"If you're the lord, what does that make me? The lady?"
The war is over and all seems to be going minimally well until everything comes crashing back down for Adhara to the point where she would trade her existence to fix everything that had gone wr...
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That said, Adhara soon felt her left hand being pulled by Lord Slytherin as the Black and Potter families gathered to talk to the Marauders.
"So, can I have you for the rest of the day until first thing tomorrow morning?"
"As if you haven't been by my side all reading," she snorted, but Thomas knew she would grant his whim by the smile on her lips.
"You know I love you too much, don't you?" he murmured, kissing her face vehemently.
"Aish..."
"Get a room already," Lord Malfoy mumbled to his friends, which for obvious reasons did not include Lord Gaunt, pretending to be disgusted by the clear display of PDA.
However, the older adult version of his friend smiled as he took his partner in his arms.
"Gladly," he replied in a not very loud voice as he took advantage of everyone else's distraction and, also, gave his younger version a winning look as if to make it clear and rub it in his face that this Adhara was his alone, which of course left a bitter taste in Lord Gaunt's mouth.
Young Thomas frowned as he watched them go, his friends just laughing and couldn't help but mock him.
"You're so sodden," Lord Black laughed, patting him on the back.
"What's the matter? Don't tell me you've become jealous of yourself," Lord Malfoy continued, noticing his sour expression.
"Of course not," he replied, refusing to admit it as he lifted a swig of Firewhiskey to his mouth.
"Come on, let's leave Mr. Jealousy alone," asked Lord Nott, also taking a swig of Firewhiskey.
None of them were in the mood for dinner that night, but neither were they going to get drunk in front of the younger ones, especially when they weren't sure when the younger ones would return.
"Hadrian," called Lord Potter, watching Lord Black and his friends sip Firewhiskey out of the corner of his eye as they spoke moderately quietly amongst themselves, "do you know where we will be sleeping or if we will be returning to our homes for that?"
"The Room of Requirement will give you rooms to stay in or whatever you need, I'm sure you know where that is," Hadrian commented with a smile before standing up to ask for everyone's attention for a moment to explain to them all where they would be sleeping: either in the Room of Requirement —those who were no longer students— or if they wished they could sleep next to their families in the dormitories.
With that said the Black sisters continued what they were doing earlier in front of Dumbledore's cage while Severus, Orien and Haruka talked about sleeping together to make up for lost time. Eventually when they all decided it was time to go to bed they left the dining room, on their way to the Room of Requirement the men and women agreed to sleep separately at least for the night.
