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"Dating?" repeated Orion for the millionth time. "Our parents are dating?" Shock slashed through him.
Arielle nodded vigorously.
"Dating?"
"Yes, Orion, for the millionth ti-," Arielle paused. That wasn't Orion's voice.
The couple whipped their heads to the newcomer, a certain turquoise haired Auror who specialized in Oblivating.
"Who's dating?" Teddy asked curiously.
Arielle sighed. "Our parents." Despite the many times she had said it over and over again to tell Orion they really were dating, it still sounded strange in her mouth.
"Your parents?" Teddy's eyebrows raised.
"Apparently, my dad, and Arielle's mum have been dating for almost a year now," nodded Orion.
"Wow," Teddy tilted his head. "We really are like our parents."
"You're saying that Arielle and I shouldn't be dating because our parents would end up together?" Orion's eyebrows furrowed.
"No, of course not," Teddy quickly backtracked. "I'm just saying, after all these years of being told we're just like our parents… I mean, we can really see with our own eyes the similarities we dreamed of having."
The inseparable trio sat silently.
"Merlin," Orion chuckled humorlessly. "Here we are a bunch of depressed kids who finally get the chance of meeting our parents, while we're stuck in the past. Utterly, bloody stuck."
"What if we never get back home?" Arielle burrowed her head into her arms.
"We'll find a way out," Teddy paused. "I hope."
" 'I hope' ?!" Arielle's voice had risen to a shriek. "Great, just great. We have no idea how we got back into the past, and now we're 'hoping' that we can get back into the present."
"Arielle, calm down. We'll have to work together if we want to get back home," sighed Orion. The mentioned witch cut him off.
"Together? Says the one who wants to break up with me?" For the second time, in this day, shock slashed through Orion. Teddy looked just as shocked as he felt.
When Arielle gets nervous, she freaks out, total hyperventiling kind of freak out. But he never thought she'd think he wanted to break up with her.
How had he gotten himself into this mess?
Orion defeatedly stomped down the steps. Arielle had locked herself up after her freak out incident, and couldn't even look at him in the eye.
"Just give her a bit," his best friend clapped him on the shoulder. "You know how Arielle is when she freaks out. Cools down, feels bad, apologizes, everything's back to normal."
"I have a feeling this is a bit different than usual," sighed Orion.
"Makes sense," agreed Teddy.
"What do you mean?" asked the last descendant of the Black family. (Well, at least in his time.)
"Has anyone ever told you, you're horrible at noticing the obvious mate?" laughed the turquoise haired wizard.
Orion rolled his eyes. "I'm pretty sure my supposedly best mate and my girlfriend make sure I'm the laughingstock whenever that comes up. Talking about my girlfriend, what do you mean 'makes sense'?"
Teddy raised his hands. "Well, when you mentioned the whole-breaking-up-with-Arielle thing, I guess she might've thought you were thinking about ending your relationship. It also didn't help that your parents don't end up together, she probably saw that that might mean you and her won't end up either." He paused, about to add something else, but then thought better of it and shut his mouth.
"Ted." Orion glared.
"Fine, you're also not the best with relationships. I mean, you've dated like every witch in Hogwarts age appropriate enough to date, during our Hogwarts years. Including Vicky."
"That was pretty awkward," mused Orion.
"Orion." This time it was Teddy who glared.
"So, what now?" sighed Orion, running his hands through his hair frustratedly.
"Wait. When she comes around, make sure she knows you'll never break up with her, because that would be the dumbest decision you've ever made, and you've done some pretty stupid things, remember the time you-"
"Okay, I get it," Orion quickly interrupted. The two best friends walked into the living room, where Remus and Aria were playing a game of chess.
Aria beamed at the two wizards from the future.
"Anyone want to play? So far Remus is winning four to nil."
"I'll play," Teddy shrugged. "I'm not as good as Ron or anything, but I can beat Orion. Though he usually gives up during the middle of the game."
"You're just a nerd Ted," snorted Orion. And you want to hang out with your father, he secretly added. "With a really bad obsession for chocolate," Orion said out loud instead.
"Sounds like someone else I know," Aria smiled knowingly at Remus, whose gaze traveled down.
"Yeah, its like his oxygen, wand, and baby wrapped up in one," smirked Orion. "One time Minnie accidently ate his chocolate. Let's just say it wasn't very pretty, involving many detentions, hexes, and a dog." Teddy groaned, his hair flushing red.
"Minnie?" questioned Remus quietly, eyebrows raising.
"Yeah," laughed Orion. "I came up with it myself. Clever right? Poor Minnie almost had a heart attack when I first called her that."
"Sirius came up with that name in our second year," the older sandy haired wizard, shaking his head disbelieving.
"Well, great minds think alike huh?" grinned Orion without missing a beat, but Teddy could tell the grin was forced.
Aria and Orion joked around while the Lupin men played a fierce, but fun game of chess.
"Why does chess have to be so long and boring," groaned Orion.
"It's been an hour," agreed Aria, flopping onto the couch. Orion followed, the springs creaking protestingly.
"Checkmate," Teddy grinned smugly. Remus stared at the board, and sighed.
"You win, good game," the two shook, and Orion could tell how pleased Teddy was at just a simple gesture from his father.
"Finally!" burst Orion, throwing his hands into the air.
"If you want I could help find some research for you guys to get back to the future," offered Remus.
"That'd be wicked," Teddy's eyes shined brightly, and Orion felt a pang of jealously. Out of the three of them, Teddy had connected the closest with his father so far.
He didn't know how to act around his dad. Harry told him all these stories of how Sirius was extremely loyal, the best godfather, and an amazing man. Orion knew he was also reckless, rash, kept on seeing James in Harry, a bully to Snape, and after Azkaban, Sirius Black was never the same.
Orion was so deep in thought (yes it was actually possible, ha ha very funny) he didn't notice Arielle standing at the door.
"Orion?" He turned, his hands sweating, even though he's known her all his life. "Can we talk?" Teddy sent him an encouraging grin.
Orion and Arielle stood in the hallway, each waiting for the other one to go first. Orion, of course, lost his impatience first. "I just want you to know that-"
"I'm breaking up with you." Orion felt his heart drop. How could five measly words hurt so much?
"Arielle?"
"This is a mess, Black." He flinched at her use of his last name. They almost never resorted to last names. "I mean, what if we don't end up together? You could be cheating on me for all I know." She sighed, ducking, so she wouldn't have to meet his gaze.
"You know I'm not cheating on you," Orion said softly. Then a thought occured him. "Are you cheating on me?"
"No," Arielle said bewildered. "You actually think I- that's not the point. Look, I'm just confused with everything happening, and it doesn't help that you're here,"
Anger flashed through Orion. "Oh, so its this again. Bones is always right, so have to follow whatever she thinks," he snapped sarcastically.
Hurt flickered in her eyes, which was soon replaced with anger. "I can't believe I even agreed to go out with you. You're so arrogant Black. Dating me and then dumping me for another pretty girl, just like your father."
Orion's blood turned to ice. "Just like my father? Look at your father, moving on from your precious Mum, to Miss Rochelle Belrose." As soon as the words came out of his mouth he wished he could have taken them back.
But it was too late and all he could do was stand there and feel miserable as Arielle dashed away, her sobs echoing down the hallway.
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Drama! Arielle and Orion just broke up! Please don't kill me ;) Hope you liked it, Teddy's coming up.
