The Last Goodbye

The Boy With The Turquoise Hair

The Weasley household, just like every year since the kids started going off to Hogwarts, was packed. In two hours everyone would be up and getting ready for the journey to the train station, but now, at five in the morning, there was a peaceful silence. Harry reached for his glasses, yawning as he slipped out of bed. Ginny stirred, but that was all as Harry began rummaging for a small black box he had kept for sixteen years. It hadn't been opened for that long, but the time was right, and the boy was old enough now. Harry smiled to himself as he pocketed the box, his bare feet silent against the cold floor as he made his way to the boys' room. The door creaked and groaned as he pushed it open, slowly tip-toeing to a figure buried beneath a pile of blankets, "Teddy... Ted."

"Mmmmits too early." The boy slurred, his hair turning navy in agitation.

"Up you get, c'mon I've got something for you." Harry coaxed, smirking at the boy he saw as a son.

Teddy opened one- now green- eye, his hair returning to its usual shade of turquoise, "what kind of something."

"Get up lazy." Harry rolled his eyes, going back towards the door. He heard the shuffle of feet behind him a few moments later, and Teddy yawning. Normally the boy would've asked question upon question, but being only five in the morning, plus Teddy's so called allergies to mornings, he was silent as they headed to the living room.

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"You're serious?" Teddy asked for what seemed like the hundredth time.

"Again, yeah." Harry smiled, "but it's only once, got it? I can't do it again, for your own safety."

"I get to see them." He said half to himself, his hair changing to a bubblegum pink like his mother's hair was in the picture above the fireplace.

"Okay." Harry said, dropping the small stone into his hand.

"Wait what if they don't like me?!" Teddy's eyes grew wide as soon as he'd clasped the stone, but Harry was just smiling, staring at the spot just behind the boy.

"That's one hell of a stupid thing to think Edward Remus Lupin." A woman's voice came from behind him.

Teddy jumped from his seat in the armchair, his hand hitting the lamp sending it onto the floor with a loud crash, to see a young woman with bubble gum pink hair and a man with green eyes and light brown hair standing hand in hand, "mum?.. dad?"

"Careful there Teddy." Lupin grinned at his son proudly. He turned to Harry, a mock look of anger on his face, "Potter, have you been feeding this boy? He's very scrawny!"

"Remus!" Tonks scolded, but couldn't keep back a smile, "last thing Teddy wants is an embarrassing dad!"

"You're alright with it aren't you?" Remus winked at Teddy, whose hair had unconsciously turned a light brown.

"I-I don't mind." He started to grin. Turning to his mum, he shrugged, "sorry mum."

"Stubborn just like your father." Tonks put her hands on her hips with a smirk, her hair turning a shade of purple.

"You're so cool." Teddy gawped at her hair as if he'd never seen it happen before.

"Well that's what we have in common, unlike this nerd." She smirked, pointing to her husband.

"Dora..." Lupin rolled his eyes, barely containing a smile. That was the moment that Harry had raised why Teddy's smile had always made a part of him unsettled. It was a carbon copy of his father's.

A patter of feet turned all heads towards the stairs. Two younger boys stood behind the older one, their eyes wide with curiosity, "dad? We heard a crash and... I didn't know we would have visitors."

"James," Harry coaxed the boys closer, "this is Remus and Tonks."

"Teddy's parents?" James raise an eyebrow.

"I'll explain later." Harry sighed, he knew the questions from the boy would be endless. Instead he turned to Lupin, "Professor, this is James Sirius. The ones hiding behind him are Albus and my nephew Fred."

"A pleasure." Remus smirked, "Sirius won't shut up about the fact you named your kid after him. Fred's a bit more bearable though."

"My uncle?!" The red haired boy gasped.

"Of course, he's dead proud of you!" Tonks smiled at the boy.

"Boys, I think we should leave Ted with his parents for a bit alright?" Harry ushered the three out, smiling over his shoulder one last time to the couple.

The door shut with a small click, and the room was silent for a moment before Tonks said, "You have a wonderful family Teddy."

"I'd have like you to be there." He looked down at his feet, suddenly embarrassed at his childishness.

"It was all for you Teddy," Remus smiled sadly, "I wanted nothing more than a world for you to live in without fear."

"It would've been nice for you to be here."

"Sometimes things don't work out properly." His mother's words were full of compassion as she spoke the words Teddy had been dying to hear for as long as he could remember, "but we love you so much, and you are so loved. More than you know in fact."

"Where are you going?!" Tuesday's eyes grew wide and his voice cracked at the side of his fading parents.

"Nowhere, well always be with you alright?" Lupin smiled, "oh and one last thing. Just confess to Victoire already."

"Real funny dad." Teddy, wiped his eyes, but when he looked up, they weren't there, "mum? Dad?"

Only silence.