The Professor, Part 23
Title: The Professor, Part 23
Author/Artist:
digthewriter
Character(s): Neville, Theo, Charlie
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): 8th year. EWE.
Challenge(s): Prompt 32: Indulgent for mixandmatch100 and Prompt 377: The Cloak of Invisibility for
neville100
Word count: 100x7
Author's notes: Unbetaed. Continuation of the Professor series.
Neville knew Theo to be the stoic one. Even if he was having an emotional turmoil, the man would never show it. He thought Theo wouldn't need someone to talk to about what they were doing; and who they were doing it with. Of course, after one weekend-which'd been the best weekend of Neville's life, they'd returned to Hogwarts as if nothing special had happened.
When their friends asked where they'd secretly run off to, Neville and Theo managed to give vague replies. Of course, Theo kept on with the persona of being someone who was always interested in being a third person in their relationship. Naturally, Neville knew it was all for show.
They had to keep up the appearances of being quite indulgent and creative in the bedroom.
Once when Charlie, or Professor Weasley had caught Theo flirting in the hallway with a student, he'd assumed it was real.
It was a difficult path they were treading; had Neville not been used to how Theo operated, he would have flipped out as well. Charlie, after all, was a Gryffindor. Immediately after Charlie'd witnessed Theo getting handsy with a student at Hogwarts, he'd scowled at Theo, and commanded the other student to leave immediately.
According to Theo, Charlie looked more disappointed than enraged.
Neville knew he had to do something.
He made an appointment after class with Professor Weasley to try to talk to him.
"He doesn't mean it," Neville said as soon as he'd entered Charlie's office and locked the door behind him.
Charlie's response was only a raised eyebrow.
"He can't help it," Neville added, unhelpfully.
"He can't help it," Charlie repeated.
"It's for show," Neville said, pleading. The last thing he wanted was to have one of Theo's antics get in the way. "It's so no one can suspect…"
"Suspect what?" Charlie almost barked out, and Neville saw the Weasley rage. He'd seen similar outbursts in Ginny and Ron in the past and evidently, it ran in the family.
Neville bit his lower lip and tried not to smirk.
"So it's nothing for you. Both of you," Charlie said, scoffing. "It was an act."
"No!" Neville said rushing to Charlie's side, knowing he had to keep his distance from a pissed off Weasley, perched up on the edge of Charlie's desk. "It's an act for the school. We can't suddenly tell them we've gone monogamous, or we have someone. I mean all of our friends will demand to know…and obviously they'll assume it's someone from the school…I mean, we're leaving in a few months, Char, but you have to stay here."
"Have someone."
That's all he got from this?
"We have you. I mean, if you'll allow that. We'd hoped, next time-" Neville stopped himself from speaking and shrugged. What was he supposed to say? They never talked about anything concrete with Charlie, but Neville and Theo had spoken to each other. They wanted him. Just him.
Neville expected to communicate with Charlie the next time they'd met up. There had to be a next time, he was certain of it.
"You never told me any of this."
Neville chuckled lightly. "That's because as soon as Sunday morning arrived, you gave us the impression you wanted us gone. We didn't get a-"
"I didn't want to seem…I don't know…clingy?" he said, and scowled at Neville. "Gods, I've been reduced to speaking like a teenager."
"Well, you are fucking two of them," Neville said with a smirk.
"We need to talk."
"Obviously," Neville said, rolling his eyes. "Now, I should probably leave soon because I've been here long enough meeting with a teacher whose class I'm not taking. But, you'll leave Theo alone now, won't you? Poor bloke is so worried you're not going to want to touch him again-"
"He said that?"
Neville laughed. "Right. Theo doesn't say anything."
"You really love him?"
Neville gave it a thought. "Maybe I do."
As he left Charlie's office, Neville felt better. He wished he had a cloak of invisibility, like Harry's, so no one could see him leaving Charlie's office. He needed to have no connection with Charlie while he was at Hogwarts.
This entry was originally posted at https://digthewriter.dreamwidth.org/584012.html. Thanks for reading
Author/Artist:
digthewriter
Character(s): Neville, Theo, Charlie
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s): 8th year. EWE.
Challenge(s): Prompt 32: Indulgent for mixandmatch100 and Prompt 377: The Cloak of Invisibility for
neville100
Word count: 100x7
Author's notes: Unbetaed. Continuation of the Professor series.
Neville knew Theo to be the stoic one. Even if he was having an emotional turmoil, the man would never show it. He thought Theo wouldn't need someone to talk to about what they were doing; and who they were doing it with. Of course, after one weekend-which'd been the best weekend of Neville's life, they'd returned to Hogwarts as if nothing special had happened.
When their friends asked where they'd secretly run off to, Neville and Theo managed to give vague replies. Of course, Theo kept on with the persona of being someone who was always interested in being a third person in their relationship. Naturally, Neville knew it was all for show.
They had to keep up the appearances of being quite indulgent and creative in the bedroom.
Once when Charlie, or Professor Weasley had caught Theo flirting in the hallway with a student, he'd assumed it was real.
It was a difficult path they were treading; had Neville not been used to how Theo operated, he would have flipped out as well. Charlie, after all, was a Gryffindor. Immediately after Charlie'd witnessed Theo getting handsy with a student at Hogwarts, he'd scowled at Theo, and commanded the other student to leave immediately.
According to Theo, Charlie looked more disappointed than enraged.
Neville knew he had to do something.
He made an appointment after class with Professor Weasley to try to talk to him.
"He doesn't mean it," Neville said as soon as he'd entered Charlie's office and locked the door behind him.
Charlie's response was only a raised eyebrow.
"He can't help it," Neville added, unhelpfully.
"He can't help it," Charlie repeated.
"It's for show," Neville said, pleading. The last thing he wanted was to have one of Theo's antics get in the way. "It's so no one can suspect…"
"Suspect what?" Charlie almost barked out, and Neville saw the Weasley rage. He'd seen similar outbursts in Ginny and Ron in the past and evidently, it ran in the family.
Neville bit his lower lip and tried not to smirk.
"So it's nothing for you. Both of you," Charlie said, scoffing. "It was an act."
"No!" Neville said rushing to Charlie's side, knowing he had to keep his distance from a pissed off Weasley, perched up on the edge of Charlie's desk. "It's an act for the school. We can't suddenly tell them we've gone monogamous, or we have someone. I mean all of our friends will demand to know…and obviously they'll assume it's someone from the school…I mean, we're leaving in a few months, Char, but you have to stay here."
"Have someone."
That's all he got from this?
"We have you. I mean, if you'll allow that. We'd hoped, next time-" Neville stopped himself from speaking and shrugged. What was he supposed to say? They never talked about anything concrete with Charlie, but Neville and Theo had spoken to each other. They wanted him. Just him.
Neville expected to communicate with Charlie the next time they'd met up. There had to be a next time, he was certain of it.
"You never told me any of this."
Neville chuckled lightly. "That's because as soon as Sunday morning arrived, you gave us the impression you wanted us gone. We didn't get a-"
"I didn't want to seem…I don't know…clingy?" he said, and scowled at Neville. "Gods, I've been reduced to speaking like a teenager."
"Well, you are fucking two of them," Neville said with a smirk.
"We need to talk."
"Obviously," Neville said, rolling his eyes. "Now, I should probably leave soon because I've been here long enough meeting with a teacher whose class I'm not taking. But, you'll leave Theo alone now, won't you? Poor bloke is so worried you're not going to want to touch him again-"
"He said that?"
Neville laughed. "Right. Theo doesn't say anything."
"You really love him?"
Neville gave it a thought. "Maybe I do."
As he left Charlie's office, Neville felt better. He wished he had a cloak of invisibility, like Harry's, so no one could see him leaving Charlie's office. He needed to have no connection with Charlie while he was at Hogwarts.
This entry was originally posted at https://digthewriter.dreamwidth.org/584012.html. Thanks for reading