Chapter 2

To get to Hexes they had to go down a manhole located in a bustling London street. When they entered the manhole they would travel down a slide which would lead them to Hexes.

"I'll help you get a really hot girl tonight," Liam said as they walked towards the manhole. "A hook up is just what you need tonight."

"Great," said Ted. Liam and Mark were total players. They helped Ted hook up with a few girls. But Ted didn't like to hook up with girls much. He enjoyed the sex of course, but he hated the feeling afterwards. He would always miss the girl after the one night. He tried telling Liam this.

"But you know you can't be with any of these girls, Ted. You know none of them will accept you as a werewolf. The only thing these girls are useful for is sex. Otherwise they're the same horrible witches who oppress werewolves. You have to remember that. Then you won't miss them much," Liam would tell Ted. Ted tried to think this way, but he would still miss the girls.

"If you want to settle down with a girl someday, then she'll have to be a werewolf. Or you'll have to bite her." Liam would say. "But you're young, you don't have to worry about settling down right now. Now is the time for you to enjoy the company of many girls."

Ted agreed with what Liam said, because he didn't want Liam's friends (friends such as Mark) to make fun of him. But he still missed every girl he ever hooked up with when the night was over. For this reason he just planned to sit back and enjoy some drinks and the music tonight. He didn't need a girl to complicate his life right now when he had such an important mission.

"Let's finish off the bottle before we go in," Mark said. "The drinks in there are so expensive."

"Oh, that reminds me," Liam dug into his pocket and pulled out a few galleons. "Here, you can use these to buy girls drinks." He said handing him the money.

"No, you don't have to. It's ok, really. It's your money. You should use it to buy girls drinks." Ted offered.

"Ok, now you're just insulting me," said Liam. "You know that with my moves I don't need to buy girls drinks to impress them. Now take the money!" He thrust the money into Ted's hands.

Actually Ted didn't need to work hard to impress girls either. Thanks to his metamorphagus skills he could shape his face to look extraordinarily handsome. In the wizard world he liked to make his face look like a younger version of a muggle celebrity that he had seen in some muggle magazines, named Hugh Jackman. Most witches didn't know who he was, so the look would really impress them.

"Come on losers. Let's get in there and have a good time!" Mark yelled. He lifted the lid of the man hole and the three of them jumped in.

The club was quite packed tonight. After Liam paid their entry fees he took them to the bar and bought them a couple rounds of shots.

It didn't take long for Liam and Mark to find girls they like. They immediately joined these girls on the dance floor. Ted didn't expect them to stay with him. This was always how things went whenever they went to clubs, and Ted didn't mind.

He ordered a drink and sat on a bar stool and enjoyed the music. He could be happy sitting at the bar and enjoy listening to the music for the whole night.

After about an hour of enjoying the music, for some reason Ted had an intense urge to look at the entrance of the club. Two beautiful girls walked into the club. One had perfectly silky long red hair. The other one had equally perfect long golden hair. They both had dazzling blue eyes. For some reason, Ted wanted to go to them so bad.

He wanted to talk with them, to dance with them.

Ted could feel his hair turn turquoise. Sometimes Ted couldn't control the color of his hair, and it would often try to turn wild colors, such as turquoise.

The girl with the golden hair looked in his direction. She stared at him, with a look of shock on her face. It wasn't that abnormal for someone's hair to change color in the wizarding world. Ted wanted to laugh at the beautiful girl's muggle-like reaction to his hair.

Suddenly many boys were gathered around the girls, and Ted could no longer see the girls through the crowd of wizard boys. Ted had a strong desire to toss every last boy into the walls so he could be with the girls. But he reminded himself that it wasn't a good idea. He sighed and tried to listen to the music again.

The girl with the golden hair walked away from the group of admiring boys and walked straight up to Ted. He was so happy that she came to him because she looked so much more beautiful up close. The momentary shock that was on her face before had vanished.

"Would you like to dance with me?" she asked Ted. Why was such a beautiful girl asking him to dance? This had to be some sort of prank by Mark. Or had Liam managed to convince such a beautiful girl to talk with him?

But he couldn't dance with such a beautiful girl. It would definitely distract him from his mission. "No thank you." He planned to say. "I have to leave soon. Maybe some other time."

Instead he said "Y-yes. Yes please." It was as if some external force was controlling him.

The girl smiled the most beautiful smile he had ever seen. When she smiled, her eyes sparkled with mischief. She took his hand and the two began to dance.

She was by far the best dancer he had ever danced with. He watched every perfect flip and twirl that she made with the beat of the music. She took his hands and guided him effortlessly into a perfect dance with the music.

Every man in the room seemed to have glaring green eyes of jealousy on the pair as they danced. They danced to several songs. Ted had never enjoyed dancing so much in his life.

"Wow, you have a lot of energy," The girl said, breathing hard. Thanks to his werewolf strength and stamina, Ted didn't feel anything.

"Let's get a drink," she said. Now he had to tell her no, that he really must be going.

"Alright," he agreed. That external force was controlling him again.

The girl led him to the bar counter and took a seat on a stool. Ted sat on the stool next to her.

"What will you have?" She asked taking out her purse. There was no way this was real now. Why would such a beautiful girl offer to buy Ted a drink?

Again the external force came in and Ted pulled out his wallet.

"One firewhisky," Ted told the male bartender. "And what will you have?" he asked the beautiful girl.

"Two firewhiskies," she told the bartender.

"How old are you?" The bartender asked the girl. The girl smiled at him, her eyes twinkling. "Two firewhiskies coming right up," the bartender said dazed.

Ted had never seen a bartender make drinks so fast before. "On the house," said the bartender.

"Thank you so much," the girl said sweetly. She turned to face Ted.

"So what's your name?" she asked him.

"Ted," he said. For a fraction of a second, her eyes widened with the same shock as when Ted's hair had turned turquoise. Then she went back to her charming and seductive look.

"I'm Victoire," said the girl. Ted wanted to say more but all he could really do was stare at her. "So I could've sworn that I saw your hair turn blue from across the dance floor," said Victoire.

"Turquoise," Ted corrected, and he instantly felt embarrassed to correct her.

"My mistake," She said with her perfect smile. Ted wished that he could do more than stare.

"So how did you make it turn turquoise? I didn't see you use a wand?" Victoire inquired.

"I'm a metamorphagus," Ted explained. Being a metamorphagus always impressed girls. He was sure that it would even impress a girl as beautiful as Victoire.

"Wow, that's quite a rare trait isn't it?" She said.

"Indeed it is. I bet you haven't met one before now, have you?" Ted hoped he didn't sound smug.

"Actually I did meet one once before, when I was very young. He was my best friend," the girl stated.

"Was?" Ted questioned. "What happened to him?" Suddenly the perfect smile vanished from her face. It was replaced by a look of great sadness. Ted felt so bad to have caused the beautiful girl sadness. The external force took over again, and Ted felt like he would be ready to do anything to make the girls sadness go away.

After a long pause she said, "We…lost touch with each other." She tried to smile again.

"So tell me about yourself. What's your job?" Victoire asked. Now would be a good time for Ted to start telling people that he was a student at Hogwarts, so he would get used to it.

"I'm a student at Hogwarts," Ted said.

"Really? So am I. But I've never seen you there before. What year are you in?"

"I'm going to start my 6th year. But you haven't seen me around because I was homeschooled for my first 5 years," he explained.

"Wow, homeschooled. Not many people get homeschooled," Victoire said. What made you decide to go to Hogwarts, instead of continuing with your homeschooling?" Victoire asked. This was actually such an obvious question, but Ted never considered it. He wasn't sure what to say.

He thought for a several seconds, and then finally replied, "I guess I wanted a change."

"That's understandable," Victoire said. "We'll you're going to love Hogwarts. It's a great place and loads of fun."

"Well if all of the girls are even half as pretty as you then I'm sure it will be," said Ted. He wasn't sure why he was saying stupid stuff like this. It was as if he couldn't control himself.

Victoire let out a small laugh. It was such a lovely musical sound. He could feel the sound vibrating through him like the sound of a bell.

"But it will be so…different for me to go to Hogwarts. I mean, it will be so different from the life that I've lived for so many years. I'm not sure how I'll…adjust…" What was he doing? Why was he complaining these stupid complaints to a random girl he just met? Complaints that he had never voiced to anyone before? He knew that going to Hogwarts and leaving the life he knew was going to be difficult, but he knew that what he was doing was for an important cause, for something much bigger than himself. He knew there was no point in complaining.

But it made him feel better, to be comfortable enough to express his complaint to someone. But why to this girl? Why not to his best friends, Liam and Mark? Certainly he wasn't opening himself up to this girl because she was pretty. How would her beauty have anything to do with how comfortable he felt opening up?

"I understand completely. But you have no reason to be worried. With me as your tour guide, you'll adjust to Hogwarts in no time." Victoire said as her eyes sparkled.

"Well now I really wish I had come to Hogwarts. Which year did you say you were going to be in?"

"5th," Victoire answered.

"-5 years ago," Ted said. And there was her beautiful laugh again.

The other beautiful girl that Victoire had come to Hexes with suddenly ran towards Ted and Victoire.

"Victoire, we have to go now! Louis just told me through the two way mirror that dad's thinking of going into our rooms to apologize to us for not letting us go to Hexes tonight!" the girl cried.

"What? We will be in so much trouble if dad doesn't see us in our rooms!" Victoire exclaimed.

"I know that you prat!" the girl shouted at Victoire. Why was the girl calling Victoire a prat? She was probably frustrated by her situation at the moment, but that wasn't a good reason to call her a prat. Ted didn't like the other girl much.

"I told Louis to distract him until we get home and sneak back into our windows, but we don't have much time! We have to go now!" she insisted.

So Victoire was a trouble maker. Defying, and lying, to her father to hang out at a night club. Ted liked this girl more and more by the second.

"I have to go. It was great meeting you. See you at Hogwarts," said Victoire hurriedly. She gave him one last smile, coupled with her twinkling eyes, and then gracefully scurried off with the other girl.