Thank you for continuing on to the Next Gen Fic!

While this can absolutely be read by itself it does follow all After The Sun Rose storylines.

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Just to Clarify where we are beginning…

Teddy- 5th Year-Gryffindor

Victoire- 4th Year- Gryffindor

Molly-3rd Year- Gryffindor

Lucy-3rd Year- Ravenclaw

Dominique-2nd Year- Ravenclaw

Roxxy- 1st Year Gryffindor

Lorcan- 3rd Year Ravenclaw (Luna and Rolf)

Lysander- 3rd Year Hufflepuff (Luna and Rolf)

Ollie- 5th Year Gryffindor (Alicia and Oliver Wood)

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You can see the family tree on my page for parentage of the cousins if you have questions about that.

Alright everyone with me? Let's go!

Chapter One

The Beginning of the Beginning

"I just think he is a royal prat, that is all." Teddy said with an air of indifference.

"That is the most idiotic reason ever. No, in the history of ever. I don't whine about the girls that you date, or rather the ones that fawn all over you for the month you put up with them." She said, flipping her hair over her shoulder.

"He can't even speak when you look him in the eyes. You have been dating since before Christmas holiday and he still can't speak in a full sentence around you." He added, his eyebrows raising in disbelief that she didn't agree. He completely ignored her ribbing about his own dating choices.

"Most guys can't speak around me! If I used that to dictate who I dated I would never have a boyfriend." She argued as they came to the portrait hole.

"I fail to see the downside of that statement." He said, his hair tinting to a lighter turquoise with his joke.

She actually laughed, knowing that even if he was being illogical that he knew her better than anyone. And that he actually did care, he wasn't just being a prat, as she had accused. He stopped her before they walked into the common room where at least all of the fifth and seventh years would already be studying for exams.

"Look, I get that you like him, and that he is Ravenclaw prefect and seeker on the quidditch team. I know all of the bloody girls in the school think he is Merlin reincarnated or something but just…don't be all caught up in him Vic. I mean look, I talk to you, like you are normal and everything. I never stumble over a sentence." He said with a grin.

"Teddy, you've been talking to me since the day I was born." She said, her crystal blue eyes sparkling with her smile. She grinned as she saw his eyes unconsciously shift to match her own color.

"Well, actually, from the way I have heard it told. I didn't like you right after you were born and I wouldn't even stay in the same room with you." He replied cheekily.

"Oh yes, because we all know what fantastic judges of character a thirteen month old baby is." She rolled her eyes.

"I am certain that I was the best." He joked.

"Ted, it isn't a big deal. I mean it isn't like we were shagging in the hall." She said with a huff, her cheeks tinged and odd pink color.

"No, you were just pressed against a dungeon wall with his lips all over you. Exactly what I have always wanted to walk up on." He grumbled as she said the password and they walked into the Gryffindor common room.

"Well, then I suggest you stay out of the dungeons." She said with a wicked grin and headed up the girl's stair well.

He watched her walk away with a dumbstruck expression on his face. Not noticing his sandy headed friend that had made his way over.

"Oi! Earth to Teddy. Did she hit you with a stunner or something?" Ollie said in bemusement.

Teddy shook his head, pushing his hand through his trademark blue hair. "She may as well have." He muttered as his friend slapped him on the back.

"Mate did you ever notice that the tips of your hair turn the same color blonde as hers when the two of you talk?" he asked as Teddy sat down on the sofa.

Teddy shrugged and smiled. "It only happens when she gets under my skin, irritating little titchy thing that she is."

"Hmmmhmmmm, ok." Ollie said in mock agreement.

"Why are you carrying all those books?" he asked, noticing the load that his best friend had sat on the table.

"You are aware that we are sitting our OWLS in just 6 weeks' time Teddy…We sort of need to start studying." He said in all seriousness.

"That is six weeks away! We have plenty of time." Teddy said, stretching his arms over his head.

"And you wonder why you didn't get prefect." Ollie said shaking his head in dismay.

"Actually, I do not wonder about it at all." Teddy said honestly as he watched a little red headed girl come into the common room, a frown on her face.

"Hey Roxx, what is going on little nugget?" he said, motioning her over.

She frowned deeper and walked towards him, her short bright red bob not bouncing as it normally did when she walked.

"Heya Teddy." She said dismally, sitting down beside him.

"What's wrong? You look like someone stepped on your pygmy puff."

"I hate Lysander." She muttered, whether angrily or sadly he couldn't tell.

"Erm…Lysander as in been your very best friend since you were maybe three years old and I was expecting you to marry him one day Lysander?" he said in one breath.

She pulled a face and threw her head on the back of the sofa. "Yes, that would be the one I meant."

"And what did he go and do? Do I need to hex him?"

She giggled in spite of herself. "I hardly think that will be necessary. He came to Hogwarts before me, that is what he did. And now he is different and he doesn't care about me at all. Aaaannnndddd. He wants me to tell Molly that he likes her, for him." She muttered, her cheeks reddening even more.

"Ahhh, you know Roxx, you are only eleven, I doubt he even knows you have a crush on him, I don't think he thought about how sodding stupid that was of him. Besides, you never stay with the girl you date in third year."

"Or, in Teddy's case, the four that you dated in third year and the two that you dated in fourth year, or the 5 that you snogged in fifth year." Oliver said, unhelpfully as Teddy glared at him.

"That is hardly the point." Teddy said quickly.

She looked appalled. "I DO NOT have a crush on Lydander." She cried. "See I should have talked to someone, anyone other than a Potter boy, you have been overly influence by Uncle Harry and Uncle Ron." She grumbled as she stood and stormed up the stairs.

"You know mate, I don't think you are as clueless as she thinks you are." Ollie said with a grin.

"Remind me never to try and help a first year again." Teddy said with a chuckle as he picked up a stack of Oliver's notes on Goblin wars.

"I would, but somehow I think that when Jamie starts in our seventh year he is going to require a lot of assistance."

"Too right you are." Teddy said, scanning the page for a piece of information that he didn't already know, "How long do you think before he and Fred blow up a part of the castle with a prank?"

"We will be lucky if we all make it off the train that year. I am fervently hoping I am not head boy, just so I don't have to deal with them." Oliver replied, entirely serious, as he opened his transfiguration book.

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He was an exceptionally good kisser, she thought as he pressed his lips against hers. His hands snaked down her sides and were pushing up at the sides of her uniform blouse, before he hitched her leg into his hand and pulled her against him. He was leant against the solid stone wall. She felt his hand slip up the outside of her thigh, hiking her skirt up. Her mind raced frantically, her lips stilling just slightly as it did. Was she ready for this? He was taking this a bit farther than he had before. Teddy would come unglued if he saw this…

Suddenly Gavin's lips were no longer upon hers and there was nothing but air where once there had been a boy pulling at her. She felt the air whip past her and a harsh sting on her upper arms. She opened her eyes and found herself a good two feet from her boyfriend and towering over her, as if she had summoned him there with her thoughts, was Teddy.

He looked furious, his hair had gone completely blue black, with red streaks shooting through. This wasn't going to be good.

"Teddy." She squeaked.

"No." he said, leveling her with his eyes, that were flashing with anger, she was terrified to say that they were exactly the green that uncle Harry's were the day the pair of them had gotten lost in the forbidden forest and he and her own father had been summoned to the school in a panic.

He turned away from her, stalking closer to Gavin.

"Teddy, stop." She whimpered.

"Victoire if ever you were going to hold your tongue, now is that moment." He boomed. She flinched, as did the 6th year Ravenclaw she had been snogging.

"Stay the bloody hell away from her." He growled.

"Look, mate, I know you two are close and all but, she is a big girl, and she happens to be my girlfriend." Gavin said, shaking his shaggy brown hair from his face.

"A big girl? She isn't even fifteen yet." He barked out. "You are feeling up a fourteen year old girl in the effing wide open. Not that I condone feeling up fourteen year olds, but can you not respect her enough to at the very least do it in a broom cupboard somewhere, there are thousands here!"

"Teddy I fail to see how my age has anything to do with this." She tried to argue from behind him.

"Look mate." Gavin tried.

"I am not, your mate."

"Fine, look git, you feel up fourteen year olds all the time, there is no big deal here, she is a fourth year I am sure she will be fifteen soon enough. No big fuss."

"Yes, yes this is a big deal. Firstly, that you obviously don't even know that your own sodding girlfriend's birthday is in three days. She was born on the anniversary, thus the name. And secondly, because I just turned sixteen a month ago! If I snog a fourteen year old, which I will add, I haven't since being sixteen, it is far different than you, who is a seventeen year old, of age wizard doing it. Yes there is a difference there." He spat before turning on Victoire. "And yes, your age has something to do with it."

"Are you failing to realize that I am older and bigger than you? In many ways I am certain." Gavin warned, his own anger showing. Victoire held her breath.

"And you are failing to recognize that none of that matters where I am concerned, I will level you, with or without magic. And I wouldn't be so sure about your last statement." Teddy replied, a false calm settling over his face. Victoire knew the signs on his face, surely as she could feel the ache in the top of her arms.

"Is that so, little boy? Are you picking a fight with the big kids? You have no say in what do, or where we do it."

Teddy's knuckles were white from clenching his fists. "I do when what you are doing she obviously isn't ready for."

"How do you know what I am or am not ready for?" she demanded, trying not to let on that she had been thinking the same thing just moments ago. "Gavin, just, just go. I will see you later on." She said frantically.

"I am not leaving you alone with him."

"Don't be ridiculous, I have spent my whole life alone with him." She said, frustrated, boys could be so stubborn. "Just go on, I have this under control, before you two fight and get put in detention."

Threatening Gavin's perfect record was always the way to go, he did not get into trouble, or at least he didn't get caught getting into trouble, rather.

"Tonight. He said with a nod."

"Watch yourself Potter… Lupin…. I'll tell you what, when you are ready, you can just tell me whose son you want to be that day and that's who I'll knock about. The son of a man who couldn't even live through the bloody war, or the son of a sniveling, whiney, little boy who had to resort to trickery to defeat his nemesis. Just make certain to let me know."

That was it. Victoire knew it. She tried to grab his waist but he pushed her roughly away as he jumped at the older boy. Shoving him against the wall, making an echoing crash through the hall.

"Teddy stop! Gavin go!" she cried, tears spilling over her eyes Teddy dropped his hands at the sound of her sob, Gavin looked murderous but grabbed his bag and walked away.

"We will deal with this on the quidditch pitch in a few weeks." Gavin called as he made it to the corner.

"I look forward to it." Teddy spat, before Victoire rounded on him.

"What is your problem!" she shrieked.

He looked at her, intending to yell, when he saw a red mark on her jaw. "Shit Vic, I didn't mean to elbow you, that was an accident." He stammered, reaching out to touch her face.

"No, no, you do not get to touch me, not anymore. Just like, you don't get to tell me what to do, where to do it, who to date, snog, shag or anything else I may choose to do. You get no say. Ever again!" She cried, literally, tears poured down her face.

He reached for her and she pulled away. "That was an accident, I didn't mean to do that, you know I wouldn't do that."

She laughed harshly and to his surprise began to undo the rest of the buttons on her blouse pulling it off and letting it hang off her shoulders, letting it lay loos around her elbows, exposing her strappy clingy undershirt and the tops of her arms, where purple bruises were already blossoming on her skin. He stared in horror. He had done that.

"Really? An accident? So you didn't intentionally grab me hard enough to do this?" he traced his fingers over the bruise and she yelped and flinched away, stepping back. She had never pulled away from him before. Then again, he had never hurt her before.

"I said don't touch me, not now, not ever again. Just, stay away from me."

He watched helplessly as she took off down the corridor, shirt still undone. He leaned against the wall and sighed heavily, dropping his face in his hands, how could he have done this?