Starry Eyed

“I could honestly eat these all day. At work I have my quills in a jar on the left and my sugar quills in a jar on the right. You don’t want to know how many times I’ve mixed the two up.”

“And just for us. We won’t share with anyone,” she teased. Hannah was worried about how Vic was holding up under the strange circumstances.

“Wow, thank you,” Tonks said, surprise evident in her tone. “How’d you know these are my favorite?” She hoped this wasn’t some pity move because she’d been so upset by Remus leaving or worse some move by the suspicious girl to get on her good side. But that wasn’t going to keep her from taking the sugar quill.

    “Eet cannot be. Eet ees too ‘orrible.”

“Yes! Lots of bread. I’ve been having a carb craving as well, so this is perfect,” Hannah said, clapping her hands together happily.

Ted smiled and set his quill down to put his attention to the sugar one and the girl.

Andromeda nodded in answer, taking a moment to process those words. You’re not alone here. She knew she should find some small measure of comfort in those words, but somehow they filled her with dread instead. If many more people had found themselves out of their own times, then this was certainly cause for alarm. “How can we fix this?” she asked finally. “This cannot be good for timelines and all that.”

Ted blinked under his heavy eye lids before they wandered to the sugar quill held out before him.

Hannah nodded enthusiastically. “I am always hungry. I think some soup would be nice. I’ve been craving a rich and creamy one for what feels like ages.”

“I got you a sugar quill as well.” she said, offering out the other sweet as she enjoyed her own.

Hannah’s eyes narrowed, studying the person in front of her intently. “You know, I think you look hungry.”

Her nose wrinkled at Victoria’s argument, though she did appreciate the effort. “If you had my mother make a list of qualities that she would want in a daughter you’d find I don’t have a single one.” That was hyperbole but there was still some truth there. “Fleur on the other hand, well she hits on every one. Maybe we could pretend she’s their daughter. She has the blonde hair… just have to explain the accent.”

“—Mostly Bill’s family. Though eef anyone asks           I said nothing about eet. I don’t theenk I           am what zey wanted for ‘im.”

Teddy grinned despite himself as she began to check him over too. It was a nice feeling, to be heavily reminded that she cared for his well-being. He smiled softly, as she sighed audibly and he then had to physically restrain himself from saying ‘i love you’ when they had bigger things to deal with at the moment. “Either Dom or Roxanne, is my bet honestly I didn’t see either girls acting up at the party. Though again, they could’ve planned it before hand. Either way, we need to firstly figure out if this is serious or not.” He then leaned over and pressed his lips to her forehead in comfort, before pulling away. He caught her glancing at the stair-case and began to head that way as well. On the bright side, if he were to be trapped in an eerily quiet house, then at least he was with her. “It’s a shame we’re not going to be able to eat any of that cake though. It looked delicious.”