I do not own Harry Potter or anything you recognize from the Harry Potter World. I do not own Dorian Gray. I do however own Hazel Gray, Morgan Gray and the idea behind this story. (Warning, there will be boys kissing each other in this chapter if you are against that sort of thing.)
The first Hogsmeade Weekend, the group of five gathered down in the Trickster Room to go over the plan one last time.
"So Morgan will be the unofficial chaperon for Rabastan, where as I will be your chaperon?" Severus inquired, sitting at his desk and glancing about the other four faces to be certain he had everything confirmed.
"Yes, and I shall be the neutral party to this and fill in where needed." Regulus confirmed, nodded his head as Rabastan and Hazel were busy glaring at each other. Hazel had made a comment in her rather distracted manner and it had offended Rabastan so they were trying to decide if they could survive the day together without killing each other.
"That is correct. Pureblood rules are annoying but in this instance they will be helpful rather than hindering. The Courtship that Xeno and Pandora are engaged in is less restrictive because they are no longer seeing each other every day. As Rabastan and I see each other most everyday because we are in the same year, we can use the more restrictive so I am not forced to kiss him."
Hazel pulled a face at the thought of kissing Rabastan, causing Morgan to laugh before leaning toward the aforementioned male.
"Well, if it comes to you being forced to kiss him, glamour my skin and I'll do the deed." Waving his wand, Morgan charmed his skin a similar olive tone as his cousin and strode over before starting to snog Rabastan. LeStrange, for his part, tangled a hand into the male Gray's hair and snogged him right back.
Hazel growled low in her throat before sending a mild stinging hex their way. "Pureblood girls do not kiss like that. Secondly, I would not kiss like that. Honestly, and you call yourself my cousin?" Both boys protested being hexed, though they didn't attempt to retaliate, knowing what they did.
Turning to Severus, she gave a hesitant smile. "Severus, would you be willing to assist me in showing these two what I would do should I kiss someone?"
Severus flushed brightly though he did nod, not trusting his voice just then not to crack. He was a bit stiff as Hazel leaned in, swallowing thickly and hoping he didn't bugger this up. Taking a deep breath, he managed to gather her scent, much like Regulus described it before, and felt himself relax only heart beats before her lips met his. It was chaste, much like their first kiss, just a brush of lips against each other.
Before he could even think on how to react to kissing Hazel again, she was pulling away.
"That is how I would kiss someone, not start-" here she started waving her hands about until she could recall the word, "snogging someone like I was dying." Huffing, she sent a small smile to Severus and waved for Morgan to try again, though anyone could tell she wasn't comfortable watching her cousin kiss anyone.
Morgan gave his own huff before leaning into Rabastan, mirroring Hazel's movements and pressing his closed lips against the Slytherin's. It was a bit longer, though much more chaste and was a bit eerie, watching what could have been Hazel's exact double kissing another bloke while she stood there watching them herself.
Regulus turned a touch green and turned away from the sight. "You all know I don't care a wit about who you fancy or anything else, but can you all please stop snogging in front of me?"
Hazel laughed, moving to wrap her arms around the younger boy and placed a kiss on his cheek, laughing even harder as he pulled a face and started scrubbing at his cheek. Biting back her laughter into small giggles Hazel waved her wand and summoned a book, passing it to the boy and grinning.
"You found one!" He wrapped his free arm around her, holding the book on advanced charm creation tight to his chest. His grey eyes were bright before he quickly released her and opened the heavy book, already pouring over the words.
Still grinning, the other boys all wearing matching ones though Rabastan and Morgan started kissing a bit more, Morgan's hand wandering a bit as well, Hazel returned to Severus side and thanked him quietly in Greek for his assistance.
"I am sorry to have asked you, it was wrong of me. But, you are the only one I have kissed, and I cannot stand the thought of kissing Rabastan after listening to some of the other boys in Sparta talking about finally seeing what all the fuss about English Boys was about." She paused and glanced toward her cousin, curling her lip and turning her back on them. "I do not care that he fancies my cousin, or that he fancies males in general. It is the fact he seems much to easy that I have an issue with him. There was more than one boy in Sparta that mentioned him, something I find..."
Here she trailed off, as though trying to formulate just how she wished to say this without possibly insulting Severus as Rabastan's friend.
"You find it distasteful that he would snog or even shag so many people in such a short amount of time, given we were only in Sparta for two weeks." Severus suggested, leaning back in his chair and in the process turning his back toward the two snogging boys as well. Where as he understood in the Magical world, this was common place, he was raised in the Muggle world and it was not so common place there. It was taking some adjustment, to say the least.
"Si! Had we been in Sparta for longer, I would not care at all, but as it was so short a visit, it is distasteful!" She was talking with her hands against, something that made Severus give a tiny grin. This, he found he could easily admit to himself, was cute. She was actually adorable when she started talking with her hands and getting animated when passionate about something.
He also noticed her eyes seeming to shine brightly against her olive skin and cleared his throat, drawing her attention back to him.
"We should really break those two up, we still have to get to Hogsmeade. Rabastan will need to be glamoured to hide the evidence of snogging someone if we wish to pull this off correctly." As loathe as Severus was to cutting their conversation short, they did need to get to the Entrance Hall and leave. The sooner they started this, the sooner they could return and be done with it.
"Ah! You are correct." Nodding her head, Hazel stood and brushed her robes quickly before turning and sending a mild hex at the two boys who had forgotten there were others around them. "Morgan, kindly remove the glamour on your skin. Rabastan, either cast the spell for your own self or allow one of us to do so. We need to leave now."
With a few mumbles, the two boys did as instructed. Morgan charming his hair smooth again after Rabastan had raked his fingers through it and fisted it in their snogging session, before quickly removing the glamour to make him appear darker and instead making it appear as though he hadn't snogged anyone. Rabastan sighed and cast the correct charms before conjuring a small bouquet of wildflowers and casting a stasis charm so they would last the day.
Handing them over with a slight bow, Rabastan offered his arm to the Ravenclaw, a mostly charming smile curving his full lips.
"You are most correct, my lady. Shall we depart for Hogsmeade, now?" He inquired it as more than a statement than a question. With a put upon sigh, Hazel inclined her head and followed him out of the room. Morgan, Severus and Regulus following, once they managed to get him to leave the book behind for a few hours.
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Upon their return to Hogwarts, the three Slytherins were walking on eggshells and Morgan was a seething ball of rage. The only one to remain with a cool and level head was the lone female among them. Rabastan was still escorting Hazel, but as soon as they started toward the dungeons, he quickly released her arm and moved to grip Morgan's shoulders.
While those two were whispering to each other, Regulus moved and wrapped an arm around Hazel. "Don't pay those Gryffindors any mind, Hazel." He tried to sound encouraging, but no one felt that way.
Sirius Black, oh how Severus cursed the boy in his mind, had decided to interrupt their trip into Hogsmeade and insult Hazel. That she was a slag because she was always around boys, and she was nothing more then a Slytherin Whore because she must be sleeping with all three of the Snakes with her. The the only reason Rabastan was being seen in public with her was because they must have buggered up the contraceptive spell and she was pregnant.
Lupin had attempted to pull the boy away, but with the Full Moon in a few days he was weaker than he could have been. Potter had only laughed and Pettigrew had chuckled and hidden behind the more outgoing of the Marauders. All in all, it was enough to have a normally relaxed Hufflepuff go to defend his cousin's honour, and several other Hufflepuffs nearby joined in. Loyalty, it never ceased to amazing him.
"Seph, are you alright?" Severus noticed the tension in her shoulders as her robes were pulled taunt because of Regulus' hold on her waist to try lending support. He also figured if she was this upset using her nickname would help calm her somewhat. It had worked in Italy when she was being called by those water demons, after all.
"Hm? Oh, si I am fine." She sounded distracted as she patted Regulus arm and kept staring straight ahead.
"Don't let what he said get to you, Hazel. Those Gryffindors get to you. Their opinions do not matter." Severus moved to her other side and wrapped an arm around her as well. Fighting back a small smile when he leaned into him and sighed deeply, already turning her head to nuzzle into his robes.
Morgan had finally calmed down as he and Rabastan were quick to join them once more. They placed a hand on her shoulders or gripped her hands before moving to stand guard around her. That brought forth a small chuckle from the quiet girl as she finally let out a soft sigh.
"Thank you, all four of you. I am tired, however, so I shall return to the nest. Rest well, and we'll meet in the Trickster Room in the morning after breakfast?" Giving a quick kiss to all of the boys' cheeks, she darted off before anyone could offer anything else to her. Though Morgan made to follow until Rabastan held him back, shaking his head no.
They needed to give her time alone, and if she happened to run across the Marauders, then there would be no witnesses that she was the one to curse them.
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The following morning, Rabastan and Morgan decided to give Hazel a break, Morgan charming his skin the same shade as her own and leaving her and Severus in the Room along together. She was in no mood to play the proper Pureblood, and Severus felt she could use some time to be herself.
They weren't studying, they both merely had a book each and were sitting on thick cushions on the floor and reading for pleasure. Hazel was leaning on a pillow she had conjured, and Severus was reclining against the wall behind them.
"Severus?" Hazel's soft voice nearly went unheard, he was so engrossed in his book. Luckily, he did hear her and turned to regard her, still reading her book.
"Yes?" He asked in a low drawl, raising a single brow as he waited for her to finish.
"I want to thank you for yesterday." She finally looked up at him, shifting about until she was sitting directly against his side. "One of these days, you will be a man easy to love, Severus Snape. Never change." She was looking up at him in such a way, with a look he wasn't certain how to read, though he felt himself nodding.
"Never," he agreed, feeling his chest swell that she felt he was wonderful as he was. Even Lily had wanted him to change somewhat. Leaning his head down, he pressed his forehead against Hazel's and breathed deeply through his nose, taking in her unique scent and smiling softly. "Hazel, when you said I was the only one you have kissed..." He paused, searching her eyes with his own jet ones before letting out a soft sigh.
"Lily was the only other person I kissed, and that was when we were very young and she was worried she wouldn't do it correctly, so we had one kiss. The second was at the Ball when she forced herself upon me." He kept searching her eyes, seeing only confusion, as though she wasn't quite grasping what he meant. Then again, he thought, she most likely couldn't as he wasn't being very plain. "Do you mind terribly if I kiss you? A proper kiss this time, rather than the stiffness of yesterday?"
He held his breath for the few second it took for her to register what he asked, a soft laugh making his stomach clench thinking she would turn him down.
"I do not mind in the slightest if you kiss me again, Severus." She smiled at him, a light rose hue to her cheeks now. "I am afraid I do not truly know what it is I am doing. I understand what it is and how it is done, but lack of practice is..." She trailed off, flushing and looking down at where her hand rested against his arm. Her eyes widened, and so did Severus', as neither had realized she had done so.
Chuckling lightly at her, Severus slowly leaned down even as she tilted her head up to meet his lips. It was chaste yet again, though after a handful of heartbeats they slowly loosened up a bit. He could feel her magic brushing against his own teasingly. It was unlike anything he had felt before. Lily hadn't felt like this, though he didn't believe in anything as trite as a soulmate, Hazel did feel different in terms of her magic against his.
Her uncles had a similar feel to their magic when they had cast spells around him, though only a handful of the other Spartan's had felt the same. Though all thought of magic and how it felt was quickly banished from his mind when he felt the first shy brush of the tip of Hazel's tongue against his lips.
Pulling back minutely in surprise, he noticed a slightly brighter gleam to her eyes, the startburst appearance returning. Swallowing, he leaned down to kiss her again, moving one hand to tangle in her hair, a soft sound in her throat pulling him back once again, panting for breath.
"We... We should probably stop." He panted, his fingers now carding through her silky hair even as he tilted his forehead to meet Hazel's. Severus wasn't certain what had come over him, though he did have to admit he had enjoyed himself. There was something there between them, but so long as she was courting his mate, even if it was only a farce, he would keep his feelings to himself.
"I... Si, you are correct." She blinking owlishly a few times before taking a deep breath and leaning into Severus' side more, snuggling close and opening her book again. Severus took a fortifying breath of his own and followed suit, though they both sat there for several long minutes without turning a single page, both still trying to reign in whatever it was between them.
A.N.: Hello all, and welcome back to Lil2Pom! Quite a bit happens in this chapter, and at last, the long await Kiss! At least it was long awaited for me anyhow. Things are moving along, and we'll be seeing quite a bit more of the Marauders in the coming chapters.
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Just a note, Morgan and Rabastan will go on dates in this story. It won't be as in focus as it was in this chapter, but it will be in future updates as well. If you do not care for that sort of thing, I understand if you no longer wish to read or follow my story. Its not for everyone, but I decided to include that in this story. Several different sexualities are being represented in this story as I know and have dear friends that are all over the spectrum. If this offends your sensibilities, this story is not for you. Should you decide to leave, please respect other's views and not leave nasty comments because I decided to write about things you do not agree with. I thank you for the time you have spent with me and this story and wish you well!
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