Title: The Second Fact

Author: Elenorecanard
Rating:PG
Warning(s): DH Spoilers
Word Count: 750

Summary: Teddy explains his savings vault.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, Teddy doesn't belong to me. I wish he did, though.

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The note he'd left was nothing particularly remarkable.

"Vic-

Back in ten minutes.

Ted"

Simple. To the point. It was the information on the back of the note that had left her stunned. She wasn't sure how a Healer-in-training had this kind of money in a savings vault. And she wasn't sure why a man with this kind of money kept it in a savings vault and lived in a studio flat in Diagon Alley. But what really had her puzzled was how her fiancé could have this kind of money and not tell her about it.

"Sorry, Babe. Lily's sick, and Ginny needed to pop over to the apothecary, so I-" Teddy froze in the middle of brushing soot off of his trousers when he realized that Victoire hadn't turned to look at him. "What? What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong, Ted. I just…well, I'm surprised. That's all," she said, turning and holding out the parchment he'd scribbled his note on.

Teddy looked puzzled, but took the parchment, his hair turning red when he realized exactly what it was.

"Not exactly the sort of document you leave notes for people on, eh?" Victoire ventured.

"No, not really," Teddy conceded. "I'm sorry, Vic. I was going to tell you about it today, but, well, obviously not like this."

Victoire crossed to the settee and sat and looked at Teddy expectantly. "Well, tell me about it," she said. "Because I'm curious as to why my fiancé has that much money in a vault, and hasn't told me about it yet."

Teddy joined her. "It really isn't that much, Vic. Not as much as I intend to put there," he sighed.

"What are you talking about, Ted? You could buy a house with that!"

"Yeah, I suppose I could. And you could send one and a half kids to Hogwarts and not worry about a thing."

"Teddy, we're not going to have to worry about sending our children to school. It'll be fine."

"No, I know we won't. And I don't want you to have to either," Teddy told her, as though this explained everything.

"Right. You've lost me again. What are you on about?"

"This will sound horrible, but Vic, even though my folks died, I was lucky. My Grandmother's a Black, and my Godfather is Harry Potter. I didn't go to an orphanage, and we never had to worry about money, or anything. Some kids weren't that lucky, Victoire. And I decided I didn't want to put my own kids through anything like that. Didn't want to put you through that. So I've been putting money away, just in case."

Victoire was quiet for a minute. "How long have you been saving this?" She asked.

"Well, the vault was officially mine when I came of age, and I've been adding to it since then," he answered.

"You've been thinking of your future wife and children since you were seventeen?" Victoire sounded surprised.

Teddy shrugged. "Yeah, I guess so."

She hugged him hard. "You surprise me every day, Teddy Lupin," she said, leaning into his side as they sat back again. "But you said you've been adding to it. What were you adding to?"

"The Ministry money," he told her. Her face didn't seem to register recognition. "After the war, Kingsley instituted a fund for the families of the people who died. They sent money every month. Gran and Harry tried to refuse the money, but apparently Kingsley told them there was nothing they could do about it and to shut up and take the money. Gran and Harry opened a vault and left it there for me to deal with when I was of age. Gran put mum's pension there too," Teddy explained.

"Teddy, I think this is amazing. Most blokes don't think about children and things."

Teddy snorted. "When I told Gran and Harry and Ginny, Gran told me I sounded like my Dad and Ginny told me I sounded like Harry, always planning for the worst."

"What did Harry say?"

"'Smart kid,'" Teddy told her. He was quiet for a moment. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you about it earlier. I didn't want to scare you, talking about kids and things already, when we're only just engaged."

"I just have one more question," Victoire said.

"What's that?"

"You said you weren't done adding to the vault. How many children are you planning for?" She asked him with a smile.

Teddy laughed out loud, and pulled her close for a kiss.