A/N: Hello everyone, here's the next update. We've gone back to Hogwarts for this one, so it'll be our first time seeing a few of these characters in this new story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
Warning: There is some sexual content/terminology used in this chapter, which will make a lot more sense a few paragraphs in, but I don't think it warrants more than the 'T' rating it has.
It Could Have Gone Worse
Wednesday, April 24th 2024
8:04 AM
Rose Weasley stirred her spoon around her bowl of apple-cinnamon oatmeal idly as she flipped through the Daily Prophet that had been dropped off by an owl ten minutes before. She had eaten about half of the bowl before the paper in her hands captured the majority of her attention. Her eyes followed the words written on a few of the articles, but the news that morning was relatively bland and mundane and no one article seemed to be able to capture her attention for long. She kept flipping through the paper hoping that she'd eventually stumble upon an article that was interesting enough to capture her fancy in full and keep certain parts of her mind from wandering towards thoughts she'd rather not dwell on before the day even had the chance to fully begin.
"Anything interesting in the news?" Her cousin Albus Potter questioned from his spot across the Gryffindor table from her.
Rose pursed her lips, and she didn't remove her eyes from the paper as she replied, "No, nothing of great importance."
Al snorted at his favourite cousin's predictably swotty response. He was pretty sure that the only reason why Rose had been sorted into Gryffindor and not Ravenclaw was because by that point the Sorting Hat had gotten tired of all of the Weasleys and was just automatically sorting them into Gryffindor by default so that it didn't have to delve too far into their minds to uncover which of them had crippling angst and anxiety about living up to their parents' reputations, and which ones just had full-blown potentially-debilitating complexes about it.
The witch with the slightly frizzy hair went back to looking at her newspaper and slowly used her spoon to make figure eights in her bowl of viscous breakfast goop. She had flipped through several more benign newsprint pages before a familiar voice spoke from just behind her.
"Hey."
The word was punctuated with a gentle kiss to Rose's temple as a tall blonde boy with broad shoulders smoothly sat down next to her on the bench. She glanced up at him and smiled brightly, taking in how the green trim of his robes brought out the blue shade in his grey-blue eyes.
"Hey," Rose repeated softly before leaning towards him and pressing a kiss to his lips.
Scorpius Malfoy grinned into his girlfriend's kiss but when she pressed her mouth harder against his, he kissed her back with the same amount of force –that admittedly was probably not exactly appropriate for breakfast on a Wednesday morning– and slipped one of his hands around her head to keep her mouth fixed to his. At some point during their lip lock, either just before or just after he had captured her bottom lip in between his and made her moan quietly, her hands slid up to his chest and she clenched her hands in his robes to pull him as close to her as their seating arrangement would allow.
"Hey!"
Rose and Scorpius broke apart and turned their attention toward the Gryffindor across the table from them who had made the loud exclamation. Rose glanced questioningly at her dark hair cousin, while Scorpius glared at his best mate with a look that clearly said that he was irritated that he'd interrupted the rather solid snog session he had going on with his girlfriend.
"I thought you said that there was nothing important in the paper?" Al continued, specifically addressing Rose this time as he gestured to the Daily Prophet he must have swiped from her while she was giving Scorpius his good morning snog.
His cousin rolled her brown eyes at him, "There isn't."
Al's eyes widened and he scoffed, "It says right here in the sports section that Hawthorne is being traded to a franchise in the American league."
Rose glanced from the earnestly serious look on Al's face, to the unimpressed expression on Scorpius's, and then back to her cousin, "Who's Hawthorne?"
"He's Puddlemere United's reserve centre-chaser," Al explained as if it was obvious.
Rose glanced back at Scorpius, and even though he seemed like he understood who Hawthorne was, he didn't seem too concerned about Al's words. In fact, Scorpius's hands were slowly moving back to Rose's body as he leisurely slipped one arm around her waist while the other wound back into her hair and began playing with the soft strands.
"And?"
"And he's being traded. So Puddlemere doesn't have a reserve centre-chaser anymore," Al repeated as if the reiteration of the statement would make Rose care; or at least understand it better.
Scorpius sighed as he leaned his forehead against Rose's. He kept eye contact with her, rather intensely, but replied to Al in a surprisingly blasé tone, "Why does it matter? They've still got Cassano as their starting chaser and she's not going anywhere anytime soon. They'll find a new reserve chaser soon enough."
With that said Scorpius considered the conversation finished and he used his grip on Rose's hair to manoeuver her lips the short distance back to his. He started their kiss right back where it had left off when his best mate had so rudely interrupted them to chat about quidditch.
Kissing Scorpius always made Rose feel like they were in a little world that was all their own. One where all that mattered was the heat she felt absolutely everywhere when he touched her and the electricity that flowed through them wherever their bodies touched. Which, she mused, just had to be contributing to the fact that their hearts always seemed to beat at the same pace, almost as if their hearts were attached to each other's and dependant on each other-
"Godric and I thought we'd no longer have to deal with disgusting public displays of affection like this at breakfast after Cecilia and Louis graduated," Lily Potter exclaimed exasperatedly as she and Hugo Weasley sat themselves down at the Gryffindor table beside Al.
Rose unhappily pulled away from Scorpius's face for the second bloody time that morning, so that she could glare at her youngest cousin. She kept her derisive scowl just for the female redhead as she knew that her younger brother Hugo was tactful enough to leave her and Scorpius the heck alone whenever they were trying to snog each other.
"If you don't like what you see you can always go eat somewhere else Lily," Rose grimaced at the youngest Potter.
Scorpius held in his smirk and stayed silent. He knew better than to try to get in the middle of an argument (or a debate, dispute, spat or quarrel) between any two members of the Weasley-Potter family; especially if one of those members was his beautiful, stubborn girlfriend.
Most people thought that since Rose Weasley was one of the more quiet and introspective members of the Weasley clan that she wasn't one for arguments or even capable of throwing out a good comeback when she got teased. Scorpius knew better though. He knew that Rose had it in her to be more than a little bit of a spitfire. Just because she was generally polite and slightly shy around people she didn't know too well didn't mean that she would allow herself to be the butt of all of her cousins and sibling's jokes and teasing.
Even though Lily was barely taking the piss with Rose (or at least it was relatively tame compared to the level of loving torment Scorpius knew Lily was capable of) Scorpius enjoyed it when Rose fired back and gave as good as she got. Her irises would turn into chocolate coloured flames and an intense and impassioned expression would slip onto her face, and whenever that happened sometimes his breath would just disappear from his lungs as he watched her. Avenging was a fantastic look on her, and even if it was only there for the most fleeting of seconds it was still enough to make Scorpius's blood heat up. While the two cousins had a glare-down, Scorpius's hand that was still around Rose's waist clenched tightly around the fabric of her school robes that covered her side.
"Trust me, I would if professor Linkwell let us eat during first period Transfiguration," Lily replied as she reached for a strip of bacon off of her older brother's breakfast plate, "If I could get away with that I'd sleep in until it was time to go to class and just eat in class while Linkwell lectures us about the importance of the three Gadhavi principles during reptile transfiguration."
Rose rolled her eyes at Lily; her irritation with her younger cousin abating quickly now that Lily was more concerned with stealing breakfast foods from Al, "There are four Gadhavi principles in concerns to reptile transfiguration."
"And I'd know that if was allowed to eat during class! It's much easier for me to focus on a full stomach," Lily explained as she went on to swipe a piece of buttered toast off of her brother's plate despite that fact that there was a plateful of toast four inches from her left arm.
Al sighed exasperatedly and pushed his plate, and what food was left on it, towards his sister, "'As long as you don't eat your weight in breakfast pastries I don't care what you do before nine am."
Lily scowled at her brother and then made a show of stretching her arm across his torso so that she could reach for a platter of banana muffins sitting directly in front of Hugo. Before her wandering fingers could grasp the edge of the plate though, Hugo pulled out his wand, gently tapped the tip of it to the top of one muffin, and made the entire plate disappear.
"Hey!" Lily exclaimed at her fellow fifth-year in annoyance.
Hugo ignored her outrage and pushed a bowl filled with fruit towards her, "I'm the one that usually has to spend the entire day with you since we have the exact same class schedule and I'd rather not deal with you on a sugar high, or Merlin forbid when you crash."
Lily continued to glare at her redheaded cousin and housemate as she crossly reached for the bowl he pushed towards her and pilfered a shiny red apple.
When Scorpius was reasonably sure that the conversation had drifted away from him and Rose, he turned back to his girlfriend and pressed a sweet kiss to her lips. He pulled back before either of them were tempted to deepen it and pushed a strand of Rose's hair behind her ear as he asked her how she slept the night before.
Rose opened her mouth to reply, but her soft words were lost in the sudden and loud arrival of her dorm mate Alice Longbottom, and Alice's Hufflepuff boyfriend Kieran Chang. Alice slid onto the bench on Rose's other side and Kieran followed after he like he usually did.
"So who's excited for today's assembly?" Alice asked the group of Gryffindors and Scorpius with a faux enthusiastic expression and tone.
Rose, Scorpius, Al, and Hugo all groaned and avoided eye-contact with Alice while Lily shrugged unconcernedly and stated, "As bad as it will be, it could always be worse."
"Worse than your eldest cousin coming to Hogwarts to give you and the entirety of the fifth, sixth, and seventh year girls a lecture on sexual education?" Rose asked Lily cynically.
Lily shrugged, "There are worse people –Hell there are worse cousins to give us a sex ed lecture."
Two years previously Rose and Lily's eldest cousin Victoire Weasley had completed a short internship in Hogwarts's hospital wing while she was in her last year of healing school. During her tenure at Hogwarts Victoire had convinced Headmistress McGonagall that a series of sexual education lectures separated by age and gender was increasingly necessary for the castle's students. Victoire prepared an entire syllabus of material to be used for each lecture series, and was quite prepared to follow through with presenting the information to the female students of Hogwarts (while one of the male professors would be roped into presenting the material to the male students) when she was suddenly needed as a replacement medi-witch on an undercover auror mission in Peru that was coincidentally being headed by one Ted Lupin.
To the relief of Rose, who was in her fifth year of Hogwarts when Victoire was supposed to present the sexual education lecture, a different professor had to cover for her instead. Headmistress McGonagall had decided that the sexual education lectures were something that should be continued each year, and she had also arranged for Victoire to present one the previous year when Rose was in her sixth year. Fortunately for Rose, two days before Victoire was supposed to present her sexual education lecture there was a level five medical emergency in Ireland that required St. Mungo's to send one of their Dark Arts Reversal resident healers there to help treat patients. Victoire was picked for the task and was gone for a week as she helped out there, and another professor had to fill in for her at Hogwarts once more.
Rose had luckily escaped from hearing her cousin lecture on sexual education twice, but –unless a convenient medical emergency concerning dark magic occurred in the next two hours– it seemed that that strand of luck wasn't going to hold out and Rose would have to endure listening to her eldest cousin give her and all of her classmates a lecture on sexual education.
Rose sighed as she accepted the inevitable and nodded at Lily, "I guess that's true."
"A sex ed lecture from Lucy, or even Dom would definitely be worse," Hugo agreed as his face went green just thinking about the concept.
Lily glanced between Hugo and Al, "You lot are lucky that you get to hear a dull lecture from a professor you're not related to instead of a predictably enthusiastic presentation from your own cousin."
"Well I for one am glad that it's Professor Cooke giving us our lecture and not Professor Longbottom," Kieran Chang chimed in as his face went white with the thought of his girlfriend's father giving him and all of the male Hogwarts students over the age of fifteen a sexual education lecture.
Beside him his girlfriend was devoid of all sympathy for that particular imagined plight. Alice snorted in amusement at Kieran, "Luckily for you Dad's not doing the lecture this year."
She gave her boyfriend a peck on the cheek and then stood up from the bench, "Now, you lot need to get to class and Al's going to help me with our Transfiguration essay."
Alice nodded her head at Al and then turned on her heel and walked away from the table. Al sighed heavily but got to his feet quickly so that he could follow after her because he had promised to help her during their free period that morning while Kieran, Rose, and Scorpius all went to their Arithmancy class. Hugo then picked up two last pieces of toast from the table and used it to lure Lily away and towards their first class of the day.
Once the younger Gryffindors left, Rose grabbed Scorpius's hand and walked with him and Kieran out of the Great Hall and towards their Arithmancy class as the two boys discussed that upcoming Saturday's Slytherin-Hufflepuff house quidditch game. Rose and Scorpius took their regular seats next to each other in the front of the class, and after Kieran finished his conversation with Scorpius he moved a couple rows back to sit with a few of his friends from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Once the last student entered the classroom and sat down at their desk (which happened to be a harried looking Norah Summers who threw a secretive glare at her friend Christen Lazar as she shuffled into a seat next to her) their Arithmancy professor started in on that day's lecture.
After the first twenty minutes of the lesson had passed their professor handed out their classroom assignment for that day and announced that they could work on it in pairs or small groups. As the students began to shuffle seats and desks, Scorpius calmly pulled his wand out of his robes and cast a spell that caused Rose's desk and chair to glide across the floor, covering the three feet of space that had separated their desks, and moving Rose with it.
Scorpius smirked at his girlfriend once she was at his side, "Be my partner?"
Rose leaned forward with the intention of pressing a kiss to his lips to indicate her acquiescence with his suggestion, but before her lips could meet his someone snuck up behind them and threw their hand out to come between the couple's mouths.
"Sorry to burst your bubble Romeo, but I'm going to pilfer your Juliet for this assignment," Norah Summers proclaimed to Scorpius as she slowly retracted her hand from in between the pair's faces.
Scorpius imperiously raised an eyebrow at the Gryffindor beater, "May I at least ask why you are stealing my girlfriend Summers?"
Norah hooked her arm through Rose's and pulled her out of her chair, "Because you and Rose are the two smartest people in this class and it's not fair for you to work on this assignment together. You need to share your smarts with your fellow classmates."
Rose could tell that Norah thought that her explanation was enough, and she dragged Rose away to the side of the classroom where Norah's friend Christen Lazar was sitting and waiting for them. As Rose sat down in a seat the other two girls had scrounged up for her, she glanced back at Scorpius and saw that he'd been roped into a group with one of his teammates from the Slytherin quidditch team along with a Ravenclaw he was friendly with.
"So Rose, got any tricks to make this assignment easier?" Christen asked the Gryffindor with a sweet smile.
Rose often helped Norah and Christen with their Arithmancy homework. It usually only took Norah a bit of practice to get the hang of whatever assignment they were working on, while it sometimes took Christen a little longer to walk through it. Rose pulled out one of their textbooks and flipped it to a page that she might need as a reference to help Christen, and then the three girls got to work. Rose and Norah worked through their equations at a steady pace, but Christen was starting to get a little anxious as she couldn't tell the difference between the latest two methods their professor had taught them.
"Perhaps we should take a step back and go back to the beginning of this question?" Rose asked Christen when she realized that the Hufflepuff had screwed up the answer to the question so badly that she couldn't exactly pinpoint where she first went wrong.
"Holy Helga I'm never going to figure this out," Christen complained as she threw her quill down on her desk.
Rose reached out to her and patted her hand supportively, "Now don't talk like that, this is a hard concept to grasp the first time around. Right Norah?"
Norah didn't immediately reply and Christen and Rose turned their gazes to the other Gryffindor girl to see what was occupying her attention. Rose raised an eyebrow questioningly at her quidditch teammate when she saw her, while Christen sighed heavily.
"Really Norah?"
Norah heard it that time when her friend said her name, and she broke the staring contest she was having with the Ravenclaw boy sitting next to Scorpius to glance back at her partners, "Hmm?"
"I thought whatever was going on between you and Dresdner was finished?" Christen asked Norah nosily.
Rose squinted a little and saw that the Ravenclaw that was sitting with Scorpius was Michael Dresdner.
"We are," Norah replied as she turned her gaze away from the Ravenclaw and focused on Christen and Rose, "Apparently he was getting tired of me playing hard to get."
"Well you were stringing him along for like two months," Christen reminded her friend gently.
Norah snorted, "Two months of playing hard to get is nothing. I messed with Freddie for like two years and he never once gave up on me or left me alone."
"Yeah that's not exactly a ringing endorsement for Freddie. I mean I love my cousin, but sometimes I don't think he's quite alright in the head," Rose said with a roll of her brown eyes as she remembered the weird playing-hard-to-get-whatever-thing that had been going on between Freddie and Norah during the former's last two years at Hogwarts.
Christen snickered, "Did you not just hear what Norah said about how she appreciates Freddie's inability to accept the word 'no'? I'd say that Norah's not exactly all there either."
"I'll have you two know that that kind of single-minded determination is one of the sexiest traits a guy can have," Norah defended herself as she crossed her arms over her chest.
Rose and Christen shared a look as if to say 'is-she-really-serious' and then both girls burst into laughter.
Norah scowled further at her two friends, "Honestly! What's wrong with wanting unwavering and constant devotion from the person you think you might fancy?"
"Nothing-" Rose tried to say before Christen interrupted her, "It's just that most blokes like some sort of evidence that you actually like to at least be in their presence before they get to the point where a constant devotion to you can grow."
Norah honestly looked confused at her friend's advice, "Why?"
Rose and Christen shared another look that said that they were worried about Norah's sanity, or at the very least that she had questionable expectations when it came to romantic relationships, and Norah scoffed at their expressions.
"It doesn't matter anyway, there's less than two months until graduation so there's not like there's any time for me to start a new relationship when we'll be out of this castle soon anyway," Norah said in a voice very much like a sigh as she picked up her quill and went back to their assignment.
Rose pursed her lips but decided against continuing the topic. While she was friends with Norah –in fact, they two had gotten even closer when Rose started playing keeper for Gryffindor's house quidditch team the year before– they never really shared secrets or confidences about boys or their relationships. Rose had always stayed clear of the topic because of the aforementioned really odd relationship-but-not-a-relationship between her cousin Freddie and Norah, and because she was generally quiet when it came to talking about her relationship with Scorpius to other people.
The three girls went back to completing their assignments and the rest of the period went by rather quickly. When there were only a few minutes left of class their professor made an announcement.
"Make sure that those assignments are finished in time for our next class, and don't forget that after this class the boys are expected in the Great Hall for their assembly, while the girls are expected in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom."
None of the seventh-year students looked particularly happy about the presentations they were about to see, so most of the class was relatively quiet as they gathered their things and left the classroom. Rose went back to her normal desk beside Scorpius so that she could grab the rest of her things that she'd left there when Norah had dragged her away from her desk earlier in the period.
Scorpius was already a step ahead of her; he had collected all of her things into her bag and had it in his hands ready to pass it off to her. When she walked up to him he handed the bag to her and leaned forward to give her a sweet kiss on the lips.
"See you at lunch?"
Rose nodded and gave her boyfriend one more kiss before he turned to walk out of the classroom just behind Kieran Chang and a few male Ravenclaws.
"C'mon girl," Norah's voice called out to Rose as she waited by the doorway of the mostly empty classroom, "Time to hear what kind of sex ed presentation your cousin has planned for us."
Rose groaned loudly and Norah took a few steps back into the classroom so that she could grab Rose by the arm and drag her towards the hallway that would take them to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
"I don't want to go to this," Rose announced with a pout as Norah continued to pull her through the castle's hallways and around corners.
Norah rolled her eyes, "You of all people should know that it's a mandatory assembly Miss Head Girl."
"I still think I should be exempt from it," Rose complained as they jumped onto one of the moving staircases just as it was about to levitate up a floor.
"Because you shouldn't have to endure listening to your cousin give you a sex ed lecture in front of all of your friends?" Alice Longbottom asked as she suddenly popped out from around a corridor as she met them at the top of the staircase.
"No," Rose said as the trio turned down the hallway on their far right, "Well yes, but the real reason why I should be exempt from this is because I've already had to sit through more than one sexual education lecture from Victoire already."
Alice raised a dark eyebrow at Rose, "Really?"
"Yes. Admittedly it was a better talk than the one my mother gave me but there's still only so many times a girl should have to hear it," Rose explained.
"Well since you've had a preview of it, think this assembly's going to be any good?" Norah asked curiously.
Rose groaned, "I don't know. The one she gave me was one-on-one and . . . specific to what she thought I might need to hear."
The three girls had made it to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom and followed a pair of sixth year girls into the room. When they entered the room Rose wasn't surprised to see that Professor Suggit had magically enlarged the room so that there was enough space for all of the female students in years five through seven. More than half of the students had already arrived so all of the desks in the very back of the room had already been commandeered. Thankfully it seemed that Lily had saved a few seats for her and Alice near the middle. Norah patted Rose on the arm in solidarity before skipping away to the right side of the room where Christen Lazar and another friend of Norah's had saved the Gryffindor beater a seat.
Once all of the empty desks were filled Rose clasped her hands together and tried to psych herself up for what she hoped wouldn't become the most embarrassing moment of her Hogwarts years.
The classroom door opened a minute later and Victoire Weasley walked into the room with a thick file folder in her arms. She sashayed to the front of the room in a pair of nude coloured heels and placed her file down on the podium next to her. Victoire was wearing a pair of slim-fit ankle-length navy blue trousers with a pale blue silk blouse on top, and even though she wasn't wearing her healers' robes, Rose thought she looked rather professional.
Victoire took in the large group of completely silent teenagers and smiled encouragingly at them, "Good morning everyone, some of you are familiar with me, but for those who are not I'm Healer Weasley. I will be giving today's presentation on sexual intercourse and sexual education."
Rose already felt like hiding her face and pretending that she wasn't related to Victoire even though about ninety-nine percent of the students knew that she was, and they were only about thirty seconds in.
Thankfully, Victoire didn't stare specifically at her or Lily from her spot at the front of the classroom and Rose hoped that it would stay that way so that she couldn't feel even more singled out than she already did.
"So," Victoire said clapping her hands together as she stood in front of a blank chalkboard, "Before we jump right in I'm going to ask if any of you have any questions about why I'm here or my credentials."
A fifth-year girl in the front raised her hand immediately and Victoire called on her, "Is this your healing specialty?"
"Is gynecology my healing speciality?" Victoire repeated, "No, it's not. My specific healing specialty is Dark Arts Reversal but I can assure you that I am medically qualified for a presentation like this."
Victoire glanced around the room, "Any other questions before we begin?"
A seventh-year Slytherin girl raised her hand from the very back row.
Since Victoire had been Head Girl for Gryffindor in her seventh-year she did know the names of a few of the seventh-year students who would have been in their first year during her last, "Yes Miss Selwyn?"
"Yeah, why should we even listen to you?"
Rose sighed heavily and shared a sideways look with Alice that said 'this isn't good', while at the front Victoire tilted her head to the side as she gave Davinia Selwyn a considering look.
"Pardon me?"
At her desk Davinia Selwyn smirked maliciously, "Why should we sit here and listen to you tell us that we shouldn't be having sex?"
"Oh Honey," Victoire said in an overly sweet tone of voice that Rose knew she utilized anytime she was about to be purposely patronizing, "I'm not here to tell any of you that you can't or shouldn't be having sexual intercourse with a consenting partner."
Her words made most of the students look at her funny. Before she said them, the half of the students that didn't look embarrassed seemed as if they were expecting to be bored to tears by her presentation. After she said them, she had the rather shocked attention of all of the students in the room.
The fifth-year girl from the front who had asked Victoire about her healing specialty seemed completely perplexed, "You're not?"
Victoire shook her head at the younger girl and then made direct eye contact with Davinia Selwyn again, "No. I'm not. At least a third of everyone in this room are legal adults, and even those who aren't are still old enough to make their own decisions about their bodies."
From beside Rose, Alice shrugged her shoulders at her dorm mate as if to say 'this could be going worse'.
"What I am here to do is make sure that all of you have the information you need to be able to make smart and informed choices and decisions on what you decide to do, or what not to do, with your own bodies," Victoire continued, "Now I'm not going to start from the very beginning because I'm sure that you are all already aware how babies are made. So to begin I'm going to ask, does everyone know what informed consent is?"
"Of course. It's boring!" Davinia Selwyn called from the back, a wicked smirk on her face that said that she just liked to stir up trouble.
Victoire sent Davinia a look that seemed unreadable, but knowing her cousin as she did Rose could tell that Victoire was starting to get just a little irritated by the hostile interruptions.
"What exactly about consent do you find boring Miss Selwyn?"
Davinia rolled her eyes exaggeratedly, "The fact that we're now expected to have complex discussions about where exactly the bloke you've been snogging can touch you each time he decides to move his hand. Really kills the mood when you have to stop snogging so you can verbally reassess your partner's intentions every two minutes."
"Well as tedious as the picture you have so kindly painted for us is Miss Selwyn," Victoire said as she put her hands on her hips and unintentionally started a stance that both Rose and Lily knew was her 'don't mess with me' stance, "I think most of you can agree that a few awkward conversations with your sexual partners about what level of physical interaction you feel comfortable with is better than being forced into a situation that you do not feel comfortable with or ready for-"
Davinia Selwyn didn't say anything aloud this time but she did exhale spitefully loudly and roll her eyes, so hard that Rose wouldn't have been surprised if the action gave her a headache.
Victoire narrowed her blue eyes at the seventh-year Slytherin as she continued in a hard tone of voice.
" . . . And that the alternative to a boring conversation about consent could be you being pushed up against a wall and forcibly touched by someone you thought you could trust. Someone who made you feel terrified and powerless in your own body. Someone who said that they cared about you but who, when you tried to ask them what in Hades they thought they were doing, told you that they thought that you had been giving them signals all night and that you needed to stop being a tease and just accept the fact that they were going to force themselves on you because they know that, despite your words to the contrary, you apparently want them to invade your bodily autonomy and touch you without your permission!"
Victoire's words, understandably, were very severe and slightly angry at the end of her speech-turned-rant and all of the students in the room were silent as they stared at her with expressions of varying apprehensiveness. A few students had emotions flash across their faces that told Victoire that some of them knew exactly what she was talking about, while others seemed to become more frightened as Victoire's words echoed in their heads.
Alice turned in her seat to glance at Rose with a worried expression and mouthed 'is she okay?'. Rose nodded her head but refrained from trying to whisper to Alice what would be a lengthy explanation about what happened to Victoire in her seventh-year with Christopher Mullin.
"Now," Victoire said in a quieter and more controlled voice after she allowed all of the students –and especially Davinia Selwyn– time to ruminate on her previous words, "While talking with your partner about your and their intentions to be physical before you get to that point in your relationship might be a little awkward or might kill the mood, it is still exponentially better to do so when you consider what the alternatives may be."
Victoire's gaze swept the majority of the students in the classroom and it ended on Davinia Selwyn. The younger woman had her lips pressed together in a firm line. While the Slytherin girl did seem as though she was displeased with Victoire taking her to task as she had, she didn't interrupt her again.
Rose felt her body relax a little as Victoire continued with her pre-planned lesson on the importance of informed enthusiastic consent without any more rude interruptions by Davinia Selwyn or anybody else. After encouraging the students to raise their hand at any time during her lecture if they had any constructive questions or concerns, Victoire's speech on consent changed into an informative lecture on sexually transmitted infections that sadly contained pictures that the healer had enlarged and magically affixed to the chalkboard so that every student in the room could easily see them.
When Victoire moved on to unwanted pregnancies –which she started talking about directly after she finished frightening half of the students with the scary realities of a Chlamydia infection– Davinia Selwyn seemed to have recovered from Victoire's previous indirect putdown and interrupted Victoire's repeated clarification that not all contraceptives, magical or otherwise, are one-hundred-percent effective individually or on their own.
"If someone's stupid enough to get pregnant while they're still at Hogwarts they deserve whatever happens to them."
Victoire raised a blonde eyebrow at the seventh-year, "Miss Selwyn, unexpected pregnancies are called so because they are unexpected. They don't just happen because a couple is choosing to be irresponsible and chose not to use contraceptive protection, they can also occur when there is an unintentional failure or misunderstanding in regards to contraception. Pregnancy scares in general occur more often than unexpected pregnancies come to fruition. Changes in female hormones, diet, exercise, stress, and several other factors can cause a female to miss a menstrual cycle and think that they may be pregnant. Someone who has a pregnancy scare deserves non-judgemental support, not ridicule and vicious insults. It could happen to anyone."
Beside Rose, Lily slapped her hand over her mouth to hide a snigger and the youngest Potter muttered in a quiet tone to her cousin, "Vic would know."
"Her brain was bleeding at the time," Rose whispered to Lily in defense of their eldest cousin.
Alice eavesdropped on the conversation and seemed both shocked and confused, "What?"
Lily and Rose ignored the whisper and the latter just shook her head in her friend's direction.
Davinia Selwyn was quiet once more and Victoire continued with her lecture.
Once the assembly had finally come to an end, Victoire told the students that they were excused to go to lunch, but that she would stay behind in the classroom for a little while if any of the students wanted to talk to her privately. Rose and Lily had jumped up from their seats, along with the majority of the students, right away and they had exited the room so quickly that Alice had to chide them to slow down so that she could keep up.
"Godric you two you're moving as if muggle pizza was on the menu for lunch today," Alice exclaimed as she finally caught up to the pair of cousins.
"Sorry Al," Rose muttered as she slowed her pace a little so that Alice's shorter legs could catch up, "We just didn't feel the need to stay there any longer while Davinia Selwyn comes up with another topic to debate Victoire about."
Lily scoffed, "On the contrary, I quite enjoyed how Victoire knocked her down a few pegs each time she tried to be a bitch. I'm only in a rush to get to lunch because I need some sugar soon or I'm gonna crash. Vic's speeches lose their oomph on their fourth or fifth recital."
"Even the one about STI's? Because some of her words conjured up an image in my head that I don't think I'll ever not cringe at when I think of it," Alice stated, her face turning a little green just at the mention of it.
Lily shrugged, "That one's worse when it comes out organically over Sunday night dinner because Dom's been bragging about the questionable bloke she brought home from a club the night before."
"Yeah, that does sound worse," Alice agreed.
"Yet still not enough to encourage Dom to become monogamous," Rose explained with a sigh.
Alice shrugged, "As long as she's using something that keeps her protected from STI's why does it matter?"
"Condoms don't protect you from a broken heart," Lily announced with a smirk. Alice glanced at the youngest Potter in surprise and Lily quickly explained, "Victoire's words to Dom, not mine."
Rose rolled her eyes at Victoire's wise words of advice and the girls picked up their speed so that they could make it to the Great Hall before all of the good food was gone.
Upon entering the Great Hall the atmosphere at all of the house tables seemed a bit subdued as students whispered about either the assemblies they had just come from –or in the case of all of the fourth-years and down– the ones they were going to endure after lunch. A specific section of the Gryffindor table seemed especially subdued, and when the three girls happened upon it they found three completely silent Gryffindors, along with a mute Slytherin and an appalled-looking Hufflepuff.
Lily flounced down on a bench in between the still forms of her fellow fifth-years Hugo Weasley and Frankie Longbottom and immediately began helping herself to a large serving of chicken pot-pie. Rose smoothly slipped next to Scorpius and sent him a thin smile which he returned as he handed her a goblet filled with pumpkin juice, and Alice giggled with morbid amusement as she sat down at the spot of the table in the conspicuous space that had been left between Albus Potter and Kieran Chang.
"So how was your assembly boys?" Alice asked the pair with a cheeky smile as she swiped a half-eaten roll off of Albus's plate.
"Hell," Frankie croaked out while Kieran and Al nodded in agreement. Neither Hugo nor Scorpius seemed enthusiastic about the assembly, but their faces weren't filled with quite the same amount of dread as the other three.
Lily snorted, but since her mouth was full of food, Rose asked what they were both thinking, "Did Professor Cooke really make it that bad?"
"Professor Cooke didn't present the lecture," Scorpius explained in a quiet tone, "Professor Longbottom stepped in to do it for whatever reason at the last minute."
Alice's eyes went wide with surprise but then she started snickering as she looked between her boyfriend Kieran, her little brother Frankie, and Al.
"And how'd that go?"
"How would you like to have your godfather give you a sex ed lecture along with all of the fifth through seventh year boys?" Al asked Alice sarcastically as he stabbed a piece of food on his plate with a fork.
Kieran looked around Alice to raise an eyebrow, slightly hysterically, at Al, "Does that sound worse to you than having your girlfriend's father give that exact same lecture?"
Rose sent Kieran a sympathetic look while Scorpius made a face that said that he was glad that he wasn't dating Professor Longbottom's daughter.
"Oh boo-hoo your godfather and your girlfriend's father . . . did you lot forget that Professor Longbottom is my actual father? It's like getting the talk in front of all of my friends and all of my enemies," Frankie complained as he pinched the bridge of his nose in irritation.
Lily glanced at Frankie in surprise, "Do you really have that many enemies Frankie?"
"I don't think that was the point of his compliant Lil," Hugo added unhelpfully and with a complete air of nonchalance as he sipped from his cup of pumpkin juice.
"And I don't think you boys need to say anything else, I've got a good idea now how that lecture went," Alice said as she finally gave the guys a break and patted Kieran on the arm. Her boyfriend hadn't been in the mood to eat, so Alice reached for Albus's plate again and stole the other half of his bread roll from him. Al just gave her a look out of the corner of his eye and Alice winked at him before she started to fill up the empty plate that was sitting in front of her with food that hadn't already been on his plate.
Hugo set down his glass of pumpkin juice and looked cheerily between his older sister and his cousin, "So how'd Vic's lecture go? If it was anywhere near as scarring as ours was for those three it might make them feel better."
Rose began, "Well, Victoire was-"
"Great," A different voice called out as Norah Summers suddenly popped up from behind Rose and slipped on the bench in the empty seat next to her, "Or I thought that Healer Weasley was great at least."
"Really?" Al asked his enthusiastic teammate with a raised eyebrow.
Norah nodded heartily, "Yup, but it was mostly because she kept shutting down Davinia Selwyn every time that complete pillock tried to rile up the classroom. No offense Scorpius."
Norah had added the last part when she remembered that the Slytherin was sitting there. She didn't actually know if Scorpius was friends with Davinia Selwyn but she did know that they played quidditch together for the Slytherin house quidditch team, so she didn't want to insult him while she was also insulting Selwyn.
"None taken," Scorpius replied with a shrug, "Davinia's not exactly my favourite person. But besides her being rude, how was the rest of the lecture?"
"Well Healer Weasley started off by telling all of the castle's fifth through seventh years that she wasn't there to tell us that we're not allowed to have sex, so I think that won her some popularity points," Norah explained with a wicked smirk on her face.
Al rolled his eyes, "Why does that not surprise me?"
"Did she use her patented frightening STI lecture?" Hugo asked curiously.
Kieran looked surprised by Hugo's use of the word 'patented', while Scorpius's face paled a little at the thought as he unfortunately knew exactly what the youngest Weasley was referring to.
"She was able to present her visual aids this time," Rose explained with a heavy sigh.
Al rolled his eyes, "Oh good. It doesn't quite have the same oomph without the bloody moving magical photos of gruesome sexually transmitted infections."
They should have known that speaking of the devil would make the devil appear, which is what happened a few moments later when Healer Victoire Weasley came sashaying into the Great Hall and strolled up to the Gryffindor table, her high heels making a clicking sound on the floor as she went.
"Hello kiddos," The blonde said as she smiled brightly at her cousins, Scorpius, the Longbottoms, and even Norah and Kieran.
Her cousins quietly greeted her back as Victoire stopped behind Rose and Scorpius, "I'm just stopping by to see if I've sufficiently embarrassed you enough for the day or not."
"While we know you could do better, I'm sure you've done enough for now," Lily replied calmly.
Victoire nodded her head, "Good, good." She glanced down at Norah who was sitting next to Rose, "Hello Norah, may I say that you were excellent in Gryffindor's game against Hufflepuff three weeks ago?"
"Thank you Healer Weasley," Norah replied happily.
Hugo tapped his fingers on the table, "So Vic, do you know why Professor Cooke was unable to give the boys their lecture this morning, and why Neville had to fill-in instead?"
"Why yes I do," Victoire replied with a nod of her head.
There was a long pause of silence.
"Will you tell us why?"
"Why no, I won't."
Al shrugged, "Fair enough."
"Speaking of Professor Cooke, I did promise him that I'd stop by and see him during lunch. Any of you have questions for me before I go?"
Rose twisted in her seat a little so she could look at her eldest cousin, "How're the final wedding planning details going?"
"Uh," Victoire replied, her confident expression changing into annoyance, "Don't mention it."
"That bad?" Hugo asked sympathetically.
Victoire sighed, "Well it's not that bad, but considering that it's coming up so soon, having no problems would be better. Dom's now decided that she doesn't like the bridesmaids dresses that I already let her pick out, because she saw one in a new magazine that she likes better; both Grandma Molly and Grand-mère Apolline keep sending me messages about the kind of food they think we should serve at the reception; I've had to give Baxter, James, and Freddie ultimatums about brining appropriate dates to the wedding; Great-Great Auntie Muriel's already RSVP'd to the wedding and I don't think I have any choice but to sit her at the same table as Eilionoir Wood; and the garden's got an early infestation of gnomes that seems to promise an all-out invasion by the time early summer starts, just to name a few."
Lily blinked at the rapid rant, "Well . . . good luck with that."
"Oh," Victoire said, her face brightening as she glanced at Lily and Rose, "And before I leave the castle today I'm going to see if I can convince McGonagall to allow me to spring you two this Sunday for my bridal shower."
Lily muttered 'yes' and pumped her fist while Rose sweetly thanked Victoire for her implied effort.
Victoire gave the group of Gryffindors, one Slytherin, and one Hufflepuff a wave, and reached out to ruffle Scorpius's perfectly styled white-blonde hair (a habit she had started almost a whole year ago just to see the slightly exasperated look it brought to his face each time she did it) and turned to leave the Great Hall. She had already scoped out the professor's table up on the platform when she had been chatting with the kids and she had noted Caleb's conspicuous absence. If he wasn't in the Great Hall during lunch time, she had a hunch that he'd be in his office instead.
It didn't take Victoire long to find the office of the History of Magic professor, and she barely knocked on the door before she pushed it open and greeted a surprised looking Caleb Cooke who looked as though he was in the middle of grading papers.
"Hello Victoire," Caleb greeted her after taking in her prying entrance.
Victoire smirked and sat down at a chair across from Caleb's desk, "Got any chocolate professor?"
Caleb rolled his eyes at her but then started digging through one of his desk drawers, "You could go to the Great Hall and get some actual nutritious food you know."
He found a chocolate bar and tossed it to her. She caught it easily, "First, it's a full moon tonight Caleb, and even with having taken some potion I've still got a bit of a headache and am feeling like something Mrs. Norris dragged in, so I can eat chocolate for lunch if I want to. Second, I was just in the Great Hall saying hello to my cousins, but I figured I've embarrassed the girls at least enough."
"Did your lecture go poorly?" Caleb asked as Victoire ripped open the chocolate bar's packaging.
"No, I mean Davinia Selwyn was a little-" Caleb coughed pointedly before she could continue insulting the student, and Victoire rolled her eyes and continued, "But from what I've heard about her from Rose it was to be expected. The whispered consensus throughout the halls seems to be that I completed my presentation better than your replacement did."
Caleb sighed, "I hope they're not too hard on poor Neville, it's not like he was prepared to do it when he woke up this morning."
"I think Al, Frankie, and Kieran Change are the only ones who'll really come out of this day scarred for life, which isn't so bad really when you think about it. They were curious though, about why Professor Cooke couldn't do it instead," Victoire told her friend, the last part came out a little mockingly.
Caleb looked away from his papers, "Any chance you told them that it was because Professor Linkwell thought it would be counter-productive of me to give a sexual education lecture which is supposed to –among other things– decrease the rate of unexpected pregnancy, when I've recently discovered that I have unexpectedly impregnated my girlfriend out of wedlock."
"I thought that explanation might be too on the nose," Victoire said with a shrug in between bites of chocolate.
"Well I appreciate you keeping it a secret as long as you can, everyone's going to find out sooner rather than later anyway," Caleb said in a tone of voice that was more exasperated than joyful about the thought of soon becoming a father.
Victoire swallowed her mouthful of chocolate, "How's all of that going anyway?"
"All of my colleagues besides Professor Linkwell have been kind about it, I've gotten a bit of ribbing about the whole out-of-wedlock-thing because I'm at least fifteen years younger than all of the other staff, but it's been alright. McGonagall's been very supportive, and we've discussed these issues at length and she's agreed to allow my fireplace here in my office to be connected to the fireplace in whatever place Jilly and I eventually choose to move in to together," Caleb explained.
She nodded her head, "Which will make it quicker for you to get here and to go home. I take it McGonagall's only really allowing this because she doesn't want to lose the liveliest History of Magic professor Hogwarts has had in years?"
"That and because she's not too worried about the castle's security in that sense since the only other person who will have access to the floo in my future home is an auror," Caleb said as he rubbed his eyes tiredly.
Victoire chewed another bite of chocolate thoughtfully, "And how are things between you and Jilly?"
"It's hard to make important decisions like this via letter or floo, but we have decided that we should probably start looking for a place together sooner rather than later. We both have rather well-paying jobs so affording something nice before the baby's born won't be much of a problem," Caleb said.
"Teddy and I thought something similar, but the wrong real estate agent can really set you back a few paces," Victoire muttered in such an irritated tone that Caleb knew better than to ask exactly what she was talking about, "Is that all you and Jilly have talked about?"
Caleb looked down at his hands, "We haven't talked about marriage if that's what you're trying to beat around the bush about."
"I'm honestly surprised that you haven't popped the question yet. I'm sure that you've been carrying the ring around in your pocket since your last botched attempt."
Caleb nodded his head in wry agreement, "I have been carrying it around, but I've yet to find the right time. Every time I think about it there's this voice inside my head that tells me not to. Not yet."
"That's either your subconscious trying to help you out, or it's a sign of Schizophrenia," Victoire suggested unhelpfully.
The History of Magic professor rolled his eyes, "Why does McGonagall let you on these premises again?"
"Because I volunteer to give sexual education lectures to the students without even the smallest hint of showing any embarrassment," The healer replied primly.
Caleb rolled his eyes and then nodded to the chocolate bar she was just finishing eating, "That's only because you're shameless."
Victoire winked at him, "That's mostly just when it's a full moon."
5:47 PM
When Victoire got back to her flat that evening she found Teddy in the kitchen. He was moving around an assortment of pots, pans, and containers as he seemed to be getting dinner ready. Victoire took off her cloak and removed her shoes as quickly and quietly as she could. She knew that Teddy knew that she had arrived home, but he was ignoring her until she decided to greet him.
When she did, it was in a decidedly Victoire-esque fashion.
"Put the crookery down and step away from the stovetop!"
He rolled his eyes heavenward but did as she asked and slowly turned to face her. A turquoise blue eyebrow, that matched the shade of his hair at the moment, rose on his forehead and he crossed his arms in front of him, "May I at least ask why?"
In an even more Victoire-esque move, instead of replying right away she sprinted towards him and jumped at him. Her arms wrapped around his neck, her legs around his waist, and her mouth collided with his in a rough kiss as he reflexively wrapped one arm around her back and slipped the other under her arse to keep her steady. The power of her impact pushed his back against the kitchen counter behind him, and his surprise caused him to be about five seconds behind his fiancée in their kiss.
Luckily Victoire was never one who minded taking the lead. She wound her fingers in his short locks as best as she could and pulled tightly at them as she forced her tongue into his mouth. Teddy groaned loudly the second he tasted her and his hands, which were previously affixed to her to help ward-off gravity, turned to grasping fingers as he clutched at the soft curves he knew were hidden beneath her clothing.
Just when Teddy thought he'd be able to soothe their heated lips into a more loving and tender kiss he felt one of her hands move away from his head, slide smoothly around his neck down to his collar, and begin to unfasten the buttons of his shirt one-handed. He did his best to extricate his mouth from hers, and when he did he pulled his head back just long enough to choke-out, "But it's dinner time."
"I don't bloody care," Victoire whispered hoarsely as she continued to unbutton his shirt with her left hand.
Teddy swallowed thickly and groaned again, "You're always hungry."
"Fair," She replied before pressing a toe-curling kiss to his lips, "But right now I'm not hungry for food."
He made a hmmming sound before kissing her again until they were both breathless. When they broke apart Victoire was giving him a smirk that he immediately wanted to kiss off her face.
"And since there will be a full moon in the sky in a few hours, I'd hazard a guess that you're not hungry for food either."
By the end of her sentence Victoire had finished unfastening the last button of his shirt. She pushed the fabric off his chest only to pout when she found the thin undershirt he wore underneath it. Victoire trailed her finger down his chest from the top of his sternum to where the shirt was tucked into the waist of his trousers. She frowned at the offending fabric in concentration for a second until both it, and the unbuttoned dress shirt he wore over top of it, vanished.
He smirked at her demonstration of wandless magic, "Someone's a little impatient."
Her ocean blue eyes tore away from the newly bared skin of his chest to meet his sapphire coloured ones, "I'm not the only one if the tightness of the muscles in your shoulders and other parts of your body are anything to go by."
A blue eyebrow rose up on his forehead at her words and she gave him another saucy smirk as she moved her hands from the skin of his chest to touch his neck, "I am talking about the tension I feel in your neck of course."
"Of course," He repeated softly, his warm sweet breath fanning across her face. The dark pupils of her eyes dilated even more than they were before and there was barely any blue left in her eyes. They knew that along with headaches and the odd body ache that they also both felt the same tension in their muscles and in their bodies on the night of a full moon. Over the years they'd worked out a full-proof system for dealing with it.
Teddy suddenly used his grip on Victoire's body to toss her up in the air a bit, and when he caught her again he tightened his hold on her and started walking her towards their bedroom. She had begun giggling when he first lobbed her into the air, and as he strolled them to their room she leaned forward so that her smiling lips were right next to his ear.
"I've been cooped up in Hogwarts's castle all day and I feel like I'm in need of a workout."
Her breath tickled his neck and she playfully nipped at his earlobe.
Her unexpected action caused a low growl to slip from his lips. She felt it reverberate from his chest into hers, and her entire body began to shiver with anticipation.
He stopped just at the foot of their bed. One of his warm hands moved from where it was wrapped underneath her thigh, to slip into her loose hair at the back of her head. He used his hold on her to move her head a little so that he could meet her gaze, "Wanna see my skills of wandlessly vanishing clothes?"
Victoire licked her lips, "Yes please."
A/N: So what do we think of this chapter? I know that we didn't see a lot of every Hogwarts character, but there are some plot points that need to be laid, so sorry not sorry?
I would like to know if you liked the chapter though, and since my birthday is in a few days (I'll officially be a quarter of a century old and I don't know how I feel about it:S) I think I'll ask for some reviews as my present ;)
Next Update: I'm definitely hoping to get another update in before Christmas happens and I get very busy with family things.
Next Chapter: We get some Cecilia and Louis cuteness, we find out about how Victoire and Healer McDavid's spell is coming along, we get to see Louis in action at work, a bit of Teddy at the Auror Department, and James at Puddlemere. It'll be a busy one.
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BIG thanks as always to:
Guest (1), HufflepuffDADA, Guest (2), Guest (3), Guest (4), Guest (5), Guest (6), J, NicoleTheSmith, cjaben1, MF, widowssbite1997, Jily71102, bookstar97, Izzy, and Nicole.
HufflepuffDADA: I'm glad that you like this story enough to keep up with it. Now that James has graduated from Hogwarts it'll be easier to write about his and Teddy's relationship and how it works and develops.
cjaben1: I'm glad that you liked seeing Nadia's teammates' reactions to her pregnancy. Don't worry we will definitely get to see some Tabitha and Mark at some point in this story.
MF: Nadia punching Clark just seemed like such a Nadia thing to do in that situation.
widowssbite1997: It's nice to hear from you and that you like this story.
Jily71102: I thought throwing in a younger, smarter O'Toole that doesn't annoy Teddy would be a fun addition.
Izzy: Can I just say that I love your long reviews? It's nice that you give me a good summary of everything that's going on in the chapter/story as well as how you reacted to each part. Gives me a good idea of how the readers as a whole might be reacting to all of the parts. I was trying to have Jilly and Teddy pull off as edgy trainers instead of just boring or sceptical ones. I'm glad that you like the mentoring-type role Xavier seems to be falling into with James, it seems like a natural thing for Xavier to do especially because he's known James forever but can still get away with giving him constructive advice that can be difficult to take from people you know very well. You are correct in stating that Nadia, Jilly, and Anastasia don't really know each other that well. The common acquaintance between all of them is Victoire and Teddy, although now they're all going to be having children in the same year who will end up attending Hogwarts together. There was lots of Vic in this chapter, so I hope it made up for it ;)
bookstar97: I hope you enjoyed all of the Vic in this chapter. I'm not quite sure how long this story will be. I had an idea to write this story as shorter (and in a slightly different style later on, but I don't know if I'll be able to end up doing that or not) than my other ones but as I began writing all of these different characters wanted attention and their own separate plot lines and stories and I've already ended up throwing in more than I intended to (which happens everytime I go to write a story, so it really shouldn't surprise me) but these characters are just so interesting and have so much going on that I've got to reassess how I want to present everything that I want to write for you guys, because I don't want to leave storylines unfinished. And I am definitely planning on another story after this one. This one was supposed to be shorter (haha-ha) because I wanted to get it done sooner so that I could get started on the next story that I'm really excited to write because it's going to be so much fun. Not that this one's not going to be fun, but I've got some great arcs already in the works for the next story, but I need to get the set-up for them implemented in this story. You've been with me for a while then, I started writing these stories in high school, which is why they make me cringe when I go back and re-read them as see all of the stuff I could have written better.
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