Vote Now! Teddy/Roxanne - Week 31
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1.
Author: bendleshnitz1
Title: Let's Wait Together
Words: 279
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
The Burrow was quiet as Teddy walked back from the bathroom to the boys room. The adults had gone to sleep after hours of talking and drinking. Tomorrow was Christmas and the whole Weasley and Potter families were spending the night in the cramped house so they could all open the gifts first thing in the morning.
As he returned to his warm bed, Teddy saw a light coming from downstairs. Unable to ignore his curiousity (like always), he made his way to the living room, skillfully avoiding the creaking steps of the old stairs. There, he found Roxanne curled up on one side of the couch, staring intenly at the fireplace.
"Roxy?" he whispered as he walked to sit beside her. "What are you doing up?"
"Waiting," she said simply. Her eyes never left the fireplace.
Teddy frowned as he looked at the four-year-old. "Waiting for what?"
"Father Christmas. Freddy said he isn't real and I want to see." Her small hands clutched the blanket she had around her shoulders.
"Fred said that?" She nodded. "He's lying."
For the first time, Roxanne turned to look at him. Her dark eyes shinning with hope. "How do you know?"
"Well, I'm older. I'm going to Hogwarts next year, remember? If Father Christmas wasn't real I would know, right?" He tried to sound confident as she looked at him sceptically.
"I guess," Roxanne said in a doubting tone.
"Okay, you don't have to believe me," he said standing up again.
"Wait!" Roxanne whispered. "Would you wait with me?"
Teddy looked at her for a second before smiling and sitting again by her side. "Alright; but you'll have to share your blanket."
2.
Author: tania_sings
Title: Waiting for Them
Words: 199
Rating: G
Warnings: Shamelessly shmoopy twin-parent shmoop from shamelessly shmoopy parent of twins.
"Teddy!" Roxanne poked her husband in the back. "Teddy, wake up!"
He stirred. "Whaa? Roxie, what is it? Is something wrong with the babies?"
She shook her head, fascinated. "No, nothing's wrong. Teddy... they're moving!"
Alert now, he slid a hand onto her swollen belly. At first there was nothing, but then he felt a tiny flutter against his palm.
"Wow," he swallowed hard. "Those are our kids. Those are really our kids moving around in there."
Her hand came up to cover his. "They really are."
Teddy shifted, moving lower to talk to their children directly. "Hello Remus. Hello Nymphadora. This is your Daddy speaking."
Roxanne giggled as his lips tickled her skin. "I still think we should rethink that name."
"We can call her Tonks, if you like. Mum apparently liked that better."
"Tonks Weasley-Lupin?" Roxie made a face. "No one will know which one is her first name! Maybe just Dora?"
He beamed as he pressed his lips against her belly, kissing the three people he loved most in the world all at once. "Well whatever your names turn out to be, I can't wait to meet you."
3.
Author: scarysnapey
Title: I Know You Want Me
Words: 310
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
“Why are you always in my house?” Roxanne shrieks, and moments later the door is slammed in Teddy’s face.
He knocks again, hesitantly, and this time, much to his relief, George answers the door. “Mr. Weasley,” Teddy says matter-of-factly, “I’m here to see Roxanne.”
George glances backwards awkwardly. “You see, Ted, I’m not supposed to let you in. However, your persistence tickles me pink, as does your attitude. So I say, go get her!”
“Thanks,” Teddy replies, pushing his way through the door. He hears Roxanne slam the door to her room. “I guess I’ll go right on up then.”
“Roxxy,” he calls, flashing his most charming smile even though she can’t see it. “Come on, Roxxy.”
“Don’t call me that,” comes the muffled reply.
Teddy leans back against the door. “You know what the best thing about being seventeen is?”
“What?” sniffs a reluctant voice.
“This.” Teddy Apparates into the room with crack, causing the unsuspecting girl to fall back onto her bed. She leaps up moments later, indignation shining on her angry face.
“Teddy,” she says sweetly, fooling him for a second with her sugary tone. “What part of, ‘I’m not interested,’ don’t you understand?”
“This.”
He sweeps her into a kiss, and in her haste to pull away, Roxanne finds herself pressed even tighter against him. His hands move down her sides, gripping her hips and pulling her closer, even as his teeth nip at her lips, and she leans in, moaning for more.
But in a moment it’s over, and Teddy’s standing in the doorway again.
“Ted!” she calls. “I am interested. I just- I’m not ready. To be with you.”
“I know that you want me,” he says quietly, and that boyish smile that she lo- tolerates- lights up his face. “I can wait a little longer for you to admit it to yourself.”
4.
Author: bealen
Title: Worth the Wait
Words: 327
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Tapping her foot impatiently, Roxie hummed the latest Weird Sisters single to herself. It was hard to believe that after all these years they were still going strong. Teddy was late. Again. This was the third time that Roxie had wasted her lunch break, waiting for Teddy. Despite being five years younger than Victoire she was her closest cousin and confidante. Her seal of approval was definitely needed when it came to choosing an engagement ring.
From behind her, Roxie heard a crash. She turned around. There was Teddy, apologizing profusely to a disgruntled shopkeeper whose display he had just knocked over. Despite her best efforts it was hard to keep a smile from gracing her pretty face. His clumsiness was notorious in some circles. He panted as he neared her a sheepish smile on his face.
'Oof. Sorry! Got caught up.'
His apology and explanation were lost as he tried to regain his breath.
'Never mind, lets go. I still have twenty minutes.'
They set off at a brisk pace, winding their way through the narrow side streets until they reached a small jewellery shop just off Diagon Alley. Teddy pulled at her hand like a small child who desperately wanted a new toy.
'That's it. What do you think?'
As he spoke, Roxie could hear the nervousness which he desperately tried to hide. As she looked at the ring he had pointed at, her breath hitched. It was a beautiful ring, lapis lazuli encircled by diamonds and emeralds and held together by a ring of palest gold. It was perfect. She looked up at Teddy, the excitement emanated from him and filled her.
'It's beautiful.' She choked out. 'She'll love it.'
After all the false starts, seeing the ring had more than made up for the annoyance she had previously felt at Teddy. This ring symbolized the start of a new era, one which in Roxie's point of view anyway, had been worth the wait.
5.
Author: att3sa
Title: Waiting for the Forgetful
Words: 373
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
The cold damp air chilled Roxy almost as much as her boyfriend’s absence did. She shivered a little despite her effort not to show weakness as she stood on the front porch of her grandparents house, waiting. Glaring at the lawn, determined not to look back at the party that went on inside of the Burrow, she waited more.
She waited until the setting sun became a distant memory in her mind and the stars were familiar friends. She waited until even she could no longer excuse Lysander’s absence. Even then without reason and with dying hope, she waited.
“Come inside,” Teddy called to her from the front door, over an hour since she’d left the party.
“I’m busy.”
“Doing what?”
The word died in her throat, choked by an evil sob that robbed her of her ability to speak. He pulled her into his chest, waiting for her body to stop shaking and the tears to stop falling so that she could talk to him.
“I’m waiting,” she replied, smiling bitterly through the tears.
“He’s not coming, Rox.”
She nodded. She’d come to the realization that he’d forgotten about her party a half an hour ago, but she couldn’t help but wait for him to show up on her doorstep begging her to forgive him for his stupidity. It wouldn’t hurt if he brought a dozen roses to soothe the pain, but she was dreaming.
He had a pattern of being absentminded. Tomorrow he would owl saying that he’d lost track of time hunting for rare flowers, rare birds, or nonexistent half breeds. She would scowl, hold out, and finally, when he arrived with a bouquet of strange flowers she would forgive him. She wasn’t sure she could ever forgive him for missing her graduation party though.
“I don’t want to go back inside,” she whispered into his shoulder.
“We’ll wait together then.”
They sat on the steps of the front porch, and Teddy pointed out all the constellation he knew.
The next time she saw Lysander, he had a black eye and Teddy showed up to the family picnic with the bruised knuckles to match. She hid her smile behind a frown and walked past Lysander without sparing him a glance.
6.
Author: hondagirll
Title: Impatience
Words: 398
Rating: G
Warnings: none
"Teddy. Teddy. Teddy. Is it here yet?”
Teddy looks up from opening a box of Fuzzing Frezzer Fungis and smiles. Four year-old Roxanne is standing in front of him dressed in a bright red romper, an eager look on her cherub face.
“Not yet Roxie. Sorry.”
Roxanne’s face falls. “Okay,” she says, her shoulder’s slumping in disappointment as she leaves the backroom.
-
A week later Teddy is in the front of the shop stacking shelves when Roxanne comes up behind him and throws her arms exuberantly around the fifteen year-old’s neck, almost knocking the breath out of him.
“How ‘bout now, Teddy? Is it today?”
Teddy reaches up and gives her arms a short squeeze. “Sorry Rox, not yet. One more week.”
“One more weeeeeek?” Roxie slumps her head forward, resting her face in Teddy’s shoulder. Her voice is muffled. “It’s gonna ‘ake for-eve-eeerrr.”
Teddy can’t help but chuckle. “Sorry, little one. It’ll come soon enough.”
He cheers her up by showing her the latest sweets her father just ordered but even after that Teddy can see she is still upset.
-
“It’s here Teddy! It’s here!”
Teddy shakes his head as Roxane comes dashing into the room, wearing a purple jumper over bright orange tights. At his negative head shake, her mouth forms a little ‘O’ in surprise.
“It’s not? But Freddie said it was the fifteenth.”
“It is the fifteenth.” Teddy takes her by the hand and leads her over to the calendar George keeps on the wall. “But look here,” Teddy points. “Today is the fourteenth.”
Tears begin to form in the four year-old’s eyes as Roxanne struggles to hold her emotions in. “But I thought it was the fifteenth. Doesn’t that count?”
“No, Rox. I'm sorry but it doesn’t. It’ll come tomorrow. Promise.”
Roxanne nods in agreement. But she leaves the room noticeably sadder then when she bounced in. And even though it’s not his fault, Teddy can’t help but feel somewhat responsible.
-
“Teddy! Teddy!”
Teddy is already waiting at the counter when Roxanne comes in, her father a few paces behind her. She dashes across the room, her long pink dress trailing on the floor behind her, her silver tiara nearly falling off her head. She leaps up and Teddy catches her in his arms, her obvious glee quite infectious.
“It’s here! It’s here!”
“So it is.” Teddy gives her a hug. “Happy birthday, little one.”
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Poll nextgen_drabble
Please read the voting rules:
1. Do not vote for yourself and do not ask others to vote for you.
2. If you entered the challenge, you are REQUIRED to vote.
3. Vote for one MOST and one SECOND favorite drabble.
4. Please vote for the NUMBER of the drabble, not the name of it.
5. Please remember the prompt when voting: waiting
6. Voting will close Thursday at 11:59pm EST
Results will be posted Friday. Have fun!
1.
Author: bendleshnitz1
Title: Let's Wait Together
Words: 279
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
The Burrow was quiet as Teddy walked back from the bathroom to the boys room. The adults had gone to sleep after hours of talking and drinking. Tomorrow was Christmas and the whole Weasley and Potter families were spending the night in the cramped house so they could all open the gifts first thing in the morning.
As he returned to his warm bed, Teddy saw a light coming from downstairs. Unable to ignore his curiousity (like always), he made his way to the living room, skillfully avoiding the creaking steps of the old stairs. There, he found Roxanne curled up on one side of the couch, staring intenly at the fireplace.
"Roxy?" he whispered as he walked to sit beside her. "What are you doing up?"
"Waiting," she said simply. Her eyes never left the fireplace.
Teddy frowned as he looked at the four-year-old. "Waiting for what?"
"Father Christmas. Freddy said he isn't real and I want to see." Her small hands clutched the blanket she had around her shoulders.
"Fred said that?" She nodded. "He's lying."
For the first time, Roxanne turned to look at him. Her dark eyes shinning with hope. "How do you know?"
"Well, I'm older. I'm going to Hogwarts next year, remember? If Father Christmas wasn't real I would know, right?" He tried to sound confident as she looked at him sceptically.
"I guess," Roxanne said in a doubting tone.
"Okay, you don't have to believe me," he said standing up again.
"Wait!" Roxanne whispered. "Would you wait with me?"
Teddy looked at her for a second before smiling and sitting again by her side. "Alright; but you'll have to share your blanket."
2.
Author: tania_sings
Title: Waiting for Them
Words: 199
Rating: G
Warnings: Shamelessly shmoopy twin-parent shmoop from shamelessly shmoopy parent of twins.
"Teddy!" Roxanne poked her husband in the back. "Teddy, wake up!"
He stirred. "Whaa? Roxie, what is it? Is something wrong with the babies?"
She shook her head, fascinated. "No, nothing's wrong. Teddy... they're moving!"
Alert now, he slid a hand onto her swollen belly. At first there was nothing, but then he felt a tiny flutter against his palm.
"Wow," he swallowed hard. "Those are our kids. Those are really our kids moving around in there."
Her hand came up to cover his. "They really are."
Teddy shifted, moving lower to talk to their children directly. "Hello Remus. Hello Nymphadora. This is your Daddy speaking."
Roxanne giggled as his lips tickled her skin. "I still think we should rethink that name."
"We can call her Tonks, if you like. Mum apparently liked that better."
"Tonks Weasley-Lupin?" Roxie made a face. "No one will know which one is her first name! Maybe just Dora?"
He beamed as he pressed his lips against her belly, kissing the three people he loved most in the world all at once. "Well whatever your names turn out to be, I can't wait to meet you."
3.
Author: scarysnapey
Title: I Know You Want Me
Words: 310
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
“Why are you always in my house?” Roxanne shrieks, and moments later the door is slammed in Teddy’s face.
He knocks again, hesitantly, and this time, much to his relief, George answers the door. “Mr. Weasley,” Teddy says matter-of-factly, “I’m here to see Roxanne.”
George glances backwards awkwardly. “You see, Ted, I’m not supposed to let you in. However, your persistence tickles me pink, as does your attitude. So I say, go get her!”
“Thanks,” Teddy replies, pushing his way through the door. He hears Roxanne slam the door to her room. “I guess I’ll go right on up then.”
“Roxxy,” he calls, flashing his most charming smile even though she can’t see it. “Come on, Roxxy.”
“Don’t call me that,” comes the muffled reply.
Teddy leans back against the door. “You know what the best thing about being seventeen is?”
“What?” sniffs a reluctant voice.
“This.” Teddy Apparates into the room with crack, causing the unsuspecting girl to fall back onto her bed. She leaps up moments later, indignation shining on her angry face.
“Teddy,” she says sweetly, fooling him for a second with her sugary tone. “What part of, ‘I’m not interested,’ don’t you understand?”
“This.”
He sweeps her into a kiss, and in her haste to pull away, Roxanne finds herself pressed even tighter against him. His hands move down her sides, gripping her hips and pulling her closer, even as his teeth nip at her lips, and she leans in, moaning for more.
But in a moment it’s over, and Teddy’s standing in the doorway again.
“Ted!” she calls. “I am interested. I just- I’m not ready. To be with you.”
“I know that you want me,” he says quietly, and that boyish smile that she lo- tolerates- lights up his face. “I can wait a little longer for you to admit it to yourself.”
4.
Author: bealen
Title: Worth the Wait
Words: 327
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Tapping her foot impatiently, Roxie hummed the latest Weird Sisters single to herself. It was hard to believe that after all these years they were still going strong. Teddy was late. Again. This was the third time that Roxie had wasted her lunch break, waiting for Teddy. Despite being five years younger than Victoire she was her closest cousin and confidante. Her seal of approval was definitely needed when it came to choosing an engagement ring.
From behind her, Roxie heard a crash. She turned around. There was Teddy, apologizing profusely to a disgruntled shopkeeper whose display he had just knocked over. Despite her best efforts it was hard to keep a smile from gracing her pretty face. His clumsiness was notorious in some circles. He panted as he neared her a sheepish smile on his face.
'Oof. Sorry! Got caught up.'
His apology and explanation were lost as he tried to regain his breath.
'Never mind, lets go. I still have twenty minutes.'
They set off at a brisk pace, winding their way through the narrow side streets until they reached a small jewellery shop just off Diagon Alley. Teddy pulled at her hand like a small child who desperately wanted a new toy.
'That's it. What do you think?'
As he spoke, Roxie could hear the nervousness which he desperately tried to hide. As she looked at the ring he had pointed at, her breath hitched. It was a beautiful ring, lapis lazuli encircled by diamonds and emeralds and held together by a ring of palest gold. It was perfect. She looked up at Teddy, the excitement emanated from him and filled her.
'It's beautiful.' She choked out. 'She'll love it.'
After all the false starts, seeing the ring had more than made up for the annoyance she had previously felt at Teddy. This ring symbolized the start of a new era, one which in Roxie's point of view anyway, had been worth the wait.
5.
Author: att3sa
Title: Waiting for the Forgetful
Words: 373
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
The cold damp air chilled Roxy almost as much as her boyfriend’s absence did. She shivered a little despite her effort not to show weakness as she stood on the front porch of her grandparents house, waiting. Glaring at the lawn, determined not to look back at the party that went on inside of the Burrow, she waited more.
She waited until the setting sun became a distant memory in her mind and the stars were familiar friends. She waited until even she could no longer excuse Lysander’s absence. Even then without reason and with dying hope, she waited.
“Come inside,” Teddy called to her from the front door, over an hour since she’d left the party.
“I’m busy.”
“Doing what?”
The word died in her throat, choked by an evil sob that robbed her of her ability to speak. He pulled her into his chest, waiting for her body to stop shaking and the tears to stop falling so that she could talk to him.
“I’m waiting,” she replied, smiling bitterly through the tears.
“He’s not coming, Rox.”
She nodded. She’d come to the realization that he’d forgotten about her party a half an hour ago, but she couldn’t help but wait for him to show up on her doorstep begging her to forgive him for his stupidity. It wouldn’t hurt if he brought a dozen roses to soothe the pain, but she was dreaming.
He had a pattern of being absentminded. Tomorrow he would owl saying that he’d lost track of time hunting for rare flowers, rare birds, or nonexistent half breeds. She would scowl, hold out, and finally, when he arrived with a bouquet of strange flowers she would forgive him. She wasn’t sure she could ever forgive him for missing her graduation party though.
“I don’t want to go back inside,” she whispered into his shoulder.
“We’ll wait together then.”
They sat on the steps of the front porch, and Teddy pointed out all the constellation he knew.
The next time she saw Lysander, he had a black eye and Teddy showed up to the family picnic with the bruised knuckles to match. She hid her smile behind a frown and walked past Lysander without sparing him a glance.
6.
Author: hondagirll
Title: Impatience
Words: 398
Rating: G
Warnings: none
"Teddy. Teddy. Teddy. Is it here yet?”
Teddy looks up from opening a box of Fuzzing Frezzer Fungis and smiles. Four year-old Roxanne is standing in front of him dressed in a bright red romper, an eager look on her cherub face.
“Not yet Roxie. Sorry.”
Roxanne’s face falls. “Okay,” she says, her shoulder’s slumping in disappointment as she leaves the backroom.
-
A week later Teddy is in the front of the shop stacking shelves when Roxanne comes up behind him and throws her arms exuberantly around the fifteen year-old’s neck, almost knocking the breath out of him.
“How ‘bout now, Teddy? Is it today?”
Teddy reaches up and gives her arms a short squeeze. “Sorry Rox, not yet. One more week.”
“One more weeeeeek?” Roxie slumps her head forward, resting her face in Teddy’s shoulder. Her voice is muffled. “It’s gonna ‘ake for-eve-eeerrr.”
Teddy can’t help but chuckle. “Sorry, little one. It’ll come soon enough.”
He cheers her up by showing her the latest sweets her father just ordered but even after that Teddy can see she is still upset.
-
“It’s here Teddy! It’s here!”
Teddy shakes his head as Roxane comes dashing into the room, wearing a purple jumper over bright orange tights. At his negative head shake, her mouth forms a little ‘O’ in surprise.
“It’s not? But Freddie said it was the fifteenth.”
“It is the fifteenth.” Teddy takes her by the hand and leads her over to the calendar George keeps on the wall. “But look here,” Teddy points. “Today is the fourteenth.”
Tears begin to form in the four year-old’s eyes as Roxanne struggles to hold her emotions in. “But I thought it was the fifteenth. Doesn’t that count?”
“No, Rox. I'm sorry but it doesn’t. It’ll come tomorrow. Promise.”
Roxanne nods in agreement. But she leaves the room noticeably sadder then when she bounced in. And even though it’s not his fault, Teddy can’t help but feel somewhat responsible.
-
“Teddy! Teddy!”
Teddy is already waiting at the counter when Roxanne comes in, her father a few paces behind her. She dashes across the room, her long pink dress trailing on the floor behind her, her silver tiara nearly falling off her head. She leaps up and Teddy catches her in his arms, her obvious glee quite infectious.
“It’s here! It’s here!”
“So it is.” Teddy gives her a hug. “Happy birthday, little one.”
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