Where I should be
Quentin isn’t the type of person who propositions people he just met. And yet, the day he finds out that magic is real, he does exactly that- and is somehow successful. If only Eliot would finally take him up to his room.
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Quentin has no idea what is going on. One moment he is running after a page that fluttered out of his notebook, the next he is stumbling onto a wide lawn, sky blue and sun shining. The gate he came through disappeared. A perfectly normal day.
You’re not going insane.
He makes his way to the building on the other side of the lawn. Someone is lying on the balustrade in front of it- they must be able to explain what is going on.
When he gets closer, the person turns to him and watches him approach.
Oh no. He’s hot.
He stops a few feet in front of the stranger, greeting stuck in his throat.
The man sits up, looks at a card. “Quentin Coldwater?”
“Uh-huh.” He’s still trying to wrap his mind around suddenly stepping into a parallel world and this gorgeous man looking like he stepped out of one of his many preppy fantasies doesn’t help- especially not looking so skeptically and activating every last ‘let me prove myself’ cell in Quentin’s body. The man jumps from the sign, crosses the small distance between them and oh, he’s really tall and… “Fuck me.”
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