I am glad so many of you liked the last chapter.
Their reunion was supposed to be next but this popped in my head.
Hope you like it
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Parental Guidance
After sending his four line letter, if you could call it that, he headed to the office where he knew his dad was. It was late but he knew something had been going on in the Auror offices which meant that Harry would still be awake. He knocked lightly on the door so as not to wake the kids.
"It's open." Harry called through the door.
Teddy pushed the heavy door open and walked in, he leaned against the edge of the solid wood desk.
"What are you still doing up son?" he asked, looking up into the tired face of his eldest. Today had been his last day of the summer for the applications and he had assumed that the boy had gone to sleep hours ago.
Teddy shrugged, "I couldn't sleep. What are you doing up?"
"Work." Harry grunted. "Don't worry, your mum will drag me out soon enough, she doesn't like to sleep in our room alone.
The words our room reminded Teddy of a question he had forgotten to ask. "Are you renting out or selling the Hogsmede house?"
Harry looked confused at the question. "No, why would you think that?"
Teddy shrugged as he fiddled with a glass paperweight. "There was furniture in there that wasn't there before, I just wondered why you put it in there."
He glanced up as his dad leant back in his leather chair and flattened his hair, he licked his lips nervously. "You were in the Hogsmede house?"
Suddenly Teddy realized what he had just revealed, he felt his face heat up. "Vic and I stopped in to look around a few months ago, and when we lost the cup I needed to escape the castle." He said, semi truthfully.
He tried to avoid the raised eyebrows of his father, by looking at his fingers. "You just stopped in?"
"You said I could." He justified.
"I did." Harry nodded.
"So, are you renting it out or selling it?" he asked again.
"What is it with our children and ruining their surprises?" came Ginny's voice from the doorway.
Both Harry and Teddy looked up in surprise, Teddy's blush returned and Harry sighed, not exactly sure what was coming. Ginny surprised him as always though when she walked over and kissed Teddy's cheek.
"You might as well go ahead and tell him." She said to Harry, before sitting on the arm of his chair.
"We were going to give you the house for a Birthday present.
Teddy stared at him in surprise. "You got me a house for my birthday?"
"In all fairness, we already owned the house, we are just giving it to you since we don't live there anymore." Ginny said with a grin.
"Why?" he asked dumbfounded.
Harry laughed, "When you graduate you are going to be working a real job, with crazy hours and a lot of demands. You are already of age and soon enough you aren't going to want to be drug into games and things with your siblings. You are going to be tired, and overworked and sometimes I am certain you will just want time to yourself. Not to mention the house is in Hogsmede which means if you are off work on specific weekends you can see Vic. And I always intended for you to have it, the building that was originally there was built specifically for your father. The house that stands in its place is pretty much your birthright. It wouldn't be right for anyone else to have it."
"Didn't you notice that everything in there is in the style of something you would like? I decorated it specifically with you in mind." Ginny said with a smile.
"I knew it wasn't in your taste, and I knew that I liked everything in there but it never occurred to me that it was stuff that I would have picked for my own room." He admitted. "Why the three extra beds?"
"Well, we figured that at some point or another you wouldn't be able to escape the kids and that if you had them all three they should each have a bed. And if Ollie and Tarryn come stay for I don't know a Friday before a Hogsmede Saturday they should each have somewhere to stay." Harry answered.
"So how did you even see the changes?" Ginny astutely asked.
"We were in town for a Saturday and I wanted to change the carving of mine and Vic's name in the tree." He said, remembering the time before last when he had added a set of initials with a heart around it. "I tried the knob and it opened." In all truthfulness, that had happened, however, that particular time had been before the addition of the new furniture.
She nodded and smiled. "It is getting late, are you two planning on going to bed tonight?"
"Yeah, but I have a question first." He said.
"Shoot." His father replied.
"I want to go to France for the two days before we leave for the trip. I want to see Vic. I can leave and get there around three and then come home by five the next night."
Ginny nodded, "I can call Bill and let him know. I am sure they would be fine with you staying there."
He ruffled his hair, it was slowly streaking with red the longer they talked.
"Do you remember when we stayed over there when you and Vic were little?" Harry asked.
Teddy nodded.
"Those cabins were cool that we stayed in. I am pretty sure that I could floo him tomorrow and get you one of them for two days. That way you wouldn't have to worry about inconveniencing Fleur's mum."
"I liked those cabins." Ginny said wistfully.
"I think it would be easier for you to stay there and then just go over to Vic's family's from there."
"You think Uncle Bill would let me take her on a date?" he asked suddenly.
Both Ginny and Harry's eyes snapped on to him. He had dated a couple of girls, he had gone to Hogsmede with several that either of them knew of, but he had never taken one on a date outside of Hogwarts, it wasn't something Teddy had ever shown a real desire to do, he had never been serious enough with a girl to want to do that.
"We have been dating for months and I have yet to take her on a real date. And seeing as apparently Jean-Luc (he narrowed his eyes in distaste) has been gallivanting all over Paris and going to beach parties with her, I would really like to do that."
"Jean-Luc?" Harry asked.
"Is he that one little boy that was always so adorable when we visited with Bill while they were there?" Ginny asked.
"Mum, classifying the boy that is trying to steal my girlfriend away as adorable is not helping." He grumbled.
"I hardly doubt he is trying to steal your girlfriend, and I know that you have nothing to worry about." His dad said with a smile.
Ginny stood and pulled her son into a hug, running her fingers through his pale silvery blue, pink streaked hair. "While I know you don't have to worry about, your father can't say anything. Ask him about Dean one day and see what he tells you." She said with a smirk.
"That is hardly the same." Harry protested. "You dated the guy for nearly a year, I SAW you snog him, and you were hanging out nonstop."
"Yes, to try out for your quidditch team if I remember correctly. And the previous time we hadn't been hanging out, we had been in hiding together while you were off gallivanting across the known world."
Harry snorted in response "Glad to know that seventeen years later the journey that resulted in defeating Riddle has been termed "Gallivanting" because it was so much fun. And in my defense, I was a prat back then, I was only seventeen."
"Soooo my age then?" Teddy said with a frown.
"Precisely, so don't act a prat and make your girlfriend mad." Ginny said with a grin.
"Or just keep your trap shut and don't tell her you are jealous." Harry's statement was met with a playful punch in the arm from his wife.
"Too late for that." Teddy grumbled.
"You told her?" Harry groaned, Ginny frowned slightly.
"I don't see how she expects me not to be, she is hundreds of miles away, I haven't seen her in nearly six weeks, she is going to all these places with him, with another couple, and she is prancing around in a bikini on a beach. How can I not be jealous of that?"
"Please, Merlin tell me you did not accuse her of prancing in a bikini." Ginny muttered, shaking her head, Harry laughed heartily.
Teddy held his hands up "What? She does, you have seen her in swimwear. She does prance, and I love that about her, but not when I am not with her and another bloke is. She does prance."
"Oh sodding hell." Ginny kissed Harry and then kissed Teddy on the cheek. "You won't be in bed for a while, deal with your thickheaded son." She said before pulling the door softly closed.
"Oh son." Harry muttered before pointing to a chair. "Sit." Teddy obliged, solemn faced. "I would recommend in the future, never telling your girlfriend that she is prancing in anything, especially in front of other guys. And despite what your mother says, don't tell her you are jealous. Don't even elude to it, they get all up in arms about you don't trust them and it will always turn into an argument. Just pretend that you aren't jealous, trust me. There have been far more times than with Dean, I just learned from that one time to keep my mouth shut."
"What do I do?" he asked miserably. "She can't be mad, I mean I was only being honest."
"I think your situation is going to save you here. When she sees you I think she will be so excited that she will forget about being angry, just make sure that while you are on your date to apologize for being jealous and tell her that you trust her, you just missed being with her."
"I need a really good date." He mumbled.
"That son, you do." Harry agreed
