Hogwarts Legacy x Reader | Oneshots

Sebastian Sallow | For the Greater Good

NOTE!! THIS IS NOT LORE ACCURATE!!

"I don't know what it is." (Y/N) sighed as she stared at the spinning thing dangling from Ominis' fingers.

"It's not a stopwatch, then?" Sebastian pushed with an intrigued expression.

Ominis groaned. "For the fiftieth time! No, it is not a stopwatch."

"Then what is it?" (Y/N)'s impatience was growing wildly apparent.

Ominis pulled a face. "I don't know."

"What do you mean, you don't know? Why are you showing us then?" Sebastian scoffed. "It's just a watch."

"It's not!" Ominis exclaimed. "I promise you it isn't. My father would not hide a simple watch. There has to be something there."

"Well, I certainly can't see anything odd about it." (Y/N) shrugged. Her eyes dropped down to the parchment in her lap with garbled notes about merpeople which she hardly remembered writing down. She spun the quill in her hand idly. She made a clicking sound with her mouth as her tongue bounced from the top of her mouth continually. It sounded awfully like a ticking clock.

"Sebastian?" Ominis asked with a saddened look. "Surely, there's something about it, isn't there? Trust me when I say it is valuable in some way."

Sebastian looked dejected. "I'm sorry, Ominis. It looks just like a stopwatch. Perhaps it is a family heirloom. Other than that, I could not tell you. It's a mystery."

The three fell into silence.

Ominis detracted the stopwatch into his hand and let it rest on his palm. Snatching it from his father's study was not easy work but exhilarating nonetheless. He knew there was something odd about the watch but he could not sense what it may be. He thought perhaps his friends might spot something upon it which his blindness prevented him from doing. But alas, it seemed to be ordinary. However, he knew that nothing about anything in his father's study was ordinary. This watch was different.

Ominous lay on his back with his eyes open and his hands folded on top of his chest. His thumbs continually twiddled around themselves, so much so that the skin on his thumbs had begun to tingle with discomfort.

"Ominis."

The sound of his name being spoken into the crystal quiet made Ominis jump. He sat up abruptly and went to feel for his wand.

"Why are you awake?"

Ominis took a moment to realise that Sebastian's voice was groggy and gravelly. Sebastian was rubbing his eyes as he shuffled under the thick duvet which he was previously snuggled beneath.

"Did I wake you?" Ominis whispered, though he wasn't sure why - they were both awake now.

"Yes, you were making a strange pained sound."

"Oh," Ominis wasn't aware he was making any noise at all. "I apologise."

"Are you thinking about the watch?"

"How did you know?" Ominis sighed. He wasn't fazed by Sebastian's sharp perception.

"It's the only thing that has been on your mind all week." Sebastian scoffed. He swung his legs over the side of the bed and dug his fingers into his knotted hair.

"Right," Ominis mumbled to himself.

Sebastian stood up and searched for a shirt in the dark room. He bumped into a chair.