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I was so excited about that last chapter that I instantly posted it..
It wasn't edited AT ALL…Sorry I got excited.
Chapter Nine
Never A Truer Word
His world shook. Everything he thought he knew about life, her, himself, fell into heaps of nothing around him. He knew nothing, nothing. And when the shock wore off and her lips began to move beneath his he felt like he was being electrified. Like, lightning had shot down from the clear summer night sky, blasted through the roof and hit him square in the chest.
He released her neck and she pulled back for a second, looking bashful and stunned all at once. He shakily put his hands on her waist and gripped her thin sides, scrunching the fabric of her shirt under them.
"Please don't stop." He barely said, there was far too much breath in his throat.
She smiled hesitantly and scooted closer, positioning her legs on either side of his thighs and pressed her lips against his, he pulled her all the way against him, their kiss getting harder and less tentative. Seriously, his world had stopped spinning. The only thing in it in that minute was her. It never even occurred to him that he was in fact snogging her in a hallway. Somewhere in his consciousness it registered that she was no longer on her knees but completely in his lap, with her legs wrapped around his waist. Stretchy shorts and medi pants left very little protective barriers, he had to remember to thank Ryleigh for stocking him up at the beginning of summer. She kissed him more firmly and he attempted to pull her closer, which was not entirely possible. He groaned slightly under her lips as a very intense need built low in his belly. He wasn't entirely certain he had felt something like this before, and he had been much farther than they were now. His movement elicited a whimper from her that about drove him mad. He pulled back and looked at her, her normally fair cheeks were flushed with color, the whispy fronts of her hair had fallen from the high ponytail and her lips were a dark red, slightly swollen from their intense kiss. He fingered a strand of hair at the nape of her neck before peck kissing her once more.
"We have to stop." He said breathlessly.
"Because we each have a boyfriend or girlfriend?" she asked, disappointment showing in her eyes.
He kissed her again and pulled back, licking his lips, he could taste her kiss still, it lingered of butterbeer and white chocolate. "No, because if we don't I am going to throw you on my bed and never let you leave, and then I will never get ungrounded." He said honestly.
She giggled at the look on his face before kissing him again. This one lasted longer before she released him. He was lightheaded from lack of air when their lips parted, he whined at the space between them.
"How long do you think I would be grounded for?" she asked playfully.
He smiled and ran his fingers from the seam of her shorts to her knees and back, how could her skin be that soft? She shivered at his touch, making a whole new set of wants make themselves known to them both. "Are you trying to kill me? Because if you are, I don't think I care anymore." He said in a deeper than was entirely normal voice. He crashed his lips back into hers, placing a hand behind her head and back and laying her on the floor so he was pressed against her from hip to chest. Another 20 minutes of intense kisses later and Teddy pulled away. Blinking rapidly and shaking his head.
"Really, we have to stop." Victoire echoed his earlier statement.
"We do, we really. Really. Do." He said, scrambling up to his knees and helping her do the same.
They were both panting for breath and said nothing as they stood and she fixed her pony tail. He gripped the hem of her shirt and pulled it down back to below her belly button where if belonged. She grinned in response, it took him a good minute to remove his hand from her waist, before he did he pulled her by her hips back into another mind numbing kiss she stepped back, looking dazed.
"I have really got to get a grip on myself." He muttered, shaking his head, searching for even the smallest amount of self control.
"We need to go to bed." She said suddenly.
"WHAT!" he nearly yelled, until she clapped her hand over his mouth, his eyes were practically bugging out, she was laughing.
"Not like that. It is nearing 3 AM, we need to go to bed…er…to sleep. But I am not sleeping in the same room as Dom, she is a little nightmare right now."
Teddy looked at her appraisingly, "Well, my room is definitely out." He said, a hint of sorrow in his voice.
"You have never spoke a truer word." She said with a smile.
"What if, we pick a new movie and camp in the sitting room with the littles? There is an open sofa." He said.
"Do I get to pick the movie?"
"You can so anything you want to." He said fervently, she laughed and followed him to the sitting room.
"When did your hair go back to normal? And your make up disappear?" she asked, noticing the extremely bright blue hues of his hair, though it did have white blonde tips and his piercing green eyes, with no blue above them.
"I washed the makeup off and took out the bows in the kitchen." He said with a shrug, he angled his eyes upward trying to see the short spikes of hair. "What color is my hair?" he asked curiously.
"Blue and blonde." She said with a grin.
"Were you not even looking at who you were kissing?" he hissed as he sat back into his place on the sofa, throwing one leg along the back as she threw a pillow into his lap and lay down, with her head in it..
"Meh, it was unimportant." She joked, he scowled at her before kissing her temple.
She yawned sleepily, "you think we'll get in trouble for this?" she asked.
"I'll just say you were upset about not going to see Gabrielle." He shrugged.
"You are very stealthy Mr Potter."
"I do try." He said with a smile. "Really Vic, we have watched this thousands of times," he protested as the screen lit up.
"But I love it." She said with a grin.
"Well only will I allow it tonight, seeing as I took advantage of you and all." He said with a wink, she surreptuously leaned up and kissed him.
"Anytime. What are best mates for?"
He laughed, "Not that."
She giggled as he placed his arm gingerly over her waist and settled in to watch The Notebook again.
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"Remind me why we left the hotel so early?" Harry whined as they flooed into the downstairs great room, attempting to not wake the kids with the floo alarm.
"Because while Teddy is a good babysitter, you can't order in breakfast." Ginny said with a grin.
"We have a house elf." Harry reminded her.
"Well, I just don't think he should have to watch them all afternoon." She said, shaking her head as they walked up the stairs.
"He is being punished." Harry said with a shrug.
"Who are you kidding? He doesn't mind watching them one bit, that was a terrible punishment. Add in the unexpected surprise of Victoire, Dom and Louis and we will be lucky if the upstairs is still fully standing." She laughed. She peeked her head into James' room. "Er…our son is missing. Though Louis' bag is in here."
Harry noticed Teddy's door still open and looked inside the empty room. "They can't be up already, it isn't even 7:00." He said as Ginny looked into Al's room and shook her head, telling him it was empty as well.
He gave Lily's room a cursory look, though he didn't expect her to be there. And walked towards the sitting room, as they walked closer they could hear the Telly going. Harry grinned as he recognized the constant repeat of the menu screen on Victoire's favorite movie.
Both he and Ginny walked in the room and looked at the kids around them. Albus was sprawled across the floor, his stuffed snitch gripped in his hand by the wing. He had thrown his blanket off at some point and had it stuffed under his head. Louis was a few feet away, one leg thrown up on the arm of the chair, a blanket covering his stomach and everything else uncovered. James and Lily were both asleep in the huge recliner. Lily was holding onto Louis' foot as if it were a plush bear, her head on James' chest. James had his arm under Lily and his other thrown over his face, as if he was faint, or the nonexistent light was blinding him. Lily had wrapped herself in all of the blanket, leaving her brother uncovered. His faithful dragon was laying on the floor in front of them.
Their eyes found the sofa last, upon which Teddy and Victoire were both asleep. He was sitting, with his head thrown back against the sofa a pillow in his lap. Victoire was curled with her legs wrapped around his that was along the back of the sofa, her arms entwined around his waist, one of his hands lay on her head and the other had slipped to his own leg. Ginny looked at Harry with a concerned expression.
"Maybe she was upset about Gabrielle?" he suggested weakly.
Ginny sighed and walked out of the room, their pose reminding her vividly of her and Harry's own babysitting experience. He flicked his wand at the telly, turning it off. And followed Ginny to their room. They had yet to go to sleep, after the dinner and dance, they had spent the night enjoying each other in their hotel suite and before they knew it, it had been time to come home.
"You know, I was talking to Vic a few weeks ago. She mentioned Having a bit of a crush on a boy other than her boyfriend." Ginny said softly.
Harry looked up at her, "She did, did she?"
"Mhhhmmmm, now mind you, I swore not to tell you, but…She said that his family wouldn't approve. And that he wouldn't feel the same way. You don't think?"
He stood and helped her unzip the back of her dress, kissing the skin there lightly. "I do think. In fact, your son, is rather taken with her too. We talked about it, mind you not in detail, but he mentioned something about it in May."
"And you never told me?" she said sharply, turning to face him.
"Gin, I didn't even know if he was serious, he didn't even know how he felt, just that it was different."
"You don't think that they…last night you know?"
He shook his head. "No, I think that our displeasure with his exploits a few weeks ago would have stopped him. And I don't think either one of them is ready for that. I would bet they only just realized that they felt the same way. I would also bet that they are confused as hell about it."
"Who wouldn't be, I am confused. You know this complicates things…They are best mates, we can't exactly keep them apart. Not to mention they are practically family, they are together all the time."
"I don't think we should keep them apart. I think that we should give them the benefit of the doubt. They have been alone together for years, and Teddy has been interested in girls for at least three of them. If they were going to out and out do something, it would be far too late to stop it now. I trust both of them more than that. Besides, I hardly think they would have returned to the company of their siblings if they had had sex for the first time." He watched her pull on one of his shirts.
"You make a fair point." She said grudgingly. "You need to talk to Bill. This is not something any of us forsaw." She said as she slid into bed.
He climbed in beside her. "They will be fine. You know, you have to let them grow up sometime, and you were in fourth year when you dated Michael."
"That, is what scares me." She said.
"Yeah, well I didn't meet my downfall until you caught me. I was sixteen." He protested.
"Yes, but Victoire is very very much my niece." She mumbled. "And Teddy is very much not only your godson but your son. He acts like you." She said. "He is a goner."
Harry laughed outright. "He is a bit more capable than I ever was. He has more confidence, I assure you of that. He can hold his own."
They heard shuffling and muttering from the hall.
"So much for getting any extra sleep." Ginny sighed, climbing out of bed.
Harry stretched and sat back up.
"Damn kids." He muttered scowling at the door that was opening slowly, Ginny chuckled as a dark head pushed its way through the opening.
"Hey Mum!" came Albus' sleepy voice.
"Hey baby boy. Are you hungry?"
"Mhhhmmm. Lils woke us up. She is demanding eggs. We all know that Teddy is not the greatest of cooks." He said shaking his hair out.
"Let me get dressed and I will be down." Ginny said as Harry walked towards the door and put his hand on his youngest son's head.
"Come on little one, let's go get the others up while we wait for mum." He said, nudging him from the room.
He walked with Al into the sitting room. Louis was sitting up on the floor, rubbing his eyes tiredly. James was sitting, crosslegged in the chair, he appeared to have fallen back to sleep sitting straight up, Lily was no where to be found. He turned to Teddy and Victoire who were both awake, sitting on the sofa leaning against one another. Their eyes were drooping.
"Late night?" Harry asked the pair.
Victoire flushed slightly, making Harry wonder what had actually happened that night.
"No, they were all asleep by their assigned times. Well except for Jamie, I lost track of time while watching Indiana Jones. But he was asleep before 11:00. It was his idea to camp out in here." Teddy said. "I didn't mean to let him stay up, sorry. He was really into the movie, it wasn't his fault, I should have paid closer attention." It was obvious that he was hoping he wasn't going to get in trouble, though he would gladly take the punishment if it kept James out of trouble.
"You want a secret? I never expected Jamie to be in bed on time. He rarely is." Harry said with a wink. As he glanced over at James who had fallen sideways in the chair, and was sound asleep. "Where are Dom and Lils?"
"Lily ran off, something about a ballerina and Dom isn't feeling well, she locked the door to her room and was asleep last I checked. But that was nearly four hours ago."
"You were up until 3:00?" Harry asked, surprised, Teddy wasn't known for being an all nighter, well unless he was teething but that had been years ago. Both Teddy and Victoire nodded their heads. "Was something wrong that you were up so late?" he pried.
"No, we were just talking." Victoire said, it was almost the truth.
"Oh, well I am glad to see you two getting along." Harry said with a nod before being jumped on by a purple tutu clad Lily.
"Daaddddeeee!" she squealed. He picked her up and spun her around. "I'm not mad at Teddy anymore." She said, smiling.
"Is that so?" Harry said, grinning at Teddy over Lily's head.
"Yup, he let me do his hair, and makeup and I painted all of his nails." She said with a nod, Harry glanced at Teddy who was holding up a very blue hand.
"It appears you did his whole hand Lilikins."
She shrugged. "Not my fault he kept wigglin around. Can we have eggs now?"
Harry laughed and headed out of the room. "Only if you promise never to make me let you paint my nails." He said.
