Pairing/Character: Victoire/Teddy

Summary: Victoire would always love the treehouse.

Warning: None

Rating: T

Word Count: 356

366 Prompt: Alone

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: Teddy Lupin - Bonus - Write about Teddy Lupin

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: Speed Drabble - Prompts Used - treehouse, swan, secret

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: January Event - Easy 9. Victoire/Teddy

12 characters in 200 days challenge: 106. Victoire Weasley

Victoire sometimes liked to be alone so she would sneak away to the treehouse that her dad built for her with magic.

It was a safe haven for her and sometimes she would go there in secret. She'd spend all day in there and it would be hours before her parents realized she wasn't in the house any longer.

It used to bother her that they didn't realize it right away due to Dominique and Louis keeping them busy. Victoire used to feel neglected. Now, she felt relief at being left to her own devices.

It allowed her to be alone with her thoughts when she wanted to, and she liked that her parents trusted her to be by herself up there.

She had many good memories involving the treehouse. Her favorite involved Teddy, though.

One day when she was thirteen, Teddy came over to the house. They went up to the treehouse – her dad had magically expanded it so Victoire could still fit inside it – and once they were sitting down, Teddy lifted the stuffed swan. "Didn't know you still liked stuffed animals, Vic," Teddy remarked wryly.

Victoire blushed hotly. "Shut up. I don't still like stuffed animals. This one is just special to me."

Teddy smiled. "Why? Because I gave it to you?"

Victoire's blushed deepened, if that was even possibly. "Maybe," she muttered.

Teddy placed the swan down and leaned closer to Victoire. "I like the fact that it's important to you because I gave it to you."

"Really?" she asked, wonderment in her eyes and voice.

"Really," he answered, leaning forward and pressing his soft lips against hers.

When they pulled away from each other, they looked at each other for a moment before Teddy grabbed the gobstones set. "Want to play?" he asked as if nothing had happened.

Victoire nodded silently.

And that was one of the reasons, even at the age of seventeen, that Victoire still loved the treehouse. Teddy had been her first kiss inside it.

They might have never talked about it, but as they regularly kissed now, it didn't really matter.

Victoire would always love the treehouse.