Closed: Sabrina, backdated - post date

[daleysebastian]

Sebastian was not a paranoid person. Granted, sometimes he happened to disappear from an entire country when it seemed like he'd been made as a werewolf. Sometimes he made less than idle threats if he happened across someone where they shouldn't be. Most times he refused to talk to anyone because of what they might figure out. Every full moon,

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[daleysabrina]

When Sabrina made it home that night she was practically floating, having to tear herself from Dean after their fourth goodbye- or maybe it was the fifth, actually, before slipping inside. It was late, much later than she had intended to come home, but time just seemed to slip away from the both of them. Though, Bri wasn't the type of ever watch the clock and adhere to any sort of schedule, when she had been a student at Hogwarts she was late to nearly every class.

She slipped inside as quietly as she could but that damn front door was so heavy and the click echoed through the entire foyer. Sabrina winced, turning around slowly to see her big brother awake and waiting for her, looking less than pleased.

Actually, he looked just like their dad looked every night that Samantha snuck back home at this hour. Of course Bri would stay awake and wait to hear about her adventures, which she always kept PG rated considering she had been a pre-teen at the time. Now Sabrina realized why her sister had that goofy smile on her face every night-

"Yes?" she told him as innocently as possible, despite the oversized sweatpants and shirt that fell nearly to her knees. Oh, and she was barefoot. And her hair was a frizzy mess from the rain.

But completely innocent.

[daleysebastian]

"Yeah," Sebastian shook his head. He didn't buy the innocent act - to be fair, he never bought anyone's innocent act and he apparently could still read Sabrina's face at least a little. Or maybe he'd been leaning that again since she came back from the dead.

"Who'd you see, again?" The maid didn't know because she was apparently useless for gossp.

[daleysabrina]

"Dean Thomas," she told him, trying to manage a straight face but a deep blush rose up in her cheeks the moment she spoke his name.

It was impossible to keep that grin off of her face, her cheeks sore by now from an entire night of it. Then there was also the fact that the shirt definitely still smelled like him. Even Sebastian's glaring, resembling their father more than he probably realized, couldn't keep her from skipping over to him.

"He picked me up before you came home from work-"

That was definitely planned on purpose.

[daleysebastian]

Dean Thomas. Sebastian nodded, taking that in for a moment. He'd done a little digging around after Jemma had mentioned who had absconded with his sister at the event last week. He seemed fairly harmless, honestly, but Sebastian wasn't about to be calmed by that.

He took in her clothes - that were obviously not actually hers - as she moved across the room. She looked absolutely giddy. Sebastian sighed, weary.

"Of course he did." He managed to keep down a smirk by raising an eyebrow instead. "Which was a complete accident and not at all the plan, I'm sure."

[daleysabrina]

"Dean is actually the one that brought me here that first night. We um- ran into each other at that music thing you brought me to," she explained to him, managing to stop bouncing around enough look him in the eye.

Though, Bri didn't feel quite so intimidating when he was nearly a head taller and her cheeks were so rosy. Instead she probably looked like the "rebellious teenager" that her mother always accused Samantha of being in her later years at Hogwarts, a crucial period in her life that Bri had seemed to miss out on.

"He asked me to dinner. It wasn't a big deal-"

It was very much a big deal.

[daleysebastian]

"That was ... nice of him." Sebastian was willing to be grateful that Sabrina had managed to find someone who was willing to help her get back home that wasn't a complete creep. Still, he doubted her judgment in people more than a little.

"You were skipping; you're three shades of red; you're wearing his clothes." If she wasn't his sister he'd already have admitted it was apparently a very big deal.

[daleysabrina]

"We were caught out in the rain," she reasoned with him, which actually did explain why she was in his clothes and not the slinky little red dress she had left the house in. Somehow Sabrina thought that her brother would have been even more uncomfortable seeing her come home in that-

Sabrina shifted her weight from one foot to another, still buzzing with an incredible amount of energy, more so than usual for even her at this time of night.

Chewing at her bottom lip her mind wandered back to his bedroom and, if it was even possible, her cheeks burned hotter.

"We also had sex. My first time-"

[daleysebastian]

Sebastian's eyes shot open wider. He wasn't sure what he expected her to say, but that was so far outside of anything he expected.

Not that he should be so shocked. It was kind of obvious, all things considered.

"First? How - " He cut that off quickly. Apparently, Reid's tendency to say any random thing that popped into his head was catching. Seriously, though, how did someone manage to make it to their 20s - dangerous commune of criminal werewolves or not?

Sebastian really didn't need or want to know.

"Merlin, Bri. There are things I need to know, things I want to know, and things you should probably never, on pain of death tell me."

[daleysabrina]

It may have been a little bit cruel, even Sabrina knew that, but she couldn't help but laugh at her brother's reaction. These sorts of things were meant to be private and special, her mother had sat down and given her the talk the night before she left for her third year at school, though she already had a pretty good idea of all of it thanks to Samantha and her equally big mouth (they were sisters after all).

Though, it wasn't long after she had arrived at the camp that the elders had matched her up with Nolan, warning her of the importance of her virtue to make the marriage sacred. Nolan may have stolen his fair share of kisses over the years but he wanted Sabrina has his wife and, while she had accepted her role in their community, she had never welcomed Nolan's advances.

"It's not like I have any actually friends to talk to about it," she mused, a devious little spark in her eyes as she met his gaze.

"Besides- I'm um- unfit for Nolan now or whatever- so-"

That hadn't been why she did it, of course not. In fact, Nolan hadn't even crossed her mind up until now. It was very easy to be distracted by Dean's broad, cut body and his warm eyes.

[daleysebastian]

"Can't you, I don't know." Sebastian rubbed at his eyes. This was beyond awkward. She had a point, granted, that she didn't actually have anyone else to talk to. He was willing to be a supportive big brother, but boundaries were a thing. "Owl Reid? He's used to his thirty girlfriends so you'd probably slot right in." He'd introduced her to literally two people - one of which she hated - and she'd met the third on her own - and that was the one she wanted to talk about, anyway.

He was torn between wanting to intimidate Dean and threaten to break his hands for touching his sister and actually being glad there was a reason she couldn't go back to her weird werewolf pack leader fiance. It was very confusing.

"What's that even mean? Unfit for the werewolf prince?"

[daleysabrina]

"I can't just owl your friends," she sighed, rolling her eyes at the idea of something so absurd. While Sabrina liked Reid, she thought he was wonderful really, she'd only met him once.

As much as she wanted to move past all of the camp's mentality, her first instinct was still to push wizards away from her to protect herself.

"Unfit-" she said again, giving him a knowing look. "The only reason he never tried was because I had to be a virgin."

[daleysebastian]

"He'd get a kick out of it, honestly." Plus, the awkward would go somewhere else. Sebastian would really like the awkward to go somewhere else.

His eyes narrowed at the implication. Ownership and hierarchies always made Sebastian nervous. His sister being wrapped up in it made it worse.

"Is that pack stuck two centuries back?" He tried to shut down the indistinct rage. "SO what happens when they come like you think and you drop that bombshell on them?"

[daleysabrina]

Well, maybe Sabrina hadn't thought this all the way through, considering that they were going to come looking for her.

Then again, she had already been here for nearly a week and hadn't seen any sign of them. Either they weren't coming for her or they'd had a difficult time. It wasn't like she was marching herself through the city every day with a big sign attached to herself. London was a large city and she was safe here at Daley Manor.

"I mean-" she chewed at her bottom lip, blinking up at her big brother. "What if I refuse to go back?"

[daleysebastian]

"Then you don't go back," Sebastian shrugged, pleased. Maybe Thomas deserved a little bit of a thank you. Sebastian was a fan - in theory - of anything that kept her away from the monsters that murdered their family.

"Simple as. I told you that."

[daleysabrina]

"Is that all I get?" she asked him, crossing her arms over her chest and raised her eyebrows at him curiously.

For the last three weeks Sabrina had been skirting around the issue, unwilling to say one way or another what she was going to do. The idea of settling anywhere, choosing one world over another, had terrified her.

Now she couldn't imagine leaving.

"A stupid shrug from my big brother?"

[daleysebastian]

"Do you want specifics?" Sebastian may have sounded more snappish than he expected. He'd been trying very hard not to push too far and go overboard to keep her there. Also, he thrived on giving as little away as possible.

"If you want to stay here? That's what's going to happen. I have someone working an angle that will help with that. And I'm good a wand. Also Muggle guns, but they're barbaric and uncalled for." She had wanted more than a shrug, after all.

"Trust me, Bri. When I say you can stay, even if they try to take you back, I mean it."