Under Your Scars || Sebastian Sallow x MC

Chapter 67 - The Law of Surprise*

Blood on your back

I give you your pride

I am all yours

And you are all mine

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Oh, forgive me, for I love being bad for you

Bad for You

-Chappell Roan

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Sebastian POV

"Erm... Surprise!" my second visitor exclaimed weakly with waggling fingers.

I hurried to pick up what remained of my student's supplies. I procured a book from my shelves on the healing properties of Shrivelfigs, shoved it in his arms and shooed him out the door, quickly shutting and locking it behind him.

I turned toward her, my back to the door.

"You're here! Your hair! You—"

She cut me off by throwing her arms around my neck, pressing me into the door and planting a desperate kiss right on my lips. She moaned softly as she melted into me, though I was still frozen in shock, arms glued to my sides.

I couldn't believe my eyes, or my lips for that matter.

Still, I soon found myself kissing her back with a vengeance, making up for lost years all over again.

When we finally came up for air, she was the first to speak.

"I missed you, Seb."

"I missed— you too— sweetheart," I managed to say back between kisses along her jawline. I would have kept going down her neck if it weren't for her scarf which, in its green hue, complimented her new hair color brilliantly.

She caught me staring and giggled, "Oh, right. I got struck with a hair loss jinx. I tried to grow it back with a potion but there were erm... complications. Do you hate it?"

"Au contraire, mon coeur, the blonde suits you."

I was not lying. My Juliette looked positively stunning as a blonde. I wrapped a piece around one of my fingers and toyed with it a moment. It was not quite blonde so much as a sandy beige color. It very closely resembled the hair color of one Callan Fenwick.

"What brings you back to Hogwarts, my love?" I pulled her into me again, prepared to shower her with kisses while she told me whatever her reasoning was. I honestly did not care. I was over the moon just to have her in my arms again.

"I left the Ministry," she said casually, tilting her chin upward and untying the blasted knot on her scarf I had been struggling with for a solid ten seconds.

I nearly choked on air.

"You—you—left the ministry?" I attempted to stay the course of kissing my way down her perfect body, but my curiosity got the better of me. It was time for Officer Sallow to take over and start asking questions. "What compelled you to do that, love?"

"I realized in America that I just cannot be away from home for that long anymore. And I need to be here for Rose. Writing letters simply... isn't the same."

Is that why she has not been responding to my letters? Because she has been traveling and quitting her job? Why wouldn't she write to me?

"What will you do now?"