Light in the Dark // Sebastian Sallow

Room of Requirement

(Athena)

I wait at the Astronomy patiently for Sebastian, I've never actually stood here long enough to admire the surroundings on my own.

"Hello there." I hear a voice but don't see anyone.

"Sebastian?"

He appears in front of me
"what is this top secrete no one else can know"

I smile and take his hand "follow me and you'll find out"

I lead him up the stairs to the wall facing the room of requirement which hasn't appeared quite yet.

"Why are we just facing a wall Athena? Are you alright?"

"Before I show you this, I need you to promise me NEVER tell anyone about this. - No - I'm serious Seb, you can't even tell Ominis. This room was passed down to me from Professor Weasley. She told me I can't tell anyone about it."

"I haven't told anyone about your ancient magic, i promise not to speak a word about this either."

I smile and take his hand again.

I think of the room and space I need and I door shows up in front of us.

"Welcome Sebastian to the room of requirement." I say leading him through the door.

To my surprise Deek isn't in there. That's odd. I also look over to my right and find a new door surrounding my others. Sebastian walks In the room with his mouth opened.

"How long have you known about this room?" Sebastian says astonished.

"All of 5th year. It is my space to catch up on everything I missed the past, gee I don't know, 5 years before." I say like a smartass.

"And you kept this from me?" Sebastian says shocked.

"Well your sort of a distraction... even in 5th year." I say biting my lip.

"Me? No I'm not what are you talking about?" He says with a smirk.

I turn to him "well your are welcome to come here anytime, You showed me your secrete room, so now we're even. Come on let me show you around." I say taking his hand.

I show him the Vivariums first "Athena, These spaces are beautiful! I mean you have a Phoenix!  I've never seen one. He's beautiful." Sebastian says with a huge smile on his face!

I show him the other Vivariums. We head down stares and I show him the books and all the potion stations and herbology stations. He turns to me "Athena, thank you for this. It's amazing in here!"

" I knew you'd like it!"

My curiosity takes me to the new room that I saw earlier I start walking without Sebastian "Seb, this room has never been here before..." Sebastian follows me as I guild him to the door.

"well no time like the present, shall we check it out?" Sebastian brushes up against me and my heart skips a beat.

Sebastian opens the door and find a place with a fire place and even more books, these books are different though, they look like older books that I've never seen, I've only ever seen them in the

"the restricted section books" I say out loud without thinking.

Sebastian starts searching the library, "I've snuck into the restricted section a million times! I've never seen these books and they all seem to be on..."

I interrupted him "curses, Sebastian do you think?"

He interrupts me "'maybe we can find the curse for"

We say together "Anne!"

"Maybe the room gave you what you needed too..." I say curiously.

Sebastian grabs my waist and hugs me for what feels like 20 minutes. He had tears in his eyes which I was surprised about. I wipe his eyes "Seb this is your room now, I want to help you with this."

Sebastian looked at me "I love you."

At the worlds I hold his face and look into my eyes "You love me?" I say starting to tear up.

He looks me in the eyes "I always have, and I always will." He hugs me. "Thank you Athena, for showing me this room. I can't wait to get my hands on these books." He says eagerly.

I turn to him dreading my next words "I have something else to tell you though... my power is growing Seb. It's growing so fast and strong and I can't control it. Professor Hecat has offered to help. This summer I'm going to find what this Ancient Magic is. There has to be more to it. There has to be more somewhere. I'm hoping I'll be back with answers for our last year. However if not, this may be my last year here." I say not looking at him.

"Athena, are you NUTS. You think I'm letting you do that ALONE? You're barking mad. Why is your power growing so much? What's on your mind? I'm sorry I didn't know sooner. Let me help you. I'm here and I'm never leaving you again. You're stuck with my Johnson. Forever. Okay?" He says pushing himself away from his books grabbing my waist.

"Sebastian I can't risk you going. It'll be so dangerous, And I'm not even sure where to start honestly. It could take me years to find out what Ancient Magic is. Plus one of us has to get a good education..." I say smirking at him.

"And that person will be you because you're finishing Hogwarts next year. We're both Finsihing. When we're done I will go wherever you go. Where.ever. Let's research this year and next, and we'll adventure next year after school. Let Professor Hecat help you for now. It'll be okay." He says sternly

I take a deep breath in. Looking into those eyes of his gives me butterflies. "When the hell did you become the mature one Sebastian? Also, bloody hell I can't wait a year or two... I'll hurt someone " I say shocking myself.

Sebastian and I have went on many adventures last year, we actually make a great team. He has seen what I can do.

He walks towards me, lifts my chin and says "we'll be careful, we'll study our new books, and learn new spells. We'll find a way to handle your magic Athena, you have to trust me."

He takes my hand and guilds me towards HIS library.

"Shall we?" He says taking a booking and sitting down on the couch. I roll my eyes and grab a book too, let the research begin.

I wake up to him staring at me.

"Good Morning my love." He says smiling.

"Oh my Merlin, Sebastian!! Did we fall sleep here?" I say frantically realizing I was leaning on his shoulder.

"Well you fell asleep, and I know your having a hard time with the Nightmares, so I let you sleep. And I may have dozed off as well."

I get off him "well I need to go and get ready! Oh my gosh what time is it?" I say panicking

He looks at me laughing.

"What?" I say not understanding him. Looking at him extremely frustrated.

My eyes widden and I say panicking even more "Aren't we going to get in trouble for not being in our dorm?"

"I think you're over thinking this." He says rolling his eyes but smiling keeping his head in his book.

"I think you're under thinking this." I say throwing my bag over my shoulder.

"I don't think that's how it works?" He says smartly.

"Goodbye Sebastian." I say rolling my eyes and leaving the room.