A/N: I own nothing you recognize…
Flor d'Luna: Chapter Three
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Teddy had no intentions of letting Victoire live with him: he knew her father and any of her uncles or cousins would be very pleased with that arrangement and he knew that it would be best if they lived separately. He could no longer deny that they didn't belong together, that they were dating, but he still believed that it was best if she even considered dating someone else...
Not that he wanted her to. He just wanted her to potentially keep her options open since she was only 17. His father didn't get married until he was nearly 40...And his mother had been much younger than his father...
He worried about that sometimes, about his parents, about love. He knew love existed - Harry and Ginny and all the uncles and aunts, Grandma and Grandpa Weasley were testaments to that. But were his parents really in love? Or was it circumstance that threw them together? Was the fear of dying in the War what threw them together? Did they really truly love each other? Would they have stayed together if they had lived?
He never voiced this to Victoire, but whenever he worried about this, about love, she seemed to know. She would always mention how she wondered if her parents would have been so quick to marry if it weren't for the War, how she said it didn't matter because they loved each other. And she would look at him meaningfully. She knew without ever having heard his concerns.
She really did understand him.
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He trained hard on the Reserve, spending equal time Healing and with the dragons. His bosses and co-workers were friendly and caring and when he had spare moments he would go out for drinks with them. He was surprised to find that most of them were married or in long-term relationships. It was very different than what Uncle Charlie had always said about Romania.
But that still didn't mean he expected Victoire to live with him.
He couldn't make it home for Christmas that year, he needed to focus on his training. But that made their reunion all the better.
He and Raoul met her at the Portkey station in Cairo, the dog jumping up to lick her before Teddy could reach her. Laughing, she scratched the dog's ears before throwing herself into Teddy's arms, kissing his cheeks loudly before giggling and kissing him on the lips. "I missed you," she whispered.
"You don't have to anymore," he whispered back, smiling lopsidedly at her.
Her heart nearly melted. They were going to finally be together. For longer than a few months. They were going to start their lives together in the same country.
"All right, let's move you in, Vic. Your house isn't too far from the reserve and closer to where you'll be -"
She stopped, "Teddy Remus Lupin, what do you mean my house?"
She glared at him, her eyes menacing and Teddy swallowed. "I mean, the house where you'll be living -"
She sighed, touching his arm, "Teddy, why do you refuse to believe that I want to live with you?"
"Victoire, I don't think it's -"
"Teddy," she shook her head and kissed his cheek, "I'm living with you. There's nothing you can say to make me change my mind."
How could he refuse her?
"Come on," she grinned, taking his hand, "show me our new house."
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A/N: I kinda want to end it here. I got a bit of writer's block towards the end. But if you read The Life and Times of James Sirius Potter you'll know that eventually everyone finds out and they get married - although I failed to include Raoul :( Maybe someday I'll write more, but for now I think it's done. I want to concentrate on my Scorpius/Rose story and I have a few Tamora Pierce stories itching to get out...
Thanks for reading!