For Louise (the-panda-eater) because she's absolutely epically amazing.
And even though this sucks, she's got me mega shipping Tedromeda.
i. Tedromeda
Their eyes meet across the classroom as they do every single day, glances of longing and despair being exchanged in an oh so silent manner. It's wrong for them to want one another because, listen, Ted is a Gryffindor and Andromeda is a Slytherin. They should hate one another.
Instead, they're pretty sure they love the other one.
His cheeky personality draws her in, whilst her lack of belief of her supremacy makes him think that maybe – just maybe – one of the most 'noble' pureblood houses may have sired a purely good witch.
Just a shame that she's in Slytherin, really.
There's a streak beneath her that could oh, quite easily be brought up, a side to her that, if given nourishment, would cause her to be one of the most vicious and feared witches of her generation. Yet the moment she saw – like really saw – Ted Tonks in their first year, it was diminished to nothing more than an odd flicker.
He makes her normal, makes her feel as if she ought to be in another house because she absolutely detests everything that her 'family' are doing, and those illicit moments between them make her remember that she's got someone to be with when she leaves Hogwarts. She can get out of the Black household, get out and be with Ted in a little, normal house because he's a Muggleborn and she's pretty sure that she'll be disowned if she leaves with him.
She smiles ever so slightly and he reciprocates it, nodding his head ever so slightly, a steely sense of belief beneath the softness in his expression. He will rescue her; he will relieve her from the family she's been born into because he's confident that he loves her, that he can't live without her.
All she wants to do is leave her family, come be with him openly, in opposition to all the hasty kisses in draughty corridors at midnight (even if midnight is the most romantic time of all). But she's afraid, scared of what her family could do to her – because he can't protect her all the time, can he?
.
Her bags are packed: she's eighteen, no longer a student, and she's got no need to be afraid because there's no way that they can hurt her anymore. She's a strong woman with a man who loves her to the point where their love is the example that the Sorting Hat is going to use for interhouse unity for years to come: after all, she's a Slytherin and he's a Gryffindor and they're the strongest couple in the entire year.
(Maybe even the entire decade, but the Sorting Hat isn't going to risk saying that.)
As her arms wrap around his neck and his lips press to hers on the front doorstep of what was her home, they hear a sound that mirrors that of a Muggle gunshot.
Their newly-official relationship has ended with Andromeda disowned, removed from the Black family tree with immediate effect, the sound giving the warning: come back here and we will kill you.
Her hand laces into Ted's as they walk slowly down the street, revelling in the sunlight that oh so soon will probably fade to ashes and grey as the darkness takes over, and she doesn't care about her family.
Because Ted's her family now.
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Vicky xx