Brother
(June, 2016)
In Teddy's last year at Hogwarts, the two of them spent a lot of time alone. Sometimes they'd be up in the Astronomy tower (because combining forces of the two Gryffindors seemed to make them invincible) watching stars and talking about really serious things, like life and death.
Other times, like this, they'd wander around the Hogwarts surroundings, completely barefoot in the summer-green grass.
"You know, I'll be out of here soon", Teddy said with a sigh, and looked down at the redheaded girl at his side. She felt like his little sister (it wasn't until later they became best friends) and it wasn't like they wouldn't see each other.
Heck, they would be together all summer, and all vacations after that. They'd meet all the time. It was the conversations he'd miss. There were nothing like the Hogwarts grounds to inspire to conversations.
"How could I miss that?" Nikki muttered. She didn't like it at all. She had friends, of course, a whole bunch of them, but who could she talk to, but Teddy? They had conversations about the most important things on earth and laughed about the least important.
"It'll be alright, Nikki", Teddy said, trying to comfort her as much as himself. "We'll meet in Hogsmeade whenever I'm free." He had actually got a part time job at the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes already and was supposed to remain there the first year out of Hogwarts. "Maybe I'll ask your uncle to be specifically in the Hogsmeade shop those weekends."
"Yeah."
The thirteen year old redhead didn't even get up to Teddy's shoulder, but that didn't keep the eighteen year old to embrace her shoulders with one arm, and cast a shadow on his own face with the other.
The grass was soft beneath their naked feet, tickling Nikki's freckled ones. If someone looked out a window now, they would have thought that they were a couple, but really, they were brother and sister in all but blood.