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Written for the February Event (My Love) over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Prompt: (Item) Flowers

Pairing: Hermione/Victoire

Speed Drabble: "I'm trying to figure things out.", locate, wearing

Chocolate Frog: – Victoire Weasley – Challenge – Write about Victoire Weasley

Word Count: 597

Gringotts: Pairing: Cross Gen Het – Hermione/Victoire;Noun – Utensil, Host, Patio, Air, Waist, Chest, Back, Patch, Piece, Instant, Shirt; Adjective – Another, Wet, Complicated; Verb – Figure, Receive, Locate, Ignore; Colour – Violet [20]

Why Is Love So - Complicated?

Her eyes never left the older woman as they ate the home cooked meal.

Her smile, the way her eyes lit up when she was laughing, and the way her lips wrapped around the fork. Never in all her life had the young witch wanted to be a utensil so badly.

The sound of a knife connecting with a glass drew Victoire out of her thoughts.

"Excuse me everyone could we have your attention for a few moments," their host announced. "I'm sure you are all wondering why we invited you here tonight, and so here it is: Hermione and I would like to tell you that in about six months time there will be another addition to our family."

As a loud chorus of congratulations broke out around the table, Victoire pushed her chair back and slipped out of the patio door for some air, and she was soon joined by Teddy.

"V, what's wrong?" he asked placing his arm around her waist.

"N-n-nothing, I'm trying to figure things out," Victoire told Teddy tearfully. "But it's just so darn difficult. I have all these feelings and I don't understand them at all. Why is love so – complicated?"

Victoire's eyes flooded with tears and she flung herself into her friend's arms and buried her face in his chest. A small wet patch appeared on the light grey shirt Teddy was wearing as he rubbed Victoire's back soothingly.

"Vic, who are you talking about?" the Hufflepuff asked quietly.

The young woman lifted her head from Teddy's chest. Her red rimmed eyes locked with his violet orbs.

She had been dreading this question. It was the one thing that she wanted to keep a secret more than anything. It wasn't that she didn't trust Teddy with this piece of information; it was more that she didn't think she could stand to see the look in his eyes when she did.

"Is it Hermione?" he asked her when he didn't receive an answer.

Her eyes widened with shock as she slowly nodded her head. "How did you know?"

"I see the way you look at her sometimes, the way your eyes always seem to be able to locate her in the instant she enters a room." Teddy reasoned, leaving out the part about how it was obvious to pretty much everyone aside from the woman in question.

"So what should I do Ted? Should I ignore my feelings? Tell her? I don't know how much longer I can take any of this before I burst," she confided. "Just last week I – I ordered a bouquet of flowers and nearly sent them to her place of work. Instead they're just sitting on my night stand at home, and I look at them every night whilst I cry myself to sleep. Teddy it hurts so much."

"I know Vic, I know," he sympathised, taking his friend back into his arms. "I wish I could take your pain away sweet, but I can't. All I can say is that in time you'll get over her. I promise."

Teddy took Victoire home when she had finally managed to compose herself. He informed their family that the witch was feeling under the weather, and needed a little bit of TLC.

For the rest of the evening he lay with her in her bed as she sobbed herself to sleep. The flowers that she had mentioned to him earlier were mocking him, and as her began to quiet he made a promise to himself that he would win her love and help her forget about Hermione.

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