after-hours → 013.
where → prefects’ bathroom. when → Friday night after 012. warnings → we solemnly swear we’re up to no good.
santana:
With the shower cubicle protecting them, she didn’t feel like she had a care in the world, not whilst he held her close to him and kissed her sweetly. They had quickly built their bubble back up around them, more impenetrable than before. It had almost been too easy to simply shut out the world around them, to throw caution to the wind and lose themselves in one another once more. And she knew the reason for that was love.
Te quiero. I love you. The most curious of all the concepts that she had faced. It felt terrifying, exhilarating, nauseating, exciting. It was a complete mix of both positive and negative emotions. It both made her feel like she could do absolutely anything. But was she ready to cross that line of no return? No, not yet. Maybe not ever. She couldn’t tell him, not like this, not during sex, not after sex when her thighs were still slick with their arousal. It couldn’t be like this. She couldn’t even tell him while she had a boyfriend, that didn’t seem fair to dump this level of emotions on his shoulders. Fuck. Love was hard.
“I would love to spend Christmas with the muggles,” she agreed quickly. She didn’t need to time to deliberate, she simply just knew that was something that she wanted to do. She ran her fingers through his wet hair and sighed softly into his touch, chuckling as she thought about Puck attempting to ice skate and ending up on his arse. It was very typical for him. She felt a little sad that she seemed to have missed out on so much fun between the group over the breaks. While a lot of their friends, Mike included, spent time together over the holidays, Santana tended to just spend the time with her family and usually Sebastian’s. That would be changing sooner, rather than later.
“Do you think your parents will like me?” she asked, her voice uncharactistically quiet. Parents loved her, of course. She’d been brought up to mind her ‘p’s and ‘q’s, taught how to behave in polite society, to be charming and lovely to all adults around her. But this was different. This felt different. This wasn’t just some pureblooded family that she’d known her entire life, this was Mike’s parents. She hoped that they would like her but maybe, like her own parents, they had a different plan set out in front of their son that her appearance would disrupt. It was unclear.
Her parents liking Mike wasn’t something that she had anticipated, but they did like him. Her father, in particular, his curiosity was piqued. But it truly made her life easier if they liked her sweet potions partner, it would make it a lot easier to openly defy their requests. Or so she thought.
“Our clothes are wet,” she pointed out, eyes crossing the shower stall to where the pile of fabric was now soaked, just like they were. She could stay here forever like this, just the two of them, safe and secure under the hot beating water. But she knew they couldn’t. For a start, her skin was already becoming a little wrinkled. She wasn’t sure if they’d go back to the party, she didn’t exactly want to head back to the common room, the tell-tale signs of the fact it had been her the shower all too simple for Sebastian to spot. “Do you want to go drink more?” she asked, knowing that he would feel similar.
mike:
Sure, Mike was aware that the real world waited outside and with that also waited the constraints that he and Santana were under to keep things between them under wraps to mostly Sebastian and her parents, but in this shower stall, in their little bubble it was easy to just let all of that fade into white noise in the background as they sat together and kissed. He just tried to stretch the moment as long as he could, not so much for him as much as it was for Santana. He couldn’t imagine how this all felt for her, so he just wanted to give her as much happiness as he could when he could.
At Santana’s almost instant agreement to spending part of the holiday with him Mike broke into a grin, his mind already working as to what they could do whenever she was able to hang out. He definitely had a few places he wanted to take her to, things he wanted her to see. It occurred to him that she hadn’t really ventured out into non-wizarding world, and there was really a whole other world out there he wanted her to discover. And if he happened to be at her side for all that, all the better.
Mike wasn’t prepared for how small Santana’s voice sounded at that question, nor the question for that matter. His grin softening into a warm smile, he gently tilted her chin up and kissed her softly to try and get her a little more at ease. “They will,” he told her simply. He liked to think that because they loved him and trusted his judgment they would like her, too, and she always knew how to act around adults, so what was there not to like? If anything his parents would be a bit intimidated by her parents, but if they were as nice to them as they were to him he was sure they’d get along.
That was an odd thing to suddenly think about.
Casting his gaze to their wet clothes when Santana brought his attention to them, Mike chuckled softly as he eyed them. “Well, that’s what magic is for, isn’t it?” he teased, kissing her one more time before she asked what he wanted to do. “We can hang out with everyone and drink a little more, sure,” he agreed easily, not exactly feeling like turning in for the night just yet. He was sure the party was still raging and they’d be able to get back there in no time. They just needed to dry off and look like they hadn’t just fucked in the prefect’s bathroom and they’d be just fine.








