Teddy and Harry

Teddy Lupin sat, drumming his fingers on his desk. He wasn't tapping any particular rhythm, he was just trying to distract himself. For the fifth time in the minute he checked his watch. He glanced at the door, then back at his watch. He was late, 12 minutes late to be precise. And after all those lectures he's given me on punctuality he thought crossly.

Harry Potter was not having a great day. One of his son's had decided to climb the tallest tree in the garden, James, and his other son had decided, when James fell, to catch him, Albus. They were both in St Mungo's with injuries, though James was about to be released. He'd knocked his head when he'd hit the ground and had been concussed. Al, on the other hand, had completely shattered both his legs, broken both his arms and knocked his head, he was completely unconscious. Lily, his daughter, refused to stay put in St Mungo's and he was late, 12 minutes so.

The knock at the door set sent Teddy's momentarily stupefied senses into hyperactive overdrive. His head changed colour so fast it was impossible to know what colour it was on. He bounded over to the door and swung it wide open, with a nervous grin.

Harry had managed to placate his daughter with the promise that Ron would be here soon to pick her and possibly James up. Once he left the Hospital, he turned once on the spot and disappeared. He reappeared outside a respectable looking flat, he knocked immediately. There were a few seconds delay then it swung open.

"Harry!"

"Teddy!" The two men embraced and then Teddy ushered him into his home. They took seats on the sofa and the moment they were settled Teddy said

"You're late."

"I know, I know." He ran a hand through his hair. "It's been a bit stressful. I just got back from tracking McNaire across Europe, the battle at the end took about an hour, I swear, then the first thing I see when I come home is my 12 year old son running to catch my 13 year old son because he's decided to climb the tallest tree there is in our garden."

"Oh are they okay?"

"James is fine, bit of a bump fixed in about two seconds but Al… Al has smashed both his legs, broken both his arms and is unconscious till, I don't know when, and there could be side affects on his brain."

"God I'm sorry. I would've told you not to bother coming if I'd known."

"It's okay, just stupid Gryffindor tendencies."

"Yeah."

"So you and Vic."

"Mmm."

"C'mon Teddy I'm no help if you won't talk to me."

"Well really it's more Dom I'm having problems with if you catch my drift."

"Oh god." Harry buried his head in his hands, knowing exactly what the problem was. Vic and Dom were both daughters of Bill and Fleur and had inherited their mothers veela blood. They were the only non-ginger Weasley's and both had men flinging themselves at their feet. There was a year between them and they looked so similar but there was a very crucial difference between them.

Vic hated having the boys flinging themselves on her, in many ways Vic hated being beautiful. Ever since she was 11, maybe before, she had had eyes only for one Teddy Lupin. Teddy was a metamorphmagi and there for had absolutely no problem with looks and therefore had girls falling for him left right and centre. They had become the power couple of the school when they'd gotten together in Vic's fifth and Teddy's seventh years at Hogwarts. They'd been together ever since, three years in fact. Sure they'd had their ups and downs, months of silence, the usual thing between young couples they'd always gone back to each other. They had had a deep connection since childhood. They were meant to be together.

Dom on the other hand loved the attention she got from the boys. She was in her last year in Hogwarts and had dated nearly all the boys there, from about 4th year up. However she too had developed a thing for Teddy, in 5th year when Vic and Teddy had been dating for a year, but it wasn't love it was a creepy sort of obsession. A need to at least kiss Teddy. The thing was Teddy was fat too honourable to kiss his girlfriends little sister, even when he and Vic had broken up. Dom spent a lot of her time trying to break them up in the hope that Teddy would hit her on the re-bound. She had had absolutely no luck, until now it seemed.

Harry couldn't say anything for a moment then "What happened?"

"I don't know." Harry gave him a disbelieving look. "Okay I went to Shell Cottage to see Vic, as a surprise, you know."

"Yeah."

"I met her just as she was leaving, she said something had happened and she had to go. I asked if she wanted me to go with her and she said no real fast. I asked her where she was going and she got really flustered and disapperatted. I went in to see if they knew where she was but only Dom was in, Bill and Fleur had gone with Louis to buy his stuff, Dom was going to go with friends or something. Anyway I asked her if she knew where Vic was and she said she wasn't sure but she thought she was meeting someone and I believed her." He banged his head against the sofa arm. "I should have known that she was just trying to get me, hell she didn't actually say that it was a man I just thought…" Harry nodded in understanding. "Then she started being all sympathetic and comforting, like she knew how I felt and then she was so close and she looked so much like Vic but at the same time I knew it was Dom. It was like I was kissing Vic and saying screw you Vic at the same time."

"I see."

"And then, one thing sort of led to another." His hair turned bright red and Harry groaned.

"Please tell me you didn't."

"Yeah we did."

"Well, Teddy, I always try to be supportive of your decisions and all but this time I'm going to have to be brutally honest, you screwed up…big time."

"No way. I totally hadn't guessed that."

"And I don't think she'll keep quiet, in fact her whole year will know by now. Vic is going to find out pretty soon."

"Oh crap, what do I do?"

"Two options. 1 you sit here and wait for Vic to blast your door down. Or 2 you go to shell cottage and sort things out but I'll warn you now Bill'll curse you for what you did to his daughters."

"Why do I get the feeling 1 really isn't an option."

"It's not, it's the cowards way out and also the way that says you don't really care."

"Harry can I ask you something?"

"Yeah."

"Now wouldn't be the time to propose would it."

4 months later

Teddy Lupin straightened his jacket sleeves once more and examined himself in the mirror. His features had transformed themselves into what Vic preferred, her favourites. He had shoulder length blue hair, brown eyes, a normal sized nose and the same heart shaped face he nearly always had. He had been quite surprised by the fact her favourite colour was blue, shoulder lengthen and his natural eyes.

"Ready?" Teddy turned to see Harry there. He, too, was dressed in a suit. He looked like he always did, though Teddy suspected that his fringe purposely fell over his scar.

"Yeah, I think so." He strode across the room and clapped a hand on Teddy's shoulder.

"You'll be fine."

"You think?"

"Definitely."

"How's Al?"

"Okay I think, he'd having one of his good days. James won't leave his side, though."

"Never thought we'd see that day."

"Me neither, on plus side it means you get me as your best man and you don't have to pick between my sons."

"Yeah. I still can't believe I'm marrying Vic, after everything that happened."

"Well that's life, full of surprises."

"I never thanked you."

"For what?"

"Helping me ever since it happened. For four months you stood by me and helped me till we got here."

"It's nothing, Teddy.""I just hope I can be as good a father to my children as you are to me." Harry felt his eyes fill with tears and he pulled Teddy into a tight embrace.

"I will always be there to help you."

Harry reiterated the same thing in his speech later. "No matter what happens you have me by your side, to lend you a hand."