A/N: Written for the 5 Drabbles Competition. Prompts are the chapter titles. :D
A Teddy in Colour
1. Chatruese
'I thought boys are supposed to be dense at colours,' Victorie commented. 'You're quite good at subtle shades, you know.'
Teddy grinned, then scrunched his face and changed his hair colour – faster and faster until the colours melted into one another and the red haired girl grimaced. 'That's disgusting.'
Teddy checked himself in the mirror. He agreed. Bubble-gum pink was better – though maybe he was just partial towards that colour because it was a favourite of his mother's.
Honestly, his absolute favourite was the tawny brown from his father's photos, the black he thought might be his mother's natural hair colour – and Victorie's mane of red.
'Chatruese is a new low for you,' Victorie remarked.
Teddy tried to pronounce the odd sounding word. 'I thought it was olive,' he said with a shrug.
'Girls are better with subtleties,' Victorie said with a shrug. 'Chatruese. Mind adding a little more yellow?'
Teddy was happy to comply.
'And I take back what I said before.' At Teddy's pout, she added: 'How you can possibly think chatruese – or olive – make good hair colours…'
'I wasn't looking!' Teddy protested…though he knew Victorie only spoke in jest.