In Plain Sight
by: Lovelyrubberboots
Disclaimer: if you recognize it I don't own it..
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The problem with Teddy was that he could be anyone and he usually was. Physically anyway. No matter how he looked he was always the sweet, smart Hufflepuff everyone knew and loved. And Victoire, well, she was always the same perky, confident and intensely inpatient person as always. And she hated waiting for Teddy. He was always late. It drove her insane and not so deep down she knew he did it just to bother her. Sometime after his fourth year he'd decided that Victorie needed to slow down and take in the sights. In order to make this happen he'd decided to disguise himself every time they met up. He knew Victoire too well, that was another problem. He knew she'd only people watch if she were looking for someone. And, as usual, she was looking for Teddy.
Was he the old man who'd just gone into the apothecary? Her eyes traced an old man with a Teddy-esque smile on his face. Or perhaps he was the young girl getting roasted nuts from a machine. Victoire narrowed her eyes. He could be the young man coming out of Gringotts – no, wait, he wasn't. That was someone she knew. Victoire scrunched up her face and whipped her head around as the door to the owl store opened. Maybe he was one of the middle aged witches who'd just gone into the shop. She tapped her foot impatiently as she watched a young woman go into the plant shop. Soon enough, however she was distracted by a well dressed man heading her way, he was carrying a small box. As he got closer Victoire became surer and surer that it was him but… he passed her by without so much as a second glance. Scowling, Victoire slid down in her seat a little as a several more possible people walked by; so far she'd only eliminated the people that she knew. Victoire hated this game. She was just about to leave when the young woman who'd gone into the plant shop earlier came over to where Victoire was sitting. She was holding a bouquet of flowers and a menacing looking plant.
"Are you Victoire Weasley?" she asked, saying Victoire's name incorrectly.
"Yes…" Victoire said certain that this must be Teddy.
"Right, well, the gentleman in there asked me to give these to you-" the woman said, looking uncomfortable, "Listen, if you don't know him I wouldn't go in to see him, he seems a bit… odd," the woman advised Victoire who peered into the shop as the woman walked away.
In the shop was a plain looking man wearing an apron. He'd been there the whole time!
Victoire stood up quickly and headed into the store, trying to suppress the smile on her face.
"Teddy," she said smugly, stepping up to the counter and the man in the apron. "This isn't a very dramatic look," she was fairly surprised. Normally Teddy liked to go for more extreme looks.
"No, it's not," he said, shaking his head and turning his hair blue, "but that was me," he said, breaking into a smile. Before Victoire could say anything else he came out from behind the counter, took off the apron and took her arm, leading her out of the shop for a nice stroll. She was in shock, almost. She'd never seen his natural state. And, little did she know, she was the first he'd ever shown it to.
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