Tp part 10
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It was Friday night dinner and Lily couldn't stop herself as she glanced up to the High Table for the eighth time that evening just to sneak a quick glance at Teddy. She saw him talking with Professor Carpenter, the potions mistress. His hair was brown with a slight hint of red, which meant that he was thinking about her, but trying not to show it. Lily giggled a little as she turned back to Rose and Sarah, who were talking about Rose's boyfriend Scorpius, so they were completely oblivious. Lily loved Fridays because it meant that she could sit with any one she wanted. Professor McGonagall had put that rule into place after the war as a way of trying to encourage school unity and decrease rivalry between the houses.
Lily continued to listen to her friends gush about boys until she just couldn't help herself again and sneaked another look at her boyfriend. His hair now had a slight pink tinge to it, meaning he was embarrassed and after looking at Professor Carpenter, Lily could see why. Lucinda Carpenter was a very pretty woman with long brown hair that flowed to just past her shoulder blades and green eyes that were quite a few shades lighter then Lily's. She had full pink lips and pale skin, not to mention, a body that Lily had seen her brothers drool over many times. She was usually a flirt with all the boys from fifth year up, but tonight, it looked like she had her sights set on Teddy to keep her company. She had let a few buttons of her navy blue shirt come undone and her foot had sneaked out from under her robes to try and coax Teddy's into playing footsie. Lily couldn't help but laugh at Teddy's face. He was looking from the woman sitting next to him and Lily back to Professor Carpenter, and back to Lily. She could practically see his eyes saying "Help me." Shaking her head, Lily turned back to her table to see that she had two pairs of inquisitive eyes staring at her with great interest.
"What?" she asked, feeling slightly like a circus freak that they had come to ogle at.
"We have had enough of your dodging our questions, Lily Luna Potter!" Sarah said pointing a fork at her.
"Yeah!" Rose chimed in, "We want answers and we want them now!" She banged her knife on the table for emphasis.
"What do you mean guys?" Lily asked, trying to act unaware. Both girls rolled their eyes and looked at each other, shaking their heads.
"YOU'RE SECRET ADMIERER OFCOURSE!" The girls exclaimed in perfect unison, causing heads to turn in their direction. Lily glanced at the High Table; Teddy had heard… crap. Oh well, she'd have to fix that tomorrow on their date.
"Guys!" Lily scolded feeling very exposed. Her brothers were already making their way over to the girls, obviously hoping to hear any bite of information that might help indicate as to who they should kill for, as they put it, 'being a seducing, sister molesting, secretive little prick.'
"Well, come on, Lily!" Rose said. "You've kept us in the dark long enough."
"You keep sneaking away to go meet him and then sometimes we don't even see you again until the morning!" Sarah said.
"WHAT?" Lily heard two very familiar voices say loudly. Her brother had heard that. Glaring daggers at Sarah, who looked at her apologetically, Lily turned to face the music.
"Hi James, Albus," Lily greeted.
"Please tell me we heard that wrong," James said with a mix of shock and anger in his voice. "You haven't… done anything with this guy have you Lily?"
"Would if matter if I had?" Lily answered. "Need I remind you that your nickname at home is James Potter: The Great Man Whore?" Sarah and Rose giggled at this.
"That's different, and you know it!" James' face was growing red with embarrassment. "I'm a guy and you're my sister! It's not right for you to be doing this kind of stuff! You're too young!"
"I'm two years older then you were when you lost it!" Lily exclaimed, annoyed. James glared at her before walking away, seeing that he wasn't getting anywhere. "What about you Al?" She asked turning on Albus. He shrugged.
"I don't like it, but I can't stop it, so why try?" He said in a true Albus fashion. "But Lily, how much do you know about this guy? How long have you two known each other?" Lily was touched by his brotherly concern, and felt a little guilty. Albus had come to her when he wanted to ask Sarah out; he had trusted her and know she was keeping him out… it wasn't right.
"I have known him my whole life," Lily answered. The girls both gasped but Albus just nodded, winked at Sarah, and walked away. Lily grabbed one more quick look at the High Table, before turning back to the firing squad.
Teddy went back to his office after dinner. He had successfully dodged Lucinda's attempts at seduction and was rather pleased with himself. He knew that he could never cheat on Lily and judging by her reaction at dinner, she wasn't worried either.
As he turned the key in the lock, he heard footsteps behind him. Thinking it was Lily, Teddy smiled and turned around, then quickly dropped the smile when he saw that it was Albus Potter.
"Albus?" Teddy asked confused. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with Sarah George?"
"I need to talk to you," Albus said. He looked serious and determined. Teddy nodded and opened the door to let him in. Albus walked in and faced away from him.
"So to what do I owe-," Teddy began to say.
"Do you love her?" Albus asked in the middle of the sentence.
"Excuse me?" Teddy asked, feeling a little anxious.
"Lily, do you love her?" Albus repeated. Teddy waited a moment before answering.
"Of course I love her; I love all you Potter rug rats," He said, smiling at his cover, and ruffling Albus' hair a bit. Albus pushed his arm away and walked to the other side of the room.
"I didn't mean like a sister. I meant do you love her, the way Romeo loved Juliet?" Albus looked at him with a hard look in his eyes. Teddy began to panic. How had he found out? As he contemplated whether he should pretend not to know what he was talking about or to come clean about the whole thing, Albus took a few steps toward him. "DO YOU?" He asked again, a little louder. Teddy sighed.
"I don't know what you mean," He said as he backed away from the young man in front of him.
"Do you think I'm stupid or something?" Albus said. "I've seen the way she looks at you, and more importantly I've seen the way you look at her, it's like a blind man seeing the sun for the first time. I wasn't too worried about it until today when I found out she gave her virginity to you. Now I want to know if you love her or if you're just screwing with her emotions."
"Albus I-"
"I wasn't finished!" Albus said, cutting off Teddy with force. "Lily's a great girl, and she deserves everything and more."
"I know that, Al," Teddy said.
"Do you?" Albus said harshly. "You weren't there. You didn't watch her die from the inside out. You didn't hear her cry herself to sleep every night. You didn't have to force her to eat something just to keep her alive. You didn't help her run away to Uncle Charlie's so she could try to get some distance. She loved you more then anyone could have ever dreamed, and you ignored her. You chose Vic over her and didn't even stick around to see if the pieces would fit back together again. You don't know anything."
Teddy and Albus stood in silence, letting the words soak in between them.
"I hurt her?" Teddy asked.
Albus nodded.
"She wouldn't eat?"
Again, a nod.
"She ran away?"
Nod.
"When?"
"The summer of her fourth year. We didn't see her again until she showed up on the Hogwarts Express. Typical Lily to never miss a day of school."
They both let out a small, half-hearted laugh.
"Do you love her?" Albus asked once again, but this time his words were softer. Teddy waited a few seconds before answering.
"Yes."
Albus nodded.
"But you do understand, if ever, EVER hurt her in any way, I will have to kill you," Albus said it with a smile, but there was still a hint of seriousness in his voice.
"Sure thing," Teddy answered. But in his head he was thinking of how he was going to make this up to Lily.
Teddy wandered to the Shrieking Shack, with his head full of Lily. Albus' words had haunted him all night and he couldn't get them out of his mind.
"You weren't there. You didn't watch her die from the inside out. You didn't hear her cry herself to sleep every night. You didn't have to force her to eat something just to keep her alive."
He had really hurt her. He knew that she wasn't happy with him when they didn't talk, but he never thought that it was this bad.
"You didn't help her run away to Uncle Charlie's so she could try to get some distance."
She had left her family and everyone behind just to get away from the pain he had caused. She traded England for Romania and books for dragons. It scared him that she had put her self in harms way just to try to forget him. What if something had happened to her when she was out there? Could he have lived with himself?
"She loved you more then anyone could have ever dreamed, and you ignored her. You chose Vic over her and didn't even stick around to see if the pieces would fit back together again. You don't know anything."
He had been a coward. He had run away from Lily at the first sign of trouble and didn't even think about the consequences of his actions. He had to find a way to make it up to her… some how.
He went through the Shrieking Shake looking for any sign of Lily. He didn't notice anything on the first floor, so he went up stairs and continued to look until he heard music coming from the attic. He walked up the stairs and opened the door. The room looked perfect. There was a red table cloth laid out on the floor with all sorts of desserts on top of it, even a little wine. The music had been coming from a violin that was magically playing itself. But the highlight of the room was Lily, who was wearing a simply white cotton dress and looked beautiful.
"Teddy!" She said as she launched herself at him. He quickly grabbed her and held her close to him, taking in her wonderful scent. She always smelled like strawberries. After she pecked him on the cheek and pulled away from him, she noticed the flowers in his hand. "What are you apologizing for?" she sighed.
"How did you know that I was apologizing for something?" Teddy asked bewildered. Lily pointed to the white roses in his hand.
"Flowers usually mean 'I'm sorry'. Red roses mean that you screwed someone, and white mean that you just screwed up. So what sins have you committed lately?" She asked sounding bored. Teddy walked into the room a little more and joined her as she sat down on the table cloth.
"I talked to Albus and he knows about us," Teddy began. "He's fine with it," he said because Lily looked like she was about to panic. "But, he told me some things that disturbed me a bit," Lily looked confused. "He talked about those years that we were apart, and," Teddy stopped talking as Lily stood up and walked over to an old chair that had been left in the corner, her arms wrapped around her torso.
"I don't want to talk about it," she said. Teddy went over to her and knelt down beside her.
"I need you to tell me about it," he said.
"Why?" Lily asked sounding on the brink of tears. "Everything is going fine and we're together now. I'm much better." She looked away from him again. He sighed and took her hands in his.
"Please, Lily," He said, putting his hand on her cheek. "I can't make it better if I don't know." Lily nodded slowly, giving up.
"You remember how I told you that it killed me everyday we didn't talk?" Teddy nodded. "Well that was a bit of an understatement."
"Is it true that you didn't eat?"
"They first year we didn't talk… I ate very little. I would get so mad at Albus for trying to put food in my mouth, and I was put in the hospital wing for a week due to malnutrition. After that, I was watched very carefully by all teachers, Potters, and Weaselys, and soon I was back to eating."
"You cried yourself to sleep?"
"For three years I cried, but that got better too. After fourth year, I was able to fall asleep without crying, but I would usually wake up to tears."
"Why?" asked Teddy, confused.
"Because I would dream that I was with you," Lily responded, tears filling up in her eyes. Teddy wanted to kiss her tears away, but he still had one more question.
"You ran away to Romania?"
"I was talking with Dominic one day, and she said that is was possible that you two would be getting married soon. I seriously thought about telling you about my feelings, but I was still just a kid and you wouldn't have wanted me when you had Vic, so to get away from it, I had Albus write Uncle Charlie and tell him that I really needed time away and I wanted to stay with him. The next day, he apperated to my room, helped e pack a bag and took me with him. It scared the hell out of my parents, but Albus told them that I was safe and I really did have a good time in Romania. I loved working with the dragons and Uncle Charlie was great to me."
"Then why didn't you stay?" Teddy asked. "You could have finished school in Romania. Why come back here?" Lily looked him square in the eye.
"Because I knew if I didn't, I would never see you again." Teddy looked down, feeling terrible. All this time, and he had no idea.
"I'm so sorry Lily… how can I ever make it up to you?" Lily smacked him upside the head. "What was that for?" he asked rubbing his now sore skull.
"You are so thick!" She said standing up. "You already made it up to me! You're with me!"
"That's not enough!" Teddy said. "One month of dating doesn't cancel out six years of pain!"
"Then consider yourself in debt for the next six years!" Lily yelled. Teddy smiled up at her.
"You mean it?" He asked blissfully. He got to date Lily for the next six years? Things couldn't get much better!
"Yep! Now can we please have some dessert?" She asked, making her way back to the table cloth. Teddy had other ideas. He walked up behind her and grabbed her around the waist.
"I like the idea of having dessert, but I think we have different opinions on what dessert is," he said, kissing her neck. Lily shook her head.
"Food first, sex later," she said, trying to wiggle out of his grasp. Instead, Teddy just whirled her around to face him.
"How about this, sex first, food second, sex third, sex forth, and then we can go from there," he said with a glint in his eye.
"Nope!" Lily said, sounding very final. Teddy decided to fix that. He kissed her neck as his hands roamed her body. "It's not going to work," Lily said. Teddy slowly pushed the sleeves of her dress off and began to kiss her upper chest and collar bone. "Teddy you really should just give u-" Lily stopped talking and gasped as Teddy bit down softly on her old and slightly faded bite mark from their first encounter. She quickly responded by pulling his lips to hers and kissing him passionately. Teddy pulled away after a few seconds and smirked.
"I win," He said. Lily rolled her eyes.
"Just shut up and kiss me."
Teddy was only too happy to acquiesce to her request. He smiled as he thought about to convince her to skip dessert all together.
AN: There you go! This is a really looooooooooong chapter so I hope you're happy with it! Tell me what you think if you want a fast update!
