A/N, Well here is the much anticipated fourth chapter of full moons and midnight kisses. Abby has been nagging me for AGES about getting more of this done so I felt I should update soon. I have the holidays now, yay, so I'm hoping to get a load of stuff up on here and possible even some new stories started =O lol so anyway, enjoy =) x
Chapter 4 – Mattresses, Heart to Hearts and The Twins
I walked in to the common room about an hour later, arms laden with food and butter beer that the house elves had all but thrown at me. The sight I was greeted with was one of the most amusing things I have witnessed in my short but thoroughly eventful life. Abby and Daisy were sprawled at the bottom of the girls' dorm stairs underneath a rather sizeable mattress. They had obviously tried to move Vic's mattress from their dorm to mine, it was safe to say they had failed, most spectacularly.
The two of them lay cackling like the witches they are, not even bothering to move the damn thing. Rolling my eyes, I ran up the stairs to drop the food off by my bed and ran back down to help the girls.
It was about 45 minutes later when we finally managed to get the mattress up the stairs of the boys' dormitories and just as Daisy was about to open the door, Vic decided to open it with a bit more enthusiasm than necessary. This sent Daisy tumbling down the stairs bringing Abby, the mattress and myself along with her.
Classes must have finished while we had been attempting to get the mattress upstairs as the common room was full of people laughing and giggling. I wondered how long they had been watching us struggle with the damn thing.
I sighed and pulled myself up out of the heap before grabbing Daisy and Abby by the collars and hauling them out from underneath the mattress as well.
I looked up at Vic and winked at her, she laughed and rolled her eyes, then pulled her wand out and levitated the mattress up the boys' dormitory stairs to beside my bed. I groaned. Why the hell hadn't I thought of that? Oh well, I sighed again, something I was doing more and more lately, and hurried up the stairs, taking them two at a time.
"Why were you trying to get a mattress up here?" she asked me as soon as I was up the staircase. She looked confused and a little upset.
"You move a lot in your sleep, I didn't want to get knocked out by a flailing fist or something" I told her wiith a grin. She frowned.
"I barely move at all in my sleep and you know it. If you didn't want to share the bloody bed with me you could have just told me and I could go back to my dorm. In fact, why don't I just go there now?"
I rolled my eyes and grabbed here arm gently as she started to march around me.
"It was the twins idea. They didn't want everyone to think you are a Harlot or something along those lines" I told her rolling my eyes. She wiped a tear from her cheek and gave me a quick cuddle.
"I will sleep on the mattress" she told me. I was shaking my head before she had finished her sentence.
"No, neither of us are sleeping on the mattress, but no one else knows that. Thanks to our little show with the damn thing everyone believes that one of us will be on the mattress and the other will be in my bed. We can even stuff some pillows under the duvet of the other mattress so the guys in my dorm think you are there, not that any of them will really bother." she laughed.
"Thank you. I have a feeling that I am going to be having nightmares about that little encounter for weeks to come." she whispered, her lips quivering. More tears had started to fall from her eyes and I wished that I could kiss them away but I didn't. It was far too soon and she had just been hurt by some guy. She didn't need another one coming on to her right now.
In stead I took her hand and led her back into the boys dorms and sat her down on the bed. She wrapped her arms around my waist while I stroked her back, trying to calm her down and make her feel better. It was nearly time for dinner but I decided she wasn't well enough to go down to the feast yet, so she could have some more of the food I had brought from the kitchens.
After a while she looked up at me.
"Aren't quidditch trials supposed to be today?" she asked. I shook my head with a smile.
"Nope. I put a notice up in the common room letting everyone know that trials are going to be held on Saturday morning in stead." she smiled and let out a sigh of relief.
I looked down at her questioningly but she just shook her head. I nudged her with my elbow and she sighed.
"Well I want to be on the team again this year. You might have found a better seeker to take my place and I wouldn't have been able to show you how well I have improved over the holidays." she explained.
"There are no other seekers out there quite like you Vic" I told her. She just giggled and lay down on my bed. I looked at her for a moment before she sighed again rolling her eyes. She grabbed my arm and pulled me down behind her. I wrapped by arms around her and smiled, taking in her magnificent smell.
"Teddy?" she said after a while. I grunted in response, too tired to make any other noise.
"What are we?" she asked. I sat up a little.
"I'm Ted and you're Vic." I told her. She couldn't possibly mean what I thought she did could she?
"No I mean, never mind. You are my best friend Teddy, I love you so much. You are the best brother in the world" and with that I settled back down behind her and let her sleep. I tried not to fall asleep but eventually I did.
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I woke up with Victoire wrapped in my arms in front of me. Her light breathing was so cute, I could lie and watch her sleep for the rest of eternity and never get bored. I twisted slightly, trying not to wake Vic as I looked over at the clock on my bedside table. It read 08:00. I sighed, knowing that it was time to get up. I felt a familiar problem developing in my nether regions and decided it would be best for me to go and take a shower before waking Vic up.
VPOV
I woke up and looked over at the clock on Teddy's bed, it read 08:30. I sighed and then realised that Ted no longer had his arms wrapped around my waist. I felt my eyes dampen with irrational tears as questions flew through my head. Had he left after realising he was in bed with this train wreck? Had he got scared waking up with her? Was he repulsed by her being in his bed?
TPOV
I stepped out of the shower and heard Vic crying next door. Panic settled in my stomach as questions started to zoom about me head. Was she confused? Was she upset that she had ended up in mybed last night? Was she angry with me for not waking her up?
I ran out of the bathroom and looked around the boys' dprmitory to see what had upset my angel. She was sitting upright on my bed in tears. I walked over to her.
"Vicky? What's up?" I asked, sitting on my bed, resting one of my hands on shoulder.
"You weren't there when I woke up?" she whispered. "You weren't there!" she cried.
"I didn't mean to hurt you. I just went for a shower honey, I didn't mean to scare you." I pulled her onto my lap and cuddled her to my chest.
She hugged me, and it was then that I noticed our close proximity. She started tracing shapes on my chest as I cooed words of comfort to her.
"You're okay. No one can hurt you. Don't worry"
"Teddy?" she whispered. I looked down at her with questioning eyes.
"Yes, Vic?"
"Thanks for being there." she whispered and kissed my cheek. In years to come I would admit that it was the first time I felt truly exhilarated by being kissed, even if it was just a peck on the cheek. It was from Victoire.
My Victoire.
