Remark

It's really quite funny, she thinks. He's always been the skeptic, the cynical, the mocking one. She learned from an early age that Teddy thought romance was stupid. He teased her endlessly for the wizarding romances she read.

"The Keeper of Her Heart?" he'd say, snorting. "I can't believe you read this shite."

She'd snatch it out of his hands, glare fiercely at him, and flounce away as he laughed in her wake. Like it mattered what Teddy thought, that unromantic prat! He wouldn't know love if it walked up to him and introduced itself.

One day, though, she walks into the Burrow, coming in from a pick-up game of Quidditch that they'd, out of habit, asked Teddy to join. He refused, because he absolutely despised flying, and made his excuses that he had to do research for an article he was writing. So, really, it was a big surprise when she walked in and saw Teddy reading Seeker of My Heart, a volume in the Quidditch Romance series.

He didn't notice her standing there, open-mouthed at the sight. She was going to absolutely destroy him with a cutting remark, the hypocrite, when Teddy closed the book and looked her dead in the eye. He stood up, walked over to where she stood, frozen at the spot, and lifted her chin up with his hand. Then he kissed her.

Before she could gather her wits and hit him or kiss him back (she hadn't decided which), he pulled away, and stood there smiling at her in his mischievous way. He looked at her with absolute tenderness, and said, "These are really rather educational. Quite eye-opening."

And as she continued to stand there, he picked up the book, and, propping his feet up on the table, resumed reading.