#serpenscorpius

▲ five time portia thought about kissing fred…

i.

Portia had instantly volunteered to go infiltrate the enemy camp, to see what these sky people were all about, and one of the first people she notices when she gets there is Fred Weasley. He’s quiet, but he asks all the wrong questions, and she’s panicking, worrying that she’s blown her cover. She has to think of a way to distract him, fast, before he can register just how unsatisfactory her answer really is; she’s just about to grab his face and kiss him to throw him off, but then someone interrupts, saying they need Fred’s help getting firewood, and relief courses through Portia’s body as he strides away. 

ii.

Portia has to try and pretend that she’s one of these strange sky people, so on her second day at camp, she fakes an injury, pretending she twisted her ankle because she’s not used to this weird ‘earth terrain’. Fred comes to her rescue, though; he barely knows her, but he seems to trust her, and maybe even care about her, even though she’s an imposter who’s only been here for a couple of days. He scoops her up in his arms and carries her back to camp so that she doesn’t have to put weight on her foot, and she nearly leans forward to press a kiss to his lips in gratitude. She doesn’t, though; maybe that’s not the proper way to show her gratitude. Instead, she smiles and thanks him as he sets her down and hurries away again. 

iii.

Commander Junior had gotten people to build houses fairly quickly -- Portia finds him particularly interesting, of all the people in the camp. She definitely will be reporting back to the other grounders about him. Yet she keeps being drawn to quiet, kind Fred instead, and one night, they all tuck into bed in the new cabins, the pair next to each other. Portia wakes up in the night, paranoid of small sounds that might be other grounders attacking, and when her eyes flutter open, Fred’s face is so close to hers, and he looks so sweet even in his sleep that she considers kissing him, just once, just to see if his lips are as soft as she imagines them to be. Then another noise in the woods wakes everyone else up, too, and there’s a flurry of movement that shakes any thoughts of kissing Fred far, far from her mind. 

iv.

This time, it’s not a fake injury: it’s a real one. And it’s not Portia, it’s Fred. The night they were woken up, it was because Gracie was returning Hugo, the prisoner. And Fred went charging at the grounder to defend his cousin’s honor. Gracie didn’t take kindly to it; she’d hit him over the head, said they should be grateful she’d brought Hugo back against the commanders orders, and said not to try anything so stupid like attacking someone trained in combat again. Portia’s tending to his wounds and he’s getting sleepy and saying how grateful he is for Portia being around, and she nearly leans down to press her lips to his when his sister Roxanne barges in, wanting to check on him, and the moment’s gone.  

v.

They’re definitely having a moment. She’s never had a moment like this with someone before, but it’s practically hitting her over the head. Her heart’s racing, their faces are leaning closer to each other -- and then Portia pulls back, panicked. She likes Fred too much, respects him too much, to let this happen without being honest, and she swallows hard before apologizing, saying she can’t do this. “Fred, I’m... I’m not who I’ve been pretending to be.” And so she spills all her secrets, ever sordid one, and Fred’s too angry for anything like that kiss to ever be a possibility again... but he also understands, and he promises he won’t tell when Portia swears that she’s not going to go back to the grounders, and that she won’t turn them over to the Commander at all.  

…and the one time she did.

★ five times jon thought spencer looked breath-taking

i.

 Spencer had lived next door to him for as long as he could remember, but Jon had never noticed that she was kind of hot before. At least, not until the first day of high school, when she walked out with her two best friends in a bra for the first time, her hair actually brushed for the first day, and what he swore was a hint of makeup on her cheeks. Most people probably still wouldn’t notice her next to her two mega hottie best friends, but Jon did. Instead of saying so, though, he waved to Spencer, said, “Have fun at school, Spence -- try not to screw up too much!” and sped away in a car with some of the older football guys he’d met at training camp over the summer. 

ii.

She gets invited to a party, and somebody pushes her into the pool. Spencer looks shocked when Jon actually lends her a hand and helps her out while other people are laughing. “Ugh, I look like a freak,” she complains, and Jon’s about to tell her that she actually looks pretty good -- she could enter a wet t-shirt contest right about now -- when she adds “And I’m stuck being helped by you.” Her disdain keeps him from complimenting her, so he just pulls her up by one hand, hands her his shirt so she had something dry to wear instead, and then he goes off to enjoy the stares his shirtless form is getting instead of hanging with Spencer. 

iii.

The next time they’re at a party is the night he fucks up and tells her that she’s the DUFF in her friend group. Jon really didn’t mean it as an insult to her -- he was trying to explain to her that other dudes were jerks who looked right through her, not trying to make her think she wasn’t awesome in her own way, too. Even if she was always kinda mean to him, which wasn’t that cool. Still, he’s trying to figure out how to tell her that she’s beautiful in her own way too and not to let some stupid label bug her when she hits him and walks away, robbing him of his chance. 

iv.

He feels bad about what he said, so Jon takes her shopping. And she’s ridiculous - like, seriously ridiculous. He laughs at the way she’s dancing up on the mannequin and the way she’s so confident and just happy being herself. He’s about to tell her how gorgeous she is and how her doing her thing is way sexier than trying to be anybody else, but then she starts talking about that loser she’s got a crush on, and his exes flunkies show up with a camera, and their whole outing is shot to hell...again. 

v.

She’s showing him her thinking rock, and somehow it turns into a kissing rock. After they kiss for the first time, he’s kind of stunned, and Jon almost blurts out how beautiful she is then and there. He can’t remember the last time he had this much fun hanging out with a girl, and it’s all so easy... or maybe it’s too easy, because she starts messing with him and ends up licking his face, and he’s so busy trying to get his revenge that he forgets he was going to tell Spencer that she totally took his breath away. 

…and the one time he voices it.

“Ana...” Vlad started, trailing off at the way her voice broke when she started. She’d always had to look after him, from when he’d been hidden away under the floorboards all the way through when she’d gotten herself put on the dropship so that they could go to Earth together. But Vlad wasn’t a little kid anymore, and his sister couldn’t be his whole world anymore... Just like he shouldn’t be hers.

Vlad’s hands were still bound as they led him from his cell towards the drop ship, but it was the first time he’d seen people that weren’t just carrying him meager rations to eat. He’d spotted friends, classmates... and then he’d spotted Ana. She’d hurled her arms around him as soon as they’d been let out of their cuffs and ushered towards their seats, and Vlad knew he should have been happy to see his twin, but instead all he felt was fear for his twin’s life.

[Text]: I’m sorry. I didn’t think this would be such a hot button issue...