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Always Careful
Teddy walked swiftly down the corridor towards the charms classroom, which was Hope's last class of the afternoon.
He arrived as soon as the class had been dismissed, so he wove his way through the crowd of fifth years in order to find his sister. It wasn't a hard task, as Hope had chosen a pale mint green colour for her hair that morning. He placed a firm hand on her shoulder, and in response she elbowed him square in the chest, hard.
"What the hell," Teddy exclaimed, trying to catch his breath after the wind had been knocked out of him.
"Sorry," she said quickly as she turned to face him. "You startled me."
"You think you spend way too much time with mum"
She ignored him, "what do you need?"
"I need to talk to you."
"Go ahead then."
"In private," said Teddy grabbing her arm and pulling her into a secluded section of the corridor- away from her classmates.
"What do you want," she asked again, annoyed, once they were alone.
"What's up with you and Elijah Williams," Ted asked, one eyebrow raised expectantly.
Hope rolled her eyes, exasperated, "that's it! That's all you wanted to talk to me about? God forbid a fifteen year old girl have a boyfriend!"
Teddy threw his hands up in there air defensively, "I only wanted to know is all."
Hope scoffed, "fine. Is that all then?"
"Nope," said Teddy. "You'll come straight to me if he tries anything that you don't want, right?"
"God-I'm not a kid anymore, Ted. I can fight my own battles, thank you very much."
"I just want to know that you're okay," said Teddy.
Hope rolled her eyes again but reluctantly nodded before speaking in a voice normally used for talking to toddlers, "yes, Teddy, I'll come to you if a guy ever hurts me, so you can use your big boy muscles to beat them up."
"Less sarcasm, but thanks," said Teddy. "Be careful."
Hope nodded, this time sincerely, "I will, I promise."
It was silent for a moment. Then, Teddy smirked, "how do you think Dad will feel about all of this?"
Hope's eyes went wide, "don't you dare!"
Teddy spun on his heal and ran in the direction towards his Dad's office with Hope following close behind.
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