I won't wear your broken crown

Andromeda smiled at the interaction between the two before getting her daughter’s attention and pointing up at the sky so Nymphadora would see the fireworks. “The only reason she likes it is because between everyone here the only time she was set down was less than an hour ago to go to bed. She’s had so much attention and I wouldn’t be surprised if she somehow got sick from be handled so much.”

“I don’t know. She seemed to enjoy the attention most of the time, especially when it was coupled with people excited about her hair changing colour,” Ted said as he turned around to watch the fireworks too. “Do you think we should’ve spent more time with her today since we won’t have her around the next few days?”

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Andromeda wrapped her arms around his neck, threading her fingers into his hair. She ignored the fact that by now others had started to come outside when the fireworks and instead moved as close to him as possible; just because she wanted to be close to him and because she was cold. “Mmm, I love you,” she mumbled, pressing another quick kiss to his lips even when he pulled back. Afterward she turned her gaze up to the sky, still staying close to him as she did. “Do you think Dora has fallen asleep yet?”

Noticing the people who had joined them out for the fireworks didn’t make Ted change anything about how he was holding Andromeda. “I love you too,” he told her with a grin after she kissed him again. “I don’t know. I hope not, but I’d be surprised if she’s still awake.”

“It is the first word I came up with, so it will do for now.” Andromeda rest her hands on his arms that were still around her, nodding at his next words. “Yes. A bit more than nice.” She smiled now and turned around in his arms when he spoke again, leaning up and pausing right before their lips touched. “If you wanted to just kiss me you should have said something.” She grinned now right before pressing her lips to his.

He kept his arms around her as she turned to face him for a kiss. He returned the kiss passionately, leaning down a bit so that Andromeda wouldn’t have to stand on the tips of her toes. He tugged her towards him so that there was no space between them, and the only presence he could feel beside Andromeda’s was that of the loud crackling fireworks. “This was me saying something about it,” he said as he pulled away from the kiss.

Andromeda leaned back against him when he wrapped his arms around her, smiling a little to herself. Her gaze moved up to the sky even though the fireworks weren’t going off yet, but the sky was clear so it was even nice just to look up at the stares.·“With getting married?” she asked, turning her head just a little to look at him.·“I suppose it’s nice.” Andromeda was teasing him now and right after she spoke she jumped a little at the sound of the fireworks going off.·“Please don’t harm yourselves or set anything on fire,” she mumbled more to herself than him.

“’Nice’ is one word for it,” Ted mumbled and gave her a peck on the cheek, ignoring the massive understatement. “We’ve still got some time to make sure it’s a bit better than nice, no?” He pulled her closer to him as the fireworks started. “No one’s gonna set anything on fire, love. I think you should be more concerned about our New Year’s kiss.”

“Other stuff?” She mused, though Andromeda nodded in agreement. “We’ll see. It depends if you’re able to charm me tonight.” She smiled at him and when this song ended she stepped back, having enough of something that resembled dancing. “It’s almost midnight. The fireworks should be going off soon.” She took his hand, walking with him outside and wrapping her arms around herself as she stepped out into the cold air.

"Oh, thank God," Ted said with a sigh of relief as Andromeda stopped dancing. In all his excitement, Ted had completely lost track of time and he had even forgotten that it was New Year's Eve and that there were going to be fireworks. He followed Andromeda out and stood behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his chin over her shoulder. The weather was definitely too cold for his liking, but the white covered landscape was way too beautiful. "You've got to admit that it's such an interesting way to start a new year."

“One of my friends from Hogwarts was muggleborn and when I went to his house over summer break his telly was sadly broken. Never got the chance to turn it on, but he told me all about it and it’s hard to believe it’s really true.”

"Oh well, that's too bad. I only get to watch it when I visit my parents, but you know what? Once they invent portable tellies that don't need electricity to work, which I'm sure they will, I'll be the first in line to buy one."

She wasn’t exactly sure why she said anything to him, but after she let the words slip she couldn’t exactly just turn around and run away. Andromeda should have upon realizing someone was up here, but she had to comment about the smoking. It was something she knew he did every now and again, but it wasn’t something he did around her because she hated it and never wanted to be too close to him afterwards.

Ted took another long breath of smoke and expelled it from his lungs slowly as Andromeda talked. He was never really too sarcastic around her, but that day he was bitter. He wasn't surprised when Andromeda didn't note the sarcasm is his tone, which was laced with enough anger and gloom that probably made it hard to detect. But then again, maybe something really was wrong with Ted. Maybe he was good at finding all sorts of wrong things and people to get attached to.

“I wasn’t aware you had an option.” Andromeda smiled right before he spun her underneath his arm. “If anything was to go wrong Dora would come with me and you would maybe get her on weekends.” She shrugged, not really knowing because she didn’t think about what would happen if they got a divorce or their wedding night. “If anything happens to your face what little charm you have would be completely gone and I’m not sure if I’d make it up to you. Maybe fix it, but I don’t think I’d maim it because I like looking at your face.”

“I feel like you should’ve explained these terms before we got married. It’s unfair,” Ted pouted at Andromeda. He wasn’t being serious at all, but he couldn’t help but suspect that she was, on some level at least. “Also, why are we even talking about this? We just got married. I wanna talk about other stuff.” He grinned at her and continued to move carefully in a circle. “So if we’ve established that my pretty face is staying pretty and will continue to charm you, can we chuck the dance classes idea out?”

“Electricity! That’s it. And the telly is the box that produces moving pictures, correct? I know it’s not magic, but it’s almost like it is with the way they find a way to make things work.”

Ted nodded, surprised by the bloke’s enthusiasm about muggle things. “Muggles are really smart. And yes, you’ve got the telly right. Have you actually ever watched it?”

Andromeda was good at ignoring things until they became a probably in the immediate present. Actually, she was a prodigy at that because she thought about other things to keep her mind busy. She’s been doing that ever since she was young and she couldn’t be more thankful that she was able to distract herself from Ted. It took more work than she’d like to admit, but it was doable. Mainly she just didn’t allow herself to settle down and think for too long.

Ted didn’t even bother to turn around to see who had come into the Astronomy Tower. He just stood there, leaning against the window, blowing smoke outside. But when he heard the person speak to him, he didn’t even need to turn around to know that it was Andromeda. He really should have picked places that they didn’t frequent together. Nonetheless, they used to plan their meetings together so painstakingly that he knew which places were empty and when.

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