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Chapter Seven

Words From the Wise

"So explain to me why you can kiss her goodbye in front of me but I can't kiss Gavin in front of you." Victoire said, irritation outright as she maneuvered behind him.

Teddy grabbed the handle of Roxxy's trunk and sat it on top of his own, pulling them both behind him while he let Roxxy go ahead.

"Because I am not ripping her clothes off of her every time we kiss. Well I have never actually touched her clothes when we kissed yet…but that isn't the point." He said as he followed his little cousin from the train.

"He does not rip my clothes off every time we kiss." She scoffed.

"Does too." Came Dom's voice from behind her, to which Victoire shoved her into the wall. "I wasn't asking you." She growled at her little sister.

"Whatever." Dom said, flipping her short strawberry blonde hair over her shoulder.

Teddy smiled at her, he had quite grown to like Dominique over the last couple of years. She was far less prissy than Vic was and as snappy as Victoire could be, Dom was right on her level, and did not hesitate to tell someone what she thought. Uncle Bill had said it was a side effect of mixing the Weasley hotheadedness with veela blood. He thought that in either incarnation, Victoire or Dominique, the blend was awesome. Though right now he wanted nothing more than to shake some sense into his best friend. He glanced back with a cheeky grin at Victoire.

"I thought this topic was off limits?" he said as he struggled to remove the chests from the train until Lysander showed up to help him.

"It is." She grumbled in response.

They made their way over to their parents, where James, Albus and Lily were all practically bouncing with excitement. Well, Lily was actually bouncing and took no time in throwing herself into Teddy's waist, he sat the trunks down and lifted her into his arms and spun in a circle.

"Hey Princess Potter, and how is my favorite girl today?" he said, kissing her cheek.

"I'm good. I am so happy you are home!" she hugged his neck tightly.

"You know Lils, you aren't the only one that missed him." Al said, arms crossed at his chest.

"Why don't we let Teddy get home before you all maul him?" Harry said with a grin.

"That would be great." Teddy said before sitting Lily down.

He glanced over to where James was hugging Victoire and telling her about his junior quidditch league.

"Oi! Jamie!" he called. James waived to his oldest cousin and ran to Teddy's side. "Bye Vic!" he called with a wave.

"See you in a few days!" she yelled as she hugged her mum.

Teddy followed Ginny from the station as Harry slowed to walk beside him. "You two seem alright again." He said lightly.

"Yeah, we just try not to mention the boyfriend, girlfriend, subject." Teddy said with a shrug. "Though more the boyfriend subject, she doesn't hate my girlfriend like I do Gavin. She was pretty mad about the bet to get him knocked from his broom in that last match though." He shook his head, remembering the aftermath.

"Your girlfriend huh? Anyone I would know?" Harry asked, he could tell from Ginny's posture that she was listening in.

"Yeah, Rhyan, you know the one that caught the snitch."

"WHAT!" Harry practically yelled.

"The real snitch dad. You know in the match." He said with a smirk.

"Oh…Ohhh right. Rhyan, Gwen's daughter." He said, smirking at Ginny's stiff back.

"That would be the one." Teddy replied as they loaded into Harry's black SUV that they used for muggle London, and drove home.

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They were a week into break when Victoire flooed into the manor.

"Hey Vic!" cried James, Fred, Albus and Parker. It was a rainy day and they were playing with James' miniature quidditch figurines.

"Where is Teddy?" she asked, he was usually playing around with the boys during the summer.

"No idea, that girl is here, and they didn't want to play." Al said, looking put out.

"That girl?" she asked, glancing at the stairs and then back to her younger cousins.

"Yeah the pretty one with dark hair. When I asked if she was Teddy's girlfriend he got all pissy and knocked me upside the head." James said with a frown.

"James Sirius watch that mouth or I am going to knock you upside your head!" Ginny said as she entered the room from the back hall.

"Hi Victoire, are you here to see Teddy?" she asked, wiping her hands on her jeans.

"Uhm, well, I, what is Lily doing?" she asked, masking her disappointment.

"Hmmm she is around here sulking, Teddy wouldn't let her stay in the sitting room with him so she is puttering about in the garden I think."

"Why wouldn't he let her in there?' Victoire asked, it was unlike Teddy to shoo Lily away, the boys yes, Lily, no.

"Would you want your little sister hanging around if you brought your boyfriend home?" Ginny asked.

"Well no, but Teddy doesn't snog with her like I do with Gavin." She said, her mouth running away with her.

"Is that so?" Ginny said with a frown. "I don't know whether or not I should be thankful for that or not. Why don't you come sit and have tea with your Aunt? It has been a long time since we had a girl afternoon just the two of us. You know, first born Weasley daughter with first born Weasley granddaughter?" she said.

Victoire smiled and nodded. "Can it be far away from Ted and his girlfriend?" she said with a bitter tone.

"I think we can manage that." Ginny said, looking puzzled.

"Alright then. But if Lils comes along she can join us. I don't want her to feel excluded."

Ginny smiled and pulled her long deeply red hair from her face. "Good, I don't know how much more she can take, I tried to play with her but she wasn't having it. I even offered to bring Rose and Hugo by, it was a no go."

"Well, Teddy never ignores her, ever, it is hard for her. I can understand that." She said softly as they entered the Veranda and Ginny summoned a tea set up from the kitchen.

"You can, can you?"

She nodded. "Yeah, he is different with this girl than others. With the other ones he only wanted them for…well….uhm….well he didn't spend so much time with them. He didn't seem to care about them honestly."

Ginny was trying her best not to look disapproving, trying to be the confidant aunt rather than the mother of the boy she was talking about.

"But you have a boyfriend Vic, Gavin, right?"

"Yeah." Victoire sighed.

"You don't sound overly thrilled about him." Ginny surmised, watching her niece twirl a piece of her silvery blonde hair, the only one of Bill's kids to get the purely blonde locks.

"I am, really I am. It is just, he never wants to do anything but snog. And are you sure you aren't going to go tell my dad or uncle Harry? Or Teddy?" she added as an afterthought.

Ginny thought for a moment. Could she really promise her niece that? "Unless he is hurting you, I will not say a word."

Victoire nodded and lay her head on her arms. "He wants to have sex. I don't think I want to. I mean I do want to, like it feels like I want to, but I am scared. And Teddy would be so mad." She whispered.

"Well. If you are scared, then you aren't ready. When you are ready there will be no fear. Nerves, hell yeah, but fear? None at all. And, as much as I, as your loving and devoted Aunt and Godmother, want you to wait, you should not pin your decision on what Teddy is going to think about it. Or anyone else for that matter."

Victoire looked at her, stunned.

"Look Vic, and for just a second let's pretend I am not your aunt, alright?"

"Alright." Victoire said, slowly.

"I waited until marriage. And I do not regret it. But at the time, I only did it because that is what your uncle wanted. And he only wanted it because he didn't want to disappoint anyone. He wanted to leave no room for someone to be angry with him. Like I said, neither of us regret the decision, but sometime I think, at that time, we were both ready. Please don't tell your father I said that though."

Victoire nodded her head, deep in thought.

"Why are you scared? Not that I want you to do it, I just want to know."

"I am scared that it is going to hurt." She said quietly.

"It will, a bit, but only at first."

"I am scared for someone to see me completely naked." She admitted.

"Understandable, and commendable, but I was under the impression you had been fairly open with him already?"

"Well, only to a point, my knickers have stayed on though, well mostly." She said with a blush.

Ginny nodded slightly.

"Well, once you are ready, you won't even think about it much ahead of time. You won't even really notice it much. But I can promise you Vic, you are a beautiful little girl, you have nothing to worry about or be ashamed of."

"I am not a little girl Aunt Ginny."

Ginny sighed, "No I suppose you aren't, are you?"

"Nope." She replied, she seemed to waver for a moment on what she wanted to say. "I am afraid if I say yes he will tell everyone or break up with me, or even both." She practically whispered.

"First, while I can understand not wanting everyone and their brother to know, would you be ashamed if you did sleep with him?"

"I-I think so. It feels like I would be."

"Then he isn't the one. Nor is he the one if you even worry that he would tell someone. And especially not if you are afraid he would leave once you do take that step. It isn't a natural progression of a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship Vic. It is a natural progression of being in love with someone sweety. Do you love him?"

"I thought I did." She muttered.

"But you don't anymore?"

"I-I don't know, I didn't know I could like someone else…It never even really occurred to me until recently and it, it should feel wrong, really wrong that I like this other person, even if I didn't have a boyfriend it should feel wrong…I just can't make it feel wrong." She said, panic in her eyes.

"This other guy, he isn't a Slytherin or something is he?"

Victoire gave a watery laugh, pushing her tears off her cheeks. "Definitely not."

"Well…you do understand that if you have feelings for someone else you should tell him, and not lead Gavin on."

"But I can't be with the person that I might like, besides I don't even know that I like him. I might just be being a spoilt brat. I do like Gavin, if I didn't I wouldn't be afraid he was going to break up with me for not sleeping with him."

"Wait-Wait. You are afraid he is going to break up with you for NOT sleeping with him?"

"Well…Kind of. He sort of asked if he was just wasting his time a few times." She muttered, squirming in her seat, she looked down at her hands when Ginny's face went red.

"Victoire, that-that-that is reprehensible."

"I don't think he meant it though. It was my fault, I kind of let him go farther than I had before, I wasn't even really comfortable with that but…"

"You didn't want him to break up with you." Ginny finished.

"Right."

Sensing Victoire's defense on the subject she switched. "Why can't you be with this other boy? If you decided you like him that is."

"His family would not approve. And he would fall over off his broomstick if I told him that, he would think I had gone mad!" She spluttered, getting nervous with even the idea of it.

"So he is a flyer huh? Would Teddy know who this mystery guy is?"

Victoire nearly fell off her seat. "NO! And don't ask him! I haven't told anyone, I wouldn't want to hurt Gavin like that. And Teddy has enough against Gavin, I wouldn't want to give him more ammunition. Be glad that he didn't kill him when Gavin insulted Remus and Uncle Harry. I thought Teddy was going to blow up."

"He insulted Teddy's father? Both of them?" Ginny said, her mouth in a straight line.

"I yelled at him for it, we talked. He apologized to Teddy, he told me he did. He was just mad because Teddy was in our business, and stopped a good snogging session."

"He gets upset about snogging and sex a good bit it seems." Ginny said wryly.

"You have no idea." Victoire mumbled.

"Vicky! Vicky!" came Lily's voice, running into the bright room.

"Hey little girl. What are you into today?" she smiled at her youngest cousin.

"Nothing. I was going to play pretty witch with Teddy but he has this cow in his room." She scathed.

"LILY LUNA POTTER!" Ginny said, horrified, Victoire laughed hysterically.

"I will play pretty witch with you. I am actually a witch after all."

Lily's face brightened as she took Vic's hand and pulled her from the Veranda, Ginny stopped them before they could get too far.

"Lily, did you say he has her in his room?" Ginny said quickly, her eyes wide.

"Mmmhhhmmm. That is where they were a few minutes ago." Lily sang as she drug Vic towards the stairs.