``K.N.I.G.H.T {t o} E5 [Teddy, m'dear. xDD]

[Rosie Lupin]

Ahh, the angst and stress of homework. Such a frivolous thing it was, after all. Its only use was to pound some piece of knowledge into your head, which you probably wouldn't remember in ten years anyways. But, still, it was something that had to be done. And something that no student in Hogwarts would tell you they enjoyed. Especially not Rosie Weasley.

Splayed, arms spread wide and head face-down on an open book, on a table in the Gryffindor Common Room, Rosie wasn't exactly the happiest camper ever at the moment. Her stress level had been raising itself slowly all week, and now, on Saturday evening, she was forced to do all the homework that'd been piling up over the week. Essays and open books took up most of the table, as well as the potted Irish Cactus she'd been assigned to take care of in Herbology for the month of October. Though she'd watered it every Tuesday (as recommended; the plants were rather crotchety on any other day) with centaur urine, the cactus wasn't looking too hot.

However, the good news was, she was on her last essay of the day. She'd started at seven that morning with Transfiguration - practicing her Switching Spells - which she'd finished by nine, and then headed to her Potions essay, which was on the properties of Hepholas Tentacles, and a total waste of her time. She'd finished that by lunch, when she'd taken a short break to head down to the Great Hall to skarf down some shepherd's pie before heading back up to the Common Room and practicing some defensive magic for DADA. She'd worked on this extra hard, as she knew the New Order would need all the help it could get. After that, she'd observed her Irish Cactus for half an hour and written down observations for Herbology. Now, she was on her Charms essay, which was on the pros and cons of Cheering Charms. The sky outside was just turning a dusky shade of reddish orange, a signal that day was coming to a close.

How she could use a break right about now.

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[Teddy Lupin]

"Chocolate Frogs." Teddy spoke in a hushed voice for only the Fat Lady to hear. "Come on in." The Fat Lady smiled, opening the gate into the Gryffindor Common Room for the turquoised hair boy. Ted sent a wolfish smile to the Fat Lady before preceding in. Teddy had been at the library all day, looking through book after book, trying to come up with a topic for his Transfiguarations essay, he still didn't have anything to do it on. Typical Teddy thought. He would probably send an owl to Harry or Ron, asking for some idea's. That's what he usually did.

Teddy yawned and stretched as he made his way towards the fire in the center of the common room. A few people were around, doing scattered things. A few kids even had a game of exploding snap. It didn't interest Teddy at all, so he looked over towards the tables. He knew Zane wouldn't be here, he used all his free to fly or teach some of the New Order members. That boy worked to hard for his age. That's when he noticed the bright orange hair at one of the tables. Teddy smiled and walked quietly over to her.

Once he was close enough, his hands sprung, covering her eyes the the homework she seemed to be working on. If she was actually working, well he would find that out later. "Guess who?" he said, his hair changing a millions colors, reading to hide his appearance.

[Rosie Lupin]

Rosie just so happened to be the squeemish sort. At Teddy's touch, she jumped half a mile out of her chair before groaning noticeably and reaching up to grab at the muscled wrists connected to the hands that covered her face.

"Teeeddddd," she groaned, laughing in the aftermath of her shock, and still attempting to remove his hands from her face. "You KNOW I'm jumpy. Why you gotta scare me like that? I almost had a heart attack."

And she had. Even now, her heart was racing at twice its normal speed. Although it was calming down quite a bit, the adrenaline had pumped through her veins in that split second of panic before she realized it wasn't a stranger who meant harm, but rather her laughing, joking Teddy.

"You know Teddy, m'dear," she began, putting her hands on her hips, his hands still covering her eyes, a rather joking seriousness to her voice, "Some of us actually have work to do. We can't have distractions ever two seconds." She paused for a moment before grinning mischeiviously. "However, we do rather enjoy a distraction once in a while."

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[Teddy Lupin]

He boomed with laughter as she jumped, attempting to removed his hands from her face. "Aww Rosie, you know I'm just having fun." he chuckled, moving his hands from her face and taking the chair from beside her, sitting in it with the back facing his chest, looking at her homework. "Looks like you've got a lot done tonight, I doubt with any breaks." he said glimpsing over all the work around the table.

"I didn't know one could get so much work done in one day, sheesh. I'm still trying to come up with a topic for my Transfiguration essay." he said, picking up her cactus, turning it around and examining it. "You should take a break from all this work and keep me company. Zane is gone off somewhere." he chuckled, placing the little cactus back down on the table. "So what do you say? Give up on homework?" he asked, his eyes meting hers, a wolfish smile on his face.

[Rosie Lupin]

Rosie rolled her eyes good-naturedly at the boy, a grin slowly spreading across her face. She looked at her homework for a moment, before she wrinkled her nose and pushed it away.

"Sure, let's ditch the homework scene," she said, standing up and stretching backwards, pins and needles spreading through her legs, which had fallen asleep a while back, due to her sitting in her signature, indian-style cross-legged position. Wincing slightly, she stood behind Teddy and pushed him lightly towards the plush couches in front of the fireplace. As he sat down on one, she lept over the back of the same and landed right next to him.

"Gawd, I'm cravin a game of Wizards Chess at the moment," she said, leaning back and rubbing her eyes. "You up for it?"

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[Teddy Lupin]

He rolled his eyes as she jumped onto the couch from behind. Typical Rosie, but he wasn't one for complaining. He had been around Rosie since forever, and things never seemed to change, which was always good. As she suggested a game, he lit up, his hair changing lime green. He groaned as it did, hating how his hair changed with his emotions and flicked his hands through it before it changed back to its turquoise color.

"If you didn't guess, of course I'm up for a game. When am I not?" he chuckled, his arms resting on the back of the sofa. He pulled out his wand and mutter Accio Chess Set under his breathe, and sure enough the chess set floated down from his room and sat itself between him and Rosie.

[Rosie Lupin]

Rosie looked thoughtfully at his hair. Most people changed their emotions through their facial expression. Teddy, however, was different, as usual. He, by choice or coincidence, Rosie wasn't quite sure, showed his emotions through his hair. Red for anger, purple for calm, and a rainbow of other hues which made her practically laugh out loud every time they switched. From what she'd heard of Tonks, he was just like her. Cracking jokes and acting just a tad childish. Ahh, Ted, he never changed either.

"God, you make it look easy," she groaned enviously, watching him perform the Summoning Charm, "D'you think its healthy that I still can hardly do simple fifth years magic without struggling? Perhaps I'm defected..."

She began setting up her pieces on the game board, biting her lip and thinking hard.

[Teddy Lupin]

He chuckled as she spoke, shaking his head as she placed her pieces on the board, following her actions. "You aren't defective Rose, I've heard your Dad and Mum had some problems with spells. Your Dad just not able to do any and your Mum still has trouble pulling out the animal shape of her Patranomus." Teddy smiled, placing the last rook down on the board.

"You are great at other things Rosie, like making sure I don't beat that Malfoy upside the head." Teddy chuckled, leaning back in his seat. He chuckled, noticing she was still biting her lip.

"And if you keep biting your lip, you my friend are going to have a fat lip." he laughed, reaching over and pulling his lip away from her teeth.

[Rosie Lupin]

"Although, I've yet to hear a coherent thank you from that beast of a boy," she said jokingly, leaning back in her chair and swatting his hand away from her mouth, giving him a playful glare. "Ah, well, maybe its time I let you beat up old Scorpius. After all, he's part of the DE, right?"

Straightening one of her castles and giving a rather rowdy pawn a stern look, she looked up, motioning to Teddy. "White moves first, Ted."

And then she waited, ignoring his comment about her getting a fat lip. She could still remember the last time she'd gotten one. In third year, Scorpius'd gotten fed up with her, not getting the reaction to his threats and snide comments at her heritage that he wanted from her, and threw a rather foul jinx at her lip, swelling it slightly in size. Thank God he wasn't too good at the spell, or her lip would have been the size of a leech in less than a minute. Of course, after Ted heard about that one, he went and gave Malfoy a good beating. Since the detention he'd gotten from that beating, Rosie'd kept Ted's nose out of trouble.

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[Teddy Lupin]

"Finally,I can knock some sense into that boy. That beaten wasn't enough, I've been clean for four years now, you don't understand how many times I've restrained myself from stopping and giving him a few beatings." he sighed, looking down at the board in front of him.

"Pawn to Queen's 3." he said, and the white pawn moved forward to it's newly assigned position. He smiled up at Rosie. "But thanks for keeping me at hand, I rather not spend all my time in detention if I can." he said, looking over at the fire. "God, I wished I tried out for Quidditch, how I would love to a Beater so I could just chuck a Bludger at Malfoy's face, what a good laugh I get whenever he gets hit." Teddy chuckled, playing with the edge of a corner of a cushion.

[Rosie Lupin]

"And four years for Teddy Lupin is like centuries," she chuckled, futzing with her hair a little before saying clearly, "Knight to E5." Then she continued with her talking, passing the time as she waited for her friend to take his move, "Especially if it's the time he's keeping clean from something as tempting as beating up Scorpius Malfoy. Honestly, Ted, you need to learn to control your anger better."

She looked up at his mention of Quidditch.
"Funny you should mention it," she said slyly, looking up at him with a mischievious look in her eye. "Try-outs for Gryffindor's new beater are next week. Our previous one, besides me, of course, was Tony Malcom. You remember that kid, right? Tall and skinny. Had an awful zit problem. He was the one who had both his arms blown off last summer. Working with Muggle explosives, the stupid boy. Landed himself a spot in St. Mungo's."

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[Teddy Lupin]

"Many many centuries." Ted joked with his friend, watching as the knight hoped over the pawn and into it position. "As for my temper, I'm working on it. Maybe one day I'll be able to handle it and you won't have to hold me back every time my hair goes red. It's just Scoripus gets to me so easily, hopefully eventually I won't have to worry about him so much." he chuckled, finally deciding on a move.

"Knight to A3." he called, watching as his knight hopped over a pawn and into position. He perked up as she mention that the pervious beater had lost both of his arms. "Well I know much better, and I may take that offer up. I've always liked the idea of being able to chuck some Bludgers at people, you know, for the good of the team and not my own pleasure." Ted chuckled, leaning back in his seat again.

[Rosie Lupin]

"Well, Scorpius really isn't the one that gets me," she answered thoughtfully, prodding her pawn forward two spaces, whisperning comforting words to it in an attempt quiet its frightened gibberish. "That Kianthra girl is. How she treats Zane is just abominable. I mean, Hugo and I don't exactly get along a lot of the time, but we don't hate each other. I mean, we can't."

She laughed at his talk of chucking Bludgers at people. "Ahh, isn't it always for the good of the team. And we would totally be the dream team in Beaters. Gryffindor couldn't even lose the Cup if they tried. We'd have killed all the other teams' players. So we'd win by forfeit."

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[Teddy Lupin]

"I guess since I don't have much family I don't understand that hate as well as you do." he said, his voice somewhat mumbled as he moved his pawn forward two spaces. "But I know what you mean, the hate between the two of them is a special kind of hate that only comes around so often." Ted said, looking down at his pieces, not wanting to met Rosie's eyes at the moment. Speaking of family was always a touchy subject, probably why Scorpius got to him so easily, but no longer.

"The Beater dream team, I like that. I'll have to get my Silver Arrow out this week and do a bit of flying, I haven't flown since this summer." Ted said, finally looking up at Rosie, not a hint of sadness in his eyes. He did well to hid his emotions, when he needed to.

[Rosie Lupin]

Rosie could tell she'd hit a touchy subject with Ted. She always could, even if he was trying to hide his emotions even harder day by day. Even if his hair didn't betray him, she could still tell, without fail or mistake. Probably because she knew him better than just about anyone.

"C'mon, Ted, cheer up," she pleaded with him, smiling slightly and reaching across the table to lift up his chin with her fingertips. "You don't want me to start singing that one song from that dang Muggle musical, do you?"

Of course, she meant "Cheer Up, Charlie" from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Or was it Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? Rosie could never remember. But, she did remember the movie. She'd watched it repeatedly for a whole week when she was nine and had then annoyed the hell out of Teddy with all the songs from it for the next two months. "Cheer Up, Charlie" had been the most hated of the score.

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