Year 1 - Dynamics - A Harry Potter Fic.

Part 20 - Jay's POV

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(Boy's Hufflepuff Dorm)(Jay's PoV)

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Jay opens the door to the dorm slowly, in a not so successful attempt at reducing the protesting squeak of the ancient hinges. He looks around the room, counting the sleeping forms of the other three boys. They're all asleep, good. He takes off his muddy shoes to reduce the sound of him walking across the room, he makes sure to step on the wooden boards that don't squeak.

Jay sits on his bed and puts his shoes down on the floor next to Lance's cage. Lance peaks his head out from the hutch.

"It's just me Lance," Jay whispers, the rat goes back to sleep. Jay pulls his vest over his head. Releasing an involuntary gasp at the chilled air.

"What the hell happened to you?" Jay jumps and meet's Justin's gaze who's sitting up in his bed, his hair array and small bags under his eyes.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you, Justin." He whispers as he struggles to untie his tie.

Justin sighs and throws his blankets off of him, "Don't be, I wasn't asleep anyway." Justin pulls on the left side of Jay's tie, forcing the skinny end out of the knot."It's not that hard."

"Sorry," Jay mutters. He feels blood rush up to his face with the realization of how close they are to each other. Justin seems to come to this same realization and takes a step back.

"Where were you?" Justin's voice goes from stern to soft.

Jay meets his stare, he could swear he can see the concern in Justin's eyes.

"I-" Jay glances to the two other sleeping figures in the room. "How about we take this to the Common Room?"

Justin flops down onto one of the armchairs, Jay sits on the couch.

"So, where did you go?" Justin asks again.

"Well, I went to the forest," Jay says quietly, looking around to make sure that no one could hear them.

Justin's eyes go wide, "The Forbidden Forest?"

Jay nods.

"Did you see anything?" Justin asks. He looks concerned.

Jay shivers, flashes of the beast that was hovering over the unicorn plague him. "Yeah." He almost whispers.

Justin grabs Jay's hand, "It's okay. You're safe now."

Jay nods, a sudden surge of courage rushing through him. "It was a unicorn... but it wasn't alive. There was something over it... I think it was eating the unicorn."

Justin looks horrified and pulls his hand back. "What do you think it was?"

"I don't know."