In the Shadow of Healing Heartbreak (Sebastian Sallow x Slytherin Fem Reader)

Chapter 6 - Unsanctioned Lunch

1891 - November

The lesson between Potions and Lunch was Defence Against the Dark Arts, and while usually this class went quickly for you as you enjoyed Professor Hecat's teaching method, this particular class was going painfully slowly.

You could only really think about the confessions made between you and Sebastian during the Amortentia lecture in Potions this morning. Yes, you had been thinking about the fact being around him gives you the butterflies, but you never really considered that the feelings could possibly be mutual.

Suddenly, Professor Hecat is right in front of you.

"Hmm, could you please tell me what we have just been discussing about werewolves?" You gulp as you weren't paying much attention.

"Crap, what did I read in the textbook the other day" you said to yourself before bluffing the answer. "Werewolves are humans afflicted by lycanthropy. During the Full Moon, a human with the affliction painfully transfigures into a werewolf. If a werewolf bites another human during the time they are transfigured, the bitten human becomes afflicted with lycanthropy." You say, somewhat fast to try and get Hecat off your back.

"Hmm, lucky. I could see you weren't paying much attention." A chorale of giggles come from some of the students who have just been with Sebastian and you in Potions.

Sebastian who is sitting next to you nudges you as Hecat walks away.

"Good recovery. Didn't know you were so schooled up on werewolves." He whispers. A shiver goes down your spine as you feel his breath. You mutter back to him.

"That was certainly a disaster averted." You say to him under your breath.

The rest of the class continues to move at a snails pace. With the eventual chime of the bell, you and Sebastian both quickly gather your things and head out the door quickly pacing up to the Seventh Floor corridor in the Astronomy Tower.

You quickly undertake your ritual for opening the door and then both of you hurry in. You just have to talk, you can't help yourself.

"My perfume, Mallowsweet and fir tree... please tell me that's a sign that you have been feeling the spark between us as well?" You look at him, with a look of pleading on your face "Surely I haven't misinterpreted what he said earlier in class?" You ask yourself trying to find reason before he speaks. He walks up to you and holds your hand. There's the spark again.

"You mean like now?" He smirks with that smug look you've grown to adore.

"Yes..." as you try and get out more words, he pulls you closer and places his other hand on your cheek.

"The Amortentia doesn't lie. If I'm completely honest, I've always had a thing for you." You just have a look of utter bewilderment on your face. Flicking through every memory in your brain, of course he has. You can see it now. The way he positioned himself on the Central Hall balcony while waiting for you; taking all the blame for the midnight heist of the Restricted Section; taking you to meet Anne; getting closer over the summer holidays. He leans his face in closer to you and plants his lips on yours.

It's the touch you have been wanting and your body tells you that. Electricity pulsates through you at the touch you have been longing for, so much so you almost forget to breathe. You let him guide the kiss, because this is your first.

For a few minutes you both have yourselves wrapped in one another. Sebastian is the one that pulls away gently, taking a moment to look into your eyes and you look into his.

"I'm so glad I don't have to keep this secret any longer from you." He whispers to you.

"Me neither. Although I don't think I've kept it from everyone else." You chuckle and he smiles.

"That's ok. I like that everyone knows I'm the object of your desires." He says with that wit you have pined over for so long. "We perhaps should get some lunch."

"I think that might be a good idea." You say still holding his hand.