"If it's love," she said, "then we're going to have to think about the consequences."

-Counting Crows, "Anna Begins"

Lily looked up at him, her round, green eyes connecting with his. Her heart was fluttering in her chest at the mere thought of him returning her love. "You feel the same way?" she asked him hesitantly. She almost did not want him to answer because it felt too good to be true.

Teddy look a few steps closer and picked her hands up from her lap. He did not reply right away, he just studied her face, taking in every detail. After a few minutes he sighed and said, "Yes, Lily, I do love you. But-"

She cut him off. "But?" she said quietly, looking down at her knees. "That was what I was afraid of…"

He let go of one of her petite hands and reached forward and tilted her chin up so he could look into her entrancing eyes as he spoke. "No, listen Lily. I do love you, I really do. It's just that there are so many things against us. It is not going to be easy."

"Whoever said love was easy?' she questioned him, squeezing his hand gently. "Am I worth enough to fight for?"

Teddy cocked his head to one side, causing his red hair to fall over his eyes. Lily's heart melted when he did that; he looked just like a puppy, a very cute one, too. "Of course you are," he told her with a stunning smile. "I just wanted to make sure you know what you were getting into."

Lily blushed and grinned at him. He was hers, finally. She just hoped that it would stay that way. "Teddy," she started. "Can I ask you something?"

He nodded his head and replied, "Anything, my Lilyflower."

She smiled at him when he used the pet name that, according to her dad, her grandfather used for her grandmother. "I was just wondering when you started to like me?" her cheeks blushed bright red again as she looked up at him.

He looked up at the sky as he ran a hand through his red hair. A look of thought crossed his face for a few seconds as he counted back the years. "I remember now," he said, looking back at her. "It was when you were fifteen and came home from Hogwarts for the summer. You asked me to teach you how to fly and by the end of the day, I was head-over-heels for you. Not that I didn't love you before, but that was more of a sister-brother love."

She laughed at the memory; flying was not her strongest point. Teddy had tried his hardest that day to teach her how to ride on a broomstick without killing herself. "That day? Out of all of the different days that we spent together, you started to like me on that one? Why?"

It was his turn to blush, his hair turning a light pink to match his cheeks. "I don't know why," he told her sheepishly. "You just kept falling and crashing but you would not give up. I guess I liked that you were determined."

Lily beamed; this was better than her dreams. Teddy, her Teddy, loved her back. All of those tears that she had shed over the years on him had been worth it; they finally paid off. She knew it was not all good, it was not going to come easy for them, they were going to have to work for it.

She reached out for his other hand and pulled him closer to her. He climbed onto the rock beside her and wrapped one arm around her small waist. Lily rested her head up against his shoulder and inhaled his scent. He smelled amazing, a mix of cologne and mint she decided as she took another breath. Then a thought hit her and she became worried again. "Teddy," she whispered into his robes, "what will my dad think?"

Lily felt him become tense but it quickly passed. He placed a gentle hand on her head and told her softly, "It will be fine, I promise; I think he'll understand. Anyways, he has always told me that he wished that I was really a part of the family."

Lily fixed her head so she could look up at his beautiful face. Although he hid it well in his voice, she knew him well enough to see that he was worried. "I don't think that this is what he quite had in mind." She paused to watch him smile half-heartedly. "Are you worried?" she questioned him, hoping that he would let her know the true answer.

He looked down at her and replied, "Of course I am worried; scared half to death is a better way to describe it. Your whole family is probably really mad at me for leaving Victoire at the wedding to run after you like I did. They were all excited to see her and me get married."

She bit her bottom lip as she watched him talk; she did not want him to be afraid of her family but she could not really blame him. She had one more question that she had to ask him; her stomach dropped just to think about it. "Teddy?" she murmured, moving her head off his shoulder and unwrapping his arm from around her middle.

Teddy gave her a confused look and replied tentatively, "Yes?…"

"What are you going to do about Victoire?"

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