To sleep
Deborah and Sev got into bed. They planned together the talk with James the next day, with the help of the lists that Sirius had given him, and then they began to read the part of the Red Magic related to the Couple that Paul had given them.
Unlike the time they read the Bond as a Couple and the Union of Souls, in which Deborah had remained completely silent while she did it, this time they discussed it. They read for an hour, until Sev became sleepy.
"Let's go to sleep, Deborah. If we wake up early, we might have time to do something interesting."
"Prince, you can't come so many times a day. Today you were with Lily, save yourself for the afternoon."
"Deborah, honey, I have good news for you. I don't have that much calcium deficiency."
"And so?"
"I didn't drink milk but I ate cheese almost every day. I missed the Great Hall a lot and ate sandwiches from the kitchens."
"Oh… sure.What was the fracture of your arm like?" she asked.
"Clean."
"If you had had very weak bones, they would surely have splintered."
"Well how good," he was glad. "I can come as many times as I want, what an illusion.Do you want now?"
"But weren't you sleepy?"
"It went away suddenly."
They laughed.
"It was a joke.We leave it for tomorrow," said Sev.
"Have you tried Tracking Lily?"
"Well no, it hasn't occurred to me. And I'm sure I can do it even if she's at home."
"Check it."
He did, he thought intently about Lily. "I have her, she is in her fifth year Gryff girls' dormitory.Wooow… I can locate her in a place I've never been."
"Of course, that's what it's about. And you could Apparate there too."
"How wonderful this magic is."
"Try bonding with her," Deborah suggested.
"From so far away, with walls in between?"
"Check it."
He tried, he didn't succeed. "No, not that."
"Oh, what a shame. You would be in communication all the time."
"Well yes, a shame. We are very far away, eight floors away. How tired I am of segregation in Houses."
"Try Lauren, track her down."
Sev did it. "I have her, she is in her bedroom, awake, here next door."
"Try bonding with her."
"Okay, I'm unbonding myself from you."
He unbonded from Deborah and tried Lauren. He got it.
"Severus, is that you?" Lauren asked, very surprised.
"Yes, Lauren, I'm in my bedroom."
"How awesome... we can bond through walls. We could have been doing it for over a week."
"Well yes, what fools. I'm with Deborah, she was the one who gave me the idea. I Track Lily but I can't reach her bonded."
"Oh, what a shame," she said. "Thank Deborah for me."
"Do not be sad. We will be in communication whenever we are both at home, even while we sleep if you want, as if we were sleeping together, and maybe we will also reach each other from here to the Library."
"It's great. I will never be alone again."
"And when we Bond as a Couple, even if we don't chat, we will be feeling what we feel for each other all the time," said Sev. "It's going to be fantastic."
"Of course."
"Were you studing?"
"Yes, because that way I'm done with Charms now and tomorrow I'll dedicate myself to Runes all day," Lauren replied. "Lily has given me a lot of homework."
"Great, Lauren. So I leave you, because I'm abandoning Deborah."
"Sure, Severus, see you tomorrow."
"Tomorrow I'll say good morning to you.What time did you wake up?" he asked.
"About eight twenty, to be the first to shower."
"Oh... I didn't know that. How about our fifth grade classmates?"
"Since I did the Patronus in class, much better," she answered, "They used to shy away from me, but now they greet me and chat with me a little when we meet."
"That's how I started with Anthony. Sorry for never being interested in that."
"It doesn't matter, Severus, you know I know how to take care of myself. You have quite a few things on your mind."
"Well, I'll let you study. Enjoy."
"I'm doing it, I'm charmed by Charms."
"Never better said.Until tomorrow, gorgeous," Sev said goodbye.
"Until tomorrow my love."
He unbonded from Lauren and bonded with Deborah. "Bingo!I did catch up with Lauren.She thanks you for the idea."
"Yes, I have already realized, I have seen your excited face. Wonderful, she will never be alone again. Do you want to sleep bonded with her instead of me?"
"No, she was studying, I'm not going to chat with her anymore. I'll say good morning in the morning if we're not at work. Let's try something else, bond with Valerie, you'll see what a scare we'll give her."
They laughed and did it, bonding with Valerie.
"Hello, Valerie!How about?" Sev asked.
"Booahh…!What a scare... Andrew told me that you both had gone to sleep," Valerie responded. "I don't see you in the Common Room."
They laughed.
"Valerie, hide. We are in my bedroom."
"What are you saying?" she asked, very amazed.
"What you are hearing. The Bond passes through walls."
"It's fantastic!"
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"Reading the part of the Bond as a Couple, to do it tomorrow with you and Deborah."
"And what do you think? You fancy?"
"A lot, I'm dying," Valerie replied.
"You have no doubt, right?"
"I haven't finished it yet, but not at the moment."
"Great, you'll tell us tomorrow," said Sev. "I also invented a melody for it, a variation of yours, of the Bond as a Clanship."
"Wow… great. We will make a song for the group with the melodies and lyrics."
"Booff… I don't think they go very well with that type of music."
"Even more groundbreaking," she said. "Very hard but melodic music.A true revolution."
"I can't wait, Valerie. Tomorrow in the Room of Requirement we will play the piano and I will try to play them."
"Sure, and look for the chords."
"Booff… I don't know if I'll be able to do that," he said.
"Surely, by ear, I'll help you."
"Great, Valerie, we're going to have a great time. Greet Deborah, who says nothing, it was her idea to try bonding."
"Hello gorgeous! What a surprise you have given me," Valerie said.
"How are you, Valerie?" Deborah asked.
"At ease. Reading and remembering what we did today, how much fun we had. Genevre and the Gryffs are great, right?"
"Indeed they are."
"What a great time we are going to have in the summer," Valerie said.
"What a great time we are going to have tomorrow," Deborah laughed.
"I'm already getting angry," Sev complained. "Valerie, we leave you, I'm going to get out of Deborah what you want to do to me, I don't trust you both one bit."
"Sweetheart, we are not going to do anything bad to you, just make sure you have a lot of fun..." Valerie said, sad.
"Yeah, yeah. I don't trust a bit. And I don't want you to say a word to anyone."
"We haven't told anything, Prince, they are imagining anything," Deborah told him, patiently. "The chapter on sexual games is very long and explicit, there was almost nothing in the summary."
"Well, I like that better. We will decide between the three of us what to tell and what not. In the cave I stopped myself from shouting and asked you if you wanted the others to know."
"Of course, sweetheart," said Valerie, "We haven't let anything go."
"Okay, I won't try to get it out of Deborah. I will trust you."
"That's how I like it."
"Beautiful, we leave you," said Sev. "We are going to sleep so we are fresh tomorrow.Don't go to bed too late, I want you fresh too, and remember not to put on deodorant."
"Not only am I not going to put on deodorant, but I am not going to shower."
"Brilliant! And in the morning you are going to fight."
"That is," she said.
"How long my day is going to be."
"If you weren't going to sleep yet you could have waited for me to kiss me goodnight."
"You're right my love," he said. "Do you want me to come down and give it to you? "
"No, I'll go up, so I'll also give it to Deborah, who is embarrassed in front of everyone."
"What are you saying?Look how silly you both are.Starting tomorrow you are going to kiss in front of everyone.Because I say so," authoritarian.
Deborah laughed.
"Deborah laughs, Valerie. Do you find it funny too?"
"You can't tell people to kiss."
"How not? Who commands here? Who is the Head of the House? Starting tomorrow you are going to kiss each other. Weren't you so revolutionary? Where is the free woman?"
"Here!" Valerie shouted loudly, entering the bedroom.
She approached their bed, opened the curtain and threw herself on top of them.
"Valerie! You crush us..." Sev exclaimed, also out loud.
The three of them were laughing.
"I can't wait until tomorrow…" said Valerie, pitifully. "I want to sleep with you…"
"I would like it too, sweetheart, but these beds are very small, the three of us can't fit in," Sev said, suffering.
"Deborah, you cheated on me, you stole him from me. On top of that, I went to the Library to help Anthony…"
"Ugh, Valerie... Don't be angry with Deborah, I asked her. Tomorrow I'm going to be with you all the time, she's going to spend much of the afternoon alone and I haven't been with her since Tuesday, I was with you on Wednesday. Sleep with Andrew, just sleep."
"Well maybe yes."
"Of course, Valerie, you're going to make him happy. I promise you that one of these days I will try to expand the bed, this one or the one in the hidden bedroom, so the three of us can sleep together whenever we want without leaving the house."
"Brilliant…"
"Come on, don't be sad. Give us kisses, come on."
Valerie gave Deborah a good snog.
Sev told them, bonded, "How I'm getting to see you, despite I didn't want to do anything now at night."
"Well, you can hold back your desire, as I'm going to hold back," Valerie told him. "This way you have more for tomorrow."
"On top of that, getting smug. If tomorrow you don't give Deborah a kiss like that anywhere, I won't do anything with you in the afternoon."
"Okay, if she wants I'll give them to her."
"Okay, Valerie, but not all the time, you don't leave Prince alone and I'm not that cuddly," Deborah said.
"If you don't want to, you lose it, now I have two boys to kiss."
"Come on, it's my turn," said Sev.
Valerie gave him a kiss and touched him over the bedclothes.
"Valerie, stay still!" he exclaimed. "You said you wanted kisses! Don't harass me!"
Deborah laughed, Valerie broke away laughing and spoke out loud, "It's just that you get horny with nothing!"
He too. "Do not laugh at me! Kiss me and don't touch me."
"Okay, okay…"
They gave each other a good snog. After half a minute Sev cut her off, "Okay, Valerie, you get addicted and then Deborah is going to pay for it."
She didn't break away. "As I said, I make you horny and she takes the prize.We haven't done it properly yet."
"Come on, don't complain, on Thursday morning you were very pleased, you didn't open your eyes for five minutes and I held back the urge."
"Because you wanted to."
"No, because Deborah scared me, but that's over," he said. "I'm not going to hold back anymore.Come on, get out.See you tomorrow."
Valerie pulled away. "See you tomorrow, guys."
"See you tomorrow, beautiful."
Valerie got out of bed, closed the curtain on them, and left.
Deborah asked him, "Do you want us to do it now?"
"Do you want to?"
"It doesn't matter to me."
"I prefer to sleep," Sev said. "I'm sleepy, we've been thinking about it for twenty minutes, it wasn't a very good idea to say hello to Valerie."
"That's why I haven't proposed it to you. I knew she was going to get like this, she's a pain."
"No, she's a cuddly. And now she has decided not to be with Andrew like she was until now and she is missing that."
"Sure."
"We have to pamper her," he said. "Give her kisses when she asks you for them."
"She prefers to give them to you."
"I don't think so, I think she doesn't care. What happens is that I let myself more, but she has you more at hand in our bedroom."
"The last two nights we have slept together," she confessed. "We haven't done anything more than snog each other, but we have slept together."
"Wow... how quiet you both were."
"You know, there are many prejudices on this topic."
"Well, you see what a problem, she did it to me in the Great Hall in front of Minerva," Sev said. "The people at home are going to accept it without any problem, and if they don't like it, let them don't look."
"You're right."
"Let's go to sleep."
"Don't you set the alarm clock?" Deborah asked.
"No, it's still early, we're going to wake up with plenty of time. Before I never needed an alarm clock to wake up, even if I slept little I always woke up at the same time. I never had an alarm clock until this Christmas, when Cecile gave it to me, and I didn't start using it until I started with the Time Turner, the day of the mess. I took it from the Fidelius when I went to get the sleep potions. Do you remember?"
"Of course."
"And I have had a watch since after Easter, Jack gave it to me," he continued. "And yet I always knew what time it was from the Tower Clock, I did not fail even in the intervals.Even when I was in the Forest where I could no longer hear, I always knew the approximate time.If I wanted to come back for lunch or dinner I always arrived on time."
"Great, then let's go to sleep."
"What I'm going to do is change my watch so I don't have to take my left arm out tomorrow as soon as I wake up."
"What you should do is take it off to sleep," she suggested.
"Then we won't know what time it is when we wake up."
"Well, you look at it on the alarm clock on the bedside table."
"No, because if we sleep hugging, I don't feel like stopping hugging you to look at the clock," Sev objected.
"Okay, then sleep with your watch."
He changed it to his other hand.
"To sleep."
They hugged each other and fell asleep.