I will wait for you

Sev went to the Room of Requirement with Hippolyta and demanded the piano classroom. He was teaching her the notes and scales on the keyboard, the girl sang everything he played and she soon wanted to learn to play it too. Despite having much smaller hands, she was so agile that she was great at it.

"Great, Hippolyta, you would also be a magnificent instrumentalist."

"I also want to learn to play an instrument, like you, to play with you. Can two pianos be played at the same time?"

"I guess so, I don't know. You can play the same piano, one the bass notes and the other the treble notes. But I warn you that the piano is the most difficult instrument, it would take you a long time to learn."

"Also, I think it's cooler to play a different instrument that combines better with the piano, because if you play the same piano or two pianos you can't clearly distinguish what each one plays, like when we both sang the Sectumsempra counter-spell for the bass and then I sang it higher," opined the girl.

"True, Hippolyta, very well thought out. And what instrument would you like to play?"

"I don't know, one that sounds nice on the piano and there are many songs to play together."

"Well, I know who we can ask, Cecile's Mum and Lily's Dad," he said.

"Lily's father, are you going to see him?"

"Of course. Lily's father is my Dad. Remember that my Dad really doesn't love me."

"What a mess... then you're going to continue going to her house anyway," she lamented.

"Yes, honey, I'm going to continue going to her house, to see her parents and also her sister, I love them very much, they are my family."

"Then the slut is going to mess with you again, you'll see."

"No, Hippolyta, don't be confused. Lily is not a slut and I'm not going to get messed. We are friends, but at least for a long time nothing more."

"Are you clear?"

"Yes, I am very clear about it."

"That's how I like it. Have you tried making her Patronus?" the girl asked.

"I haven't."

"Well, try it, come on."

Sev tested Lily's last memory with which he had obtained corporeal Patronus. It worked out.

"Yes, you love her, Prince."

"Of course I love her Hippolyta, I will always love Lily, even if she doesn't. What I feel for her is forever."

"So what I'm telling you, she's going to mess you up."

"Well yes, maybe yes, but it is what it is, honey, I can't deny what I feel."

"Ugh, Prince, I don't know what to tell you or how to help you with this."

"You don't need to say or do anything. What happens with Lily doesn't affect what's between us, Hippolyta. Forget it, let's not talk about it anymore."

"Well... then if you have to see her parents, you see them and it's done. I'm sure after what she's done to you they love you more than her."

"That's not like that, she is their daughter."

"But you are like their son, they have known you since you were nine years old," she said.

"But I never paid much attention to them until this year, our relationship is very recent."

"I tell you that they are going to love you the same, you'll see."

"I hope so, that they are not angry with me," he said. "What I was telling you this morning, when two people who loved each other stop loving each other, it also affects everyone who is around them and loves them."

"Sure... I already know what type of instrument I want to play."

"Let's see, say."

"A small one, so I can keep it in the dungeons and rehearse there with the Muffliato without having to come to the Room of Requirement," Hippolyta replied.

"Oh... very good idea... Well, I can think of another thing, that we ask for an instrument classroom, with many instruments, and try all the small ones. So, whichever one you like the most, you can take it home this summer in your trunk."

"Sure…"

"And so your parents don't have to buy it for you, because musical instruments are very expensive," said Sev.

"But I will need a teacher in the summer to learn."

"I'm sure Cecile's Mum knows many. We'll pay for them with the jewels you're going to help me Summon."

"Okay... When I win the World Cup I will pay you back the money," she said.

"Okay."

"Should we go out and ask for the instrument room now?"

"Let's do something better. Let's wait for some other time when Cecile can come and tell you how to play them and advise us which one is easier," he suggested. "Because the piano sounds as soon as you play it, but the other instruments don't. If we have no idea, we are going to be disappointed."

"Sure."

"Jack also went to classical music concerts as a child, we can ask him too."

"So what else do we do now?" the girl asked.

"Do you want to learn one of the songs I played last night and I play it and you sing?"

"Yes, great... both, please…"

"Okay, which one do you want to start with?" Sev asked.

"With the first one you played."

He looked it up in the notebook of staves. "Here you have the lyrics, it will be very easy for you because you have a very good memory."

"Yes, I already know it. You played it so many times that I already know it."

"True, you are right."

"Well, come on, go ahead."

Sev began to play and Hippolyta sang it, but an octave higher than he did.

When they finished, he told her, "Wow, Hippolyta... what a voice you have and how well you sing, without anyone having taught you how to do it."

"Did they teach you?"

"Neither."

"Something else in common. Now together," she proposed.

They did it together. When they finished, she told him, "I like it much more that way. All together."

"Me too, beautiful. Can you give me a peck?"

"Good! You finally asked me."

They gave it to each other.

"The fifth. Your third lucky number," said the girl.

"True."

"I no longer ask you the time."

"Better, all hours are lucky," he said.

"I'm sure we already have another bunch of incorporeal ones, from having played and sung together."

"For sure yes."

"But we stop trying them, otherwise we will never finish, I prefer to continue singing," she proposed.

"Me too."

"Well, give it another time, the third time. Do you know what we can do now?"

"What?" Sev asked.

"Sing it in pieces. You start with the first piece."

"The first verse."

"That is. Then together the second piece," Hippolyta proposed.

"The first chorus."

"That is. Then I alone the third piece."

"The second verse," he clarified.

"That is, and then together the end."

"The second chorus."

"Okay, then let's give it like this," Hippolyta suggested.

"Let's go there."

They sang it like that. When they finished, the girl applauded enthusiastically. "Good! Good! This is how it sounds best! I knew it! Because that way we are heard both separately and together. Independent and together, like when we fight or chase the Snitch."

"True, you are absolutely right, Hippolyta. How much joy you give me."

"Now a hug."

They embraced.

"That's great, a lot of cuddling tonight, sleeping together," she said. "Have you already thought about the pajamas?"

"Yes, honey, I've already thought about it. For me there is no problem."

"Just so you know that I haven't felt like doing boyfriend things again, huh?"

"And even if you have, nothing happens, it's something natural," Sev reassured her.

"I wouldn't mind never doing boyfriend things with you. We already do so many cool things together that I don't care."

"I feel the same way. Even if I never did boyfriend things with you, I would love you the same."

"That's why in the afternoon I told you that you could have children with another girl if I didn't want to have them," explained the girl. "Because you do need to do boyfriend things and I understand that you want to do them while you wait for me to be older. But always do them without getting into a mess and with good girls, who are worth it, even if you don't really love them."

"Thank you, honey, for giving me freedom. Know that I will always tell you."

"Just tell me if you want, Prince, you don't have to explain it to me, I already told you yesterday."

"But I want to tell you."

"Then tell me. Do you know what girl I really like for you, if she weren't already your best friend's girlfriend?"

"Yes, Hippolyta, Cecile."

"Cecile is great. I didn't tell you so you wouldn't be upset, but yesterday, when you left, I cried a lot, I also extracted that from my mind in the Pensieve."

"Sure…"

"And Remus and her comforted me the whole time, telling me that you loved me very much and that your anger would go away quickly, that you just needed to be alone for a while," she continued.

"And when I came back it hadn't gone away yet."

"Normal, I understand you, I gave you a lot of worries. This morning I understood everything."

"Sure."

"Well, you know, Prince, Cecile. Ask Remus for permission to be with her."

Well, well, Cecile invited me to sleep with her and she herself told me not to hesitate to do it with whoever I want, without falling in love, by mutual agreement... She has already planned something, Sev thought.

"What do you say, Prince?"

"That I would never do that to Remus."

"But if she wants to and so do you... Remus would understand it, just like I understand it. She loves you a lot and so does he, they would trust you, you wouldn't steal her from him, they would continue to love each other the same."

"I'm sure of it," he said. "If the occasion arises, I will talk to her about it."

"Of course, Prince. We are going to sing it like this again, two more times, so we sing it three times like this and a total of five times."

Sev laughed. "Hippolyta, you are obsessed with numbers, you are annoying."

She laughed too. "I do it on purpose, I love it when you get like that."

"Oh…"

"I love everything about you, you are also extraordinary, a balanced exchange, as you say."

"Of course."

"Come on, play, let's sing."

They sang it two more times.

"Do we have time for the other one?" asked Hippolyta.

"We have, we have, maybe not for all of it, but we have." Sev looked up the lyrics in the stave notebook.

"Here you have it, I'm going to sing it with you, okay?" he said. "This one is more difficult to sing because it doesn't have as much rhythm, it's not as catchy, it's like poetry with music."

Hippolyta laughed. "Prince, I haven't understood anything, I don't know what rhythm is, or catchiness, or poetry. So sing and that's it, like when you taught me Sectumsempra, I'll catch it."

"Okay, here I go." Sev started with the introduction of 'Wish you were here'.

Shortly before he reached the first verse, Hippolyta, who was watching his hands attentively, interrupted him, "Stop stop."

He stopped playing.

"Do you know what occurred to me?" she asked.

"What?"

"That all that part in which you don't sing, what you play with your right hand could be played with another instrument."

"The introduction melody," Sev clarified.

"That is. And I could do that with whatever instrument I play."

"True, Hippolyta. Not only are you good at music, but you have very good ideas. We will make our own versions, Cecile's Mum and herself when she learns will help us make them."

"What is versions?" the girl asked.

"A version is a song played and sung in a different way than it was intended by its original author."

"Sure... Go on, hit it again. If not, we will never finish."

"Well, if we go a little too long, it's okay, we'll run away from Filch again," he reassured her.

"Didn't anyone come to the Room afterwards?"

"Let them wait, they are going to have it all night to themselves."

"Well, let them wait."

Sev started again. Hippolyta listened to him following the lyrics once, without singing.

When he finished she told him, enthusiastically, "Prince! It's perfect for what I've proposed, it repeats the same melody three times and you don't sing in those parts."

"The introduction, the bridge and the end."

"That is, that is. I'm going to do as I would with the instrument. Don't play the right hand, I'll sing it, I already know it."

"Wow, Hippolyta…"

"Come on, if that's very easy, the Sectumsempra melody is much more difficult. You sing the entire lyrics again so that I can listen to it well, it is true that it does seem more difficult than the other one."

"Okay. I tell you how to start, because you start. One, two, three, tan tara darán, one, two, three, tan tara dán... Did you catch it?"

"Give it again, Prince."

He repeated it.

"One more time."

Sev repeated it.

"Okay, I got it."

"That's the rhythm, honey, what I am counting," he clarified.

"Of course, now I understand. Come on, as we have said, I'll sing the parts and you do the rest."

"Well, you set the rhythm to start."

"One, two, three, tan tara darán…"

They played it and sang it like that. While she was not singing, Hippolyta attentively followed the lyrics that Sev sang, without singing at any time. When she had done it three times, she said to him, "Prince, I have it all. I didn't want to sing at the same time as you to learn it well and do it right the first time."

"Sure."

"We are going to do something, to combine ourselves as before, because this one does not have verses or choruses. We each sing a phrase. We sing the last two of the first piece together, about the war and the cage."

Like Lauren did with me, he thought. "Perfect."

"And we sing the second piece together in its entirety, because it is very exciting."

"True. And who starts, Hippolyta?"

"You start, because I will have sung the introduction."

"Great."

"Come on, it has to turn out right the first time, right?" said the girl. "If it comes out it's corporeal for sure. We do try that one."

"Let's go there."

"One, two, three, tan tara darán…"

They sang it like this, perfect the first time, Hippolyta always an octave above him. When they finished, they were both crying with happiness and applauded enthusiastically. As a farewell, they tried their Patronus, corporeal, the hawks flew through the small piano classroom.

They left the Room of Requirement, it was already past curfew, they didn't find anyone waiting outside.

"There is no one waiting, Prince."

"They must be Disillusioned so as not to bother us. Let's go down the passage, honey, it's shorter than the stairs."

They headed to the passage.

"I already know the passage, I have already come during the day," she said. "But if we meet Filch in front of us we will have no escape."

"We'll run back upstairs and go down the stairs."

"We can go running now."

"No, don't fall," Sev objected.

"Come on, Prince, please, you already know how agile I am. Furthermore, there is no disillusioned step in that passage."

"Okay, let's run. Me in front, in case we run into him."

They ran, with pure laughter, through the passage, the third floor, the main stairs, the corridor that led to the dungeons, the spiral ones and the dungeons themselves until they reached home, they did not find Filch.

When they arrived, there were quite a few people in the Common Room, also on the couch, the family was at the window table.

Hippolyta exclaimed, authoritatively, "Come on, those on the couch, get out of there! It's Prince and me's turn! We've been working all day!"

They immediately got up and let them sit down.

Sev exclaimed sarcastically, "Meet Hippolyta, Sly's new Head!"

Everyone in the Common Room burst into cheers. Shortly after, Valerie's voice was heard from the table, "Hippolyta, terror of the Death Eaters! She will hunt them like she hunts the Snitch!"

Everyone chanted. We Sly's never run out of partying. Excellent, Sev thought.

Hippolyta had lain down on the couch, with her head on his knees, looking at him. Everyone already knows what there is, yesterday they saw our twin Patronus and no one cares. What Deborah told me, she's not so little for me, everyone accepts it. How good, she freed me from the chains I imposed on myself by doing what she did yesterday. "Are you tired, honey?" Sev asked her.

"Yes, Prince, I'm very tired," the girl responded.

"Many emotions in a single day, right?"

"Yes, and also yesterday. This morning I would have slept more, I already woke up tired."

"Oh... and why haven't you told me?" he asked.

"Because we had to talk about many things, otherwise you would have read me."

"I wouldn't have read you, my love, I promised you, and first things first, the first thing is that you eat and rest."

"No, Prince, it is also very important that we are not worried about each other, that is also very important."

"True, you are right. Then we're going to bed so you can catch up on sleep. Okay?"

"Okay, Prince. And Jack and Anthony?"

"They are sitting at the table, haven't you seen them?"

"No, I haven't noticed. What if someone sees me going up the stairs to the boys' dormitories?"

"Nothing happens either, I don't care if everyone finds out," said Sev. "The most important thing is that you are well, that you don't lack anything, neither rest nor my love."

"Then let's go now, straight to your bedroom, today I no longer need pajamas or wash my trousers. Tomorrow I will change when I shower in my room, since I haven't showered today."

"Let's go my love."

They got up from the couch while the others continued chanting, thus keeping an eye on them, and without further ado they headed to the stairs that led to the boys' bedrooms, Hippolyta preceding him. Take that! There it is, Sly temper, this is really breaking the rules. But what I have said, I have just proclaimed her Head of Sly, and if I am the Head, then everything is very clear, there is no further explanation to give.

They entered the fifth year boys' dormitory.

"Hippolyta, today you lay on the other side, I am going to hug you in a different way."

"Okay, Prince, I'm going to the bathroom first."

"Go."

The girl went to the bathroom, meanwhile, Sev undressed next to his bed. She returned immediately, took off her shoes, hid them under the bed, climbed on it, drew the curtain on the side of the door and began to undress. So they don't see her naked if they come in. He finished and went to the bathroom in turn. When he returned the curtain on the window side was already drawn.

"Hippolyta, honey, what time are you leaving?"

"Tomorrow we have breakfast at nine, right? Like the weekend."

"Yeah."

"So at eight o'clock," she replied.

He set the alarm clock. "It's going to be your turn to turn off the alarm clock."

"It doesn't matter, Prince, I always do it when I sleep alone."

Sev went the other way, opened the curtain, Hippolyta was already in bed, facing him. So that I don't see her either and feel uncomfortable, how cute. "Are you cold, honey? Shall I Summon another blanket like yours?"

"Okay, Prince."

He did so, put it on the bed and got into it.

"I have stolen your place," said the girl. "How do you want to hug me today?"

"I'm going to spoon you, you turn your back to me and I hug you from behind, to give you more warmth with my whole body."

"That's how my Dad made me…"

"Of course honey."

"But first I want to look at you for a little while," she asked.

"You'll look at me tomorrow if we wake up earlier. Otherwise, we'll look at each other during the day, okay?"

"Okay, Prince. Then a little peck, the sixth today."

"Of course my love."

They gave it to each other.

She turned around, in a fetal position, Sev covered her tightly with the bedding in front and hugged her from behind, pressing his entire body to hers, including her legs, and placing his hand between her breasts, hugging her against him, she did the same with her arm. Merlin… how thin she still is…

"Are you sleepy? You're going to be bored," Hippolyta told him.

"No, honey, I'm not bored at all. I am very comfortable, I am going to enjoy it a lot. Are you comfortable?"

"Very comfortable, Prince, you give me a lot of warmth from your skin."

"Are you cold in front?" he asked.

"No, Prince, with the blanket I'm not cold anymore."

"Don't be scared if what Sirius told you happens to me tomorrow morning, okay?"

"Calm down, Prince, don't suffer, I'm not scared. I'm already feeling you and I'm not scared of anything. In the end you have not explained to me about the crucible nor have you Summoned the jewels."

"I'll do it tomorrow, don't worry about my things anymore. I'll do it while you meet with Slughorn."

"No, Prince... wait for me to do it, so I can give you ideas, I have a lot."

"Okay, I will wait for you."