For Connect the Weasleys (TeddyVictoire - first kiss) and the If You Dare Challenge (657. True Feelings)

NOTE: Okay, so the pairings in this fic will be TeddyJamesii, VictoireTerryBoot, LouisLorcan, AlbusScorpius and RoseLysander as of now. However, this is family-centric, so the pairings will definitely not be the main focus of the fic. James is 13 at the epilogue in DH, Teddy is 19, and Vic 17.

Teddy is two when Harry takes him to see Victoire. He's fascinated by the little girl, with her tiny fingers and toes.

Harry smiles at his godson and tells him that it's his responsibility to make sure that nothing happens to her when they grow up.

He doesn't know it yet, but those words shape Teddy's life.

He's ten when he first realises that Victoire's got a crush on him. It's not something that most boys his age would realise, but then, most boys his age don't have a little girl following their every move.

He already he knows he doesn't feel the same way about her – that he never will – but Harry's words have stuck.

So he keeps quiet, refusing to say something that would break her heart.

He's fifteen when he finds her crying her eyes out.

No one at Hogwarts likes her, she sobs to him. The fact that she's inherited her mother's Veela abilities are enough to make most of the girls hate her on sight, and the boys are too obsessed with her looks to care about her as a person.

He holds her close and lets her cry.

He finds her crying again when he's two years out of Hogwarts.

She's found her place in the school by then, so he cannot she why she's so broken-hearted. She whispers that she's never been kissed because she's never found anyone she can trust likes her for her and not because of her being part-Veela.

Harry's words seem to echo in his head.

This time when he pulls her close, he gently kisses her on the lips.

If he's honest, he has no interest in dating her. But it seems like the fact that he was her first kiss has reignited her old feelings for him, and he just cannot reject her.

Harry's words have shaped his entire life, and it's not so easy for him to let go of the idea that she's his responsibility.

They date for nearly a year.

The fact that he's happy she spends most of that year at Hogwarts makes him feel guilty, but he cannot help his feelings.

But by the end of the year, she can see that his heart's not in it.

She's the one that breaks off their relationship.

They've grown up together, and nothing can destroy the bond that they've developed.

He recognises the signs in her first. She smiles the way she only used to around him, and she seems to blush every time she talks about returning to Hogwarts to get her mastery in Arithmancy.

"I think I'm in love with Professor Boot," she confesses when he asks her about her new crush.

She tells him their story, the way the Tranfiguration professor seemed to be the only person on her side for so long. She tells him how he prompted her to push out of her comfort zone and make friends with people she had never considered before, and she tells Teddy how she couldn't help but fall for the one man at Hogwarts she thinks has always been there for her.

When she finally confesses her feelings to Terry, he's the first one to find out.

In a way, the fact that Teddy was first kiss has defined so much of their relationship. But it's only when she kisses Terry does she realise that Teddy may have been her first, but Terry is the first person whose kiss means something to her.

It takes longer for Teddy to have his first true kiss.

She's the first one he tells.

"I think I'm gay," he confesses to her at the age of twenty-two. It's the middle of July, and it's just the two of them together in the Burrow's garden.

"I'm not surprised," she replies. "You've been staring at James a bit too much for it to be purely platonic over the last month.

He blushes and doesn't say another word. To her, it's all the confirmation she needs.

When James kisses Teddy, a year later in the Burrow's garden, she's the one hiding behind Grandpa Arthur's shed, cheering her younger cousin on.

When Victoire is born, the words Harry says to Teddy shape much of their initial interaction.

Anyone else might have been the slightest bit resentful of the responsibility their godfather had placed on them while they were two, but Teddy is grateful for it.

It's that responsibility that allows them to grow into close friends, and Teddy doesn't know what he would have without Vic in his life.

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