Another requested couple for you :-)
This one is a tad darker than my previous ones, so bear with me.
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Suddenly Seymour (Alice/Frank)
Hogwarts, 1976
"Well, that's done, it's been quiet tonight."
"Yeah I guess"
"See you Monday?"
"Yeah, see you"
Emmiline Vance gave her fellow Prefect a wave and continued along the corridor towards Ravenclaw tower. Frank Longbottom turned on his heel and going back the way he came, made his way back to Gryffindor tower on the other side of the castle. It had been a fairly quiet night; they only found a couple of Hufflepuffs snogging in a broom cupboard. Frank couldn't help but roll his eyes whenever he happened to come across something like that whist out on duty. He told himself he would never do that to his future girlfriend, and he will treat her decently; if he ever got one at least. Frank was an in-betweener, he was nobody particularly special and he didn't exactly have a history when it came to girls. Though he smiled at that fact; Sirius Black in the year below him and made him glad he didn't have a history as such – there was no way he would want a reputation like Sirius had.
He kept walking down the corridor and from the corner of his eye, he thought he could see a shoe sticking out from an alcove in the corner. Frank walked closer and could see the tip of another shoe; and he could hear the very faint muffles of someone crying; a girl crying.
Lift up your head, wash off your mascara
Here take my Kleenex, wipe that lipstick away
He tip-toed closer, trying not to scare the poor girl; it didn't do a thing though because the next thing he knew, he heard "Go away!" through the girl's sobs. Frank stopped dead; he knew that voice.
"Alice?"
Like Sirius Black, Alice Prewitt was a fellow Gryffindor in the year below Frank with a chocolate brown bob and permanent twinkle in her eye. They had known each other well enough ever since some Marauders party celebrating some Quidditch match (again!); and Frank had fallen in love with her at first sight.
"Frank?" Alice turned her head towards him. Her eyes were red and black from crying and her from eye make-up running and there were a couple of stray hairs sticking to her cheeks. "What are you doing here?" she whispered shakily.
"I should be asking you that question." Frank immediately went up to her, plonked himself on the floor, slotted his arms around her and pulled her into a tight ball. Alice cried onto his robes. To be honest, Frank had no idea what to do other than rub her back and whisper "shush" in her ear. When she had calmed down enough he asked her: "What's happened?"
"My boyfriend dumped me, badly; just because we didn't share the same opinion on things."
Nobody ever treated me kindly…
… I'd meet a man and I'd follow him blindly
He'd snap his fingers and me, I'd say sure
"Who was he? Your ex I mean?"
"Amos Diggory," Frank shuddered. He knew Head Boy and Hufflepuff Quidditch Captain Amos Diggory had a reputation almost as bad as Sirius Black's! He was really starting feel useless, but this was Alice cuddled up next to him, he wasn't going to abandon her!
"Err, what happened?"
Alice swallowed. "Well, we'd been together for about 3 months now and he seems to think it's ok to, shall we say, move on to the next stage… but I'm not ready for that. I told him and the next thing I know, he slaps me!" Frank turned his head and now noticed a faint bruise on her left cheek.
"He didn't…. you know… do anything to you did he?"
"No, God no!" Frank breathed a sigh of relief "But he shouted at me for ages and if I hadn't ran away when I did, I think he might have done." Alice started crying again, and Frank pulled her closer. He was going to kill that bastard Diggory when he next saw him! How dare he do that to Alice! How dare he even be Head Boy when he thinks even thinking of doing what he did, and was probably going to do are acceptable!
He pulled Alice out of his embrace a little and looked straight into her eyes – they had lost their twinkle.
Show me your face, clear as the morning
Though things were bad, but now they're ok
"Alice, I'm not exactly the best at this, so bear with me; but I want you to listen to me ok?" she nodded "That guy is a complete dick, do you hear me. He doesn't deserve you, not in any way. And you did the right thing. There is no way anyone should be forced into doing something like that."
Alice nodded and hugged him back. She couldn't help but smile. Frank had treated her better in just a few minutes than Amos did in the three months they were "dating"; he treated her better than any other guy did actually. She didn't often get lucky with a boy like Marlene did, but whenever it did, it always ended in disaster.
"It's not going to last forever though. There's someone out there that when the time comes, will treat you like a princess"
Alice giggled to hide her shock. Can Frank read minds?
"Thank you"
Suddenly Seymour is standing beside me
He don't give me orders, he don't condescend
They stayed like that for a while until Frank whispered in her ear: "It's late. Come on, we should go back. Your dorm mates will probably be worried about you." She nodded and taking his hand, they got up from the dirty castle floor and walked to the Gryffindor common room. They only caught the Fat Lady just in time before she went to sleep.
It wasn't until they reached the dormitory staircase that they realised they were still holding hands.
"Well, I should be getting to bed." whispered Frank nervously. "If you want to talk, you know where to find me"
He was about to go but Alice squeezed his hand. "Wait Frank, you've done so much for me tonight. I want to do something for you too. Is there anything you can think of?"
Frank racked his brains. He would have loved to ask her to go out with him, but unlike Diggory, he had something called tact.
"Err, I guess you can sit next to me watching the Quidditch to-"
The twinkle in Alice's eye had come back.
"Done"
And with that, she let go of his hand and ran up the stairs to the girls dormitories. Frank could hear the cries of "Alice Prewitt, where have you been?" by three very worried Gryffindor 5th year girls. Frank smiled and climbed the stairs to the boy's dormitory.
You know what they say; every relationship has to start somewhere…
With sweet understanding, Seymour's my friend…
…With sweet understanding, Seymour's my man
Suddenly Seymour, Little Shop of Horrors