Careful, Darling

Chapter 4

Your pov
    After Ominis left I relaxed on the love seat, letting my body relax after such a brutal session with him. I had fixed my hair and clothes, but that was as far as I had gotten when I heard the clock door open up. I sat up, expected to hear or see Ominis coming back, but instead was met with Sebastian's voice. He was speaking to someone else however, and I quickly recognized that it was the seventh year. I cursed under my breath and scrambled for my wand, before casting the disillusionment charm. I quickly moved to a wall and stood against it. I usually wouldn't have hidden from Sebastian, even after such events took place. But I didn't trust this seventh year, and was very confused as to why he'd be bringing them down to the undercroft. I listened as he explained this was a place Ominis showed us, and that he had a spell to teach them. I stayed hidden as he used this space to show them a curse, and they talked a little more about things I didn't understand, before the seventh year excused themselves and started to leave. I waited til I heard the sound of the door shutting before revealing myself to Sebastian.
"How long we're you standing there?" He asked in shock as I walked up to him, clearly upset. "I was just showing them another spell, they keep getting into trouble and I didn't think they had the right tools to-"
"Sebastian!" Ominis yelled as he came down stairs into the undercroft. "How could you? You showed someone?" He yelled as he stalked up to us. I moved slightly and tapped his arm to let him know I was also still here.
"It was just for a moment! Besides, anyone could find this place if they were just better at exploring." Sebastian argued back as he started to pace, "you've showed us, Why is it wrong for me to bring my other friends down here?"
"Other 'friends' hmm?" Ominis said and reached out for my hand, "I'm glad that we stand on the same level of importance to you as that damned seventh year."
"That's not what I meant," Sebastian said as he calmed down. He reached out but stopped, "I shouldn't have to explain how it's different. But they are my friend, and they want to help me find out what's wrong with Anne."
"We do too seb, it's just that you are going about it through the wrong ways. And if they are needing to learn dark arts to handle situations they are in, then I don't think it's safe for you." I responded and shook my head. "We want to help Anne, you know that. But this can't be the right way."
     "Why don't either of you believe in me? Or trust me?" Sebastian groaned and kept pacing, "they are different okay, special. I need to show them more than what they are taught here or they are going to get hurt"
      "They're special? Need your protection and help? And here I was trusting you when you said you weren't off fucking them when you spend your evenings with them" Ominis scoffed, before shaking his head, "you can't keep lying about these things"
     "It's not like that, you know that" Sebastian said and took my free hand in his, "they are different, they have a task that none of us can accomplish. I just want to help them, because they may also be the key to helping Anne"
     "I want to believe you in that Sebastian, but I've not seen them do anything extraordinary, only the dangerous things you two have gotten caught doing. The trolls, breaking into the library, and god knows what else. As far as Anne goes, we all want to help her, but we've tried everything and it's not worked yet. How could one wizard that appeared randomly this year be the key to that?" I asked him. I didn't let him answer, and instead leaned forward and kissed his cheek. "We can discuss this again later. For now, I think me and Ominis are going to need some space."
     "I promise I'm not making any of this up" Sebastian said, before turning away and crossing his arms.

It was about a week later and Ominis had told me he was begrudgingly talking with Sebastian again, although not about anything of importance. Neither of us knew how we stood with him, simply because we hadn't had a further explanation of what the seventh year meant to him. He hasn't helped them out at all since the argument, as far as we knew. We assumed he'd mostly been sulking and Ominis said judging by how he was acting we were right. He had tried to apologize to Ominis, a very weak apology, but he had made the effort. Ominis has agreed to start talking with him again but that he didn't trust him completely yet.
     "He is however taking them to Feldcroft with him today, off to see Anne together" Ominis told me as we walked around the roads around Hogwarts. "Don't know why he would take them and not Anne's actual friends."
     "Probably because he thinks somehow they are going to cure Anne. However that plan of his is supposed to go" I sighed as we descended close to a field. Ominis stopped and rested against a fence. I looked at him, shining in the setting light of the day. I wished he could see how he looked in these moments, utterly breathtaking. "Let's talk about anything else"
     "Are you going to crossed wands later this week?" Ominis asked me, a smirk on his face, "you are close to winning I'd say"
     "Yes I know," I dragged out my groan as I moved to lean against him, "but Sebastian is my dueling partner. I don't know if I could work as a team with him right now"
     "No, but the seventh year is on one of the final teams, are they not? Could be a good time to show them up and win. Especially if it means knocking them down a peg in Sebastian's mind" Ominis said as he rested his head against mine. I looked up and gave him a huff.
     "Yes yes I know, I just don't know if I want to deal with the trouble of it all." I sighed and glanced around to make sure no one but the flowers were watching us. I leaned into him and kissed him, tasting the sweets I had bought him before on his lips. He smiled into my lips, before kissing me back deeply.
     "Is this why you dragged me out to this field?" He joked as he pulled away. "I don't mind if it was" I lightly smacked his chest and gave him a peck on the cheek. "Of course it wasn't" I replied and wrapped my arms around his neck, "just seemed like a good moment."
     "Indeed it is" he hummed and kissed me again, wrapping his arms around my waist and pulling me in closer to him. I felt his lips moving against mine, perfectly matching me. We kissed for a moment longer before I pulled away again to breathe properly. He started to leave kiss down my neck, especially kissing the spot that was still healing from him biting me. I let out a content sigh before pulling away.
     "We should head back, I don't want to be late for dinner and get points taken off our house" I reminded him, before we started our walk back towards the castle. He laced his hand into mine and lifted it to his lips, before leaving a kiss on my fingers.
     "Please let us have more days like this"

     Later that night I woke up to hearing someone say my name, before being nudged. I woke up groggily and looked around, but didn't see anyone. Then I noticed a slight shimmer and realized when he spoke again that it was Sebastian.
      "What are you doing here?" I hissed as I pulled the covers off of me slightly and sat up. He was crouched next to my bed and motioned me to follow him. I huffed and grabbed my wand under my pillow, before casting the charm and following after him. We went down the stairs and out of the common room. I tried to ask him where we were going but he shushed me until we had made it completely off the school grounds. He didn't remove the charm until we were standing at the front of the forbidden forest.
     "Can you please tell me why you dragged me all the way out here now? Especially considering I'm in my pajamas" i huffed as I crossed my arms over my body. Sebastian paused what he was going to say as he looked me over, before laughing at me.
     "Sorry, I didn't even think about what you would be wearing" he gave me a grin, before adverting his eyes, "I just wanted to talk with you, away from anyone who would over hear" he took my hand and dragged me further into the forest, and over to the river. "I wanted to explain myself, and I hope you're willing to listen"
     "You can explain, but I won't promise you I'll forgive you. Especially not with how this is going already" I chastised him and sat down on the river bank. I kicked a rock into it and waited for him to begin speaking. He took a seat next to me.
     "I want to start by saying I am not fucking the seventh year" he firmly said, reaching out for my hand and holding it, "I promise you that. I know Ominis was right, I did sound and act like a love sick puppy, but I can assure you nothing like that has ever happened between me and them"
     "Then what is it about them that has you so entangled in their life?" I questioned him.
     "It's complicated, but I do promise to explain!" He quickly said, as he seen my frown at his words, "they have some kind of gift, more than just the magic we possess. They can see old magic, traces of it. They have been running around doing quests and puzzles set by people from long ago. Professors from Hogwarts who are long gone. I have helped them a few times with acquiring materials, or letters or whatever they needed, because somehow it's connected to the rebellion, and how Anne was cursed"
     "I'm not sure how, but I believe they may be able to help Anne, if I just help them master these powers. It sounds crazy, I thought they were, until today in Feldcroft where we found a portal that led to the undercroft, straight from the house where Anne was cursed at." He finished, looking afraid, but also excited. "I know that means something, there's a connection here that I don't know yet. But I'm hoping if I help them further, I can cure my sister. I took them there today and it didn't go well"
     "Is Anne doing better?" I asked as I squeezed his hand, Anne being unable to attend this year had affect all of us greatly, but I worried for how Sebastian would take her passing.
     "She isn't, and my uncle refuses to try anything else to help her." He admitted, and then explained the fight with his uncle. "I should have just taken you and Ominis, she would have appreciated that more."
     "I'll admit, we were miffed about you taking them instead" I said as I leaned on his shoulder.
     "I assumed, Ominis wouldn't speak to me again when I returned to our dorm this evening. He only threw my letters at my bed." Sebastian laughed, "I'm going to explain this to him as well tomorrow. I just couldn't wait to talk with you. Losing my best friends is hard enough, but I can't lose what we've started together, the three of us"
     "Making it up to him won't be as easily done as making it up to me" I joked, before pushing some hairs out of his face. "A romantic confession under the stars may not sway him as easily"
     "I certainly don't intend to drag him out here in his pajamas," he paused and let my hand go, placing it on my shoulder as he turned me to face him, "and certainly don't want to do the things I want to do with you right now."
     "And what are those things?" I hummed, before feeling him pull me in for a kiss.