Thirteen Years Later (2011) \\ The Beginning of Forever and Always \\ WICELA
Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series nor everything that comes with it. The rights go to J. K. Rowling. The only thing I own is the holes in her stories that I filled with my fantasies.
A/N: While I was looking for the timetable of the First Years, I found something…weird. I've seen the timetable before, but this time a class named 'Xylomancy' was added. For those who don't know that lesson: it's a type of divination that relied upon twigs. The book about this class is written by Selina Sapworthy and classes were in the North Tower of Hogwarts.
"Oh Merlin, Timothy is really a hot bloke!" Victoire blushed and slapped her friend.
"Olive, stop!"
"As if you weren't saying you wanted to study here, just because of Tim!"
"Giving him nicknames, are you?"
"Don't ignore me, Vic, just admit it!"
"NEVER!" The girls laughed, but Victoire knew Olive was right. Timothy wasn't only hot, but also very smart and one of the few persons who wasn't that nice to her. Just because she wasn't completely in control of her Veela-powers, wasn't a reason for all the guys in the school to flirt with her even though they thought otherwise.
"Hello darling!" A familiar voice said. Victoire looked up, right in the eyes of Joel Wood.
"I'm not your darling, Joel."
"Ssshh, you should be honored I'm talking to a firstie, you know!"
"Just shut your mouth and go to the one who's your slut this week. Who's the unlucky one this week?"
"Well, I was thinking about you…" Victoire gave him a dead-glance.
"…And than I thought I would make your boyfriend jealous, so perhaps not you this week."
"You have to be more specific about the one you call 'my boyfriend'"
"There are more boys claiming to be your boyfriend? And here you're calling me a player!"
"Just shut up Wood."
"Clearwater, the beast next to the beauty! Perhaps you two can become lesbians?"
"Not that there isn't anything wrong with that, but no thanks Joel." He kissed her on the head and left the library. Just a few inches after he crossed Madam Pince, he stopped.
"YOUR BOYFRIEND OF THE WEEK IS THAT BLUE HAIRED GIT!" He shouted and he walked away grinning.
"Calm down, Vic!"
"I'm going to KILL HIM!" Typically, Olive was always calming her down before the real anger came.
"Don't do things you're going to regret!"
"You know how hard this friend-zone thing is? When I was younger, I was madly in love with Teddy, believe me and at some point I discovered every girl in my family was in love with him. He was the only boy I knew, of course I was in love with him! But now we're here and I don't talk to him, because he's always 'busy' or so and then that boy — who I thought was his friend — claimed he's in love with me or something? I wished Teddy was my cousin, so we would never have this weird conversations! Teddy is always claiming he hates love and now he's the one doing weird stuff! And plus, talking about love with Teddy is like super weird, so I can't discuss those things with him, which makes us even less better friends than when we were like four years old."
"Vic, calm down! You have those Veela powers, don't forget that! There is almost nobody who can resist that."
"Teddy can. Timothy too, I guess." Olive grinned softly.
"What?"
"You like Timothy, don't you?"
"No, I don't. I'm just…curious okay? You're just saying weird things! Here, let's study for potions instead!" Olive shook her head, laughingly and sing songed something what sounded like: "Vicky loves Timmy!"
"Just shut it!" Victoire reacted, playfully angry and she smiled.
"Euhm, is it a problem if I study with you?" The poor little boy who had interrupted them, smiled a bit shy.
"You're Phileas, right?" Victoire recognized. She smiled at him, but hoped he didn't hear anything of Olive' and her conversation.
"Phil, yes."
"Demetrius's little brother?" Phil almost gave her a dead glance, but suddenly seemed to realize who he was talking too and
"Thanks for the little, but I think so." Victoire laughed and nodded.
"Yeah, of course you can study with us." Olive coughed loudly and when Victoire looked at her, raising her brow.
"If you're okay with it too, Olive?" Olive smiled overly happy at her and then at Phil.
"Yes, no problem Phil." Victoire shook her head and rolled her eyes.
"Overdramatic bitch." She hissed.
"Pot calling the kettle black!" Olive hissed back.
"Sorry, did I missed something?" Phil looked up.
"Nothing!" The two girls said in unison.
"Right, well, I heard you back there talking about potions. Can you help me with the twelve uses of dragon blood? I only have nine or something."
"Did you have the cure for verruca?" Olive said, while scanning his paper.
"I don't think so…"
"You forgot the spot remover as well!" Victoire added.
"Oh, of course, the oven cleaner, Vic, we forgot that one!"
"Professor Slughorn will be very happy with us then!"
"I'm still missing one, I think."
"No Phil, you've got that one there and those three. Oh, and there are number five, six and seven. Number eight is there…and nine and ten…over there. Plus the ones Vic and I said, so that's twelve. If I were you I would write it more organized way, but that's all."
"Thank you so much! If you ever need help for Xylomancy or Magical Theory or History of Magic, I'm your man! I mean, I'm more of a theoretical person instead of a practical person." Victoire and Olive laughed at him, when Olive suddenly offered him a hand.
"Euhm…?" He clearly didn't understand and Victoire giggled at the shyness of Phil.
"Friends?" Relieved, Phil shook her hand and after her, Victoire shook hands with him.
"Friends."
It was nearly Christmas when Teddy realized he hadn't seen Victoire in ages. Soon they would go home together and tell everyone the amazing stories about Hogwarts. It was a pity Victoire and him didn't talk that often, but he was really busy. He hadn't made the Quidditch team, but the captain had told him that he would be a great Chaser if he didn't already had three great Chasers. Demetrius, however, had become Keeper. Andrew wasn't that much of a flying person. Wood was of course a Keeper, like his father, while Dayman was a Seeker, also like his father. However Dayman and Joel seemed to be a bit nice and at least talking at him, he never talked to them again. It was on rare occasions he even saw them. They didn't share that much lessons, because they'd chosen complete other classes.
"How's your little brother doing, Dem?" Teddy teased.
"Please don't call me Dem and he's fine. He had made some friends, I heard and apparently he's very famous by the girls." Teddy raised his brows and looked at Demetrius.
"Seriously?" It wasn't like Demetrius and Phileas were ugly…but they weren't as handsome as for example Joel or Dayman. Girls would mostly choose them, instead of Teddy and his guys.
"Yeah, I was first surprised too, but then it all made sense."
"Why?"
"He's friends with your…almost-cousin. Victoire Weasley is one of the most popular girls in school, didn't you notice? Every girl is jealous of her and every boy wants to date her. The only reason people liked Olive and Phil are because of Victoire, until people apparently discovered why she's friends with them."
"Is Vic popular?"
"Seriously, Teddy, you should open your eyes sometimes. Perhaps you're happy to discover that Victoire doesn't date and isn't interested in anyone. Well, we will see how fast that will change. I think she's dated the whole school before her fourth year." He grinned at Teddy and Teddy just rolled his eyes. Victoire wasn't supposed to date anyone anytime soon. Every boy out there would only like her for her beauty.
"Aren't there guys who can see through her?"
"Phil and some other bloke, apparently."
"And what should I do?"
"Talking to her, of course. Sorry to say, but she already made other friends, so hurry up before she will totally forget about you." Teddy didn't like that. Vic and he were friends, weren't they? Just because they were busy, didn't mean that they wouldn't make some time for each other, would they?
"I'm…I'm going to the library, I think." Teddy said, while picking up his book and walking to the library. She studied there, didn't she? She had some friends in other houses and Demetrius had told him Phileas was often studying with her. He was walking into the library, looking for her and saw her sitting there. She was indeed studying with Phil and Olive.
"I think we deserve a break." Olive said. A normal student who didn't know Olive and Victoire, wouldn't know who would be who. Olive had, like Victoire, long and blond hair. Teddy had seen how nervous and shy the girl was in the beginning of the year, but he could already see a difference between that girl and this girl. This girl was wipping on her chair of excitement and obviously not in de mood of studying anymore.
"It's almost Christmas, you know, and I have to do loads of preparations for then. Please stop this!" Teddy heard Victoire giggling and smiled. It was a while ago he had heard it for the last time. She hadn't been giggling with him the way she was giggling now for ages. He walked to their table and with that he saw the excitement dropping of Olive's face.
"Just what I needed, another one of Victoire's admirers. Please stop, she's not interested." Teddy gave her a strange look, but laughed a bit at that.
"I'm not here to admire her, I'm just here to…"
"…talk?" Olive finished, "Yeah, well, haven't heard that one before." When Teddy looked at the other ones at the table, he saw Phil laughing and Victoire staring at him.
"Sorry," Phil said, "Olive, this is Teddy, not some admirer." Olive's eyes widened.
"You are Teddy?" She was surprised at first, but made up her mind.
"Well, I'm not gonna like you more just because of that name. Nice friend you are, while you're never being one."
"Thanks, Olive, but can you give me a moment?" Victoire was finally speaking and gave Phil a begging look. Phil winked at her, walked away with Olive lugging along.
"I'm sorry for Olive." Victoire said, smiling.
"Well, a bit unkind, isn't it? As it's not only me not talking to you, but also you not talking to me."
"Yes, I know and we were both busy, I know. I mean: last year I was still some…some kid who had all the time for herself and now I'm like studying every minute of my life! I look like Molly or something!"
"Perhaps you should use your free time for yourself then, instead for boys." Teddy snapped. It was out before he even realized it. Victoire just rolled her eyes.
"I don't do boys, like you don't do girls. I mean: I'm eleven, right? Why is everybody always thinking I'm dating all the time?"
"Well, because of your looks?"
"Like I had a choice." She shook her head and smiled at him.
"Look Teddy, it's just…I'm not totally able to control my Veela-powers, okay? It's just…when I'm nervous I'm automatically using them and I hate it." Teddy smiled and gave her a hug.
"You know Vic, I'm not always able to control my powers, either. Sometimes I'm in class and my hair is suddenly red. Everybody is laughing at me then, but I can't help it." Victoire laughed a bit at that.
"I like your hair like this." She said, pointing at his hair. It was somewhat long, but cerulean.
"You know, when we're at the Burrow, we should tell our cousins some crazy things about Hogwarts. You know, teasing Molly and so." She laughed already at the prospect.
"Do would like to join then, whatever we would do!"
"Do they really hate each other that much?"
"It's very logical when one is very manly and one is very bookish. I think Do inherited some of dad's werewolf genes. She's way to wild than a normal person." Teddy looked away at that. In their family, people often realized Vic, Do and little Louis were children of a werewolf. The fact that he was a werewolf's child too, was something they overlooked.
"I'm sorry, Teddy. I didn't mean to offend you! You can be wild too, but I haven't seen that side of you in a long time."
"Don't make me mad, then." It was a joke, but somewhere Teddy realized it was a warning too. In some ways he didn't mind he was wild. It was something he inherited of his father and that was in no way wrong.
"I will see you in the train, I think?"
"Yes, see you soon!"