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Entry tags: | 2009, blaise/terry, fic |
Gift for slumber: Forgetting Mandy Brocklehurst (Blaise Zabini/Terry Boot)
Title: Forgetting Mandy Brocklehurst
Author: sparkysparky
Recipient: slumber
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 10,400
Warnings: Lots of long, draw out, teasing sex. Little bit of plot. No resolved ending.
Summary: When Terry is left at the altar, he's pushed into going on his honeymoon alone. Except, Lisa has other ideas and is Unspeakable-y sneaky. And Blaise is a closet romantic. (Blaise/Terry; mentions of Terry/Mandy and Mandy/Stephen)
Disclaimers: These characters are not mine because they belong to JK Rowling. The situation is borrowed from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. And there was a lot of porn read in pursuit of inspiration.
Notes: MUCHAS GRACIAS to M. without whom this fic would never have gotten done. And to S. for general cheerleading. And to the fest mods for their patience as this fic grew and grew and spiralled out of control. slumber I really, really hope you enjoy this. In conclusion: PORN!
It had been three days since the wedding that wasn't, and Terry hadn't left his bed except to pee and restock his candy supplies. He'd drawn the covers over his head and was determined to stay there until he died. Or at least until the humiliation and heartbreak was a little less raw. At the moment he was pretty sure he knew which one would happen first, because every time he started to think that maybe he could handle getting up and showering, he'd remember the church full of his family and friends, and Mandy, in her stunning white wedding robes, announcing to everyone that she's sorry, but she can't do this because she's in love with the best man.
And yeah, he'd known--everyone had known--that Mandy and Stephen were close; they'd always been close even when they were bickering at each other, but he'd never expected that they were close in the naked, skin-on-skin sort of way. He'd been the only one though, because Michael and Anthony had said all the right things and Lisa and Padma had cried with him but he could tell from the looks in their eyes and their complete lack of shock that he'd been the last to know this particular Ravenclaw secret. Even his parents hadn't seemed surprised, and they hadn't been Ravenclaws in over twenty years.
What he just didn't understand--probably would never understand--was why they hadn't just told him. Told him before he went and fell in love with Mandy, and her sweet smelling hair and soft hands and stupid jokes only Stephen got. So yeah, maybe that should have clued him in before this clusterfuck of a wedding happened, but she'd been his best friend since he was eleven, so it was only natural he fell in love with her. And yeah, maybe there hadn't been all this passion between them that he'd heard about, but it had been comfortable, like slipping into an favorite old jumper. They never fought, not like Stephen and Mandy did all the time, and maybe that should have been his second clue.
He ignored the small, insidious voice that insisted he'd let himself fall in love with Mandy because it'd been easy and let him keep a part of himself secret and unfulfilled, because what the hell did his subconscious know anyway?
"Terry?"
It was Lisa's voice, he could tell from the epic amount of concern and the fact that no one else would dare break through his warding. Stupid, super secret Unspeakable skills, he sulked as he heard the door to his bedroom open.
"Fucking hell, Terry, it smells like a fucking Quidditch locker room in here. And not in the fun naked boys way," Lisa quipped, and Terry heard both the concern and disgust in her voice. It was well hidden under loads of sarcasm, but Terry had known Lisa long enough to read between the lines.
"Go 'way," he said, voice muffled by the comforter.
"Oh, like that's going to happen," Lisa snorted, and Terry heard a faint rustling letting him know she'd pulled open the curtains. "Come on, time to get up and shower. I can smell how rank you are from here." He could just picture her signature nose wrinkle, and it made him feel both fond and annoyed, which maybe meant he wasn't as far gone into misery and heartache as he thought he'd was.
"Jus' lemme die in peace," Terry whined, and curled up in a defensive ball as the comforter was suddenly gone. "My life is over."
"It is not; stop being such an emo kid." Terry wasn't sure what an emo kid was exactly, because Lisa was the one who watches too much Muggle television when she's at her father's house. "Come on, it's time to get up. You're leaving in an hour."
Her voice was matter-of-fact, as if she expected Terry to just fall in line and do what she said. Sad fact is, he probably would. It was the story of his life -- being bossed around by tiny girls, and even though his heart was shattered and cracked and would never heal again, he found himself out of bed, naked and in the shower without even worrying over the naked part.
"Just so you know, I hate you," he grumbled as he scrubbed his hair clean. He felt better after the shower though, even though there was still an empty, gaping whole where his heart used to be. "My life is over, there's no reason for showering."
Her look was one of dejected pity, though he didn't know what she had to be dejected about. It was his heart that had been stomped on and torn out by two of his best friends. Former best friends, he reminded himself, and felt his heart break all over again.
Lisa sighed, and hugged Terry, unworried by his wet nudity, and Terry rested his head on her shoulder, feeling a few hot tears squeeze past his eyelids. They stood like that until Terry started shivering, and she pushed him toward the bedroom to get dressed. In the short time he'd been in the shower, she'd cleaned the place up, and a packed suitcase was lying on his bed.
"Lisa…" he trailed off, because he knew where this was going and he wasn't sure he liked it. He was already shaking his head, though he knew it was a futile effort.
"Terry," she mimicked his tone, and stood with her hands on her hips, brows raised. "Give me one good reason why not."
He stared at her in disbelief. "You only need one?" he asked, voice in a higher range than usual. "How about we start with the fact that it was supposed to be my honeymoon."
Lisa shrugged and rolled her eyes. "So what? It's still a paid vacation to Italy, and you've always wanted to go. So you should go. It will be good for you." She was speaking with absolutely surety, which was a skill of hers that Terry had always envied. He wished he could be half as self-assured as Lisa was, because if he were, then maybe he wouldn't be standing naked in his bedroom, heart broken into teeny tiny pieces.
Terry couldn't actually think of anything else to say. Even if he could, even if he brought up all the reasons why this was a monumentally stupid idea, Lisa would just bulldoze over his objections and send him on his way. And he really didn't have the energy to fight with her. So he just sighed wearily, let her dress him in summer clothes and press the Portkey into his hand.
"Have a good time, and don't think about anything back here. I'm sure by the time you get back, things won't seem quite so terrible," she said, a knowing gleam in her eyes as she hugged him. If he didn't know better, he'd swear she was up to something. Then he remembered that this was Lisa, and she was always up to something and he'd be better off not thinking about it. Saner at least.
Then there was the familiar hooking sensation behind his navel, and he was being squeezed through something unpleasantly small. International Portkey was never fun, and he was feeling woozy and nauseated when he landed; all that kept him upright was a pair of large, brown hands.
He blinked, suitcase falling to the ground as he grasped his savior unsteadily. The features were familiar and he gasped as he recognized the smirk on those lovely, lovely lips. Not that he'd noticed another man's lips, except well, he was pretty sure no one had prettier lips than Blaise Zabini.
"Zabini?" He would hate himself later, for both the girlish squeal and the way his stomach did a series of flips, but right then he was too busy hating Lisa. Because he knew she' was behind this. She had obviously done some sort of super secret Unspeakable thing to his Portkey, and now he had landed on Zabini's doorstep and was going to be murdered or something, and maybe he just needed to stop reading Muggle mystery novels, because apparently they were making him paranoid.
"Boot," Zabini said, his voice as deep and smooth as his chocolaty skin. "I take it from your apparent shock and awe that Turpin didn't explain."
Terry could only shake his head as he looked up--and up and up. Zabini had gotten tall he thought, absently licking his lips--and wondered at the strange expression on Zabini's face.
"Always said Ravenclaws were the weirdest bunch," Zabini muttered, but he was grinning, sort of, and clapped a large hand down on Terry's shoulder. "Come on Boot, I'll show you where you're staying."