Hi everyone, background info… Fred isn't dead. Hermione is married to Ron, Ginny is married to Harry all those canons etcetera. Reviews are my soul for writing, I take any kind of feedback with relish so by all means tell me if you don't like it or if you do or if I can improve! I really hope you enjoy this story as much as I like writing it! xx
Victoire lounged on a deck chair out on The Burrow's patio, sunglasses over her bottle green eyes and her blonde hair in a ponytail. She brought the straw from the glass of lemonade up to her mouth and took a huge sip. Delicious she thought, I must get the recipe from grandma. She placed the glass back down and stretched out her legs whilst reclining on the chair. She brought her hands up behind her head and closed her eyes. The sun felt marvellous, warmth seeping into her legs and warming her denim shorts and t-shirt. Perfect way to spend her last day of the summer holiday before returning to Hogwarts for her final year. She was just falling into a deep daydream when she heard Teddy's voice along with the other Weasley's.
"We need an extra player George" she heard the voice of Teddy say
"Well Ron and the others are busy which only leaves one option. I'm not going to ask her, you will have to do that."
"It'll be my honour George, not a problem"
It went silent and Victorie kept her eyes closed and pretended to be asleep. She heard footsteps approaching.
"Victoire" Teddy spoke right beside her left ear. She didn't reply.
"Come on Tori" Teddy tapped her on the shoulder "we need you to play"
She opened one eye and glanced at Teddy. His silky tousled blue hair covered by a cap and blue eyes boring into hers.
"Teddy…" she turned on her side to face him and leant against her arm after pushing her sunglasses to the top of her head. "You know it's my last day!"
"All the more reason to spend time with me Torie" he whispered and gave her a wink.
Teddy's eyes saw her mouth twitch and he knew he had won "come on" he grabbed her hands and pulled her up from the chair "You'll play chaser with Charlie"
"Fine, but just so you know…" she said as they made it to the broom shed and took hold of their cleensweeps "you're going down Lupin" She knocked his Holyhead Harpies cap off of his head and took off into the air.
"We'll see about that Weasley" Teddy took off after her and once they reached to the middle line they faced each other. Bill was next to Teddy and George was their keeper, leaving Fred to be Victoire and Charlie's keeper.
"Don't look so worried dad" Victoire teased "we'll go easy on you"
"Oi, watch it cheeky. Look out for your own team! We don't need any help do we Teddy?" Bill said his long ponytail blowing in the wind.
"Course we don't Bill! Though Torie" he turned his head to look at her "might want to be extra careful"
"Care to make it a bit more interesting?" she asked raising an eyebrow
"Do you even have to ask?"
"Okay, person who scores the least amount of points has to be hosed by cold water for a whole minute."
"Fine with me" Teddy said "I'm not going to be the one getting wet"
He held out his hand and touched his knuckles to Victoire's as they did rock, paper, scissors.
"Ha!" Victoire exclaimed "This is the start of a winning streak my friend" she ruffled his hair and flew upwards.
"Ginny? Would you be able to throw the quaffle up to us please?"
"Sure!" A voice called out from the kitchen. A moment later Ginny came out, her scarlet hair flowing behind her.
"On my whistle. One, Two, Three…"
She threw the quaffle up and Teddy and Victoire dived for it. Teddy having longer arms snatched it from the air and headed off towards Fred's posts.
"Thanks, Gin" Teddy called out as she went back to Fleur, Arthur and Mrs Weasley.
"No problem!"
Fred managed to save Teddy's shot and chucked the quaffle to Charlie who took off down the field. However Bill managed to appear out of no-where and caused him to lob the ball over to Victoire.
Tucking the quaffle under her arm she sped off not-so-neatly dodging Teddy to get to the end of the pitch. However she had not completely evaded him. A streak of blue to her right caused her to switch the quaffle to her left side. "You're not going to stop me Teddy" she glanced to her right only to find no one there.
Suddenly the quaffle was pushed out from under her arm and sailed through the air. She glanced right and saw a smirking Teddy wink at her and take after it. Victorie shook her head, I'm not having that she thought, and swerved ahead of Teddy and snatched the ball out of Bill's awaiting hands.
"Sorry dad" Victoire laughed and flew up evading the hands of Teddy and Bill. "You two have got to become faster, not much gets past me. You know that Teddy!"
She soon concentrated as she came to the post and took aim. "Sorry Uncle George" she called as the quaffle sailed through the hoop to his left.
The game continued for another hour and finally the group touched down retired back to the living room.
"I do believe Mr Lupin, I owe you a one minute hose down!" Victoire grinned
"Actually that is not quite true Torie…" Teddy said with a small smile and a glint to his eye.
"What do you mean? You scored the least amount of points!" Victoire asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Actually George and Fred scored the least amount of points… I actually scored 15."
"That's cheating!" Victoire exclaimed
"No, it's not… I just found a loophole!" Teddy said as he dropped into the settee.
"He's right Vic" said Bill as he entered the room
"Of course you are all going to agree with him!" Victoire sighed and fell and sat beside Teddy
Teddy wrapped an arm around her shoulders, "I'm going to get you back for this Teddy, mark my words"
The group laughed and talked for a while before heading off towards the kitchen for dinner.
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Victoire looked up at the clock in Kings Cross 10:45, she had exactly 15 minutes before she would have to leave everyone and board the express with Rose, James and the rest of the younger Weasley/Potter clan.
"Bye Mum, Bye Dad" Victorie said giving them each a big hug and she grabbed her trunk.
"I'm going to miss you all so much! I'll write to you every week!"
Victoire glanced across at Teddy who took her trunk from her and proceeded to walk to the seventh years train compartment.
She studied him as he walked beside her. His blue hair was messy like his Godfathers was and his lips were in a grim smile.
Victoire nudged him in the side "Hey, are you okay?" she wrapped her arm around his.
"Of course I am" he replied with a smile, however he still seemed distracted. "I'm just going to miss you"
"Oh", Victoire looked down at the floor "I'm going to miss you too Teddy." They continued walking silently, both wrapped in their own thoughts.
Suddenly Teddy grabbed hold of Victoire's arm and dragged her towards the wall. Then backed her into it. He put both hands either side of her head and lowered his head, his body lightly touching hers. She stared into his dark brown eyes, and saw her reflection. She looked shocked, her eyes wide however there was something else about her but she couldn't quite tell what it was.
"Do me a favour Torie"
"What's wrong?" she stuttered, her golden hair falling about her shoulders
"Kiss me."
Torie gasped and truly grasped what that thing about her was. It was attraction. She was attracted to Teddy Lupin. Victoire stared into Teddy's eyes. She knew she felt affection towards him, he was her best friend. But now she found him attractive. And he wanted to kiss her…
Teddy lowered his head slightly and finally closed the gap between their lips. And suddenly it was like a spark ignited. Teddy caressed her cheek with one hand and wrapped the other round her waist pulling her to him. Victoire went dizzy with emotions, she grasped his shoulder and ran a hand through his hair. His lips were soft yet insistent. Deadly.
However the moment broke when a shout erupted "What are you doing!"
Teddy turned, his hand still wrapped around her waist. "Get out of here James, you nosey parker! You're so much like your Uncles! I'm seeing Victoire off!"
Teddy turned back to Victoire slowly
"Teddy I-."
"Thank you so much for doing that Torie" Teddy sighed and ran a hand through his hair
"I…what…?"
"Chloe was right behind us and she was so pestering back when I was at Hogwarts"
Victoire's breath hitched once she realised what had happened "Chloe… right" she whispered "no, no problem at all"
All of a sudden the world seemed darker. The station no longer felt magical and her body no longer hummed from the kiss. She grabbed her trunk in a white knuckled grip and made to bid goodbye to Teddy. So silly, I didn't even know I liked him that way until a minute ago, I'm just over-reacting. I must be tired. That all happened so quickly… I'm just in shock. "Right, bye Teddy"
Victoire went to turn around and head onto the train however Teddy appeared in front of her.
"What? You still have at least 5 minutes left." Teddy looked concerned so she gave him a smile that should have won her a BAFTA it was so convincing.
"Okay, what would you like to do in my last five minutes of freedom?"
Teddy looked around his eyes darting wall as he leant against a pillar. He was still looking around when Victoire spotted something suspicious
"Hey, look at this!" she moved forward next to him and touched the bricks at the bottom of the pillar. "Some of these are really loose"
Teddy ducked down and started pulling the bottom brick fully out and that was when they saw that something was behind it.
"It's a book" Victoire breathed, and reached out to it.
She pulled it out of the hidden compartment and dragged it and Teddy into a corner hidden from the rest of the station.
"What's in it?" Teddy asked,his head next to Victoire's
She delicately opened the book and was enchanted by the colourful pictures inside. There were so many, but one that particularly drew both their attention was one of the Black Lake.
"The person who's drawn this has been to Hogwarts…" Victoire muttered
"I wonder if it's anyone we know? Is there a name?"
Victoire flicked back to the front however there was no name to be seen.
It was then that she realised how close they were. She toppled over to the side and the book fell to the floor. That was when the pages started moving. Teddy helped Victoire up before they suddenly felt a tug and they both were sucked into the moving pages.
Victoire screamed and clung onto Teddy's hand whilst holding the book.
They spun round, and around, and around, until…
"Omph" Victorie fell to the ground however her fall was surprisingly not so bad, she flicked her hair over her shoulder and looked around trying to gather her bearings.
"Ow"
"Oh my gosh!" Victoire whispered "sorry" as she rolled to the side to find that Teddy was underneath her.
She frowned, but underneath Teddy was…?
The other boy rolled over and they were faced with a seventeen year old with black messy hair and rectangle glasses.
"Where the bloody hell did you two come from?"
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