Hi! Welcome to my first Teddy/Victoire story. I love them so much but have never posted a story for them. I wanted to do my own spin on writing one, so this isn't necessarily cannon compliant.

With that in mind, anything you recognize belongs to J.K. Rowling and not me.

I giggled as Allegro flew faster through the sky, tightening my grip around his waist as I shrieked with laughter. He and I had been seeing each other for about three months, well, seeing each other was one way to put it -I described it as snogging more than we talked. He'd been out of Hogwarts for a few years now, and I snuck out to go adventuring with him a lot. Tonight, we'd snogged under a tree and got a bit handsy before we were run off by a groundskeeper. Now we were just flying around on his new broom, a top of the line Skyracer 3000. It was the same broom he flew when he played for the Chudley Cannons, and I was awestruck at how fast it went. I was currently begging my maman and dad to get me one for my upcoming birthday. I'd be an unstoppable seeker with one!

Judging by the moon, it was after three in the morning and I had to be back soon in order to sneak back into the Burrow. All the cousins were staying there, a perfect cover for me to break curfew and see the boy my dad would NEVER allow me to see. That just made him all the more alluring, and I'd never been one to turn down something forbidden. I leaned forward so I could whisper in his ear, nibbling on it seductively just to tease him a little.

"It's late, you should take me back," I whispered. "If I get caught, it won't be so easy to sneak out next time."

His cheeks shifted as he smiled and leaned back into me, turning in the sky to head back to the Burrow. "We wouldn't want that, now would we?"

We landed a few yards from the leaning house and dismounted, ducking behind the tree line to stay hidden as we said our goodbyes. Some of the cousins liked to get late night snacks and we were clear to see out the kitchen window. It just took the loose lips of James or Freddie, and my days of sneaking out would be over.

Allegro grabbed my waist aggressively and pulled me closer, a bit too hard, but I let it slide. "Then you'd better kiss me quick."

I did as he said, expecting him to take control the second he did. He pressed me against the hard bark covering one of the trees behind me, the roughness of the oak digging into the space bared between my top and skirt. It wasn't the most pleasant feeling, but the boy sure knew how to kiss and make up for it.

By the time we parted, I felt light on my feet and practically floated inside. I watched Allegro take off from the grass and disappear into the clouds from the kitchen. I'd just turned to go upstairs when I heard the couch in the sitting room creak as someone stood up from it.

Shit! I scurried over to the darkest corner of the kitchen and hoped I blended well enough to go unseen. I saw the blue hair first and released the breath I'd been holding, it was only Teddy. I stepped out of the shadows and saw him already looking at me, a displeased look on his face. The norm for us honestly.

"What?" I asked in a quiet voice, getting some pumpkin juice from the fridge and hopping onto the counter.

He let out a harsh breath through his nose before he answered me. "What the hell were you doing out so late with Allegro Valentene?"

Everything about him was tense down to the rigidness in his knees. It took one glance out the window to figure out why -the moon hung full in the sky tonight just behind the clouds and it was affecting his mood. Though he didn't transform like his father, he had a lot of werewolfish tendencies… his temper included.

"Because dad doesn't like him so we have to sneak around," I replied in a bored voice. "It's easier here with all the kids running around, Gran loses track of who's here and who's not. She wouldn't be surprised to find me in the morning when she didn't see me the night before."

"He's notorious for playing around with girls until he's bored then tossing them away like yesterday's coffee grounds," he spat, crossing his arms over his chest as he grew closer to me. "He also doesn't take no for an answer."

I took a drink of my juice and sat it by my hips, deciding to get sassy in return. "I'm almost seventeen, I can do as I please! If I want to see him, I'll see him."

He barked out a laugh and I saw his eyes flash, that was the wrong thing to say. "Exactly, you're sixteen and he was a year ahead of me in school. He's too old for you."

I rolled my eyes and snorted. "Oh, yeah, because you never slept with people my age before! You're really one to talk about playing with people until you're bored."

His hair flared deep red as his anger intensified. "That's different!"

I scoffed outright this time, hopping down from the counter and rounding on him. Never mind that I was nearly a foot smaller, my anger made me feel ten feet tall. I was 1/8 Veela after all, my temper was pretty intense, too.

"Why? Because you're a boy? You're allowed to date younger blokes and birds, but I can't date someone older than me? That's not fair!"

"The world isn't fair!" he replied, casting a silencing charm around us before the fight could wake everyone. "You're going to get hurt by him."

I narrowed my eyes at him and replied, "Then I will! It's my life, I can live it however I please. You're not my father, you're not my boyfriend, so you don't get a say in what I do with the boys I hang out with!"

"Why are you always such a brat?" he shouted, throwing his hands up in frustration. "It's like you went through puberty, came into your Veela, and turned into a complete bitch."

I gasped at this brash words, trying to stop myself from flinching like I wanted to. "You just think I'm a bitch because you're not the one I'm sneaking out to see!"

I expected him to throw snarling words of his own at me in return, but he remained silent. His chest was rising and falling with his rapid breathing, but he didn't say a word. The clouds shifted in the sky and the moonlight filtered into the kitchen, hitting him directly and making him flinch. My anger dissipated immediately as I rushed forward, old habits died hard.

"Hey, let's get you to bed and continue this argument later, yeah?" I suggested, brushing his wild hair out of his face. "Both of us can be angry at any time, so it'll work out fine."

I could tell he wanted to argue, but he was too weak under the direct moonlight. He allowed me to lead him back up the stairs to the ladder that lead to the attic. That was his room whenever he stayed, making it even harder to get him to bed. By the time we were up in the attic, I was out of breath and Teddy was sweating bullets.

"Let's get these layers off," I said in a gentle voice, unzipping his hoodie and stripping it off his shoulders.

When he was down to just his pants and a t-shirt, I tucked him into his cot. He was embarrassed I'd been the one to see him this way, I could see it written on his face. We'd been best friends for a long time, I knew almost everything about him. Then things changed and we stopped talking and hanging out, today was actually the first time I'd seen him since Christmas… but that wasn't the point.

"Do you need anything?" I asked awkwardly, shuffling my feet against the anciet hardwood underneath me. "Water? A wet flannel? A shot of Firewhisky?"

That drew a haggard laugh out of him before it petered off into a bit of a wheeze. "No, I'm good. It's happened every month for the last five years."

I remembered spending full moons with him at his Gram's place when I was younger. His hair was pale blue against the pillow under him, his energy zapped. It reminded me of thirteen-year-old Teddy going through his first full moon and tugged at a part of me I didn't want to see right now.

"Yeah, I remember," I replied before tucking tail and heading to the ladder. "Goodnight, dick."

"'toire," he said quietly, making me freeze on the spot at the vulnerability in his voice and the use of a nickname I hadn't heard in a long time. "Seeing as Gran Molly doesn't know you're here, do you want to stay with me?"

He told me when I was eleven his full moons were easier when I was with him, I'd never forgotten that. I just never imagined he'd ask me to stay with him ever again. We couldn't be civil to each other for a second after everything happened.

I turned to look at him, tucking my hair behind my ear nervously. "Do you want me to stay with you?"

"Even now you're making me beg," he joked meagerly, wincing as his muscles spasmed under his skin. "'toire, I want you to stay… please?"

I swallowed thickly and nodded, sitting at the foot of the bed to take off my sneakers. Then I looked around awkwardly until I saw a folded t-shirt to change into sitting on a trunk under the window. I gestured for Teddy to close his eyes before changing out of my top and skirt into his shirt and sliding into bed with him.

We shuffled around awkwardly, the cot hardly big enough for him, much less the two of us. He eventually settled with his head against my chest as I ran my fingers through his hair soothingly. It felt like we were friends again, but I knew we weren't. The fight we were no doubt going to have in the morning was going to hurt like a bitch after being this close to him again.

Despite knowing that, I held him and sang a lullaby my grand-mère used to sing to me when I stayed with her and my grand-père when I was a kid. I felt the tension in his shoulders slowly sinking away as his breathing evened out against my neck. I followed him a few minutes later, pushing my anxiety to the back of my mind. I'd deal with that in the morning.

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