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our dancing days
vii. summer
victoireteddy
She is summer personified.
They met - proper introductions and all - in summer. He was six and she was four, and he walked up to her, held out his hand, and said, "I'm Teddy Lupin, and you're small." It was the start of great things.
She joined him in Hogwarts in 2011, when he was thirteen and she was eleven. She walked up to him his time, covered his amber eyes with her hands, and she whispered into his ear, "I'm Victoire Weasley, and your hair is blue."
That's when they met, not just as friends, but as Housemates too.
He saw her properly in summer, when time seemed to stop and they were four and eleven and adults all at the same time. He was sixteen and she was fourteen, and she was wearing the eccentric Muggle clothes she had for emergencies, as she called them.
"Victoire?" he had asked, completely hesitant. "How old are you - exactly?"
She looked surprised, and slightly annoyed, by the question. She crossed her arms over her chest, and replied, "Old enough." She crossed her long legs and Teddy just might have drooled a bit. But dear Mordred and Morganna don't tell Harry or Bill or, Merlin have mercy, Fleur that.
But when he's nineteen and she's seventeen and summer is starting to slip away from them, they meet properly for the first time. He only means to say goodbye.
Instead, he gets a melancholic look in his eye that Victoire fails to notice, and says, "I'm Teddy Lupin, and I think I'd like to kiss you now." She turns to stare at him in surprise, still in her eccentric Muggle clothes far too warm for the season - because it's still summer for them.
"Well, Teddy, don't hang about," she eventually replies, and they're kissing and there's fireworks - or maybe it's James' start-of-year prank - and she even tastes of summer.
"Summer," he breathes.
"It's only a first kiss and you're already cheating on me with another girl," she teases, and again he wraps his arms around her and her fingers play in his aquamarine hair and there it is again - summer.