Disclaimer/Warning: I would never say I owned Harry Potter, that's sacrilege. Also this story WILL have cousincest in it, so if that's not your thing skips those chapters or don't read this at all. Thanks!

where we belong

'the night will go as follows'

teddy x lily

It's the hair, he decides, that drives him so damn crazy. It's red as fire and clashes horribly with her Slytherin robes, not that it really matters, hair color or not she belongs in Slytherin and everyone knows it. She's been that way since she was born, so it sort of made sense to him that she would end up in the house of snakes. Not that that helped in any with the fact that he still found her irresitable.

She's only seventeen- sweet seventeen, and he's her professor- hell, he's pretty much her brother. But, that's not true at all is it? He's always been there when she's needed it, so when she turned into a woman he had no choice really but to notice. Somehow, he didn't think Harry or James or even Al, who was very even tempered, would think of it like that.

For Christ's sake, he is ten years older than her, but as he watches her step towards him, with those brown eyes and pink lips, he doesn't think he cares so much about any of that. Sure, she was young and he was probably going to hell, but he knew that she was everything he could ever want, which was kind of stupid since this was Lily. Lily who got bored after ten seconds; the Lily that would curse any boy that so much as looked at her chest; the Lily who had a family of over protective men that would rip off his genitals if they knew he'd done a lot more than just look at her chest.

"Stop worrying, Teddy." Her warm breath does stupid things to his body, but he closes his eyes against her throat and breathes all of her in, while her fiery hair rubs his face.

Yes, he thinks as his fingers run through the beautiful locks of hair, it's got to be the reason he can't breathe most days. Right now he doesn't really care about her family or age or innocence, (or lack thereof), and the fact that she's Lily Potter. He just lets all those thoughts fade until they're just Lily and Teddy, because after all, that's all that should matter to begin with.