Title: Luke Snyder and The Mirror of Erised
Author: hugocabret
Pairing: Luke/Reid
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 3942
Summary/Prompt: Luke discovers something important about himself in the Mirror of Erised. Luke and Reid's relationship changes drastically.
Author's note: sorry for the epically long wait. this chapter is dedicated to everybody who sent me messages asking for this chapter. it took me forever to figure out what/where/why. i would say more but i dont want to give anything away before you read.
Disclaimer: I do not own ATWT or HARRY POTTER
Luke Snyder and the Room of Requirements Luke Snyder and the Felix Felicis Luke Snyder and Advanced Potion Making Luke Snyder and Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop: Part 1 Luke Snyder and Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop: Part 2 Luke stood in front of the mirror that was held in the storage room that Reid had taken him to about two weeks ago. Since that night, that room had been in the forefront of his mind and it had taken him almost the full two weeks to find where it was again. Between the shock of being dragged around the castle through secret passageways, spells that contained passwords, and the mind-blowing sex that had followed, Luke couldn’t remember where the room was actually located. He had used most of his free time, that wasn’t spent with his friends or with Reid, trying to find that room.
Luke had carefully pulled off a beautiful tapestry that had been hiding the mirror. When he had been with a Reid a small fraction of the mirror had been exposed and Luke had felt drawn to it. It was almost as if the mirror had wanted him to find it again.
Luke was now standing in front of it with his perfect reflection staring back at him. He looked fuller and broader and not as kid-like. His hair was neatly managed and Luke could tell by his face that he was happy.
What happened next Luke had not expected.
The mirror slowly started to show more images and people.
The first person he saw was Reid. An image of Reid came up to stand beside him and as the image of Reid got closer it grabbed onto the reflection of Luke, their hands entertwined together. Luke looked around the room, he thought that maybe Reid was actually in there and that he wasn’t seeing things. But he was alone, his hand was empty. He looked back up into the mirror and his smiled at the image of holding his boyfriend’s hand.
He loved when Reid held his hand, even if it was just walking him to the door in the morning. He looked at the image of Reid and Reid looked happy as well. They both looked so happy.
Then more people started to enter the reflection. It was Casey and Noah and they were acting as if Reid was no big deal, as if he was a part of their family.
Eventually his family came into the picture, and everybody still looked happy. And then a copy of the Daily Prophet containing a front page story that Luke had written. As Luke held the copy of the Daily Prophet in his hand, the reflection of Reid leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
Everybody looked happy.
After looking in the mirror Luke realized that for his friends to accept Reid was currently the most important thing to him.
More than his grades.
More than becoming a writer for The Daily Prophet.
Luke stared at his reflection and he could tell he was so in love.
And slowly all the other images left the mirror. First the Daily Prophet, then Casey and Noah. His family followed shortly after that. The last to go was Reid, until Luke was just staring at his real reflection.
He still had same look on his face that he had in the mirror.
He was in love with Reid.
He wanted Reid to know.
He wanted everybody to know.
Luke glanced at the clock in the room and noticed that nearly two whole hours had passed since he had gotten there. How that much time had passed he couldn’t tell. But he had stared at the image of him and Reid happy together that he must have lost track of time, because he never wanted that to leave him.
He knew that he could make his desires a reality.
He would just have to tell Reid how he felt and deal with whatever the consequences were.
--
It had been almost a week since Luke had visited the mirror and he still hadn’t told Reid, and that was for a number of reasons. The first being, Reid had a Quidditch match against Ravenclaw tomorrow and Luke didn’t want to distract him, the second being, he still needed a potions tutor as the classes were getting harder and harder and currently he was the best in the class, he didn’t want to lose that, and thirdly, his friends were so busy with their girlfriends and their daunting course load, that they had stop bothering him about where he was all the time.
Things were amazing and the last thing Luke wanted to do was fuck it up, telling Reid he loved him and that he wanted to go public with their relationship.
--
It was Friday night, and normally Reid liked to be relatively alone the night before a game, and Luke had been surprised when Reid asked if he wanted to hang out. Although they spent a significant time together, most of it was just sleeping, as Reid was beyond busy with classes, daily duties of being a prefect, as well as ridiculously long Quidditch practices. So when Reid had asked him, Luke had jumped at the chance to actually spend quality time with him.
Luke slowly pushed opened the door of the Room of Requirements to see Reid sitting at the desk, his nose buried in a book, using any extra minute that the day offered him to continue learning new magic. Luke admired that quality in Reid, his desire to be the best at everything, and also his ability to balance everything he had going on in his life.
Luke knew that Reid knew he was in the room, but Reid hadn’t turned around yet or stood up to greet him, as he was most likely finishing the page. Luke placed his hands on Reid’s shoulders and started to rub them, the tension in them was undeniable and he felt Reid relax into his hands.
“You’re hands are magical.” Reid said as he let out a hasty breath.
“Thanks.” Luke said as he continued to massage deeper and deeper into the older boy’s shoulder. “You feel tense”
“Just a little stressed.” Reid said as he flipped the page and Luke noticed that it was the end of the chapter. Luke noticed that the title of the book was called, Olde and Forgotten Bewitchments and Charmes by E. Limus.
“About tomorrow?” Luke asked, still kneading his hands into Reid.
“I guess.” Reid said as he shut the book and pushed it aside. He slowly stood up and Luke’s hands fell to his side. When Reid turned around to finally Luke at Luke, Luke noticed how tired he actually looked.
Reid could read Luke’s face and quickly leaned in for a kiss, not allowing the younger boy to dig too deep into his current state.
“How was your day?” Reid asked quietly as he pulled away from Luke. Luke fluttered his eyes open, his mouth still slightly agape.
“Long.” Luke airily replied. Luke glanced around the room at the grandfather clock in the corner, it wasn’t even that late, but he was tired and he could tell that Reid was itching to get into bed. Luke leaned back in and gave Reid another soft kiss, the mouth’s fitting perfectly with one another.
“Come on.” Reid said as he tugged on the bottom of Luke’s shirt. Luke followed Reid over to the bed, which, thanks to the ever evolving Room of Requirements, the bed was now much larger and one hundred times more comfortable.
Both of them slowly undressed, and it was only slow because they couldn’t keep their hands off each other. Every time an article of clothes was removed, it lead to hands and kissing.
Everything felt slow and elongated, as they carefully took inventory of one another. It hadn’t been that long since they had sex, only a couple of days, but every since Luke had come to the realization that he was in love with Reid, everything felt more special, more real, and he wanted to savor every moment that they shared together.
Reid had pushed Luke down onto the bed. Luke immediately moved to allow Reid to come on top of him. He loved when Reid took control like this, as Reid had his fingers locked in his hair while his other hand braced firmly on the side of the bed, his mouth opened and tongue working on the soft spot of his neck.
“Mmm Reid.” Luke moaned out as Reid continued to lightly nip and bite at the now tender skin. Luke was idly running his hands down the sides of Reid’s abdomen and he was slowly pushing his body up into Reid’s as Reid’s was pushing down.
Reid moved his lips so that they were back on Luke’s, satisfied with the work they had done on Luke’s neck and Luke was more than appreciative to have Reid back on his lips.
Their movements were liquid as they continued to make out with each other. Nothing felt rushed, as both of their bodies were too tired to try and compete. Reid would have been satisfied with just this, as he had to be up early for his match, but he never knew what Luke was going to do. He loved that Luke could pick up on his mood and feelings and then match them, never doing to much or too little.
Reid almost hated how perfect they were when they were together, but he loved perfection.
Luke started to move his body, pushing harder against Reid and eventually got Reid to roll off him and get onto his back, all without breaking their kiss. Reid laughed barely into Luke’s mouth as didn’t waste anytime by stopping.
Luke knew that Reid had to get up early tomorrow, but his body wanted Reid so bad right now and he could tell that Reid wanted him just as badly and was obviously not saying anything as talking it out, trying to figure out what would be best would only ruin the moment.
Luke slid his hand down and started to massage Reid’s cock that was pressing hard into both of their lower abdomen. Reid let out a small groan of appreciation at the initial contact. Luke slowly ran his thumb over the head of Reid’s cock, just delicately stimulating it.
Reid tilted his head back as Luke moved from his lips to his ear, just barely sucking on the lobe, before moving down his cheek and then onto his neck before slowly running his tongue along the line of his collarbone.
Reid’s hands were unable to find something to do as the pleasure mixed with his exhaustion was causing him to just be a participant instead of a player. Although he knew that neither one of them minded as he loved when Luke took full and utter control. Reid’s body involuntarily jerked up as Luke started to stroke his cock harder.
Luke loved having this kind of control of Reid. Reid rarely gave up control in any aspect of his life. He dominated his school work, sometimes even teaching the professors a thing or two. He was a prefect and he ran a tight ship in the Slytherin house. His Quidditch team worshipped him as he was not only an excellent player but an amazing leader. And as a lover, Luke could find nobody better.
So when Reid gave up a little bit of himself to Luke, Luke took advantage of it.
Reid who was currently letting his body get lost in Luke was surprised when Luke’s body slowly started to shift. Luke was now straddling him, his knees dug into the bed on either side of him, and Reid couldn’t help but moan loudly when Luke guided Reid’s cock inside of him, without any warning.
Luke slowly lowered himself onto Reid, pushing his body down, slowly taking in every inch of Reid. Reid watched in pure amazement as Luke had his eyes shut tight and his corner of his bottom lip was being pulled into his mouth by his teeth. The sight was amazing and the feeling was perfection.
Once Reid was all the way inside of him, Luke held himself for just a moment, before slowly starting to move up and down. Luke leaned forward and Reid lifted himself up just enough to meet Luke’s lips and as he did so he started to help thrust in and out.
But then Luke pushed off Reid’s chest, causing him to lay flat on his back. Luke then took all the control, allowing Reid just to lay back and enjoy.
It was so like Luke to know that too much physical activity might affect his match tomorrow.
Reid fucking loved that kid.
Luke started move faster, and every time Luke came down he would tighten up a bit and Reid would moan out in pleasure. The feeling of how hot and tight Luke felt in this position was utterly hot and the fact that Luke was now jerking himself off to the same pace as his own thrust was god-like and Reid didn’t think he would be able to last much longer.
Luke was panting loudly as the show he was putting on for Reid an the pleasure he was feeling was reaching it’s breaking point. He was so turned on by being with Reid he couldn’t take it anymore and as he slowly lowered himself onto Reid, he came into his hand and just barely onto Reid’s chest.
Luke pushed himself hard down onto Reid, riding out his orgasm, allowing his body to positively react on top of Reid. He felt Reid barely push further up into him and Luke could feel his body tighten even more around Reid.
Luke slowly started to lift himself up and Reid pushed up at the same time, causing Luke to have to come back down. As he stayed down he pushed hard into Reid and leaned forward kissing the Slytherin. Reid stopped the kiss to open his mouth, and he let out an speechless moan as he came deep inside Luke.
Luke held himself for a while on Reid, feeling the warmth before slowly peeling himself off and laying next to him. Reid reached for his wand that was on the stand next to the bed, he said a quick nonverbal spell that cleaned them up and the cuddling immediately started.
“That was perfect.” Reid said, as he looked over at Luke who had an amazing post-orgasm smile on his face.
“I knew that you were tired…”
“I know. Like I said perfect.” Reid said as he leaned forward silencing his boyfriend.
Boyfriend.
That was the first time that Reid had ever thought of that term. He liked the way it sounded, calling Luke his boyfriend. But he had no idea if Luke felt the same.
“You should get some sleep. You have to get up so early.”
“I know, but I like being awake with you.” Reid said honestly. He knew now was not the right time to bring up relationship terms so he let the thought leave his brain.
Luke smiled at Reid’s response. He loved when Reid said stuff like that.
“You’re going to be there tomorrow, right?” Reid said as he let a yawn escape.
“Of course.”
“My first goal will be for you.” Reid said as he yawned again.
“And what about the rest of them?” Luke said, his smile growing bigger and bigger.
“They’ll be for the other people I’m sleeping with.” Reid teased.
“Good, so they are all for me.” Luke quickly responded.
“Of course.”
Luke leaned in and gave Reid a small kiss, understanding that Reid was about to fall asleep. As Luke pulled away, Reid quickly cast a spell on the grandfather clock setting an alarm and then put the lights out.
Reid felt Luke move closer to him in the bed and Reid wrapped his arms around the blonde’s body. And they soon slowly drifted into sleep.
--
“You look fucking exhausted man.” Casey said slapping Luke’s arm as they walked towards the Quidditch pitch.
“I’m just happy it’s the weekend.” Luke said, he actually didn’t feel that tired, but he knew he looked like hell. He had been dreaming about what he had seen in the mirror and it was slowly driving his crazy that it wasn’t his reality yet.
They boys were running a bit late to the game as Noah had been caught up with Maddie and took awhile to find him.
“Today will probably be a good game. Besides Gryffindor of course, Ravenclaw is the only team that has a chance of beating Slytherin.” Noah said.
“Obviously, Ravenclaw is the only other team.” Luke said laughing at Noah’s stupid comment.
“Haha, you’re right.” Noah said “I didn’t even realize.”
“Me, either.” Casey said laughing.
Luke laughed along with his friends as they quickly tried to make it to the pitch before they missed anything. Some of the best action happened in the opening plays.
They were almost running down the hall when they spotted the teams leaving the locker rooms.
They slowed down to allow the players through and Reid was the last one to leave the locker room. He saw Luke and without noticing his friends around gave him a quick smirk.
Also without realizing his friends were around Luke shouted out to Reid.
“Good luck, Reid.” Luke said, causing the Slytherin captain to turn his head around, he gave Luke another smile before turning back around and waiting with the rest of his team to enter the field.
“What the fuck was that?” Noah said finally breaking the weird silence as they looked at Luke who couldn’t keep his eyes off Reid.
“W-what?” Luke said as he finally broke out of his gaze.
“Umm, you just wished Oliver good luck and then he smiled at you.” Casey said
“Well, um, we are, umm…” Luke was racking his brain for some sort of excuse. “With all the tutoring we’ve been doing we’ve sort of become friends.”
“Friends? With that oaf.” Noah said
“What, this isn’t news to you guys, I’ve told you before that he’s not that bad.”
“Whatever, let’s just go find our seats and hope that Slytherin gets their asses kicked.”
Luke solemnly followed behind his friends. He tried not to let it bother him, he knew that his friends hated Reid and that was never going to change.
Reid watched as Luke walked away, he hated that he could hear what they were saying and how Luke was still denying him to his friends. He knew he needed to find out what Luke wanted, even if he wasn’t going to tell him.
--
Slytherin beat Ravenclaw in a pretty stellar performance by both teams. It was close up until the end, until the Slytherin seeker finally caught the Snitch, beating Ravenclaw 340-200. Reid scored most of the points of Slytherin and they were all currently celebrating in the Great Hall with music and food.
Luke was wandering the halls, he didn’t even know quite where he was, but his feet were just guiding him. He wasn’t surprised when he showed up to the storage room that held the mirror. Luke quickly went inside. He took the tapestry off the mirror and stared at it again. The same images came back.
Luke wasn’t surprised that he saw the same time over and over again. He could see how happy he was, open and out with Reid.
He just knew that if he told his friends or Reid it would probably have to end.
Not being able to stare at the image any longer, which was closing in on two hours, Luke covered the mirror and left the room.
He knew that Reid would be waiting for him in the Room of Requirements so he slowly made his way there.
--
Reid was waiting for Luke in the room. He had a plan and he knew it was a bad one but he just needed to know. He needed to really know how Luke felt about him, of them, without any of Luke’s excuses or apologies.
For day one Reid, who had never apologized for anything in his life, never cared if people knew about them. It was always Luke wanting to keep quiet. Making sure all the hickies were gone, meeting in only secluded places, not telling his friends. Reid had honored all that because he cared about Luke. But after today, hearing Luke’s friends treat him like that, he needed to know the truth. The fucking truth.
Luke slowly pushed the door open and he was surprised to see Reid was standing there waiting for him. Reid looked amazing standing in his street clothes but there was something a bit different.
“You played amazing today.” Luke said as he finally approached Reid, kissing him.
“Thanks, for the good luck.” Reid said as he pulled back. He hoped that Luke would maybe say something about it, address it, and then maybe he wouldn’t have to go through with his plan.
But Luke said nothing for that comment, just a sheepish smile.
“Please don’t hate me.” Reid said. He backed away slowly from Luke and he raised his wand.
“What…?” But Luke couldn’t get his thought out as Reid talked over him.
“Legilimens” Reid said softly as he closed his eyes.
He watched as Luke stood there in shock as the past four and half months flew out of his mind. All the inner turmoil of keeping it a secret, any private thought that Luke had regarding their relationship, all the doubt, all the thoughts of it being Reid who actually wanted it to be a secret. All of the sleepless nights. The images in the mirror.
Reid lowered his wand and Luke was knocked to the ground.
Reid was quickly processing all the information and he came to the conclusion that Luke had always thought that it was him who wanted to keep them a secret. He was happy to know that Luke wanted to tell his friends. That he wanted to people to know about them. That Luke loved him.
Luke got up off the ground.
“Fuck you.” Luke said as he walked closer to Reid, he raised his fist about to punch him in the face but instead he his fist his an invisible wall that was in front of Reid. Reid had quickly and unconsciously said a spell protecting himself from Luke’s fist.
“Ow, no! NO NO NO! you do not get to protect yourself.” Luke said as he kept shaking his hand. “God, fuck you Reid.” Luke couldn’t even get all the words out. His fist was throbbing and he was beyond mad. He couldn’t believe that Reid would betray him like that.
“I’m sorry, Luke I had to know. You never tell me anything.”
“You promised.” Luke said, his voice breaking, his fist still throbbing. “And you don’t get to protect yourself.”
“Luke.”
“No. Fuck you Reid. Putting up a shield to protect yourself. How fucking typical of you.”
“Please Luke, let me explain.”
“Fuck you, Reid.” Luke seethed. He took his chance again and raised his fist, he was about to try and punch Reid again, but he didn’t. He just turned on his heels and walked away.
Reid watched as Luke left the room. Reid threw his wand as far away from him as he could. He couldn’t believe he did that, to find out what he wanted to know, and to break the heart and trust of the person he loved.
This is why he never did relationship.
Because he always fucked them up.