End of Sallow

If you ever feel like you're nothing, you're fucking perfect to me

He'd came out of nowhere and joined the raid. His eyes were wide and wild, and he was focused. At first, Theo had been annoyed. He was intruding on his and Charlie's time. But when he saw how focused Malfoy was, and how he seemed to need to get out some aggression, he realized it wasn't some ploy to get closer to Charlie.

Theo and Charlie had stopped fighting, letting Malfoy fight, and he dodged every spell while throwing his own. He had one hell of an advantage though, now that Theo thought about it.

Are you alright? Theo thought to him, reluctantly, but Malfoy had asked if Theo was alright the day after Charlie's memory disappeared, so he felt it was the least he could do. Malfoy's face had grown flushed. Heated from the fight, and he offered nothing to show he'd even heard Theo's question.

Finally, the last foe was down, and Malfoy stood there, panting, his chest heaving as he turned to look at them.

Silence.

Before Theo couldn't help but say, "Your form sucks." If anything to break the silence.

Charlie smacked his arm and glared, but Malfoy just started laughing, almost sounding relieved.

---x---

"I don't trust you." Theo said flatly.

"You say that every time," Alec grinned.

Theo sighed. "Say it again."

"tha thu a' coimhead brèagha rùisgte," Alec's grin widened.

"You're calling someone beautiful, but I don't... know.. the last part." Theo frowned. "And that leads me to believe that it's not proper."

"Assuming I'd do anything proper is your mistake," Alec laughed, and Theo rolled his eyes as he flicked through the pages.

"Naked. You look beautiful naked." Theo deadpanned as he translated.

"Thank you. Now, why did you ask me to teach ya if yer just gonna look in that book?" Alec asked with a frown.

Theo sighed. "I need to hear the accent to make it more comprehensible. I don't wanna sound like.. " He couldn't think of a word and he looked to Alec who was, once again, grinning.

"She's gonna appreciate you learnin' anyway."

He snorted. He doubted it at this point. Might find him creepy if anything.

"Is e Dia a th' ann an Sebastian"

"I don't even want to know what you said if you've brought his name in it," Theo grumbled.

The only sound was Theo flipping the pages for a while. They sat in his quarters in the cave, on the floor while he studied Gaelic.

He'd been learning for a few weeks now, and he had the basics down, and he was feeling a bit more confident in learning ever since Charlie and he had been raiding again. And even more so after her drunken night where she'd admitted she remembered him a bit. Slowly but surely, she was fighting through this spell.

"Snape told Podex that she has yer classes taken care of. It'll be a rough next few days, ya know that?"

"I know," Theo sighed. Today, he'd taken all the days off from his classes and had spent it sparring with Alec and trying to learn Gaelic, though Alec seemed to slow the latter down a bit more than necessary when he was trying to teach Theo how to ask if a girl wanted to sleep with him or suck him off.

Theo had learned rather quickly not to trust anything he said.

"I have quidditch tonight, then it'll be a busy next few days, I suspect. I need to leave early though, make it to dinner."