(614): Well, if your day started with strippers, then we're tied. Otherwise, I'm winning.
"Life Race"
Teddy Remus Lupin was no longer the little bundle of black haired five year old that Harry had spent his early Twenties raising as his own.
He was no longer the excitable red head starting at Hogwarts; no longer the Quidditch star of Hufflepuff; the teen heartthrob; heartbreaker; heartbroken.
Teddy was now twenty-three years young, his hair changing from red to purple to green to blue as he cradled a tumbler of Firewhiskey in his hand as it rested against the tabletop, body sunk low in a chair at the Potter's kitchen table.
The sun was hovering low in the sky, bathing the room in a pale gold glow when Harry Potter appeared in the doorway to find his godson cemented at the kitchen table.
"I've just had the best day." Teddy informed his new companion, his flashing hair finally settled back into its regular turquoise.
"I don't know," Harry responded cheerfully, "I think mine could top it."
"Well, if your day started with strippers, then we're tied. Otherwise, I'm winning."
Harry paused, stunned, for several long seconds before a look of absolute incredulity covered his face. Nope, Teddy was certainly not the tiny bundle of energy with hair scruffy and black in imitation of his Godfather.
An awkward silence descended on the two men and hovered in the air between them for several minutes as Harry gathered his courage and Teddy fixed his eyes on the glass still in his hand, willing down the blush now staining his cheeks as he realised exactly what he'd just confessed to his pseudo-parent. There were several moments where Harry opened his mouth and then closed it, rethinking whatever he had been considering saying, before he finally came to a decision that spared them both.
"I take it," the Boy Saviour said carefully, "that Finchwhistle's stag party was a success, then?"
Teddy grinned sheepishly, still pink, under his Godfather's green-eyed gaze.
"You could say that."
Ha. Teddy and Harry must have a funny kind of relationship sometimes.
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