For Kaye's Member Challenge, with the prompts spaghetti strap, secret story, and ink, and the pairing DominiqueTeddy :)
(And I know I said this chapter would be a Lorcan love triangle, but I forgot the order I wrote them in xD Sorry! I did honestly think Lorcan was next, but I hope you guys don't mind a Teddy triangle!)
100.
She's pretty, though nothing like her older sister. Dominique gets these backhanded compliments a lot, he's noticed. It's kind of impossible not to contrast the two sisters.
Victoire is such icy glamour, a portrait of perfection, with her elegant blond curls, glimmering blue eyes, a smile like heaven, a touch silken in the night. Teddy knows he's deep in, knows she's had him wrapped around her finger for years, and most of the time, he can bear the sickeningly sweet perfection.
Dominique, though, is wild, is freedom and adoration, is sunset curls and ocean eyes. She's his secret story – secret.
90.
At night, Victoire is like an angel in spaghetti straps and silk, her smile light as she kisses him and her body warm pressed up against his. Teddy's used to her loveliness, used to her beauty, used to the way she molds in his arms every night.
Dominique at night is completely different – she's a star shining bright, a girl who shimmers under the desperation of the night sky, a light in the path so he can see where he's going.
But he's headed nowhere, and she can destroy him.
80.
Supernovas explode. Teddy knows this.
He also knows how beautiful they can be, glittering against inky black heavens, outshining everything else, if only for a moment because nobody can look away from their light.
Dominique, he thinks, is almost a supernova. Problem is, she can't explode without him, not when he's still drawn to Victoire's angel light, still kissing her sister in the clarity of morning, still not noticing Dominique except at night when she shines.
And then, she'll explode.
70.
"You can't keep doing this," she tells him when he meets her by the swings one night. "Not to Victoire. We can't keep meeting."
Teddy sighs, kneeling down in front of her. "I'm sorry. But, Nika, I – "
"You can't," Dominique says firmly. "Goodbye, Teddy."
He catches her hand, brings it to his lips. "I love you," he breathes.
Dominique draws away. "You can't," she stresses, tears in her eyes.
60.
Nothing has happened; he's never kissed her, but he knows Victoire suspects something, and it's really not fair to her.
"Are you feeling all right?" she asks, sitting at his bedside and combing through his depressingly dark golden hair.
"Fine, Torie," he mumbles, turning away, shame burning inside him. "Just fine."
Victoire's not an idiot, though. She knows him better.
50.
"You were right," Teddy whispers in her ear at the Burrow, during her graduation party. "I'm sorry."
Dominique takes a deep breath. "Yes, I know," she murmurs. "Then this is goodbye."
Victoire's watching him closely, but he doesn't care as he draws Dominique into a hug that lasts too long.
40.
"Did you ever love my sister?" Victoire asks him one night, lying in bed while Dominique's off in Spain, chasing her dreams. "Truly love her?"
Teddy swallows, his arm suddenly cold around her. "I might have. But I don't know."
30.
Dominique appears at their wedding, fingers curled around a bouquet of stargazer lilies sprinkled with dewdrops, radiant in gold.
"You look beautiful," Teddy says sincerely.
She smiles, shining. "Thank you."
20.
At her wedding, he's in crowd, watching her vow herself to somebody else.
She looks gorgeous when she's not his.
10.
Maybe, in the end, supernoves don't explode for a reason.
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