a/n Yet another answer to a challenge! I like these things =] lol They actually get me writing! This is for Morghen's Teddy and Roxanne pairing challenge! So, this is Teddy/Roxanne... enjoy! =D

Prompt: "Don't tell me I was a mistake and you regret every choice we made."
-Roger's and Holland's Feeling by Chiodos.

No Regrets
By Alice. Jericho

Roxanne Weasley stood quietly in the middle of the room. The blue eyes she inherited from her father burnt holes in the wall behind the tall figure that was standing seven feet in front of her. The room had been filled with silence for five minutes. Neither of the two brave enough to speak a word.

Roxanne hadn't moved an inch for those five minutes. If somebody walked in, they may accuse Ted of petrifying her. He hadn't though. He would never do such a thing.

While Roxanne hadn't moved, Ted couldn't stop. He was fidgeting, the silence bugged him. It made him anxious, it made him think. He didn't need to think. Thinking was what caused this five minute silence.

"Rox-" Ted broke the silence, finally growing tired, but he was cut off. Roxanne started crying. He had never seen her cry. He closed his eyes tight, hoping that he was just imagining it.

He wasn't.

The sobs grew louder, she couldn't stop. Months of unshed tears were pouring from her eyes. She moved to the couch, growing tired of supporting her own weight.

Her back had grown sore from standing so still, her neck hurt from looking up slightly for five minutes. She sat on the, somewhat ugly, couch and put her head in her hands. Her heart had been snapped in two, then in two again, and so on until there was nothing but a pile of broken pieces on the floor. Metaphorically of course.

Ted sat down beside her gingerly, he caused this. He had made her cry. That wasn't his intention, of course. He tried to touch her shoulder, hoping that maybe he could console her. She recoiled at his slight touch.

"Don't." She mumbled into her hands, pushing herself further down teh couch, trying to get away.

"Roxy... I just, I... I don't want you to cry." Ted said quietly, and it only made Roxy cry harder,

"What else was I going to do? Sing? Laugh? What am I supposed to do?" she asked almost snidely, but the last question sounded desperate, she wanted the answer.

"Be understanding?" he questioned, trying to get her to see it his way, "Roxy, you know we couldn't last forever... You're only eighteen, Rox."

"That didn't stop you! Why do you care now? Why now?" she begged for an answer. She had turned to look at him, make up smeared, eyes puffy. She'd never looked more vulnerable.

"I can't keep doing this... It's not fair on you." He said and she laughed despite her tears,

"Me? It's not fair on ME? Us being together! How is that not fair on me?"

"You should be dating someone your own age... They'd be a lot more fun than me, they'd like the same things."

"But I don't want someone my own age! Dammit Teddy! I want you! Don't you get that?"

"Roxy, us... we, we were a mis-"

"NO! Don't you dare say that I was a mistake! It wasn't a mistake!" she cried, but he shook his head, "So, what? You regret what we had? Do you regret leaving Vic? Is that what? Is it her that's making this happen?" she stared at him with wide eyes, it was Victoire. What else could it be?

"Don't bring Vic into this, she hasn't done anything wro-"

"So it is her? So you do regret this!" Roxanne brought her hand to his face in a harsh motion; the sound resonated through the silence that was.

"I don't regret a damn thing, Rox! Don't put words in my mouth!" he said angrily as he rubbed his cheek, "I'm doing this for you, don't you get it? We can't be together! For Merlin's sake! If I didn't have to do this, I wouldn't be!"

"You don't have to be doing anything! No one knows! What does it matter?"

"That's why it matters! No one knows." He repeated her words, but she didn't understand, "We can't keep doing this! It shouldn't be a secret! Have people asked you why you haven't got a boyfriend?" she shook her head, "No? Well, people ask me constantly why I haven't got a girlfriend, why I'm not engaged, or why I'm not married."

"We can tell them, Teddy! It doesn't have to be a secret! Daddy won't mind! He likes you!" Roxanne pleaded, holding onto anything that would make him stay.

Ted stood up, only to bend down in front of her. He took her dark hands in his pale ones, a sad smile on his face, "It has to stop. You know it does." She remained quiet, she knew he was right, "I don't regret anything." He stood up and walked to the door,

"Ted," Roxanne stopped him, wiping her tears from her eyes, "If you walk out that door right now, and go to Victoire... It'll never happen again." She told him, "Us." She said to be specific.

"Find someone that's worth it, Rox. Someone that deserves you a hell of a lot more than I do." He gave her his best smile and walked out of the house. To meet Victoire for lunch.

Disclaimer that I always forget to add: I obviously don't own the Harry Potter Franchise, or my writing would be a lot better =]