Rosie&Ted :// under the open sky, oh my

[Rosie Lupin]

Rosie laughed with him. "That Hufflepuff kid? Well Ted, I'm pretty sure he's got some damage to his brain. So, being better than him at something really isn't saying much. But thanks anyways." She gave him a swift kiss on the cheek before looking back up at the sky. She often felt sorry for the Hufflepuff kid. After all, he did seem to be a bit on the mentally challenged side. Which wasn't very common among the Wizarding Community, no matter how common it might be in the Muggle world. Of course, Rosie was sure the Hufflepuff didn't have too many problems. Otherwise, he wouldn't have passed all his years at Hogwarts.

Rosie smiled at his mention of Christmas. She'd always loved the holiday season at the Weasley household. For some reason, it was the only time of the year that the whole family was there. In fact, it was required that, if you were a Weasley, you be there at Christmas. Or someone would find you and shoot you down with one of those Muggle pistols. During other holidays, one or more members of the family would be out on their respective vacations. Bill and Fleur often took Victoire to Romania, where they'd all study dragons together. Rosie was glad that wasn't her family. If she had to study dragons on the holidays, she'd probably welcome a couple shots from a gun.

Although she often felt bad during the holidays, simply because she wondered constantly whether Teddy was having a good time or not. After all, her family, though they tried their best to welcome him in, was not his family. It was, however, as close to a family as he had, other than his grandmother, who was quite a nice woman, Rosie had to admit. She'd stayed a his grandmother's house with him and Zane for the summer after second year, and they'd all had a grand old time, Teddy's grandma included.

Rosie laughed, listening to his retorts and making a mental note to ask Zane who was more perfect, her or Ted. "You think your hair's bad? Have you seen this mess?" At that moment, she pointed to her hair. It was rather a mess, as it was constantly wild and tangled. The ball had been the only time she ever even attempted to attack it with a straightener and a curling iron. In fact, she doubted it would ever listen to her again, as she'd made a pact with it to leave it alone for the rest of her life, as long as it would just cooperate for one night. And she intended to keep that promise. When he mentioned his grin, she frowned at him. "I like your smile. It's cute." At this, she scrunched up her nose, before laughing, her cheeks taking on a slight pink tinge. She had just called him cute, after all. "And who doesn't like a little wolfish behavior now and again?" she chuckled, tapping his nose lightly with her pointer finger, her face breaking into a grin as she stared at him.

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[Teddy Lupin]

The ting of pink grew deeper on his cheeks as her lips pressed against it. The electricity felt unbearable, but he needed it all at the same time. It was one of the most confusing things ever, he wanted it but he didn't. Was that love? Was that what it actually felt like? He wouldn't say anything more about the situation, but the electricity between them was not unnoticed. Frankly, he felt as though he couldn't get enough of it. He always seemed to want more. And the more Rosie in his life, the better he felt about everything. His life got a lot brighter with Rosie in it.

He watched her face for a long moment as it looked up into the sky, before his eyes matched her, taking in the stars. Professor Sinistra was right, it was a perfect night for star gazing. She said she was heading to London for the weekend, meet up with a few friends and heading to the hill side. He was almost sure he saw Ted light up with realization, and a plan forming in his head. She had given him a look as if to say 'Now, be good.' before she dismissed the class. He was afraid she would say something to him, but all she did was small as he wrapped his arm around Rosie, heading out of the classroom. Sinistra was a good Professor, but he already knew that the DE was trying to get her on their side.

He could only count not even a half dozen on their side anymore. Longbottom, McGonagal and Hagrid was all they had on their sides. Longbottom, a Herbology teacher, although not a terrifying subject, fought along Harry many times, and even killed Voldemort's snake, killing Voldemort himself. McGonagal was around for quite some time now, and very wise witch. Hagrid was Hagrid, willing to help whenever he could. But that was in the school, they had more support outside.. right? The thought scared him, that they were out numbered. He would heartbroken if anyone got hurt, whether it be Zane, James, Lily, Ander or.. he shuddered at the thought of Rosie getting hurt. But she wouldn't, not while he was there. He'd play the overprotective boyfriend well, he knew she could stand up for herself, but he'd hate to see her hurt. He knew this would be one of his weaknesses, and the DE was sure to find out soon about them, if they already hadn't, and use that to their advantage.

"I swear Rosie, if you touch your hair, I'll kill you. Unless you're dressing it up like you did at the ball, that's fine, but seriously, it's absolutely fabulous." he said, laughing at himself. Absolutely fabulous? Was he serious? He sounded some what gay saying that. He shook his head and grinned back at her, finding her face scrunched up like a badger. He couldn't help but grin. "You think it's cute?" he said, his grin turning into a smirk, but he became dumbfounded like a dog after you hit it's nose, which was exactly what she did. He laughed for a moment before looking at her, a grin forming on his own face as heir eyes meet, his eyes boring into her green ones.

[Rosie Lupin]

As she pressed her lips to his cheek, she felt a shock of electricity run through her body. It was quite common these days between the two of them, and, like Teddy, she tended to crave it as well. It was a good feeling, that electricity, and she wondered if it would ever stop. Because she really didn't want it too. Her and Ted, after all, had quite an amazing connection with each other, and if that ever ceased to exist, she would most likely be devastated. But, it wasn't like it was going to end any time soon. If all was well, they had a lot more time with each other.

Looking up at the night sky forced Rosie to remember Professor Sinistra. She was a nice professor, even if she was rather distant and stand-offish at times. Rosie supposed that was just how her personality panned out for her. But, she was worried about the professor. After all, with seven years at Hogwarts under her belt, Sinistra being there for all of them, the two of them had become good aquaintances. Of course, it wasn't as though they were best friends or anything, but Professor Sinistra had become one of the only professors that was still on the New Order's side. That, in itself, made her very valuable to Rosie and the rest of the NO. But, it wasn't just her worth that made Rosie worry about the professor. It was also her fragile nature. Over seven years, she'd come to know that Professor Sinistra wasn't exactly the strongest person ever. And, if things didn't go well, and the Death Eaters had to resort to the Unforgivables, she might just end up like Professor Longbottom's parents.

This topic in her mind brought up that of the war that was fast approaching. All the New Order members as well as the Death Eaters knew that they would have to sort out their differences before their last year at Hogwarts was done. Because, of course, most of the members of both parties were in their Seventh year, as well as both leaders and second in commands. This, in itself, paired with the rapidly building tension that had been escalating this whole year made the war inevitable. And someone was bound to get hurt in such a war, and even killed. In fact, it was one of the things that Rosie worried about most these days. She didn't know what she'd do if Teddy got hurt. She was worried about the others too, but none as much as she was about Ted. His temper was his major weakness, and if it got the better of him, she might as well be saying good-bye now. Rosie pushed that thought out of her mind. The war wouldn't be until later. Besides, why not focus on this night, here and now?

"Oh yeah?" she challenged him as she returned to reality from her thoughts, her face serious and mockingly defiant. Her hand hovered up to her head, threatening to graze her head of wild chocolate-auburn hair at any second. After a moment, her mouth pulled into a cheeky grin. "Just kidding, of course. And where on Earth did you learn the word 'fabulous'?" she asked, laughing at his lopsided grin, the one she'd learned to love over the years she'd known him. At his next question, a rather sheepish smirk came on her face as he stared at her, his stormy grey eyes so pleasant in the soft moonlight. "I think you're cute. And your smile's part of you. So by deductive reasoning we could conclude that, yes, I think it's cute." At the end of this statement, her sheepish smirk had turned into a sheepish grin, which stayed, plastered on her face as she waited for a response.

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[Teddy Lupin]

Teddy pretended to look flabbergasted as she threaten to ruin her dark auburn hair, a color that only belonged to her. He had yet to meet someone with the exact same shade. His eyes widen as it began to inch closer and closer and he let out a gasp, of course playing on his role. He shook his head, as if to say she wasn't actually going to do it, but before her little hand could enter her forest of hair, he reached for her petite wrist, pulling it away from her hair. He let out a sigh of relief as she told him she was just kidding and laughed with her for a moment. He still hadn't let go of her wrist, so instead of returning it, he placed her small palm in his and intertwined their fingers, looking at their joined hands for a moment before looking back at her grinning lopsided.

"I have absolutely no clue where on earth I learned that word. Probably from you, you've become quite the influence on my life." he told her, chuckling gently. She may of thought that she was mostly a tom boy because of the lot of them that hung out, Lily was a few year younger so she had some other friends, but Rosie was one of the guys for years. Not saying she didn't have any friends that were girls, how else would he pick out this lingo of hers? No, he can remember the many times when they were little when he would lose a bet with Rosie, or Zane or James for that matter, and they would force him to dress up as a girl, dress and makeup included. Ted would change his appearance half the time so when they would make him go into town with the get up, he wouldn't be so embarrassed. Rosie would always call him 'beautiful' or 'fabulous' just top get on his nerves. The most frightful time was when one of the Muggle boys would have the nerve to come up and ask him out. Ted slapped him and then ran away screaming, his voice quite low, even for a twelve year old, and the boy still probably isn't the same.

"Only 'cute'? Gosh, I thought I passed the cute phase." he huffed and looked away for a moment, but couldn't pull himself away from her for long. "Rosie, by deductive reasoning, that all our weirdness and perfection combined, I believe we can conclude that both of us are perfect for one another, whether it be my 'cute' smile or the way you scrunch up your nose when you smile, which I think is cute by the way," he grinned at her "we're just perfect for one another." he smile, getting lost in her deep emerald pools, sure that his lopsided grin met the foolishness of her sheepish one.

And then he couldn't help himself any longer. He inched his face closer to hers, but then pushed his lips against hers. The electricity flaring everywhere, his stomach untangling the knot of nerves in there since he had brought her up here. His eyes closed, just picturing the moment in third person point of view, two of them lying on a picnic blanket under a starry night they were enjoying with one another. Finally, he pulled himself a way from her and looked at her. "Sorry." he said after a few breathes. "I've been meaning to do that all night, I was trying to find a perfect moment, but I just couldn't help myself." he said, his face turning red as his grin turned into a sheepish smile like hers.

[Rosie Lupin]

Another one of those shocks spread, tingling, up her arm as he lightly grabbed her wrist. His fingers could easily fit around her whole wrist. In fact, if he tried, he'd be able to get around it one and a half times without really squeezing at all. This was just another example of how drastically different in size the two of them were. But, that hardly seemed to matter at the moment. The night was perfect, and so was the guy she was spending it with. Well, he was perfect for her, even if other people as well as him thought he was majorly flawed.

"Yeah, sure, blame it on me," Rosie laughed, feeling her stomach flip over as their hands interlaced. "I'm sure you just picked it up off the streets. Y'know, those Muggle ghettos. Except, I'm pretty sure people there can't use the word 'fabulous' without getting seriously beat up." She thought about it for a moment, before shaking the thought out of her head. Besides, whatever Muggles did in their 'ghettos' was little of her concern. Besides, she had a pretty good idea of where he'd learned the word from and it definitely wasn't the streets. A smile came to her face as she remembered the consequence her, Zane, and James had long ago come up with for when Teddy lost a bet. It was a bit of a cruel punishement, but it never failed to make them laugh. In fact, Rosie would often be the one lending Teddy the clothes he wore. She could never again look at her hand-me-down yellow sundress the same way after he wore it into town and got asked out by some Muggle boy who looked too young to even know what asking out meant.

"Oh yeah, I forgot, guys think the word 'cute' takes away from their masculinity or something," she said, looking down at the ground as she thought, but then raising her head up to grin at him, "You are past cute. But you're also past any other word that I can think of, sooooo..." She trailed off, listening to his words. And he was right. They were perfect for each other, no matter how many strange things were different about the two of them. Their heights, their hair, but most importantly, their personalities, complimented each other perfectly, and that made all of their differences practically fade away. "I believe you're right, Ted. And thanks." She said the last two words while smiling at him, her nose scruching up more out of habit than anything else.

The electricity between them flickered alarmingly between them as he leaned towards her. It became almost unbearable as he kissed her, but it was a good kind of unbearable. If that even made any sense to anyone besides her. Of course, Rosie's stomach was flipping over and over inside of her, and her insides felt as though they had vanished, but again, in a good way. Once he pulled himself away, she had time to stare at him, which had, however creepy this may sound, become one of her favorite hobbies over the past weeks. Even his face was perfect to her. All the angles, the sharp jawline that always clenched and unclenched when he was angry, the angular nose and the silvery grey eyes. Everything was perfect. She was still staring at his face when he began talking to her, and she had to pull her eyes off of him for a moment so as to regain control of her thoughts. "You don't have to apologize, Ted," she answered, grinning back at him.

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[Teddy Lupin]

Ted scoffed as she looked away from him, kind of upset at himself for being so rude. He was just kidding with her. Before he could take a hand to her chin to pry her eyes back to his, she looked back at him, and adorable grin on her face. He almost didn't hear what she said, too brought up in her smile, but he returned her grin as she told him he was past any words that could describe him. "You know Rosie, I see you exactly the same way, but yet you still bring yourself down." he sighed, shaking his head slightly. One hand lifted to her cheek and his grey eyes poured into her emeralds. "I can say your pretty. I can say your gorgeous. I can say your beautiful. I can say your a goddess. But none of that's true, you are much more then any words can describe."

His cheeks were tinted pink, matching his hair, as she said he didn't need to apologize. Then, the biggest grin formed on his face, literally reaching his eyes. His thumb from the hand that rested on her cheek stroke her skin delicately, his eyes still locked on hers happily. He was quickly reminded of the two words she spoke as he was thinking deeply about his next actions. "Why thank me?" he asked her, looking a tad curious now. What had he done to deserve thanks? Nothing he could think of from off the top of his head. It couldn't be because of the kiss, since she had told him before. Oh this would be bothersome.

Thinking of their kiss made his lips tingle, like the electricity from her lips had been transferred to his, leaving only static shock. When he kissed Rosie it was like none other before, like he was receiving his first kiss over and over. It was a sure thing that the Ravenclaw girl was no match to Rosie, heck no one was. When Harry found out in Ted's fourth year he had finally gotten his first kiss, he told him about when he first kissed Aunt Gin, how it was the most spectacular kiss he had ever received, but had to stop himself, since Ron, his best friend and brother to Ginny, was right behind him. To Harry's luck, he said he was fine with it. He wasn't so sure about when he found out about him and Rose, he was sure a beating would do him though. He shook the thought out of his head. Ron was going to be hard enough to deal with,he should try and remember the good days while they still last, here with Rosie in his arms. He could ask for anything more at the moment.


ooc; I am so so so sorry for the crappiness of this post, but I had writers block ast the moment and can't think of anything else to say Dx

[Rosie Lupin]

Rosie blushed lightly when he talked about her looks. She'd always been a bit self-conscious about herself. All the other Weasleys were more of a flawlessly astounding beautiful, while she herself was more of the charming kind of cute that most small children tend to have about them. His compliments boosted her self-esteem for a moment and she grinned at him. "I'm a realist, Ted, what can I say?" she laughed, breathing in his scent as she did.

That smell that always hung around him had recently become the main component in the scent of her Amorentia. In fact, a few days earlier in Potions class, they'd been brewing love potions, and Rosie had been overcome by the smell of Teddy, even though he had been placed halfway across the room from her, due to the fact that they'd been talking during class. It was a fresh sort of scent, smelling distantly of cologne mingled with a tad of sweat and grass smell. She'd always loved it. But, over their years at Hogwarts together, she'd noticed it more and more, and it'd gotten increasingly distinct from other people's scents.

Rosie grinned back at him, her eyes lighting up as she looked at him, their emerald hue turning brighter. "Because you're a good man, Teddy. And I'm such a mess. I'm thanking you for choosing me instead of, say, Victoire." She laughed at this thought. Teddy and Victoire would together would end up in catastrophe. Both were so completey and utterly headstrong that it would be difficult for either of them to make any headway in the relationship. They'd be bickering constantly. Which wasn't really much different than life was now between the two of them. But Rosie pushed that thought out of her head. Teddy was hers for the time being, and she was his. She hoped desperately that that would never change.

Of course, there was always the problem of her father to consider. Ronald Weasley was perhaps the most protective parent that Rosie knew of. This made it difficult for Rosie to have very many long-term relationships, so, before Teddy, she'd just stuck to snogging and short, secretive ones. But that all changed now. Now she just HAD to get Ron to agree to let her date Ted. If it was her father that ended their relationship, Rosie would never be able to forgive him. After all, there was so much time left for the two of them. They had their lives ahead of them.

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[Teddy Lupin]

Ted chuckled with Rosie, sitting up and pulling her into his lap. His chin rested on her should as he took in her scent. For about two years now, her scent had been one of his Amorentia, behind sugar cookies but ahead of Lavender, no matter how girly that sounded. But after today's potion class with Love Potions, he knew she bet sugar cookies by a long shot. Her sweet smell of roses, no joke she actually smelt like them, mixed with the Burrow smell that seemed to stick to every Weasley like super glue, and a bit of wild berries thrown in there too. It was heavenly to him, and he found it almost unbearable in Potions class. He could feel her looking at him every few minutes, since he had been put on the other side of the class under Duros's eye, and every time he felt her eyes on him, his cheeks would flare a pinkish tinge.

"I'm a good man for choosing you Rosie? Please, like I would choose anyone else." he scoffed shaking his head slightly. But he couldn't help but bursting into laughter as she suggested Victoire. "Vikki? Are you kidding me? Your only saying her because of her Veela looks." Teddy said, stretching his neck to look at her. "If Victorie had half the personality that you had then maybe I could find it somewhere deep inside me to go on a pity date with her. Besides, she isn't the most.. I need to find word to describe you so beautiful will have to do for now.. she isn't the most beautiful Weasley out there you know." Ted grinned planting a small kiss on her jaw, the electricity following mad between them at the moment.

He wondered what her family here at Hogwarts thought of them dating. He really hadn't talked to many of them, he knew James was behind him, but what about the girls? What about Lily and Victoire? Where they just as supportive as James? Or would they be like.. a shiver rolled down Ted's spine as he thought of Ron. He could only remember the only bloke Rosie had introduced to her father, and how terrible that turned out to. Hermione would never let him hear the end of that one in a million years. Would Ted be any different from him? Would he take it easier on him because he was like family? Or would he be treated the same as any guy that would come into Rosie's love life?

There were so many questions left unanswered, questions that only Ron himself could tell them. He knew Rosie was just as nervous as he was about the whole thing. But their connection was much different then anything he ever expected. But he knew that from the start, that their connection was far.. deeper he supposed he could say, then anything he could imagine. He tried to get rid of his emotions at first, tried to tell himself that he couldn't love Rosie. But once he finally gave up fighting, he was a lot happier with his life. And he knew, from the moment he realized that he loved Rosie, his life was going to be a lot different. He put his chin in the croon of her shoulder and looked up at the sky happily. Things could not get any better then this.

[Rosie Lupin]

Rosie sighed lightly as he pulled her onto his lap. There, she curled up like a cat, her small frame allowing her to morph herself into a curled up form in his lap. She could feel his chin on her head, and was instantly reminded of how her father had always used to do that whenever she sat on his lap. But thinking of Ronald made her think of home, which was always rather painful, as, even though she'd been coming to Hogwarts for seven years now, she'd never really gotten over that feeling of homesickness that had first pervaded her every waking moment at the school. It was lightened considerably by the fact that she had Ted with her practically twenty-four/seven, but even that made her miss the Burrow even more.

"No," Rosie answered him patiently, her voice wistful and light-hearted, "You're a good man because you just are. The fact that you choose me is just a little added bonus." At this remark, the corners of her mouth twitched and turned a fraction of an inch upward. That is, until he told her she was more beautiful than Victoire and a bark of laughter escaped her lips. "Jesus, Ted, the ways you make me laugh." Rosie knew, after all, that Vikki was mountains more gorgeous than she could ever hope to be. However, the comment Ted had made about her personality sorta rang true in Rosie's head as well. Vikki wasn't the bravest girl in the world, and she was rather odd and abrupt, very flitty and spur-of-the-moment. Rosie was, perhaps, the more dependable and courageous of the two of them, even if Victoire was the prettier one.

Of course, then there was the matter of her parents to discuss. Teddy and her had been avoiding the subject for quite some time know, even if both of them knew it would come up eventually. So, instead of waiting it out any longer, Rosie commented on the large elephant sitting in the middle of the Astronomy Tower. "I've been thinking Ted," she started, looking down at her hands before turning her head back and looking at him upside-down, which, for some reason, made her chuckle. "Perhaps we ought to send a letter to my parents."

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[Teddy Lupin]

Ted grinned as she made herself comfortable in his lap. When she finally stopped fidgeting, he rested his hands on her knees, those were even tiny. He had been noticing little things ever since last month, where he became brave and let her catch him starring, like the faint freckles on her cheeks or how no matter what she did with her hair, there was always that one strand that always need to get pushed behind her hair, which he'd gladly do for her any day, and although he noticed it before, how whenever she smiled passed the regular sweet smile her nose would scrunch up like a badger, which in his mind was absolutely adorable.

He laughed as she called herself a little added bonus. She was much more then a 'little added bonus' but before he could tell her that, she burst into a fit of laughter. He scoffed at her and shook his head. "Rosie m'dear." he grinned as he called her m'dear. something she usually did. "I wasn't trying to make you laugh, I was speaking the truth. I will admit, Vikki is quite the charmer, but frankly, in these screwed up eyes" he pointed to his eyes, "Or at least but the way your sounding it sounds like they are screwed up, she can't compare to you, and I'm not sucking up." he said, wrapping his arms around her waist now, looking up at the night sky.

As she flipped her head to look at him upside down, he laughed with her and kissed her chin softly, and before he could ask what, she answered him. He felt his face drop, like he had seen in those Muggle movies where the girlfriend ask something totally crazy of her boyfriend, like this. He could see it now, heading to Ancient Runes with Rosie's hand clasped in his and then hearing Ron's shouts asking where he was. Ted and Ron always had a good relationship, but he was sure this would change by him dating his 'little girl'. He gulped once and thought it over, knowing that he would have to say yes.

"Only if we can tell Harry and Ginny first, we'll send their letter a few minutes before your parents. I'm going to tell you straight out right now Rosie, I'm terrified of your father." he gulped again, looking down at Rosie while biting a corner of his lip. Maybe once Harry gets the letter, he would know how Ron would eract and he and Ginny could head over to the house to convince him not to kill Ted.