cribellate | SERAPHIM DIAS

[The wobble, he doesn't notice. His own voice is shaky; it's easy not to make too much of hers being the same, to not think that there might be different reasons. Her hands are easy, capable, her smile is teasing still, and when she turns away, he just wants her to turn back again. It's easy for him to get addicted, to want more--and it will pass, and fade, it always does, but for now his focus is on her.

So when she turns to watch the Gryffindors, he steps in towards her, he slips one arm around her waist and tugs her back against him, leans down so his mouth is right by her ear.]

D'you mean right now? You've got my company, right now. You've got quite a lot right now.

[She lets him, lets him pull her off-balance a bit, and turns her head a bit to kiss him, even with her mouth a mess. It's tender and just a little bit sore and it doesn't bother her at all.

She doesn't get addicted easily but even she can feel it, she should go, find someone else, find another boy, someone more her class and her station to persuade to take her to Hogsmeade in a couple of weeks, to distract her from this-

(She won't be distracted, she knows it already, but this is her game and she's in control and she won't give into him)]

Shhh, wait...

[It's another moment, before she yells-]

Filch, Filch!

[And the two Gryffindors look up and take off and she presses a hand to her mouth, that was mean, she shouldn't be mean, and turns back to him]

No, I mean I hope you won't stop playing, now that you've caught me once.

[It's mean and he loves it, and he laughs--a little too loudly, maybe; between the two of them, Filch might actually come running. But he doesn't, and now they've got the corridor to themselves--and Sirius leans in a little to press a kiss to her cheek--and then another, back a little--]

I don't intend to stop playing.

[Another kiss, down towards her throat. His arm is still at her waist, and he twists his hand a little so he can grip at her hip, keeping her pressed close--her arse against him, and he's still a little tender but God, he could keep her pressed just there forever--]

Next time I find you, we'll have to advance. That's how you play a game, right? [And he presses a kiss at her throat, now, lingers over it--]

[She pushes back against him, just a bit, and that is mean, because she's giving him no more satisfaction tonight.]

Yes, that's right, next time you find me, we'll advance, a bit-

No marks, Sirius, please.

[It's the first time she's said his proper name, the first time she hasn't called him Black, and it just came out, informal. After having a boy's cock in her mouth, she rationalizes, she has the right to call him by his first name.]

[It's more than a little mean, it's downright unfair. And no marks--that's less of an unfair request, but still not one he's happy about obeying. If they're doing this, then they're doing this.]

D'you really get to make rules like that?

[He asks it somewhat archly, with some of his usual arrogance. No matter how secret they are, someone will find out, regardless. The school is only so big. It's something, him agreeing to fool around with her. Comments will be made. The least he can do is leave a mark, get what he wants--

But he pulls back a little, and when he kisses her neck again, it's a softer little kiss.]

But because you asked. Please--I think you could ask a bit more nicely, honestly, if you tried.

I get to make all the rules. This is my game, you know.

[Although she knows that she can't force it, he'll get angry, she knows. It's not that this is a secret, but she's seen the way girls fight over him, she doesn't want that aimed at her, and that is cowardice.]

More nicely?

[She turns in his arm and kisses him, the kind of filthy kiss that is usually followed by something different, and looks down, bashfully, playing-]

Thank you so much, for not marking me.

[That's a show, the submissiveness, or maybe it's a promise of something else, different elements of this game.]

Will you walk me to the showers, or am I off alone?

[Whatever it is--a show, submissive or promising or whatever--he likes it, and it quells whatever irritation there might have been (small, minor, under the surface) at her request. Temporary, maybe, but good enough for now. The kiss seals it, makes his skin prickle a little--so when she asks, he's ready to take her hand, with a smile that's more a smirk than anything else.]

I'd never let you go off to shower alone.

[And he steps back, tugging at her.]

Lead on. I'll be your escort, see that you get there safe. And then some.

[Her fingers lace with his, they're holding hands, and for all that she's a mess and anyone who caught more than just a glance of her would be suspicious, they look -

Cute. It's strange. She doesn't cling, she just leads him up to the prefect's bath, and looks back at him. She's not a prefect, but it doesn't matter, she knows the password, of course she does.]

Well, this is where I should leave you for the night.

[There's a smile on her face that is perfectly satisfied with that, with making him wait to see more of her skin.]

But I suspect I'll see you sooner, rather than later, won't I?

[He doesn't let go of her hand, even though they're standing in front of the door. And it's not as if he needs a label to tell him what room this is--he knows the school, and anyway he's been here before, even if he doesn't know the password for the week.]

Or you could see more of me now.

[It's not a forceful suggestion, and honestly it probably won't suddenly become forceful, not with the way he's grinning. But she's going to give him some response, something that prolongs the game and the chase--and he likes that nearly as well as the act itself. Pushing a little to get that is natural.]

After all, you don't know what's waiting in there. Might need a bit of help.

Oh, I think I'll manage.

[She leans in and whispers]

Wouldn't want to spoil the reward, would you?

[She slips her hand from his and whispers the password, and slips in quick.

The next week, she'll keep giving him that same slip, because she's busy, focused on things like should she be doing this, should she keep this up, where could this possibly go? But she smiles and studies and brushes by him with a flick of her hips, she can't help it, she can't.

It's a gloriously sunny day, for all that it's freezing, and she's sitting out studying near the lake, bundled up in her scarf and cloak. It's been a damp fall, and now it's sunny and she needs the weather, and she thinks, what in blazes is she going to do, will she let him near her again?

(Yes, of course you will, she responds to herself.)]

[He's not looking for her, not really. The game's a good one but he's reluctant to rush it, to come off as too eager. He wants her but he doesn't need her, and he's not about to let her have power over him.

So he grins at her when he sees her in the hallways, and when she moves past him he watches her go, he gives himself that small indulgence. It's better than nothing, while he's waiting.

But one day he's down by the lake, chucking rocks in it, and he sees her, sitting there. He recognises her even though she's wound in a muffler and wearing her cloak. And he directs his meandering towards her, until he's standing just a little ways off, watching her.]

This can't be what you do for fun.

[She looks up and tries not to let herself get too eager about it. He's looking sufficiently delinquent for the both of them]

I'm a Ravenclaw, isn't it part of the description?

[She moves her bag over, if he wants to sit.]

Sitting outside in the bloody cold is meant to be clever, now?

[He stays where he is, for a moment longer--but then shoves away from the tree he's leaning against and comes to sit down beside her, taking his hands out of his pockets. He gets out a cigarette while he's at it, and offers her one.]

Want one?

I rather like the cold-

[She takes a cigarette and waits for a light. She probably won't finish it, but it's a far cry from the first day, where she didn't take one at all.]

And what are you doing here, pray tell? Not looking for me.

[He follows with his lighter, heavy and silver and old. The Black family crest is on the side, and he rubs at it, once, after he's lit her cigarette. They would kill him if they could see him now, slumming it with a muggle. That only makes him happy to keep going, because for all he's the good and dutiful heir, he does like to push it a bit at times. Might as well go for it now, while he still can.]

I was just taking a walk, of course. Have you seen the merpeople in the lake?

[She takes a breath of that smoke, and reaches for his lighter, to look at it. Her fingers catch his hand as she looks it over]

I have. And the giant squid. I spend a lot of time out here.

Do you believe it?

[She asks, tapping his family crest. Maybe this is a loaded question.]

[He looks down at the lighter, his nose wrinkled a little.]

Wouldn't carry it around with me if I didn't. Though I like tarnishing that purity every now and then. Obviously.

[She's key to that tarnishing--it's an insult, maybe, and he doesn't pretend otherwise.]

I s'ppose that bothers you.

Should it?

[She takes another breath of her cigarette]

You had your fingers up my cunt either way, didn't you?

[She purposely uses the vulgarity, because maybe it breaks some of the tension, maybe it's to remind herself.]

I never dreamed of a pretty picturesque marriage with you, don't worry.

[It breaks the tension, and it's hot, as well, in its way, a little touch of the dirtiness that he witnessed firsthand. He smirks, a little, taking a drag on his cigarette as well.]

Wasn't a great deal pure about that, that's true.

[But the way he eyes her, the way he smirks around his cigarette--that's enough to say that it was an impurity he didn't mind. Appreciated. Liked, even.]

Does this count as me finding you again, I wonder?

[She laughs, then, and pushes his cigarette away from his face, holding her own slightly back, to press their mouths together.]

Does it?

[She pulls back and there's a grin, and that's when she gets covered in mud and lake water, and the smile from her face drops. She looks like she's about to scream, as she looks around, because what happened, it wasn't him, his hand wasn't on his wand-

And she sees them, at the top of the hill, a gaggle of girls, Slytherins - there's the Greengrass girl, and she thinks that's a Bulstrode but mud drips over her face before she can make it out.

But it's cold and she's gasping for air and reaching for her wand-]

[But Sirius is faster. He whips his gaze around as soon as the mud hits Sera--and he's on his feet, his wand out--

And he'll regret this later, probably, because later they're going to ask why he'd defended a mudblood, why he'd bothered, why he hadn't laughed--slumming it is all right, but you don't forget where you come from and who you are, no matter what--

But Sirius' temper is up, and he flicks his wand at them. He's clever, so even from a distance, the spell takes: mud, if they want mud, they've got it, up to their collective ankles, sloppy and black and sucking at their stockings.]

Looking good, girls!

[She gets up and grabs his hand, and they're giving out cries of shock, because there's mud everywhere, and she's pulling him. One of them is screaming his name, but Seraphim isn't sure if it's a vow of revenge or a plea for mercy]

Come on-

[It's not running away, not really, she has her bag in one hand and it's covered, but she'll deal with that (mud all over her schoolthings, she pales to think of mud all over her homework, she's a Ravenclaw at heart), and mutters a nasty little hex as they pass the girls working to get out of the mud.

Their hair - turns a particularly nasty shade of gray, and their skin grows boils, but they won't notice it until they're back and they've showered.]

You didn't have to, I could have-

[She's dripping mud on him too, but that's all right.]

They'll tell your brother-

[Someone will tell her brother, that's even worse, she thinks.]

Come on!

[She's leading them back into the castle, tracking mud everywhere, but she doesn't care, and Sirius, he'll have to put up with it because she's not letting go of his hand.]

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[He doesn't see her hexwork--they pass by too quickly, and it's too subtly done--but when he hears about it later, he's going to laugh, because it's funny. No matter who worked the spell, it's funny, and those girls deserved it. Girls, by and large, deserve a great deal, especially these ones--gossipy and small minded and boring, boring, and that's their greatest flaw. They're about as interesting as bowtruckles; their only saving grace are their names and their appearances.]

Like I care what my brother thinks--

[Regulus is irritating, for all that Sirius is grudgingly fond of him. But it's not Regulus he really ought to worry about in this, it's what Regulus will do with the information, unless Sirius can shut him up and stop him from writing home. There's slumming and then there's defending a mudblood from his peers, and of the two of them, the first is tolerated and disliked, while the second would be tantamount to treason.]

This way.

[He tugs at her hand instead, reversing their direction--they're in the castle, but he's got a different destination in mind than wherever she's leading them. Their palms squelch together as they run--a mudblood covered in mud, covering him in mud too. It's kind of appropriate.]

[Seraphim follows, then, for the first time he's leading and she's following, and she's all right with that.]

I'm hardly afraid of what your brother will think of you as much as what he might say-

[She begins, but then, well. She's trailing behind him, dripping mud everywhere, and she knows that at some point Filch will see and curse and then threaten students with the thumbscrews again, but it doesn't matter.]

I think being afraid of Regulus at all is unnecessary.

[It's bravado talking, because Regulus could ruin everything, and probably will. That's just how he is. He won't even do it with malice, not necessarily, it will just happen, and he'll apologise, but say you're better off--

Sirius scowls a little, and tugs at her hand impatiently, stepping up his pace. They're in a disused corridor now, empty classrooms--it dead-ends just ahead, in a large statute of a warty wizard. Sirius strides up to him and kicks along the bottom of his wide plinth--there's a grating sound, and a panel in the stone wall slides open, just behind the statute. A secret room.]

Ladies first.

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