The next day, as promised, Teddy had lunch with Katie in the school cafeteria. "Oh man, you're in for it today," Duncan said during fourth period Potions. "Katie had Mom going practically all night."
Teddy groaned as he checked the contents of his cauldron and turned down the burner underneath. "I thought it was just going to be sandwiches and crisps."
"Just wait," Duncan sang with a smug smile, stirring his cauldron.
In the lunchroom, Kelly waved to Teddy from the team's usual table, patting the seat next to her. "Hey, so um, I'm having lunch with Duncan's sister today," Teddy said, leaning down next to her.
"With Katie?" she asked, looking confused.
"Yeah, it's a long story. I'm sorry."
Kelly turned to him, sea-green eyes serious. "As long as you're not trying to tell me that you're throwing me over for a younger woman."
Teddy felt a flush rise to his cheeks and he hastily controlled the blood flow. "Um …" he stammered, relieved when she broke out in a smile.
"It's okay. After all, I'm not even your girlfriend, am I?" She gave him a challenging look and he lost his grip on controlling his blush, feeling the hot rush of the blood staining his cheeks.
"Teddy," Katie's voice sang behind him, "I saved a nice spot by the window for us."
Casting one last look at Kelly, Teddy sighed and stood up, plastering a smile on his face. "Well, let's see what's for lunch, all right?"
Katie heaved a huge basket onto the table, setting it down with a thump and Teddy raised his eyebrows as she opened it, bringing out honest-to-God plates and silverware. She spread a crisp, white napkin on his lap, nearly making him jump. "Um, you didn't have to go to this much trouble just for lunch, Katie," Teddy said as she began to take out tightly-sealed metal containers.
"It wasn't any trouble at all," she said airily, opening the first container. "Appetizer." She carefully placed three crispy brown balls onto his plate, spooning a tomato sauce over them and sprinkling some freshly-grated parmesan cheese on top.
He watched as Katie served herself and looked at him expectantly, fork poised over her own dish. "All right then." He cut into one of the balls and to his surprise it was macaroni and cheese, the perfectly oozy consistency underneath the crunchy fried shell. "Did you make this?" he asked after swallowing his first bite.
"Well, Mom helped," Katie said, her cheeks flushing pink. "She won't let me deep-fry anything yet, but I made the breadcrumb mix."
"This is really good." Teddy dragged his next bite through the tomato sauce. "I'll have to tell Harry about these."
"Do you want the recipe? I can send it to you," Katie said, sounding very excited at the thought of Harry actually making one of her mother's recipes.
"Yeah, thanks." Teddy popped another bite into his mouth, rolling his eyes at Duncan across the lunchroom. A moment later, he felt his phone buzz and he read the message on the screen.
Ha ha, we've got like two dozen of those things at home. Guess what I'm having for dinner tonight? Duncan's message said. Teddy sent back the middle finger icon, grinning when his friend flipped him off in person.
The main course was a delicious beef stew that Katie insisted was boeuf bourguignon with a crusty French baguette. Teddy thought that he would have to start inviting himself over to dinner with the Suttons more often. He found himself enjoying the meal, in spite of Katie practically watching every bite that went into his mouth. "Did you bring the feather to show to Ms Chau?" she asked as he dipped a crust into the delicious stew.
"Yeah. You wanna see it?" Katie nodded and he reached into the breast pocket of his shirt, pulling it out and handing it to her. He watched as she looked at it carefully, pulling it through her fingers to assess the texture. "Well?"
"Hmm, I'm not so sure anymore it's from a merlin or a gyrfalcon," she said with a frown. "These stripes on this half and the solid gray on the other half … And you found it in the City?"
"Yeah," Teddy nodded and swallowed his last bite. "Down by the water."
"I wonder if this could be from a peregrine falcon? See how it's shaped?" She held it up and traced one edge with a finger. "This feather is built for speed and a peregrine is literally the fastest thing with wings. They hunt other birds and there's lots of seagulls and pigeons over there." She gave it back to Teddy and looked at his empty bowl. "Time for dessert!"
"Oh, no, I couldn't possibly eat …" Teddy trailed off when she brought out the last container, lifting the lid off of a pile of dark molasses cookies. "Well, maybe I could fit in a couple," he amended hastily.
"I made these all by myself," she said shyly as she set three hand-sized cookies on his plate.
Teddy picked one up and bit into it, the taste of molasses and ginger exploding onto his taste buds, Katie practically staring a hole through him as he chewed and swallowed. "It's really good," he said, holding back a grin as she practically glowed with pleasure at his compliment.
"Thanks. I've decided I'm going to be the world's best baker when I graduate. I'm going to open my own shop," she said, biting into her own cookie.
"Yeah? Must be nice to have it all figured out already."
"But I thought you were going into the Auror academy with my brother?"
"Well, yeah, I want to," Teddy said, picking up another cookie. "Harry was kind of giving me a hard time about it, but he seems to have come around."
"Oh? Why would he not want you to be an Auror?"
Teddy hesitated, knowing that Harry likely wouldn't be too chuffed if he told one of his students what Harry had told him about his experiences as an Auror, so he just shrugged. "He thinks it's pretty dangerous and he worries about me, I guess."
"Well, in my family, being an Auror is kind of like a tradition. My dad, my grandpa, his dad … um … and that's all I know," Katie said. "Do you want this other cookie?"
"No, thank you. I feel like I'm about to explode." Teddy sat back and patted his stomach for emphasis. "Thanks for your help with the feather."
"Sure. Birds are kind of a hobby of mine. If I don't become a baker, I'll probably be a magizoologist." Katie started packing up the containers and dishes, casting efficient Cleaning Charms on them before putting them back in the basket.
"Did you two sweethearts have a nice lunch?" Duncan snatched the last cookie from the plate and shoved it into his mouth. "You really outdid yourself with these," he said with his mouth full.
"This was simply a lunch between friends," Katie said haughtily, looking at her brother with disgust as he chewed with his mouth open. She looked shyly at Teddy. "I'll see you later, okay?"
"Yeah, okay. See you." Katie picked up the much lighter basket and Teddy watched as she went directly to the table she usually sat at with her friends, all of them immediately putting their heads together for what he assumed would be a blow-by-blow breakdown of their lunch together.
Duncan took her vacated seat, turning it around the wrong way and grinned at him. "So?"
"So what?"
"So are you and my sister dating now? Isn't Ginny Harry's best friend's sister?"
"I'm not dating anyone right now," Teddy snorted, picking up the feather again.
Duncan raised an eyebrow and sat up straight. "No? What about Kelly?"
"We're just going to the dance. She hasn't said if she wants to actually, um, date or …" Teddy said, glancing over to where Kelly still sat with the team. She was talking to Maria and Jenny and he felt his heart skip a beat when she casually pushed a strand of hair behind her ear.
"Or what?" Duncan prompted, snapping his fingers in front of Teddy's nose.
"Or if she wants to be my girlfriend, all right? Leave off!" Teddy pushed Duncan's hand away and glared at him. "What about you and Alison? Are you dating?"
Duncan's mouth fell open, making him look like a hooked fish and Teddy started laughing as the lunch bell rang. "Come on, Romeo. Katie said she thought this might actually be a peregrine falcon feather. Let's cruise by Ms Chau before Defense and see what she says."
"Won't that make us late?" Duncan asked, shouldering his bag and following Teddy out of the lunchroom.
"What's Harry going to do, give me a detention? Then he'll just have to stay late, too. Come on."
"Mr Lupin, Mr Sutton, you are both late," Harry said when they walked into his class. He stood at the front, blazer off and shirt sleeves rolled up to his elbows, wand in hand. "Since you have decided that you don't need to hear my introduction, perhaps you'd like to demonstrate the Poltergeist Containment Spell for the rest of the class?"
"Uh," Teddy said, conscious of the entire class staring at him, "there doesn't seem to be any poltergeist here, sir."
"Isn't there? Are you sure about that?"
Just then an empty desk at the back of the room shot up into the air with a loud bang, causing everyone to gasp and turn around. A translucent little man hovered in the air, a wicked grin splitting his face. Where the hell did Harry get a poltergeist? Teddy had time to think before the ghost headed straight for him, spectral fingers extended into claws.
"Protego!" he cried, getting a shield up in front of him and Duncan just in time. The poltergeist, unable to stop in time, hit it head on and bounced back, rubbing his nose.
"That wasn't very nice!" he declared in a high-pitched voice and rose higher, determined to take another run at them over the top of the shield.
Teddy looked over at Harry. He stood at ease with his arms folded, looking amused at the fact that an increasingly pissed-off ghost was coming for his godson and his best friend. No help there. God, what was that spell? "Exspriavit Captionem!" he yelled as he dropped the shield, remembering the strange underhand wand movement at the last second.
An orange and purple light surrounded the poltergeist, freezing him in place. "No! No fair! Wizards never play fair!" he screeched, looking like he was trying to expand to escape out of the conjured prison. It was no use, however, as the light holding him simply enlarged with him.
"Orville, we had an agreement," Harry said, stepping forward. The poltergeist immediately stopped trying to escape and adopted a servile attitude, rubbing his hands together and giving Harry a toothy smile.
"Yes, our agreement. Orville will let himself be trapped by youngling wizards and the great Harry Potter will allow Orville to go back to haunting his hotel."
"Indeed. Your help is deeply appreciated," Harry said, surprising Teddy when he gave the poltergeist a shallow bow. "Now, Duncan, I noticed that Teddy was the one that cast the containment spell. I will release our friend and then it will be your turn. Got it?"
"Yes, sir," Duncan said quietly as Harry pointed at Teddy and then to his usual desk, his meaning clear.
Teddy sank gratefully into his seat, resolving to never be late for Harry's class again as he watched Duncan take on the minimally cooperative spirit. Well, at least Ms Chau confirmed it's a peregrine falcon feather. Now we just need to figure out what a castle and a peregrine falcon have to do with the entrance to Coyote's den.
He brooded on the subject while he automatically took notes on the theory behind the containment spell, Harry managing to drop Hermione's name as the inventor. Clearly, she did not harbor fond memories of the Hogwarts poltergeist, Peeves, and had worked hard to create a spell that would contain their mischief. Mt Diablo, a castle and a falcon. What. The. Fuck, he thought, doodling a sketch of the castle they'd found on the bell clapper on his notes.
Maybe Kelly will have some ideas. As usual these days, thoughts of Kelly turned to thoughts of the upcoming Winter Formal. I wonder how she'll wear her hair? She usually has it in a braid or a pony tail … I wonder what it would look like loose or curly? Oh, can I get her to send me a picture of her dress? I'll say I need it to make sure I got the right color vest …
He was so wrapped up in daydreaming about Kelly in her dress and dancing with her underneath colored lights that he didn't realize the bell for the end of class had rung until Duncan elbowed him. "You still with us or did you go off to the Twilight Zone?" he said with that annoying smirk on his face.
"Yeah, I'm here," Teddy said, quickly shoving his doodle-covered notes into his bag. "Sorry about being late," he said to Harry as they passed by his desk on the way out. "We had to ask Ms Chau a few questions."
Harry looked up at him, taking his glasses off and pinching the bridge of his nose. It had been a very active and noisy class with all of the students taking their turns at capturing Orville and Teddy didn't doubt that he had a headache. "Everything all right?" he asked, putting his glasses back on.
"Oh, yeah, fine. I just found a feather yesterday when I was … out and I wasn't sure what kind it was," Teddy said, feeling a bit uncomfortable at the acknowledgement of their argument yesterday.
"Can I see it?"
"Um, sure." Teddy took it out of the inner pocket of his blazer and handed it to Harry, trying not to hold his breath as he touched it, looking at it closely.
"Hm, it's some sort of raptor. Not an owl, and I don't think a hawk. Looks a bit small for an eagle. Definitely a primary feather, though. Falcon?" he asked, handing it back to Teddy who took it with a definite feeling of relief.
Whew. Just an ordinary feather, he thought. He'd been worried that Harry's essential Harry-ness would trigger something strange about the feather and then he'd have to answer all sorts of questions about where he'd found it and what he was doing with it. "Yeah. Ms Chau said it's from a peregrine falcon," he said, tucking it back into his inner pocket.
Harry quirked an eyebrow. "And you found it where you were yesterday?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"I'd heard that there were a few peregrines in the City, but I hear most of them are out at Mt Diablo in a spot called Castle Rock," Harry said with a shrug, uncapping a red pen and pulling a stack of papers toward him.
Teddy felt like he'd been whacked over the head with a Beater bat and he heard a roaring in his ears. "What?"
"You remember—a couple of years ago we were going to go on that hike, but the area was closed. It was their nesting season."
"Oh, I'd completely forgotten," Teddy said faintly, earning another look from Harry.
"You'd better get going, yeah? Don't want to be late for Charms. You know Ms Peterson doesn't like tardies."
Teddy grunted and shuffled out of the classroom, his head feeling oddly disconnected from his body. Once outside in the walkway, he turned to Duncan, eyes wide. "Castle Rock. That's where we'll find the den."
"You think so? Hmm." Duncan narrowed his eyes in thought. "Have you ever been up there?"
"No. You?"
"No. I don't know anything about it."
Teddy sighed, pulling open the door to Ms Peterson's Charms classroom. "Then I guess we'd better learn."
"So how was your lunch with Katie?" Kelly asked with an arched brow.
Teddy felt a blush starting and ruthlessly squashed it. "Sorry about that," he said, taking a quick look around to make sure they were alone. They were sitting on a bench by the fountain in the quad underneath a strategically-placed Warming Charm while he waited for Harry to be done for the day so he could drive them home. "I found another clue the other day and she kind of helped us out with it."
Kelly sat up straight, her sea green eyes wide. "You did? What did you find? Where did you find it?"
Teddy drew out the feather and handed it to her. "It's a peregrine falcon feather. I found it yesterday afternoon out at Aquatic Park just laying there on the ground. I knew it wasn't just a seagull or pigeon feather, so I picked it up on the off chance that it was significant."
She looked at it closely, gently bending it and running it through her fingers and Teddy was surprised to see her smell it. "What does lunch with Katie have to do with this?"
"She butted in when we were on the phone and said she knew what it was and wanted to have lunch with me in return." Teddy did his best to look like having a girl several years younger than him serve him a three-course lunch was something he did all the time.
"I see. Did you tell her about Coyote and Niyol?"
"No way. That's way above her pay grade." Teddy grinned, glad that she wasn't put out over the lunch.
"So did you figure it out? What the feather and the castle mean?"
"Harry figured it out, actually."
"What? You told him?" Kelly asked, genuine surprise in her voice.
"No! I'd be neck-deep in shite if I did! Duncan and I went by Ms Chau before Defense and asked her about the feather since Katie wasn't a hundred percent sure what sort it was and we were a little late for class."
"Oh? You were late for Harry Potter's class? Do tell!" Kelly sat back on the bench, wide grin on her face in anticipation of hearing what punishment Harry had meted out.
Teddy scratched the back of his neck, the feeling of everyone in the class staring at him returning with a vengeance. "We had to do a live demonstration of the Poltergeist Containment spell in front of the whole class."
"We haven't done that one yet. Was there really a poltergeist?"
"Yeah, there was. Little guy called Orville or something."
"Where does he find these things?"
Teddy shook his head. "I do not know, but he does. Anyway, I apologized for being late and showed him the feather and he said that peregrines are up at Castle Rock at Mt Diablo."
"Just like that?" Kelly asked, snapping her fingers.
"Just like that."
"So now what?"
"Haven't gotten that far. I was kind of hoping that Duncan would be around and we could chat about it. Have you seen him? I lost track of him after Charms."
"I saw him walking that way with Alison," she said, pointing toward the gym.
Teddy raised his eyebrows. "Oh really? Well that's very interesting." He looked toward the gym, mind racing with speculation. He glanced at Kelly, looking away when he saw her looking back at him. "Um, so, the dance is at eight," he said, trying to fill the suddenly awkward silence. "I'll come pick you and Alison up at six?" He'd managed to get Harry to allow him to drive Duncan and him over to Kelly's where they'd pick up the girls before heading over to dinner. Harry had practically made him swear an Unbreakable Vow that he wouldn't let Duncan drive.
"Yeah, that should be fine. I'm going to warn you, though, my mom will want to take a ton of pictures," she said, breaking into a smile. Teddy's heart beat just a little faster.
"Should we come earlier, then? Five-thirty?"
"That might not be a bad idea. Mom can get a little crazy with the poses sometimes," she said, looking apologetic.
"I know what you mean. Ginny can be a real shutterbug, too. Anytime James does something, here comes the camera," Teddy said with a good-natured roll of his eyes.
"Mrs Potter's so pretty with all of that long, red hair." She glanced up at him though her lashes, giving him only a glimpse of her sea-green eyes. "Do you like long hair?"
"Erm …" Teddy said, thinking about Ginny's hair. "Dunno. Never seen it short. I suppose she'd look all right with it shorter, but I've never given it any thought."
Kelly huffed and tapped him on his shoulder. "Not on her, silly! On me!"
"Oh! Sorry!" Teddy felt his face heat up with embarrassment and he subconsciously managed his appearance so the blush didn't show. He looked at Kelly, taking in her expression of wry amusement and breathed a sigh of relief. Feeling unexpectedly bold, he reached out and gave her customary long blonde braid a gentle tug. "I like whatever you like," he said, lifting an eyebrow, pleased to see her cheeks grow pinker.
"Flatterer," she said, pulling on her braid and arranging it over her shoulder. "I haven't decided if I'll wear it down or up yet. I've been practicing styling spells. Teen Witch had some new ones in the latest issue I want to try."
Teddy listened to her talk about hair styles, makeup and necklines, thoroughly enchanted. He was so used to seeing her on the Quidditch pitch, flying hard with a determined expression and a Quaffle in her hands that he was very surprised to discover this other side of her.
Disappointment crashed through him at the sight of Harry leaving his classroom and locking the door. "Time to go," he said, hefting his bag onto his shoulder and taking a deep breath, a wash of vertigo coming over him. "What about me? What do you like?" he asked, changing the color and length of his hair. He was in the middle of generating a head of dark spiral curls like that guitarist when she smiled and put her hand on the side of his cheek, nearly causing him to jump at the contact.
"I like you," she said simply. "Just you." Teddy held his breath until she took her hand away, convinced he'd feel the heat of her palm the rest of the day.
"Ready to go?" Harry asked, looking at the both of them over his glasses. "All right, Kelly? Do you need to Floo home?"
"No, Mr Potter. My dad's coming to get me. We're having a daddy/daughter dinner tonight," she said, turning a bit pink. "It's a thing we do."
"See you tomorrow, then." Teddy stood up, wishing he dared squeeze her hand or something in front of Harry.
Kelly waved and nodded, giving him a bright smile as her phone started to ring.
"So, you and Kelly look to be getting quite close," Harry said once they were in the car.
"Harry," Teddy groaned as he adjusted the mirrors. "Don't."
"Don't what? Don't notice that you're growing up and embarking on your first relationship? That you're learning about life's magic that is all around us?" Harry grinned at him, eyes alight with mischief.
"Yeah, none of that, all right? It's so embarrassing!"
"Listen, I'm your godfather. Embarrassing you is part of my job description."
Apparently embarrassing me is in the job description for godmothers, too, Teddy thought grumpily as he took off the cumbersome dress robes. Ginny had insisted that he try the whole ensemble on so she could have a look at him and determine if any last-minute adjustments needed to be made.
"I'm sure they're fine. Marianne's is supposed to be top-notch," he'd protested when she brought it up at the end of dinner.
"They were expensive enough," Harry grumbled, causing Ginny to glare at him.
"Humor me, then, all right? I want to make sure I got my money's worth," she said in a tone that brooked no argument. "Both of you." She clapped her hands together twice, James mimicking her and adding his own little echo.
"Me, too? I don't see why I should be made to suffer along with—" Harry started, silenced by a twitch of his wife's eyebrow. "Yes, love."
Teddy took off the waistcoat and matching tie, tossing them onto his bed, an action he was sure Ginny would have taken him to task for if she'd been in the room. The white dress shirt followed and he stood in front of the full-length mirror in just his slacks, looking critically at himself.
He was just about as tall as Harry, but he felt he was still too skinny for his own good, lacking his godfather's wiry musculature that made him deceptively strong. When he'd complained about it to Duncan, his friend had simply snorted and said, "Wait until we start training. You'll have muscles popping up everywhere."
I wish I knew what Dad looked like without a shirt on, he thought, pictures of his parents coming to mind. He'd seen for himself a gradual transformation in his father's face from thin and underfed to a more filled-out look, but that told him nothing about what sort of musculature he might have inherited. Werewolves are supposed to be pretty strong.
Stepping closer to the mirror, he studied his face minutely, consciously letting go of any appearance-altering magic. Sandy brown hair, just a bit longer than collar-length, blue eyes and a nose he felt was a touch too beaky for its own good. He'd spent hours looking at pictures of his parents and grandparents, deciding that his nose must be from his namesake grandfather whom he'd never met.
I've got my mum's eye shape, though, so I've got that going for me. That mouth though is all Dad, he thought, running his finger over his rather thin upper lip. I hope that's all right with Kelly. He was in the middle of smoothing over a blemish he'd found on his cheek when his phone began to play Jungle Boogie, making him jump.
He threw on a tee shirt and picked it up. "So I heard that you and Alison went walking around the gym," he said without preamble, grinning when he heard Duncan sputtering on the other end.
"What? Who told you that?" he said when he finally recovered the power of speech.
"I never reveal my sources."
"Katie. I know she told you. Little sisters are the worst!"
Teddy lay down on his bed, putting his free hand behind his head. "So are you guys going out, then?"
"A gentleman never kisses and tells," Duncan said haughtily.
"Since when are you a gentleman?" Teddy snorted, patting Stuart as he made himself comfortable on his stomach. "What are you going to do when you're at the academy and she's out on the east coast at school?" Kelly had told him that Alison had applied only to schools on the east coast as she was eager to get out on her own.
"Teddy, we're wizards. Long-distance doesn't exist." Duncan sounded confident, but Teddy privately thought that he was in for a rude awakening. "Anyway, listen, I called because we need to strategize this den thing."
"Aw, I thought you called to tell me all about how soft your girlfriend's lips are."
"Get fucked, Lupin," Duncan said before pausing for a moment. "Though her lips are pretty soft. Anyway, den. You think it's at Castle Rock?"
"That seems to be where the clues are pointing, isn't it?"
"Have you looked at any maps?"
"Not yet. I had to do a bloody fashion show for Ginny in my new dress robes right after dinner."
"Oh, so are you going to be a fashion model now? Strut your stuff on the catwalk? You ever watch models? They always look all pissed off that everyone is looking at them. Duh, it's what you do. All you do is wear clothes and get looked at."
Teddy groaned at Duncan's tangent and pushed the cat off his stomach, sitting down at his desk and opening his laptop. "Focus. I'm going to check the Mt Diablo website right now and see what we're dealing with."
"I've already got it up."
"That's what she said," Teddy said automatically as the page loaded. "Okay, so I have a map. Looks like Castle Rock is way over to the west side of the park close to Walnut Creek."
"Yes, I see that. How're we getting over there? When are we getting over there?"
"I've been thinking about that. How far can you Apparate?"
"Um, well … I dunno really. I haven't really had to go very far. I mainly Apparate from home to school and back. Dude, it's so great not being covered in Floo powder all the time."
Teddy grunted as he looked at the map, bringing up another map and zooming out so he could see the whole Bay Area. "Okay, so what you're saying is that you probably wouldn't be able to Apparate the both of us from somewhere here in town to Mt Diablo."
"Um, are you interested in keeping all of your bits and pieces?"
"Very."
"Then no. No, I cannot." Duncan was quiet for a moment before speaking again. "What I can do though is probably get the two of us to the school."
"Go on …"
"So check it out," Duncan said, voice sounding excited, "I Apparate us to the school and we take a couple of brooms over to the park!"
"Mm-hm, sounds good so far," Teddy said, looking at the map and trying to gauge the distance between the school and their destination inside the park. "How sure are you on that Apparating?"
"Pretty sure," Duncan said, not sounding very sure at all. "Maybe we should practice a bit? When are we trying this?"
"Hmm …" Teddy spun around in his desk chair as he thought. "No chance during the week, and Saturday is the dance. Sunday, I guess?"
"Yeah, that should work. It's kind of our last chance before break. What if we don't find it and get the whisker?"
"Well, I mean, I told Niyol I'd do my best but I couldn't guarantee success." Teddy took a deep breath and stopped spinning, feeling a little bit queasy. "I really hope we get the whisker though. It would be pretty cool to meet a deity, you know?"
"Yeah it would. What's our cover?"
"Um … a movie? We've used it before."
"An oldie but a goodie. So, now that we've got that settled, what's up with you and Kelly? Saw you out by the fountain. Is she bent about Katie?"
"Nah, she's cool. I showed her the feather and stuff."
"And stuff. Uh-huh."
"Ugh, we were just talking. That's not even a private spot, is it?" Teddy paused, a grin coming over his face. "Not like the back side of the gym. That's nice and private."
"You're the worst, Lupin."
"But you love me."
"God help us all."