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Post by Alexander Jay García Torres on Aug 12, 2012 23:08:12 GMT
Alex hadn't been home in ages. He was scared to open the door and find Jackie hiding behind it once again. So he stood there and looked at Reid with pleading eyes until he opened the door instead. Alex pattered after him, clutching a grocery bag up by his chest with ingredients for spaghetti alla carbonara.
The young man froze when he felt something brush up against his leg. But he relaxed almost immediately. It was only Tootie, his little baby girl. Alex sighed heavily and sank to his knees to cuddle her. "Dios... I've missed you so much, Tootie." Alex mumbled into her fur as he nuzzled the cat just behind her ear. "And you've lost weight, haven't you? Nene not been feeding you up I see? We'll soon change that. Get you all tubby again." Alex stood up once again, Tootie in his arms and the shopping bag forgotten on the floor. His apartment looked just like how he'd last seen it. But it felt... different now. Alex didn't like it.
"Nene... could you... check the house?"
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Post by Reid Rutherford on Aug 12, 2012 23:54:24 GMT
Reid sighed when he got to the apartment. It was good to be home, especially since he had Alex with him. He saw Alex's hesitance of opening the door so he did it for him.
He noticed that Tootie immediately came to her master. 'Damn, she's going to be back in bed with us tonight. I was getting used to her not being there.' He shook his head as Alex became reacquainted with his cat. Sometimes he wondered whether he was loved more than the cat or if it was the other way around.
He didn't know what Alex was worried about but he figured checking out the place couldn't hurt. He remembered that Alex's last experience in the house wasn't the best. He probably was just dealing with his issues. "Sure love. I'll go check everything while you say hello to the menace, I mean cat." He chuckled and walked away. Sometimes it was too fun to mess with Alex and that cat.
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Post by Alexander Jay García Torres on Aug 13, 2012 0:12:53 GMT
"Hey! Who're you calling menace?" Alex responded, holding Tootie closer to his body protectively. He toed off his shoe and kicked it in Reid's general direction with a chuckle, to show his displeasure at that comment. Tootie was no menace... most of the time. She seemed to save that part of her for Reid. Alex clutched her tightly and became silent, falling into an eerie silence, disturbed only by the constant purring of the cat into Alex's chest, as the spaniard wait for Reid to check the house. Jackie said that he was going to leave him alone but... it wouldn't hurt to be sure.
"So... everything's okay, right?" Alex finally called out with an uncertain note, slowly picking up the grocery bag up off the floor with a free hand and placing it on the side. "You hungry? Want me to make food right now?" It was weird, he could feel the hairs on the back of his neck prickle. He hadn't been home in so long... it just felt so strange and even a bit unnerving.
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Post by Reid Rutherford on Aug 13, 2012 0:31:39 GMT
Reid didn't hear the shoe coming towards him, but he did feel it hit him. "Hey! That was mean Jay!" He would have pouted if he wasn't walking away from his fiance. He was just joking with him, well half joking. That cat really did annoy him sometimes.
He searched the apartment and didn't find anything. He would know if anything was out of place, he had been there all week after all. He was mostly doing it just to make Alex feel more comfortable. "Everything looks fine love." he said as he walked back to the living room.
He thought about dinner. He was kinda hungry but he could wait a bit if Alex wasn't in the mood yet. "It's up to you. If you want to make it now you can. If not, we can wait a bit."
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Post by Alexander Jay García Torres on Aug 13, 2012 0:57:42 GMT
Alex gave a small sigh of relief when Reid gave the apartment the "all clear". He'd known the chances of finding anything whatsoever were going to be very slim but... there was always that little chance. And that was plenty for Alex to feel the need of being cautious. He let the cat jump to the floor and slink off to wherever she'd go to mope over her boring diet of biscuits and water, she'd said hi to Alex, it was time to get back to sulking. The spaniard, now having both hands free, went and grabbed Reid to drag him into the kitchen area. He wanted to keep him close. He doubted Reid would mind keeping Alex company while he prepared food.
"No... I'll make it now. Its nice to be back in my own kitchen." Alex said with a merry sigh, unpacking the ingredients onto the counter. He wanted to cook because it distracted him. The young man was trying to push out all thoughts of Jackie and cooking would help that. "Actually... its nice to be back, full stop. I've missed home. I wanted to come back sooner but... I-I didn't know how."
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Post by Reid Rutherford on Aug 13, 2012 1:13:24 GMT
"Woah." He wasn't expecting Alex to pull him into the kitchen. He stood by the table as he watched Alex unpack the groceries. It looked like it would take some time for Alex to become comfortable in the apartment again.
He walked over to where Alex was by the counter. He wrapped his arms around Alex's waist. "I'm glad you are back too. I've missed you around here my love. Let's both just work to get past this, okay? I love you and we will get through this, together." He kissed Alex. "Now, how about this dinner."
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Post by Alexander Jay García Torres on Aug 13, 2012 1:41:57 GMT
Alex leaned back just slightly into Reid, letting his head loll backwards to rest on his shoulder, a small smile plastered on his lips while he kissed him. This felt right. An uncomfortable feeling settled in his chest, scolding him for not turning to Reid sooner. He'd missed the man terribly.
"Yeah... love you too, nene." Alex sighed, closing his eyes for a brief moment as he remembered just how good it felt to be in Reid's arms once again. "Now... food, yes?" As much as he wanted to stay like that for the rest of forever, Alex knew that they'd need food. Sooner they ate, sooner they could just tangle themselves in each other's arms. So Alex, reluctantly, wriggled away and put a pan of salted water to boil for the pasta and began to prepare the carbonara sauce.
"Hey... nene... I...um... handed in my notification at work." Alex mumbled. "I'm not... going back to Mungo's. I got offered a place in Hogwarts."
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Post by Reid Rutherford on Aug 13, 2012 1:57:23 GMT
Reid pouted as Alex left his arms. He was enjoying the feeling of Alex in his arms again. He didn't want to be far from Alex so he jumped up on the counter, but not where he was in the way. He was actually on the opposite side of the stove from where Alex was.
His eyebrow kind of raised on its own. Did he just hear right? Alex loved his job at the hospital. Why would he leave? "You're going to Hogwarts? What position were you offered there?" He wondered how much thought he put into that decision.
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Post by Alexander Jay García Torres on Aug 13, 2012 2:14:14 GMT
The expression of surprise on Reid's features was understandable. He hadn't talked about it with him and this was probably out of the blue. It had been a surprise for Alex as well but he supposed his friends had something to do with it, so he'd be closer to them. And, well, the pay was much better compared to what he got as a Healer in Mungo's.
"Two positions actually... Charms Professor and Head of, uh, Hufflepuff." Goodbye blue edged Ravenclaw robes, hello yellow ones. "I get to help in the Infirmary whenever I please... plus Mungo's have said they'll gladly have me in the summer months if I so wish." Because, let's face it, Alex was good at what he did. The hospital hadn't wanted to let the spaniard slip away but there was no way they could've matched the pay packet he was going to get for being both a Professor and Head of House. "I'll be able to get a bigger apartment... maybe even something with a proper garden... and I'd connect it to the Floo Network and I'd be home everyday."
The sauce was prepared and was simmering nicely on the stove, beside it bubbled merrily the pan of water which now had spaghetti writhing about like alive worms in the water. Ew, sickening thought. "I thought, if anything, I could do this year there... and then maybe return to the hospital but... it all depends, I guess."
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Post by Reid Rutherford on Aug 13, 2012 2:40:58 GMT
Reid thought his positions fit him, well except the whole Head of Hufflepuff thing. Why in the world would Alex be Head of that house? He wasn't even in that house when he was in school. "Okay so the Charms Professor I kind of get. I mean you are pretty good in charms. What I don't get though is how you are Head of Hufflepuff. You were a Ravenclaw."
He thought that if Hogwarts was at Hogwarts for any reason it would be that he was the matron or something, not as a professor. He chuckled at the thought that just came to his head. "You realize that now I'm the only one that isn't teaching at Hogwarts out of the four of us. And before you ask I am NOT going to start working there. I love our friends but I don't want to be with them that much."
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Post by Alexander Jay García Torres on Aug 13, 2012 3:53:01 GMT
Alexander wasn't even too sure why he'd been offered the position of Head for Hufflepuff, being a Ravenclaw. The same went for Brent too then since he was sorted into Gryffindor yet ended up as Head for Ravenclaw. "I don't get it too much either but that's just how it is, I guess." Alex said with a shrug of his shoulders, giving the carbonara sauce a few final stirs between tastings.
"But, nene, you wouldn't just be with them... you'd be with me too. Wouldn't you like that?" Alex inquired with a small wink, taking the sauce off the flame and draining the pasta of water. "Sneak off to empty classrooms together between classes... barricade ourselves in the Astronomy Tower... give out detentions to any students that bother us..." The young man chuckled whilst dishing out two plates of spaghetti. To be honest, Alex wasn't really hungry. His appetite seemed to have just vanished. But he wanted to make an effort and eat something in front of Reid. "Here you go, nene"
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Post by Reid Rutherford on Aug 30, 2012 1:16:48 GMT
Reid's mouth watered when he saw the pasta. He had to admit, he really loved Alex's food. 'I need to stop repeating that to myself. But I can't help that it's true.'
He sat down at the table, not really paying attention to whether or not Alex joined him. "While I would love to spend everyday with you, there is a reason why I don't spend all my time with the others. I love them, I do. I mean, they are my best friends. I just, don't need to spend every day around them."
He took a bite of his dinner and moaned. "Baby, this is amazing." He ate about half his plate within minutes as it was that good. "You do realize though that I won't be around the castle that much and there will be some days I have to stay here. I know I can commute to work, and I will, but it won't give me much time with you."
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Post by Alexander Jay García Torres on Aug 30, 2012 1:36:29 GMT
Alex's chest did a little flutter on hearing his fiancé's noises of appreciation for his cooking. He'd never grow bored of hearing compliments spill from his lips. Food was meant to be enjoyed and Alex would like nothing better than to make sure that Reid thoroughly enjoyed any morsel of food that passed his lips when he was around Alex. The young man sat himself down by Reid and ate also, but not with the same gusto, he kind of just picked at his meal.
"I'll connect my office to the Floo Network and come back here... its a well paying job but if I don't get to lie in bed with you at the end of every weary day... its not worth the sickle." Alex said honestly with a shy, little smile. It was true though - after all this, Alex wanted nothing better than to share his nights with Reid and if he couldn't, he didn't want this job. But, if he connected his house to the Network, he'd get to see his friends of a day and his love of an evening and night. It'd be perfect. "And then nights that you're out, I'll spend at the castle. That way I'm never alone."
As nice as the pasta was, it fell heavily in Alex's stomach and churned. It made him almost feel sick. But, despite this, he smiled as Reid tucked in to his food and idly picked at his own. "Love you, nene... don't think I'll ever tire of saying that, y'know."
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Post by Reid Rutherford on Aug 30, 2012 1:52:06 GMT
Reid gave a small smile. Alex was so amazing sometimes. All this made him almost forget that everything happened. Almost. He loved Alex, he did, but he wouldn't forget it completely too easily.
He quickly finished the rest of his dinner. "You don't have to do that. I can stay at the castle normally. It will just be some nights where I won't be able to get home." He reached over and caressed Alex's cheek. "Don't worry love. You'll be a good teacher, I'm not worried."
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Post by Alexander Jay García Torres on Aug 30, 2012 2:16:55 GMT
"But... I want to come home here with you. Its, well, home." Alex quickly gathered both of their plates up even though he had barely touched his own. He threw a tea towel over his dish and promised himself he'd eat more later. The young man leaned into Reid's palm and closed his eyes.
"I'm worried though. What if the kids don't like me?" Alex sighed. "Or what if I get a terrible class? And no one listens to me?" Who was Alex? The teacher or the student? Because right now his worries could be shared by a first year boarding the Hogwarts train for the first time. The young man turned his head a few inches and planted a light kiss on Reid's hand before turning back and letting his cheek nestle comfortably into his palm once again. "Its just... going to be so different. Fancy dessert? I think I have some ice cream in the freezer..."
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