Battle wounds
As soon as he finished his second course, Valerie bonded with Sev and asked, "Are you talking to Lily?"
Sev projected to Lily, "Lily, wait a minute, Valerie is talking to me."
"Of course my love."
He responded to Valerie bonded, "What did you want?"
"Nothing, nothing, if you're talking to Lily, nothing."
"Valerie, tell me what you want."
"That if you want, we can skip dessert and go to the Infirmary, so we have more time to Bond, we don't know how long it will take Poppy to heal us."
"Very well thought out, Valerie, of course. Wait for me to say goodbye to Lily and we'll go, tell Deborah in the meantime."
"I've already done it."
"Great, Valerie, you are beginning to be efficient too."
"Thank you, my love." She gave him another kiss.
Sev unbonded from Valerie and projected to Lily, "Honey, I'm leaving now. I've already finished lunch, I'm going to accompany Valerie to the Infirmary."
"To the Infirmary, Sev? What did you do to her?" somewhat alarmed.
"It wasn't me, my love, I'll tell you when she gives me permission."
"Sure, Sev, we'll talk at dinner."
"At dinner I don't know if I'll have much time, I have to talk to the old man urgently."
"Okay, Sev, whatever you can."
"See you tomorrow in Potions, we'll talk for two hours."
"True. Until tonight or tomorrow, then."
He bonded with Valerie again. "Let's go."
They both got up from the table, she preceded him, they spoke bonded.
"Your nape drives me crazy, Valerie, you're gorgeous."
"Thank you, my love, but don't tell me those things because I can't stand from turning around to kiss you."
"When we leave the Hall you give them to me, we go to the Infirmary giving each other kisses."
"Okay."
"Did you also tell Andrew where you were going?" he asked.
"Of course I did, at the beginning of lunch, and I also told him that it was his fault that I'm like this and yesterday I couldn't have as much fun as I expected."
"Wow, Valerie… well done."
They reached the end of the table, she linked him around his shoulders and he around her waist. What a shame, she is taller than me, Sev thought.
"Let him find out," she said. "It was Deborah who advised me to do it."
"Wonderful. How has he taken it?"
"He has been overwhelmed, regretted, he wanted to accompany me when until now he had never done so. I always went alone to get Poppy to treat my lips."
"Great, the right mood to change, criticism begins to matter to him and he begins to worry about you, he is not so selfish," said Sev.
"Of course, he's been afraid that I'll leave him, until now he's had me only for him and he already smells that you're worth much more than him in that regard, having so many girls who adore you."
They left the Great Hall and headed up the stairs to the fourth floor. They went up at the same pace, they kissed every four or five steps. They didn't meet anyone, almost everyone was having lunch and those who had already finished had gone home.
"I am going to become an authority on the subject, this morning I have been giving advice to Anthony," he commented.
"Of course, as Deborah says, the sexual education that we haven't received is going to be given to us by you."
"And by her, she knows a lot about it."
"Well, she knows because she has read, but she has no practice," said Valerie. "You on the contrary. Today she has been telling me in more detail, she says that you are a god of sex. You don't know how much I want to really taste you."
"Tonight I'll be with her but tomorrow I'll be with you, when we return from the cave."
"Well, Prince, there's no rush either, huh? Don't go crazy, you have to rest and so do I, I don't know if Poppy will be able to heal me inside."
"Sure. It doesn't matter, if you can't do anything we'll sleep together anyway, and if you want I'll do it with my mouth like yesterday or with my hand, on the outside," Sev suggested.
"Ugh... don't talk to me about that now that I'm getting horny."
They laughed.
"What else has Deborah advised you about Andrew?" he asked.
"That I talk to him about you and what we do, because without being honest and accepting us, the Bond is not established."
Like it happened to her with Anthony. "Great. And have you already told him something?"
"Of course I did, taking advantage of the fact that he was sorry and wanted to accompany me, I told him that I preferred to go with you, that we had already appointed since yesterday," she answered. "That you yourself had proposed it to me, not like him, that he never does it."
"And how has he taken it?"
"Even more sorry."
They laughed again.
"Brilliant. Have you told him anything else about me?" Sev asked.
"Yes, that you're a virgin but you know much more about the subject than him, that you weren't thinking of fucking me at the moment and that despite that you knew how to please me even though it was stinging me."
Sev laughed. "Ugh, Valerie… all that at lunch? He must have felt terrible."
They both laughed.
"Fuck him," she said.
"Poor Andrew, he must be knackered."
"I have told him even more things."
"Even more?" he asked, laughing again.
"Of course. That you are very affectionate, that you had spent a quarter of an hour just looking at me and that I had tied up my hair for you."
"Very well, so that he also behaves like this and appreciates you."
"That is. He has told me that I look much prettier like this and he has also given me kisses," she said.
"Great, Valerie, so he's not mad or hurt with you."
"Not at all, you already know that he adores me and doesn't want to lose me."
"You're worth a lot, Valerie. This morning we made history again, both of us, and we have won Minerva for life."
"Yeah... Have you noticed how she looked at me?"
"Of course I noticed. She loves you."
"Now I'm sure I'll get Outstanding in Transfiguration," she said.
Sev laughed. "Well, I don't think Minerva would give it to you if you didn't deserve it, but yes, you're going to get it, thanks to the rituals. What else has Deborah advised you about Andrew?"
"That I don't let him fuck me again until he learns to do it to me in other ways if I don't feel like it, but that I don't stop being affectionate with him."
"Of course, she's absolutely right, to give you time to learn, not break ties and establish a type of relationship based on affection and not on sex."
"That's what she told me," she confirmed. "That I tell him that I want to take some time but I don't abandon him, so he also has time to reconsider and change and think if he wants to do it to make me happy or find another girl."
"I don't think he's going to look for another one, Valerie."
"I don't think so either, especially with all the projects we have together now. He is delighted with the escort and the squad, and is also very excited about the band. You already saw that he immediately said that he would have chosen the guitar to accompany me singing."
"Sure, have many other things in common to do together, not just sex."
"We have always had them, but now more," she said.
"All of this will keep you together even if you don't do it for a while, you will learn to be friends. Have you already told him that the three of us are going to fly together this afternoon?"
"Of course, my love."
"And how has he taken it?" Sev asked.
"Delighted, honored, that despite everything I had told him before, we are including him to do something the three of us together."
They laughed.
"Of course, poor guy, it's that you had left him knackered," he commented.
"Besides, I told him that it was your idea, as indeed it was. Happier still."
"And did you tell him that he will command?"
"No, so that you gave him the surprise and he loves you even more," she replied. "You know, you have to create ties between the three of us to get along."
"Very well done, Valerie."
"All tips from Deborah."
"I already told you that she is worth a lot for those things."
They reached the door to the Infirmary.
"Are you going to tell Poppy it was me?" Sev asked her. "It makes me very embarrassed."
"Of course not. Poppy never asks, but I'm going to tell her it wasn't you, I don't want her to think badly of you. Are you going to tell her that it was me?"
"If she doesn't ask me, I won't tell her anything."
"Okay, enough," Valerie agreed. "When I tell her that it was not you, she will already think that we are simply accompanying each other."
"Not if Minerva has told her about yesterday or this morning. She always comes to tell her everything."
They laughed.
"Yeah, that's true," she said. "So let her think what she wants, she is not going to censor us, she has never done it to me."
"Let's go there."
They unbounded and Sev knocked on the door. Madam Pomfrey opened the door after a few seconds. "Wow… what a surprise. Hello, Valerie, how strange to see you at this hour."
The three laughed. Poppy joking, good, I never saw her. Valerie's influence, Sev thought.
"Hi Poppy, how are you?" she answered.
"Come in, come in." They passed, and the medi-witch closed the door. "I'm glad to see you too. Now they call you Prince, right?"
They laughed again. Minerva has told her everything.
"Yes, Poppy, I'm glad to see you too, sorry for not having come to visit you as I promised," Sev apologized.
"Well, my boy, don't worry, I understand how busy you must be. How are you doing with the Time Turner?"
"Bad, as you warned me, but at home they take good care of me."
"I can imagine. I see that they never leave you alone," said the mediwitch.
They laughed again. That's good, throwing hints at us. I wonder what House she is from, I have to ask her.
"Did you recover well from your arm?" asked the Healer.
"Yes, perfectly, thanks to you."
"Were you having lunch?" Valerie asked her.
"No, I've finished a while ago, I have lunch very early because I also have breakfast very early to be able to attend you when you come."
The three laughed. Valerie was telling me yesterday that we were going to laugh a lot.
"Well, who is sick today? You have no visible sign," Madam Pomfrey asked.
They laughed again. This Poppy is very funny.
"Both of us, Poppy," Valerie replied. "Battle wounds."
"Okay, who goes first?"
"Come in, Valerie," Sev told her, gently pushing her shoulder.
"Do you want me to Summon a chair for you while you wait?" the mediwitch asked Sev.
"No need, Poppy, I've been sitting all morning."
"Very well, then wait here."
Valerie and Madam Pomfrey moved into the cubicle. Sev stood waiting, thinking, As soon as Valerie mentioned what it was about, she immediately turned serious and didn't joke anymore. Discreet and professional, another free woman. Let's see if Minerva has already told her about this morning and she has a comment to Valerie or me, maybe I'll ask when I come in.
Valerie's is normal, it can happen to anyone, but mine is scary. I'm also going to tell her that it wasn't her, they have a very good relationship and I don't want her to think badly of her, Valerie would never have overdone like this. I'm not going to let anyone do it to me again even if I like it, it's too sick, it's not healthy. Lauren herself got really scared when she saw me three days later. She herself won't do it to me again either.
Maybe Poppy will ask me about the lynchings, too. Let's see what I tell her, because that was really bloody and she saw everything, she must have been very scared, even though Minerva explained it to her later. I think that she is not going to tell me anything, just as she has received us, even she would have already said something to Valerie in previous days.
What she is surely going to ask me about is Professor Belby. Maybe he hasn't told her anything, because the mail isn't secure. I have to thank her for telling him the truth about what happened and that I have a job this summer thanks to her. Now I feel awful for not coming to see her in all this time, someone else I'm neglecting.
I'm going to take the opportunity to make a mental list of the issues I have to deal with the old man at dinner. First, if we are going to move by Floo to home. Second, to undo the spell that prevents Apparating inside the castle tomorrow afternoon so we can go to the cave.
Third, exam schedule, at least change the practical exams to the afternoons, and otherwise, that they give us permission not to wear the robes during the theoretical ones, and incidentally, suggest eliminating the uniforms for successive years. Fourth, if he has heard from the malefics, the first should be out of the hospital by now. Fifth, how Genevre, Alice and Frank handle Occlumency, we will have to Bond with them too. Sixth, my Dueling Chair.
I'm going to take off my robes, I'll leave it on this bed, so we can save time. The truth is that Valerie had a good idea, because it is going to take time to heal both her and me. He took off his robes without unbuttoning them and also took off his tie as he continued to think.
I hope she can heal her inside of her too, I must have hurt her a lot yesterday with all three fingers, what a brute. Luckily I took care of my hands, I always wash them and I keep my nails very short, because I could have caused her an infection. That said, I am very inexperienced and I play with things that I don't know well, I should have started with only one or two, try if she already liked it that way, and in any case, let her be the one who asked me for more or suggest it to her before launching myself. .
It makes me angry, with the care I have with virgin girls and I don't respect those who are not, I also fall into macho behavior. I have to apologize to her for that, I'm going to do it on the way back to home. I'll also tell her the topics of conversation I've thought of to make friends with Andrew and that she suggests some more.
If we can Bond now, I'll have a chat with him like this on the way to the Quidditch pitch, I feel a trust and affinity for him and I think he does for me too, he hasn't been mad at Valerie at all and this morning he was happy when we reconciled with Jack. I don't think we can do it without looking into each other's eyes. It doesn't matter, if we don't make it, we'll chat normally apart from the others, I'll try to give him confidence and that he also gives it to me, so that we can achieve it as soon as possible.
Valerie is taking a long time, surely she is healing her inside too, great. The pity is that we are not going to have much time to Bond, we are going to have to do it in a hurry and we are not going to be able to try it between us.
Well, never mind, first things first. If we can't do it now, we'll do it on the evening, we have an occlumant meeting. I'm sure Deborah had already thought about that too, it's not so urgent that we're already bonding at dinner, I'm going to spend it talking to the old man. If we arrive with very little time, we'll leave it for the evening and in peace.
At that moment Valerie and Poppy came out of the cubicle. In the end she didn't take that long, maybe she couldn't heal her inside. Or it may have just been a short time because she hasn't needed to undress, just remove her underwear. Later I'll ask her, we're not going to talk about it in front of Poppy.
"One ready," the mediwitch said. "Shall I Summon you a chair, Valerie?"
"No need, Poppy, thank you very much."
"Next please."
Pomfrey preceded Sev into the cubicle, he was already unbuttoning his shirt. Meanwhile, she asked him, "What is your hidden zone?"
He gave a nervous laugh, the Healer also laughed. "Nothing too compromising, Poppy, the chest."
"Sit on the stretcher, come on."
Sev did, while he finished unbuttoning. Immediately she has become serious. It's not the first time she's seen something like what she's going to see, she's been at the school for fifteen years, she can imagine, and even more so with what we did to the malefics last week. Also, now I have them quite healed, if she had seen them the next day, she would have froken out.
When he finished unbuttoning, Madam Pomfrey opened his shirt to look and said, "Take off your entire shirt, so the fabric doesn't bother me when I cast the spells."
"Sure." He undid the buttons on his sleeves and took off his shirt. Meanwhile he told her, "It wasn't Valerie who did it to me."
"That doesn't matter to me at all, my boy, although I already imagine it. Valerie is very sweet, she would never mark you like that, if you had not come you would have been left with scars."
The answer I expected. She knows Valerie well, knows that she is with Andrew and he is never to come to the Infirmary. And in her attitude there is no censure towards me at all, only tenderness and concern. "I know, that's why I came."
"You have done well, it would have been a shame to spoil such a body."
They laughed. How cute, lighting the mood. He finished taking off his shirt.
"Here I go," Pomfrey told him. "Don't move."
The mediwitch drew her wand and nonverbally cast healing spells over the wounds on Sev's chest. Now I can't talk to her, it would distract her, she doesn't have the ability to think about two things at once, only me, incredible.
I also have to try if I can think of something else while doing magic, practice it too, if thoughts don't get in the way of non-verbal spells, and also try mental dictation again. I think that now I would be able to concentrate better and that only what I want appears on paper.
How nice is the tingle of the healing spells, I really feel that they heal me, and what an aim she has, she does it close but hits squarely. It's like drawing, like me when I repair a Sectumsempra. I have to investigate in St Mungo's also about spells, I think I'm going to be even better than Potions. I will propose it to Damocles, that he put me in touch with a colleague of his for later.
Next year maybe I can take the time to go to St Mungo's during the term too, and I can devise the spells right here and then try them there. Of course I must investigate remedies against Dark Magic, Lucius' idea. I have to study the Red Magic book in depth, in the summary there was nothing about it, but surely it appears. I am going to take one of the copies home in the summer.
"That's it," Pomfrey told him. "Like new."
He looked at his chest. "I tell you, Poppy, thank you very much. You are quite a professional." He started to dress.
"A free woman, as you say. You are welcome."
They smiled at each other. I have put them all in my pocket.
The mediwitch continued, "Thanks to you also for the opportunity to contemplate such a body again."
They both laughed. Booah… what a shame, what a cougar, she could be my mother. But poor woman, she's alone and she's still young, she must go hungry, like Minerva, that's why they're such good friends. I will appreciate her.
"I already told you that you are free, Poppy, you don't cut a hair."
They laughed again.
"You have to take the joys that you can," she said.
"You do very well, here you are very alone. I will come to visit you soon."
"When you can, dear, now you can move freely around the school again."
She is pleased that we have eliminated the malefics, he thought. "Today I don't have much time to chat, they are waiting for me at home."
"Valerie has already explained it to me, don't worry."
"But I want to calmly tell you how it went with your colleague Damocles, maybe he hasn't risked doing it by letter."
"Of course, we haven't talked about you," said Pomfrey.
"You were right, he's great, and so are you. Thanks to you I have a job in summer."
"You have nothing to thank me for, I am delighted to have contributed to it. You will see how not only in summer. A warlock like you only appears once every century. Take care of yourself, don't die young."
"That's what I'll try, Poppy, not to leave all the people who believe in me in the lurch." He had already finished buttoning his shirt and tucking it into his trousers.
"Come on, handsome, let's not keep Valerie waiting."
The Healer let him out ahead of her from her cubicle, which she hadn't locked.
"How fast," Valerie said.
"Sure," Sev said. "Poppy is quite an expert." He began to put on his tie and robes.
"I heard you laugh," Valerie said.
The three laughed.
"You have to laugh whenever you can," Pomfrey said. "Right, Valerie?"
They have that trait in common, they like to laugh together.
"Of course, Poppy. We always laugh, it's a pleasure to start the morning with you," the younger woman replied.
"It is for me too, pretty. You look beautiful with your hair like that."
"Thanks, Poppy, Prince's idea."
She values me before her, I love her, Sev thought.
"Wow..." Pomfrey said, understanding, "Has it stung you again?"
"Nothing, Poppy, like new."
She's completely healed her, good... And they don't shy away from talking about it in front of me, Valerie has explained everything to her.
Valerie continued, "Too bad you're going to stop seeing me so often, I'm not going to let myself be subdued anymore. Even so, I will come to visit you when I can."
I've changed Valerie's life, indeed.
"Sounds great, dear," said the Healer. "I'll miss you, but I'm so glad. You are finally going to bring out all the good which is in you."