Three headed snake (Sebastian Sallow //Omimis gaunt Xreader)

Chapter 14

Sebastian POV

My attempts at falling asleep were proving to be pointless, I had a feeling it would continue to evade me until Ominis returned.

I laid in bed taping my foot wondering how much longer he would be, and almost as if he could hear my thoughts the door swung open. My eyes tried to focus on his as the light behind him flooded into the dark room.

"What's that you've got?" I asked squinting at a paper he held in his hands. He closed the door relieving the strain in my eyes.

"Classes are cancelled." He stated reaching the flyer out to me as I sat up out of bed.

I reached over to my bedside table for my wand "Lumos" I whispered and the room illuminated once more.

I glanced over the paper confused, I've been going to this school 7 years and I've never heard of them canceling classes. "What happened?" I asked handing the paper back to Ominis.

"Not sure exactly, the headmaster said it was a prank on the professors...didn't give a lot of details" He replied.

I glanced up at him taking notice of his expression. "What's wrong? Not happy to see me?" I joked trying to lighten his mood.

"Well actually, I'm not but not for the reason you're referring to... YN left her dorm and if you're here that means she's out doing Merlin knows what...alone." He replied with concern.

"Is that all? She sneaks out all the time. She'll be fine." I sighed with relief kicking back onto my bed.

"Yes but Aren't you usually with her?" He pressed sitting next to me, clearly he hadn't relaxed.

"Sometimes, but she doesn't like to be smothered, she does her own thing and I've found it's easier to just let her. Path of least resistance, know what I mean?" I explained.

He stood up from the bed clearly agitated. "What If she gets into trouble or hurt? You don't care? You don't want to protect her from that?!" He was practically scolding me.

Of course I wanted to protect her. I had tried for years, sometimes still slipping into protective mode from time to time. I wanted to take care of her, keep her safe...but she hated it, and I didn't want to push her further away.

"Om, she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself. If she wanted me there she would have asked...you told me we had to trust her judgment and that's what I'm doing or at least trying to do." I replied.

"I said it in a different context Sebastian do not twist my words! I was speaking about her feelings for us not about putting herself in harms way!"he continued throwing his arms in the air, fed up with me.

I stood up from my bed walking up behind him. "This is why we never told you things, you get too worked up, worried over nothing." I said placing my hand in his shoulder.

He turned slightly and the moonlight caught the shimmer of a single tear rolling down his cheek. "I worry because I can't bare the thought of living in a world without the two of you in it...but it seems you both are hell bent on making sure I do." He snipped wiping the tear away.

It felt like a hot blade was twisting up my insides. I knew we hadn't been fair to him, taken advantage of his friendship, his love. I haven't fully realized the gravity of what we had put him through until this year. I walked around cupping is face in my hands "Alright, do you want to go look for her? Will that help?" I was willing to do whatever it took to settle his uneasiness.

A small tapping at the window caught our attention. "An owl? It's 3 in the morning." I said shuffling over to the window. The bird dropped a small piece of parchment onto my desk and flew away. I recognized her wax seal immediately.