Forgot to mention this before, this fic will update every Sunday!


Sebastian tries not to leer too much during the feast, watching from the Slytherin table as Kurt laughs and eats with his friends. His smile is adorable, and Sebastian catches himself grinning every time Kurt throws his head back to laugh.

He also catches Blaine staring as well, since he naturally watches Blaine a lot of the time. It's just some deep seated best friend thing of his, always keeping an eye on Blaine and enjoying his happiness from afar. Blaine seems very distracted as he eats, forgoing the way he usually digs in immediately after the food shows up, and seeming to only half listen as his other lion friends talk around him.

Kurt is very distracting, Sebastian will give him that. With his long, pale neck, sweet yet stunning mouth, strong, masculine jaw, perfectly trimmed, almost always raised eyebrows, and slightly upturned nose—his beauty is almost unbearable. Sebastian has never seen anyone like him, and Sebastian has studied many a hot guy.

He forces himself to focus on his food, knowing he'll only be hungry later, and when it's time, ushers his group of first years out of the hall and down to the dungeons.

Throughout the entire first week of classes, Sebastian keeps waiting for Kurt and him to have some class in common, but no such luck. His schedule is filled with Arithmancy and Charms, the rest of his classes on next week's schedule. He and Blaine have Transfiguration together, but it appears that Kurt is in the other section of it.

He observes Kurt at every meal, watching he way he moves, how his throat shifts when he laughs, the slight distance he always seems to keep from most people. Whenever Kurt smiles, Sebastian can feel his face mirroring it, having to catch himself several times when he gets weird looks from his friends for randomly grinning like an idiot.

He lays in bed Sunday night, Kurt the only thing on his mind. He hadn't been to any meals today, and Sebastian wants to know where was, if he's alright, if he'd been with someone special or just eaten with friends in the Ravenclaw common room. He stares at the canopy above him, wondering what Kurt is dreaming about, and whether he or Blaine will win him over. He falls asleep to both images of himself kissing Kurt and of Blaine kissing Kurt while he watches from afar. He sleeps fitfully, and wakes up bewildered over having dreamt of the same boy all night, yet all of it had remained PG.

He gets ready that morning a bit confused, never having experienced this sort of thing, and heads off to his first class of the day—double potions with the other NEWT students—and tries to clear his head.

He's one of the first in the room, so he sits and saves a seat for Blaine, resting his head in his hand and glancing back every once in a while as other students come in. His breathe catches when Kurt enters, looking ridiculously well put together for 8:20 in the morning. He tries not to let out any of his frustration when Kurt pointedly does not take a seat next to him, or even particularly near him. It doesn't matter...Sebastian will figure something out.

Blaine comes in right at 8:30, out of breath and holding one shoe in his hand. He sits next to Sebastian and fixes himself up while their professor tells them to get into pairs and start working on a draught of living death.

"Blaine, do you wanna work with me?" Sebastian looks over to see Tina standing next to a flustered Blaine, looking eager to get started.

"Oh, um, sure, if that's okay with—"

"Don't worry about it," Sebastian interrupts. "I'll figure it out." He turns to find Kurt still alone and makes his way over, no doubt leaving behind a frustrated Blaine. He can't help but not feel bad, though, when Kurt hesitantly agrees to be his partner and opens up his advanced potions book between them.

Sebastian finds it incredibly easy to be around Kurt. They work silently for a while, seamlessly splitting up tasks without even needing to talk, passing each other ingredients and taking turns stirring. When Sebastian does say something, Kurt responds immediately with a pithy comment that has Sebastian laughing, and his easy going attitude seems to coax Kurt more out of his shell and into a comfortable rapport.

He glances over at Blaine every once in a while, and feels a pang of something akin to guilt at the way Blaine looks like a kicked puppy. He supposes he shouldn't be rubbing it in Blaine's face, but it's hard to quiet down when Kurt keeps making him bark with laughter as they work.

Their potion isn't the best in the class, but the professor gives them a satisfied nod and five points each for their efforts, seeing as they did manage to complete it at least.

Sebastian and Kurt walk out together, and Sebastian is amazed at how easily conversation flows between them.

"You did not say that," Kurt insists, giggling at Sebastian's story about the time he told his cousin off for being homophobic.

"Of course I did! Do I really seem like the kind of person to hold my tongue?" Sebastian suggests, winking playfully at Kurt.

They laugh as they say their goodbyes, and Sebastian mentally pats himself on the back at a job well done. He's achieved friendship, at the very least...more shouldn't be too far off.

Blaine has disappeared, and he figures it's for the better, seeing as he can cool off before Sebastian tells him about Kurt. They did say let the best man win, and Sebastian had simply taken the first victory. He smiles to himself as he heads off for his break, whistling while he walks.


Sebastian waits for Blaine after lunch, figuring they could walk around the grounds for a little while before each heading off, Sebastian to class and Blaine to the library for the other half of his double free. He spots Blaine's shiny hair heading for him in the crowd, and grins when they're finally side by side.

"Walk with me, babe," Sebastian jokingly commands, striding off to the main doors while Blaine rolls his eyes before catching up. "So you kind of ran off after potions…didn't get a chance to tell you about Kurt." Sebastian looks over at Blaine with a smirk, only to find Blaine staring at his feet.

"Oh, yeah, I guess you didn't," he mumbles. Sebastian's no idiot; he can tell when Blaine is trying to get him to shut up. But he wants to brag, damn it, and, truth be told, he wants to make Blaine a little jealous.

"Well he is just so great. We're more similar than I originally thought. We may not like the same stuff, but man, is that boy quick on his feet. I mean he really gave as good as I did, throwing things right back in my face, we were laughing so hard, it was fantastic. I haven't had someone to talk to like that in forever. And he's sopassionate, god, I can't even imagine what he'd be like in bed," Sebastian finishes with a smirk, pleased with the slightly defeated look on Blaine's face.

"You're talking like you've got this thing in the bag," Blaine bites back, still not looking at Sebastian. Sebastian rolls his eyes, not feeling like picking a fight. They turn to go back inside, and as they enter the outside corridor, there's Kurt, clearly headed somewhere with purpose, though he stops when he sees Sebastian and Blaine. He bites his lip and smiles, looking away for a second shyly before glancing back at them and lifting his hand hesitantly in a small wave hello, before going on his way again, a bit faster.

Blaine and Sebastian turn to look at each other, before breathing out simultaneously,

"He was totally waving at me."


Blaine sulks as he makes his way through the library, finding the book he needs to start his first Transfiguration essay of the year. After Potions class he'd escaped, not wanting to deal with Sebastian, but of course no such luck. Sebastian had just found him after lunch, insisting on bragging about how awesome his connection with Kurt is. It drives him nuts, how convinced Sebastian is that he's going to win Kurt over first. Blaine is a charmer, and romantic, and he can tell Kurt would want to be wooed and courted, just as Blaine would wish for himself, so damn it, that's what he'll do.

He looks around for a table to sit at, and that's when he spots him—Kurt, sitting alone, writing in what looks to be a journal of some sort.

He makes his way over, excited at the possibility to have some one on one time with him the way Sebastian had in Potions. He waits for Kurt to look up and realize he's there.

"Oh, hi!" Kurt exclaims, smiling shyly up at Blaine. "You're Blaine, right?"

"Yeah," Blaine says curiously. "How'd you know that?"

"Oh, I had Quinn fill me in on who all the other prefects were in our year," Kurt admits, looking away. Once he appears to have collected himself, he glances back up. "I'm Kurt, by the way." He stretches out his hand, and Blaine has to bite his lip as not to make a noise at how soft Kurt's skin feels against his.

"Mind if I join you?" Blaine asks, gesturing to the empty seat at Kurt's table.

"No, not at all."

Blaine sits, and grins at Kurt before spreading out a piece of parchment and opening his book to the appropriate section.

"Is that for Transfiguration?" Kurt inquires, seeming eager. When Blaine just nods, he plows on. "Oh, I have it tomorrow, I'm so excited! It's one of my favorite subjects."

"Mine too," Blaine agrees. "If you'd like, we could work on this essay together tomorrow, once you have the assignment too."

"Yes!" Kurt exclaims, then seems to catch himself and calms down a bit. "I mean, ah, yeah, that'd be really great. I'm always looking for study partners, but I don't have a lot of friends taking the same NEWT classes as me."

"Well we're in Potions together, and we both take this...what else are you taking? I'd love to study with you for whatever." Blaine blushes a bit, hoping Kurt doesn't think him too eager. He just wants to establish a friendship for now, after all.

They discuss their classes together, learning they'll have Charms together too. They discuss their favorite spells at length, Blaine's homework and Kurt's writing long forgotten. Several times, the conversation pauses because one of their knees or feet will brush against the other's and they blush and look away shyly before awkwardly picking up where they'd left off. They don't even realize it had turned dark outside until someone drops some books, causing Kurt to look around and out the window.

"I should be going, Sebastian's probably looking for me...we were supposed to meet up tonight," Blaine tells Kurt, moving to pack his things.

"Oh, well, it was so nice talking to you," Kurt confesses, beaming up at Blaine. "It's not often I meet people I have such easy conversation with, not to mention so many common interests."

Blaine tries not to jump up and down at this exciting development, and rather just agrees with Kurt and pulls him in for a short hug before blushingly saying his goodbye. He rushes to the room of requirement where Sebastian told him to meet him—they discovered it in their third year and go there occasionally for dinner, after one of them picks it up from the great hall, to be alone just the two of them.

Blaine finds Sebastian in the room of requirement, already halfway through his meal.

"Couldn't've waited for me, jackass?" Blaine jokes as he sits down.

"You were taking too long," Sebastian answers, shrugging. He watches as Blaine settles in, trying to hide his grin but failing miserably. "Someone's in a good mood."

"I just spent the afternoon with Kurt in the library, " Blaine admits shyly. "God, Sebastian, he's even more amazing than I imagined. He's so smart and witty, and he loves Transfiguration and you know how much I love Transfiguration and we just talked for so long about everything—"

"Nothing sexier than nerd talk," Sebastian sneers. He pushes some food around on his plate as Blaine powers on.

"Not everything is about sex, Sebastian. It was sweet. He's so sweet, and funny, and he just got everything I said and…yes, he's also really beautiful, and that just adds to how much of a pull I feel towards him, you know? And—"

"Look, I get it, okay? You two are a romantic ball of cheese made for each other and you're going to ride off into the sunset on the back of a unicorn holding each other tight and crying rainbow tears of joy. Gag me. Whatever, have him, he's barely worth it anyways. Too girly for me, really."

"Oh, sod off, Sebastian. Your effemiphobic talk is so based in bullshit I don't even know where to begin in calling you out on it. How about we start with the several pink designer shirts you've got hidden in the back of your closet for when you go out and one someone to pick you up for a change?"

"I told you I don't like it when you bring that up—"

"Or what about the fact that I'm your best friend? I love Celestina Warbeck and I sing her songs all the time, and you sing along with me! If you really care about how "girly" Kurt is then this friendship shouldn't even work."

"I didn't mean that you—"

"But you did, Sebastian! You don't see it but you do shit like this all the time. I can't deal with you when you're on one of your defensive judgmental rants. All you're doing is proving just how much you do still want him, just how much you actually like him!"

"Fine! I think he's funny, and pretty, and sure, I wanna fuck him but I want to kiss him too and I want him to laugh at my jokes and—fuck, I don't know, Blaine, okay? You know how to do all the romantic shit, and he's going to trip all over himself for you, and I just…I want a chance."

They're both panting a bit from yelling, both staring at each other, exposed and torn open and a little wild. Blaine's eyes shine with a few angry tears. Blaine is the first to move, stepping forward slowly and encouraging Sebastian to do the same until they're in each other's arms, Blaine's head tucked into Sebastian's chest, his arms wrapped around Sebastian's torso.

"I'm sorry, B," Sebastian whispers, wrapping one arm protectively around Blaine's shoulders and settling the other one in his hair, petting lightly, allowing Blaine to further borrow his head. "I'm sorry, you know I didn't—"

"Sebastian, please, just…" He grips a little tighter, pulling Sebastian closer. "We got carried away. What else is new?" Sebastian lets out a small, amused huff, pressing his lips to Blaine's forehead and just letting himself be held for a little while.

"I don't want this to get in the way of us," Blaine mumbles into Sebastian's shoulder. "We've never let a guy get this far between us."

"So let's stop before it goes further. We'll both just…be friends with him for now," Sebastian suggests, already regretting it but regretting his fight with Blaine more. Blaine pulls back and smiles, looking into Sebastian's eyes.

"That sounds perfect."

They sit down on the couch, and Blaine curls up with his head in Sebastian's lap, Sebastian running his hand through Blaine's hair. It's how they always end up after a fight, soothing each other and settled into comfortable silence.