AN: Last chapter of this little fic. Happy new year everyone, and enjoy!
Victoire couldn't believe her eyes. She just stared at the potion which had turned green for a long time before footsteps flung her back into reality. She pointed her wand at it and whispered "concealo". Immediately the object disappeared and Victoire spun around, her gorgeously flowing blonde hair whipping with her as she spun around to see her room-mates. "Not know how to knock?" She asked cruelly. Kaelie glanced at the towel she was wearing and shrugged.
"Sorry, didn't know you were in here. The door was open."
"Where have you been?" Naya asked. "Professor Longbottom was worried, and Professor Cartham was mad. We have our N.E.W.T's to learn content for!"
"Well next time I'll be sure to charm it shut." Victoire responded only to Kaelie's words, flicked her wand once more and the door slammed shut. She heard a sarcastic comment from someone, but chose to ignore it, instead glancing at her tiny owl Flecker who was perched on her shoulder ready to deliver a letter, and then her eyes moved to the floo powder her boyfriend had given her that she kept in her purse. She could practically see Teddy's face- visualise his loving embrace, the hair that reflected his mood, the eyes that were the only ones that seemed able to look into her's and really understand her, the lips that felt so good pressed against hers. With just a finger full of the powder she could have that back faster than the flick of her wand had concealed that potion. But her boyfriend was training- she just couldn't interrupt him. Anyway, this was something she ought to tell him face to face- she just wished he was here to hold her now.
Teddy wasn't sure why, but Victoire hadn't contacted him since school restarted for her. It was odd as they had been in constant contact ever since they became best friends that Christmas when he was ten years old. Especially in the last two years when they'd decided to revive their romantic relationship, she was usually sending lovey dovey messages. Teddy would have assumed that his girlfriend would be illegally portalling and using floo powder all the time! He would have himself, but he had been kept very busy at work; this was his weekend off. He knew the school had a Hogsmeade weekend just next week, but he couldn't wait that long to see her.
So Teddy apparated to just outside the Hogwarts grounds. He remembered his first few times doing this; the feeling of falling endlessly and having your body parts ripped away from you then put back together. Now it was like second nature.
Of course, he couldn't apparate right to Hogwarts, and if he walked from here to there, he didn't really want the strict headmistress to send a message to the Ministry complaining, it felt like only yesterday she had been telling him, a twelve year old boy with magically colour changing hair and eyes, off. So Teddy had sent a message to Victoire two days ago asking him to meet her here at this time.
He was a little early so he sat down to wait, but then he saw a figure in a cloak appear. She pulled down her hood as she approached and he saw her instantly recognisable beautiful blonde hair. Teddy ran forwards to kiss her, but Victoire held him back. Teddy gave her a questioning look, and she just stared at him for a moment, breathing in heavily and taking in every part of him as if to keep it in a scrapbook.
"I want you to listen to me before you decide anything," She said, her voice cracking on the words. "Because- be- Because what I'm about to say is going to change everything!"
Victoire broke down and fell, Teddy catching her and holding her against him. "Shush," He whispered and kissed her forehead. "Shush, Vic, it's okay. Nothing you could say would ever-"
"I'm pregnant."
Teddy knew he was going to have to work five times as hard now to support Victoire and their baby. She had seemed so shocked when he hugged her after she had revealed that she was pregnant. She had asked him if he wasn't mad and he shook his head. "Of course not. It was a joint effort!" She giggled at that, as was his aim and then she snuggled into him as he continued. "And the timing may not be ideal, but don't you think we would make cute babies?"
Victoire had hugged him at that and then whispered. "H-O-T-T hot babies."
He smiled weakly when he thought of that. If only he was still at Hogwarts so he could see Victoire and how his baby was developing.
Victoire grabbed a spell book from the bookshelf and threw it at Kaelie, harder than necessary. It probably caused a bruise before it ricocheted off her and landed on the floor.
"Ow!" Kaelie yelled and cussed.
"Sorry-slash- not sorry," Victoire said grumpily. Kaelie had asked her a few times to pass her the spell book so she could revise for their Transfiguration N.E.W.T, and when Victoire had finally thrown it to her that witch had repaid her not by thanking her but by swearing at her- how rude!
Ignoring the evil eye she was getting from Kaelie, Victoire settled herself on the sofa and picked up a copy of Witch Weekly. "What?" She asked eventually, noticing Kaelie was still glaring at her.
"Do you not want to pass this exam?" Her room-mate asked.
Victoire stood up, pulling her wand out of her boot, and flicked it at the nearby book lying on a table. The book changed into a small dragon that flew over and as it went to Victoire's arm, she changed it into a broomstick, catching it without looking, then into a pebble, showing Kaelie it as it lay on the palm of her hand, a slithering snake- which evoked a scream from Kaelie- and then into a pink teddy bear. Victoire passed the bear to Kaelie, who did not look amused, as she rolled her eyes and flopped back onto the sofa again. She didn't mean to be a bitch, and she wasn't usually quite this bad, but the hormones were raging at the moment.
"God Teddy, I'm scared," Victoire said . It was midnight and she was in the common room talking to her boyfriend through floo powder. He had arranged for the Potters to meet up with her parents Bill and Fleur that weekend while everyone was in Hogsmede. The two of them were going to tell their families then. Victoire had agreed to the plan, but she was getting cold feet.
"I am too babe," Teddy said. "But it'll be better like this, with no secrets between all of us."
"I guess," Victoire said.
Teddy continued, "so when do you think we should tell the others," Victoire knew that he was including James, Albus and Lily as his siblings, as well as her two, and their "cousins." Although he wasn't biologically related to any of them, he had always been a part of the family, and always would be.
Victoire shrugged. "Louis already knows, I felt like I had to tell someone, I feel like Dom might have figured it out, her being so smart I'd be shocked if she hadn't, and if she has she'll have told James, Al and the others." Teddy blew a kiss.
"I've got to go," He said. "I have Auror training tomorrow. I love you two." Anyone going past would have thought he meant it as in I love you too, which was why Victoire wasn't worried when she saw Kaelie walking down the stairs. Anyway, they had never directly said the word "pregnancy" or "baby" when they were talking today.
Kaelie rubbed her eyes and yawned. "What are you doing talking to Hottie Lupin? We have a test tomorrow. If you even show up."
"I'm ready for it," Victoire said. "I'm ready for anything!" She hugged Kaelie.
Her best friend narrowed her eyes. "Are we in an alternate universe?" Victoire shook her head. "Good conversation with the bae?" Victoire laughed like Kaelie had said the funniest thing.
"Yes actually!" Victoire said. "I love Teddy so much. And I love you!" She said, putting her hand on her stomach.
"Um, I love you too?" Kaelie laughed. Well that was close.
Teddy closed his hand around Victoire's to slow her shaking, turning her face with his free hand towards him and kissing her gently, letting her know without any words that he would always be there for her, even when he couldn't physically be. The years they'd taken apart hadn't harmed them, it had only made them grow closer whilst allowing them to develop alone. He remembered the day things had changed though. They'd finally decided to stay over the holidays for the Yule Ball that was now an institution thanks to Professor Longbottom's campaiging, and they'd gone together as friends. Usually Herbology involved more dangerous plants, but his favourite professor had helped him grow beautiful purple irises, native to the area Victoire's French family lived. When he'd produced it with a nervous smile she'd been so happy she'd thrown her arms around the back of his neck and thanked him with her lips, making him drop the flower to the floor in shock! Thankfully they managed not to trample it, and although they were a little late, they did arrive in time for a slow dance, which their friends all immediately saw as what it truly was!
A throat being cleared made the lovebirds pull apart, remembering that they were in Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop and not the well lit Great Hall a couple of years ago! Ginny and Fleur exchanged an amused glance, whilst Harry and Bill chuckled, making both teenagers blush. His godfather had never liked the place, but he said it used to be very popular with Hogwarts couples. The fact that it no longer was, was the driving factor for Teddy choosing it as their meeting place now. There was an adult couple, Hogsmeade residents he supposed, and a group of five or so First Years he didn't recognise clustered around another table. "Tea?" Asked the owner, and he and Victoire spoke at the same time in the affirmative, making their parents raise an eyebrow.
Fleur seemed the most concerned, her mother's intuition clear in the sucking in of her lip. "Est-ce que tout va bien mon ciel etoile?"
At the babyish nickname her mother had used to sing her to sleep with, Victoire burst into tears, burying her face in Teddy's shoulder. Harry's eyes flew open, looking to Ginny as if she had the answer. Bill looked as though he wanted to leap over the table and wrap his daughter in his arms, but he let Teddy stroke her back, whispering into her ear. She nodded yes, so he replied that yes, of course he would do it, but she should look her parents in the eyes as he did so. And so he told them. Harry looked as though he'd spoken in French, Ginny smiled, Fleur's face shifted little, and this time Bill did move around the table, enveloping his daughter and Teddy both in a hug. He felt a surprised breath catch in her throat, and tingles ran up his own skin as he felt the love all around them. How was it possible to have this much with all that he had lost?
The door swung open and Victoire leapt out of her skin at what she found in her room, or rather who. Her brother and sister as well as her cousins were all there. "Can I help you?" She said a little grouchily shoving her sister aside to sit on the bed. They were all silent, she frowned. "What's going on?"
"I didn't want them to do this at first," Louis said. "But you need to understand that we all love you and none of us judge you for this Vicky, and that's why I let them. It is the right thing to do." He smiled weakly.
Victoire raised an eyebrow. "What is going on?"
Dom stepped forward. "Corbin and I snuck into your room to-"
"We know you're pregnant." James burst out. All of them turned to look at him, annoyed. Louis sat down beside his sister, who was silent, and put his hand on hers. Dom followed suite and sat on Victoire's other side.
Their beautiful blonde sister who was always put together and perfect's face shattered and she leant into her younger sister. She felt Dom jerk up in surprise but then she relaxed.
"Have you told Mum and Dad?" Louis asked. Victoire nodded. Their parents had been surprisingly wonderful, for some reason she'd been expecting a screaming match. Like her, her mother could also be passionate, but instead they had all promised their support, even if she could tell they would have preferred this a little later. She certainly would too. Being seventeen and pregnant was in no way easy, especially when you had dreams of being a professional Quidditch player.
"You've got us too Vic," Said Dom while the twins Roxanne and Fred nodded.
"All of us," Albus added. The others sounded their agreement, and she smiled at her cousins, glad they had such a strong- and ridiculously huge- support network!
"Est-ce que tout va bien mon ciel etoile?": Are you okay, my starry sky?