Tumble Through Time
Chapter Six
A/N: Sorry this has taken so long! I had a bit of writers block on just how I wanted to do this chapter, but I think I've got it, and then my two year old and I got sick, but we're better now! :) On a side note, I'm going to try to stick to canon as well as I can, up until the end of this story, but as of right now the only things I've made non-canon is Victoire's age. According to Jo, she's two years younger than Teddy, but I've made her only a year younger. As always, read, favorite, follow, & review! xoxo
A/N 2: Kind of dirty, not too graphic. Use your imagination if you want. Ha.
Teddy stifled a yawn as he rubbed his eyes and answered his door the next morning. He raised an eyebrow at Sirius, who was bouncing on the balls of his feet and grinning like a madman.
"Sirius..." Teddy couldn't help but to yawn this time. "Do you know what bloody time it is?"
"Yep. It's nine. And we're busy today. We have a party to plan."
Victoire sat up in bed and pulled the covers around her skimpy nightshirt. "It's Saturday. Why the bloody hell are you awake at nine on a Saturday?"
"Well, that's an easy one, love. I had the task of waking you sods up to help us. Teddy is coming with me and the guys and you, Miss Delacour, are going with Lily and her whiney bunch of friends. Well, Alice isn't so whiney, but the rest of them sure are."
Victoire pouted a bit. "Why can't I go with you guys?"
"Because, love, we have to visit some rather shady places that aren't suited for the likes of a lady such as yourself."
Victoire looked skeptical and crossed her arms. "And just where that might be?"
"Mostly The Hog's Head. The old barkeep there will sell us what dear Madam Rosmerta won't. Now, I'll wait outside the door. You two get dressed quick. Like bunnies or something." Sirius made a shooing motion with his hand and closed the door for Teddy.
"Should we get dressed then?" Teddy asked, turning to face his girlfriend.
"Well, I was hoping for a bit of a lie in, but seeing as that's not happening, I guess we should."
"Well, then, get on up. You've been talking about wanting to get to know more females besides Lily, now here's your chance." Teddy picked a shirt up off of the floor and smelled it, nodded approvingly, and pulled it on.
"Are you going to get all bummed out after spending all day with Remus again?"
Teddy stopped buttoning his jeans and shrugged. "It's getting easier. Besides, I think I have a plan." He grinned wickedly.
"Teddy, what are you talking about? Are you thinking of trying to keep him alive?" Victoire jumped out of bed as Teddy shrugged again and finished buttoning his jeans."Ted, you can't. Horrible things have happened to wizards who have meddled with time. You can't do anything to change what's already happened."
"But that's just it, Vic. It technically hasn't happened yet. What if we've already fucked the timeline up just by being here? We don't know what will be waiting for us back home. If we ever get back there, that is. Total apocolyptic annihalation could be waiting for us, Melin only knows. OR everything could be fucking rainbows and kittens. What's one little thing that crossed my mind going to change?"
"It could be the difference between you even existing or not! Godric, Teddy, please don't do whatever it is you're thinking about."
"I haven't even made up my mind yet, so don't get your knickers in a twist. Now, are you going to put those trousers on or are you going shopping in your underpants?" Teddy asked, rudely, as he sat down to pull his trainers on.
Victoire pulled her jeans on slowly. "Teddy, please, just think about listening to me for once."
"I haven't even told you what I was thinking about doing. And besides, it was only a random thought. Who said I was going to do anything about it?"
Victoire walked the few short paces to her boyfriend and cupped his face in her hands. "Because I know you, Ted. I know that you are very stubborn and when you get a random idea in your head, you don't let it go. Don't think I don't know that it was a random idea when you decided to ask me out the first time." She winked, kissing him quickly on the nose.
"You turned me down, though. Didn't you? And that was completely different. I've been in love with you since I was 6. It was only a matter of time before I tried to snag you." Teddy placed a chaste kiss on Victoire's lips. "Come on, love. Sirius is waiting."
"Never thought I'd hear you say those words." Victoire mumbled against his lips, smiling.
They left their room and followed Sirius down to the Entrance Hall making small talk along the way. They met up with the rest of the Marauders and Lily and her friends. Victoire smiled as Lily began to speak first.
"Victoire, this is Alice and Marlene. They're going with us to Diagon Alley."
"How did you get permission to go to Diagon Alley?" Victoire wondered aloud.
"They told Minnie they were taking you clothes shopping." Sirius rolled his eyes.
Victoire gave Lily a suspicious look. "But I haven't got any more money. I gave Dumbledore back what I didn't spend..."
Alice grinned and pulled out a sack of coins. "And Dumbledore gave it back to us to give to you."
"So, you better come back with some clothes." Lily winked. She linked arms with Victoire and the group of students began walking towards Hogsmeade. "We're breaking off from the boys at The Three Broomsticks so we can Floo to The Leaky Cauldron." Lily explained when Victoire made a confused face.
The finally made it to Diagon Alley about 20 minutes later and bagan browsing the shops.
"So, what's it like?" Alice asked, rummaging through a rack of robes.
"What's what like?" Victoire raised an eyebrow.
"Being, you know, an orphan?" Alice whispered the last word like it was a secret.
"Oh. Uhm, well, it get's rather lonely at times. But I've always had Teddy to keep me company, you see. Our parents were friends and they passed away in the same accident. I was 3 and he was 4."
Alice looked at Victoire with sad, puppy dog eyes. "Oh, that's terrible! I'm so sorry! I couldn't even imagine... But at least you had someone you know..."
"Yeah, the orphanage tried to separate us, but that didn't really work out for them."
Alice nodded. "What is France like? I've always wanted to go there. It looks beautiful."
"It's truly... Magical. In the Muggle sense of the word. I loved it there, but things happen, you know..." Victoire said vaguely, hoping Alice wouldn't want her to elaborate.
A comfortable silence enveloped the two as they continued to browse through the racks until Lily and Marlene showed back up, with a few bags in hand.
"We're bored." Marlene stated. "Let's go get some ice cream." Marlene was, in not s many words, gorgeous. She had long, blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She also had what Teddy and some of Victoire's cousin's liked to refer to as a 'brilliant personality' (which basically meant she had big knockers.) While Alice was the complete opposite. She had short, brown hair and big, brown eyes. She wasn't ugly but any standards, just a bit plain. Victoire's younger sister, Dominique, would say she had definite potential.
The four squeezed into a booth at Florean Fortesque's, ice creams in hand, and began to dig in.
"I hope Alice wasn't a bother, Vic." Lily said, swallowing a bite. "She can get a bit nosy." Lily laughed as ALice blushed bright crimson.
"I wasn't..." Alice said, quietly, into her spoon.
"She really wasn't." Victoire smiled. "I didn't mind the questions, actually."
"We need to find dresses for tonight. One of us has got to get laid." Marlene said suddenly, apparently bored of talking about Victoire and Alice.
"Marley, you're probably the only one who will. Sirius will shag you senseless, no matter what you're wearing. You could be in a tea cozy and he'd still sneak off with you." Lily stated, laughing.
"Oh, are you and Sirius an item?" Victoire asked, innocently.
"Oh, fuck no." Marlene rolled her eyes. "He's just a good shag every once in a while. If he wasn't, I don't think I could stand his ego. Although, he isn't confident in himself for no reason, if you catch my drift."
Victoire blushed at the innuendo. "Oh." was all she could say.
"What about you and Teddy? Think you'll get lucky?" Alice asked, bluntly.
"No." VIctoire shrugged. "We haven't actually gone that far yet."
"Oh, well, isn't that cute?" Marlene asked, mockingly.
"I'm waiting for marriage. I know he's slept with other girls, but he understands that I want to wait. I do love him, but I think it's better for us if we wait."
"Merlin, you're adorable." Marlene rolled her eyes. "Sex isn't that big of a deal, sweetheart."
"Well, it is to me." Victoire shrugged again and looked down at her slowly melting ice cream.
"Come on, Marley, give her a break. I think that's awesome." Alice said, smiling at Victoire.
"Thanks, Alice..." Victoire said, quietly. Marlene just rolled her eyes again.
Lily shook her head. "Come on, guys. We still have some shopping to do." As they began to file out of the shop, Lily grabed Victoire's arm and pulled her off to the side. "Don't mind Marley. She's a bit of a slag sometimes... Personally, I think it's great that you're waiting and I wish I would have done the same. Anything she says, no matter the subject, just let it roll off your back. She's just not too keen on you at the moment because she knows Sirius has taken a liking to you and she's jealous."
"But I have a boyfriend and Sirius knows that. She doesn't have anything to worry about."
"Yes, but we know Sirius a lot better than you do, Vic. Boyfriend's aren't a big worry of his, just a small thing in the way. Once he finds someone he decides to fancy for a bit, he usually gets them. Very rarely does he not. I see with the way you and Teddy are, that you're one of the ones he won't get, but Marlene hasn't seen that." Lily squeezed Victoire's arm gently and smiled. "Just don't let her get to you. If you really get to know her, she's practically harmless."
Later that night, VIctoire walked out of her and Teddy's shared bathroom and spun around for her boyfriend, showing off her new dress. It was ice blue, to match her eyes, and came down mid-thigh. It was a fairly simple dress with a small, diamond butterfly pin at the waist, but Teddy looked at her like she was the Queen.
"You're absolutely stunning, Vic." He breathed as he planted a kiss on her lips.
"You don't look too bad yourself, love. You clean up nicely. I like it."
Teddy placed his hands on Victoire's waist and looked her up and down, grinning like a madman. "I will have the most beautiful date in the room tonight and I won't let anyone tell me differently."
"Come on, sweet talker, we have a party to get to." Victoire linked their arms together and they made their way to the Gryffindor common room.
They climbed through the portrait hole and gaped at the decorations. The Marauders really had gone all out for thie one night. Victoire kissed Teddy's cheek and ran off to say hello to Alice and Lily and Teddy made his way to the drink table.
It seemed like an hour had past before people stopped making small talk with the teal haired boy and he was able to look for Victoire. He finally found her sitting on the couch wedged between Lily and Remus, laughing animatedly at a story Sirius was telling that seemed to involve a lot of flailing and was making James look very embarrassed.
Then a realization shot through Teddy like a gunshot. This really was the only time he would get to spend with his father and his friends. He was standing there staring at James Potter, who Harry didn't even have a memory of, and Sirius Black, who was taken from Harry far too soon, as well. A pit formed in his stomach and he knew that he would do something drastic if he didn't leave. He found Victoire, whispered to her that he needed to leave, and gave his condolences to the Marauders that he couldn't stay longer. Remus smiled and told him they understood and that he'd make sure Victoire made it back to their room in one piece. Teddy didn't worry about leaving Victoire because he knew that she could handle herself and that, if all else failed, Remus would watch over her.
It was well past midnight, and Teddy was curled up half-asleep in bed, when Victoire finally made it back to the room. She peeled her dress and heels off and crawled into bed, cuddling up as close as she could to Teddy.
"How drunk are you?" Teddy whispered. "You smell like you fell into a bottle of Ogden's."
"I want to have sex." Victoire slurred, avoiding the question.
"Godric, you must be completely gone, then. We're not having sex, Vic."
"Oh, come on, Teddy. Quit being a spoilsport. I know you want to and now I want to. I don't want to wait." Victoire tried to untie Teddy's sweatpants, but he stopped her.
"That's just the firewhiskey talking. You won't even remember this in the morning. Go to sleep."
"Please, Teddy. I want to. I want- I want you."
"Are you sure?" He whispered, feeling himself harden at her confession. Victoire bit her lip and nodded.
They made quick work of Victoire's undergarments and Teddy's sweatpants and within minutes, they were both naked. The foreplay lasted longer than Teddy would have liked, but he wanted to take his time.
The pair took turns kissing, nipping, and sucking on any place they could reach on the other. And when Teddy was finally inside of her, his breathing almost stopped at the sight of the girl writhing below him. He took his time, trying with all of his might to not finish until she did.
And when she did, he made sure to hold out just a little bit longer. Teddy brushed Victoire's bangs out of her face and smiled before kissing her gently. He pulled out and collapsed on the bed next to her and grinned when she sighed with contentment.
"I take it that was alright, then?" He breathed out.
Victoire wrapped her arm around him and burried her face in his neck. She tried to stifle a yawn, as she spoke, but was unsuccessful, so all Teddy heard was "Ye-... Much better... Sirius..."
Teddy lifted himself up onto his elbows. "What did you say?"
Victoire laid her head on her pillow and closed her eyes again. "Much better than Sirius. Stupid git didn't even let me finish." And before Teddy could respond, she had began to snore lightly.
Teddy sat there for a minute, dumbfounded, before getting out of bed, pulling on his sweatpants, and finding an extra blanket. He grabbed his pillow and threw it on the couch and flopped down, wrapping himself in his blanket. He laid there in stony silence for what seemed like hours before sleep finally took over. The last thought that crossed his mind was that the next time he saw Sirius, one of them was going to wind up in the Hospital Wing.
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