First times
That afternoon, after lunch, Sev took Lily to the Room of Requirement in its storage guise, pretending that he had discovered it on his own and had found the mirror without actually looking into it.
As with Lauren, he let her look at herself first, and she expressed excitement but also wonder. "Sev... the four of us... From left to right, Jack, Lauren, you and me, linked and cuddling... It's incredible! Is this my wish?"
He thought, Excellent. The three of us want the same thing. We just need Jack to do it too, hopefully.
"Now the four of us are hugging to each other, laughing and putting our heads together... How nice!" Lily didn't tell him that she also saw little Ariel in the mirror, in front of Sev and her. "Look at yourself."
"Of course."
Sev did, and saw the same as in the morning. He didn't need to fake his excited face.
"What are you watching?" she asked.
"The same as you, Lily."
"Oh… it's wonderful. You have to bring Lauren and Jack."
Sev thought, Ugh… when she'll see what a couple looks like in reflection, she's going to change her mind. Let's see if she doesn't think of it. "Well, we'll see, there's time. The mirror is not going to move from here."
"Shall we look together?"
I can't refuse. "Of course."
They linked each other like Lauren and him in the morning. They saw their reflections the same way, but immediately Lily's reflection drew him to her, and she plunged her hands into his hair and kissed him long and deeply. Soon both began to undress, still standing, eagerly.
The Haven bed appeared next to them. She lay on her back, he ran her body biting and kissing her. He did it to her with his mouth, she was gasping. Within a few minutes she took him by his head, demanding that he get on top of her. He did, and with one hand she guided his snake to the entrance of her cave and waited.
She nodded, he couldn't make up his mind. She finally took him by his bottom digging her nails into it and made him enter her. Her face reflected a grimace of pain, but after a few long seconds, in which he remained still, she recovered and encouraged him to continue. He thrust into her at her pace, letting the weight of his body fall onto her pleasure center.
There was no sound, but she seemed to scream and he to breath deeply, holding himself. A few minutes later, she looked into his eyes again and he was able to read on her lips, "Now..." He continued thrusting, more intensely. Both of them threw their heads back, screaming in silence, for at least fifteen seconds. He fell on top of her, hugging her. They read on their lips:
"I love you, my Sev…"
"I love you, my Lily…"
The image remained static, as both were resting. Finally, Lily and Sev, real, looked at each other.
"Do you have understood, don't you?" he asked her.
"Yes, our first time. It will hurt me and maybe I'll bleed a little. My Mum already explained it to me, but it goes away quickly."
"I'm almost sure it's going to hurt you a lot and you'll bleed, you have a very narrow barrier and you know how I am."
"Ugh… Sev. That's why you couldn't decide to enter. Luckily you stopped me that night and we have had time to get to know each other, otherwise it would have been a real disaster."
"Surely, because inside you are also very tight, you envelop my finger completely, I still hadn't learned to contain myself and you had never finished before. I would have come immediately, leaving you halfway."
"What an intuition you had, without knowing anything yet."
"It was not intuition, Lily, but common sense. None of us had any idea how to do it."
"I've already noticed how you had to contain yourself while I enjoyed myself. You won't be able to do it like me. What a pity."
"No problem. Between now and then I'll practice more and I'm sure I'm going to like it a lot, so tight, you've already seen how we both ended up. And over time we will also learn to do it better and we will both enjoy it equally. Surely in the Red Magic book there is information that helps us to do it. Hug me, come on. I'm not bringing Lauren."
"But tell her where it is and let her look at herself," Lily said. "Surely she sees the same as us and will be very excited."
"Okay, yes. Tell her yourself tonight, and also what we have seen separately, but not what we have seen together."
"Of course not, Sev. That is a secret between us."
They turned away from the mirror. Sev put the rack back in front of it and they took a walk to cool off the excitement a bit. Lily was amazed, and she asked him, "Have you tried to demand other things?"
"Yeah. What you want appears, with the precise material to do what you need."
"What did you demand?"
"I tried a study for the OWLs and a small, well-lit space has appeared, with a large desk with two chairs and everything to write on the table," Sev lied. "A chest of drawers to store it and a large shelf with all the necessary books."
"Booah, Sev… we could study together there."
"No, Lily, we are already taking a risk. Lauren has to watch every time we're together, taking herself away from studying. She also wants to get out her Defense OWL and she is way behind us, because she wasted half a year until I convinced her to do it."
"You're right. I'm still toughtless," she said.
"No, you've already learned a lot. Everything has its process."
"Then, if anything you want appears... hasn't it crossed your mind what more could you ask for?"
"Yes, a lot of things," he replied. "But I must check first if the door disappears and if someone who demands something else can enter, if it is multiple, do you understand? Otherwise, it could be known that there is someone inside. I'll do it tomorrow with the Guard. Walking you and me down the hall would be risky."
"You only think about safety and not about enjoying yourself. Don't you remember what happened a week ago?"
"One week?"
"Yeah. At home, with my Dad," Lily replied.
"Wow, just a week. It seems to me that a month has passed since then."
"The music, Sev. You can't demand a record player, it wouldn't work at Hogwarts, but musical instruments would."
"Whoa… of course… Merlin, Lily, thank you. It never would have occurred to me with all the mess I have."
"Come on, let's try it now. Go out, see if you can see the door from the outside and ask for something else, see if you can."
"What is the name of reading music?"
"Solfeo," she answered.
"Brilliant.
As I've already proven, I'll just be Disillusioned while I think about what to demand, Sev thought.
They went back to the door, Sev peeked out, and was Disillusioned. A piano, a piano, and sheet music to learn to read music, solfeo. Classroom for Initiation to Solfeo and Piano. Okay.
He demanded the storeroom again. "Lily, you can't get in if you ask for something else, but the door disappears when you leave."
"Well, they know there's someone inside, but they don't catch you. It would be a lot of patience to wait for you to come out."
"Okay, let's go out and we're going to demand 'Classroom for Initiation to Solfeo and Piano'."
"Piano?" she asked.
"Yeah. Your Dad told me that I have piano hands, and it is what I like the most."
"Wow... but it's very difficult…"
"Yeah. But even if I only get to play easy stuff, I'd like to try it," he said.
"Come on, let's go."
They came out and demanded. A small door appeared, similar to the one in the Spy Classroom. They entered.
"Wooow…"
A large space, also very well lit, with windows on two adjacent walls, with a grand piano lacquered in black. It put the trademark.
"I've heard from my Dad that they're the best," Lily said.
On the windowless wall, a bookcase with thin books, study methods and sheet music, a chest of drawers with everything to write, and on the piano, an unknown device.
"And that? What is it?" Sev wondered. It has the shape of a truncated pyramid and in the front part, a thin strip of metal with an inserted counterweight, held under a restraint, also metallic, and on this face of the pyramid, a numerical scale, with words in an unknown language, but Latin, 'Largo, Adagio, Andante, Allegro, Presto'.
On one side, another metal piece that goes in and out, with stops, which also has engraved numbers 2/4, ¾, 4/4. Let's see what happens if I move it. He did and nothing happened. He ripped the thin strap from its restraint and it began to swing like a pendulum, making noise as it reached its end.
"It's to set the pace!" he realized.
The metal protrusion had been left at ¾. Every three blows, a bell rang. He tried moving it to 4/4, now it was doing it every four.
"Your Dad was explaining to me about three and four," Sev said.
"Brilliant!"
"And the counterweight?" He moved it up. "Slower, smaller numbers." He moved it down. "Faster, higher numbers, are the beats per minute. We are going to see some sheet music, to see if they are indicated."
They looked, they were, and also the words written on the device and the indications of the fractions at the beginning of the music written in five parallel lines.
"Whoa… I think you're going to have to tell me on the exams, because I'm going to spend hours in here," he said.
"No, Sev… now you have a lot of trouble. Wait till you uncover, there's less than a month left, and ask Dumbledore for a Time-Turner."
"I already thought about it last night. Oh… I won't be able to hold on…"
"Come on, sit at the piano and try a little how it sounds to take away your craving," Lily suggested. "I'll lift the lid for you, but always close it back, so it doesn't collect dust inside."
"Sure."
Lily lifted the top of the grand piano and fitted it onto its stand, while Sev lifted the one of the keys. "Wow… what a beauty…" He played one at a time, just the white ones. "That sounds good…"
"I have already told you that it is a good trademark, and it is brand new. Try playing several at once."
Two at the same time, adjacent. "No, this sounds bad." Two at a time, one in between. "This sounds good." Three at a time, alternated. "Wow… this sounds really good…" Those again and the three adjacent ones. "Oh…" He did it multiple times.
"You already have the beginning of a song, and just sit down and without opening a single book," she encouraged him.
"Yeah, your Dad told me that the piano is the most difficult of instruments, but also the easiest, because it sounds good from the beginning."
"Now that I think about it... Cecile... Saint Cecile is the patron saint of music, and you know that she is a halfblood like you. Her Mum is Muggle and she went to school as a child. If she was named that way, it's because her parents like music. We've never talked about it, but maybe she learned a little."
"Wow… that would be wonderful," Sev said.
"Sure, and you get along great. And she's not in as much danger of being with you as I am. She might sneak away from time to time."
"Yes… tell her. And tell me about it at dinner."
"Aren't you going to go to the Library today?" Lily asked.
"Yes, I have to go copy opening spells to look for the Red Magic book with the Guard, and I'll take the opportunity to finish my homework."
"Well, I'll project it to you, and if she knows something and can, I'll fix you a meeting tonight, so you'll take away the urge."
"Would you, Lily?" he asked.
"Of course honey. I want you to be happy, and it will relieve you of your tension, you will have a great time with her. I'll stay studying with Remus."
"Thank you very much my love…" They embraced, sitting on the bench.
"Come on, go now," Sev said. "I'll stay a while longer experimenting. Then I'll go home so Lauren can tell me if all is in order and then I'll go directly to the Library, we'll talk there. Tell Cecile that if she can, I'll wait for her here Disillusioned after dinner, and you make the sign to me."
"Of course, so that she doesn't know that we project to each other."
"That is. We'll show them later, when it's safe. I can always make up that I found a book in the used bookstore or that Dumbledore has taught me, if things go as we hope."
"Kiss me…"
"Sure."
They kissed passionately. They hadn't done it for a week and probably wouldn't do it again for two more months. Lily left. Remus had been watching the trio and Cecile alibied her by hiding in an empty classroom on the seventh floor. She went to look for her friend and they both returned home for material to study.
Remus still stayed with the others, waiting for Sev would go down to the dungeons and they wouldn't catch him in the seventh floor, though he knew, by now, that Sev could deal with Potter and Black pretty well, and in any case, he would have sided with him.
He no longer minded spending the nights of the full moon alone again. Although Cecile hadn't told him, she always disappeared on Friday afternoons from after school until dinner, and he suspected what she was doing, taking private lessons with Professor McGonagall.
And he knew that as soon as she learned and it was safe for everyone, Sev and Lily would also try to become Animagi. And their Patronus were very powerful, even better than those of his 'friends'.
Sev continued to experiment for a while longer, also trying to alternate black and white keys. They always sound better at the same time leaving several keys in between, two or three at least. He had just discovered harmony, without even knowing what it was called.
He resisted spending the rest of the afternoon like this. He had things to do and knew that Remus and Lauren were still watching, so he left after ten minutes. Luckily, he wasn't supposed to walk by Gryff door to get down from the seventh floor, there was a passage to the third.
When Sev got home, Lauren was in the Common Room and projected to him, "All in order. How about?"
"Brilliant. Thank you very much, I'll tell you at dinner. Rest and study theory. I'm going to the Library for the spells and to finish my homework. I'll put them back in the same place, so you can finish them after dinner."
"Thank you, Severus. You are charming."
Well, now she has dared to say something more affectionate to me, he thought. "And you, precious."
He went up to his bedroom for his belongings and went to the Library. He searched Charms for the most comprehensive book of opening spells and copied them all by hand, because by dictation it would have given him away.
Lily and Cecile were already in the back bench when I walked in, and Remus arrived shortly after. Now he no longer sat facing them or so close, but where he could see them if he turned around. He projected to her, "Hello, honey, I already have the spells. I'm going to get on with the homework I'm missing. Have you talked to Cecile?"
"I have," Lily replied.
"How about? Does she know music?"
"A little."
"Great… Can she meet with me?" Sev asked.
"She's dying of desire."
"And is Remus okay with it?"
"Of course, Sev, because Cecile is excited," she answered.
"Wow... let him come too if he wants."
Me too? Lily thought, but she didn't tell him. "Okay, I'll tell him."
"Tell him that he doesn't need to watch for me," Sev said. "That I go through the passageway from the third to the seventh floor and I don't pass by the Gryff door. And tell him don't tell the others about the Room of Requirement."
"Jo… Sev. At this point you still don't trust him. Turn around whenever you want so that Cecile can signal to you."
"Right now."
Sev turned. He saw Cecile between Lily and the wolf, Lily warning her. She looked up at him, with a very excited smile, which she infected him with. The sign is not necessary, she has told me everything with her face, Sev thought.
He started with his homework, by dictation, with two quills and parchments, as he had already done at dawn in the dungeon Room to leave them for Lauren in the book of endemics. When he finished he did it. She hasn't picked up what I left her this morning, and she hasn't come to the Library, she has stayed home studying, I'm going to have to tell her off again.
He had a good deal of time left over before dinner, which he dedicated to studying theory.
In the Great Hall he projected to Lauren, "You have homework in endemism. I have already seen that you have not picked up the ones that I left you in the morning."
"I have started with the theory in the Common Room," Lauren replied.
Ugh... on top of that in the Common Room, if only she had gone into her bedroom, Sev thought. "Well, you should have done it in the Library, Lauren, you don't concentrate well there. After dinner stay there and pass them to your letter calmly."
"I will not copy them. I will express them with my words."
"I know, Lauren, we would give ourselves away. But for that very reason, stay in the Library to be calmer. Today you don't need to watch. Look after yourself."
"What are you going to do?"
Ugh… If I tell her, she's going to have a restless time. And besides, I don't want to tell her anything yet. I want to surprise her. "Ah… surprise, I'll tell you. But you don't need to watch, I already told you. Talk to Lily, she has a lot to tell you."
"Okay, sweetie. Until later if you want," Lauren said goodbye.
Wow… she has called me 'sweetie'. She has recovered from what happened in the morning and it has done her well. Gasoline for her too.
Lauren projected to Lily, "Hello pretty. What have you done this afternoon?"
"Wow, Lauren... Sev has discovered the Room of Requirement."
"Wow… fantastic."
"He has taken me where things are hidden," Lily said.
"Oh really? Perhaps the book of Red Magic is there."
"Of course, he is going to look for it with the Guard. He hasn't told you anything yet because he wanted me to surprise you."
"Oh…"
"He has found a fantastic artifact," the Gryff girl continued. "It is a great mirror in which you can see your desires."
"Wow... and did you look to yourselves?"
"Yeah. And do you know what we have both seen?"
"Tell me…"
Lily told her what they had seen separately, including that she had seen Ariel.
"Oh… it's wonderful," said the Sly girl. "One day we will all be a family."
"We will, won't we? I'm keen to. I am going to tell you how to enter, so that you too can go and look at yourself."
Lauren realized that they had looked at themselves together and they had reached the end of the scene and that Sev had told Lily that he was not going to look with her together. Lily told her how to enter and all the workings of the Room that they had already discovered in the morning.
Lauren did not contain her curiosity and concern and asked Lily, "Do you know what Sev is going to do tonight?"
Oh… he also wants to surprise her, Lily thought. "Yes, but it is nothing dangerous. I'll stay at home or in the Library with Remus."
"Remus?"
"Lupin."
"Ah... okay," said the brunette.
"You don't need to watch. Do your homework."
"Okay. If you go to the Library, we can project to each other there too. I'm going."
"Very well, Lauren, look after yourself. We all need you."
"Sure, Lily, I will. We'll continue later, talk to Sev for a while."
Lily projected to Sev, "Hello my love. I've spoken to Lauren."
"Hi Princess. Have you told her?"
"Yeah. It has made her very excited and I have already explained where it is and how to enter."
"All right," he said.
"She was worried about where you were going tonight. I have convinced her not to watch and study."
"You haven't told her, have you?"
"No. I have noticed that you want to surprise her," she answered.
"Thanks my love. I'll wait until I know how to play something decent."
"Sure."
"Is Remus coming?" Sev asked.
"No, he'll stay with me. We'll go to the Library."
"Great, so he rest for a while from the other imbeciles."
"Well yes, he is quite fed up with them. He doesn't tell me, but I can tell it," Lily said.
"We have to become Animagi."
"Sure, Sev. I had already thought about it, but wait for the problems to pass. When Cecile gets it, let her teach us, and I guess at seventeen we could register. We have to inform ourselves of that."
"Ask Cecile, I'm sure she already knows," he said. "That way she also tells you what she is doing and she doesn't bear the secret alone."
"Well yes. I think she's taking private lessons with McGonagall, because she disappears every Friday afternoon."
"Oh…"
"Well, she has told me that you'll meet at the portrait, Remus has already explained where it is," Lily said. "The first one to arrive, be Disillusioned, wait for the other and appear when they arrives."
"Perfect. Thanks love."