A/N: Hello my lovely readers! Introducing Professor Lupin! Teddy is one of my favorite characters, and I always imagined him very close to Lily. Hope you guys will love him as much as I do! I'm sorry for the wait, but I hope you will think it was worth it, cause I do! I am trying my best with the updates, and what keeps me reminded to make time to write are the reviews, favorites and followers!
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It was Easter, and the two-week break from school was normally very welcome, but this year it seemed far too long. It had been three months since they had gotten together, and it had been three days since she last saw him. It was horrid, each night was lonely, cold and way too dark. The darkness had always scared her, ever since the attack, however, the nights had been much easier with him by her side. Although the two of them hadn't really figured out what to call their relationship, nor what to make of it, they weren't very worried. He was all she had, and she wouldn't want to be with anyone else. She was sure he felt the same, since they had spent practically every night together since that one first night they met in the Hogwarts halls.
Lily was sure it was the house which was haunting her. She had never told her parents, but she figured they should just know that they couldn't stay in the house where she had nearly been killed as a child. And she needed him, being away from him for three days was awful, but there was another eleven days to go before she was back at Hogwarts, before she could see him again. She was worried about what would happen in a couple of months, when it was summer, and he was graduating. She would have to stay an entire year at Hogwarts, without him. It seemed bizarre, especially for Lily, who had never been a romantic, nor ever caught up in a serious relationship, to not be able to picture her life without him, after just three months, but that was just the way things were now, different, in a good way. She was sure of it.
On the Friday before Easter, Good Friday, Lily didn't feel very good at all. She wasn't going to see the rest of the family in another two days, and the mansion was way too big for just the four of them. Teddy had moved out a long time ago, but since James had gotten his apartment in the Diagon Alley, it had been particularly empty and quiet in the house. James had always been the troublemaker out of the four of them. Teddy had always been the golden boy, somehow always worried and afraid he didn't fit in, which he did perfectly. Since Albus had been sorted into Slytherin he had been different, calmer, scared even. Lily was sure he was scared of the fact that there was a reason he was in Slytherin, however, he hadn't done half as many mistakes as his older brother.
Perhaps Lily was the odd one out. The only girl, the youngest. In Harry's eyes she would always be his little girl, and he had never forgiven himself for that attack, for not being there. It would've been hard simply being the youngest and the only girl, but after the attack, after the three years in St. Mungos, her parents were more overprotective than any before them, which was probably why she had turned on them. She was nothing like James, the prankster. She was the black sheep, the rebellion. Simply because she wasn't allowed to do anything, she did all the things she couldn't, and sadly, for her parents, they couldn't stop her anymore.
Scorpius had calmed her down, and she couldn't understand how he, the badboy prince of slytherin, would have that effect on her. It seemed as if they completed each other in that way. But now, after a week alone with her parents and Al, an no Scorpius, she was getting frustrated. She took of that Friday night, went to the Diagon Alley and got drunk on fire whiskey, just like any other weekend before she had met him. It had come to the point where she didn't remember why she did it, it had come to that point quite a while ago, and then it just became a bad habit of the frustrated and damaged young witch.
It was not completely unusual for Teddy Lupin to have a drunk redhead banging on his door in the middle of the night. He was her favorite, the only family member she trusted completely. If it weren't for the fact that they had always been best friends, it would've been because of the fact that he was the one who saved her life that night. He was the one who didn't forget her, the one who was there for her. And he was the only one she would talk to, knowing that he wouldn't go to her parents and tell them all about her secrets. He had been her safety net at Hogwarts, well, up until she met Scorpius, the real one.
The tired and battered professor opened the door, certain of what he was going to find in the hallways. Over the last two years Lily had come to him, drunk, sad, broken. Even back when he had still been living with Victoire, she had been there, banging on the door in the middle of the night, not caring what her veela cousin would think of her, nor tell her parents. Teddy didn't really care what Vic thought either, and perhaps that was what had broken up the couple in the end.
"Lilyflower, aren't you getting a bit old for this?" asked the familiar face with the bright turquoise messy hair.
"I'm sorry Teddy, I know I should go home. I just can't. You know I hate that place." The crying young woman, who felt more like a little girl at the moment, threw herself in his arms and felt a whole lot safer than she ever did at home with her parents.
"It's okay, Lily, you're always welcome here. As long as I can let Harry know you're safe?" She nodded, knowing that her parents wouldn't mind as long as she was with Teddy. She was sure that both Harry and Ginny trusted Teddy more than they could ever trust themselves, but she didn't pity them for it. She felt like they deserved that.
"Are you okay? You haven't come to see me at Hogwarts a lot lately? I suppose that's a good thing?" Teddy was always too worried about her, yet not half as overprotective as her parents. But he cared, and he noticed her. He knew when something was wrong, he always knew.
"I'm fine, Hogwarts is better than home, and I miss it.. I miss it so much." Mostly she missed Scorpius, but Lily wasn't sure she could even tell Teddy about him. There would always be tension between the Potters and the Malfoys, normally not the kind that she had with Scorpius.
"Seems like you're missing someone, rather than the place. Please don't tell me it's Lysander.." He always knew. She was stupid to think that she could go see Teddy and he wouldn't figure it all out somehow.
"I swear, it's not Lysander. Never again," she said with a slight laugh. Teddy had always had a problem with the Scamander-twin in Ravenclaw, and Lily had absolutely no idea why, but it was rather amusing.
She didn't tell him anything else, but the fact that she had never felt this way before. She wasn't sure anyone in her family would accept Scorpius, even Teddy who never judged her. Even though Lily knew that it was a huge upcoming problem, it wasn't a problem she had yet, so she ignored it. She couldn't wait to get back to Hogwarts and be happy, safe and in love with Scorpius for as long as she could before they had their entire world on their shoulders.
