Chapter One
A/N: SEQUEL TIME! *Dances merrily* Okay, so this is sort of a prologue to the story before I jump into the actual good stuff.
Please enjoy, review and (as always) I OWN NOTHING!
Two Years after Victorie's Graduation (At the Burrow)
Teddy watched as his girlfriend of six years played with her cousins and felt inside his pocket for the box that he'd been keeping secret for the past three weeks. It had cost three months' salary, and a very embarrassing talk with one Bill Weasley, but it was worth it. The perfect ring for the perfect girl.
"Hey Vic!" he called, deciding that it would be the right moment to ask a certain question. "Can I show you something? In private?"
Victorie ran up to him, after apologizing to Lily and Hugo, and brushed her strawberry blond hair out of her eyes, as it had fallen from the ponytail she had secured it in. Her blue eyes were lit up with curiosity as to what Teddy was going to show her.
"Yes love?" she asked, panting a tad from all the running she had done. Teddy said nothing but took her hand and apperated to Hogsmeade.
"Ted, what's this all about?" Victorie asked, confusion evident in her voice. Teddy still didn't say anything but led the younger woman to the Astronomy tower (Thank Merlin he had McGonagall's permission for this).
"Vic," he finally began to speak upon arrival, "Remember the day we became a couple?"
"Who could forget?" Victorie asked, a smirk on her face. "You were here, I saw you on the map, and we finally confessed our feelings for one another."
Teddy chuckled and sighed. "Vic, I love you and will always love you. You are the one thing in my life that kept me from coming back up here and jumping off the tower, like I'd planned to during fifth year."
He stopped and got down on one knee. "Victorie Fleur Weasley, will you do me the greatest honor you could give me and become my wife?"
Victorie gasped upon seeing the ring, and nodded enthusiastically. "Ted, of course I would! Whatever made you think I wouldn't?"
Teddy burst out laughing and put the ring on Victorie's finger. It fit perfectly, and they shared their first kiss not as boyfriend and girlfriend, but as fiancés.
000
Five Years after the Wedding
"LUPIN!"
"Yeah Harry?" Teddy stuck his head into his godfather's office upon hearing his name be called out to all the Aurors. Harry never used first names when calling his Aurors into his office, but once the door was closed the walls fell down and the 'favorites' got a chance to relax.
"Fleur just sent me a patronus," Harry looked at his godson with a raised eyebrow. Teddy gasped in realization. Fleur's duck patronus was the sign that Victorie was going into labor at that very minute.
"Harry, I know I don't ask favors—"
"Your wife's waiting," Harry interrupted the rambling that was sure to come. "Go, quickly now!"
Teddy nodded and sprinted out of the office, ignoring the curious stares that were coming from his coworkers. He actually jumped over Ron Weasley as the redhead was coming back from a coffee break. Once out of the Ministry, Teddy apperated to the lobby of St. Mungos, where he knew Victorie was at that moment.
"Victorie Lupin!" he shouted at the welcome witch. The witch didn't even say a word, but just pointed a finger towards the maternity ward without looking up from her copy of Witch Weekly. Teddy ran as fast as he could until he saw Fleur standing outside of one of the rooms.
"She's in there," Fleur smiled at him. "Ze 'ealers want you to scrub up before you join 'er."
Teddy nodded and did the correct procedures before he entered the room. It was a mob scene in there, and there in the middle was his beautiful and very pregnant wife.
"Ted?" she called and Teddy rushed to her side, grabbing one of her hands.
"Yes Vic?"
"We are never doing this again," she said and groaned as a contraction hit at that very moment. Teddy nodded in agreement. He couldn't imagine what Victorie was going through.
"Okay Mrs. Lupin," the Head Healer said, looking up from where he was staring. "At the next contraction, I need you to push."
Victorie nodded, and the grip on Teddy's hand tightened. Teddy began to rub Victorie's hand in comfort, and so that he could maintain some modicum of feeling in his own.
"Push!"
Victorie groaned as she pushed every time the healer commanded. Teddy was there all the way, cheering her on with words of encouragement. Finally, after four hours of this, the healer stopped commanding Victorie to push as a wail of a newborn greeted the world.
"It's a boy!" the head healer exclaimed and Teddy shared a grin with his exhausted wife and friend. After the healers cleaned up their son, he was presented to the Lupins. The little boy was wrapped in a blue blanket, that barley covered the tuffs of brown hair that was visible.
"Oh Ted," Victorie sighed in happiness. "What shall his name be?"
"I don't know," Teddy said as he rubbed his neck. "William?"
Victorie looked as if she was considering the idea and then shook her head. "I was thinking more along the lines of Jonathan?"
"You mean…"
"After your father of course," Victorie smiled and Teddy looked down at their son, who was looking up at him with two perfect blue eyes.
"Jonathan William Lupin," Teddy tried it out. "I like the sound of that."
At the sound of his name, little John squealed in pleasure causing the two parents to smile even more than they had previously.
"I think he likes it too," Victorie said with a tired giggle as she handed John over to Teddy to hold. Teddy smiled down at his first-born and hoped (privately) that little John would a better life than he had.