Prologue – Confusion Amongst Cousins

A dozen figures huddled around a crackling fire on an unusually cool June night. Hogwarts had let out for the summer. The whole gang of Weasleys and Potters was gathered together for a festive night at the Burrow, celebrating summer's beginning – at least according to one James Sirius Potter. But perhaps, if one didn't take the word of a young, teenage boy with the emotional capacity of a teaspoon, the family was actually celebrating the recent engagement of one Teddy Lupin to Victoire Weasley.

"What do you mean we're 'celebrating their engagement'?" Fred Weasley (II) asked. "They've been together for ages. Those two lovebirds getting together has seemed a darn sight more inevitable than exams ever ending – and don't even get me started on Longbottom's Herbology practical this past term. Teddy and Vic have been together since what, the summer before Ted's sixth year when Skeeter caught them snogging at the cup?"

"Fred, do you seriously think it took them that long to 'get together' as it were?" Dominque Weasley asked. "Clearly you've never heard about the time in Vic's third year when-"

"Oi!" James interjected. "Don't know what all you lot are talking about. They got together right before Vic's seventh year - when I caught Teddy snogging her on the platform.

Various noises of exasperation rang out among the cousins, including a "James, are you seriously that mental?" from Rose Weasley.

"Actually," Lily Luna Potter piped in, "why don't Teddy and Vic tell us themselves when they finally got together."

Teddy and Vic, who had up until this point been quite content with simply soaking in the chaos of their cousins, shared a mischievous look.

"Well Lils," Teddy said, "I suppose we could tell you, but it'd be a lot more fun for us to hear from each of you lot on how and when we 'finally got together.'"

"That's right," Vic added. "Think of it as an engagement present to us. Judging from all of the dissent we just heard, I think it'd be rather enlightening to hear what some of us have apparently missed out on over the years."

"It's decided then," Teddy said, not giving anyone a chance to disagree. "Who'd like to kick us off?"

"Since I'm apparently so thick," James said, shooting Rose a pointed look. "Let me have the first crack at this. I wouldn't want to be accused of stealing details from the rest of you bunch, especially when Teddy will back up my one hundred and fifty-five thousand percent true story."

The rest of the cousins groaned.

"Splendid," Teddy said, trying to keep a straight face. "So, James, when and how exactly did Vic and I get together?"

AN: A quick explanation on the format of this story – it's a set of seven small one-shots loosely framed by this prologue. Each one will be a cousin's view of how Teddy and Vic got together, and they will all have plenty of unreliable elements in them. Think of it as each cousin writing his/her own account. All will have elements in the story that really did "happen" in the "real," fake world this story takes place in, but they all also have plenty of elements that are constructed by each cousin trying to make sense of the story he/she is trying to tell from the observations he/she made.