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Bind You To Me

He was very good at getting his way seeing as he'd had a little over twenty years' experience throwing tantrums and verbally taking on anyone who dared try to stand in the way of him getting what he wanted. But for all of Teddy's statements about how twisted around his little finger he was Louis knew better than to underestimate this particular opponent. Plus the longer this drew out the more angry they were both bound to get and things could and likely would get ugly after that. Teddy wasn't going to be mature about this though, the man had dug in his heels and getting him to move was going to take a serious move on his part.

And since letting his instincts lead him had led to him into being in hot water in the first place Louis tried to think of what Teddy would do in a similar situation and that caused him to remember something the older man had done more than once when he was babysitting James and Albus while they were in a crowded place. Waist leashes weren't going to work in this case, but he could think of something that would work even better.

Sliding his hand in his jacket's deep pocket Louis wrapped his fingers around his wand and lifting it slightly out performed the spell inside his jacket pocket so that none of the Muggles around them could see. The bottom of said pocket changed shape as the item he'd conjured appeared, Louis letting go of his wand so that he could withdraw his weapon of choice.

Teddy didn't have time to react before Louis snapped a handcuff over his wrist, the blonde snapping the other around his own wrist with a click that seemed to echo in the suddenly silent room.

"You come home with me right this instant or I swear I will hold my breath until I pass out from lack of oxygen and you're stuck dealing with my unconscious body!" Of course the man could simply remove the handcuffs with his wand once they were out of sight of the Muggles, but there was no way Teddy would just leave him somewhere without staying until he regained consciousness. He was also pretty sure Teddy wouldn't want to risk the wrath and interest of their family by dropping him off with one of them and then bolting.

"That's your best threat?" Wesley gave the blonde a disbelieving look, the multitude of dumb blonde jokes he knew coming to mind.

"He's done it before. He means it." Louis had been seven and James and Fred had thought it funny to play keep away with the boy's favorite stuffed animal. He hadn't been there, but apparently Louis had been swaying on his feet and the color of a purple grape before the boys clued into the fact that they better hand the toy over before their cousin passed out and they were dead meat when Louis's sisters got ahold of them.

He did mean it, and since Teddy wasn't moving fast enough Louis dropped his final ultimatum. "So are you coming or does there need to be a repeat of the Hemlock incident?"

Nobody failed to notice all the color that drained out of the older man's face at this newest threat.

"What's the Hemlock incident?"

Teddy looked over at Wesley, already shaking his head in defeat. "If you knew you'd thank me for not telling you." And on that note Teddy turned his attention back to Louis. "Fine, we'll go home then. I just need to grab my bag from the locker room. You'll have to come too, obviously."

It was Louis's turn to visibly pale and grimace. "Is it as disgusting and grimy in there as it is out here?"

"Oh, much worse."

Following in Teddy's wake as they weaved their way through the equipment Louis muttered, "The things I do because I love you' just loud enough for Teddy to hear, Louis not missing the fact that his words made the other man flinch.

And that telling little flinch had Louis keeping his mouth shut as he entered what was basically the blonde's idea of the first level of hell, doing some flinching of his own as he carefully made sure he didn't brush up against or step on anything that would no doubt transmit a virus that would kill him dead even if Teddy were to get him to St. Mungos as quickly as possible. Because while primitive Muggle medicine had obviously forced the regular human beings to build up plenty of resistance to their horrible diseases, Louis couldn't see how he and Teddy were going to escape the locker room without contracting something.

If it weren't for the fact that the gym and the sidewalk they eventually reached once they left the building hadn't been dirty as well, Louis would have kissed both.

The common sense that kept him from showing his relief to be out of there also had Louis reaching out to carefully link his fingers with Teddy's damaged ones, not surprised when the man gave him a look that made it clear he didn't want to be touched in any way by him. "We're wearing handcuffs, Teddy. If we hold hands it won't be obvious and we won't have some git thinking we've just broken out of jail or something."

Unable to argue with that logic Teddy simply started walking in the direction they needed to go as the rain pelted down on them lightly from above, slipping into a relatively clean alleyway that halfway through split off into a smaller, dead end alley. After looking around to make absolutely sure that there wasn't anyone around who could perchance see what they were doing Teddy pulled out his wand, intending to do away with the handcuffs that bound them together.

Anticipating the move Louis shot the idea in the foot. "Try and I'll jerk on the chain so that you'll miss. It comes off when we get home and I get the chance to fix your hands."

"Angering me further would not be wise, Louis."

"And angering ME further is such a great idea?"

Jerking Louis closer with the hand that still held onto his Teddy's eyes warned of dire consequences to come. To highlight that fact he gave Louis only a moment's warning before he dissipated them both from the alley.

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It was in stilted, angry silence that they arrived back at Number 12 Grimmauld Place, the two heading for the staircase side by side as they followed it up, their destination Teddy's bedroom. When they arrived there Louis demanded Teddy's promise that he would remain seated on the bed until he returned and when that promise was given the younger man used magic to rid them of the cuffs before heading into the connecting bathroom to go through the cabinet that contained what he would need according to Teddy. He also couldn't help but look longingly at the shower, thinking that they both needed one after visiting that disgusting gym, but Teddy's welfare came first and he would simply shower after he'd played healer and cleared the air between them.

Naturally he found the cream exactly where Teddy had said the container would be and after collecting a wash cloth and dampening it in the sink Louis headed back into the bedroom to deal with his rigid, still and cold as a marble statue companion.

Sitting on the bed across from Teddy Louis was grateful when the other man silently shifted a little closer, moving to sit cross-legged as he held out his hands to be seen to. At least the man was cooperating with him now...sorta.

Setting aside the cream for the moment he carefully used the damp cloth to wipe away the sweat and blood that hid some of the damage, wincing plenty one he got a look at the cuts and swelling that marred Teddy's usually perfect hands. It didn't surprise him that Teddy stayed still and silent though, not showing for a moment the pain he had to be in.

That was Teddy for you, which made the pain he'd apparently caused the other man earlier to weigh on him even more as he thought about it.

Once he'd cleaned them up as best he could Louis carefully dabbed the cream over the battered skin and then used his wand to conjure up bandages to wrap around the man's knuckles so that they would have a better chance of healing quickly and without any nasty germs getting into the shallow wounds.

And that done Louis took a deep breath and then looked up from Teddy's hands to meet the man's eyes.

"You don't remember, obviously, but a little while ago I came up here to wake you up for breakfast. You know how deeply you sleep so you can imagine how much luck I had with that. Anyway I was shaking your shoulders and for whatever reason, maybe you were dreaming about it or it was just an instinct thing but you…you pinned me on the bed before I could stop you and snogged the hell out of me."

That had Teddy's stoic expression shattering in a heartbeat, the older man staring at him in stunned disbelief.

"I…I…what?"

"You snogged me, good and proper and…well then your alarm clock went off and half awake you got off of me, stripped while you were walking towards the bathroom and…well you never knew what happened and I didn't say anything. But while I was sprawled out on your floor after falling out of it I decided that…well that I was going to do whatever I could think of to convince you to go out with me and see if we could…start seeing each other…romantically. I even went to Victoire and asked her permission just so that wouldn't come back to bite me in the ass and I've been dropping hints and flirting but you never seemed to really pick up on that and then…and then I just got this sense that you and Ian had once been together and that you were possible bi or even gay but you never said so and that really, really pissed me off and hurt cause you never said so and so I pulled that stupid stunt earlier. I shouldn't have done it and I should have just been honest with you but you should have been too if you like guys because you're insulting all of us if you think you need to hide that from us. We all love you like crazy, you know."

Teddy stared at Louis as though he'd never seen him before in his life. "You…you asked VICTOIRE'S permission to ask me out? To SLEEP with me if I was interested?"

"Of course I did. Do you have any idea what she'd do to me if I hadn't and she found out about it? The whole being her little brother wouldn't have saved me; that would have made it worse. A lot worse. Physically, permanently disfiguring worse. And that's not important, what's important is us clearing the air about you so that we both know how pissed off we should actually be with each other."

"You willingly…in person…asked your sister, Victoire Weasley Hawkins, for permission to ask me out?"

"That's what I said, didn't I? I mean she only gave permission because she doesn't think I have a chance in hell but-no, staying on subject-mmph."

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If it was wrong to snog Louis now Teddy's brain didn't register that fact as he yanked Louis into his lap with one hand while the other moved to cup the back of the blonde's head to put it at the perfect angle for his own mouth to devour Louis's. And no warning bells went off as their lips touched either, the only warning given one that suggested he keep a tight grip on the other man so that he could thoroughly snog Louis's brains out so that they didn't have to talk anymore. He didn't want to talk anymore, they'd talked enough and he'd heard what he'd needed to hear and know.

Louis had gone to Victoire about him.

Most people wouldn't have gotten how telling that was, but most people didn't ever see the full brunt of Victoire's fury and what she was capable of when she felt betrayed or slighted by someone. That Louis wanted him badly enough to personally face his sister and inform her of his intentions and interest in him…well that was more than he'd ever thought any man would feel for him.

As it was he'd thought often that introducing Victoire to Ian would be the one guaranteed way to insure the other man stopped trying to get back into his pants.

But Louis had faced her and come out the victor so to speak, and that called for some serious rewarding on his part, Teddy thought as he broke off the kiss to tell Louis to open his mouth for him, making a small sound of approval when the younger man complied.

Clutching onto Teddy's shoulders as the man's tongue did delightfully sinful things in his mouth Louis struggled to keep up as he used his own tongue to tease and taste to his need's content. Not an easy thing to do since it turned out that snogging with an awake Teddy were even more lethal and lust inducing than the ones shared with half asleep Teddy. He could hardly concentrate on what he was doing, feeling utterly dominated as the fact that Teddy had been doing this a lot longer than he had came through loud and clear in the most delicious of ways.

Moaning low in his throat when Teddy broke off their snogging to kiss a line along his jaw Louis naturally moved his head to the side to give the older man better access, gasping when Teddy's lips moved from the edge of his jaw to his ear, taking a couple playful nips before tonguing the small hoop there, the action sucking all the air from Louis's lungs even before Teddy sucked the pierced lobe into his mouth. The sound of him sucking there so rhythmically, combined with the gentle pull of it, had Louis feeling the tug in his stomach and groin, making him shudder and tighten his legs against Teddy's sides.

Suddenly desperate to feel more of the man Louis slid his hands under Teddy's damp shirt, lightly scraping his nails down the other man's sweaty back when Teddy turned his attention to his neck, surprising him by slowly dragging his tongue up the pale length.

Drawing slightly back and wanting to feel Louis's hands all over his body without hindrance, Teddy quickly grabbed the hem of his shirt and pulled it up and over his head, tossing it onto the floor before turning back to see the heat in Louis's eyes as the blonde reached out and started trailing his fingers over his now bare chest.

"Like what you see?" He asked huskily, wanting the praise. Needing to hear that Louis's earlier yummy comments hadn't just been one of the man's tests.

"Yummy, just like I said before." And to prove he meant it Louis leaned back in to try and take charge of the situation to prove his eagerness, crushing his lips against Teddy's in what was meant to be a kiss that would wipe away any doubts the man might have about his desire for him.

Impatient to be able to run his hands over Louis's body the way the other man was doing to his own flesh Teddy dropped his hands down to grasp the hem of the other man's top, tugging it up and breaking off the snogging just long enough to remove the garment before claiming Louis's lips once more, now running his hands eagerly over the body he'd dreamed about for so long but hadn't permitted himself to touch in years.

Now he wanted to touch everywhere, Teddy thought as his blood ran thick and hot through his veins. He wanted to learn every inch of the man's flesh so that he could memorize it and store the memories away in his mind to hold onto for later. And that unwanted thought, the knowledge that the right to touch Louis this way wouldn't always be his, drove Teddy to tumble them both onto the bed, his hands becoming more possessive and bolder in their caresses as they slipped beneath Louis's trousers and pants to cup the blonde's ass, squeezing the cheeks suggestively.

Gasping in surprise, the sound muted by the lips that had taken ownership of his own, Louis couldn't believe what they were doing even as his body made it clear that it wanted more of Teddy Lupin. A lot more. And while in some part of his mind he knew that he should be hesitant to cross so many lines with the other man so quickly, especially with so many things still up in the air, Louis couldn't seem to make himself break away and call a halt to what they were doing. It was like Teddy was literally taking possession of his body, seeming to know just how to seduce him with his wicked mouth and hands.

And then Teddy's lips left his once more, moving down to one nipple and then the other, teasing each nub with his tongue before sucking each one red and painfully erect, the hands he'd placed on Louis's ass earlier getting busy as they forcefully rubbed their bodies together in a grinding rhythm that had them both panting and moaning for more.

The need for more had Teddy deciding that he should move further down Louis's chest to the clothing that remained in his way.

Shuddering as he watched Teddy kiss his way down his chest, knowing without a doubt now how this night was going to end, Louis licked his lips nervously as his cheeks pinked up, feeling as nervous as a first timer for some strange reason. "Teddy…you've…with a guy before?" Because if not he was going to have to tell Teddy what to do and he could see himself stumbling through that to an embarrassing degree.

Amusement gleamed in Teddy's dark blue eyes for a moment before the hot desire he felt for Louis overpowered the lighter emotion. "Yes, I know how to love you this way. You'll leave my bed well satisfied, I guarantee it, Hummingbird."

Oh boy. Yay.