Hey y'all….thanks for reading, following, favoriting, and reviewing! Sorry I haven't updated for a week and a half…marching band at my school started Monday, so 8 hours a day I've been there. Yay… The rest of the time I've been eating or sleeping…for those of you in marching band, you know exactly what I'm talking about. :) ANYWAY, that is my explaination for being lazy and not writing anything. But TECHNICALLY I wasn't being lazy…
Victoire's POV
Vic sat in her room the next day, munching on a chocolate bar. Her parents had found both she and Teddy sprawled on the ground in the middle of the yard with Teddy's patronus returning safely to his wand. They'd hurried the two inside the house, checking for wounds of any kind (they'd found none), and had laid Teddy on the downstairs couch and Vic on her bed upstairs.
Vic had woken up to her mother's smiling face thirty minutes later. Fleur had handed Victoire her wand and a bar of chocolate, explaining its healing properties.
It was ten in the morning now, and Vic had been awake since she'd seen her mother smiling down on her. She finished off yet another chocolate bar, unwrapped the next one, and began shredding away at it, soaking in the delicious sweet taste. She knew she didn't need more healing, but you could never be too safe. And there was the added bonus that chocolate was delectable, mouth-watering, and gorgeously tasteful. Who would pass it up?
There was a knocking sound on her bedroom door, and Vic looked over to see Dominique standing in the doorway, snickering. "You're going to get fat if you keep eating like that." Dominique stepped further into her sister's room, walking to Vic's bedside. She reached down, pinched Vic's cheeks, and said, "Chubby little Victoire Weasley," in the best baby voice she could muster.
"Mum wanted me to tell you that we're taking Rose to Diagon Alley today. We're getting school supplies while we're there. Uncle Harry left us a list of things to buy for Albus and James while we're there, too."
Victoire nodded, swallowing yet another chunk of chocolate. "I'll be down in ten minutes," she said.
Dominique left the room, closing the door behind her.
Vic jumped up from her bed, threw open each of her dresser drawers, and spent ten minutes choosing something to wear. She didn't know who she'd see in Diagon Alley, but she wasn't going to show up in frumpy clothing, looking like she'd just been attacked by a dementor.
Vic stamped down the stairs, skipping the second stair to the top, and ran straight into Teddy, his elbow slamming into her gut. Vic let out a resounding "Eugh!"
His look of surprise was enough to make Vic laugh for a week, if she hadn't been doubled over in pain.
"Oh! Merlin, Vic, I'm so sorry! I was just coming up to get you, I wasn't paying attention and—"
"I'm fine," grunted Vic, who was clearly not fine. She walked through the room to the fireplace with Teddy, careful not to wince or complain about her injured stomach. She didn't want Teddy feeling bad.
"Everyone else has already left," Teddy told her. "We're supposed to meet them inside Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Are you ready?"
Vic nodded and stepped into her family's fireplace. She flooed herself to the fireplace in the back of Uncle George's store. Teddy came seconds behind her.
"Phew," he said, stepping out after her, "nothing like getting soot down your throat to start your day off."
Victoire smiled and nudged Teddy in the elbow. "That's why I tend to keep my mouth closed, Lupin."
The two walked hand in hand around the store, watching smiling kids buying and browsing for their every pranking need. Vic was a prankster herself, but Uncle George had given her a stash of products a long time ago that she kept in a bag inside her Hogwarts trunk that she'd put an extension charm on.
"Buying today, Vic?" Victoire turned to see the tall form of her Uncle George smiling to his ears behind her, one hand brushing his red hair back from his forehead. Vic could see the beads of sweat pooling at his hairline.
Vic grinned and hugged George Weasley as hard as she could. "It's so good to see you," she said.
"It's been ages," he replied as the embrace ended. "So, any pranking needs for your last year at Hogwarts?"
Vic rolled her eyes. "Don't remind me," she said, "I'm not quite ready to leave yet. But no, I'm still using the stash you gave me a long while back."
"Blimey, Vic," George's eyebrows went up to his hairline. "You're still working off of that? No, no, you've got to have more to prank with than the remains of a beginner's kit!"
"Sorry," Vic said, as she sincerely was, "Mum and Dad have my money. I'm grounded already. I suppose they've told you about the dementors?"
Uncle George's smiled faded. "No," he said forcefully. "No, they have not."
An awkward silence ensued, but Vic broke it by saying, "We'd better get going. We've been told to meet Mum and Dad in the store somewhere. Have you seen them yet?"
George nodded. "They were near the front of the store earlier, you may want to check there." He pulled his niece into a hug goodbye and whispered, "Have fun with the rest of your summer." When he pulled away, his eyes flickered to Teddy and back to Vic. He winked at her, turned around, and walked off toward another group of kids with a huge smile lighting his face.
Vic and Teddy made their way to the front of the store to find Bill and Fleur. "Did you see that?" Vic asked in awe.
"See what?" Teddy looked at her, clueless. "Sorry, I was paying more attention to the kids with the Puking Pastilles."
"Uncle George. He looked at you, then back at me. And he winked. Like he…like he knew…" An unsettling feeling settled in her stomach. Vic and Teddy hadn't told Vic's family about their relationship yet, and hadn't planned on telling them until after Vic's seventh year was over. They'd known the two had had a summer fling the year before, but Vic's parents had put a stop to it—or so they thought—when Bill had caught the two snogging as he'd come home from work early one day. But this…they couldn't know, could they?
Teddy shook his head. "If he knew, someone would have told him, right? So unless Dominique or Louis found it in your room, no one knows."
"They couldn't have found it," Vic said. "I checked for it again yesterday. It was there." Victoire had hidden her engagement ring in a tiny flap beneath the purple velvet lining of her Hogwarts trunk. No one would look there.
"Over here, Vic!" a voice called. Victoire's head snapped to her right and she found her family waving to her and Teddy.
"Your father took Rose to go get her robes fitted," Fleur said when Vic was standing in front of her. "He took the measurements that Uncle Harry gave him for Albus' robes as well."
"Are we off to get books, then?" Vic asked her mother.
Fleur nodded.
The family entered Flourish and Blotts, each student attending Hogwarts for the upcoming year searching madly for their books among the shelves. Vic quickly found the books she needed, checked out at the front desk, and exited the store with Teddy. Twenty minutes later, the rest of Vic's family met up with her and Teddy by a bench on the sidewalk by Flourish and Blotts. After this stop, Vic was done shopping for the day. She'd be borrowing the rest of her school supplies from Teddy, who'd graduated from Hogwarts two years ago.
As Fleur shopped for school supplies with the rest of the kids, Vic and Teddy walked up and down Diagon Alley, window shopping and occasionally running into someone that one of them knew. Vic's worry was plain on her face, and the only thing she would talk about with Teddy was her concern that Uncle George knew about their engagement. If her parents found out, they would kill her.
"There's nothing your parents can do about it, Vic," Teddy reassured her. "You're seventeen. You're of age. Plenty of wizards get married when they graduate from Hogwarts. Your parents have nothing to be mad about."
"They don't trust me," Vic said. "That's what they'd be mad about."
"Then you'll just have to gain their trust," Teddy replied.
Two weeks later, Teddy and Vic stood on platform nine and three quarters in an isolated corner. The train whistled and Vic pulled away from Teddy to say goodbye. Teddy plopped one last lingering kiss on Vic's forehead, and she ran off toward the train.
She knew that the rest of her family was here somewhere. Even Harry and Ginny had come to see their children off. Ron and Hermione must have come too, Vic thought.
"Victoire Weasley!" she heard someone shout as she ran toward the Hogwarts Express. She turned around to see her mum holding out her arms for a hug. Vic rolled her eyes, but ran to her anyway. Fleur pulled her daughter into an embrace and kissed her on the forehead in the exact same spot that Teddy had. Bill hugged Victoire as she let go of her mother.
Vic was one of the last students to enter the train, and most of the compartments were full. She made her way down the isle and finally found Ollie Wood, her best friend, sitting alone inside a compartment.
"Vic!" He shouted jubilantly as Victoire entered the compartment. Ollie stood up. "Merlin, I've missed you." And he pulled her into a strong hug.
"I've missed you too, Ollie, but you don't need to suffocate me," Vic groaned.
"Sorry," Ollie said, and the two sat down on opposite sides of the compartment. "We have loads to catch up on, though, Vic. You've got to hear what I've done this summer."
Just wait until you hear what I've been up to, Vic thought.
Just then, James Potter slid open the door to Vic's compartment. Vic immediately slid her feet up onto the seat, making it look like the space was occupied. "Sorry, Jamesie," she said, calling him by the pet name that he hated so much. "No room left."
James narrowed his eyes. "I'm not here to stay, Victoire," he said coolly. "I just wanted to let you know that I saw you snogging Teddy on the platform earlier." James grinned to his ears. "I wonder what your parents will think about that when they find out?" With that, James lifted his chin, slid the door shut, and pranced down the hall back to his own compartment.
Vic turned toward Ollie, taking in his amazed expression. "It looks like we have loads to catch up on," he said.
SO I know not much happened in the chapter, but I had to set it up for events to come! HOPEFULLY the next chapter will be in Harry's POV…that's what I'm planning as of now. And for those of you who think that Vic's too young to be engaged to Teddy, remember that James and Lily got married when they were 19…. Hope you liked it :) updates will probably be closer to once a week from now on…