(un)lucky stars

HIS SKIN BURNED where felix touched him, his own hands running down the veela’s sides. they lay there, chests exposed, mouths locked — never dreamed of tasting something so sweet. his tongue delved in, tasting every corner of the veela’s mouth. MORE, fuck, HE WANTED MORE. a finger hook unto the other’s trousers, tugging insistently. xander pulls away from the kiss, panting heavily before he starts attacking the veela’s neck. “ off. now.” he orders, voice muffled as he starts to nip and lick.  

HE FELT HOT AND NEEDY as the veela returns his kiss enthusiastically. “ impatient, are we? ” he smirks, pulling his shirt off and tossing it aside. he looks at the veela heatedly, pushing him down to lay on the couch. he looks down at him, eyes hungry as he drank in the sight. the veela was glowing and fuck —– he was beautiful. xander wanted to feel what was beneath those robes and so he leans down and captures felix’s lips a bit more hungrily while his fingers moved to undress the other.

Felix couldn’t help but feel practically feverish with Xander looking at him with such fire in his eyes. “Yes, yes, shut up” he breathed against his lips as they kissed. He fell back when Xander pushed him onto the couch, and looked up at him, biting down on his now-bruised lower lip as the other male tugged his shirt off. He drank in the sight of all that exposed skin, and tugged Xander down on top of him when he leaned in to capture his lips again, hands roaming over his chest. He pulled back reluctantly so that Xander could pull his shirt off too, and then eagerly leaned back in to kiss him once again.

HE WAS HONESTLY IMPRESSED at how felix knew that much with just a little charm. they had an entire room to themselves. but as things seemed to get more heated, it abruptly stops. he looks up, confused as the other pulls away from him. felix offers and explanation but xander simply rolls his eyes at the other’s statement. “ you really picked this moment to say all that, huh? ” he questions with a scowl on his face. couldn’t the other say that BEFORE his trousers started feeling way too tight? 

“ listen pretty boy, ” he starts, shrugging off his coat and tossing it towards the side. “ veela or not, i’d fuck you. and you know why? ” he asks, moving to close the gap between them, their breaths mingling. “ because my dick gets to dictate who i fuck or not. and right now, it’s hard as fuck for you apparently. all i want to do is take you right here and now. ” and with that, he crashes his lips roughly against the veela’s.

Felix whimpered softly against Xander’s lips, and reached up to wrap an arm around his neck, pressing his body against the other male’s. Xander’s impatience was more than enough of an answer to soothe his worries, and he lost himself in the hungry press of his lips against his own, letting his reservations fall away and allowing his veela-side loose. As they kissed, Felix walked backwards in the direction of the couches and pulled Xander with him, barely noticing that the glow on his skin had brightened as the heat in his body intensified.

He pulled back as the back of his legs hit one of the couches, and he smirked, biting his lip and looking at Xander through his lashes. “Less talking, more doing,” he ordered, fingers moving to the hem of the other student’s shirt as he impatiently tugged at it, wanting to feel the skin underneath.

he almost chases after those lips – soft and full. “ pleasure to meet you, felix. ” he replies, smirking as he ran his tongue along his lower lip and fuck – HE WANTED MORE. “ my name’s alexander but please, call me xander AND DON’T THINK that little tease of yours is going to cool me off. it just makes me want to fucking take you – HERE and NOW. ”

"Xander,” Felix repeated, rolling the name over in his mouth before giggling at the other male’s response. “We’re still out in the open,” he murmured, pressing a soothing hand to his chest, before taking his hand and pulling him further down the hall. He stopped in front of a door, and said the password he’d been told, feeling smug when the door swung open into the extravagant and blissfully empty room. There were stalls and an enormous tub inside, but also several long and comfortable couches. 

Felix turned back to Xander, his fingers brushing across his collar before he forced himself to stop and pull back a little, a sudden wave of apprehension coming over him. He tried to reign in his veela allure as much as he possibly could, knowing he couldn’t make it stop entirely any more than he could make his eyes any less blue, but wanting to tone it down as much as he could manage anyways. “There’s a difference between manipulating you into feeding me and manipulating you into sleeping with me,” he said quietly, looking down at the marble floor. “I don’t want you to do this if you’re not - well, if it wasn’t something you’d do if I weren’t half-veela. It wouldn’t be right.”

xander gives a hearty laugh before shaking his head in amusement. “ you’re really something. ” he couldn’t help but notice just how his demeanor changed around the other. it was funny looking back at how they first interacted up to this point. he furrows his brow at realizing something, completely halting in his tracks as he gives the other a good look.

“ if i’m going to fuck you, don’t i ATLEAST get to know your name? ”

Felix shrugged, a self-satisfied smirk adorning his features at his words. “I know.” When the other male stopped, he quirked his eyebrow, curious, until he asked his question. His eyes went wide in response, before melting back into something playful. He tugged him closer by his collar and then pressed his lips to the other student’s, before pulling back. “My name is Felix.”

his racing heart eventually relaxes at the other’s touch as he lets himself be whisked away.  “ that’d be hot – if you were into that sort of thing, ” he states with a shrug, still following blindly. he snorts at the other’s following statement.

 “ do you always charm your way into getting what you want? ”

Felix shot him a mischievous look. “Please. I don’t know you well enough for you to start poking around and trying to find my kinks. Besides, some morons in there are already too enraptured with me to function. I don’t want to know what seeing me orgasm would do to them,” he said, leading him down a hall way to where a dazed Ravenclaw prefect had told him the bathroom would be. “Only when I really want something and don’t have any other way to get it. I know it’s not exactly fair.”

xander couldn’t help but grin back at just how giddy the other seemed to be at his little comment. yet the grin completely fell from his face as soon as the other male got up.

he practically swallows as soon as he lays eyes on the other’s backside, practically cursing under his breath as he gets up as well. “ –and where are we going exactly? ” he questions, grabbing his stuff and slinging his bag over his shoulder.

Felix huffed out a quiet laugh, reaching out to wrap his fingers around the other male’s wrist, running his thumb over his pulse in a calming motion. “Well we’re certainly not having sex in the middle of the Great Hall. People would stare,” he said, bluntly. “I did manage to charm someone into telling me how to get into the Prefect’s bathroom though, so we’re going there.”

he clucks his tongue. “ couldn’t. you’re too fucking pretty for your own good, ” he mumbles, still looking at him, unblinking. with how antsy he was feeling, he was loosing all sense of decorum the longer he stayed in the other’s vicinity – and the thing was, he didn’t have any plans of walking away from it all. he inwardly growls, wanting to wipe away that smirk of his but also bruise ( with a kiss ) his lips in the process.

“ and please tell me, you have something in mind for it. ”

Felix knew he was pretty, and he knew most of it was his mothers flawless and spellbinding genetics, and most days he was over it, honestly, but that didn’t mean he didn’t appreciate the compliments sometimes. He practically preened.

He usually scratched this particular itch with Axel, but he wanted something emotionless, absolutely no strings attached, and as much as things between he and Axel had started that way, they certainly hadn’t ended that way, and Felix was not going to drag him back into his shit. A Durmstrang student he’d never see again after this year? That he was up for. 

He got up from the table gracefully, turning his head to look at the other over his shoulder. “Well come on then.”

he quickly downs his drink, feeling a bit parched – aching for something as he gazes at the other heatedly. “ i wouldn’t have if you didn’t charm your way through my senses, ” he spits back in reply. after quenching his thirst, he looks the other straight in the eye, arms rested in-front of him as if about to negotiate something. 

“ get rid of this thirst. or i will fucking lose it. ”

Felix laughed, the glow around him brightening at the words. “Please...I can influence you at best. If you really didn’t want to, you could’ve resisted,” he said, nonchalantly. There was a look in the other male’s eyes that made him feel like a rabbit being watched by a coyote about to pounce, but he didn’t exactly mind it. He rested his chin on his hands, smirking. “Well we wouldn’t want that, would we?”

he clucks his tongue, leaning away – gaze still resting on the other male. “ you know, i never give away things for free, ” he states, head cocked to the side and arms folded across his chest. he felt calm, but also a bit agitated – in a good way. 

“ you owe me, considering you cheated me out of my lunch. ”

Felix smirked, looking at the other male through his lashes, faintly amused by the insinuation. “Yeah, alright, I’ll bite,” he murmured, emphasizing the last word. “Even though it wasn’t really cheating. You’re the one who gave it away,” he practically sing-songed. “But what can I do for you to make up for it?”

Remington was a mess, anyone who walked past the boy would be able to see that. He had worked himself into a state of near hysteria, his finger nails digging into the palms of his hands as he continued to cry. They had gone a month without any disappearances, and now- a new student was missing, and another was dead and it seemed that they were no where closer to figuring it out, to finding them. What if he was next? Or if one of his friends was taken? He couldn’t fathom the concept of another one of his friends going missing, of anyone going missing. 

The young boy choked back a sob, as he gingerly reached up to wipe away his tears with the sleeve of his robes, his arm limply falling to his side once he realized how pointless it was. He wasn’t going to stop crying anytime soon, perhaps he’d never stop crying- at this rate, that seemed like a highly likely option. 

Letting out a small sigh, he slowly lifted his head to see who had approached him, his heart sinking as he saw Felix’s face. He felt selfish, making such a big deal of the disappearances, when his friend was missing his sister- sure the Vaillincourt’s were the closest thing he had to real siblings, but that didn’t mean he was in the same position as Felix. Yet he found himself nodding in response to his friend’s question as he slowly found himself moving towards his friend. 

“I thought that they had stopped, or something,” he began to speak, his gaze falling towards the ground, “There was a month of nothing, and then he was just gone,” he continued, it occurred to him that his friend would know this but he just couldn’t stop. “What’s next? Or who? It isn’t safe, no one’s safe,” he mumbled as he bit down on his lip. 

It broke Felix’s heart to see Remy so distraught. He’d always felt protective over the younger male, and seeing him this way hurt him. As Remy approached him, Felix opened his arms and enveloped him into a hug, squeezing him tightly, hoping that his presence would reassure him. His veela glow dimmed a bit in response to his sadness, but he tried his best to surround Remy with a calming aura instead.

He didn’t know what he could possibly say to make any of this better. Remy was right to be upset, especially seeing as, in Felix’s own opinion, the people that were supposed to protect them had failed them. The Praesumptor struck every month on the day like clockwork. And yet the almighty powers that be of every wizarding community were somehow helpless to stop it or save the ones who’d been taken? No. Felix didn’t buy it. Not anymore.

He kept all of this to himself, of course. Remy was too young to be hearing about Felix’s theories, about his motivation for joining the Bond, about any of it. He deserved to just get to be a kid but even that opportunity was being taken away from him. It made him furious, and he had to mentally fight with himself to not let his inner anger reflect outwards, to startle Remy more.

He made a soothing noise under his breath and stroked Remy’s hair. “Mon chéri, I won’t let anything happen to you,” he said, fiercely. Part of him knew that perhaps it was a big promise to make, something he wasn’t guaranteed to be able to keep but he’d failed Estelle. He’d be damned if he failed Remy too. He’d rather die in the process than live to see him go missing too. “I know things are scary right now but they will not be this way forever.”

“ you don’t say? ” he sneers, glaring – well, TRYING that is. the other’s smile was distracting to say the least. he was inwardly fuming because firstly, the half-breed got the better of him and secondly, he was damn right about being hot. he shakes his head at such thoughts, looking away from that smile and that face. 

“ is it part of your job description to charm your way into having a DECENT lunch? ”

Felix couldn’t help being amused by how indignant the other was trying to be. He felt bad, kind of, about manipulating him like this but he also couldn’t bring himself to quit it just yet. He was having too much fun and he hadn’t had much of that at all lately. He laughed again, and then tilted his head, blinking innocently in the other male’s direction. “If I have to, I guess it is. It worked, didn’t it? Thank you for that by the way,” he murmured, a calming lilt in his voice.

he swallows HARD at hearing the other laugh. he feels weird – almost as if he was drawn towards the other, something he rarely felt so easily. the feeling remains – almost as if it increased if it was possible. at the other’s smile, he feels DISARMED. at the other’s statement, his eyes narrow. 

“ what’s that supposed to mean? ”

Felix finished off the chop and set it down, licking his lips and then wiping off his fingers before he answered, shooting the other male a sunny smile. “I’m half-veela, you know? Making people do stupid things because I’m hot is kind of part of the job description.”

“ no problem..? ” he mumbles with uncertainty as he watches the other male bite into his food. his body was completely relaxed, as if it was normal for him to do such a thing. but bells seemed to be going off in his head because it WASN’T NORMAL. 

“ what the fuck.. ”

Felix laughed quietly at the slightly dazed look on the other boy’s face. Back when things were good, his mother would sometimes try and explain their effect on people, to help him understand why he had to be careful with himself sometimes. Your laugh, chéri, can sound like the most beautiful bells in the world, if you’re not careful. You can make weak people walk to their own deaths if you don’t control it. Well, mama, he thought, semi-bitterly, no one is walking to their death but I am swindling people out of their lunch. He smiled charmingly at the other male. “I can have an effect on people. It’s not just you, if that helps you feel any better.”

something was wrong, but xander couldn’t tell what. he clears his throat, shoving his plate towards the other slowly.·“ want some**_? _” **he asks, the words sounding foreign even by himself. his brows furrow, internally questioning himself as he stares at the man before him.

Felix grinned, smug, and pulled the plate towards him. Picking up a fork and taking a bite. “Thank you very much,” he said, his glow brightening a little more. Sure...maybe it was a little manipulative, but he’d rein himself in sooner or later. Besides, it’s not like he’d been asked to be born half-veela. Might as well take advantage of it.