A/N: This isn't directly after the train this is maybe a couple of weeks later and in Victoire's POV.

Victoire's POV

I sit here, on the couch, in the Gryffindor common room. Just finishing up a Transfiguration essay. It was horrible and it cost one fourth of my grade for this semester. And unfortunately this was putting me in a bad mood. I hate essays. I mean I loathe essays for reasons beyond me. But that's not the only thing putting me in a bad mood. I'm getting distracted. Very, very distracted. I keep thinking of a certain turquoise hair boy. Three guesses who.

And they're not exactly . . . . how do I put this?

. . . friendly thoughts. They're slightly more. And its confusing me beyond measures. And then the confusion is giving me a headache. And than the headache is putting me in a worse mood. And than not being able to work on this very important essay is just making my mood jolly.

I turn to look behind me to see who just walked into the common room and of course, its Teddy.

Of course.

And to think this bad mood is making me pessimistic and sarcastic. I'm not usually like this. I mean I am, but not to this extent. I can usually still keep cool head and be nice to people. But just earlier I yelled at a fourth year for sitting down. Poor boy. He was scared witless.

I observe Teddy and see his well toned muscles against his black t-shirt. I couldn't stop staring. And luckily he hasn't seen me yet.

His arms were more than fine. They were amazing!

His bright blue hair was sticking up at odd angles giving him an I-just-rolled-out-of-bed sorta look.

And his eyes were gold. Like liquid gold. They were so beautiful.

He was achingly gorgeous. And I totally understand why more than half of the Hogwarts female population was after him. I remember my friends saying how amazingly good looking he was but I never really got what they were talking about. Sure, he was cute. But now I can see what everyone else sees. And I have no idea why.

Maybe its my hormones. I shrug. Whatever, I just have to stop thinking about him so I can finish this essay. I look back over to my essay and slightly glance over to see him standing in front of Sam and Brianna. I hear him say,

"Hey Sam do you know where I can find Vic?" I looked back down directly at me essay to see I actually stopped halfway through a word. WOW. That's brilliant Vic. Real brilliant.

See? I'm all dreadful now. I'm like this grumpy over emotional old person sitting on the edge of this couch. Plus I just realized I'm glaring at my paper. MY PAPER.

So not good.

I realized Sam just pointed me out to Teddy and he's walking over here.

Oh merlin. I don't think I can say a coherent sentence. Plus, have I mentioned I'm not in the best mood.

Teddy sat down next to me, putting his feet on the table and his fine arms around the back of the couch.

"What would you like?" I asked him raising an eyebrow

He raised his back at me with a smile,

"What's wrong, Vic?"

Damn, he knew me too well.

"Nothing. I'm fine."

"No. You're not. I know you. Somethings up. You can tell me." He had concern etched all over his face. It made my heart leap that he was so concerned about me.

"Actually that's the funny thing. I can't tell you." I gave a soft, sad laugh.

He took my meaning the wrong way.

He lowered his voice to a quiet whisper so I could just hear him.

"Oh. Is it a . . . . woman problem? I could get one of your friends for you." He turned around searching the room for one of my girl friends. He turned back around not finding any.

"Do you need anything?" he asked me leaning forward now. Elbows on his knees. "I could get you something. What helps cramps and what not? Do you need to go to Madam Pomfrey? You probably need your other friends, not me. You know what? I'll go find them for you." He said standing up. I just shook my head grinning. I pulled on his hand to sit him back down,

"Merlin Ted. Relax, I don't have any woman problems right now." I chuckled, "I'm honestly fine . . . . okay, fine, you got me. I'm just a little stressed about this essay. That's all."

"But-" he started but I interrupted,

"Teddy Remus Lupin! No buts! I. am. Fine. I'm serious, I am. Just a bit of a headache. And this essay is counting as a large part of my grade. So stressing is kinda in order." I explained

"Uh-hu. Yep, I'll believe that." He said looking straight through me. I tried to give him one of my looks. But I ruined it by giving into a smile that was growing inside me. He grinned back, "Let me see 'at." He said pointing to my essay.

"Its probably easy to you." I said pouting. Teddy was fantastic at Transfiguration and DADA. He smiled at me and than looked back, reading my essay. That smile just helped my headache.

He than put my essay on the table between us and leaned closer to me explaining to me what I should fix and leave. It was really, really, really hard to concentrate and focus at all on what he was telling me because he smelt so good. His scent was intoxicating me. It made me quite dizzy. When he got to the last word that wasn't even completed he raised an eyebrow and semi-smirked at me, making himself look adorable!

"What?!?! I was distracted!" I said, all innocent like. He chuckled and ruffled his hair up a bit.

I grinned as his hair stuck up even more if that was possible. I reached over and just couldn't resist putting my hand through his hair. I tried to flatten it, all the while laughing. He grinned and swatted my hand away and ruffed up his hair more to make up for the tiny part that I managed to flatten.

After we finished having a bit of a good laugh, we were still smiling, but I could feel this weird emotion that I've never really felt before, come up through both of us just flowing out and surrounding each other. It was nice. REALLY nice. And than I realized how close we were. I could smell his shampoo from his hair and we were staring straight into each others eyes. I just couldn't look away. His eyes were softening and hardening repeatedly from whatever feelings he was feeling at that moment. A stray piece of hair fell into my face and I reached up, never severing our eye contact, and began to tuck my hair behind my ear, when all of a sudden Teddy lightly grabbed my wrist and with his other hand tucked my hair behind my ear. I could feel the tingle all over my ear where his hand brushed and is currently residing. And my wrist which was being held in the warmest hold was tingly as well. It almost burned. But the burn felt so good. It took all my headache pain away. And I sighed in relief.

His hand fell away from my hair brushing it down as it fell back onto the couch. But with my wrist he slowly let go only a tiny bit so my hand could fall down and our hands would be at the same length. So when it did get to the same length and our palms were together, he intertwined our fingers.

It felt like something just opened in my heart. This new thing that has been there all along and I just couldn't figure out what was missing. Holding his hand felt like the most right thing in the world. It felt bloody brilliant to say the least. I squeezed our hands a tad tighter and he smiled rubbing his thumb smoothly over my hand. But this hand holding was not a just-friend hand hold it was something more. And I totally get it now. I like Teddy. A lot.

On realizing this I smiled and slowly let go of his hand and stood up.

"Thank you for your help on the essay. I have to go meet my friends in the library now. Sorry, bye!" I said as I rushed out of the common room. My hand felt cold and hot at the same time and my ear was still buzzing. It was a rush. And I loved it. Every single part of it.

I went over what I last said to him and realized it didn't sound like me at all. It sounded so weird and distant. He must think I'm kinda freaked out about it. When really I would die just to hold his hand like that one more time. I wonder if he felt the same. It sure seemed like it. But what do I know? He's in Seventh year. I'm only in my Fifth. I'm pretty young compared to him. So seriously, what would I know?

What I do know is that I definitely have feelings about Teddy which aren't even being close to sisterly love, or even cousin love, or even friend love. Its more. Way more.

Okay, I'm totally off my rocker. I'm nuts. Seriously, I'm mental. Absolutely mental. And to think everyone in that common room just saw that. I'm gonna love to hear the rumors tomorrow.

Plus, my headache just came back.

Ugh.

When Victoire rushed out of the common room she didn't seem to see Teddy's face. His utter look of being lost and than he grinned. He grinned like a madman. And his best mate Sam even left Brianna to go over to talk to him.

"Ted? What the bloody hell was that about?!? You never told me you fancied Vic. I thought you guys were just best mates. Even like cousins." But it was no use Teddy was staring straight ahead past Sam and was still grinning.

"Hello? Cradle-robber?????? Anyone home???" Sam grinned.

Teddy just stood up still smiling and went straight up to his room. Sam shook his head.

What a year this is turning out to be already.

A/N- So what did everyone think????? I did not like it. I totally screwed it up. It just was so not Victoire or Teddy. But I tried my best. Like I said, I so totally screw up continuations. But whatev, hope you like it anyways! Review please!!!!!!!!!