A/N: Hey everyone, here's the next chapter, I hope you like! Also, I want to wish everyone in my home country of Canada a happy long weekend!

Summary: The last time we saw Vic and Teddy was before the Benjamin finding out about being the baby daddy chapter. So when we last saw out main characters they had decided to team up with the muggle archaeologists to work on decoding the runes (Teddy and Nathan mostly working with them), Victoire had written letters back to England explaining that she needed help from the Rune teacher at Hogwarts, there was some Teddy/Vic fluffiness (and we found out that according to Vic, Teddy unconsciously morphs in his sleep), and Tasha made Victoire feel bad about Teddy not proposing.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or anything that looks like JKR's. Everything else however, is mine, including Hayden and unfortunately Tasha.


Late Night Rendezvous

Wednesday April 13th, 2022

"Looking for something specific Vic?" Hayden asked her, his pleasant tone belaying the urgency with which Victoire was presently searching through the mail sack.

The person in charge of the mail had walked by their lunch table just moments ago to give Tasha a letter, and after Victoire's inquiry of mail for Victoria Langlais ending in a negative, she simply took the mail sac from the surprised young man's hand and started rummaging through it herself. Only after Victoire had been able to personally establish that there was no mail did she hand the sac back to the young man with a small word of apology.

Tasha and Caitlyn stared at her like she was crazy, well crazier than normal. But it was Hayden who finally asked, again, what she was doing.

"I was looking to see if there were any letters from my family," Victoire said casually as she went back to eating the chicken casserole that they had been served for lunch.

"And you didn't believe the mail boy because?" Caitlyn asked. Over the past few weeks, Victoire and O.A.R.s number one and two had reached a silent agreement. They only spoke to each other when it was absolutely necessary, and Victoire and Tasha never even pretended to be friendly. While Victoire had no reason to hate Caitlyn, the other woman mostly kept clear of her and stuck to Tasha's side, except in the instances when she became too curious about what Victoire was doing and would finally ask her questions.

"It wasn't that I didn't believe him, it was more that I didn't want to believe him. I got letters from . . . my other sources a few days ago but still haven't received any from my family," Victoire said a little sadly.

Hayden put down his fork, having just finished lunch, and reminded Victoire, "The other letters from your friends higher up were sent by express."

"I guess," Victoire replied placing her own fork down.

Tasha grabbed her plate and stood up, Caitlyn following her lead, "Well now that we're done attending Victoria's pity party, perhaps we should get back to doing actual work."

Hayden rolled his eyes and opened his mouth to say something biting, but Victoire placed her hand on top of his and shook her head. They grabbed their own mostly empty plates, vanished them away to be washed, and followed Tasha and Caitlyn out of the mess tent and back to the cursebreakers research tent. It looked the same as it did when they left it, the large round table covered in books, photographs, parchment paper, and quills. Carved out in the mess of research tools were four specific workstations.

Victoire had gotten letters back from Kingsley and Professor Rydal a few days ago, and with Professor Rydal's letter came papers, a few textbooks, and instructions on how to decode the runes. The textbooks were filled with information on a language that was closest to the one they were decoding, and most of the papers were her version of a half-finished English to rune dictionary that would directly help them with decoding.

Ever since getting their new materials they had been working around the clock trying to decode the runes. Tasha and Caitlyn grudgingly allowed Victoire to help them as Teddy and Nathan were still spending the majority of their days working at the muggle camp. When they were spreading out their translating materials, Victoire noticed that several of the sheets were written in a different handwriting. She looked at the backs of them and noticed that they all had names of current Hogwarts students written on them. It was then that Victoire remembered that Eliza Parker had mentioned something about Professor Rydal giving extra credit to students who were able to translate a new rune, and have good reasoning for why they thought the translation was correct. Victoire mused that the students' papers who Professor Rydal sent to her must have correctly decoded the runes.

With her mind still on that thought, she flipped through the papers until she found one with handwriting she recognized. She looked at the back, and sure enough, Eliza Parker had neatly written her name in the top left-hand corner. Looking at the girl's handwriting made Victoire wish again that she had received letters from her family and friends. She was dying to know about Eliza's condition, and how she and the fetus were fairing.

Tasha and Cailyn settled back into their spots at the table and began discussing how much translating work they were able to get done during the past few days.

"And we would all still be sitting around having trouble decoding this if it weren't for Victoire," Hayden reminded them airily as he flipped open a textbook.

Tasha and Caitlyn scowled at him while Victoire sighed and looked back to the work she had started decoding. The two real cursebreakers were working on a more complex translation while Victoire and Hayden were doing more of a literal word-for-word decoding. Their work took longer and had less breakthroughs as they spent a lot more time flipping through photographs and comparing the shape of the runes. Caitlyn didn't trust Victoire or Hayden with any of the artifacts they found, so it was also harder to work off of just the photos they had of the jars and sarcophagi.

There was so much work to do that it really should have been all hands on deck. However, Nathan and Teddy were still working with the muggle archeologists, and still pretending that they hadn't made any breakthroughs in decoding much to Victoire's vexation, and they were spending pretty much most of their days there.

Victoire was flipping through the photos and the sheets of already decoded words when she realized that three of the words that they had been able to decode, that were spelt similarly, looked a little alike. She grabbed some sheets that the Hogwarts students had already translated and compared the sheets. Victoire found a similar pattern in those sheets with some different words which were spelt with some of the same letters. As she flipped through the sheets she came across the one that had Eliza's name written on it. She absently rubbed her fingers on the sheet and noticed that it was thicker than the others. Her curiosity was stoked and she found that there was another sheet stuck to the first one. The sheet at the back was covered in a very cramped version of Eliza's writing, and as far as Victoire could tell it was her scrap sheet that she was using as she decoded the runes. There were several spots with large splotches of ink, and she figured that they were why the sheet had stuck to the one on top of it.

As she looked at the sheet, she realized that Eliza had found a rhythm to her own translating work. She had noticed Eliza found her own similarities between words and that she had even started her own rough version of a phonological alphabet where several of the sounds related to a specific shape or stroke within the rune symbols. Victoire took Eliza's rough work and compared it to a photo of some runes that they had already translated. She found that she could almost predict what the word might look like with the phonetic alphabet and started to work on some untranslated runes that she knew Tasha was specifically working on decoding.

After a half hour of furious scribbling Victoire asked Tasha if she had made any headway in translating the runes from her list. Tasha gave her a contemptuous look but moved through her papers to find a page of her work for Victoire to look at. Before she could hand it over Victoire handed over her own sheet of translated runes. Tasha glanced at the sheet in surprise.

"Okay, I'll bite, how did you translate these runes in less than the day it took me to do it?" Tasha asked, her fingers skimming the runes and corresponding English translation.

"With a little help from a friend."

Tasha, Caitlyn, and even Hayden all eyed her with suspicion.

"One of the Hogwarts students had already started work on a phonetic alphabet," Victoire explained.

"How could he do that?" Caitlyn asked, "They had no information about what civilization this was from, let alone how the spoken language might have sounded."

Victoire shrugged and glanced at the sheet of Eliza's work, "It seems she compared it to a language of runes that have already been translated from this area. She started with the basis that the spoken words probably sounded the same, but that the runes themselves were written and spelt differently depending on what kind of accent the people might have had."

"How could he have figured all of that out?" Tasha questioned.

"Hard work and perhaps some trial and error, she is a Ravenclaw after all," Victoire said pointing to the back of the sheet where Eliza's name was written.

Tasha took the sheet from her and glanced it over; even she couldn't hide the impressed look that came over her face. Caitlyn peeked at it herself and whistled lowly.

"This might be the break we need."

"We'll need to adjust this of course to make it more in line with the work us actual cursebreakers have done," Tasha said picking up her wand and making duplicates of the sheet of Eliza's rough work.

"Of course," Victoire replied with an eye roll while Hayden not-so-secretly mimed strangling one of them.

Victoire had decided to go back to trying to decode the runes from her pile of photographs when one of the other aurors in the camp, the one who was pretending to be one of Sir's assistants, came running into their tent.

"Vic you need to get to the med-tent right away," He told her a little breathlessly.

Victoire nodded and stood up. She left the others with just a small word of goodbye and sprinted to the med-tent while the auror went back to wherever he was supposed to be.

She had just gotten her white doctor-like lab coat on when Sir came hobbling into the room with a different assistant helping him on his right. The assistant moved him onto the examination table and then got lost before Sir could tell him to.

"So what's the problem here?" Victoire asked in her professional voice.

Sir gave her a wide smile and leaned back on his arms, "Why don't you tell me? Is that not your job?"

Victoire never really knew how to take the middle-aged man, he was either joking or being serious, and it was very difficult to tell. She figured mirroring his expression would be her best bet, so she placed a small smile on her lips. He came in limping so there was obviously something wrong with his leg, most specifically the one on the right where he needed someone to help keep him up.

She bent down and started casting some simple diagnostic spells, with her wand in hand.

"How are you liking your time here?" Sir asked her as he watched her wrist twist, flick, and swirl.

Victoire did not look up but answered casually, "It's been very interesting, I never thought I'd end up working in a place as distant and foreign as this when I signed up."

"So you're enjoying it, that's nice to hear. Are you feeling homesick at all?" Sir asked her.

Victoire stopped moving her want, "You twisted your ankle."

"That I did," Sir replied as she started to cast a swelling-reduction spell, "Homesickness?"

"A little, I haven't been far from home before except for school, but that was of course in the same country."

"Yes, is there anyone in particular you're missing?"

Victoire looked up at him shrewdly, as she cast a slight pain-relieving spell, "I miss my older sister."

"Anyone else? I mean a woman like you must have a special young man back home," Sir said a look on his face that Victoire couldn't place.

She cast the final healing charm and got back to her feet, "A woman like me?"

Sir waved off her comment, "A lovely and intelligent young woman like you."

Victoire schooled her features and spoke carefully while trying not to sound like she was, "There is a man."

"Is it serious?" Sir asked an interested, but not suspicious, look on his face. He looked like he was sizing her up the same way she was sizing him up.

"No, if it was I probably wouldn't have left to come here."

Sir nodded approvingly, "I figured you weren't too attached, I've seen how well you and Ayden get along."

Victoire tried her best to force a blush and looked down at her feet, "I might have a thing for men who have a good sense of humour."

She had no idea why he was suddenly smirking but she hoped that she had passed his test and that he believed her. Although she had sworn off all fake romances after the disastrous fake-date with Chris Mullins to the Yule Ball in her seventh-year, a fake romance with Hayden might end up being helpful in the future.

"It's a good thing," Sir said breaking into her reverie, "That Ayden is more your type. Nathan would be far too serious for you and Eddy has a girl back home that he goes on and on about so much that he bores all of the other cursebreakers to tears when he speaks about her."

Victoire tilted her head to the side, pretending to be intrigued because Sir seemed very excited to impart her with this knowledge, "I've heard, trust me. He makes her seem larger than life."

"He's in love," Sir said with a shrug.

Victoire bit the inside of her cheek to hide a smile.

"Or," Sir continued, "He seems to believe he is."

"You don't believe him?"

Sir seemed to think seriously on what he was about to say, "He's been here for a while, it's very possible that he's just romanticising how he remembers her to be. No doubt when he gets back they'll be back to arguing and yelling at each other and doing all the things normal, usually passive-aggressive, couples do."

"And what if he wants that type of normal relationship?"

"A normal relationship will lose its appeal after a few months if not weeks. A man like him who goes away from work so frequently won't be able to handle a mostly long-distance relationship for long," Sir told her.

Victoire avoided asking what made him think that he was qualified enough to hand out random relationship advice and just nodded her head, "I'm sure that Eddy would appreciate any advice you have for him. We're done here."

Sir gave her a scrutinizing look before jumping off the examination table and leaving the med tent without even a word of goodbye. With him gone, Victoire started to manually disinfect the examination table he had used, and while she cleaned it, she wondered why everyone thought it was their duty to give out advice about other people's relationships.


"Who do you want to hear from first?" Victoire asked Teddy later that night when they were in his tent.

He groaned and rolled over to his side so that he could see her. She had jumped out of bed a few seconds ago –much to his displeasure– and was sorting through the large packet of letters she had finally received that night at dinner. He watched her as she stood at his desk looking at all of the sealed envelopes. Her long blonde hair was messed from his fingers running through it and her long legs were mostly bare, with the hem of the plain white t-shirt she was wearing –stolen from his dresser a few minutes ago– barely landing at her mid-thigh.

"I want to hear you moaning my name again," Teddy muttered as he placed his arms behind his head.

Victoire rolled her eyes but did nothing to hide the grin on her face, "I think we can take fifteen to catch our breath and give you a chance to pat yourself on the back."

"Ten minutes," He countered quickly, a playful smirk lighting up his face.

"You must think very highly of yourself."

"I have good reason to."

She rolled her eyes again and grabbed several of the envelopes, "I have a letter here from Lily. She only said she'd write to me if she had some good gossip to pass along, so I'm certain that this letter must have some juicy info on James and his ladylove."

Teddy flicked his wrist in a dismissive gesture, "Grab whatever ones you want."

Victoire smiled, picked three letters, and sat down on the edge of the bed, just out of Teddy's reach.

"This one's from Lily. Hmm, it seems here that there was a lot of excitement last week at Hogwarts. They helped James and Freddie pull off a massive castle-wide prank and apparently they're still trying to clean up from it," Victoire told him as she scanned the rather long letter in front of her.

Teddy, who was totally listening to Victoire's summary of the letter, grabbed at her waist and pulled himself towards her, sitting up enough to place a kiss on the fabric of the shirt over the small of her back, "What kind of prank was it?"

"Apparently they found a way to make all of the people and animals in the paintings leave their frames and come to life. It seems the spell also animated all of the house animals from any banner or clothing insignia, as well as the cartoon logo from Lily's signed vintage Holyhead Harpies poster," Victoire said with a bit of smirk.

"That certainly is different; did Lils say why they decided to execute this prank?" Teddy asked before placing slow kisses up her spine through the, admittedly rather thin, t-shirt.

Victoire moved a little away from him so that she could concentrate on her letter better, "Yes, it seems that Cecilia thought that it would be a good distraction from the gossip going around about – Oh no! They've found out about Eliza being pregnant."

Teddy reached out and softly rubbed her shoulders in comfort. Victoire had spoken to him about Eliza on several different occasions and he knew that she had a special soft spot for the young woman.

"I can guess at what's in Eliza's letter then," Victoire said looking at one of the other envelopes she had brought with her.

"But what else does Lily say?" Teddy asked hoping that there was something that would cheer Victoire up a bit.

"She pretty much just summarizes her snooping efforts. It seems James had an unofficial study date with Mélanie and then a quasi-official date in Hogsmeade. She's no closer to figuring out who Rose's secret admirer from Valentine's is, but apparently she thinks that there's something starting between Al and Alice Longbottom? Well that's not exactly what I was expecting to read," Victoire muttered in surprise.

Teddy 'hmmmed' noncommittally and continued to rub her shoulders, his movements were starting to get a little firmer and it was turning into more of a massage.

"According to Lily, Cecilia and Louis are the same as ever, Hugo's getting better marks in transfiguration, and apparently Freddie tried to snog Norah Summers again and ended up with a broken nose and a black eye. I wonder if I should tell Hayden about that one," she mused. Her words near the end came out a bit like a moan as Teddy worked out a knot that she had had in her shoulder since Sunday.

"He's actually rather protective about his family so I'd say no," Teddy told her, one of his hands pushing all of her hair off to one side so that he could lay a kiss on the side of her neck.

Victoire placed her hand on the back of his head to encourage him to continue.

"Well then I won't mention it. Mmmmm . . . should I read the next letter?" She asked him, only partly wanting to read the next letter herself. He had pulled the neck of her shirt away and had started laying kisses on the bare skin he found.

He didn't respond but placed one of his hands on top of her knee and slowly slid it up her thigh.

"Eliza's letter it is," Victoire said, her voice cracking a little when his lips brushed against her collarbone.

There was a brief moment where the only sounds that could be heard were the rustling of paper and the mixed sound of their suddenly heavy breathing. When Victoire finally had the letter open, and flipped right side up, she scanned it to see if she could pick out the headlines. When her mind caught up with what her eyes had taken in, she lifted Teddy's hand –which was dangerously close to the hem of the t-shirt– and turned to face him. He noticed right away the serious look on her face.

"What's wrong?"

She bit her lip, "Eliza ended up telling the father about the baby, but it wasn't exactly in the way she would have wanted to."

"Is she alright?" Teddy asked her. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder and brought her close to his chest.

"She says she is but I bet that Cecilia's letter will say something else when I open it. She does say that she and Benjamin have come to a tentative agreement about the child, so I guess that that's good, whatever that means."

"Didn't you say that you think that Baxter has a thing for this girl?" Teddy asked, hoping that he was getting his information straight. To be fair, he had probably only been half-listening when she told him about the situation. He had been more interested in finally having her back in his arms and had undoubtedly missed half of the things that she had been telling him.

"I'm pretty sure he does, but she wouldn't write anything about him to me. If I want to hear information on that score I'd probably have to go through Cecilia."

Teddy nodded, "Does she seem okay in her letter? You said you were worried about her emotional health."

Victoire absentmindedly ran her hand along his forearm, "As far as I can tell she seems to be dealing, but again, if there was something, Cecilia would be better at communicating it."

"So I take it that's Cecilia's letter then?" Teddy said, nodding his head towards the third letter she had carried to the bed.

"No actually," Victoire replied opening the letter's seal, "It's from Dom."

Teddy kissed her temple softly, "And what does your favourite sister say?"

She opened the letter and read through it, "She says that between her, Colton, and Kingsley they worked through my legal problem with St. Mungo's board of ethics, and that while they were there they ran into Ally, Spencer, and Malcolm."

Teddy's head snapped up and he looked at her worriedly, "Was there something wrong with Malcolm?"

"No, it seems it was Xavier who was the patient. His appendix burst when he was in practice and he needed to stay for almost two days to heal properly," Victoire read out.

"Is he better?" Teddy questioned.

"Well enough to write me a letter, I noticed that there was one in the packet from him," She replied as she continued to skim the letter, "And Dom also says that she tried to force Ally and Xavier into a dramatic reconciliation but that Ally wouldn't follow through."

"It's difficult to follow through when Ally probably didn't even know the concept of Dom's scheme," Teddy mused.

Victoire looked up at him and grinned, "I was thinking the exact same thing."

He smiled back, took the pile of letters from her hand, and placed it on the table beside the bed, "I love that we're on the same wavelength."

"I was also thinking that," she replied with a smirk as she placed her hands on his biceps.

"Can you guess what I'm thinking now then?" Teddy asked, grabbing a hold of the hem of the t-shirt she was wearing with both of his hands.

Victoire moved her hands from his biceps down to his bare chest. She was so engrossed in her letters earlier that she hadn't realized that he had forgone putting on a shirt, or that he was sitting next to her, bare chested with his slim muscles on display in the dimmed light. She spent some time freely ogling him before sliding one of her hands onto the back of his head and brining his mouth down to hers.

They shared a languid kiss before Victoire moved her lips away, "I think I have a good guess at what you're thinking about."

Teddy captured her lips and his hands tightened around the fabric of the t-shirt in his hands. Victoire couldn't help but grin into the kiss and their lips separated again so that he could see how her smile lit up her face.

"I think that I agree," he whispered against her lips before they met again.

Victoire didn't waste time in deepening the kiss or sliding her tongue into his mouth. Teddy groaned in response and started to slide his hands slowly up her sides, pushing the fabric of the shirt up with his hands' soft ascent. His hands had slid all the way up to her lower ribcage when a small white paper airplane flew into the room and landed delicately on top of Teddy's head.

They broke apart and Teddy frowned as he reached for the paper on his head, Victoire was biting her bottom lip to hold in her giggles at the ridiculous turn of events. He eyed her sardonically before opening it up. It took him a minute to read it before he let out a quiet growl.

"What's wrong?" Victoire asked a small smile on her face as she leaned back on her arms.

"I hate Hayden right now," was all Teddy said as he crumpled the letter up in his fist.

Victoire rolled her eyes and patted his clenched fist lightly, "Spill."

"Apparently Tasha and Caitlyn have made a breakthrough that cannot wait until tomorrow. They insist on sneaking out and going to the last site we cleared so that they can test their work in a real setting," Teddy said already moving to the edge of the bed to get properly dressed for a late night outing.

She shrugged her shoulders and lay back onto the mattress, "Try not to wake me when you come back in."

He had was already halfway through getting dressed when he leaned over and placed a tender kiss on her lips.

"You won't have to worry about that Sweetheart, Hayden's note says that you're also invited to the party, and that clothing is not optional," He gave her a wicked smirk as he said it and then tickled her sides until she got to her feet.


They were dressed only a few moments later, Victoire leaving the tent first with a rather good disillusionment charm on her, and Teddy leaving shortly after with one of his own since they were all leaving attempting to leave the camp in secret. They travelled a little distance away from the camp, where they performed the counter-charm for the spells they were wearing. Teddy explained to Victoire that they were all going to apparate to a site that they had cleared a few weeks before she came and offered his arm for a side-along.

When they made it to the last dig site that the team had cleared of artifacts Hayden, Nathan, Tasha, and Caitlyn were already there waiting for them.

"Were you waiting long?" Teddy asked as they reached them.

"Nah, I was actually expecting you to take longer," Hayden told him with a sly smile.

Victoire rolled her eyes while Tasha cleared her throat.

"If everybody's ready we'd like to get started, it's late at night as it is."

"You're the ones who decided to call a clandestine meeting in the middle of the night," Hayden reminded her a little testily.

Teddy sighed, "How about you explain why we're here?"

"Caitlyn and I were working on translating the runes with the half-started phonetic alphabet that Victoire found in the pile sent to us by the Hogwarts professor, and we made quite a lot of progress with it," Tasha explained.

"So Eliza's work did come in handy," Victoire said airily even though the girl's work was more than just handy.

Tasha ignored her and continued in her own vein, "We've established enough that Caitlyn and I think that we can do some real time translating and we wanted to try it out to see I we can discover anything new."

Hayden leaned over to Victoire and whispered, "This was one of the sites that did not have a secret room, or at least none that we were able to discover."

Victoire nodded and followed behind Nathan as the group began their descent towards the dugout entrance of the ruins. The first chamber they entered was very dark and Tasha, Caitlyn, and Nathan had all lit their wands. Behind her, she could hear Hayden quietly whisper 'nox' and she assumed that Teddy would cast his own spell. Alternatively, she kept her wand unlit so that she would be able to cast any other spell she might need, and instead forced her hand to light up with a small yet bright flame of veela fire.

Hayden, Nathan, and Caitlyn all looked at her in a fascinated type of surprise while Tasha just looked pissed off. It seemed that their little moment of honesty a week ago didn't do much to help the friction in their relationship.

Caitlyn handed everyone paper copies of their version of a simpler English to rune alphabet and Tasha brusquely told everyone to start working. They separated with Caitlyn and Tasha working separately on two of the four walls –all of which were covered by runes– with Hayden and Nathan working on another one, and Victoire and Teddy the last and farthest wall from the entrance.

All six of them worked very quietly and diligently as they tried to get the hang of the new rune translations. After roughly a half hour Victoire excitedly reached her arm out and swatted at Teddy's arm.

"What is it?"

"I've translated enough of this to understand that it's some sort of historical record," Victoire told him excitedly.

Teddy smiled at the enthusiastic tone in her voice, "And what does this historical record say?"

"It lists major incidences where large portions of their population died!"

"So you're morbidly excited?"

Victoire didn't even have time to roll her eyes at him as her gaze was quickly scanning the runes in front of her as she quadruple-checked that she had translated them properly, "I'm more awed at how quickly this went. The translation I just did would have taken at least a week before today. And you do understand that both muggle and magical archeologists still don't know why the civilization died out, right? There are theories but none of them have been able to be confirmed."

"Well don't keep me in suspense much longer," Teddy told her.

"This rune here mentions some sort of illness that wiped out a good portion of the population of several of the different tribes in the civilization," Victoire said pointing to a specific rune on the wall, "This one says that there was intermittent war between the tribes. That one claims that there were several years of drought."

Teddy leaned closer so that he could get a better look at the specific symbols she was directing her attention to.

"And this one says that a large collection of the population went," Victoire squinted as she looked at the rune making sure that she was reading it write, "Well the rune says underground but it's likely that they mean that these people went in the ground."

"As in they were buried," Teddy offered.

Victoire smiled up at him, "Exactly."

They looked at the wall and near the bottom of the written history, which Victoire had only summarized and translated a small portion of, and Victoire noticed that the writing did not go all the way to the bottom of the wall like the others. The symbols on this wall ended about two-feet from the floor. Upon closer inspection, she found that there were spots along the floor at these parts that leaned towards there having been something there that was recently moved.

Without taking her eyes off the piece of floor Victoire called out, "Caitlyn, do you remember what was sitting here before you cleared all of the antiques from the ruins?"

Caitlyn walked over to her and looked at where Victoire was motioning towards. She thought for a moment before saying, "Several large clay jars, about two-feet tall. I can't remember off hand what was in them but it is all recorded back at camp. Why?"

"The writing on the wall follows a very specific theme so I was wondering if perhaps the contents of the jars match sin someway what is written on the wall," Victoire said toning down her excitement marginally.

Caitlyn nodded approvingly, "I'll check tomorrow and we can test your hypothesis."

Victoire gave her a small smile, "I'd appreciate it."

Then their small moment of cordiality went away as quickly as it came, as Tasha yelled for Caitlyn to come and see what she had accomplished, which she boasted was twice as much as everyone else.


A/N: Hey everyone, please let me know how you liked this chapter! Which was your favourite part, the fluff or the research? Let me know :)

Next Update: Next Week!

Next Chapter: Tasha pretty much screams at Victoire, Vic and O.A.R. number two actually get along, and Teddy and Hayden stumble upon something interesting at the muggle camp.

Teaser for next chap:

"Nathan crossed his arms on the table and rested his head on top of them, but did as Teddy asked. When Teddy had deemed it enough time, he took the thermometer out and glanced at it, "105.7!"

"Nathan that's-" Teddy didn't bother telling Nathan what it was since it seemed that the man had either passed out or fallen asleep on his folded arms. Either way he needed to get him back to Victoire quick."

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Nerdbird18: Victoire is hoping to make it to Kyle and Sandra's wedding, so we'll just have to wait and see if she makes it there. I can't answer your question about Teddy's proposal, and as for the part about Tasha, I don't think hoping that means that your a bad person ;)

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Break This Spell626: Hermione likes to experiment with magic and I don't think there's anyone in the Ministry of Magic who would dare to tell her that she can't do that or create any spell that she wanted to. It's not in the books, it's just something I created going off of her character.

Encypher: Wow, that's the first time I've heard someone say that they're not sure if they want Xavier and Ally back together ;)

Autumn: No, Dom and Xavier aren't dating. Dom kissed him on the cheek to be friendly, Vic does the same thing with Xavier. They're half French so they're an affectionate bunch, yet they are not fully French so they don't go for the two-cheek kiss, just one. As for when this story ends, I definitely have plot ideas for another story, it's whether I'll have time to. I'd like to though, I enjoy writing, I just don't like getting writer's block and having to make everyone wait for months until I update again.

curlyq18: Hi, I'm sorry, I totally meant to do a bit of a summary when I started updating again but I forget when I actually go to update. If I'm updating weekly I don't think I will do a summary, but if it's been a few weeks since you last saw the characters I'll refresh your minds. How's about that? I also might not write one if the beginning of the chapter explains what they've been doing anyway, if it's already written in.

Dar: The third story will continue closer on after this one (unlike from Try and Tri Again where we jumped four years to this story), and it will include all of our favourite characters as well as some of the new ones we met in this story. As for stories in total, I have no idea.

bro: Aw thank you, that's so sweet!

zvc56: Perhaps in this chapter a very nerdy Lara Croft, but don't worry, she will have her time to shine.

I hope everyone liked the chapter!

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Until next time, DFTBA!