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| Entry tags: | character: oliver, character: percy, character: remus, genre: slash, kink: chan, kink: threesome, pairing: remus/percy/oliver, rating: nc-17 |
Please, Sir (Remus/Percy/Oliver, NC-17)
Title: Please, Sir
Pairing: Remus/Percy/Oliver
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 3542
Warnings: Percy and Oliver are seventeen.
Disclaimer: Not mine. JKR's.
Summary: Remus Lupin enjoys the attentions of the Quidditch Captain and the Head Boy.
Notes: Immeasurable amounts of thanks to
freckles42 for helping me to find direction and for keeping me sane. Written for
pervy_werewolf's Howl-O-Ween challenge. My prompt was: At first cock-crow the ghosts must go/Back to their quiet graves below.
"It will last for one night," the old witch had promised Remus, "from sundown to sunup. You can lie with any woman you wish—only eight sickles, hey?"
Remus regarded the woman, clad in robes shabbier than his own under an equally shabby shawl in the darkening alley, pushing a little blue bottle at him. He had only meant to take a quick detour down Knockturn to do a favour for Dumbledore while he was in London, but he'd been delayed and evening had set in and it was beginning to snow.
The witch looked somewhat less sinister than the other denizens of the Alley—pathetic, really, casting her eyes about as if she were afraid she would be chased away at any moment. The potion was probably either full of Dark ingredients or completely useless, a concoction of rainwater and vegetable dyes, but Remus sighed and said "All right" and dug in his pocket for the coins he couldn't really spare.
The old witch stowed Remus's money beneath her robes and thrust the bottle at him again, losing interest in him as soon as her sale was completed.
Remus pocketed the potion and trudged through the accumulating snow, his purchases safe beneath his cloak, towards the Portkey station and whatever battered object would take him back to the gates of Hogwarts.
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The wind whipped around the castle, moaning, mourning, and Remus couldn't concentrate on marking essays anymore. He set his quill in its stand and stood, stretching. He could do the essays tomorrow.
Remus lit a fire in the grate, then fumbled in the pocket of his cloak for the paperback book he'd picked up in Diagon that afternoon, a second-hand copy of a Muggle classic about a German scholar in Venice, one he'd been meaning to read for quite some time. Blustery nights like this one were perfect, Remus had always thought, for curling up with a book until he fell asleep on his sofa.
Remus's hand closed on the book, but his fingertips brushed against something small and hard and cold. He grasped it, instead, and withdrew it—it was the potion the ragged old witch had sold him earlier. Remus mused on the bottle for a moment, then gave it a little toss in the air and caught it again as if weighing its contents.
"Don't you dare," he chastised himself out loud, and he set the bottle on the end table and fumbled for his book again.
He had read nearly five pages of his book when the wind gave a particularly loud screech, and Remus looked up, distracted. He thought he might make a cup of tea, but his eyes alit on the potion bottle once more, and he reached for it.
"I should have Severus take a look at this," he murmured, rubbing his thumb over the surface of the bottle, then he shook his head and chuckled a bit. A silly notion. If he asked Severus to check the potion, he'd have to explain what it was supposed to be…and that wasn't exactly a conversation Remus could see himself having.
The sun had long set, and Remus found the old witch's words coming back to him. From sundown to sunup, you can lie with any woman you wish…
Remus smiled to himself. There wasn't a woman alive he wanted to take to bed. Twelve or thirteen years ago, he might've entertained the notion of choosing Sirius as the subject of his fantasy, but those days were over now, and things were very different. Who would he even choose, if he did decide to take the potion? There were a few students who—but no, no, Remus didn't need that on his conscience.
But then he remembered the note he'd intercepted from Oliver Wood to Percy Weasley on Friday afternoon. It had contained phrases Remus didn't think Percy Weasley knew—or would have acknowledged that he knew. And all the colour had drained from Percy's face when Remus had snapped up the note as Oliver pushed it across the desk. Oh, Percy knew what was in that note, all right, Remus was certain of that.
Remus crossed to the desk and opened the top drawer. The note was there, folded twice over and written in Oliver's untidy scrawl, teenaged emotions masked by bravado.
Perce,
That was seriously brilliant, what we managed last night. What about meeting up again tonight after Quidditch practise? Don't worry, I'll shower first. Or maybe you can meet me in the showers, there's a thought! Just kidding, I know you wouldn't want to do that. I'll meet you in the common room, okay?