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"I don't like him." Sirius bustled, shaking his head and muttering the same phrase once again. Remus, who attempt to keep Wes' secret was struggling again and again to just keep his damn mouth closed. "Pads you've been saying that for the past hour, leave it be!" James ushered, obviously showing favoritism. But the real favoritism would only steam from Remus Lupin himself.

"Just don't like the way he's lookin' at her, you all saw it right?" Remus chuckled off at the desk, which caught the attention of Sirius who threw the quaffle. "What'd Rory tell you?!" He ordered, and Remus turned to the back of the chair and looked to the dumb mutt of the hour.

"Nothing...Well, except he wasn't flirting nor looking at her like what you're referring to." He chuckled, shaking his head as he just outted Wes. But Aurora herself seemed to know so there's not really much of a shock to it anymore.

"W-what?" It confused the eldest Black, of course he knew of homosexual couples but it just didn't strike him as someone Aurora would choose to hang out with. 

"To boost your ego up more Pads, seems like a bloke fancies you now. Could just be admiring though." He chuckled, turning back to finish off the rest of his history of magic assignment. but not before he even added a joking wink that Wes had done as well.

Sirius was appalled, not by the idea, but by the fact that everyone knew what was happening. Everyone meaning just his sister and Remus, but it was enough to be supporting odds.

With the boys bickering on and on about this new mate, the gals were more than excepting of him, all preferences aside. Personally he had been scared of Aurora considering who she is, her last name and who she is friends are.

Especially Lestrange.

Course he was keeping a distance between himself and Aurora, but never enough to not have his eyes on her. There was a building love between them, he knew it in his own heart. Especially when she wore the 'love Rory' ring on his finger, religiously twirling it around and around when he felt sickly with her not near him.

The last time they kissed was before holiday, and even on the field did it show how angry the gal was against him.

In classes that they had would she just blatantly ignore him. So perhaps it was his pestering to Dorcas, or the obvious puppy dog eyes he'd give Aurora, she was indeed getting somewhere in forgiving him. Personally she had been offended and it just meant that Rachel had been right in its entirety, which had her question Rabastan if he has done it before.

The ring he had given her was just wrapped on a necklace so it was still on her, rings had been her parents go to gift for birthdays and holidays so it there wasn't really a place to put it on her fingers. And yet she still wore it, it had been beautifully made and—Okay so maybe, maybe the young Black daughter was missing her Raba.

But she wasn't one to let go of grudges. Or that easily anyway.

So for the past month had he been silently tracking her given schedule, and at a certain walk back from Alchemy could she be caught alone as she usually would head back to the library instead of going straight to the common room like Harper had.

Today was the day, Rabastan's redemption as he held a bundle of beautiful flowers in hand as he awaited for Aurora to come around the corner. Course she was currently reading a book and so he hid the flowers behind his back as he cleared his throat, as she peered up in confusion.

Granted she had been caught reading and walking so it was obvious that she was still trying to maintain the information, however when she closed the book and pulled it to her chest she offered a smile. 

"Lestrange." She offered, and it pained him even further as she kept up this given punishment even further.

"Aurora please...I don't want us to continue off like this, will you at least listen to my apology?" She stared silent for a moment, and perhaps it was a cheat to use her cat senses to smell the flowers he had bought but she nodded never the less.

The hope washed over him in the instant as he smiled, his eyes glistening to Aurora Black as he held out the flowers. They were indeed beautiful and she blushed as he was really trying as a matter of fact.

"Aurora I never meant to offend or belittle you like that, it was wrong and you're right. I was being a bastard in letting my mates put that in my head...But also that I never gave in for your opinion or your views on it. I realize that now, honestly and truthfully. I know who Diana is, that she protects women and their purity." Her eyes widened at the fact that he did his research, but she clutched her book further.

"Didn't help that you made fun of my readings either, but I forgive you..." 

"Are you sure?... I was being an ass." Her eyes looked off down to the ground and she huffed.

"You were, but it was Byston's comments too." His brows narrowed and he questioned it in the moment. "She attacked me in the hallway, course she was angry of what Siri did to her. But she said that she shagged you and then you sort of proved it with the indication of it so I just...I felt betrayed Rabastan." She offered out, so that is what was bugging her? Merlin he was so fucking draft.

"She's tried, a few times. But I deny her as well, what do you mean she threated you?" 

"Oh, right...I got my first detention." She giggled at his reaction. It was part of the detention but also the fact that it was indeed her first assigned one.

"Slughorn gave it me, sent a letter home...I haven't heard anything back just yet from mum or dad, but McGonagall got me out of it." He nodded, but his worries had him twirl around the ring as he held it out.

"I do like the ring, think mother was jealous of it actually." She smiled, pulling up her hand to tap it with her finger. Showing that the eyes glow a shine and he smirked. 

"I'm glad." The whisper barely managed in the air, however as he scanned her rings on her finger his hadn't been there. But she seemingly noticed that he was doing so and so she pulled out her bare necklace and showed it up.

"I like the ring too, sort of hilarious that we got each other one..." His smile couldn't have been more sincere, however in one failed swoop had her interlocked his hand with hers. Prompting her to smile up towards the taller fellow with a kind smile.

"So...Will you do me the honors in being my girlfriend Ms.Black?" The singled out word had throne red sirens into the back of her head, making her pale in the instant. "...I...I don't know what my parents would think of that, Merlin what—" 

"Your parents have known, or assuming so since I told my mother about—" The smile erupted onto her face as she poked him in the stomach.

"You've told your mum about our dates?" 

"Of course, she's itching for the details. So I have good standing and know what to do, you think my brother had any pointers?" That had hit a point as her hands instantly with up to her mouth and hid her giggle.

It had been a small learned trait that both she and her brother had learned, that in their household it was meant to be quiet and so when Regulus was old enough to understand that...The entire house was under strict accommodation to the no loud noise.

And hopes of distilling that, they'd giggle and laugh in pillows or into their hands as Aurora has yet to bite off this second nature.

"No, and I would never ask Bella for any dating advice." And that's when his grin tugged up.

"Dating? Ah, ah...Can't take it back now Rory." She rolled her eyes as she did indeed miss his playfulness and so she had placed her hand onto his shoulder to give her leverage as she gave a small kiss onto his cheek.

"Are you busy later?" She questioned, and he hummed, as it had been the reaction of merely him smiling and in being an ever bliss as to the kiss. But only for him to shake out of it and with that, he offered the Slytherin common room as he knew she liked to look up from under the water in hopes of seeing a merperson.

With the colder weather they usually strayed further away from the building, but something about Aurora herself had screamed for a youngling to come closer. The two played small game of following each others hands before the little one had been scolded for such a law-breaking rule.

But in the irony of it all had both her and Rabastan stolen the best seats in Slytherin by the private fireplace as both were curled up beside one another. Reading separate books but never truly letting go of one another again.

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Date Posted: 03-16-19

Time: 10:08

Words: 1643

I finally finished my forensics class! Spring break here I come :)