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"Bye Gran, I'll see you in a couple of days," Teddy kissed his gran on the cheek, with one foot in the fireplace.

"Have fun at the dance, you look dashing," Andromeda straightened her grandsons collar, and smoothed down his hair. "Your trunk is packed?"

Ted nodded patiently.

"Good, it'll be at the Potters by the time you arrive there tomorrow."

"Thanks gran, love you." He turned to the fireplace, took a handful of the floo powder that was sitting in a pot on the mantelpiece and threw it in the fire, saying clearly, "Hogwarts!"

Spluttering, he got out from the fireplace. He dusted of his robes and checked himself in the mirror, "Looking spiffing young man," the mirror said.

Teddy grinned, "Don't look too bad yourself," he complimented in return and then hurried out of Professor Longbottoms office, everyone had surely already eaten – the party would be well under way.

Robbie had cornered him before he left for Christmas and had persuaded him to come back for the Yule Ball, he said Victoire wouldn't have a good time without him…Teddy frowned as he imagined his Vicky sitting alone at one of the tables, watching the dancers wistfully.

Pushing open the Great Hall doors, he was shocked at how different it looked. Icicles hung from the ceilings, some silver, some neon pink and yellow as they flashed different colours on the party below. Everyone in the Hall was unrecognisable too, they all looked ten times better than usual. On the stage, Witchy Gaga was strutting her stuff singing her hit song 'Spell it Out', everyone looked like they were having a great time and at that moment Ted felt extremely grateful to Robbie that he had convinced him to come. Imagine missing this! People would be talking about this for weeks! He scanned the tables on the side, but only saw Robbie and Sophie sitting there, staring at the dancers. Surely Victoire hadn't already left?

Moving deeper into the room, a gap widened in the group of dancers and he saw a group of boys circling something in the middle of the room. He pushed his way closer and forced himself between two guys in 6th year. His mouth dropped, Victoire was in the centre of the circle dancing with everyone, pumping her bare legs up and down to the music, her long blonde hair whipping around. In her left hand was a bottle of firewhiskey, in the other her hand was held high intertwined with someone's. Teddy glanced at him – it was Luciz Pactor. Teddy's mouth fell open, Victoire went to the dance with him?

Teddy pushed his way through the sweaty bodies to get closer to her, he tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around dizzily, when she saw her best friend she squealed, "TEDDY!" and threw her arms around him. He hugged her back reluctantly, nearly fainting at the stench of alcohol off her, had none of the professor's noticed her heavy drinking?

"Whatchoo doing here?" Victoire slurred, her arm still hanging around Teddy's neck, weighing him down. Teddy struggled out of her grip but remained close so she could hear his answer under the loud music.

"Robbie convinced me to come."

"Did he? Good man, Robbie, good man…you look nice!" Victoire giggled.

Teddy didn't feel too chuffed with this compliment however, he doubted whether Victoire even knew what colour robes he was wearing.

"Well aren't you going to say anything to me?" Victoire stuck out her lip.

Teddy looked her up and down, she had a short dress on that showed off her legs and curves perfectly, he understood why everyone was swarming around her but there were stains on it, probably from the various different drinks she had consumed in the hour before he had shown up. Her make-up was smudged and in all honesty Teddy thought she was a mess. In his eyes she looked better when she was just wearing the uniform, the way she looked, the way she was acting wasn't her and Teddy didn't like this new Victoire.

"You look good," Teddy lied swiftly.

"Thanks, honey!" Victoire threw herself on him, pressing her lips on his. They kissed for a moment while Teddy got over the shock of the fact that he was kissing Victoire, his best friend! Her breath reeked of liquor and she was nearly suffocating him. He extricated himself from her wandering hands and face sucking. Everyone was staring at them, Teddy sent a disgusted look at Victoire before pushing himself through the crowd as fast as he could.

Victoire's cries of "Teddy!" wasn't heard over the music, Leanne and Robbie's attempts at sobering her up had been wasted but one kiss from Teddy had brought her down to earth hard. She glanced blearily around her and noticed how the boys she had thought were sweet a moment ago were now leering at her. She shuddered and pushed her way through the same path Teddy had taken. They grabbed at her and she shook them off impatiently, they squeezed her hard and she blinked back the tears. On the edge of the dance floor she glanced around at the tables. Relief washed over her as she spotted Robbie and Sophie sitting together, staring at the same spot on the dance floor. She made her way over to them unsteadily, Robbie noticed her journey and jumped up. He hurried over to her and she collapsed into his arms. He brought her over to Sophie and gently took the bottle of firewhiskey out of her tight grasp.

"Shhhh, what's wrong?" Robbie tried to sooth the now sobbing Victoire.

"I've em-embarrassed myself in front of e-e-everyone! They'll think I'm a slutty alcoholic!" She let out a great sniff, "Especially Teddy," she said in a small voice.

Robbie blanched, had inviting Teddy backfired on him? He glanced around and spotted Teddy at the bar, his hair the shade of a Raven's feathers. Looks like it hadn't gone so well for him. Robbie sighed, it wasn't going well for any of them that night.

Victoire was sobbing on his shoulder.

Teddy was drowning his sorrows in a pint of oak matured Mead.

He and Sophie had been staring at Freddie and Leanne dancing closely together the whole night.

How sad can you get?

Victoire let out a wail.

The answer – very.

Robbie scooped her up, it was time for all of them to go to bed. Robbie glanced down at Sophie, "Make sure Teddy doesn't get too drunk, won't you?"

Sophie glanced over at him and nodded. Robbie walked slowly out of the hall, trying to convince Victoire the whole way that nobody was staring at them. But that wasn't true, Teddy was. And so was Leanne. Leanne was staring at his broad back almost wistfully and when Freddie attempted to regain her focus she shrugged him off and muttered, "I need a drink."

One thing was certain anyway, no one was going to bed that night sober.

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