Don’t Stand So Close to Me || Gideon and Kingsley|| August, 1977
Kingsley woke up in the stifling clean of St. Mungo’s and tried not to sigh—he knew from experience that he’d probably been hit square in the chest with something, and no matter how much the sigh felt deserved, it would only pull muscles that certainly did not pulling. A Healer came into the room soon after he woke, to tell him who he was, why he was there, et cetera…
Kingsley shifted uncomfortably in the bed, feeling the sheets rub uncomfortably at the skin of his thighs and pick down the line of his feet and back. The friendly Healer checked him out still chattering away, then gave him a small amount of Pepper Up Potion and asked about his pain before finally bustling out of the room.
The details were hazy, really, when Kingsley sat back trying to recall them. He could vaguely remember the owl from the Improper Use of Magic office, and the spells the wizard had been working on—they’d raided his house under assumption he was dangerously armed, and then he’d—
The sneeze that Kingsley gave, more out of memory reflex than any real stimulus in his small room in St. Mungo’s, made the muscles in chest set to burning. And it made the odd tingling in his thighs and back from the sheets spread all the way up his neck and down his fingertips and coil in his abdomen.
“Damn—“
A creak from the entryway to his bed gave Kingsley’s tongue pause, and his face split into a relieved, albeit small and crooked, half-grin.
“Gideon. Good to see you. You’ve been well?”











