Title: As Time Progresses
Pairing: Victoire/Teddy/Lily
Rating: K+
Summary: Though Victoire has always liked him, it's another girl entirely who has always loved him, unconditionally even. He thinks of Lily, Victoire's much younger cousin, and hates himself for it.
Victoire is beautiful.
Teddy has always felt this way and that's why he kisses her goodbye when she departs for Hogwarts before her seventh year. Victoire is beautiful. He says to himself. You are lucky she likes you. She could have any boy she wants. Any boy at all.
But it's not Victoire who he finds himself thinking about when she's away at Hogwarts. Even after they reunite over Christmas, where they kiss passionately and more, once the New Year comes and goes Teddy finds himself thinking of another girl. For though Victoire has always liked him, it's another girl entirely who has always loved him, unconditionally even. He thinks of Lily, Victoire's much younger cousin, and hates himself for it.
She's just a kid. It's not as if he wants Lily. That would be incredibly strange and wrong. Rather, whenever he finishes kissing Victoire, he thinks of the younger girl who has always worshipped him. Lily caught the two of them kissing on Christmas Eve and ran out of the room, crying. Teddy hates himself whenever he kisses his Victoire for the words he said to the younger girl after chasing after her in an attempt to make things better. Victoire just thought he was being sweet when she overheard him saying, "Oh, Lily, don't worry. I might be with Victoire now but you're my girl."
He can't help but wonder what Lily will be like in ten years. Their age difference won't be so much then. She'll be beautiful with beautiful black hair and a sprinkling of freckles and lovely blue eyes. He falls in love with that Lily while Victoire is away between winter and the end of the school year. This Lily is fictional but he loves her all the same. When he babysits her she moons over him and even asks, "Will you be my first kiss? Not now, but when I'm old enough?"
He makes no guarantees. He'll still be too old for her when she's old enough. Still, Teddy can't help but wonder what will be as time progresses.
