AN; new Teddy/ Lily story, a muilti chaptered one this time :) i hope i don't dissappoint. reviews are muchly appreciated guys!

There was one thing about Lily Potter that everyone could tell just from looking at her. She didn't express herself very often. She was considered incredibly plain and incredibly natural. Incredibly beautiful, but not in the standoutish way. She was much more the girl next door. Not the girl you'd pick out of a line up but not a girl you'd totally disregard either. The thing that Teddy loved about her was that she was incredibly quite, quite content to sit around reading a book in a pair of cut off denim shorts, a t-shirt and barefooted around her house. She was incredibly simple when it came to clothes, makeup, jewellery even feelings. She never expressed anger, or hurt or pain. She kept incredibly quiet when around boys she thought were cute and more often than not she just kept herself to herself.

It was for this very reason that when a dark black symbol appeared on her milky white skin, marring the perfect beauty of it that Teddy felt incredible surprise and a little bit of apprehension. He could not, for the life of him, figure out why the inexpressive simple girl would get a tattoo. Indeed the tattoo it's self was simple enough, just a simple infinity symbol with the word love curling around the bottom corner of it. But it was still the most expressive thing he had ever seen associated with Lily Potter.

"You got a tattoo?" he observed as they stood at the burrow, watching everyone mingle about, sniggering as Louis was set about chasing after the girl who clearly had no interest in him. She nodded turning to pull her hair back to expose her neck to him.

"Do you like it?" she asked with a soft smile.

Teddy nodded eagerly. "It's cute. It's nice to see you a little more... expressive for a change." She blushed a little with a small thankyou. "Here," he said, pressing a glass of firewhiskey into her hands. "Let loose a little, it's your twenty second birthday! You deserve to have a little fun!" Chuckling softly at him she nodded, taking a drink of the hot liquid, grimacing when it burnt her throat. Teddy chuckled softly at her reaction. "You'll get more used to it as you get more drunk." At his insistence to drink more, Lily found herself consuming a good four glasses of the Amber liquid before finding Teddy once again, leaning against a wall before staggering over to him.

"Soooo Teddy Bear! When do I get my birthday kiss?" her words laced together, merging into one long word, much to Teddy's amusement. A little drunk himself he chuckled at her before leaning over and pressing a soft kiss to her cheek. "Nooo! That's cheating! I want a proper kiss!" she leant forward and captured his lips in a sloppy kiss, much to Teddy's surprise. He pulled back a little, smiling amusedly down at her.

"I think someone has had quite enough to drink," he said, taking her glass away from her. at her staggered insistence that she was 'perfectly sober' he chuckled even more and took her hand in his before pulling her over to Harry. "Harry, I'm gonna take her home and put her to bed. Apparently, first time drinkers get far too sick and stupid," he said with an amused glance to his daughter.

"I told you, Ted. I'm perfectly sober!" she said, wagging a finger in his face, leaning heavily into his side.

Harry gave them an amused glance before nodding. "Do me a favour, Ted, and stay with her the night. If she throws up it would be better for her to not be alone in her apartment. Lysander went home hours ago to take care of his brother so he's kinda out of the question. I know you probably had plans with Vic but... well... look at her," he gestured to Lily who was now staring up his hair commenting to herself how it was a lovely shade of blue now.

Teddy chuckled nodding, taking the red head by the hand and apparating her to her apartment after Harry promised to let Victoire, his wife, know where he was. As soon as he apparated them into her apartment it seemed far too much for the young girl's stomach as she promptly bent over and threw up straight into the toilet. Teddy thanked Merlin he thought to apparate straight into her bathroom. Once she had finished emptying her stomach of alcohol and food he helped her wash her mouth out and brush her teeth ready for bed.

Upon setting her on her bed he turned to grab her pyjamas from a drawer in her wardrobe and turned back to help her undress. Pulling off her shoes and beginning to unzip her white dress she gave an uncharacteristic giggle whilst exclaiming, "Teddy's gonna see me naked!" The exclamation it's self seemed to send her into a fit of giggles, making it hard to get her to stand in order to take her dress off.

"Technically, Lils, I'm going to see you in your underwear. Now please, stand up so I can put your pyjamas on!" Obediently she stood up, still in her fit of giggles and Teddy managed to take off her dress. "Right, arms up, top first." Giggling again, Lily held her arms up above her head, watching as he grabbed her vest top and began to pull it over her head.

"Teddy, can I have my proper birthday kiss now?" she asked, with wide puppy dog eyes. "Lysander hasn't given me a kiss all day and it's my birthday!" she pouted a little, making Teddy chuckle as he took a hold of her pyjama bottoms.

"I suppose one kiss won't hurt. We can't have you going your whole birthday without a kiss now can we?" he asked with an amused grin. Leaning down he softly captured her lips with his, giving her a sweet kiss. Her arms were suddenly around his neck as he found he could not pull away when he tried to. Her lips were suddenly very hard and demanding upon his as he tried to push her away slightly. "Lily," he said sternly. "We can't do this. It can't happen."

"Yes we can," she said simply, all reason gone from her mind as the incredibly intoxicated girl looked up at young werewolf in such a way that he indeed found himself becoming intoxicated with her. Staring up at him again she attacked his lips hungrily, only this time, he felt much less inclined to pull away from the beautiful red head, even when she pulled him down onto the bed on top of her. So many reasons filled his head as to why he shouldn't do it. But the one reason that should have made him pull away drove him further on. Victoire. He knew his wife was 'out with the girls' tonight. He also knew that 'out with the girls' meant 'shagging some random bloke'. If there was one thing that should have made Teddy pull away from the beautiful red head under him it was the blonde in the forefront of his mind. It just so happened that he knew the blonde was doing exactly the same as him. Which, oddly, made him feel better about it.

Justification was a dangerous thing in Teddy Lupin's mind. It allowed him to come up with an excuse for everything. As he stared at the tattoo on his little godsister's bare back his mind was reeling with justifications. She was drunk, she didn't know what she was doing and would probably forget it by the morning. His wife was out screwing around so why couldn't he? It didn't matter that she was his godsister because they weren't technically related, they would both keep it a secret so it wouldn't hurt anybody.

Yes, justification was a dangerous thing in Teddy Lupin's mind because he knew exactly how to justify anything. He knew what excuses would put his mind at ease and he also knew that, no matter how many times you tried to justify something it would always bite you in the ass.