DRABBLE: Cherry Lip salve (James II/Teddy) G

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Title: Cherry Lip Salve
Character Pairing: James II/Teddy
Prompt: Pontication
Rating: G
Word Count: 275
Summary: Cherry Lip Salve is evil.
Author's Notes: Slash
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Teddy was pontificating.  He loved to pontificate, and did so at the first opportunity.  He was currently pontificating on the evils of cherry flavoured lip salve.  James wasn't sure what said cherry flavoured lip salve had actually done to Teddy.  Had it, he wondered, jumped out from a darkened alley and proceeded to bash Teddy over the head and steal his coffee?  Had it made fun of Teddy's clothes?  Stolen Teddy's latest boyfriend? 

James wasn't sure, but he was sure that if forwarded these speculations, Teddy would begin to pontificate on the fact that James never listened to him.  Which was true, of course, but James certainly couldn't be blamed for this.  After all, when Teddy went off, everyone eventually tuned out.  After all, Teddy's record for this was when he preached on for three hours, with coffee breaks, about the need for new doors on the toilet cubicles in Auror Headquarters. 

Pulling out his own lip salve, he continued imaging all kinds of stupid but amusing things that cherry lip gloss may have done to Teddy to gain his enmity when he realised that his lip salve was actually cherry flavoured.  Cringing, he replaced the lid and tried to put it back in his pocket before Teddy saw it and got his second wind. 

A hand in his hair surprised him, the fierce look in Teddy's eyes as he dragged James from the chair shocked him; the feel of Teddy's lips on his, Teddy's tongue tracing the contours of his mouth melted him.  Teddy's renewed rant on cherry flavoured lip salves amused him, before he grabbed Teddy and pulled him back for another kiss.