.

Gabbrielle took out drinks, butterbeer for Niki and Louis, and Firewhiskey for the rest of them. Even Victoire didn't turn it down, although she would have if it was at school. After all, when she was there she had to fulfill her role of Head Girl, while there, she was relatively free of responsibility, other than making sure her siblings didn't get drunk.

Soon, the firewhiskey had loosened everyone's tongues and Niki and Louis were looking on in delight at their older sister letting loose, which she didn't often do. "So Gabby, I remember Andrew being handsome when I first met him, but I don't remember him being hot," she stage whispered with a wink. "Nothing compared to you, of course, Teddy," Victoire added, slipping her hand into his and giving him a sloppy kiss on the cheek.

Teddy, who held his alcohol much better than Victoire did, had the sense to keep her from getting anymore firewhiskey into her system. "I think that's enough," he said, pushing her glass away from her.

"Probably," Victoire agreed, nodding happily. She was a very agreeable drunk.

Niki suddenly looked down at her watch and sighed unhappily. "I think we have to go. It's getting late," she said regretfully, frowning.

"Zat's too bad," Gabrielle said. She was also slightly drunk and her accent had become more pronounced the more alcohol she had ingested.

"Let's go, Vic," Teddy said, standing and pulling his girlfriend up with him. She willingly stood and wrapped one of her arms around his waist. He put his over her shoulders and was relieved that they were both steady on their feet.

"We'll walk you to the floo," Andrew said, taking Gabrielle's hand and leading them out of the room and down the long, wide hallway back to the front entryway where the floo was.

"There's a note," Niki said, pointing to the mantle where a piece of parchment was stuck with a sticking charm. "It's from Maman. She said that they went home and we should just floo back and that we have to be at the Burrow by eleven tomorrow so we should try to come back at a reasonable time."

"Ah, it's just like Maman. She's telling us what to do without actually commanding it," Louis laughed. "Well, as Teddy and Vic are both slightly drunk, we should probably each take one of them back," he said to his twin.

"No, I'm gonna do a sobering charm," Victoire said, stopping them. They raised their eyebrows at her. "Even slightly drunk I can still do a simple charm," she defended, rolling her eyes. She waved her wand and the fog immediately lifted from both her and Teddy's minds.

"Much better," Teddy said. "Let's go. It was great to see you again," he said, turning to say goodbye to Andrew and Gabrielle.

"And you, Teddy," Andrew said. "Come on, Gabs. Let's get you to bed," he said, leading his drunk wife back to their guest room. Somehow, he had managed to stay relatively sober.

The foursome flooed in pairs back to Shell Cottage and Niki and Louis went to bed, leaving Victoire and Teddy alone to say goodnight.

"I don't want you to leave," Victoire sighed, winding her fingers with his and pressing her forehead against his as he stood by the floo, ready to go back to his flat.

"And I don't want to leave you," Teddy said, "but I have to."

Victoire nodded and kissed him deeply before releasing his lips. She was closer to him now, his arms wrapped around her waist.

"Now I really don't want to go," Teddy said, chuckling.

Victoire thought for a second. "Then I'll go with you," she said. He was about to open his mouth to protest but Victoire explained first. "No objections. We're not going to do anything, except snog and then sleep. Then, in the morning, we'll floo to the Burrow together and meet everybody else." Teddy sighed, knowing he couldn't win. "We're spending our first Christmas together, and we're going to wake up on our first Christmas together in each other's arms. I'll just leave a not to Dad and Maman and then we can go," she finished.

Teddy couldn't help but watch as she walked away to find a quill and parchment. She was amazing. And this would be a truly excellent Christmas present-at least until everybody else found out about it.


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