Careful, Darling

Chapter 21

Your pov

        "So which one of you is going to explain?" I ask as I take a seat in the undercroft and stare at the boys as they sit down.
"Which part?" Ominis asked, twirling his wand between his fingers and feeling of the wood as he looked towards my general direction.
"Why neither of you ever talked to me again after winter break, left me alone for two months, and then jumped out behind bushes at the end of my date?" I asked and looked at Sebastian, since I had a feeling he had been the master mind behind most of this.
"The reason we didn't talk to you is ah, stupid." He admits and stands up to pace, like he usually did when he was upset and fighting it. "We both thought the other had talked to you, and you wouldn't want to hear from the other."
"Why? What happened?" I ask and cross my arms and lean back as he glanced down at the floor.
"A lot, but the short story is that the relic I went after didn't get me where I wanted. Instead I.... Instead I ended up killing my uncle." He admitted. I jumped up in my seat and stared at him like he was crazy. He sounded crazy saying things like that. "Let me explain," he turned to me and held up his hands, "a lot happened. And I regret killing him. I need to know you are going to listen to me, because I've already lost Anne over this and I almost lost Ominis."
"I'll try and hold any outbursts of my sanity til the end" I replied and Sebastian continued to explain how everything happened. The relic not being what he thought, his arguement with his uncle, his uncle taking the relic and how he eventually killed his own uncle infront of Anne. I became silent the longer he talked, finding it hard to accept that he had killed someone.
"Why didn't you just.." I tried to think of something he could've done instead. Anything else but using an unforgivable.
"If I may add, I have also chosen to not send him to askaban." Ominis said and slowly stood up and walked over towards me, before putting his hand on my shoulder. "I don't understand his reasoning either, but I do know that if we aren't there for him then he is going to go down a darker path. If we choose to ignore him, we would lose him forever" Oninis whispered to me and I glanced at Sebastian again. Besides his outburst earlier in the night, I could tell he hadn't felt like himself. He looked tired and pale. It hurt me to see him like this, even if he'd done it to himself.
"Sebastian" I said and his eyes met mine, and I held out a hand for him and he moved close and took my hand in his. "Promise me, promise me you won't do anything this stupid again."
"Of course" he sighed and fell to his knees infront of me. "I can't lose either of you, I'm almost completely alone now, I can't hear the thought of anything worse."

"So what exactly are you going to do today about your lover" Sebastian asked as he leaned in close and whispered in my ear, causing me to blush heavily as the three of us made our way to hogsmede. I groaned and pushed him away slightly.
"Leave her be Sebastian" Ominis said, causing me to sigh, thankful he was going to be a voice of reason. "I'd like to assume her taking both of us with her would be a sign enough"
"What if it isn't Ominis? Are you going to let him try and sweep her off her feet infront of us?" Sebastian asked and nudged Ominis, "I know she'll choose us, but I don't exactly want to have to argue with a man who was never even a competitor"
"I'm that case," Oninis pulled me in close by the hand of mine that he held, before wrapping his arms around me, "I think my affections towards her would be enough." He whispered, which caused me to blush wildly and have to pull away from him.
"Ominis you can't keep making me such a mess with your words." I groaned and felt his hand slip across my back and down to my hip.
"Am I making you a mess right now?" He asked, slight shock in his voice. I turned back to him and seen Sebastian smirking at the two of us.
"Well (y/n), are you a mess for us right now? Such a dirty girl, acting like that when we are on a trip to tell your fling that he doesn't matter." Sebastian leaned against Ominis and looked down at me, clearly enjoying all of this. It was going straight to his ego.
"I'm not a mess, you two are just making me go insane" I groaned and started to walk infront of them.
"She's wearing such a cute skirt today, with tights underneath. And I don't think she's noticed that she is once again in your shirt." I heard Sebastian describing my appearance to Ominis, who I heard let out a soft groan as he pictured what I looked like. Sebastian walked quickly to catch up to me and tugged on my shirt, causing it to catch and go tight against my chest.
"Oh Merlin's heard" he groaned and turned back to Ominis, a wide smile on his face. "She's not wearing anything under your shirt. I think I'm going insane." He groaned and stayed walking with Ominis, letting me walk infront so he could stare at me lustfully. Once we entered hogsmede he quickly caught my arm at the same Time Ominis took my hand.
"You look tired, let me escort you" Sebastian grinned, and I looked over at Ominis who just shrugged, "I'm blind and need a guide."
"Ominis has a better reason" I told Sebastian and dropped his arm from mine, "and at least he's being a gentleman and isn't running his mouth about every inch of my body" i hissed the last part and seen Sebastian smirk.
"No, but I'm telling him all of that because he loves it." Sebastian teased and we started to walk down the street. "I am jealous, what do you feel like to someone who's touch is so intense"
"I couldn't even begin to describe it to you Sebastian." Ominis sighed and closed his eyes, picturing mentally something I'm sure would've made me blush if he said it outloud. "Where are we going again?"
"To honeydukes where our lady's mistress is" Sebastian supplied and pointed ahead for me, showing me where the shop was, "ah silly me, you know where it is by heart now don't you" he said with a grin. He was enjoying giving me problems too much. He knew he had won, simply because I was going to break things off with Damian. And he wasn't about to let me forget that he was one of the two I chose instead.
"Shut it Sebastian" I groaned and walked into the shop, still holding Ominis by his hand. I knew he could guide himself, and I also knew he was using this as a ploy to hold my hand in public. I glanced around the shop and caught Damian's gaze as he looked up from behind the register. He looked at the two men hovering around me and I could see his face drop.
"Are you going to be alright?" Ominis leaned down and whispered, gently squeezing my hand. "Ignore Sebastian's raving, I know this isn't going to be easy. So just ignore us and go talk to him. We will be here when you're done." He let go of my hand and gently brushed past me as he grabbed Sebastian and hauled him to the other side of the shop, trying to get him out of my way so he wouldn't make this worse. I sighed and walked past all the candies and shelves of chocolate, and made my way up to the register where Damian stood.
"I'm not going to like this visit am I?" He asked and glanced at Sebastian and Ominis, his gaze breaking a little more as he turned back towards me. "We should talk in the back." He started to hold out his hand for me, but dropped it quickly and guided me to the back of the shop. Once we were there he leaned against one of the barrels and looked at me, waiting for me to explain.
"I'm sorry Damian, I really do like you, I just-"
"Have two other men out there waiting on you. I seen." He said and let out a sigh as he looked down at the ground. " I remembered you (y/n). I know you didn't recognize me but I knew you. I'd been interested in you since you beat me at our duel. But even then after you crushed me and had me staring at you in amazement, your eyes were only on Sallow." Damian explained, catching me by surprise that he knew Sebastian and Ominis well enough to know exactly who they were even years later.
"If you knew that I liked him then why did you pursue me?" I asked, feeling horrible for basically leading him on. I knew I wouldn't be able to let go of Sebastian and Oninis and I had still tried with Damian.
"It had been so long I had hoped that whatever it was you had between you was over and forgotten. I hoped I had a chance. I really thought I did" he sighed and rubbed the back of his neck, "but I can see now I was never going to get that chance. I can't compete with Sallow or the Gaunt boy who is always with you."
"I didn't mean to lead you on, I just... had some complications and had tried to move on too fast." I explained and heard him grunt out a laugh, but there was no joy behind it.
"Just be careful. Sallow is dangerous, but the Gaunts are terrible. Those two might end up hurting you one day." He said and stood up, before going to the door. "Can you at least tell me that you had fun with me? That it wasn't all fake?"
"It wasn't. If things hadn't turned out like they did.." I stopped and heard footsteps coming to the door. Damian sighed and opened it and looked straight into Sebastian's eyes.
"Hello Sallow" Damian said and Sebastian seemed to realize finally who he was. Sebastian gave him a look and shoved passed him before walking up to me and taking me in his arms.
"Darling we should be going" he said to me and glanced back at Damian, "no need to have anymore talks in secluded areas with him."
"Just please get out" Ominis groaned from the hallway and Sebastian quickly took my hand and started to pull me out.
"Are you two going to at least take care of her?" Damian asked Ominis, a bit of venom in his tone as he did. Sebastian paused and looked back at Ominis, who looked annoyed but brushed it off.
"Bold of you to assume you could have ever done that, let alone question our capacity for it" Ominis moved and grabbed my hand and quickly pulled me out as well.