Ha, I've finally thought of another thing to do, and this actually has something to do with Tonks...about time too. Oh, another thing in this story that I haven't done yet is it's not Teddy that has a serious problem in this, it's Victoire. Teddy's the one trying to help her...while annoying the heck out of her.
Victoire and Teddy haven't had very many opportunities to be with each other since Victoire had started going to school. So any chance they got they spent it together, because they were still going out, after all. One such chance came during Spring break two years after she started school. The two of them had been planning to do this for a while, neither of them was expecting that Victoire would be too busy.
So Teddy was surprised when he couldn't find Victoire anywhere. True, he didn't look very many places, but her school was big, he didn't want to look everywhere. So Teddy settled with just sitting outside, hoping that Victoire would just walk by this way. A few minutes later one of Victoire's friends notices Teddy, and she recognizes him from the last time he visited. It's sort of hard to forget a handsome boy with turquoise hair. Victoire's friend, Maria, goes over to Teddy.
"You looking for Vicky?" Maria asks. Teddy looks up and smiles.
"Yeah, but I have no idea where she is." He answers.
"I can help you with that." Maria says. "Follow me." She then walks off and heads back inside the school with Teddy following close behind her. The two of them walked down many hallways until finally Maria stopped and gestured to a door.
"She's in there." Maria says, "But I should warn you, she's not in the best of moods."
"I think I can handle it." Teddy says, opening the door and stepping into the room. Victoire was indeed inside this room, with her back to the door, working on something. And she was in a terrible mood.
"I thought I said I wanted to be left alone." Victoire says when she hears the door open, not even bothering to look at who had come in.
"Sorry, I didn't get the memo." Teddy says. Victoire turns around at the sound of his voice.
"Oh, it's you." She says, "I'm sorry Teddy, but I'm too busy today, we'll have to do this some other time."
"What are you busy doing?" Teddy asks, stepping further into the room. The room was small, and seemed to be a studio or sorts. There wasn't much furniture in there, yet Teddy still managed to hit his leg hard on a table.
"Schoolwork." Victoire answers.
"I thought you said that you were done with your schoolwork." Teddy says, rubbing his now bruised leg. "You only said it a few days ago."
"I know," Victoire says, frustration edging in her voice, "And I was done, but I got one assignment back, and it was a lower score than I was expecting, so I've been trying to fix it, to do it better, but I'm not sure how."
"Well, maybe I can help you." Teddy says. Victoire laughs coldly.
"Yeah, because you are such an expert at this sort of thing." She says, rolling her eyes.
"Who knows, maybe I am." Teddy says. "If you tell me what the assignment was than maybe I can help you." Victoire looked doubtful, but she grabbed a paper from off the desk and hands it to him. On the paper was a drawing of a cute summer dress.
"The assignment is quite simple," Victoire says, "We just had to design a simple summer dress, which I did, that's the drawing that I turned in."
Teddy looked at the drawing for a second, turning it this way and that before saying "It's...nice, but where are the colors?"
Victoire groans in frustration. "That's exactly what my teacher said. I kept it white on purpose, I can't think of any other color that would work."
"White is a nice color," Teddy assures her quickly, "The design just doesn't look good as white."
"I'm not going to design a whole new dress." Victoire snaps, snatching her drawing back.
"Then just keep this design and add some color." Teddy says, leaning against a desk and putting his hands down on it. The desk though had papers all over it and he accidently pushed a bunch of them off the desk onto the floor. He rushes to pick them all up. Victoire sighs and stoops down to help pick up the scattered paper.
"Sorry." Teddy mutters, "What score did you get on this anyways?"
"Ninety percent." Victoire says, "I want to get at least ninety five." Teddy chuckles and stands up. She was sure getting upset over a whole bunch of nothing. Victoire glares at him and shoves the papers she picked up into his chest. She didn't push him very hard, but he lost his footing and ended up tripping and hitting his head on a desk. Victoire ignores him and walks back to where she was sitting before. She didn't care if she was being a perfectionist, it's how she always was, and she couldn't just stop wanting things to be just right.
Teddy got up from the floor and sneaks up behind Victoire. He quickly grabs her drawing from her so he could look at it again. She tried in vain to get the paper back from him, but he was taller than her and could very easily keep the paper out of her reach. Teddy just looked at the drawing of the dress, muttering to himself and completely ignoring Victoire.
"Well, it's a summer dress, so a lighter color would be best and most comfortable." Teddy mutters, "Nothing too bright or bold. Maybe a sky blue." As he said this his hair turned from turquoise to sky blue. He named a few different colors, with his hair changing with each new color, after another minute it goes back to the sky blue. "Yes, I think this color is it." Teddy then hands the paper back to Victoire and says "Make a copy of this."
"Uhm, okay." Victoire says. She turns to leave the room, to make a copy using a copy machine like muggles do, but Teddy snatches the drawing back again.
"Where are you going?" Teddy asks, "You don't have to go anywhere, you're a witch, use your wand."
"I can't use magic here." Victoire says, her voice naturally becoming quieter when she mentioned magic. "This is a muggle school."
"No one else is in here." Teddy says, getting his wand out to do it himself.
"Edward Lupin put your wand away, we're not supposed to use magic here." Victoire shouts. Teddy glares darkly at her, his hair turning a dark red.
"Don't call me Edward." He says, "It's Teddy, if you really want to stretch it then call me Ted if you want, but don't call me Edward...Ever." Teddy makes a copy of the drawing with his magic, then hands the original back to her. He takes the copy and points his wand at it, doing a spell of sorts on it. After he's done he grins, satisfied, and shows the copy to her. It looked just the same, except it was a baby blue color, and the color really went well with the design.
"It's...cute." Victoire says, she looks at her boyfriend in shock. "How did you know what color to use?"
"Duh," Teddy says, gesturing to his hair, which was now a sandy brown color with blue streaks in it. His favorite color for his hair to be. He really loved the color blue, he thought that blue makes everything better. "I'm a metamorphmagus," Teddy reminds Victoire, "Have been for twenty years now, I've sort of learned what colors look good when and stuff like that."
"Right, I didn't think of that." Victoire says. "Well the dress looks good, but I think it's missing something." She thinks for a second before sitting down and saying "Can you get me one of those pencils over there?"
Teddy nods enthusiastically and goes to get one of the pencils sitting on the desk, but ends up knocking over the whole pencil container.
"Oops," He says, handing the pencil to Victoire before going to pick up the others. Vicky laughs and turns to the drawing and starts adding something to it.
"Why do you keep doing that?" She asks as she draws.
"Doing what?" Teddy asks, putting the pencils back in the container.
"You keep running into things and knocking them over, you weren't always like that." Vicky replies.
"Actually, I've always been like that." Teddy says, "I'm really, really clumsy, especially when I'm inside and there's things to knock over. I'm much better outside, which is part of the reason that I like to be outside a lot. Have you seriously not noticed that I'm clumsy?" Teddy asks with a laugh.
"I guess not." Victoire laughs as well. She finishes with the dress and shows it to Teddy. She'd just added a white sash to it but it really finished the simple dress.
"Very nice." Teddy says.
"I know." Victoire replies. "I'm going to go show this to my teacher, then we can do something, like we were wanting to from the start."
"Sounds like a good idea." Teddy says, following Victoire out of the room.
Alright, not my best of chapters, and we're nearing the end of the story and I only now just decide that Teddy's clumsy? I really should have thought that out. Oh well. And yes, you read right, we are nearing the end. One of two more chapters after this and it shall be officially finished, I know, I never thought I'd actually finish this story. Anyways, please review if you liked it, or if you didn't like it.