A/N: Hey guys, ShadowCat here, I have for you chapter 3! Please R & R!
Teddy sat at his office, shuffling papers nervously when there came a knock on the door. "Come in." he said tiredly. He still jumped when the door opened, and looked round to see a 17 year old girl, dressed in her Gryffindor robes, with flowing golden hair, every bit like her mother in every way- beautiful. The sixteenth veela blood in her–scarcely anything, genetically–still shined through her face; she could entrance and trap any man she wanted, and Teddy felt lucky just to be with her.
"Victoire." grinned Teddy, his hair turning green from happiness. He quickly blushed and his hair turned pink. "Erm.. Weasley- is there anything I can do for you?" he said sheepishly, trying to salvage his pride and trying to turn his hair back to its normal red. But it didn't work- his hair persisted to stay pink with embarrassment.
"I want some extra help with classes." she told him in a sweet seductive voice
Teddy grinned. "You're already dating the professor, what more do you want?"
She ran over to him, lightly kissed him and sat on his lap. "I've been wanting to do that all morning."
Teddy gave her an offhand grin "we'll it's hard now I'm marking papers all the time and working out lessons and being stuck in this office all day-"
Victoire gently stroked his chest. "Don't talk..." She pulled him into a deep kiss. They stayed there for a while, lips glued together. Then the door creaked open and they both froze as Neville walked in.
"Teddy?!" He stopped, looking at the scene he had just walked into. His face turned to sheer shock. "Oh my God... Oh my God.. I am so sorry Teddy... I'll go now- Oh Shit" he made to leave, but stopped when Teddy spoke.
"Neville, it's ok. You just scared me- I'm just glad it wasn't Minnie"
"Why Minnie?" asked Victoire
"Because_ it's in my contract that I'm not allowed to do stuff with a student"
"But we were together when you were at school- she already knows that. Why wouldn't we still be together?"
Teddy shrugged. "I'm a new teacher. Don't want to lose my job quite yet." He noticed that Neville was still awkwardly standing in the doorway. "Oh Professor what did you come here for anyway?"
Neville blushed. "There's a staff meeting in the Transfiguration room."
"All right, I'll be there. Just give me a few minutes"
Neville looked from one to the other, and blushed even more furiously. "I'll just... go then" he swiftly made his exit and closed the door.
Teddy grinned again, and looked at Victorie. "I just have to clear things up here"
_xXx_
Two hours previously, in a corner leading to the Great Hall, two boys were having an argument.
"Are you insane, James?" hissed Fred
"Nope. It's foolproof. All we need is 10 Dungbombs and some flour and -" James told him
"James, I've seen better plans in an AirFix kit."
"Fred, are you saying that my plan is crap?
"There's no way I'm going to go to the staff meeting and -"
"But we're not going to do that"
"What the hell are you suggesting, Mr James 'Einstein' Potter?" Fred said sarcastically
"We're going to the Transfiguration room and rigging the room."
"That plan has more holes in it than in the 5th film of Star Wars."
"Well..."
"This could go as wrong as a episode of Law & Order - What am I saying?! Of course I want to join in, you jolt! Where are the Dungbombs?"
"Well... Filch saw them and confiscated them..."
"Oh that's great isn't it? You tell me about this plan and you don't even have the Dungbombs? Now what are we meant to do?"
"Get them back."
"You can't be serious. Not with Filch prowling and his stupid cat on the loose?"
"I'm totally serious."
"Naah" Fred looked at James's serious face and burst out laughing.
_xXx_
"Shh"
"I am shh-ing" Both boys tiptoed down the corridor leading to Filch's office. Fred stopped suddenly, and turned round to face James. "How do you even know Filch isn't in there?"
"Because -" smiled James, taking a old, tatty piece of parchment out of his pocket, "'I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"
Fred looked down at the gradual ink-line fill up of the page. "Oh"
"See, Filch is on the 3rd floor, and Mrs Norris is, is... I can't find her. But his office looks safe so I guess we can go."
"Okay."
They stopped when they reached his office.
"Alohomora." whispered Fred. It didn't work. "Someone's charmed the door so the spell won't work." he said, taking out a hairpin and picking the lock. There was a click and the door creaked open.
"Fred, you stay out here and guard the flour. Stay by the statue of Dobby. I'll go and get them" James whispered. Without waiting for a reply he ducked under the low doorframe and into the office.
As James walked in, he realised how small the office was. He saw a bundle of what looked like a coat, on an old chair. Wrinkling his nose up from the smell, he looked around the office. There, on top of the big cupboard, out of his reach was his bag of Dungbombs. "Accio" he whispered, and the bag came gliding down into his hand. He grinned and ran out of the room and slamming the door shut. Little did he know, two beady eyes were watching him from under the coat...
_xXx_
"What now?" asked Fred, holding the packets of flour and gazing up at the chandelier in the Transfiguration room.
"Hold these." said James, passing the Dungbombs to Fred and taking out his wand.
"What are you doing?" asked Fred, slightly nervously, backing away slightly.
"Levicorpus!"
And with that, Fred was dangling upside down by his ankle, next to the chandelier.
"Oh. I see now." grinned Fred - or as close to a grin as you could get if you were hanging upside down by your ankle. "First I'll blow out the candles."
"Why?"
"So, James, the candles won't burn everything when we drop it." He then balanced the Dungbombs and the packets of flour on the chandelier so they wouldn't fall off. James grinned and pointed his wand at Fred again, and muttered a few words. Fred immediately became camouflaged, like an Invisibility Cloak had just been place on him. James took out the Marauders Map again. Professor McGonagall was coming down the corridor towards the room. James quickly climbed into the cupboard in the room and locked it, just a few seconds before the Professor walked in the room.
_xXx_
Fred's heart was jumping faster than two kangaroos in mating season as Teddy Lupin walked in, 10minutes late (again).
"Right, now Teddy has finally joined us, we can get started." Minnie said to the agreement of the other staff, Teddy seemed to be avoiding Neville's eye.
"Regarding the unfilled Transfiguration post, I can't believe I have to fill in for it. Hopefully we can get someone to fill the post by next term. Regarding improvements, I suggest..."
The teacher's voices mingled together and Fred lost interest in the conversation whilst arguing with himself.
Do I cut the rope now?
Do it
But maybe it's too early...
It's up to you.
I can't remember when James said to do it
I would do it now
Think.. THINK
Well it's kind of hard to think when you're being suspended by your ankle 6m in the air and you can't move...
Mmm
Should I do it?
Go on...
Fred's ears perked up as Minnie spoke again after much discussion- well perked down as he was upside down.
"Now, Teddy. Two questions; Are you still dating Victorie or not and are you happy with fill- in post and after the DADA teacher comes, would you like to change to Transfiguration because that's what you opted to do when you applied for the job?
Teddy stuttered "I.. I.."
Fred decided that Teddy didn't deserve to be embarrassed any more, pointed his wand at the rope holding the chandelier up and thought, Diffindo.
The rope snapped. The chandelier plunged down to the ground, and as it hit it let off a horrible smell of rotten eggs. Fred had to pinch himself to stop himself from laughing- the teachers looked so funny running around, drenched in flour like that. He heard a small snigger coming from the cupboard. Flitwick heard it, immediately whisked his wand out and said "Alohomora." The cupboard door flew open, and James walked out, laughing. Ginny looked like she was going to faint from embarrassment.
"Hullo!" he said nervously.
"Potter! Did anyone else join in with this?"
James didn't answer, trying to hold back his laughter.
"Someone must of charmed the rope from up there for it to snap..." murmured Teddy, trying to de-flour his goatee.
Flitwick pointed his wand near to where the chandelier had been and said firmly, "Liberacorpus" There was a yell, and an invisible figure crashed onto a desk. Teddy walked over to him and did the counter curse for the Disillusionment Charm. A very dazed Fred appeared on the splintered desk. Fred quickly stood up next to James.
"Potter, Weasley. Have you got anything to say?"
Both boys surveyed the flour covered, eggy smelling scene in front of them.
James finally spoke. "Permission to snigger, Professor."
"Permission refused."
The two boys glanced at each other. "May have to snigger anyway, Professor"
And they did just that, whilst the teachers looked on disapprovingly.
"Potter! Weasley!"
A/N: Sorry, the chapter was probably a bit short, but thanks for reading, please review, follow, favourite and maybe recommend to others?
Next chapter should be up soon, any suggestions about what you want to happen next? I have ideas for year 3, 4, 5 and 6 but have no idea what to write for the rest of 1 and 2.
