Title: The Fantastic Four
Disclaimer: I still don't own them, and if I did, there would be slash in the books too, not just fodder.
Ratings/Warnings: I'm totally not typing them all again look at the beginning of chapter one.
The Fantastic FourChapter Two: I Take It Back!
"Can't we just forget about it and take him back!" Marcus, Cedric, and Oliver were having the same conversation they'd been having for the past two weeks.
Marcus was all in favor or forgetting the whole fiasco had even happened and taking Roger back. Cedric wanted to forget it, but the logical Hufflepuff in him said it probably wouldn't last long if they did that. And Oliver, being the rock he was, was stubbornly holding his position against Roger, and trying, for the tenth time, to explain it to Marcus. He heaved a sigh.
"Mel, do you want to have to wonder where he is and who he might be with every second of the day? We can't trust him anymore! How can we go back to being the Fantastic Four if we can't trust the fourth?"
"But…but we can trust him! Besides, it's our fault he left, you heard him say so! So if it's our fault then we have to fix it!"
"Melissa Marcus Flint, this is not our fault. He was the one who cheated, not us! How were we supposed to know he wanted kink!"
"I don't bloody know! But we should have, I mean, we are his lovers!"
"Were," corrected Cedric, who was predictably working on his Divination homework. Marcus shot him a withering glare.
"Thank you very much for that uplifting announcement Sara." Marcus stormed out of the library. Cedric sighed.
"I forgot my Divination book in the dorms, I've got to go get it." And with that, Oliver was left alone with his realistic tendencies. He looked at the table, and what was staring up at him but Cedric's Divination book? The other boy, he realized, had been reading in it before he left.
Divination had always been one of his more amusing classes (1), a break in his day from the stress of his other classes, but today Roger was acutely aware of the fact that Cedric had moved tables two and a half weeks ago, and was now sitting by himself in the back of the class.
So Roger sat there by himself, watching the huge floating hourglass in the corner of the room that counted down the seconds until class was over (2). 'Thank Merlin', he thought, as the last of the sand trickled into the bottom of the hour glass and people started to gather their books and quills.
He shoved his things into his bag, never really having gotten anything out (he still wasn't used to not being able to just copy Cedric's notes), and walked out of the classroom, right past where said other boy was neatly gathering up his parchment.
But there was a problem.
Right as he made it out of the classroom, his elbow was grabbed and he was pulled unceremoniously into a shadowed part of the hall.
It was Cho. 'Shit. Please don't let Cedric come out, please don't let Cedric come out'.
"Hey Rog (3). Haven't seen you around for a while. What's the deal?" Cho's voice was dangerously low.
"I…uh…"
"Oh shut up you fucking fag. I found out all about you and your fucking foursome. You disgust me. I can't believe you were cheating on me for a bunch of queers. And they weren't even Ravenclaws!"
Roger's jaw dropped to his knees.
"Excuse me! You're calling me the queer, when I know for a fact you've been screwing around with Millicent Bulstrode. At least I have good taste in the same sex. And you can't even say I was cheating on you, you fucking whore, because technically they had me first. I was cheating with you, and believe me, I'll never make that mistake again!"
Cho looked like she had been smacked. Her face finally settled into an over-all very unattractive look of confusion and anger, and she stalked off with a muttered, "fucking fag".
Roger stood there for a moment, breathing a little heavily and leaning against the wall, before he realized he had an audience. 'Oh fuck. I hate you God'.
"You cheated on us for a fucking CUNT!" Roger had never seen Cedric this mad. Hell, he had never seen Cedric mad at all.
"No, wait- Sar-"
"Don't call me that you bitch! You cheated on us! You completely broke Marcus's heart, and even Oliver's crying over you! And all for a pair of tits and a bit of bloodplay!" Cedric stopped for a minute to catch his breath.
"Cedric, listen to me!" The Hufflepuff sent him a malicious glare. "No, listen to me! I didn't even fuck her, it wasn't that I cheated you for a girl, I cheated on you for kink, for bloodplay!"
"Well, at least you've admitted you've cheated now. Marcus will be thrilled." And with that, Cedric turned on his heel and marched off in the general direction of the library.
Roger slid slowly down the wall, cradling his head in his hands as tears began to prick his eyes. 'I really hate you, God'.
Later in the same day : "Marcus, get over him! He's an ass who cheated on us!" Cedric was still fuming.
Marcus's eyes got wide. "Hey! You don't have to be a bitch about it! And anyways, I thought you were on my side!"
"Well I'm not so get over it." Cedric, who had been sitting with Oliver and Marcus in the library, grabbed his homework and stalked off to finish his essays somewhere else.
Oliver and Marcus watched him go with wide eyes.
"Merlin, what's gotten into him?" mused Marcus. Oliver was silent for a moment.
"I have no idea."
"Hey!" Roger dropped his school bag, it's contents spilling all over the floor, as someone shoved into him on the way out of Divination. He looked up to see Cedric's retreating back. He sighed, not really surprised. Cedric had been doing shit like that since he'd over heard his conversation with Cho three days ago. If you could even call it a conversation. 'Great, just great'.
Cedric kept walking and headed straight to the library, where he threw his bag on the table and roughly pulled out his books.
"Whoa there Sara, what's the problem?" Oliver was starting to get annoyed and slightly worried at Cedric's new found attitude, the boy had always been very cool and collected before.
"Nothing," spat Cedric.
"I don't believe you," said Marcus.
"The sock has spoken!(4)" said Cedric sarcastically.
"Come on Cedric, why has the chip on your shoulder practically imploded over the last three days? What's up love?" Marcus tried to put his arm around the angry boy's shoulder, but was rudely refused. Marcus sighed.
"Look, Cedric, I'm tired of this. Either you tell us what's the matter, or you get over it! Simple as that!" Oliver was starting to loose his patience.
"Oh shit! I left my quills in Divination, I have to go back and get them." And with that, Cedric stormed out of the library, leaving two slightly irked and very confused lovers behind.
When Cedric stormed back into the Divination classroom, looking around for his quills, it did not help his mood in the least to see Roger standing there, holding his quills.
"I think you left these here, I was going to drop them off in the library, but…" Roger trailed off. Cedric gave a half deep breath, half growl and grabbed his quills back. He was about to turn around and leave when-
"Seraphina (5)," Roger's voice was deathly quite and cracked a little. "Please Sara, turn around." Cedric kept walking. Then he slowed. And finally stopped. He stood there for a moment, bracing himself, before he turned to face his ex-lover.
Both were shocked at the pain they saw on the other's faces, the over-bright eyes, the painfully tightly pressed lips. A tear ran down Cedric's cheek, and without thinking Roger reached up to wipe it away.
"I'm sorry, Sara. I am really, truly, sorry." Another tear. "Trust me on this one, love, I'd take it back if I could. You three are worth more than five million of her to me."
"But that's just the point, isn't ?" Cedirc sounded like he was reading his suicide statement. " I can't trust you, can I?"
"Yes you can, Sara, yes you can. Trust me, I'll never have to go through the 'straight' phase again." Humor was starting to leek into the situation. Cedric gave a half smile.
"Promise?"
"Promise." Cedric gave a short laugh, and then enveloped his renewed lover in a death grip.
"I missed you, Roxanne," he said into the crook of the other boy's neck. "But did you really have to fuck a chick to figure out how much you loved me? I mean, honestly, I could've told you that."
Both boys laughed, and Roger captured Cedric's mouth in a kiss.
" I really, really missed you, Rox," said Cedric when they broke apart, slightly breathless. Roger laughed again, tightening his grip on his lover.
end chapter
1- ok, I know they don't really take Divination, but it's the concept, not the actual class that's important here, so
2- again, I know this isn't how it works, but it's the concept that's important here, at least I didn't have a bell ring.
3- pronounced Roj, like, Roger without the –er.
4- don't ask me what this means, it's a saying that has a negative connotation like, 'oh great, now that we have stupid's input'… you get the point, I'm sure
5- I'd like to thank the academy…no, not really. Thanks to my manager for coming up with a name that Sara could be short for. I thought it was more endearing. Now they all have two nicknames. The long, endearing one, and the short every day one. This is getting ridiculous.