The One Who Got Away.

When Deuce first saw you, a girl, come crashing out of that coffin during the entrance ceremony, his first thought was 'I thought this was an all boys school?' and not 'wow, I feel bad for her.'

However that is definitely what he's started thinking as of late.

When you first told Deuce some of his dormmates were starting to creep on you, he was furious.

Not Ace, Cater or Trey no, some of the... other guys.

Of course, he didn't want to believe it, maybe they were just trying to be friends with you in an awkward guy way?

But when Deuce saw the way some of the guys were looking at you, he felt a strange sense of shame and anger fill his chest.

He knew that look. He had, regrettably, given that look once or twice back then to fit in with his delinquent friends.

Immediately noticing how much you noticed the stares, and how you seemed to be trying to shrink inside yourself, Deuce not so subtly moved his chair closer to yours and threw his dorm jacket over your shoulders.

The look of gratitude you gave him made his heart (and pride) swell, and he smiled when you sat up straighter and spoke a little louder at the table now.

Unfortunately, the jacket along with Deuces glares at anyone who even looked in your direction only worked for so long, and the pastry tray at your table was thinning out quickly.

You got up, under the pretense that you wanted some more macrons, and walked over to the extras table to grab some more.

Unfortunately, that action would spell your doom as one of the guys who had been particularly persistent, slid up next to you and slung his arm around your shoulder, whispering something in your ear that made you flinch.

Deuce saw red.

He stood up so fast the table almost flipped, earning protests from the others seated, and cracked his knuckles, about to march over there and beat that guy into the ground when-

For some reason, he looked back at Ace.

Ace was yelling something at him, but he couldn't hear it, all he could see was Ace, and for some reason that gave him a brilliant idea.

By the time he looked back, you were running to the table with tears in your eyes, telling him and the others that you needed to leave.

He understood, helping you pack your things and walking you to the exit back to the hall of mirrors.

You hugged him tight, thanking him for the support then ran off.

That night, Deuce enacted his evil plan. He didn't find every student who gave you dirty looks and beat them up, no. He didn't start sending out dearth threats to their doors, no.

He did something much, much more terrifying

"Ridd- I mean Housewarden. Today at the unbirthday party, some members of the dorm were making Yuu extremely uncomfortable."

The next morning, you awoke to frantic knocking at your door, and you opened it to find Deuce standing there, looking like he'd just won a Nobel prize.

"Prefect! Come with me, I have something to show you!"

He dragged you back to Heartslabyul, all while ignoring your confused complaints, and dragged you through the mirror. What you saw on the other side was pure gold.

Every guy that had been creeping on you the past few weeks was slaving away at the rose bushes under Riddles less than pleased supervision, and even better?

They were all collared. TWICE. Which you didn't even know was possible.

Out of the corner of your eye, you saw Cater leaning against a tree, livestreaming the entire thing with a smug look on his face, clearly enjoying his day off. As well as Ace, who was also collared but you had the idea that it was for different reasons.

When Riddle saw you, he immediately rushed over and bowed deeply, apologizing for the disgraceful behavior of his dormembers, using words you'd never even heard of before.

You quickly told him to stand up and that it wasn't his fault but he insisted that the offending students would be thoroughly punished.

All in all, you felt extremely out of place, especially considering you were still in your pajamas, but you eventually accepted Riddles apology.

And Deuce had started accommodating for you as well.

He offers to walk behind you in the halls, lends you his jacket when you feel exposed, threatens anyone who looks at you strangely.

I would be insanely sweet if he wasn't getting in trouble for it every 2 days, but oh well.

When you tell him about how, in your world, guys creeping on girls was super common and that you had been stalked by some of the guys in your school before, he got angry on your behalf and vowed to defend you against any more weirdos you might come across here. Like a knight in shining armor.

I'm the end, your NRC experience was made somewhat easier by the future honor student Deuce Spade.

When Leona miraculously allowed you to stay in Savannaclaw after the Leech twins kicked you out of Ramshackle, Jack had thought the dorm would feel like a blessing compared to your old living conditions.

However, he quickly learned that a blessing and a curse are two sides of the same coin.

When you first told Jack that you were feeling certain dorm members were creeping on you, his face did this thing that looked like he was speedrunning all five stages of grief in 10 seconds.

He tried to reassure you by saying they were just not used to seeing a girl in the dorm, and were probably trying to mark their territory by scaring you away.

Jack has come to deeply regret those words.

At first, he just watched, trying to see what in their behavior made you feel this way.

Occasionally, one of the guys would approach you and try to make conversation, and Jack was becoming acutely aware of how they slowly seemed to be testing your personal space.

An arm around your shoulders here, a tail curled around your leg there, he tried to tell himself they were just being friendly, that his dorm members wouldn't stoop so low as forcing themselves onto you.

But he couldn't ignore they way they laughed when you told them to stop.

He would stick around you more to try and ward the guys off and eventually went around to talk to them about personal space and how they needed to respect your "No".

One day, Jack got out of track club early because Deuce was called in by professor Crewel for remedial lessons, and the club let out 10 minutes before usual.

As Jack crossed through the mirror portal, he saw you being crowded by a bunch of his dormates.

One of them had your wrists in a tight grip, hanging you slightly of the ground as another angrily jabbed a finger at your chest.

You were crying.

Jack moved immediately.

He came crashing in like a cannonball and punched the guy locking your wrists. The second you fell to the ground, Jack ushered you away, telling you to run to Leona's room where no one would follow.

He was beyond angry, and he's pretty sure he broke someone's arm, but by the time Leona and Ruggie got back, Jack was the only one not groaning in pain.

Leona raised an eyebrow at him and Jack told him to go to his room and see for himself what happened.

When Leona came back, you were trailing after him, and he took one look at the beaten Savannaclaw boys and snarled

"Get the hell out of my dorm."

You hugged Jack tightly, thanking him for saving you and he awkwardly hugged you back, choosing to ignore they way his tail wagged with relief that you were safe (he's so nonchalant).

The next day, the group of boys were packing their bags to go home.

After this, Jack started hanging around you more, doing very subtle things to help you out.

Walking you to class, lending you his jacket, small things he could pass of as courtesy and not because he's worried something will happen again.

He isn't. (He definitely is.)

He knows you can handle yourself, it's just a lingering thought in the back of his mind.

Anyways, with wolf beastman Jack Howl by your side, navigation through Night Raven definitely got alot easier.

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