It was dinnertime at 12 Grimmauld Place and the time travellers were starting to miss their parents. This was not at all helped by the fact that their parents were sitting across the table from them. The room was busy with laughter and noise, bowls of mashed potato and gravy boats flew across the room, the hungry teens too lazy to ask someone to pass the mash. Albus and his new girlfriend held hands beneath the table. They hoped that if they kept it a secret for a while, they could spare the ridicule of Albus's raucous older brother. Due to the rather public 'snog-fest', (as some were now referring to it), everyone was aware of Scorpius and Rose's recent reunion.

No one was quite as aware of this fact as Teddy Lupin. It was fairly obvious to everyone with eyes, (not excluding Mad-Eye), that Teddy was missing his beautiful ex-girlfriend. Obvious perhaps because of his moping looks or maybe because the ends of his hair were turning a sickly yellow. Lily had hatched a plan. She knew that as soon as Victoire cracked they would be back together in a heartbeat, and Lily knew how to make people crack.

All of these distractions did not, however, stop James Sirius Potter from wandering behind his younger brothers chair and noticing his hand clasped with that of a pretty girl.

'Oh my God!' shouted James, pointing excitedly at their hands. 'Al and Weez are holding hands! They're going out!' Albus and Eloise quickly parted their hands as heat rose to their cheeks.

'No we weren't…' answered Albus weakly. 'We weren't!'

'Al and Weez, sitting in a tree…'

'Shut up, James.'

'K-I-S-S-'

'Shut. Up.'

'-I-N-G!'

'SHUT UP! Just because you can't get a girlfriend and I can!' The crowd looked around nervously. The room was silent until James broke it with his laughter.

'Hey! I've had girlfriends before! Me and Alice dated for almost a year in fifth year, remember!' Alice blushed at the memory.

'Yeah, until she dumped you!' Albus retorted. For a second it seemed as if he had struck a nerve.

'Actually, it was a completely mutual agreement that we would be better off as friends. Right, Alice?' It didn't seem like he wasn't trying to convince the others as much as himself.

From the minute he hit puberty to the minute she said yes, he had used the very traditional, 'James Potter', method of getting the girl he liked. Commonly referred to as stalking and harassment. As much as Alice used to loath the concept, what the girls of Hogwarts wouldn't do to be stalked and harassed by such a fine specimen. After getting her to say yes, using a method that can only be called hounding, he won her round, having a happy relationship for 11 months, 3 weeks and 6 days. Until Alice decided that her duties as Queen of Hogwarts were a bit too much and she became notorious as the girl who brutally dumped the hottest guy in Hogwarts the day before their anniversary. The rest is history.

In general, it wasn't a subject broadly spoken of in the Weasley household. And Albus was right when he thought he had hit a nerve. You see, it's much harder to get over the girl who got away, when she only 'got away' to a couple of houses down the road and comes over for brunch with the family every Sunday.

Similar to Teddy and Tonks, James was a master of disguise. Just not of his face, of his emotions. If anyone were to know that James Potter had anything vaguely resembling a feeling, the game would be over. And hence he vowed to never love another fair maiden again, as all tragic heroes do. He knew that he would rather feel nothing than another broken heart. The only women he needed in his life were his mother and the ones at the centre of a magazine. Preferably not at the same time.

Whilst James pondered his lost love, on the other side of the table a mischievous little devil with the face of an angel worked on her next scheme. Lily had always wondered why she had not been sorted into Slytherin to begin with, but she knew that these schemes would never work out without her Ravenclaw brains.

Later on in the evening, Lily had cornered her unsuspecting cousin, Freddie Weasley.

'Alright, can you or can you not replicate the mistletoe spell?' She tended to be fairly menacing for a young girl when put under the right circumstances.

'Yeah, sure!' Freddie had alarm in his eyes. 'Me and James will get on it right away.'

'No!' Lily stopped him. 'If James knows, the whole house will know. This is top secret.'

'Okay…But you have to tell me what it's for or I'm not doing a thing.' Freddie smirked.

'Alright… I'm trying to get Teddy and Victoire back together.' She whispered.

A mischievous smile lit up his face. 'I'll meet you back here in ten minutes!' He ran up the stairs to his make shift bedroom and set to work.

Ten minutes later and Lily had a plan. They would set up the mistletoe by a doorway so that when the unsuspecting couple went to go through the door, they would be stopped. Lily would have the rest of the gang behind the door so that when the plan got going, they could open the door and watch the romantic reunion.

The plan was laid, the time travelling teens were crouched behind the kitchen door, ears pressed to the wood. In the drawing room, Teddy sat playing a game of chess with his god brother, James, and Victoire sat across the room stealing glances at her ex-boyfriend whilst her best friend Alice painted her finger nails a pale shade of pink. The mistletoe had been hung and the teens waited with baited breath. Roxanne, who is great at impressions put on her best Grandma Weasley voice and shouted into the room, 'Can you come into the kitchen, dearies?', as the teens held their breath and waited for the moment, Lily heard footsteps approaching the door.

For a minute they heard incoherent mumbling through the thick oar doors and then a definite, 'We're stuck! Is that mistletoe?', from Teddy's low voice. They voices softly argued for a minute and then the voices went quiet and they could hear nothing. Lily nodded to Freddie to open the door on the count of three; so that they could watch the happy couple reunite.

Three…

Two…

One...

The door flew open to the view of the couple in a tight embrace. His hands were around her waist, pulling her closer and her's twisted in and out of his wild hair. They did not notice that anyone was watching them, even when the door to the drawing room slammed as Teddy and Victoire walked out.

James's name escaped Alice's lips for the first time in two years since she made the biggest mistake of her life. Their foreheads rested against each other's as they clasped each other's hands behind Alice's back. Lily slowly cleared her throat and James's eyes fluttered open, then widened as he saw the huge audience of gobsmacked family members.

James slowly retreated backwards up the first few steps, stuttering to the crowd, and himself, 'It was the mistletoe…didn't have a…urm…choice.' He then turned around and fled up the stairs as fast as he could. Alice stood, heartbroken at her rejection. She finally understood how she had made him feel just two years ago. She felt Victoire's small hand on her shoulder, comforting her.

Teddy was the first to speak, 'Can I ask, what just happened?'

'Well,' answered Lily, 'You see, we had made some more magic mistletoe to try and…urm…get you back together. But it seems the wrong people walked under it. Whoops?'

'WHOOPS!?' cried Alice in anguish, 'YOU'VE RUINED EVERYTHING!' Fresh tears sprung to her eyes and she ran upstairs to where no one would think to look for her.

A tear rolled down Victoire's cheek for her heartbroken best friend. She threw her arms around Teddy's neck and wept into his shoulder. She whispered softly, 'I still hate you, but right now I need you…', he whispered back, 'Darling, I always need you.' He couldn't see, but I small smile crept onto her face.

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