The Houses Competition

House: Hufflepuff

Class: DADA

Category: Drabble

Prompt(s): (action) laying in the grass

Word Count: 692

Warning for extreme fluff. I would like to take the time to thank everyone who beta read this for me. It truly means a lot that you would help me out like this. So, thank you all very much! I hope you all enjoy Cloud-Watching.


The wet morning dew soaked into the back of his shirt as Teddy Lupin lay back on the grass outside of Victoire's house. He looked over at Vic as he called his girlfriend of a few months and smiled. Today was a lovely day and he couldn't imagine spending it with anyone else than her.

"That one looks like a throne," Victoire cried out, pointing towards a cloud that certainly wasn't shaped like a throne.

"No," Teddy replied, tracing the shape with his finger. "It looks like one of the tables at Hogwarts. Maybe the Head table where the teachers sit."

"I don't see it," Victoire said, tracing the pattern with her own finger. "Let's move on to another cloud."

Teddy nodded and quickly pointed towards another fluffy white cotton ball of a cloud. "That one looks like a rabbit, doesn't it?" he asked, looking over to see Victoire's reaction.

She nodded. "It does indeed." She pointed towards the one next to it. "Which means that one is definitely the carrot."

"I can sort of see it," Teddy replied, squinting at the cloud in question. "What about that castle-shaped one over there?"

He watched Victoire follow his pointing finger as he scrunched his toes in the drying grass. The cool feeling was nice on his toes. He nodded over at her watching the way she ran her fingers through the grass.

He looked up towards the sky again. "Look there's a heart shape in the clouds," he said, pointing towards where the clouds were shaping into a heart. He had thought it the perfect idea for a shape for Victoire to see during their cloud-watching adventure.

"That's impossible, Teddy," she said, looking over at him instead of the cloud that he had created just for her. "Clouds don't usually take on heart shapes. It's just not natural."

"Then you better look at this one," he said, continuing to point towards the cloud in question with a huge smile on his face.

"Alright," Victoire said, turning to look in the direction he was pointing in.

He watched as her mouth opened in stunned surprise. The grin spread on his face as their initials were printed out in the heart. TL + VW = 4ever.

"Teddy, did you do that?" she asked, looking over at him.

"Maybe?"

"Maybe?" she asked, watching him curiously. "This isn't like you Edward Lupin. What else do you have up your sleeve?"

"Edward?" he asked, surprise showing clear on his face. "Since when did you call me by my given name? We've always been Vic and Teddy. Never Victoire and Edward. Why change that now?"

Victoire shredded a piece of grass she'd picked up and had been twirling between her fingers. She seemed nervous all of a sudden. He'd never seen her like this before and was very concerned.

"Teddy," she said, sounding very serious which made him kind of afraid.

"Vic?"

"I have something important to ask you," she said, looking at blue painted nails which stood out against the green of the grass.

"You can ask me anything," he said, his concern growing by the minute as he watched her. "You know that, right?"

She nodded. "I do," she said, looking into his eyes as a bird trilled its song behind them. "It's just—"

"Vic, what's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong," she said, looking up at the sky once more. She took a deep breath and turned back towards Teddy. "I know the guy is supposed to be the one to ask the girl out but I was wondering if you wanted to have a picnic on the beach tonight?" By the end of her question, she'd turned a pretty shade of pink.

"I would love that very much," he told her, smiling. "And I don't think it's wrong for the girl to ask the guy out every once in a while."

"You don't?"

"I don't."

Taking a deep breath Victoire smiled at him once more. "Now that that's settled we can get back to our cloud-watching."

"Yes, we can," Teddy said, watching as she scanned the skies for another cloud to point out. He couldn't wait for their date tonight.


I hope you all enjoyed Cloud-Watching as much as I enjoyed writing it.