Pairing: AlbusOC

Prompt: Fire

For: AbyssinianSerengeti

Everyone liked Albus Potter. Seriously. Now, when you've got a big school like Hogwarts, full of hormonal teenagers, that doesn't seem likely. Especially since Albus was a Slytherin. But, hey, he never claimed to be statistically sound.

Maybe it was because he was so very easygoing. Albus never got in fights, or arguments, or even little squabbles. He was just so darn agreeable all the time.

But, see, that was also a problem. It's pretty hard to agree with everyone all the time. So how the heck did Albus do it? Well, he just sacrificed all his own opinions, of course. It was easier to just go along with what everyone else said, anyway, instead of arguing about it and trying to prove they were wrong.

Albus didn't seem to have the fire that flamed in the rest of the family. He didn't need to fight-fight-fight all the time to make himself right and he didn't burn with passion. For anything.

Albus was agreeable.

Then, one day, he blew up at Jolie Everbloom in the middle of the Great Hall. The whole of the student population must have been staring at them in disbelief, because Albus Potter didn't get angry. But Jolie just took it and yelled back at him, like he was a normal person who could argue and fight and disagree just like the rest of them.

And, as the argument continued and extended through the year, Albus felt his own fire awaken within him. It burned hot in his heart and he grew less agreeable and more Albus the more he fought and disagreed with Jolie.

So he wasn't really surprised when, one night, he found himself alone with her in a broom cupboard, her lips flaming on his and her hands fire-hot on his body.

Because, hey, fire can't help but spread.

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