For Camp Potter (Tech Discovery - write about Teddy Lupin); the OC Competition (setting: someone's house; emotion: anger; phrase: "How dare he/she?" and bonus: sufferin' succotash); the If You Dare Challenge (226. I Live To Tell)
For Liza - this turned out more Victoire centric than TeddyVictoire, but I hope you love it nevertheless :)
"Wait, what?" Emma Williams exclaimed. "You're dating Teddy? Teddy Lupin? And you didn't tell us before now?"
"Ummm…oops?" Victoire said sheepishly.
The five Gryffindor girls were seated in a circle in the middle of the dormitory. They had eschewed the use of their beds for the sake of easy discussion.
"Vic, you've been mooning over the boy for three years now, and we've been the ones who've had to listen to you extoll the virtues of Teddy Lupin," Mel Rivers whined, "And then you don't even tell us when you finally start dating him? How dare you?" she exclaimed in mock anger and outrage.
"I'm sorry!" Victoire laughed, holding up her hands in surrender. "I should have told you guys, but I really, really wanted to keep it to myself for some time. Hell, the family still wouldn't know anything if James hadn't interrupted us – well, you know," she concluded, sounding embarrassed at the memory of being caught making out with her boyfriend in the middle of Platform 9 ¾.
"The family's different," Dia Shah said, waving aside her friend's explanation. "I think you need to make it up to us."
Victoire looked at the four girls nervously. "What do you mean be make it up to you?" she asked.
"Well, you had promised to tell us about how he asked you out," Sam said mischievously from her spot next to Vic. "I think that would make up for you not telling us very well, don't you think girls?"
Seeing that everyone agreed with Sam, Victoire sighed and started to tell her story. "Well, it happened at Shell Cottage. Merlin, I don't even remember why Teddy was there that day, only that he was looking particularly gorgeous-"
"Vic, stop gaping over Teddy and tell the story already!" Dia groaned, interrupting Victoire.
"Fine, fine. If you want to be utterly boring…" Vic grumbled.
"Victoire!"
"Okay! Anyways, where was I? Oh yeah…I was outside, near Dobby's grave. You guys know that I love spending time out there, right?" she asked, looking at the nodding faces around her. "And that was when Teddy cornered me. I thought it was just going to be the regular stuff – updates about his Auror training, things he's got me from wherever the latest overseas training was, stuff like that. Instead…" Here she trailed off.
"Instead what?" Mel asked, sounding excited. "Don't you dare leave us hanging there, Victoire Weasley!"
Laughing at her friends' reactions, Victoire leaned in closer, drawing the circle tighter. "Instead," she whispered, "He kneeled down to where I was sitting, pulled in into his arms, and kissed me!" By the last words, her voice had become high-pitched and excited.
All the girls squealed in excitement with her, Emma nearly bouncing as she exclaimed, "Suffin' succotash!"
At that, the girls forgot their excitement to look at her oddly.
Emma blushed. "Sorry," she said. "I watched quite a few bad American westerns over the summer. It seems they've stuck."
"Anyway," Victoire continued, still shooting Emma odd looks, "He told me that had wanted to kiss me for some time now, and since I was finally seventeen, he didn't feel like a creep for doing that. I told him that was a rather idiotic explanation- no one would have thought it odd if he'd made a move beforehand – but you know Teddy. And…well, I guess that's it!"
"I completely agree with you that Teddy's an idiot," Sam said, looking at her other three friends. "Can you guys imagine the fun we could have had if the two of them had gotten together while he was still in Hogwarts? I would have been brilliant!"
As Vic threw Sam a dirty look, Emma laughed. "It's not like we aren't going to milk this for all it's worth," she said, "But I do agree that it would have been better if she had told us beforehand. I can already-"
The sound of footsteps coming up the stairs to their dorm – the topmost one, which meant that no one would come there unless they lived there or happened to be a teacher – quietened the girls' excited chatter.
Exchanging panicked glances, the girls scattered towards their beds, wrapping themselves up in their blankets and pretending to sleep before whichever teacher it was got up there.
"Goodnight everyone," Mel whispered.
Four voices answered her as she flicked her wand, plunging the room into darkness.
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