A/N: The start of another story. Great. Just what I need to be doing in the midst of other stories! But this one won't be very long. I was going to originally make it a fun one-shot but decided to drag it out a bit instead. Maybe between 5-10 chapters. Let me know what you think!
Warnings: Rated M for language, sexual situations, drinking, and possibly other things that I will warn you about in the future. For now, enjoy the story!
Disclaimer: I own nothing!
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Teddy Lupin left his house with a shake of his head, turning his turquoise colored hair into its natural sandy shade. He was meeting his cousin, who just so happened to be one of his best mates, at the Leaky Cauldron for a drink. Teddy's girlfriend, Victoire Weasley, was away for two weeks with her job in International Magical Cooperation, and as the two of them lived together she cooked for the both of them. Tonight was the second night she was gone and Teddy was already out of ideas for food he could make by himself. Therefore, when his cousin had invited him for drinks he decided he might as well get dinner from the Leaky, too.
Scorpius Malfoy was at the point in his life where he felt ready to start telling people the truth. Starting with his cousin, Teddy Lupin. Scorpius had invited Teddy out for drinks in order to talk with him about something exceptionally important. He was going to propose to his girlfriend, Rose Weasley. The only problem was that nobody knew they were even dating. They had graduated from Hogwarts two years previously and Scorpius had feigned a reputation as something of a playboy since then. On more than one occasion he'd taken other girls out and let the press catch sight of them and it would be front page news the next morning.
Rose knew about this and strangely encouraged it. She was terrified of anyone in her family finding out about the two of them being a couple. Scorpius was a good and honest wizard who never actually cheated on his girlfriend. Sometimes, if he knew the press was watching, he would snog the girl he was on a date with but it always ended there. Nothing more than a quick snog for the cameras he knew were clicking away madly in his direction.
But if they wanted their relationship to really work and progress to the next level then they would have to start telling people the truth. Rose and Scorpius had a very public disdain for each other. They started dating, secretly, during their sixth year of Hogwarts. There had been a moment when they were both vulnerable, open, and admitted their repressed interest in each other. Then their worlds had caught on fire and the burn was so so sweet.
Scorpius groaned out loud as he recalled the first time he ever kissed her, tasted those luscious red lips, ran his fingers through her tangled fiery locks. Yes, she had him in a way that was irreversible and permanent. He loved her and she loved him. The problem was, of course, their families. But if he could get Teddy on their side then the rest would surely follow, right? After all, his parents respected Teddy and his grandmother, Andromeda Tonks.
"Hey, mate," Scorpius sat at the bar stool next to Teddy and snapped his fingers at the bartender who brought him his usual drink.
"Hey, Scor," Teddy was eating a large helping of steak and kidney pie and Scorpius raised his eyebrows in question.
"Is Vic's cooking such shit that you have to eat out in secret?" he teased.
Teddy rolled his eyes, "She's away, actually. Won't be back for a fortnight. Had to go to Bulgaria. Something about international flying carpet regulations."
"Ah, that explains it," Scorpius teased as he looked over Teddy's disheveled appearance. He obviously hadn't shaved that day and he didn't look quite as put together as he normally did.
"Don't start on that," Teddy said with a smirk, "you have it easy, you know, being a single bachelor with your own flat. It's tough work making a relationship work while doing your best to provide for your girlfriend and yourself."
Scorpius chuckled darkly. "Come off it, Lupin, we both know that your life is the easy one. Victoire does everything for you! You don't know how hard I have it…" Scorpius trailed off with a grimace. His life was certainly difficult to put it mildly.
"You're Scorpius bloody Malfoy, everyone loves you, the press eats you up-"
"Oi!" Scorpius's eyebrows drew together sharply in annoyance. "Half of the wizarding population hates me and is scared to death that if they look at me cross-eyed I'm going to curse them. The other half look at me with pity, which is almost worse."
"At least you're not living in the shadow of your godfather as well as your parents."
"Ha! I might not be expected to be like my parents, but I'm definitely living in my father's shadow. You've no idea how tough it is every day. Even to go to work…"
"Right, I'm sure it's so hard. I see all of the articles about you, Scor, I bet it's just so difficult to go out at night after work and pick up birds and take them back to your flat and shag them senseless."
Scorpius grinned at that. That was the opening he was waiting for. "Well, actually, about that, I had a reason for asking you to meet with me-"
"Hey!" Teddy interrupted as if inspiration had suddenly struck him. "I've got an idea."
Scorpius scowled. "What?"
"Everyone says that they want what they don't have, right? We both think that each other has the easier life. Let's do an experiment to find out!" Scorpius started shaking his head but then Teddy added the little phrase that had him changing his mind. "We can make a bet. We'll spend one week as each other and at the end of the week whoever survived the other's life better wins."
"….what will the winner get?"
"How about the loser has to be the winner's personal slave for a month?" Teddy suggested easily.
Scorpius considered this and said, "Make it two months and you've got yourself a bet, Lupin."
They shook on it eagerly. "Okay, so stay still," Teddy commanded. Then he concentrated, screwed up his eyes as he breathed in through his nose and out through his mouth. Within seconds he was Scorpius Malfoy's exact clone. Teddy's height lost an inch, his muscles hardened, his hips narrowed and his chest swelled. Godric, he never knew his cousin was in such good shape.
"Fucking hell," Scorpius said as he blinked at his mirror image. "I knew that you were a powerful metamorphamagus, but I never thought you'd be capable of something like this…"
"I perfected this technique while I was at Hogwarts. You can never get caught out of bed by professors when you are a professor yourself," he said haughtily.
"Alright, then what am I supposed to do?"
"I'm an Auror," Teddy said quickly, "There's a whole stock of Polyjuice Potion at my house. It's in the hall closet in clearly labeled vials."
"Brilliant. Alright, what are the rules for this little bet?"
"Well, for starters, you have to actually act like me, which includes being nice to the Weasley family and the Potters. Harry's my godfather and we're really close. I'm close to James, too, so you have to play that part."
"I can do that," he replied honestly. He'd already been preparing himself to make good impressions on Rose's family.
"We'll have to go to work for each other, but do your best to just stick to paper work. Harry's the boss and if you request certain jobs he'll probably give them to you because despite how hard he tries not to, he does show preference for certain aurors and I'm one of them. That's basically all I can think of…oh! You have to be a good boyfriend to Victoire. Every time she owls or floo calls, be sure to respond as soon as you can, okay? If she comes home early, you are not, under any circumstances, to sleep with my girlfriend. Got it?"
"Of course," Scorpius had no desire to be with anyone but Rose. "Same goes for me!"
"What? But you don't-"
"Any girl who comes onto you, you do not sleep with." Scorpius had abruptly changed his mind about telling Teddy about his relationship with Rose. Because if he told Teddy about it, then Teddy, as Scorpius, was sure to seek her out and his relationship with Rose was very private and personal. They talked about many things that he didn't want her to accidentally tell Teddy. "You're not allowed to use my body as an excuse to cheat on your bird," Scorpius said firmly. "I may sleep around, but while you're in my body, you ignore every girl who walks your way. Got it?"
Teddy nodded. He only wanted to be with Victoire anyway. That wouldn't be a hard rule to follow. "And we can't tell anyone the truth. Not anyone if we want this to be fair."
"Agreed. Again, let me reiterate, Lupin, birds will come onto you and they will expect you to sleep with them. Even if a girl shows up at my flat, don't even let her in."
"Godric, Scorpius, I get it. What the fuck, mate? Are you worried about me soiling your innocent reputation or something?" Teddy joked.
Scorpius scowled. The last thing he wanted was for Teddy to fuck up, have sex with a girl while in his body, and Rose find out about it. How could he explain that? "More like worried about you soiling yours," Scorpius retorted with a semi-serious expression.
Teddy became serious as well. "I'm not going to let any of your slaggy birds jump my bones while I'm pretending to be you, don't worry. If we tell anyone about the bet, we automatically lose. Sound good?"
"Yes, that sounds great to me. When should we start this little charade?"
"Now."
"Brilliant."
"Here's the key to my house. The wards already recognize you so you should be able to get in and out without any problems. I have to be to work tomorrow morning at eight. Sundays are normally my days off unless there's a priority case that I'm working on," Teddy extracted a key from his pocket and handed it over.
Scorpius reluctantly gave his cousin the key to his flat. "You know my schedule, mate, go into work whenever I feel like it, but at least for a few hours every day. I work for my dad so I basically do what I want."
Teddy snorted. "Yeah, I'm definitely winning this bet."
Scorpius smirked. "We'll see."
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Rose,
So sorry for the short notice, love, but my dad is sending me to Australia to speak with the president of a company he is hoping to merge with. I will be there for, hopefully, only a week. I'm not sure what my accommodations might be and if I'm in a muggle hotel I won't be able to floo you. I'll owl you every day and miss you every moment.
Yours Always,
Scorpius
There. That should suffice. Rose won't come near his flat if she knows he's not home. Now that that was taken care of he could relax a bit. He went to the closet Teddy had said held the Polyjuice Potion and found it easily.
If he were being honest, he was very curious about this whole thing. What would it be like to take Polyjuice Potion to become a metamorphamagus? He knew that he would not receive Teddy's powers but then that must mean that the Polyjuice Potion would force him into Teddy's natural body.
When he let go of his powers, Teddy's hair was naturally sandy colored and his eyes were naturally a deep green. But Scorpius was convinced that Teddy totally had a bit of body fat that he used his abilities to hide. Now he would actually find out.
With a little smile he deposited Teddy's hair into one of the vials and downed it in three gulps. That should be enough to last for a couple of hours. Even if it did taste like shit. He wiped his mouth with the back of his sleeve and felt the unfamiliar crawling feeling of his skin as it rippled and changed before his eyes.
Once it had finished, he ran to the loo and inspected himself in the mirror. Damn. Teddy was fit naturally, but he was a touch shorter than he let people believe. Also there was a scar just above his eyebrow that Scorpius had never seen before. He wondered when and how Teddy had received such a wound.
He spun around and laughed. Teddy's arse was really flat. Almost non-existent. No wonder he filled that part of himself out a bit. Scorpius knew that girls liked guys with nice arses.
Now what did he do? Whatever the fuck he wanted! He was Teddy Lupin! Nobody would look at him if he went out in public. Nobody would make derogatory comments about him being the spawn of a Death Eater. Hell, people would probably rush up to praise him in this body!
Merlin. He could talk to the Weasleys! He could have a civil conversation with Rose's family without them thinking badly of him right away. This was the best part of the bet they'd made. It gave him a way of getting to know Rose's family and letting them get to know him without them having any preconceived notions about him because of his surname.
Feeling positively giddy with optimism, Scorpius went back to Diagon Alley and strode into Weasley's Wizard Wheezes with his head held high. He could count on his hand the number of times he'd entered this shop. Mostly because it was uncomfortable for him. But now he could get a good look around, relax, and have fun.
"Teddy!" He spun around to see George Weasley smiling at him broadly. "Haven't seen you in a while! What have you been up to?" As he spoke he picked up a few items Scorpius had been looking at and shoved them into his hand. "Have a couple on me."
"T-thanks," Scorpius said sincerely as he pocketed the items. "I-uh, haven't been up to too much. You know, Harry's been keeping me busy with work and Victoire's been keeping me busy when I'm not at work."
George winced in sympathy. "Does she still take you clothes shopping with her, try on every outfit at the store, and make you give her your opinion on each one?"
Scorpius forced a grimace. "Yes," he wasn't sure if that was the right answer or not, but he was supposed to be acting like Teddy and Teddy would know the answer to such a question immediately.
"Well tell that vain niece of mine that that's what she has girlfriends for!"
Scorpius chuckled, George patted him on the back, and went to help other customers. Before Scorpius could get too far into the store, another voice called to him. "Oi! Lupin!"
With a groan, Scorpius thought to himself, 'What the hell? Does everyone who knows Teddy have to stop him and say hello all the time? Can't he just shop in peace?'
James Potter was beside him with a grin. "I took your advice and it worked! I've been out with Ella three times this week already and that's not even including all of the times she invited me back to her place for some pretty amazing shagging."
"That's great, mate," said Scorpius in a way that he knew Teddy spoke. "She's good in bed, then?"
"Godric that's an understatement. I've never felt so satisfied after sex before. You wouldn't believe her body. Must be all of that Quidditch…"
Ah, he must be talking about Ella Woods, the Keeper for the Holyhead Harpies. That would make sense because James played professional Quidditch and they often met up with other teams, including the Harpies. "Hmm," he didn't know what else to say in response. Potter must have been satisfied with this response because after a quick goodbye and a manly half-hug he made his way over to the muggle products and Scorpius continued on shopping.
Three hours later he returned to the flat exhausted and starting to turn back into himself. He spoke to more people today than he had as himself in the past week. Everyone and their mother were friends with Teddy it seemed. This was something he had always envied, but now it just felt exhausting.
With a deep groan, knowing he had to be up at seven if he wanted to make it to work on time, he threw himself into bed and fell asleep.
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After they parted ways from the Leaky Cauldron, Teddy Lupin decided to have a bit of fun. He strode up and down wizarding London with the trademark Malfoy smirk and saw birds swooning at him as he passed.
This was great! No wonder Scorpius was always sleeping around, women were throwing themselves at him and he didn't even do anything to purposefully attract their attention.
He went to one of his favorite bars and as he sat in his regular seat he noticed that the place had gone very quiet. He looked up to find the owner, Ken, making his way toward him. "You should find someplace else to drink tonight, son," the bloke whom Teddy had always considered a friend was glaring at him with his arms crossed over his chest. Several other usuals were glaring at him, too.
"Why?"
"We don't serve Death Eaters here."
Shocked and appalled, Teddy said quickly, "But I'm not-"
"Or sons of Death Eaters either."
After only a moment of hesitation he stood up and hissed. "Well fuck me, you pretentious bastard! I'm reporting you to the Ministry for refusing to serve me because of my father's former affiliations!"
"It's my place and I can choose who I serve. Clear out, Malfoy, before I call the Aurors."
With a growl, Teddy stood up from the table and left without saying another word. Angrily he went to another bar, which was a bit dodgier, but nobody said anything about him being there. As he drank he was approached by a few different women but kept his promise to Scorpius. He didn't even flirt with them until he was just a bit tipsy.
Scorpius's body must have a lower tolerance for alcohol than his own because normally he wouldn't be starting to get pissed yet. That was when a pretty blonde came up beside him and they started talking and flirting. After a few more drinks he knew it was time for him to go home or else he'd make a mistake. He said goodbye to the blonde politely and stumbled his way to the fireplace, using the floo to take him to Scorpius's flat.
Even though it wasn't very late, the alcohol made him sleepy, and Teddy was happy to succumb into oblivion.
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A/N: In this fic, Teddy will be affected by the full moon. He isn't a werewolf, but his sex drive is almost impossible to control which means that infidelity (intention AND unintentional) will occur. Just thought I would give you a heads-up in case that is something you're uncomfortable with reading. Let me know what you think!
