Challenge: Big sister/Little sister competition, HPFC. Liza's drabble.
Pairing: Deamus
Prompt: Forgotten, you chose to break my heart.
word count: 736
Seamus knew it was a mistake the moment he walked into the apartment.
"Dean?"
He was met with silence. Dean was sitting on the couch, anger bubbling away under his stony face. It seemed like hours later that Dean finally spoke.
"So you're back, huh?" His voice was riddled with contempt.
Seamus paled. He hadn't expected to be welcomed back with open arms, but he didn't expect this hostility either. "What are you talking about?"
"How could you do that? How can you just walk in my door like nothing's happened? You left, Seamus. I saw you with Lavender and confronted you about it, then you up and left, storming out of the house as if it were me who'd been cheating on you not the other way around, claiming you need 'time to think'." Dean snorted. "Talk about a role reversal. Now, two weeks later you walk into my apartment using my key like everything that happened is history, like I've forgotten what you did? You can't do that, Seamus. Relationships don't work like that."
Seamus stood there in shock, his voice wavered as he spoke, "Dean I-"
"No! I don't want to hear it! You call yourself a pyromaniac Seamus, but even the best can still get burned. You chose to break my heart and screw this up when you hooked up with her. I've got nothing else to say to you." Seamus could hear the pain hidden beneath Dean's quivering voice.
"I was drunk, Dean! It was an accident, she was lonely - Parvati broke up with her you know - and I-" Seamus couldn't go on, he choked back tears.
"You never stopped loving her." It wasn't a question. Seamus looked up at Dean.
There was no point in denying the truth. He'd loved her since seventh year, he would have asked her out if he wasn't so busy fighting a war. Oh, and there was the small fact that she had been in love with Parvati. After Hogwarts, after she got attacked, they dated for a while. He knew that she was trying to get over Parvati, no one likes unrequited love. He honestly didn't care at that point if she wanted him for a rebound or because she genuinely cared. Then Parvati had decided she did love Lavender and Seamus had been tossed, with a shattered heart, in the trash, only to be found by Dean.
"I love you Dean, you found me and for a while it looked like I could actually forget her. As cliche as this sounds, you put me back together after she shattered me." Seamus breathed shakily, everything he was saying was true. He did love Dean, he wanted to love Dean with everything he had. He just couldn't. He felt the tears he'd been holding back spring up into his eyes.
"Ready, aim, fire," Seamus said. "Say it Dean, go on. Yell at me, kick me out, tell me you hate me. Merlin knows I already hate myself enough. Tear me to shreds, just like she did, cut me up just like she will every time. Leave me alone, like they all do. Go on." His voice dropped to a whisper and shook as the tears dripped down his face and onto the floor. Each tear that hit the ground was another piece of his heart breaking.
Dean looked at him, his eyes held anger and pity, hurt and strangely there was even a little bit of love left. It stung, knowing he'd just hurt Dean the same way Lavender hurt him.
"You say you love me, Seamus, but we both know if she calls you'll leave me for her, every time. You love her more. I can't be with someone who is always thinking of someone else." He too spoke quietly. Seamus winced. Somehow hearing Dean sound so collected was worse than having him yell. "Clear out your draws and leave the key on the table when you go. I hope your one night rebound was worth it. Just remember, you brought this all on yourself, Seamus. You chose her over me, you chose to betray my trust and break my heart. Not Lavender, not Parvati, not me. You." He turned to leave. Seamus watched him walk through the front door and he knew that it was over.
"Goodbye," he whispered to the closing door, watching Dean leave his life for good and taking his heart with him.